The Bare Essentials: Soteriology

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The Bare Essentials Soteriology

• Week 3
• Soteriology I Election and Predestination

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What is Soteriology?

• Soter Greek savior
• logy word or knowledge

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Calvinism and Arminianism

• Calvinism The system that affirms Gods
  monergistic work in salvation.
• Arminianism The system that affirms God and
  mans synergistic work in salvation.

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The 5 Points of Arminianism

• Human Ability (aided by the Spirit)
• Conditional Election
• Unlimited Atonement
• Resistible Grace (prevenient grace)
• Uncertainty of Perseverance

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The 5 Points of Calvinism

• Total Depravity
• Unconditional Election
• Limited Atonement
• Irresistible Grace
• Perseverance of the Saints

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Election When?

• Ephesians 13-6
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just
  as He chose us in Him before the foundation of
  the world, that we would be holy and blameless
  before Him In love He predestined us to adoption
  as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself,
  according to the kind intention of His will, to
  the praise of the glory of His grace, which He
  freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

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Election Who and Why?

• 2 Timothy 19
• who has saved us and called us with a holy
  calling, not according to our works, but
  according to His own purpose and grace which was
  granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

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Open Theism The New Kid on the Block

• Genesis 65-6
• Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was
  great on the earth, and that every intent of the
  thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the
  earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

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Foreknowledge Who or What?

• Romans 829-30
• For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined
  to become conformed to the image of His Son, so
  that He would be the firstborn among many
  brethren and these whom He predestined, He also
  called and these whom He called, He also
  justified and these whom He justified, He also
  glorified.

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Ordo Salutis

• Foreknowledge
• Predestination
• Election
• Regeneration
• Faith
• Justification
• Sanctification
• Glorification

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Regeneration When?

• Titus 35
• He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we
  have done in righteousness, but according to His
  mercy, by the washing of regeneration and
  renewing by the Holy Spirit.

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The Outward Calling

• Matthew 2214
• For many are called, but few are chosen.
• Acts 1730
• Therefore having overlooked the times of
  ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all
  people everywhere should repent,

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The Inward Calling

• 1 Corinthians 121-24
• For since in the wisdom of God the world through
  its wisdom did not come to know God, God was
  well-pleased through the foolishness of the
  message preached to save those who believe. For
  indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for
  wisdom but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a
  stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but
  to those who are the called, both Jews and
  Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of
  God.
• John 644 "No one can come to Me unless the
  Father who sent Me draws him and I will raise
  him up on the last day.

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Justification By the Blood

• Romans 59
• Much more then, having now been justified by His
  blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God
  through Him

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Justification By Faith

• Galatians 324
• Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead
  us to Christ, so that we may be justified by
  faith.

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Sanctification When?

• 1 Corinthians 611
• Such were some of you but you were washed, but
  you were sanctified, but you were justified in
  the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the
  Spirit of our God.

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Sanctification When?

• 1 Thessalonians 523
• Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you
  entirely and may your spirit and soul and body
  be preserved complete, without blame at the
  coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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The Big QuestionWhy do you believe?

• 1 Corinthians 1510
• But by the grace of God I am what I am

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Security of Salvation
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Sketching the Tension

• Is the security of salvation conditional or
  unconditional?

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Arguments for Conditional Security

• Colossians 122-23
• . . . yet He has now reconciled you in His
  fleshly body through death, in order to present
  you before Him holy and blameless and beyond
  reproach -- if indeed you continue in the faith
  firmly established and steadfast, and not moved
  away from the hope of the gospel that you have
  heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under
  heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

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Arguments for Unconditional Security

• Romans 8 35-39
• Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
  Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
  famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as
  it is written,         "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE
  BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG         WE WERE
  CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED."
• But in all these things we overwhelmingly
  conquer through Him who loved us. For I am
  convinced that neither death, nor life, nor
  angels, nor principalities, nor things present,
  nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor
  depth, nor any other created thing, will be able
  to separate us from the love of God, which is in
  Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Resolving the Tension

• The Preserving Power of God
• The Reality of Inauthentic Faith

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Scriptures on the Preserving Power of God

• 1 Peter 13-5
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who according to His great mercy has
  caused us to be born again to a living hope
  through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
  dead, to obtain an inheritance which is
  imperishable and undefiled and will not fade
  away, reserved in heaven for you, who are
  protected by the power of God through faith for a
  salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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Scriptures on Transient Faith

• 1 John 219
• They went out from us, but they were not really
  of us for if they had been of us, they would
  have remained with us but they went out, so that
  it would be shown that they all are not of us.