Irresistible Grace
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Total Depravity
Total Depravity
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known:
none seek after God
none can come to God
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Spiritually dead as a door nail.
Dead people have no function. don’t think, don’t move, don’t choose. they cant even drink coffee
dead is dead not alive, not just sleeping, not almost .
born dead
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
don't reverence God,
don't care about God
in rebellion against God
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
we are created in Adam’s fallen image
Cannons of Dort 1618-19 biblical scholars got together to write up a confession what do we believe, what does the Bible say.
The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes, Volume III: The Evangelical Protestant Creeds, with Translations Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine
ART. III. Therefore all men are conceived in sin, and are by nature children of wrath, incapable of any saving good, prone to evil, dead in sin, and in bondage thereto; and, without the regenerating grace of the Holy Spirit, they are neither able nor willing to return to God, to reform the depravity of their nature, nor to dispose themselves to reformation.
There has to be Regeneration, renewing
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Did we have any say in the matter of being born
Choice of parents, time, place, hair color
neither do we have a choice about being born again
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Regeneration
Regeneration
REGENERATION Special act of God in which the recipient is passive. God alone awakens the person spiritually through the power of His Holy Spirit. Both the OT and NT also speak of the renewing of the individual. In a technical sense the act of regeneration takes place at the moment of conversion as the individual is spiritually awakened.
REGENERATION Special act of God in which the recipient is passive. God alone awakens the person spiritually through the power of His Holy Spirit. Both the OT and NT also speak of the renewing of the individual. In a technical sense the act of regeneration takes place at the moment of conversion as the individual is spiritually awakened.
Drumm, S. (2003). Regeneration. In C. Brand, C. Draper, A. England, S. Bond, E. R. Clendenen, & T. C. Butler (Eds.), Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary (pp. 1371–1372). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
The recipient is passive , God alone awakens the person
Made alive, before a person can respond with faith there has to be a regeneration in the heart
The General Call (Proclaiming the Gospel)
The General Call (Proclaiming the Gospel)
Go into all the world and preach the gospel
John 4 10 -ask and Jesus will give living water
John 6 35- ask and Jesus will give bread of life
Joel 2 32a- Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
Acts 17 30- God commands people everywhere to repent
Turn to Matt 22 1-10
the gospel call was given to many but only a few responded
Our responsibility is to tell as many people as possible the Gospel
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Turn to Acts 2 5-41
The Effectual Call (Irresistible Grace)
The Effectual Call (Irresistible Grace)
Next week
What Does This Mean To Me?
What Does This Mean To Me?
Turn to Titus 3 4-7
as we are surrounded by ungodly coworkers, politicians, neighbors, friends, family,
the only thing that makes us different is God through His Mercy changed us
purely by His will and for His own Glory, so don’t think to highly of yourself
Some one can only be saved, because God does a work in their heart
not because of our convincing
not from our great speech
our witness needs power, the Gospel, scripture