(also called effectual grace,[113] effectual calling, or efficacious grace) asserts that the saving grace of God is effectually applied to those whom he has determined to save (that is, the elect) and overcomes their resistance to obeying the call of the gospel, bringing them to a saving faith.
When God sovereignly purposes to save someone, that individual certainly will be saved.
When you grab ahold of grace during the sanctification process, you trust God. When you sense the work being accomplished, you know God. When you realize it's all God's doing and that the Holy Spirit cannot be resisted, it is very humbling.
The Holy Spirit, "graciously causes the elect sinner to cooperate, to believe, to repent, to come freely and willingly to Christ." This is not to deny the fact that the Spirit's outward call (through the proclamation of the Gospel) can be, and often is, rejected by sinners; rather, it is that inward call which cannot be rejected.
There is nothing on earth more liberating than this act of the Holy Spirit.
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