Effectual Calling

John Snyder and Chuck Baggett continue the series on Salvation in Full Color. This week, they’re looking at a sermon on effectual calling by Ebenezer Pemberton.

Ebenezer Pemberton (1704-1777) spent 51 years of his life serving as a pastor in New York and Boston. He welcomed George Whitefield to his church.

The sermon John and Chuck discuss was originally entitled, “The Method of Divine Grace in Conversion” and Permberton has two major points:

  1. How does God make us willing?

  2. How it is a work of God’s power that He makes us willing.

What is the effectual calling of the Lord to a rebellious soul? What makes it different than the normal conviction someone feels when listening to a sermon or reading Scripture? While the term may be unfamiliar in today's culture, its reality has been experienced by every true Christian.

A real Christian has been so wonderfully altered by the powerful working of God that the mind and the heart and the will have been freed to embrace Christ. If we are calling people, or ourselves, Christians where this has not occurred, then we are not biblically validated in calling it conversion.

You can read the full sermon here. Or read along in your copy of Salvation in Full Color.

 

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