A doctrine crucial to understanding the biblical doctrine of salvation is efficacious grace. Efficacious grace means that men who are dead spiritually are regenerated and effectually called by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit works immediately upon the soul infusing a new spiritual life into it, thus changing it in such a way that it [...]
Irresistible Grace
Irresistible Grace by Jacob Moseley
The Godhead, all members of the Holy Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—work together in perfect harmony to initiate, effect, and complete the salvation of sinners. God the Father did from eternity past choose those that he would give to God the Son (cf. Eph. 1:4–5; John 17:2). In the fullness of the [...]
Efficacious Grace by Loraine Boettner
1. TEACHING OF THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION The Westminster Confession states the doctrine of Efficacious Grace thus: — ‘All those whom God has predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased, in His appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of death, in which they are [...]
