• From the Natural to the Spiritual
  • The teaching of Jesus in the Gospels
  • From the “limb” to the Spirit
• Salvation!
  • What is included
    • Cleansing of our conscience from all guilt
    • Delivery of our soul from the dominance of evil
    • The undoing of all that Adam did
    • The total restoration from our fallen estate
    • Lifted far above principalities and powers
    • Salvation crowns us with Christ forever
  • The way of salvation
    • The negative
      • The tolerance of religion
      • The intolerance of God
        • “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” – Exo 20:3
        • “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one LORD” – Deuteronomy 6:4
      • The tolerance of liberalism
        • The many roads to Heaven
        • The pursuit of the ecumenical
      • The intolerance of Christianity
        • “I am the way...” – Jhn 14:6
        • “There is no other name...” – Act 4:12
      • A thousand errors can live together
      • But truth must stand alone
      • There is no salvation apart from Christ
    • The positive - there is salvation in Christ
      • His purity is greater than our depravity
      • He is almighty God
      • God the Father has accepted the sacrifice of Christ
      • God the Father has accepted Christ as our substitute for punishment
      • The judge is satisfied
      • The guarantee; the resurrection
  • The approach to salvation
    • Confess the need
    • Believe that Christ is the Saviour
    • Submit to His process
    • Trust Him
• Salvation Is God’s Work
  • The negative
    • Not by ritual
    • Not by self-righteousness
    • Not by good works
    • Not by our own will
  • The positive
    • By God’s love – 1Jo 4:10
    • By God’s grace – Eph 2:8
    • By God’s will – Rom 9 and Rom 11
• The Doctrine of Sovereign Grace
  • Grace is God’s blessing upon the unworthy
    • The least likely from human viewpoint
    • The ability to change the worst of sinners
  • Salvation is all of grace from first to last
    • By God’s choice before creation of the world – Eph 1:4
    • By God’s will (decree) – Jhn 1:13
    • By God’s drawing work in the sinners heart
      • Jhn 6:64-65, Jhn 6:44
      • Lydia – Act 16:13-14
    • By the gift of faith – Eph 2:8-9 He who gives the Gospel to believe also gives the faith to believe the Gospel
    • Man left to himself is an unbeliever and will remain so
    • Grace continues our believing what God initiates - He maintains what is born of self - will die of self
  • The Gospel of the grace of God – Act 20:24
    • Worth dying for
    • Worth living for
  • Grace
    • No goodness can commend us
    • No badness can shut us out
  • Grace
    • Casts us entirely upon God
    • Carnality is counting on self
    • Spirituality is resting on the activity of God

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