Sermon Tone Analysis

SERMON 4

“According as he hath…”

is the second to the longest sentence in the Bible

In original Gk there are no periods until V14.

The KJV has 268 words, the GK has 202 words, 32 prepositional phrases, 21 genitive expressions, 6 relative clauses, and 5 adverbial participle clauses.

It is what is known as a barakah

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It is an ascription of praise to God for who He is and what He has done

Jewish style- a barakah was a frequently used expression of praise seen in some of the Psalms.

There was a prescribed set of prayers for all Jews to pray every morning, evening, and afternoon and each contained the expression, “Blessed are you, Lord.”

We might take a hint in our greetings:

“Hey, how are you today?” Normally that is what we would say.

How about when you meet someone, instead of “hi, how are you today,” we would say, “Blessed be the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

- According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

This phrase puts the entire force for what happens upon God

- he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

- Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

- That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Vs 4-14 give a series of reasons we have been blessed by God.

HE DID IT ALL

HE GAVE IT ALL

HE SAW IT AL

HE PLANNED IT ALL

Let’s see what the Elect is all about

I. INSPECT THE ELECT

- Jesus is the Elect of God

is the second to the longest sentence in the Bible

In original Gk there are no periods until V14.

The KJV has 268 words, the GK has 202 words, 32 prepositional phrases, 21 genitive expressions, 6 relative clauses, and 5 adverbial participle clauses.

It is what is known as a barakah

is another one

is another one

It is an ascription of praise to God for who He is and what He has done

Jewish style- a barakah was a frequently used expression of praise seen in some of the Psalms.

There was a prescribed set of prayers for all Jews to pray every morning, evening, and afternoon and each contained the expression, “Blessed are you, Lord.”

We might take a hint in our greetings:

“Hey, how are you today?” Normally that is what we would say.

How about when you meet someone, instead of “hi, how are you today,” we would say, “Blessed be the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

- According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

This phrase puts the entire force for what happens upon God

- he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

- Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

- That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Vs 4-14 give a series of reasons we have been blessed by God.

HE DID IT ALL

HE GAVE IT ALL

HE SAW IT AL

HE PLANNED IT ALL

Let’s see what the Elect is all about- Jesus is the Elect of God

“The mediatorial office of Jesus Christ is among the greatest themes of Holy Scripture- a theme that, as a golden chain, binds together all the blessings for which Paul now praises God in his doxology in the Epistle to the Ephesians: through Christ come gracious blessings in the fulness of times (1:10) when God will continue to show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus (2:7).

His gracious office conceived in eternity past and wrought in time- reaches to eternity to come.

And the heart of His ministry of mediation is the Atonement.”

shank

Someone has said about the Atonement, that an eternal past knew no other future, and and eternal future will know no other past.

Calvinism from John Calvin 1509-1564 in Geneva, Switzerland and became the foremost theologian of his day, and today.

He came up with the doctrine Election and predestination which we call “Calvinism”

Calvin decided that divine election amounted to God having foreknowledge of who would and would not be saved, selected those who He knew would respond to the gospel, and pre-ordained them to eternal life.

These are the chosen, elect of God according to Calvinism and those who follow that teaching

No one else is chose - everyone NOT elected are reprobates and will end up in hell, no alternatives.

The elect have no choice in the matter- the elect WILL get saved, and the non elect will go to hell.

Irresistible grace is what brings them in- they cannot resist the pull of the grace of God- the have to get saved.

No one knows who the elect are, so the gospel must be preached so they can respond

After we inspect the elect we must...

II.CORRECT THE ELECT

How do we fix this?

He came up with the doctrine Election and predestination

How do we make sense, the right sense, out of ?

Calvin decided that divine election amounted to God having foreknowledge of who would and would not be saved, selected those who He knew would respond to the gospel, and pre-ordained them to eternal life.

Joseph Arminius lived from 1560 to 1609 in the Netherlands as a theologian and he came up with the theology that we know today as Arminianism

This is what Pentecostals have traditionally believed.

These are the chosen, elect of God

His theology tells us that we are saved as God enables faith in the unbeliever, but we are still able to reject that grace.

He can resist the Holy Spirit.

Under Calvinism, Salvation becomes conditioned on God’s election of people in eternity past, rather than comprehensively by the atoning work of Christ.

No one else is - everyone NOT elected are reprobates and will end up in hell, no alternatives.

The elect have no choice in the matter- the elect WILL get saved, and the non elect will go to hell.

Irresistible grace is what brings them in they cannot resist the pull of the grace of God- the have to get saved.

No one knows who the elect are, so the gospel must be preached so they can respond

FB- “So you’re telling me God already ‘foreknew’ who would be saved and He’s still trying to save everyone that He foreknows will never be saved?”

Salvation becomes predicated on God’s election of people in eternity past, rather than comprehensively by the atoning work of Christ.

So was the death, the atonement of Jesus just a pageant, a reflection, a “mirror” as Calvin called it, of what God had already decided?

His work is incidental and symbolic rather than powerful and universal.

Predestination, a word that comes to us in verse 4, includes the idea that the elect are predestined to eternal life, and no matter what they do, they cannot ever be unsaved.

They cannot be unelected

No man shall pluck them out of my hand.

No matter what the elect do or don’t do, they are going to be saved!

No matter what the elect do or don’t do, they are going to heaven!

We say we are elect ONLY as we are in THE Elect, Jesus

No one can be the ELECT outside of Jesus.

In other words, if I was among the chosen, the elect in eternity past, I was elect without the atoning work of Christ.

I was born the elect without being regenerated, made new by His blood

It makes the doctrine of election able to stand without the full atonement of Jesus.

God could have saved by the expression of His will, and not put Jesus through the cross.

Limited atonement- Jesus only died for the elect, and no one else since no one else is going to heaven.

There is a reason Jesus went to the cross- to save sinners.

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

  Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.