What I reject is the notion that God acts under a quid pro quo arrangement. There may be necessary conditions that God requires before granting peculiar blessings, but these necessary conditions are always a matter of God's effectual grace and blessing. In other words, when God's people obey God may be pleased to bless the obedience. This obedience of God's people is always done through God's gift of faith and hope and, therefore, must be considered in and of itself a blessing from God and not some human work that receives something for something. In other words, I would argue that the blessings that God may choose to bestow upon obedience is the blessing that he bestows upon his initial blessing obedience, which he grants. This is what I believe Kline and the professors at Westminster in California do not grasp. For instance, when I hear students and professors from Westminster west say that prior to the fall Adam received no grace from God, I am just astonished.
