Article 26 & 27

Well, we are going to continue on, Brother Andy just did Article 25, so I will do tonight 26 and 27, so if you open your books with me and we'll read Article 26, and the title that goes with it is The Power of the Gospel.

The same power that converts to faith in Christ carryeth the soul through all duties, temptations, conflicts, sufferings, and whatsoever a believer is, he is by grace, and is carried on in all obedience and temptations by the same.

And I found it quite interesting as I was preparing for tonight's lesson that I'm preaching this Sunday, Lord willing, on the perseverance of the saints. And if you are remembering, those of you who have been here, we have been going week by week through the five doctrines of grace, total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, and irresistible grace, and it leads up to the culmination of the perseverance of the saints.

And one of the things I'm going to argue for in my sermon Sunday is that the perseverance of the saints is not only a biblical truth, but it is a necessary outcome of the doctrines of grace. If you believe in total depravity, then you believe...