Featured "The election hath obtained it"; and "the rest are blinded", #Ro 11:7

John 1:12-13; But as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name:

13 Which were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man,
but of God.

John 15:3; Now ye are clean
through the word which I have spoken unto you.

I Peter 1:23; Being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth forever.

John 3:3; 5-8; Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

8 The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh,
and whither it goeth:

so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Romans 9:16; So then it is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

I Cor. 4:15; For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,
yet have ye not many fathers:
for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Eph. 2:10; 4:24; For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

And that ye put on the new man,
which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

I Thess. 1:5; For our gospel came not unto you in word only,
but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost,
and in much assurance;

as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

Titus 3:5-6; Not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to his mercy he saved us,
by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

James 1:18; Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

I Peter 1:23; Being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth forever.

The foregoing scriptures prove without a shadow of a doubt
that The Work of REGENERATION
is wholly a Work of God the Holy Spirit,
through The WORD
which Enables the sinner
to Spiritually REPENT and Hear the Gospel.

 

It is the Spiritual Ability, to be Spiritually "Taught".

It begins with an understanding of Total Depravity.

 

Usually, when a person is Saved,
or The Lord is "Working on them", in Convicting them of their sin,
they know:
All individuals are breakers of God's Law.

James 4:12; "There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy:
who art thou that judgest another?"

2:10; "For whosoever shall keep the whole law,
and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."

Individuals sin because they are sinners.

Psalms 58:3; "The wicked are estranged from the womb:
they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies."

51:4-5; "Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,
and done this evil in thy sight:
that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
and be clear when thou judgest."

5 "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity;
and in sin did my mother conceive me."

Adam sinned and all men sinned in Adam.

Romans 5:12; "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned:"

5:18-19; "Therefore as by the offence of one
judgment came upon all men to condemnation;

even so by the righteousness of one
the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."

 

"For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."

"Many", not "all without exception".

The Total Depravity of Man by A. W. Pink

"David Clarkson, one of the Puritans, pointed out this fact in his sermon on Psalm 51:5:

"The end of the ministry of the Gospel is to bring sinners unto Christ.

Their way to this end lies through the sense of their misery without Christ.

The ingredients of this misery are our sinfulness, original and actual; the wrath of God, whereto sin has exposed us; and our impotency to free ourselves either from sin or wrath.

That we may therefore promote this great end, we shall endeavour, as the Lord will assist, to lead you in this way, by the sense of misery, to Him who alone can deliver from it.

Now the original of our misery being the corruption of our nature, or original sin, we thought fit to begin here, and therefore have pitched upon these words as very proper for our purpose:

"Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me."

 

The Conviction of The Holy Spirit is a part of The EFFECTUAL CALL.

Like how, "The Word of The Lord Came to Abraham".

Genesis 15:4; "And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
This shall not be thine heir;

but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

Man can only know they are Condemned by God, from Nature.
Not "Saving Knowledge."

The ONLY WAY they can hear is,
"having been Predestinanted, them He CALLED", by The Effectual Calling.

Left to themselves, man can ONLY SIN,
by their choice that they LOVE SIN, in Adam and Adam in them.

Left to themselves, man can ONLY SIN,
by their choice that they LOVE SIN, in Adam and Adam in them.

God HAS NOT LOST HIS AUTHORITY
and DOES COMMAND OBEDIENCE

without Giving the Guity Sinner the ABILITY to KEEP HIS COMMANDS.

The Whole Decalog, all the time, from conception, for instance.

 

None, NOT ONE had or ever would have a possibility to be Saved.

God Chose many, however.

The rest were left, to be more blinded than they were to start with.

"The election hath obtained it"; and "the rest are blinded", #Ro 11:7