God predestined man to salvation
At the world’s foundation
Christ would give us a second birth
This is cause for great mirth
We weren’t chosen by God for anything we did
The reason for our election He hid
Because of sin, man is spiritually dead
We are made alive because Christ’s blood was shed
The natural man is totally depraved
Only by grace alone through faith alone are we saved
At Calvary, on the rugged cross, Jesus did atone
For the natural man, the Holy Spirit transforms his heart of stone
Regeneration, through the Holy Spirit, precedes faith for sure
First comes the effectual call, we’re redeemed from the Fall, and our wicked nature
When we repent and believe the Gospel, our souls are quickened, and we’re born again
We receive a new nature by the Holy Spirit, so we are now at war with the flesh and sin
Christ was our propitiation; we received His perfect righteousness
Our sin was imputed to Him; this is not nominalism, thanks to God’s graciousness
Upon being born again, we change in our whole ontology
No longer slaves to the flesh, we become righteous, you see
by Zachary Uram
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