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All I am saying is that we're commanded(christians in that context) that when we pray, we pray in the name of Jesus. It is(as Brother TC previously posted) as authority. We pray in the name of Jesus in authority because we are His and His ears are open to our prayers and His eyes are always looking towards us. With the unregenerate, it is not so. His face is against them(not looking at them), and His ears are not attentitive until their prayers. He hates sin and sinners that much.

Now, those who do not serve Him, their prayers He will not answer. Why? They have not the authority to pray in the name of Jesus.

Carry this over to the gospel. Regeneration is solely the act of God apart from man's will. In this work of grace wrought upon their heart, faith, repentance and love are bestowed upon the sinner and then they exercise their will when they are saved. Man is passive in regeneration, but active in salvation, seeing their will has been changed by grace and they being born of God, are no longer His enemyy, no longing hating, but loving, Him.

 

Good.

There is an innate faith that all ppls are born with. But there is a supernatural faith that is given at the moment someone is regenerated. That is what 2 Thessalonians 3:2 alludes to. Not all men have faith. Yet, the bible avers that God has chosen

Instead I believe that salvation as a whole (to include regeneration) is the mercy of the Father on the grounds of the Cross and in Christ, through faith worked by the Spirit in the lives of those who believe (Ezk. 36; Eph. 2). Where we disagree is I view faith as a continual work of the Spirit rather than a "gift" in the form of a product of regeneration.[/quote]
Faith is both instaneous and ongoing, just like repentance. One doesn't repent once and not any more. One who is progressively sanctified also has an ongoing faith.

There are none. It is simultaneous.

 

Those who truly seek God have been regenerated. They now love Him, they have to have Him. Their lives are incomplete without Him. Those who love God have been(already happened) born of God. 1 John 4:7

 

The thing is ppl in an unregenerate state do not want to call upon Him. They hate Him. Are His enemy.

Those who love Him have been born of Him. That is what 1 John 4:7 avers.

 

They hate Him. You and I hated Him. We may not have hated Him in the way ppl hate their enemies, but hated Him in our deeds. Jesus said if we love Him keep His commands. We, as unregenerate ppl, hated Him because we could not and would not keep them. If we love Him, we will keep His commands to the best of our ability, even though we fall woefully short daily. Jesus lived the sinless life we could not live for us, on our behalf. We live because He lives.

 

Look at it like this ITL. Go up to a slobbering drunk and witness to him/her. Tell them the gospel as Paul laid out in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. Unless God is working within them, they will turn you down. They will have no desire to be saved, being enslaved by sin. 1 Corinthians 2:14 and Romans 8:7-8 ring ever so true here.

The unregenerate want nothing to do with God. You brought up the millions who go to church who are unregenerate. That is sadly true, and I will never deny this. I have seen the tabloids where the likes of Britney Spears was spotted leaving church after a service. Yet, she is living a rebellious life. They have a god fashioned in their minds that is not the God of the bible, and the god fashioned in their minds is one who loves the sinner but hates the sin. The god they serve loves g@ys and is okay with them being married, because 'God is love', right? Vicki Gunvalson of 'Real Housewives of Orange County' avers she is going to heaven when she dies, saying she is a Christian. Yet, she was shacked up with a man whilst having 'relations' out of wedlock. She's been divorced three times, gets drunk, but she is going to heaven. Then another one attends Jentezen Franklin's church claiming to be a Christian. Yet she dresses provactively, and tends to drink too much. Another was recently baptized and they had to bleep out a bunch of her words.

Ppl fashion a god in their mind and worship him. But not the God of the bible.