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I submit this as being the difference what I see between one who is saved by a sinners prayer and the new born from above; the problem within the visible church:
The Patience of God in His Consummation of Our Lives
- - - Geo. MacDonald*
We must keep in mind when working through this that God will not go against our will for our life.
The patience of God labors for the converted mind of the saved person whose child-heart has not yet been born in him by the power of God now imputed him, that he might pursue further the Source of so great salvation to be made complete by the promise of His new birth able now to be offered Him; that he might pursue to know God the only True God in an intimate way and Jesus Christ, his lifelong Justifying lover, the beginning and the end of his seeking.*
*cf John 17:3 KJV
There is more he wrote on this I can posit.
The Patience of God in His Consummation of Our Lives
- - - Geo. MacDonald*
We must keep in mind when working through this that God will not go against our will for our life.
The patience of God labors for the converted mind of the saved person whose child-heart has not yet been born in him by the power of God now imputed him, that he might pursue further the Source of so great salvation to be made complete by the promise of His new birth able now to be offered Him; that he might pursue to know God the only True God in an intimate way and Jesus Christ, his lifelong Justifying lover, the beginning and the end of his seeking.*
*cf John 17:3 KJV
There is more he wrote on this I can posit.