The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum "Experimental Salvation" by A.W. Pink

Methinks Robin answered you quite sufficiently and thus I will simply utter an "Amen!" to what he wrote. It is from the Word of God that I come to know what the fruit of the Spirit is. Then, I examine myself to see if indeed that "fruit" is evident in my life in thought, word and deed. This is the point the apostle James in the text I quoted. WORKS, my friend GOOD WORKS must be evident else one's professed faith is dead. It isn't enough to claim to have "good intentions", to "desire after God", etc., albeit in their true sense they are also to be resident within one's heart. But it is the FRUIT that is born out those inward inclinations which are that which indicate if we are regenerate or not. Put another way, where there is life there will always be signs of life. Now, what is so confusing about that? This is what Scripture teaches, which the Reformers and Puritans understood and taught and that which I too have come to know and likewise teach.

I never said you did! This is what I wrote:

I am going to assume, rightly or wrongly, that you are not simply redressing that old Antinomian byword which was so popular back in the '70s, "Let go and let God!".

And what is it that people thwart which God is trying to do? (as if that was even possible) What I think is that you are far too touchy, aka: thin skinned. And, perhaps you think far too highly of yourself and thus react far too quickly and often wrongly when you are challenged in your views... perhaps?

In His grace,