Friday | 31 October 2025
In the season of prevenient grace, there will be notable changes in the life of the hearer as they keep the commands of Christ that are proclaimed to them, publicly and from house to house, by His messengers. The hearer will find deliverance from addictions; healing of past hurts; relief from spiritual torment; release from bondage to sin, and so on. These changes are the initial outcome of the regenerative capacity of the word of God. Tit 3:5. By regeneration, the hearer, who was formerly dead in trespasses and sins, is being made alive to God. Eph 2:1,4-5.
As miraculous and wonderful as this initial regenerative work is, being made alive is not the new birth, nor is it salvation. Rather, as a son of Adam, who was lost to God on account of sin and iniquity, they are being recovered to their predestination as a son of God in Abraham. As sons of men, they are being upgraded from Adam, who was created from the dust, to the family of Abraham, who became the new father of all true believers. The Lord said to Abraham, ‘I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth.’ Gen 13:16.
Delighting in their deliverance from sin and death, and increasingly illuminated to the sonship that God has prepared for them, the hearer will love Christ and will glorify God. They demonstrate that they love Christ by keeping His commands. For this reason, the Father will love them, and Christ will also love them.
Furthermore, Jesus will personally make Himself known to them. Outlining this initiative towards a person who keeps His commands, Jesus said, ‘He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.’ Joh 14:21. The Father demonstrates His love for the hearer who loves Christ, by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, into their heart.
Further Study:
John 14
References:
Tit 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.
Eph 2:1
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins.
Eph 2:4-5
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).
Gen 13:16
And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.
Joh 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.