Dr. James White writes:
Today on a Mega Radio Free Geneva: John Samson and Emir Caner
“I bet John never expected to see himself mentioned quite like that before. But, we did have John Samson in studio today to talk about his new book from Monergism.com, Twelve What Abouts, which you can find here. We then went back to reviewing Emir Caner’s sermon against Reformed theology, and then took calls on the topic for the last half hour. Here’s the program.”
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
I am delighted to be joining Dr. James White on a special “Radio Free Geneva” Dividing Line live webcast Tuesday, January 24 at 1 PM EST. I’ve been asked to talk about and then we will both continue to examine Emir Caner’s sermon on Calvinism, which Dr. White began reviewing last week. You can listen to the webcast at www.aomin.org.
For those who cannot listen in live, I will post a link to the recording later in the day.
“But why is faith the means of justification? Simply because it is the action of union with Jesus Christ. Faith is our coming to Him, our trusting Him, our resting in Him. The moment we are united to Him, we are immediately endowed with all that He has secured for us. We are immediately justified before we have done a single good deed, because we are His and He is God’s. Just as a very poor woman is a very poor woman until the very moment that she marries a wealthy man. But at the moment that she becomes his wife, she becomes a wealthy woman. It is by means of her acceptance that she becomes a wealthy woman, but her acceptance does not make her a wealthy woman; it is her husband’s wealth that makes her so. So faith does not justify; Christ justifies. But faith is the act of union with Christ.”
– John H. Gerstner