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The Morning Devotional: WCF 10.2

by William Hill | Mar 29, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for March 29, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 10.2

II. This effectual call is of God’s free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man;^a who is altogether passive therein, until, being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit,^b he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.^c

a. Rom 9:11; Eph 2:4-5, 8-9; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 3:4-5. • b. Rom 8:7; 1 Cor 2:14; Eph 2:5. • c. Ezek 36:27; John 5:25; 6:37.

The Morning Devotional: WCF 10.1

by William Hill | Mar 28, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for March 28, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 10.1

I. All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call,^a by his Word and Spirit,^b out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;^cenlightening their minds, spiritually and savingly, to understand the things of God;^d taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them an heart of flesh;^e renewing their wills, and by his almighty power determining them to that which is good,^f and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ;^g yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace.^h

a. Rom 8:30; 11:7; Eph 1:10-11. • b. 2 Cor 3:3, 6; 2 Thes 2:13-14. • c. Rom 8:2; Eph 2:1-5; 2 Tim 1:9-10. • d. Acts 26:18; 1 Cor 2:10, 12; Eph 1:17-18. • e. Ezek 36:26. • f. Deut 30:6; Ezek 11:19; 36:27; Phil 2:13. • g. John 6:44-45; Eph 1:19. • h. Psa 110:3; Song of Songs 1:4; John 6:37; Rom 6:16-18.

The Morning Devotional: WCF 9.4-5

by William Hill | Mar 27, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for March 27, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 9.4-5

IV. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin,^a and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good;^b yet so as that, by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.^c

a. John 8:34, 36; Col 1:13. • b. Rom 6:18, 22; Phil 2:13. • c. Rom 7:15, 18-19, 21, 23; Gal 5:17.

V. The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.^a

a. Eph 4:13; Heb 12:23; 1 John 3:2; Jude 1:24.

The Morning Devotional: WCF 9.3

by William Hill | Mar 24, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for March 24, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 9.3

III. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation;^a so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good,^b and dead in sin,^c is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.^d

a. John 15:5; Rom 5:6; 8:7. • b. Rom 3:10, 12. • c. Eph 2:1, 5; Col 2:13. • d. John 6:44, 65; 1 Cor 2:14; Eph 2:2-5; Titus 3:3-5.

The Morning Devotional: WCF 9.1-2

by William Hill | Mar 23, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for March 23, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 9.1-2

I. God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil.^a

a. Deut 30:19; Mat 17:12; James 1:14.

II. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God,^a but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.^b

a. Gen 1:26; Ecc 7:29. • b. Gen 2:16-17; 3:6.

The Morning Devotional: WCF 8.8

by William Hill | Mar 22, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for March 22, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 8.8

VIII. To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same;^a making intercession for them,^b and revealing unto them, in and by the Word, the mysteries of salvation;^c effectually persuading them by his Spirit to believe and obey; and governing their hearts by his Word and Spirit;^d overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom, in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation.^e