Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective - and by clear implication, the prayer of a wicked man, a wicked man who still has all of the iniquities laid on his soul from the moment of his conception because of Adam, his prayer is NOT effective. In fact, in Romans 3:10 (quoting Psalms 14 and 53) Paul writes that there is NO ONE righteous, NOT EVEN ONE.
If this is so, AND IT IS, how can a lost man, an UNRIGHTEOUS man, have an “effective” prayer that asks God to save him? The plain answer is ... he won’t and he doesn’t because HE CAN’T!
Dp you think the Truth will make you free? Not True! And if you think it will, you are skimming over God’s Word instead of paying attention. The Truth will NOT make you free. What does the Bible say? Read John 8:32 again - and you shall KNOW the Truth, and the Truth will make you free. This is true not only IN salvation but also in the very idea of soteriological belief. So until a Christian KNOWS the Truth, he who does not believe God’s Word regarding the Doctrine of Election will be in bondage to the flesh - the carnal, man-centered theory that a lost man has the ability to believe WITHOUT first being chosen (Ephesians 1:4), foreknown, predestined, called (Romans 8:29-30), and quickened (Colossians 2:13).
A man can not and will not believe until God gives him belief (John 6:29, Philippians 1:29).
You’ve heard it said that God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called. I submit that the following is also true:
GOD DOESN’T CALL THE SAVED, HE SAVES THE CALLED. And He calls ONLY His Elect, not every man is called (1 Corinthians 1:26.)
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