THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE: DEFINITIONS & HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (2 of 12)

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Nice, good job Good job All right.

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So one of the big critiques from last week was I Didn't know how to spell all the words and it shut me down.

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So I have made slideshows for tonight So all the words now that being said

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I can't promise you that the words up there will be spelled, right? Okay, and I don't want to hear it if they're not okay just let me just let me stay in my in my

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Ignorant bliss, right? All right. So lesson two lesson two is on page seven of your

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Your curriculum if you would turn there with me we are Talking about definitions.

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We covered some definitions last week. You remember the definitions that we talked about? We talked about the the the five tenets the five points of Calvinism.

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What's the first one? Okay, and what and what is that spell?

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Tulip, all right. All right. Good job Well, we have some more that we kind of wanted to find what this first one

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We're gonna see is in relevant biblical terminology is one that we covered last week

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But again repetition is key here repetition is something that we are going to continue

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To to do throughout this whole thing so we can keep reminding ourselves of where we're at So grace is unmerited favor, right?

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Grace is unmerited favor. It's undeserved It's unearned. It's undue.

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It's undue favor towards an unworthy recipient That's where a lot of people in a lot of churches in Western culture can't can't even

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Get started in these doctrines because they just don't fully comprehend the the the gravity of grace

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That the grace that scripture speaks of that grace that is freely bestowed

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Favor on hell -bound Recipients that hate God and do not deserve even even a chance at it

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We go. How's it fair for God to choose some and not others? How's it fair that he chose anyone like like everyone was by default at enmity?

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That's the point of grace, right and we talked about this last week Like I said, but we're gonna emphasize and we cannot emphasize this enough.

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We will always go back to grace Okay, everybody got it unmerited favor second point election

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Election is divine selection of choice Divine selection of choice

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You'll see there's a little box I wanted to make sure and put this portion of the abstract of principles in here

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Which by the way, we'll talk about another day in greater detail But the abstract of principles, how many of you come from the

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Southern Baptist background? Okay, how many of you know that Southern Baptist were reformed

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Baptist? Particular Baptist exactly and so the very first statement of faith from the

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Southern Baptist is the abstract of principles And there's a section in here election is God's eternal choice of some persons unto everlasting life

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And not because of foreseen merit in them but of his mere mercy in Christ and consequence of which choice they are called justified and glorified now

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Would it be? Would it be sin? And would it be wrong and unjust for you or I to choose some and not choose others?

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Yeah, I think it depends on the context but overall for us to just randomly choose some for good for something good and to reject others is

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Is all tainted and sin because we are sinful people, but when we speak of biblical election

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We're speaking of a God that is electing that does all things well does not sin does everything perfect according to the counsel of his will and Is completely and totally separate from us the creature

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So we have to remember that election is hard for us to get our brain wrapped around because again we try and see

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God through the lens of Us When we need to see us through the lens of God and that God is something completely separate from us

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So this is election divine selection of choice thirdly predestination to determine one's destination beforehand

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Okay, this is important to determine one's destination beforehand in Romans 829

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Paul says for those whom he foreknew he also predestined

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To be conformed to the image of his son in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers

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This Is from a Greek word prorizo, I think is how you pronounce it It's it just means to determine beforehand to determine beforehand that is predestination to predestined that he has destined our destiny prior

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Easy right Fourth Chosen you hear a lot of that in Scripture chosen.

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What is chosen selected individuals? It's easy enough, isn't it? selected individuals

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Ephesians 1 4 if you want to jot down some of these verses as I call them out Ephesians 1 4

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Even as he God chose us in him before the foundation of the world

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John 15 16 Jesus says you didn't choose me.

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I Chose you right now Some will say well pastor.

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You can't say that some that don't like art this doctor and they're like you can't say that That's Jesus talking to just the disciples there in that moment.

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And then my answer is So it was okay for him to choose them and not others

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Kind of like the whole argument of well, yeah in the Old Testament Our dispensational brothers say well in the

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Old Testament God chose the people of Israel But now they're like well God chooses the people of God today.

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They're like You're like wait a second so he can choose entire nations and reject whole other nations

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But he can't choose individuals and reject other individuals. That doesn't make any sense. Does it? Yeah, if he wants to that's exactly right that's a hundred percent right but it goes against their argument chosen selected individuals number five for new

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This one's a tough one to love beforehand to love beforehand

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And Romans 8 29 again for those whom he foreknew

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Gnosko is the word Right. Well, it's a root of that word. It's actually two words in the foreknew

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But gnosko is intimacy Okay. So for example that word is used in reference to Mary When she was pregnant with Jesus and it speaks of her not knowing

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Joseph She knew of Joseph. He was her betrothed

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She knew Joseph. The point is in the language is she did not know him in an intimate way

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She did not have that intimate connection with him. That would have produced a child and This is the same phrasing that we get in places like Romans 8 29 for those whom he foreknew.

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It does not mean okay. It does not mean that God looked down the corridor of time and knew you

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That God learned something and went, ah, I like Joe and So before Joe's created

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I'm gonna foreknow Joe That's not how it worked.

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The foreknew is that he had a an intimate love of Joe Before he'd even created anything.

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It was already in the heart of God before anything from eternity past That love was already in the heart of God.

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That's important to know to love Beforehand, that's right

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Before before I knew you or before I created you. Yep All right. Well, we got through one whole section.

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That was section a now we're at section B relevant theological terminology a

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Lot of people were asking me they saw how many pages were in lesson two They're like there's no way you're getting this done in one night

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Look at us go relevant theological terminology

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Okay, yeah, these are important. We're laying groundwork guys. We're not diving into any of the meat yet We're literally at this point just making sure everybody's on the same page so that we can have actual conversations in in weeks three and on Okay.

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Otherwise, we're talking past each other unless we all know what these words mean. Okay So number one

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Sovereignty is the biblical teaching that God is the source of all creation and that all things come from and depend

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Upon him Sovereignty this this phrase used to be used for monarchs right

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He the king was the sovereign and what does that mean well in our understanding which

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Is a very limited understanding but even if we think in an earthly form sovereign someone to be sovereign and be a king is

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There is absolutely no law. There is no rule. There are no consequences

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There is literally nothing above that person But he is the king

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Gets to say what's right and what's wrong gets to say what's the law and what's not the law gets to break the law

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Gets to do whatever he wants to do Joe Biden exactly gets to do whatever so that's why they would be called the sovereign

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Now that in an earthly sense is we know that that's not true because even that earthly King is

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He doesn't reign completely, right? The Scripture says that the heart of the king is is is like a river got in the hands of God He's wielding it wherever he desires, right?

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So he is not truly sovereign, but that's why a king a monarch would be called sovereign

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But here when we speak of God the God is the source God is the ultimate there is nothing past him

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There is nothing beyond him and every single thing Comes from and depends upon him

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Nothing can be sustained in this life. Nothing can be done in this life even by Satan himself

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That is not God sovereignly allowing

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Because he is the ultimate rule God maintains absolute control over all of creation and determines events according to his own counsel

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You know, you ever heard the joke You ever heard the joke about the scientist who approached

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God? He comes to God. He says listen God. Listen, we we we've decided the scientific community has decided that we don't need you anymore

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Right. We have no need of you these days God guess what we can clone people

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We we can transplant organs We can do all sorts of things That one day that once upon a time was considered a miracle by you

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But we we can do these things and God replied Okay, you don't need me, huh?

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Okay Well, how about we put your theory to the test? You wise mighty man

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Let's put your theory to the test Why don't we have a competition and see who can make a human being say let's let's just say a male a male human being

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All right, we'll have a competition you get to make a human being I'll make a human being we'll see who can do it

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The scientist agrees. So God declares that they should do it like he did in the good old days when he created

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Adam Let's go back to the source, right? And the scientist says fine fine And he bends down to grab a handful of dirt and and God says whoa.

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Whoa He's shaking his head in disapproval. God says not so fast. You better get your own dirt

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You know what I'm saying? So like even an earthly king has no ability to have to oversee and create a law that God himself has not already said in Emotion God is the ultimate in all of authority

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And so we as human beings think that we're so wise and we're so intelligent because we can we can clone

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Animals and we can transplant organs and we can do all the things and there's God going

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Yeah, try and do that out of nothing. I Gave you the mind to be able to accomplish this that is sovereignty

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This is the God that we're speaking of when we talk about the one That controls all things

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Right everybody with me Turn the next page page 8 we have some proof text on this.

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I want us to see in Scripture here and I've got them down in there, but you can jot some notes down, but I want to highlight a couple things

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I want you to be able to highlight or Underline by the way, if you don't have a pen with you, there are pens back in the back but in Daniel chapter 4 verse 35 it says all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing and he who

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God does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth so he does according to his will underline that and None can stay his hand you can underline that or say to him.

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What have you done? He gets to make the rules

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He does what he wants and no one can speak. Otherwise It's like it's like my favorite account in Job when when

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Job starts feeling sorry for himself I'm responding to God. It would be better for me to die and God basically just says you better curd up your loins like a man

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Well, I speak to you. Where were you when I set the boundaries? Yep, that's right

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That's why that's why we make the distinction that he is altogether separate, right

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That's why that was the whole purpose of the joke, right? The scientist thinks he can do something he means that he bends down to pick up God's dirt

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God's earth that he created out of nothing in order to accomplish anything that God is the sovereign above all and This is completely as Dalton says a total other category

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Right, we have to remember that Isaiah 40 13 through 18 who has measured the

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Spirit of the Lord or What man shows him counsel? They underline that what man shows him counsel

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Does anyone counsel God? Right. What man shows him counsel?

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He did none none do If you go down a little bit, I'm not gonna read the whole thing

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But there's a section 1 2 3 4 5 5 rows up from the bottom of that text. He says

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All the nations are as nothing before him you can underline that all the nations are as nothing

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Before him it gets back to what Dalton was just saying. We can't look at a sovereign nation a sovereign

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King The that's nothing God is over all of this And then later on in verse 22, it's not in our notes

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But I wanted to add this in verse 22 there of Isaiah 40 It says it is he who sets above the circle of the earth and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers

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Compared to God we are insects We are not in the same category as a matter of fact, that's using anthropomorphic language

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Just so that we can get our brains wrapped around it But it's infinitely different because you and I have far more in common with a grasshopper than we do with God You realize that right?

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The grasshopper and you and me are creatures created by a sovereign

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God that is altogether separate Proverbs 8 14 through 16.

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I have counsel and sound wisdom. I have insight Now underline that but I want you to notice so this is in the

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ESV I like the New King James translation of this better It doesn't say

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I have insight. It goes back to the language original language and it's better. It says I am understanding

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It's not that I have understanding.

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This is God saying I am Understanding I have strength by me

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Kings reign there again, we go back to the the the King analogy No King reigns except by the sovereign

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There and we keep referencing Kings because that's the highest level of earthly sovereignty that we can even begin to fathom

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Like we don't have other categories that are higher than King, right? And so this is what scripture tells

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I buy by me Kings reign This one's familiar Ephesians 1 11 or it should be familiar to you in him

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We have obtained an inheritance having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works

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All things Underline that all well, it's already underlined. There you go. You don't have to underline it for you according to the counsel of his will

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This is a sovereign God, right? the sovereign God All right number two next page we need to See and understand free will

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Free will that's a tough one. This is where everybody kind of gets lost in this whole conversation So let's define it

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That man has the moral capacity to choose good or evil The man has the moral capacity to choose good or evil and in parentheses

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It says they're Adam and Eve and it's a and fill in the blank has possessed this capacity.

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We talked about that in our systematic theology if you remember That the

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Adam and Eve in the garden could choose good or choose evil They possess the capacity but then it says however as a result of the fall as the result of sin man has lost all capacity to do good spiritually

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Adam and Eve could choose good or they could choose evil the moment they ate of the fruit they could

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Only choose evil they would never choose good. They don't have the capacity to do moral good

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None of us do right? So the idea of free will Most people today want to think of free will in the category of what's known as libertarian free will

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Libertarian free will is a myth. So people will tell me all the time. They're like, I can't believe the Calvinism thing

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I just I believe in free will and they're shocked because I go that's crazy. I do too

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You can't agree with free will and I'm like no no, no what you're thinking is libertarian free will and even the earthly Philosophical thinking and all of the all of the high minds and in the earth that think in earthly terms

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They even know that libertarian free will is a myth like everybody knows that that is completely and totally

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Garbage, no one's will is neutral There's no such thing

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No one has a neutral will at all and that would be libertarian free will libertarian free

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Will is your will is completely and totally neutral in all ways and that's not possible as a matter of fact,

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I put down a Quote by John Calvin on this matter He says if by free will you mean that man does as he pleases?

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Then yes He has free will If however, you mean by free will that man has the ability to do righteousness towards God Then free will is much too grandiose a term to deem fallen men

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Yes, if by free will you mean that man Does as he pleases?

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Then yes He has free will If however, you mean by free will that man has the ability to do righteousness towards God Then free will is much too grandiose term to dirt to deem fallen men and it's true

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Why is it true? Well scripture tells us Romans 3 11 and 12 we have it right there no one understands

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No one seeks for God No one all have turned aside together.

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They become worthless. No one does good not even one No one looks at turns to God John 6 44

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Jesus himself says no one can come to me No one can

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Unless the father who sent me draws him And I will raise him up on the last day now that can

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Circle that can no one can come to me and I want you to draw a line over and I want you to write not permission

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But ability Not permission but ability

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Jesus isn't forbidding people to come to him He's not saying whoa, you can't come to me

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That invitation is open to all all who come to me he will not cast you out

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It's the ability to come yes, that's right will not that's exactly right

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What was the reference of that John? John 540, that's good. Yep. Thank you

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See the thing about free will it's a matter of nature If given the choice between grass and meat, what is a lion going to choose?

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meat If you have a pet lion and you give him the options and he eats grass you need to take him to the vet

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Something's wrong Okay, he's not gonna choose grass He's gonna choose what his nature was created for now.

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That's the difference our nature wasn't created to reject God Notice remember how

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I said Adam and Eve had the ability to choose good and choose evil. That's how they were created they

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Rejected fell and then all of the posterity was then driven into slavery to unrighteousness and Now every person is born only

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Choosing unrighteousness so free will free will yeah, if you want to say free will okay. Yeah a person can choose as he pleases

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Right, it's not but but he will not choose God He will choose based on his nature just like a lion will choose meat over grass

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Which is death and sin it will always as Romans 3 says no one seeks for God They'll all go they'll all turn away.

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They turn aside. They become worthless So this is free will Yes. Yeah when they ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil

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Yeah, they did not they had no they had no concept of evil prior to eating of the fruit

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They were oblivious to it. Notice they were in their nakedness and they they weren't ashamed They they only knew

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They only knew sinlessness and and and goodness. Yeah, it's a great question. Thank you

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All right, so this leads us to the next question About free moral agency.

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This is the term that I like to use I think that this is a more accurate term than free will I think free will we can kind of set aside and throw out?

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but free moral agency That man has the capacity to do as he pleases

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Okay Within God's restraining limits, of course According to his own nature and is therefore responsible for all of his actions

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Is therefore responsible for all of his actions one of the things that gets thrown at this doctrine is

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God created robots and Then and then people sin and so if God is sovereign and he makes them sin

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Then God is the author of sin and now God is evil You congratulations Calvinist you just you just created an evil

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God that's one of the biggest arguments, isn't it? Against this type of doctrine, but what they don't realize is that's not at all what this doctrine is teaching

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This teach this doctrine affirms free moral agency You and I chose to come here tonight

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God did not drag you out of your house kicking and screaming to come here tonight. Did he? He did

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Well Don's on his way to hyper Calvinism. All right My point but now now that being said was it

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God's will for you to be here tonight? Yeah, it was his will cuz you're here He didn't drag you you're a free moral agent.

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I Like the illustration that my dad used to use he said every person is like is like a person that jumps out of an airplane

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All right, I can do flips I can do I can do somersaults up in the air

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I can go this way I can go that way. I can go upside down. I can I could go like this.

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The problem is I'm always headed downward and I have no capacity or power to do otherwise

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To save myself other than someone grabbing me pulling me back in the plane or for something to land me safely on the ground.

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I Have free moral agency, but I am headed downward in my state because my nature is one that wants to jump out of the plane

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And get away from God. I want nothing to do with God. So free moral agency The capacity to do as as you please again

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Within God's restraining limits Jeremiah 31 29 30. It's right there in those days

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They shall no longer say the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge

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But everyone shall die for his own iniquity Each man who eats sour grapes his teeth shall be set on edge

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You and I do not go to hell because of Adam's sin. I Any person that is in hell right now is not undergoing punishment personally because of Adam's sin

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Adam's sin just sent them on a trajectory of being a sinner That rejects

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God in his own free moral agency and his nature is one to reject God and hate

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God and he suffers for his sins Right, we're suffering for our own sins.

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We are not our teeth are not or Unbelievers teeth are not on edge because of the great the sour grapes that their father ate

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They're set on edge because of the grapes they eat on their free with their free moral agency

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Romans 14 12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God Every single person

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This is a free moral agency. And again, I talked about it last week that hyper

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Calvinism. It gets rid of man's responsibility It's like well, I'm a robot. God is sovereign and And if if God wants me to do something he'll make me do it and that is

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By no means how scripture defines it. We are not robots. We are made in his image

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Right free moral agents number four Regeneration we've talked about that quite a bit here.

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Anybody that's gone through the new member class You've had you've gotten to talk about regeneration quite a bit. What is it?

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It's the new birth, right? regeneration the new birth Also referred to as making alive or quickening of a dead spirit by the supernatural power of God We think of back in Ezekiel 37

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I believe the dry bones right that God brings life to those dry dead bones

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John 3 3 Jesus answered him truly truly I say to you who's he talking to?

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Nicodemus Unless and there's a necessary condition here, right?

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Unless one is born again. He cannot see the kingdom of God Nicodemus is confused, right?

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Can I go back into my mother's womb? And be be born again. Well, that's not what

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Jesus is speaking of. What's he speaking of regeneration? he's speaking of you were basically stillborn and It's going to take

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The the power of God to bring life into your dead spirit

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Just like Paul said Ephesians 2 right and you were dead in the trespasses and sins

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You were dead notice the Notice the past tense You and I are not dead anymore for in Christ.

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Are we? Hallelujah, that's right. Why is that? Because we were regenerated

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We were zombies. We were walking around spiritually dead in our free moral agency choosing only what we would choose based upon our nature that is enslaved to sin and Now we've been made alive

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By the power of the Holy Spirit. This is regeneration. This is the new birth and turn to page 10 there.

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Yes Yeah That's a great question

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That caught me off guard Why Jesus used the analogy of birth?

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Okay, go ahead that's great

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So if y 'all didn't hear Don was just saying that He's comparing it to the fact that you didn't choose who?

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When where you were born what color your eyes were all that goes with it. Is that what you were asking? Okay, make sure okay

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Right, okay, that's a great point. Thank you for pointing that out Dalton because That is excellent in our new birth.

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We're not the ones that are choosing in their birth We're not the ones notice based on our nature We're not the ones coming to coming to the

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Holy Spirit and going you know what? I think I would like to be born again Doesn't work like that.

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It's it's completely up to God. Yeah. Yeah It's God It's it will notice what notice what

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Jesus says to Nicodemus He says hey the wind the wind comes and goes where it does what it we only see the evidence of the wind

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We don't know where it's coming from. We don't know where it's going. We don't know He is he is doing that work and you have no control over the situation.

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Yes Which one in that first article?

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That's right. Yep. Yep. You'll read that in Charles Spurgeon's article on that very thing All right, great points guys

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Let's move to the next page page 10. I believe yep page 10 number 5 We see

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Conversion, let's define conversion Preceded by regeneration producing faith and repentance

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Conversion is preceded by regeneration producing preceded by Regeneration not preceded proceeded in my bed producing faith and repentance.

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I Put preceded on this. It's wrong. It's not preceded. That's why

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I read it that way on my notes here. It's proceeded It's not preceded. It's proceeded P -r -o -c -e -e -d -e -d

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Got to change that for the next go around on the notes I knew it was gonna happen and y 'all passed the test y 'all didn't get on me about it

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All right, so conversion follows basically Regeneration once you are brought to new life once you are awakened because before you're spiritually dead now you're awakened

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There is faith and repentance that is produced in you. Yes, is it then

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I have it wrong on my other one It's after pre is before Proceeded proceeded is after Yes faith and repentance come after regeneration

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So that's correct, no, this is this is correct, that's incorrect you're confusing me

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Tari. Yes Yeah, proceeded proceeded by regeneration

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So regeneration happens Faith and repentance comes after regeneration.

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Yes So confusing Okay, everybody gets it.

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Let me let me explain this in this way conversion doesn't happen before regeneration Conversion happens after regeneration

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Yes regeneration gave you the ability to see your need for Christ gave you the ability to have faith and Repentance and notice faith and repentance though are two sides to one coin

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They come together. There is no such thing as faith and then repentance later or repentance and Faith later there is nothing to do with that.

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It is it is two sides to a single coin faith and repentance come together John 1 12 through 13, but to all who did receive him who believed in his name

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He gave the right to become children of God who were born Not of blood nor of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God Right there that answered

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Dalton's question. That's right Second Thessalonians 2 13, but we ought always to give thanks to God for you brothers beloved by the

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Lord Beloved by the Lord because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved through sanctification by the

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Spirit and belief in the truth All right, so these are our definitions

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So let's let's move on here to historical terminology There's no more fill -in -the -blanks here thankfully

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But I want you to follow along in your notes so that we can make sure that we have our language, right?

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We just about 15 minutes We can wrap this up Calvinism number one that bad word

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Calvinism It's a nickname It's just a nickname That's why we're we're doing the doctrines of grace.

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That's the real name of what these doctrines are This is named after that French born reformer

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John Calvin you see in the 1500s there. It's just a nickname and So when people ask you are you a

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Calvinist? then my answer is usually what's a Calvinist and then let them define it and 99 .9

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% of the time they're not defining Calvinism and So just a nickname and when people say well, why do you why do you claim

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Calvinism? Why don't you just say I believe what the Bible says and say well I do this. It's literally just a nickname to To like shorthand exactly this big massive doctrine of all of these great truths that have already been thought through by the

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Saints You ever heard of Arminianism? Yep, that's what most most everybody in the

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Western Church today Kind of leaned towards is some form of Arminianism.

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This is this was Jacob Arminius He was a professor of divinity in the 17th century

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He had studied theology actually under one of Calvin's successors and rejected that whole idea

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Arminius Arminian theology was actually a return to the position of Rome The Roman Catholicism at the

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Council of Trent actually in the 1500s Arminius was Kind of going back to their whole idea in their declaration

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This was a remonstrance issued in 1610 the Arminians Responded to these five points of Calvinism and they denied you can see there at the bottom.

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It's the bottom paragraph They had a rejection of all five points They denied the total depravity of humanity saying that man has the capacity to do good

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Which goes against all of Scripture? The two they argued that election was

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Conditioned by faith that once you chose Jesus yourself then

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God went. Oh you're elect. I elected you because you chose Number three that grace could be rejected

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So when you see the glory of Christ when you actually see Christ for who he is do you see your sin?

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And you see your need for him That you can choose then to just walk away and reject him

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Number four that the atoning work of Christ was intended for all Persons that Jesus dies on the cross

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Says it is finished And what happened on the cross I've said it before What happened

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God poured his wrath out the punishment that was due sinners poured his wrath out unto

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Jesus and Jesus paid it in full and Now because I don't turn to Jesus I die and then

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God who's already Already poured his wrath out on his son for my sins

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Double whammies and pours his wrath out on me again. It wasn't good enough.

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It's that would be unjust of God Jesus can't have died for everyone It's impossible that scripture does not and we have passages and we're gonna get to those and we talk about limited atonement and all that stuff here in a few weeks and we'll be

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Able to dive into it. I just want you to see that this is this is something they rejected they say Jesus died for everybody and You know what we would say is the invitation to repent and believe is to everybody

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But Jesus paid on the cross once for all for all those who would believe

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And the ones he for loved. That's right Jesus Jesus had every single elect person from all eternity in mind

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While he paid for their specific sins on the cross otherwise God is unjust because now he's punishing sin twice and His judgment will always match the crime perfectly down to down to the

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Smallest minute detail, okay Number five and that it was possible for believers to fall from grace true

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Arminian theology And here's what's consistent Remember I said last week that you can't hold to two of these points or three of these points or four of these points and not all five

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At least the Arminians actually knew that They had to reject all five they knew they knew if they had total depravity if they kept total depravity that The Calvinist understanding of election had to stand like you can't have any other thing or vice versa and then

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Notice how a lot of our brethren today. They'll say well, I don't I kind of believe in total depravity

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I don't believe in limited atonement. I don't believe in an irresistible grace, but I like perseverance of the

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Saints I like the once saved always saved Well, the Arminians were smart enough to know that if we have those

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We have to have perseverance of the Saints and if we don't have those

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Perseverance of the Saints can't stand because if you're the one that chose then you can choose not to and so our

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You know other churches in the area that would say oh, yeah, you can lose your salvation. At least they're being consistent

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Whereas ones that say you can't they're not being theologically Honest or they just don't know

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Carnal Christian, that's right All right, so let's get to the next page number three,

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I got to move quick I got ten minutes I promised you I was getting through this we're getting through it Anybody ever heard of Pelagianism?

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All right Pelagianism. This this term gets thrown around a little too easy. I'm sorry We call too many people

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Pelagians or today You'll hear semi Pelagian. Oh, they're semi

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Pelagian Right. This is formulated by this Roman British monk named

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Pelagius in the 4th and 5th century and today Pelagianism would be

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Attests or attuned to someone like open theism like Pelagius he just denies nearly every element of scripture when it comes to any kind of doctrinal truth to any of these so unlike an

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Arminian that wants to do workarounds around certain things Pelagianism is just straight -up heresy like you're outside of the faith if you believe if you're a

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Pelagian, okay Senate of Dort Anybody ever heard of this? All right.

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What is it? Yep. They responded to these in 1618 and 1619 the

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Calvinists prevailed over the Arminian party and condemned the remonstrance of 1610 condemned those five points that we just talked about from the

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Arminians In the Senate of Dort they declared that Christ's work was meant only for the elect to salvation that people believing could not fall from Grace and that God's election depended on no conditions.

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This was later summarized by the five points that we talked about last week the tulip the acrostic and Another cross like the what do you call it?

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An acronym there. Yeah, couldn't think of the word. So the acronym and so some people go Why don't we need the acronym?

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Well guys, we need language to be able to understand concepts, don't we? Well, these are things that they put together so that we could understand deep doctrinal concepts so this was the

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Senate of Dort that put a lot of these thoughts together and just condemned the Arminian theology and basically

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Kept the church from going back to Roman Catholicism type of type of theology when it involves salvation

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Number five we talked about this last week hyper -Calvinism. I don't think I need to hound on that anymore.

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That is a godless distortion Fight it in everything in your being this results in a lack of spiritual passion for evangelism and missions, right?

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I'm a robot. I do I I bring nothing to the table. God does everything stay away from it and six

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I figured uh, I figured Chase would like this one He's true our

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Augustinian Augustinian. This is referring to st. Augustine and the third and a fourth century

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He was one of the honestly one of the most prolific writers and thinkers of that time

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The Reformers loved him. You can see much of his writings and his thinking influenced

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Luther and Calvin They read him significantly Augustine Combated Pelagianism that we talked about a moment ago.

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He combated that throughout his life making a defense for the true gospel Augustinian and so when people say well you guys just follow

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John Calvin we can we can go Well, let's let's keep going back a little bit. We're past Calvin.

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Let's go back to Luther Oh, wait a second. No, let's go back to you know, Augustine the third and fourth century

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Oh, wait a second. No, let's go back to Paul because Paul the the Apostle This is where these men are building off of here

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And so these are terms that y 'all need to remember I I want y 'all to hang on to your books and I want you to go through these terms

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This next week just kind of remind yourselves because every once in a while I may refer to over the next few weeks

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Augustinianism I may refer to Pelagianism I may refer to Arminianism kind of get yourself familiar with some of these terms

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I know a lot of you over the past couple of years have come to me and like why do we have to use all These big words.

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Why do you have to well this helps us to define and talk about all of these things So it's important for us to go through them.

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And then finally real quick I want to spend the last five minutes here on historical review of the doctrines among Baptist.

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There's a reason I want to do this a moment ago many of you Acknowledged that you come from Southern Baptist backgrounds

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And and even those of you that didn't come from Southern Baptist backgrounds You know many of you were heavily influenced by Baptist theology

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And we're in an area where our brothers that we love dearly many of the churches in this community that we pray for At our service on Sunday morning.

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They will reject these doctrines and and in some cases They'll say that's not the

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Baptist way. That's not how Baptist think. I wanted to give you pages of Baptist history

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So that you know, that's not true The Baptist way I'm telling you right now if you look at the history the

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Baptist are Calvinist all of them all of them that established this

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Roger Williams right there at 1600s the first Baptist to establish a Baptist Church in America Right right below that there's a there's a

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Paragraph from him since only God can give faith It does not lie within the power of the magistrate to command a man to believe or worship any

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In any particular way the allowance of air in civil society does not harm the church

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No for not one elect of God shall perish Many of you know

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John Bunyan How many of you've read Pilgrim's Progress? It's a great.

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It's a great Book I recommend it to anybody John Bunyan He's a

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Baptist preacher in England and author of a renowned book that Pilgrim's Progress As a matter of fact funny story about John Bunyan is and here he is a

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Baptist and in a time That's very Presbyterian the Presbyterians did not like they were very heady and lofty and one of my favorite theologians

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John Owen John Owen is like ivory tower like he's the cream of the crop of that time

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Like he's the the most prolific thinker in all of that and and he's actually kind of the counsel to to the

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Magistrates and everything in that in the governing officials and whatnot and one time one of the governing officials asked him

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They said John why with all of your education and all your learning? Why do you go down in the streets and listen to that tinkerer preach?

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He's speaking of John Bunyan John Bunyan had no education He was a Baptist preacher would go out in the streets and preach the gospel and and John Owens answer was he goes

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I would trade all of my learning if I could preach a fraction with the passion that that tinkerer preaches with Because John Bunyan was an evangelist.

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He loved the Lord. He loved Calling people to repentance and faith and here's

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John Bunyan a Baptist Who's a Calvinist? He's an evangelist

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William Carey many of you know that name This is the father of all modern missions.

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The IMB doesn't exist without William Carey The big Southern Baptist missions programs and all the missionaries and all the stuff that goes on all over the world

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Doesn't exist without William Carey in 1792. He helped organize the

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English Baptist Missionary Society and This William Carey is a

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Calvinist. You know, why you know, why these men men like William Carey a Baptist Calvinist reformed guy, you know why he started modern missions and he was so passionate about missions and evangelism because he knew that God added at a elect from every tribe nation in tongue

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And it gave him passion Luther Rice Founded the

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General Missionary Convention of the Baptist denomination of the United States and there's a there's a

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Statement from him. I just want to read a portion of it down below How absurd it is therefore to contend against the doctrine of election or the decrees of divine sovereignty?

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the last sentence of that says who has removed the scales from our eyes or who has

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Disposed us to embrace the truth These are Calvinist these are men that that are the founding of Baptist theology and Baptist denominations page 14

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WB Johnson, he's the first president of the SBC and He says no single individual or Tom Nettles said about him

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No single individual had more to do with determined determining of the nature of the

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Southern Baptist Convention than WB Johnson and WB Johnson Held to these doctrines.

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He believed them scroll down to page 16

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Some of you may have heard of Boyce. I actually spelt it wrong in your curriculum.

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It's JP I spelled a BOCE, but it's BOYCE. I missed a Y in there he was the founder and the first president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and That abstract of principles that I mentioned a moment ago, this was their statement of faith

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This was a Calvinist document and then of course

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CH Spurgeon. How many of you knew Spurgeon was a Baptist? Most of you right.

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He's the prince of preachers, right? Considered by many Baptist scholars to be the greatest pastor preacher since the days of the

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Apostles. That's debatable But I think that they're not far off He said, this is

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Spurgeon, we only use the term Calvinism for shortness That doctrine which is called

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Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. Notice Calvin didn't actually create those five points

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He didn't. It didn't spring from Calvin We believe that it sprang from the great founder of all truth perhaps

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Calvin himself derived it from the writings of Augustine. Augustine obtained his views without doubt through the

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Holy Spirit of God from diligent study of the writings of Paul and Paul received them from the Holy Ghost and from Jesus Christ the great founder of the

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Christian Church and Then later he says and I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching

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Christ and him Crucified unless you preach what nowadays is called Calvinism.

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He said Calvinism is the gospel and nothing else He defines what he means.

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He says I do not believe we preach the gospel if we do not preach justification by faith without works

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Not unless we preach the sovereignty of God and his dispensation of grace Well, that's where me and Calvin would disagree and how he defined that.

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Not unless we exalt the electing unchangeable eternal immutable conquering love of Jehovah Nor do

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I think we can preach the gospel unless we base it upon the particular Redemption which

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Christ made for his elect and chosen people nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets

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Saints fall away after they are called This is Calvinism guys. This is the doctrines of grace and this is the

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Prince of preachers You will not meet any Baptist that would denounce Charles Spurgeon he is their hero because he was passionate about the truth of God's Word and Equally passionate about evangelizing the lost.

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I've said it before Spurgeon said if if the elect had yellow yellow stripes down their back

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I'd run through the streets of London lifting shirttails, but they don't so I spread the gospel to all liberally, right?

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And this is passion this this right here is our background guys If you come from a Baptist background do not and you can read through all these

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I put them in your book So you can read through all of those If you are coming from a Baptist background and these local

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Baptist churches try and convince you that Calvinism isn't Baptist They do not know their history.

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They have no concept. They have no idea. What's truly Baptist they're the ones that diverted about 80 years ago because they quit preaching the full counsel of God and They tried to appease man and it eventually led to a weak understanding of the sovereignty of God.

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I Mentioned Tom Nettles last week. He's the foremost Baptist historian living today and it's in a quote down at the very end of all those

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Calvinistic Soteriology was the Cine quo none Just it's

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Latin for essential element of the gospel for early southern Baptist. All right, we have to close

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I'm five minutes over guys, but let's go through our reading assignment on page 22. Okay?

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I'd like for you to read the first six chapters of John's gospel It's easy enough, right and in your appendix in the back for those of you that have it in person

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This will be easy and the others can get it from the QR code and the PDF But in the appendix you have all of these articles and they're listed at the bottom so for lesson two it's a defense of Calvinism an article by CH Spurgeon and Then I want you to read the abstract of principles from Southern Seminary.

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That is also in there and Then my father wrote an article the importance of historical

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Christianity I would like for you all to read that this week and then we have another suggested memory verse

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John 10 26 through 28 and Then at the bottom you see additional resources

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I mentioned last week that if you wanted to order by his grace and for his glory by Tom Nettles That Baptist historian that I would recommend it.

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It's it's a optional thing. You do not have to but if you did get the book To begin reading that book that is an additional resource for historical context

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If you want to dive deeper into the background specifically of Southern Baptists But he does dive in and goes back to more the foundings of the

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Baptist even building up to the SBC All right. Anybody have any last important question

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So the new books in the back the very front page has a QR code on it And then what

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I'll do is I will actually put it back up on the screen right there So there's a

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QR code for the PDF But we can we can put it on band.

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I'll just need to remember to do that I might just put a link to that on band All righty guys.

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Well, we've gone over. Oh, sorry I don't consider myself a very well -versed church historian

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But I think that would be a fun class I think You've got the book

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Okay, well, we may have to use some of those resources. That's a great idea. I think that would be a fun class. Okay Okay, we'll have to take a look at it guys.

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Let me close in prayer If you've got further questions, please come and ask we'd love to chat with you about it Dear in the

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Father Lord, we come to you. Once again, we thank you for your grace. We thank you for That what an undeserved grace, but we thank you that we can look at church history and we can learn from The Saints before that we can grow and that we can see your word defined you you said

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And you said through Paul and Ephesians that Christ gave the gift of the Apostles the prophets evangelists and shepherd teachers to equip the

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Saints for the work of ministry and And we think of men like Charles Spurgeon as those men that you equipped and his writings are there for us

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We think of men like Calvin and John Bunyan and Luther and Augustine and all of those men that we can look to those are our brothers those are as much our brothers as Those of us in the room right now

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Let us lean into the giftings that you gave them that we may see your word

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Clearly and that we would we would be as Spurgeon said visit many good books, but live in the