Grosey's Messages

“Christianity does not rest upon the speculations of the mind or lofty philosophical ideals. It is grounded in the living and true God, who in his mercy makes himself known. He is not a distant principle nor a cold, detached force, but the triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—eternally glorious, personally active, and covenantally near to his people. In his perfect wisdom, the Father sends forth the Son. The Son, fully God and yet truly man, takes on our nature and accomplishes the work of redemption on the cross. There, justice and mercy meet. But the work of salvation does not end at Golgotha. The Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father and the Son, takes what Christ has earned and applies it to us, giving life to the dead, opening blind eyes, and sealing us for the day of glory. Here is the comfort of the Christian faith: our salvation is the work of the whole triune God. It is not rooted in our merit or strength but in the eternal counsel, sovereign grace, and unchanging love of the one true God. The doctrine of the Trinity is not a burden to be endured, but the heartbeat of our hope, the source of our assurance, and the ground of our joy. Let us then bow in worship, and lift up our hearts in confidence, for the God who saves is the God who eternally is.” This has implications for apologetics: as EJ Mullins notes being born again is the apologetic that changes our hearts by God’s Sovereign electing grace. As C Van Til notes it is God’s sovereignty that provides the total renewal of the mind. Renewal implies that the presuppositions of true knowledge are already wired in by means of creation, but our Eason is marred by the fall and needs to be renewed as we know Christ. And here H Bavinck helps us know that the triune God is not only the One who renews our thinking, but as the Triune God He in His predetermined eternal covenant is the ground of all knowledge in all creation. There is no sense of truth or knowledge apart from this Triune God. The best apologetic is submission to the Triune God in all His works and His most important work of salvation.

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