Q. 35. What is sanctification?
A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.
2 Thess. 2:13; Eph. 4:23-24; Rom. 6:4, 6; Rom. 8:1.
I take back all the times as a child when I didn't want to take a nap.
Q. 34. What is adoption?
A. Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.
1 John 3:1; John 1:12; Rom. 8:17.
"Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure." - Bill Bright
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it." - Pericles
Okay, so I'm a day or two late on the Steak & Shake fun. I'll just pretend I'm eating pizza.😂
Q. 33. What is justification?
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
Rom. 3:24-25; Rom. 4:6-8; 2 Cor. 5:19, 21; Rom. 5:17-19; Gal. 2:16; Phil. 3:9.
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson
"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today."
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
Q. 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
A. They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, sanctification, and the several benefits which, in this life, do either accompany or flow from them.
Rom. 8:30; Eph. 1:5; 1 Cor. 1:26, 30.
Back to Primal on Android, for now.
"The Ungoverned," by Vernor Vinge, is a sci-fi novella that started me down the anarcho-capitalist path many years ago. Many of VInge's works explore anarcho-capitalism, agorism, and "The Singularity".
The full text of "The Ungoverned" is available for free here. It's worth the hour or so to read it.
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
– Ronald Reagan
"Every noble work is at first impossible." - Thomas Carlyle
Q. 31. What is effectual calling?
A. Effectual calling is the work of God’s Spirit, whereby convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.
2 Tim. 1:9; 2 Thess. 2:13-14; Acts 2:37; Acts 26:18; Ezek. 36:26-27; John 6:44-45; Phil. 2:13.
Q. 30. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
A. The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.
Eph. 1:13-14; John 6:37, 39; Eph. 2:8; Eph. 3:17; 1 Cor. 1:9.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldon Emerson
