7658	Forums / Theology Forum / The Donkey Messenger	on: March 31, 2007, 08:57:03 AM
I think though, that many do not respond when the spirit calls, even when he is screaming to get their attention. for that one, there comes that point where they must respond, the must relent, they must understand their weakness and fall on God's mercy. Haven't you ever seen someone in Church when the alter call comes, they stand in their place and try to hold back the tears because they KNOW that call is coming, but they don't move? I think God calls everyone at one time or another. Jesus quoted Isaiah from chapter 54 in John 6:45It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. First i like your testimony. But i do not find any of this kind of testimony in the holy scriptures. There are some in Acts, and the narrative is nothing like some of your testimony. The narrative follows the work of the Spirit as soveriegn. He opened Lidyas heart and then the effect as an individual work of the Spirit individually. And there was no going forward, just simple believing. But there was an effect seen because of the entire soul being made alive. So that Christ becomes the most beautiful object of the desires of a new regeneration. So we need to make the scriptures define our experience and not visa versa. The thing we need to see is that regeneration and salvation are a secret work in the heart and what follows that is the effect on the entire man. It really does not depend on our response because it happens without us knowing the exact time of its secret effects. So there are an assurance that we are given in looking on Christ alone. Nothing in my hands i bring only to thy cross i cling. It is when we go to the word, the divine revelation to us will become sweeter than any thing in the world. That is what a true saint is. All of the public displays of one time confession really mean nothing in the scriptural dogma. Even tho God does work through the imperfect process there are reprocussions for the idolic nature of that process.