Questions and Answers for the Sovereign Grace Believer

  Q. Do you believe men are born saved?

A. No, I believe they are born sinners, lost and alienated from God. Eph 4:18: Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

  Q. Do you believe men are born elect?

A. No, I believe they were elect before they were ever born.

  Q. When where they elect?

A. Before the foundations of the earth, before God ever created anything. Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

  Q. Who are the elect?

A. Every born again child of God who make up the church, the bride of Christ

  Q. Are your children of the elect?

A. I don’t know who any of the elect are.

  Q. Did God arbitrarily choose those who are the elect?

A. No, God does nothing arbitrarily, He chose the elect by His own sovereign grace.

  Q. Why evangelize if it’s already determined who will and won’t be saved.

A. Because we are commanded to by Christ and compelled to by the cross. Because we    have a ministry of reconciliation and because we don’t know who the elect are.

  Q. Do you believe unregenerate man has a free will?

A. Yes

  Q. How free is his free will?

A. As free as his nature and bondage to his sin will allow him to be free.

  Q. How free is that?

A. Free enough to make hundreds of free will decisions everyday.

  Q. Is the unregenerate man free to choose God?

A. He cannot because of his spiritual condition.

  Q. What is his condition? 

A. He is blinded by the god of this world, he is deaf to the things of God, and he is spiritually dead, lost, condemned and alienated from the life of God.  His condition could not be worse than it is. He is alive physically, but dead spiritually….He is a walking dead man. 

  Q. How does God save a man in that condition?

A. The whole of the Trinity was involved in the salvation of God’s elect.  God the Father in sovereign electing love chose those whom He would give to the Son.  The Son by His obedience to the Father provided an atonement that is so effective it will save ALL of the elect and God the Holy Spirit regenerates and brings the lost sinner to Christ, gives him the gift of faith, grants him repentance and changes his heart and desires so that he can come to Christ.  In regeneration the nature, the desire and the ability of the unregenerate man is so changed that he becomes a new creature in Christ. 

  Q. Does God force the unregenerate man to come to Christ against his will?

A. Absolutely not…The Holy Spirit reveals Christ to the man in such a way that once he gazes upon the beauty, majesty, and holiness of Christ and sees him as the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, as he sees him as the Rose of Sharon, the Lillie of the Valley, the King of kings and Lord of lords the man, like the moth drawn to a flame, is so drawn to what he then sees in Christ that he comes willingly.  He comes because he truly wants to….When God changes his nature he changes his desires and his desire is to know Christ in all His fullness and beauty.  God worked in him to will and to do his good pleasure (Phil 2:13) by so overwhelming him with such love and grace that he ran willingly to His open and loving arms.