Thursday, 20 June 2013

CONVERSION/BEKERING

Martyn Lloyd-Jones said:  “Do you expect anything to happen when you get up to preach? Are you expecting it to be the turning point in someone’s life..?  That is what preaching is meant to do....  Seek this power, expect this power, yearn for this power; and when the power comes, yield to Him.”

Martin Luther said:  “only the Holy Spirit could take the Word from the ear into the human heart.”
‘n Ou Spoorwegman se bekering en gebed:     ‘n Ou spoorwegman het by ‘n byeenkoms tot bekering gekom, en is gevra om te bid.  Hy het ‘n oomblik geaarsel en toe eerbiedig met ‘n bewende maar helder stem gesê: “O, Here, noudat ek die vlag gestryk het, bid ek U:

·         neem my voete van die ruwe spoorbaan af en plaas hulle veilig bo-op die
           trein van redding. 

·         Laat wysheid my handlamp wees en die Bybel my hooflig

·         Laat die trein gekoppel wees met die sterk skakel van liefde

·         En, Hemelse Vader, hou alle wissels gesluit wat na sylyne uitdraai, veral die wat
                 lei na ‘n doodloopspoor. 

·         O, Here, as dit U wil is, laat elke sinjaal langs die lyne die witlig van hoop
            vertoon sodat ek die lewensreis kan aflê sonder om stil te hou

·          En, Here, laat die tien gebooie my rooster wees

·         En wanneer ek die reis volgens roostertyd afgelê het en in die groot donker
          stasie van die dood ingetrek het, mag die Superintendent van die heelal sê: 
          “Mooi so, goeie en getroue dienaar, kom teken die betaalstaat en ontvang
         jou loon van ewige geluksaligheid.”

Baptist Confession of Faith
(1689) Rewritten in modern English by Andrew Kerkham
1st ed. 1999, revised ed. 2001
Andrew Kerkham

Chapter 10
EFFECTUAL CALLING
10.1 Those whom God1 has predestined to life,2 he is pleased (in his appointed and accepted time)3 to effectually call4 by his Word5 and Spirit.6 He calls them out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ.7 He enlightens their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God.8 He takes away their heart of stone, and gives to them a heart of flesh.9 He renews their wills, and by his almighty power causes them to do what is good.10 He effectually draws them to Jesus Christ,11 yet in such a way that they come completely freely, for they are made willing by his grace.12  (1) Rom 8:28-29 (2) Rom 8:29-30; 9:22-24; 1Co 1:26-28; 2Th 2:13-14; 2Ti 1:9 (3) Joh 3:8; Eph 1:11
(4) Mat 22:14; 1Cor 1:23-24; Rom 1:6; 8:28; Jude 1:1; Psa 29; Joh 5:25; Rom 4:17; (5) 2Th 2:14; 1Pe 1:23-25; Jas 1:17-25; 1Jo 5:1-5; Rom 1:16-17; 10:14; Heb 4:12;(6) Joh 3:3,5-6,8; 2Co 3:3,6
(7) Rom 8:2; 1Co 1:9; Eph 2:1-6; 2Ti 1:9-10;(8) Act 26:18; 1Co 2:10,12; Eph 1:17-18;(9) Eze 36:26
(10) Deu 30:6; Eze 36:27; (11) Joh 6:44-45; Eph 1:19; Phi 2:13;(12) Psa 110:3; Joh 6:37; Rom 6:16-18. 10.2 This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not on account of anything at all foreseen in us. It is not made because of any power or action in us,1 for we are altogether passive in it, we are dead in sins and trespasses until we are made alive and renewed by the Holy Spirit.2 By this [regeneration] we are enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it, this power being none other than that which raised up Christ from the dead.3

(1) 2Ti 1:9; Tit 3:4-5; Eph 2:4-5,8-9; Rom 9:11
(2) 1Co 2:14; Rom 8:7; Eph 2:5
(3) Joh 6:37; Eze 36:27; Joh 5:25; Eph 1:19-20
 
HET JY AL TOT BEKERING GEKOM?  MAAK DAN DIE OU SPOORWEGMAN SE GEBED JOU GEBED.
INDIEN NIE - MAAK MARTIN LUTHER SE WOORDE JOU GEBED:  "ONLY THE Holy Spirit could take the Word from the ear into the human heart"

 

 

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