Arthur Pink's treatment of this crucial biblical doctrine which is so much misunderstood today. Understanding who does what in regeneration will encourage the heart of every believer who shares the gospel or prays for the salvation of a friend.
The widespread circulation of his writings after his death made him one of the most influential evangelical authors in the second half of the twentieth century.
—Iain H. Murrary
A. W. Pink (1886-1952) a native of Nottingham, England, whose life as a pastor and writer was spent in a variety of locations in the British Isles, the United States, and Australia. As a young man he turned away from the Christian faith of his parents and became an adherent of the theosophical cult; but then he experienced an evangelical conversion and crossed the Atlantic in 1910, at the age of 24, to become a student at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. After only six weeks, however, he left to take up a pastoral ministry. It was during the years that followed that he found his way to a strictly Calvinistic position in theology. He was soon wielding a quite prolific pen. As one whose life was devoted to the study and exposition of the Scriptures, he became the author of numerous books which the Banner of Truth Trust has been assiduously reprinting in recent times. No doubt his chief monument is the paper Studies in the Scriptures which he produced monthly and regularly for a period of thirty years from the beginning of 1922 until his death in 1952.
“The other takes place gradually, in distinct stages, under the Divine blessings of regeneration, sanctification, and glorification. In regeneration, indwelling sin receives its death-wound, though not its death. In sanctification, the regenerated soul is shown the sink of corruption that dwells within, and is taught to loathe and hate himself. At glorification both soul and body will be forever delivered from every vestige and effect of sin.” (Page 3)
“Regeneration is an intensely solemn thing. The new birth is the dividing line between Heaven and Hell. In God’s sight there are but two classes of people on this earth: those who are dead in sins, and those who are walking in newness of life.” (Page 5)
“‘Who then can be saved?,’ He answered, ‘with men this is impossible.’ A lost sinner might more easily create a world than save his own soul. But (forever be His name praised), the Lord Jesus went on to say, ‘with God all things are possible’” (Page 3)
“We are either saints or sinners, spiritually alive or spiritually dead, children of God or children of the Devil.” (Page 5)
“unless the Spirit applies it to the heart, the hearer or reader is no spiritual gainer” (Page 4)
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