Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Salvation is Trinitarian by AW Pink




‘The wind bloweth where it pleaseth … so is every one that is born of the Spirit.’ The wind is an element which man can neither harness nor hinder. The wind neither consults man’s pleasure nor can it be regulated by his devices. So it is with the Spirit. The wind blows when it pleases, where it pleases, as it pleases. So it is with the Spirit. The wind is regulated by Divine wisdom, yet so far as man is concerned, it is absolutely sovereign in its operations. So it is with the Spirit. Sometimes the wind blows so softly it scarcely rustles a leaf; at other times it blows so loudly that its roar can be heard for miles. So it is in the matter of the new birth; with some the Holy Spirit deals so gently, that His work is imperceptible to human onlookers; with others His action is so powerful, radical, revolutionary, that His operations are patent to many. Sometimes the wind is purely local in its reach, at other times widespread in its scope. So it is with the Spirit: today He acts on one or two souls, tomorrow He may, as at Pentecost, ‘prick in the heart’ a whole multitude. But whether He works on few or many, He consults not man. He acts as He pleases. The new birth is due to the sovereign will of the Spirit.

“Each of the three Persons in the blessed Trinity is concerned with our salvation:  With the Father it is predestination; with the Son propitiation; with the Spirit regeneration.  The Father chose us; the Son died for us; the Spirit quickens us.  The Father was concerned about us; the Son shed His blood for us; the Spirit performs His work within us.  What the One did was eternal, what the Other did was external, what the Spirit does is internal.”  

-  A.W. Pink
The Sovereignty Of God

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