The Law / Gospel Distinction 6 - Monty Lloyd Collier.

In this sermon, Mr. Collier shows how a denial of the Covenant of Works necessarily mixes the Law and the Gospel together--destroying Justification By Faith Alone. Popular men today, such as Daniel P. Fuller, John Piper, Douglas Wilson, and Norman Shepherd have denied the Covenant of Works, then went on to teach Justification by faith and works. Don't fall for this nonsense.

Law / Gospel Distinction (7) - Monty Lloyd Collier

In this sermon, Mr. Collier demonstrates how a denial of The Preservation Of The Saints necessarily leads to a mixing of Law and Gospel. Those who deny The Preservation Of The Saints assert that God places believers on probation to see if they will continue in good works or forfeit their justification by committing some mortal sin. This is simply the old Roman Catholic heresy of double justification. The Bible rejects this Catholic nonsense, for it plainly teaches that the justified are not placed on probation when they come to faith, they are not placed back under the Covenant of Works, but they are justified and preserved forever by grace alone!

Law / Gospel Distinction (8) - Monty Lloyd Collier

This is the final part in an 8 part series on the Law/Gospel Distinction.

In this sermon preached to Geneva Dutch Calvinist Church, Mr. Collier explains how those who properly teach Law / Gospel Distinction establish the Law and avoid antinomianism. After a definition of antinomianism is given, Mr. Collier explains that if you reject Justification By Faith Alone, then you necessarily embrace antinomianism.

The Law is established as a Covenant of Works before one is justified, then it is established as a rule of life after one has been perfectly justified. While the Law directs Christians on how they should love God and their neighbor--it is only the Gospel (and the promises annexed to it) that motivate the Christian to obey the Ten Commandments.

Christians do not strive to keep the Law in order to merit salvation, but they strive to keep the Law to show their deep gratitude to God for so great a deliverance in Christ Jesus our Lord. Although our good works are not necessary for our salvation, although our good works do not merit our justification in part or in full, Mr. Collier explains several reasons why good works are necessary for the Christian life. For example, Good works show our gratitude to God for our justification, which is only by the imputed righteousness of Christ received by faith alone. Good works allow others to see them and glorify God. Good works are how we demonstrate to others that we believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And, good works are good for our neighbor.

So in all of this, the Christian's good works are necessary--even though they are NOT necessary for our justification before God. It is ONLY the active and passive obedience of Jesus Christ imputed to us that is necessary for our justification before God!

Justification: How Can Man Be Just With God?

Can you answer this question correctly?

St James Church Massacre - Cape Town, South Africa, as relayed by Frank Retief.

A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded.

At about 7:30pm, on Sunday 25th July, while the congregation of 1400 listened to a hymn of worship, a group of gunmen burst into the church and opened fire with automatic weapons.

"I noticed the handle of the side door facing the congregation turn and then the doors were kicked open. A black man wearing some kind of overall was standing in the doorway. He was carrying an assault rifle - it looked like an AK 47. As he stepped forward he raised the rifle, cocked it and fired it on full automatic directly into the congregation."

Another eye-witness described it this way: "I saw this man kick open the door next to the stage and holding his rifle from the hip he opened up on us spraying bullets across a wide arc into the packed congregation. But before he even opened fire, two other black men who seemed to be wearing some olive green uniforms lobbed two handgrenades into the centre of the church."

"There was this trail of smoke from the grenades and a few puffs of smoke from the first shots fired. The grenades were still in the air when he started firing."

"As I dived under the pew for cover I heard two grenades explode. I looked up and saw pews sticking up into the air. The firing went on for a while and then suddenly everything was quiet."

For over 11 years Frontline Fellowship has taken the Gospel to the war zones. On Sunday 25th July 1993 the war zones came to us. Our mission headquarters are a few metres from St. James on the same road. Several of our workers are members and both my father and my brother were converted at St. James.

I had just been singing with my daughter and was about to pray with her before putting her to bed when the phone rang. "It was the worst nightmare, Peter, St. James has been attacked by terrorists."

As I sped to the church my mind reeled with the implications. I thought of my many friends there and prayed that they would be safe. Vivid memories of blood splattered churches and scenes of massacres in Angola and Mozambique flooded my mind.

As if in sympathy with the storm in many hearts, lightning flashed across the sky and the heavens wept in a blinding downpour of torrential rain. Above the roar of the rain the air was filled with wailing sirens from convoys of ambulances, police vehicles and fire engines as they converged upon 3rd Avenue, Kenilworth. Flashing lights and flashing lightning lit up a scene of dazed survivors fleeing from the church, weeping church-goers praying in the rain and frantic relatives searching for loved ones.

I was soaked as I stumbled into the church. The tiles in the foyer were smeared with blood. Inside the church there were several bodies lying on the bloodstained carpets or on shrapnel scarred pews. Some wooden pews were overturned. There was a hole in the floor where one grenade had exploded. Prayer books, music sheets, welcome cards and Bibles were strewn amongst the pools of blood. The ceiling was pockmarked with shrapnel.

To read the rest of this article, please go to the following website: "Frontline Fellowship" at the following URL:

http://www.frontline.org.za/articles/christians_underfire.htm

RE: Calvinism: Satan's Favorite religion. (mikaelstoneface)

This is a stern rebuttal to mikaelstoneface's video on "Calvinism: Satan's Favorite Religion".

What is the Gospel? - by John W. Robbins - Read by Monty L. Collier.

JOHN WILLIAM ROBBINS.

Dr. Robbins was a resident of Unicoi County, Tennessee. Born and reared in Pennsylvania, he received his A. B. from Grove City College (Pennsylvania) in 1969, cum laude, with Highest Honors in Political Science. He pursued graduate studies at The Johns Hopkins University (Maryland), earning his Masters in Political Theory (1970) at age 21, and his Doctorate in Philosophy and Political Theory (1973) at age 24.

In 1973 Dr. Robbins became Legislative Assistant to a Member of Congress from Indiana, Earl Landgrebe, and subsequently worked, over the next 20 years, in several capacities for several public policy institutions: The Heritage Foundation (Economic Analyst), The Templeton Foundation (Consultant), Western Islands (Editor), Tax Reform Immediately (National Director), The Foundation for Economic Education (Editor of The Freeman), and The Institute for Policy Innovation (President). He served as Legislative Assistant (1976, 1979-1981) and Chief of Staff (1981-1985) to a Member of Congress from Texas, Dr. Ron Paul.

In 1977 Dr. Robbins founded a Christian think tank, The Trinity Foundation, and under his direction The Foundation has published 75 books, 180 lectures, and 275 essays; hosted conferences and seminars in several states; and published a monthly newsletter for over 30 years.

Dr. Robbins wrote several books, hundreds of essays, and lectured or taught at several institutions of higher education, including Harvard University, the University of Colorado, the University of Texas, Biola University, College of the Southwest, Western Reformed Seminary, and Chesapeake Seminary. He was a member of two academic societies, the Evangelical Theological Society and the Evangelical Philosophical Society.

Dr. Robbins was elected and ordained Elder in the Presbyterian Church of America, and licensed to preach by Westminster Presbytery, but he left that denomination because of its failure to discipline teachers who were teaching a different gospel. He was an elder in a Reformed congregation called Reformation Church.

Dr. Robbins and his wife Linda had three daughters, two sons-in-law, and six grandchildren. Dr. John W. Robbins went home to his Lord and Savior on August 14, 2008.

Please see this essay at http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=95

Thank you very much to Monty L. Collier for allowing me to use his work to make this video.

The Spectacular Voice of Jessye Norman - THE HOLY CITY! (Jerusalem)

Born: September 15, 1945 - Augusta, Georgia, USA

The exceptionally gifted black American soprano, Jessye Norman, received in 1961 a scholarship to study at Howard Univversity in Washington, D.C., where she had vocal lessons from Carolyn Grant. She continued her training at the peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore and at the University of Michigan, where her principal teachers were Pierre Bernac and Elizabeth Mannion. In 1968 She won the Munich Competition.

Biographyby Joseph Stevenson

A prominent American soprano, Jessye Norman was the daughter of a schoolteacher and an insurance broker. She started singing spirituals at the age of four at Mount Calvary Baptist Church; one Saturday while doing her chores she heard an opera for the first time, broadcast on the radio. She became an instant opera fan and started listening to recordings of Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price. Nat "King" Cole was also a major inspiration for her.

When she was 16, she started studying at Howard University in Washington, where her voice teacher was Carolyn Grant. She sang in the university chorus and had a job as soloist the Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ. In 1965 she won the National Society of Arts and Letters singing competition. She continued her studies at Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where her most important studies were with Elizabeth Mannion and Pierre Bernac.

In 1968 she won the Munich Competition, leading to her operatic debut as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser in Berlin. A major European operatic career quickly developed: she appeared as Meyerbeer's L'Africaine at Maggio Musicale in Florence in 1971, Verdi's Aïda at La Scala in Milan in 1972, and as Cassandra in Berlioz's Les Troyens at London's Covent Garden the same year. These roles are all princesses and bespeak a major part of her stage persona, a commanding and noble bearing, partly due to her uncommon height and size. But this is even more a function of her unique, rich, and powerful voice. She has an uncommonly wide range, encompassing all female voice registers from contralto to high dramatic soprano.

As her operatic career developed, she also made important recital debuts, including London and New York in 1973. She made an extensive North American concert debut in 1976 and 1977, but did not appear in opera in the United States until 1982. This was with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, in a double bill as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Queen Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. Her Metropolitan Opera debut was as Cassandra in 1983, the opening night of the Met's centennial season.

Her interpretation of Strauss's Four Last Songs is legendary. Its slowness is controversial, but the tonal qualities of her voice are ideal for these final works of the great Romantic German lieder tradition. She also sings the Gurrelieder of Arnold Schoenberg, and the same composer's Erwartung. She sang that opera on a memorable double bill at the Met with Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, which was broadcast nationally. She has also appeared on live broadcasts of season-opening concerts of the New York Philharmonic.

In addition to the direct and emotionally expressive qualities of her singing, her performances also impress through formidable intellectual understanding of the music and its style, as well as first-rate musicianship. She studies the languages of the music she sings, and has been acclaimed in her singing of Mussorgsky songs in the original Russian, in the German Romantic lieder repertoire, and in French music from Berlioz to contemporary composers.


An enthusiastic Girl Scout cookie seller, she is a life time member of the Girl Scouts of America. Jessye Norman resides in New York State.

A Dramatic Presentation of Genesis Chapter One!

Genesis 1 (Young's Literal Translation)

1In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

2the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness [is] on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

3and God saith, `Let light be;' and light is.

4And God seeth the light that [it is] good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

5and God calleth to the light `Day,' and to the darkness He hath called `Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day one.

6And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

7And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.

8And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.

9And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

10And God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called `Seas;' and God seeth that [it is] good.

11And God saith, `Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed [is] in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.

12And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that [it is] good;

13and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day third.

14And God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,

15and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so.

16And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of the night;

17and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

18and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that [it is] good;

19and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fourth.

20And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'

21And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that [it is] good.

22And God blesseth them, saying, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'

23and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fifth.

24And God saith, `Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so.

25And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that [it is] good.

26And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

27And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

28And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

29And God saith, `Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which [is] the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

30and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which [is] breath of life, every green herb [is] for food:' and it is so.

31And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day the sixth.

GENESIS 2
1And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

2and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

3And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

4These [are] births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S by Bryan Duncan from "Joyride" - (BLUES)

Baby-boomer Duncan was born in Ogden, Utah, on March 16, 1953. While in college in 1973, he was a founding member of the trio Sweet Comfort, which featured drummer Rick Thomson, bassist Kevin Thomson, and Duncan on keyboards and vocals. The group quickly developed a regional following in Southern California and, in the course of a dozen years together, climbed to the top of the Christian music charts. One writer called Duncan's music "infectious, groove- oriented, blue-eyed soul delivered with passion, emotion and precision."

In 1976, guitarist Randy Thomas joined Sweet Comfort and the band recorded its first song, Golden Ages, for the Maranatha Music label collection Maranatha V. The following year, Maranatha released the group's self-titled debut, which received airplay on Christian radio and on mainstream stations in Southern California. After that first album, Sweet Comfort signed with Light Records and released five albums between 1979 and 1983. Three songs from 1979's Breakin' the Ice reached Christian radio's Top 20. Two years later, Campus Life, Billboard and CCM all named Sweet Comfort's album Hearts of Fire one of 1981's Top 10 Christian recordings. With the release of Perfect Timing in October 1983, it was time for Duncan to go it alone, however. Sweet Comfort announced that it would break up and, in early 1984, said goodbye during a three-month farewell tour.

Duncan launched his solo career by signing with Ray Ware Artist Management in June 1984. The following year, he toured Australia, and Light Records released his solo debut album Have Yourself Committed. The title song as well as "Child's Love" reached the Christian music charts. In the last half of the 1980s, Duncan toured regularly, released videos, and recorded the albums Holy' Rollin', Whistlin' in the Dark, which spawned four singles, and Strong Medicine--which received solid airplay and ranked 16th in sales among 1989's Christian albums.

Duncan then moved to the Myrrh record label and released The Anonymous Confessions of a Lunatic Friend in 1990. The album delivered five singles which topped the Christian music charts. In 1992, Duncan achieved similar success with the record Mercy--which Christian Research Report (CRR) named Album of the Year. On the strength of Mercy, Duncan was voted CRR's male vocalist of the year for 1994 and nominated for the same honor by the Gospel Music Association. His follow-up album, Slow Revival, spawned four more No. 1 hits on the Christian music charts. In 1995, Myrrh released Unidos En El, a Spanish language recording of Duncan compositions, and Christmas is Jesus--on which Duncan performs with a choir and full orchestra. The record also kicked off a Christmas tradition of popular tours on which the singer performs with local choirs and orchestras.

In 1997, Duncan released the upbeat Blue Skies, which he described as the third part of a trilogy that included the records Mercy and Slow Revival. The trilogy recounts Duncan's journey from the recognition of his need for God, through his efforts to deal with that need, and finally to his arrival at spiritual peace. "Blue Skies is saying, 'Hey, there's a clearing in the sky,'" Duncan told interviewer Bob Lupine. "I mean, it doesn't always stay stormy. And sometimes you can't help help but have good things happen to you, even if you're not trying. It's just a matter of recognizing them when they're there.... One of my favorite songs on the record is 'After This Day is Gone.' I like singing it, because in the chorus it goes, 'I believe after this day is gone, long after all the damage is done, there's still a place in your heart for me.' That song is me reaffirming that God loves me, because it's so easy for me to talk myself out of believing that."

Writer Douglas McKelvey called Blue Skies "a portrait of a man who has stumbled upon a reservoir of peace, faith and joy even in the midst of his perseverance.... Running the gamut from plaintive, heartfelt ballads to soulful mid-tempo numbers to upbeat tunes reminiscent of James Brown in his heyday, the songs ... reveal a consummate vocalist and performer." A review in CCM Update described Blue Skies as one of Duncan's best records in years and said it "moves beyond the blue-eyed soul that's become his trademark ... to dig deeper into R&B and jazz influences--think equal parts Smokey Robinson and Sting." Reviewer John M. De Marco, writing in Christian Retailing, said the album "is more organic, less slick, and features fewer effects" than past Duncan releases, while "showcasing his straight-ahead natural voice. The album's lyrical content is intimate."

by Dave Wilkins

FAITHFUL - David Ruis ~~~~ Our God is FAITHFUL!

SOLUS CHRISTUS!

Lyrics to Faithful.
The narrow pathway
Through the needle's eye
I'm stepping forward
To the place I die

For I know that You are faithful
As we walk these fields of white
To the waiting and the humble
Your Kingdom comes

The way of mercy
Takes me to the least
Down the road of suffering
To the wedding feast

For I know that You are faithful
As we walk these fields of white
To the weary and the hurting
Your Kingdom comes

The Calvinism of Elder D.J. Ward!

The Five Solas of The Reformation:
♔ Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone)! 2 Timothy 3:15-16
♔ Solus Christus (Christ Alone)! John 3:16-18
♔ Sola Gratia (Grace Alone)! Ephesians 2:7-9
♔ Sola Fide (Faith Alone)! Romans 4:5
♔ Soli Deo Gloria (For God's Glory Alone)! Galatians 1:4-5

I believe that salvation is ALL of the Lord. I believe The Father ELECTS, the Son SAVES and the Holy Spirit EFFECTS that salvation within us because of what Christ did on the cross FOR US. Christ's work and the imputation of HIS righteousness is OUTSIDE of us. The Bible teaches that we are born DEAD in our sins - Ephesians 2:1

It was GOD who settled the Doctrines of Grace, known by the acronym TULIP, in my heart. These are the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on this:

1. TOTAL INABILITY or TOTAL DEPRAVITY-- "No man can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him." John 6:44
2. UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION-- "You have not chosen Me but I have chosen you." John 15:16
3. LIMITED ATONEMENT-- " I am The Good Shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the Sheep." John 10:11
4.IRRESISTIBLE GRACE-- "All that the Father gives shall come to me." John 6:37
5. PRESERVATION OF THE SAINTS--"They will never perish." John 10:28

The Bible speaks of SHEEP and GOATS! The Bible does NOT teach that Christ died for the goats, it says, Christ died for the SHEEP.

If you cannot come to grips with the Doctrine of Limited Atonement - deal with it - the Bible teaches it VERY CLEARLY everywhere you look.

The Sting of Death - Can We Be Free?

The Sting of Death is SIN!

The Power of SIN is the Law!

How then, can we be free!

CALVINISM! The Doctrine of Justification by Faith ALONE!

America's top Calvinist scholar and expert on Gordon H. Clark lectures on Calvinism.

In this lecture, Dr. Robbins will explain the doctrine of justification by faith without works, and he will go over the current justification controversy (the evil Federal Vision movement). The current controversy concerns the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (O.P.C.) and the Presbyterian Church of America (P.C.A.).

The O.P.C. and the P.C.A. both have all but denounced the doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone. Dr. Robbins explains how the current Auburn Avenue Theologians, also known as Federal Vision theologians, are teaching the heretical Roman Catholic doctrine of justification.

Some of the men teaching the Federal Vision heresy are: R.C. Sproul jr., Gary North, James Jordan, N.T. Wright, P. Andrew Sandlin, Steven Schlissel, Douglas Wilson, Jeff Meyers, and so on.

This new attempt to reintroduce Roman Catholic soteriology into Presbyterian churches can be traced to such theologians as Norman Shepherd, Herman Bavinck, Cornelius Van Til, Greg Bahnsen, and John Frame.

God's Plan for Salvation - Harmony of the New Birth and the Gospel.

Thank you for waiting patiently for this Part 2 in my series God's plan for the Salvation of the human soul.

In part two, I do a quick 5 minute re-cap on what was discussed in Part one. Then I take a deeper look at God's Sovereignty - an attribute you cannot afford NOT to embrace in it's fullness. I discuss the reasons for this in the re-cap section before I pick up the narration I did about a month ago.

The new Birth is prophesied in the Old Testament in Ezekiel Chapter 37, also known as the "Dry Bones" chapter. Here we are told how God commands Ezekiel to prophesy over a valley of dry bones, and by doing so, they are brought to life, which is a type and shadow of things to come, and a picture of the raising to life of the dead human soul by the Holy Spirit.

"The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. (Ezekiel 37:1-14)

Another passage in Ezekiel is Chapter 36:24-26, where we are told the following:

"For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." (Ezekiel 36:24-26)

The fullfillment of this prophesy is adequately discussed in Titus 3:4-8a

"But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying...." (Titus 3:4-8a)

Once the human soul has been brought to life by God Himself (quickened), the Gospel can be preached and heard and understood by those who were foreordained unto eternal life in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world.

Here is the Gospel:

"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures..." (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)

The Holy Spirit SEALS that person into Christ by indwelling the Believer. (Ephesians 1:13 and 2 Corinthians 1:21-22)

"For the gifts and the calling of God are IRREVOCABLE." (Romans 11:29)