2 Corinthians 2:11

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2 Corinthians 211

• that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan,
  for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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John 844

• You are of your father the DEVIL, and you want to
  do the desires of your father. He was a MURDERER
  from the beginning, and does not stand in the
  truth because there is NO TRUTH in him. Whenever
  he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature,
  for he is a liar and the FATHER OF LIES.

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Calvinism

• T.U.L.I.P Calvins doctrinal system as it
  relates to the spiritual condition of man.

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Total depravity All born in sin can do
no good Unconditional election
Predestined to be lost or saved Limited
atonement Christ died only for the
elect Irresistible grace Holy Spirit
enables elect Perseverance of the saints
Once saved, always saved
Calvinism
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Calvinism

• The Foundation of his doctrine (Misconception of
  Gods Sovereignty)
• Gods decrees are the wise, free, and holy
  acts of the counsel of his will, whereby, from
  all eternity, he hath, for his own glory,
  unchangeably fore-ordained whatsoever comes to
  pass, especially concerning angels and men.
• - Larger Catechism, John Calvin

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Calvinism

• The Foundation of his doctrine (Misconception of
  Gods Sovereignty)
• Scriptures clearly provethat God by his
  eternal and immutable counsel determined once for
  all those who it was his pleasure one day to
  admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other
  hand, it was his pleasure to doom to
  destruction.
• - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian
  Religion

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Calvinism

• The Foundation of his doctrine (Misconception of
  Gods Sovereignty)
• NOTHING A PERSON
• DOES AFFECTS
• HIS SALVATION

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Calvinism

• The Foundation of his doctrine (Misconception of
  Gods Sovereignty)
• NOTHING A PERSON
• DOES AFFECTS
• HIS SALVATION

ITS A LIE
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Calvinism

• Here Is The Truth
• God Is Sovereign, And In His Sovereignty God
  Allows Man To Have FREE WILL To Choose To Obey
  God Or Not.
• Mans Choices DO Affect His Eternal Salvation.

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Calvinism

• Total Hereditary Depravity
• At birth all men bear the guilt of Adams sin
  (Original Sin) and are depraved wholly they
  are totally incapable of choosing to obey God.

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Calvinism

• Total Hereditary Depravity
• And hence, even infants bring their
  condemnation with them from their mother's womb,
  for although they have not yet brought forth the
  fruits of their unrighteousness, they have its
  seed included in them. Nay, their whole nature
  is, as it were, a seed of sin, and, therefore,
  cannot but be odious and abominable to God.
• - John Calvin, Institutes, Book 4.15.1

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Calvinism

• Total Hereditary Depravity
• Man, by his fall into sin, hath wholly lost all
  ability of will to any spiritual good
  accompanying salvationis not able by his own
  strength, to convert himself or to prepare
  himself thereunto.
• - Presbyterian Conf. of Faith, Chapter 9

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Calvinism

• Total Hereditary Depravity
• Thus Salvation is totally at Gods discretion,
  and NOTHING a person does affects his salvation.

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Calvinism

• Total Hereditary Depravity
• Thus Salvation is totally at Gods discretion,
  and NOTHING a person does affects his salvation.

ITS A LIE
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Ezekiel 1820(No Original Sin)
The person who sins will die. The son will NOT
bear the punishment for the fathers iniquity,
nor will the father bear the punishment for the
sons iniquity the righteousness of the
righteous will be upon himself, and the
wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.
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Deut. 3019 I have set before you life and
death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life
in order that you may live Joshua 2415
choose for yourselves this day whom you will
serve Matt. 2337 how often I wanted to
gather your children together and you were
unwilling! Acts 240 save yourselves from
this perverse generation Phil. 215 work out
your own salvation
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Calvinism

• Unconditional Election
• God, before the foundation of the world, chose
  some people to be saved and others to be
  destroyed and nothing can be done to change Gods
  sovereign decree.

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Calvinism

• Unconditional Election
• men and angels are predestinated unto
  everlasting life, and others foreordained to
  everlasting death and their number is so certain
  and definite that it can not be either increased
  or diminished.
• - Presbyterian Confession of Faith, chap. 3

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Calvinism

• Unconditional Election
• Thus NOTHING a person does affects his
  salvation.

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Calvinism

• Unconditional Election
• Thus NOTHING a person does affects his
  salvation.

ITS A LIE
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1 Tim. 24 God desires all men to be saved and
to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Pet.
39 God is not willing that any should perish
but that all should come to repentance. Acts
1034 God is not one to show partiality, but
in every nation the man who fears Him and does
what is right is welcome to Him.
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Calvinism

• Limited Atonement
• Christ died only for the ones God has
  unconditionally chosen to save.

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Calvinism

• Limited Atonement
• He came into the world to represent and save
  only those given to him by the Father. Thus
  Christs saving work was limited in that it was
  designed to save some and not others.
• - David Steele, Calvinism Defined, Documented
  and Defended, p. 39

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Calvinism

• Limited Atonement
• Thus Since Christ died only for the ones God
  has already given him, NOTHING a person does
  affects his salvation.

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Calvinism

• Limited Atonement
• Thus Since Christ died only for the ones God
  has already given him, NOTHING a person does
  affects his salvation.

ITS A LIE
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1 Tim. 25 there is one God and one Mediator
between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who
gave Himself a ransom for all. Heb. 29 that
He, by the grace of God, might taste death for
everyone. 1 John 22 And He Himself is the
propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only
but also for the whole world. 1 Cor. 811 And
because of your knowledge shall the weak brother
perish, for whom Christ died?
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Calvinism

• Irresistible Grace
• Man is so depraved that it takes a special
  working of the Holy Spirit to regenerate him and
  cause him to be born again. This working is
  irresistible because he has been unconditionally
  elected to be saved.

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Calvinism

• Irresistible Grace
• A man is not saved because he believes in
  Christ he believes in Christ because he is
  saved.
• - Lorraine Boettner, The Reformed Doctrine of
  Predestination

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Calvinism

• Irresistible Grace
• This effectual call is of Gods free and special
  grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in
  man, who is altogether passive therein, until,
  being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit,
  he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to
  embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.
• - Presbyterian Confession of Faith

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Calvinism

• Irresistible Grace
• Thus NOTHING a person does affects his
  salvation.

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Calvinism
ITS A LIE

• Irresistible Grace
• Thus NOTHING a person does affects his
  salvation.

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Titus 211 the grace of God has appeared unto
all men Acts 751 You men who are
stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears
are always resisting the Holy Spirit you are
doing just as your fathers did. Rom. 116 I
am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power
of God unto salvation
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Calvinism

• Perseverance of the Saints
• Once saved, always saved

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Calvinism

• Perseverance of the Saints
• They whom God hath accepted in His Beloved,
  effectually called and sanctified by His Spirit,
  can neither totally nor finally fall away from
  the state of Grace but shall certainly persevere
  therein to the end, and be eternally saved.
• - Westminster Confession of Faith, Chap. 17

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Calvinism

• Perseverance of the Saints
• The way a Christian lives, what he says, his
  character, his conduct, or his attitude towards
  other people have nothing whatever to do with the
  salvation of his soul.
• - Sam Morris, Baptist preacher, Do a
  Christians Sins Damn His Soul?

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Calvinism

• Perseverance of the Saints
• Thus Not only is there NOTHING one can do to
  affect his INITIAL salvation, but there is also
  NOTHING one can do to affect his EVENTUAL
  salvation.

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Calvinism

• Perseverance of the Saints
• Thus Not only is there NOTHING one can do to
  affect his INITIAL salvation, but there is also
  NOTHING one can do to affect his EVENTUAL
  salvation.

ITS A LIE
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Heb. 64-6 For in the case of those who have
once been enlightened and have tasted of the
heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the
Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God
and the powers of the age to come, and then have
fallen away Gal. 54 - You have been severed
from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified
by law you have fallen from grace.
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1 Cor. 927 I discipline my body and make it
my slave, so that, after I have preached to
others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Heb. 312 - Take care, brethren, that there not
be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart
that falls away from the living God.
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Galatians 16-8
I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting
Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a
different gospel which is really not another
only there are some who are disturbing you and
want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even
though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach
to you a gospel contrary to that which we
preached to you, let him be accursed
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John Calvin's Lie

• Baptism serves as our confession before men, in
  as much as it is a mark by which we openly
  declare that we wish to be ranked among the
  people of God, by which we testify that we concur
  with all Christians in the worship of one God,
  and in one religion by which, in short, we
  publicly assert our faith, so that not only do
  our hearts breathe, but our tongues also, and all
  the members of our body, in every way they can,
  proclaim the praise of God.
• - John Calvin, Institutes, Book 4.15.1

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Mark 1616
The Scriptures Teach
Mark 1615-16 (NKJV) preach the gospel to
every creature. He who believes and is
baptizedwill be saved but he who does not
believe will be condemned.
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Acts 238
The Scriptures Teach
Acts 238 (NKJV) Repent, and let every one
of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins and you shall receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit. 
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Acts 2216
The Scriptures Teach
Acts 2216 (NKJV) And now why are you
waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away
your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
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1 Peter 321
The Scriptures Teach
1 Peter 321 (NASB) And corresponding to
that, baptism now saves you not the removal of
dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a
good conscience through the resurrection
ofJesus Christ.
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Examples of Conversion
Conversions in Acts
What MUST I Do To Become A Christian?
Examples of Conversions in Acts
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Galatians 216
Salvation By Grace Through Faith
John 35 (NKJV) Jesus answered, Most assuredly,
I say to you, unless one is born of water and the
Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 
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Galatians 216
Salvation By Grace Through Faith
Titus 35 (NKJV) but according to His mercy He
saved us, through the washing of regeneration and
renewing of the Holy Spirit 
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Galatians 326-27
The Scriptures Teach
Galatians 326-27 (NKJV) For you are all
sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as
many of you as were baptized into Christ have put
on Christ.
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Early Church Fathers
Early Church Fathers Taught
Shepherd of Hermas (90 A.D.)there is no other
repentance except that one when we descended into
the water and received the forgiveness of our
former sins. Justin (A.D. 140)Then they are
led by us to where there is water, and in the
manner by which we were regenerated they are
regenerated. Iranaeus (A.D. 160)remember
that we have received baptism for remission of
sins. Tertullian (A.D. 200)Baptism itself is
a bodily act, because we are immersed in water
but it has a spiritual effect, because we are set
free from sins.
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Romans 616-18
Justification By Faith

• Romans 616-18 (NKJV)
• Do you not know that to whom you present
  yourselves slaves to obey, you are that ones
  slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to
  death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
• But God be thanked that though you were slaves of
  sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of
  doctrine to which you were delivered.
• And having been set free from sin, you became
  slaves of righteousness. 

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2 Thess. 17-9
Obedience To The Gospel

• 2 Thess. 17-9 (NKJV)
• when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven
  with His mighty angels in flaming fire,
• dealing out retribution to those who do not know
  God and to those who do not obey the gospel of
  our Lord Jesus.
• These will pay the penalty of eternal
  destruction, away from the presence of the Lord
  and from the glory of His power, 

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Romans 1016-17
Obedience To The Gospel

• Romans 1016-17 (NKJV)
• But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For
  Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?
• So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
  the word of God.

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John 831-32
So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had
believed Him, If you continue in My word, then
you are truly disciples of Mine and you will
know the TRUTH, and the truth will make you FREE.
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Have You Obeyed The Gospel?
Hear The Word (Rom. 1017) Believe That Jesus
is the Son of God (Acts 837) Repent of Your
Sins (Acts 238) Confess That Jesus is the Son
of God (Acts 837) Be Baptized for Forgiveness
of Sins (Acts 238) Live Faithfully Until You
Die (Rev. 210)