We can never view the ethical activity of the believer apart from the Spirit’s work nor the Spirit’s ethical direction and enablement apart from the believer’s active expression of his or her faith. This process is concursive, which is to say that more than one agent is involved.
God is at work and so too is the believer as Philippians 2:12,13 shows.
How the Spirit effects these changes positively and negatively is not revealed. Mystery remains. Scripture is non-postulational. It does not offer theories concerning the nature of realities or processes. Instead it affirms that certain realities are so, and the believer by faith lives as if they are so, and in so doing finds that they indeed are so (solvitur ambulando) “It is solved by walking.”
Richard Longenecker and Graham Cole
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