Is McArthur advocating that we must participate in our own sanctification?
Does the Holy Spirit need our help in this sanctification? Can’t He do that on His own?
What of Ephesians 8-10 in light of St. John 3: 16-17.
No, he’s not teaching that.
It is a phenomenon of love, which entails the willing and desirous participation of both parties.
I take MacArthur with a grain of salt, if not somewhere near a boxful sometimes. He’s pretty cerebral about things that make more sense as devotions. We might as well try to get a computer to analyze a Valentine.
And in that vein, I wish we didn’t have to save Easter for Easter, so to speak. It’s one of the best kept open secrets of faith in Christ. Made like Him, in Him we rise... experienced at a level that goes vastly beyond the cerebral level, if we permit it. High on Jesus, the hippie crowd sometimes used to describe it, and we pooh-poohed the simile and forgot the treasure that is right under our noses.