Dispensing with "Lordship Salvation"
May 5, 2017 6:43:44 GMT
Post by Colossians on May 5, 2017 6:43:44 GMT
This material is for the teaching of the Body of Christ, however the author reserves copyright over it.
_______________________________________
DISPENSING WITH “LORDSHIP SALVATION”
A man can only be born again by the Holy Spirit’s entering into him.
Such entering shall occur if and only if Christ has died for him, and shall occur at a time appointed by God:1 he who is to be entered will have no say in the matter whatsoever, for he being the property of the Father, the Father is entitled to give him away in marriage to whomsoever he wishes.
And of course He will give him to the Son:
“thine they were, and thou gavest them [to] me” John 17:6.2
1 And such entering will not necessarily require any (concomitant) external hearing of the Word: John the Baptist was entered by the Holy Spirit in the womb (see Luke 1:15,44); Cornelius the Roman Centurian was already in a personal relationship with the Lord before Peter arrived to preach to him (see Acts 10:35 and our work: “The Baptism in the Holy Spirit”). But rather, the Holy Spirit being the express proxy of the Son, He is of necessity coextensive with the Word. That is, once the Holy Spirit has entered a man, such man has by definition – and we stress by definition, heard.
2 See also 1 Cor 7:38a.
Once the Holy Spirit has entered, it is then too late to make Christ Lord: He is necessarily already Lord by virtue of the metaphysical joining together of Him (in the Person of the Holy Spirit) and him who has been entered: Christ is now irresistibly Head, and he that is entered irresistibly Body.
“he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” 1 Cor 6:17.
And so the correct Christian position is not Lordship Salvation (Christ’s saving of us is not predicated on the basis of His Lordship), but Salvation Lordship (Christ’s Lordship is predicated on the basis of His saving of us): He is not saviour because He is Lord, but Lord because He is saviour.
For he who will be husband (and therefore lord – see 1 Pe 3:6), must earn the father’s daughter’s hand in marriage.
“And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her” Gen 29:20.
“For it became [the Father], for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings” Heb 2:10.
Summarily …
“and the government shall be upon His shoulder” Is 9:6.
Amen.
(See also our works: “The scheme of things”, “The causal sequence of our salvation”, “Simple scriptural proof of Calvinism for the uninitiated”.)
_______________________________________
DISPENSING WITH “LORDSHIP SALVATION”
A man can only be born again by the Holy Spirit’s entering into him.
Such entering shall occur if and only if Christ has died for him, and shall occur at a time appointed by God:1 he who is to be entered will have no say in the matter whatsoever, for he being the property of the Father, the Father is entitled to give him away in marriage to whomsoever he wishes.
And of course He will give him to the Son:
“thine they were, and thou gavest them [to] me” John 17:6.2
1 And such entering will not necessarily require any (concomitant) external hearing of the Word: John the Baptist was entered by the Holy Spirit in the womb (see Luke 1:15,44); Cornelius the Roman Centurian was already in a personal relationship with the Lord before Peter arrived to preach to him (see Acts 10:35 and our work: “The Baptism in the Holy Spirit”). But rather, the Holy Spirit being the express proxy of the Son, He is of necessity coextensive with the Word. That is, once the Holy Spirit has entered a man, such man has by definition – and we stress by definition, heard.
2 See also 1 Cor 7:38a.
Once the Holy Spirit has entered, it is then too late to make Christ Lord: He is necessarily already Lord by virtue of the metaphysical joining together of Him (in the Person of the Holy Spirit) and him who has been entered: Christ is now irresistibly Head, and he that is entered irresistibly Body.
“he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” 1 Cor 6:17.
And so the correct Christian position is not Lordship Salvation (Christ’s saving of us is not predicated on the basis of His Lordship), but Salvation Lordship (Christ’s Lordship is predicated on the basis of His saving of us): He is not saviour because He is Lord, but Lord because He is saviour.
For he who will be husband (and therefore lord – see 1 Pe 3:6), must earn the father’s daughter’s hand in marriage.
“And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her” Gen 29:20.
“For it became [the Father], for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings” Heb 2:10.
Summarily …
“and the government shall be upon His shoulder” Is 9:6.
Amen.
(See also our works: “The scheme of things”, “The causal sequence of our salvation”, “Simple scriptural proof of Calvinism for the uninitiated”.)