ZT: RC Sprout对“被召的人多,选上的人少”注释

作者:从上而生
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22:14 called … chosen. Only those who are chosen will be seated at the marriage supper of the Lamb, and this election does not depend on any previous ethnic or moral status (8:11, 12). See theological note “Effectual Calling” on p. 2146.[1]

effectual calling

When God called the world into being, the universe did not hesitate to comply with the command. God’s desired effect in creation came to pass. Likewise, when Jesus called the dead Lazarus from his grave, Lazarus responded with life.

There is also an effectual call of God in the life of the believer. It is a call that brings about its desired effect. Effectual calling is related to the power of God in regenerating the sinner from spiritual death. It is sometimes referred to as “irresistible grace.”

Effectual calling refers to a call of God that by His sovereign power and authority brings about His designed and ordained effect, or result. When Paul teaches that those whom He predestines, He calls, and those whom He calls, He justifies, the call to which he is referring is the effectual call of God.

The effectual call of God is an inward call. It is the secret work of quickening or regeneration accomplished in the souls of the elect by the immediate supernatural operation of the Holy Spirit. It effects or works the inward change of the disposition, inclination, and desire of the soul. Before the inward effectual call of God is received, no person is inclined to come to Him. Everyone who is effectually called is now disposed to God and responds in faith. We see, then, that faith itself is a gift from God, having been given in the effectual call of the Holy Spirit.

The preaching of the gospel represents the outward call of God. This call is heard audibly by both the elect and the nonelect. Human beings have the ability to resist and refuse the outward call. He will not respond to the outward call in faith unless or until the outward call is accompanied by the effectual inward call of the Holy Spirit. Effectual calling is irresistible in the sense that God sovereignly brings about its desired result. This sovereign work of grace is resistible in the sense that we can and do resist it in our fallen nature, but irresistible in the sense that God’s grace prevails over our natural resistance to it.

Effectual calling refers to the creative power of God by which we are brought to spiritual life. The apostle Paul writes:

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (Ephesians 2:1–5).

We who were once children of wrath and were spiritually dead have become the “called out ones” by virtue of the power and efficacy of the inward call of God. In His grace, the Holy Spirit gives us eyes to see what we would not see and ears to hear what we would not hear.[2]

 



[1] Sproul, R. C. (Ed.). (2015). The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition) (p. 1711). Orlando, FL: Reformation Trust.

[2] Sproul, R. C. (Ed.). (2015). The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition) (p. 2146). Orlando, FL: Reformation Trust.


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  • repentant:搞出个无效呼召无效恩典来,绝对亵渎神!☝️☝&
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  • repentant:有效呼召神亵渎神! 神的呼召不都有效? 人不信算神无效无能?
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  • repentant:圣经原文照样劈死你! 管你什么狗屁神学。
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  • 憨夫:这个有深度了。怎么作者没有个资深的抬头?
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    从上而生 回复 憨夫:基督教圈子里有种资深的抬头就是First Name只用缩写

    诸如RC Sprout, JI Packer, CK Beale, DA Carson, 

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  • 追求永生:John Frame提出的三角认知论对厘清救恩真道很有帮助

    John Frame (约翰傅瑞姆)提出的三角认知论对厘清救恩真道很有帮助

    这个三角就是这个:第一个角,认识神的真道要保证圣经作为神的特殊启示得到正确理解、第二个角,认清客观世界的现实,就是在我们这个语境中就是最后得救的人;第三个角,人自己的良知,就是得救之人的正确认知圣经启示的真道和神做工的结果和谐一致。

    因此,真正对神的真道的认知,是三者的和谐一致,并非在圣经的字句上不联系实际不管自己的良心认知,随意去猜测。

    比如得救这个真理,如何认识这个真理内容?怎么知道自己的认识正确?那就是正确理解圣经作者的本意,也就是父神的旨意、得救的历史和最后结局、自己是否赞同真道和神保证的得救结果。只有这三点一致了,自己没有怀疑和矛盾了,才算有了对神的真道的正确认知。

    这看起来抽象,实际是得到正确认知必不可少的历程和要求。

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    从上而生 回复 追求永生:感谢赞美主!
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  • 从上而生:正常的基督徒读到这段和这节经文很自然会想到有效的呼召,RC

    Sprout正是这样的,绝非老古发明的

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    追求永生 回复 从上而生:我理解就是神的旨意100%成全,没有任何怀疑的余地。

    效果和旨意,绝对吻合,完全一致。

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    追求永生 回复 从上而生:我理解就是神的旨意100%成全,没有任何怀疑的余地。

    旨意和效果,完全一致,没有不同。

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    从上而生 回复 追求永生:正是这样
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    repentant 回复 追求永生:有效呼召神亵渎神! 神的呼召不都有效? 人不信算神无效无能?
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