• The Fact of God's Providence
  • The actual promise
  • The terms of the promise
• The Process of God's Providence
  • Foreknowledge
    • It includes determination
    • It includes control
    • It is the set of His Will
    • It is not based on what we would do but what He does
    • Some other texts — 1Pe 1:2, 20; Act 2:23; 15:18
  • Predestination
    • Definition — The effective exercise of His will by which things determined by Him are accomplished
    • Fact — Eph 1:4, 11; Act 13:4
    • Predestined for conformation to the image of Christ
  • God's Call
    • The call is effective summons of elect to salvation — Jhn 6:37
    • The call is an eternal persistence of our Sovereign God
    • The effectual calling is necessary because of the condition of man in total depravity — Eph 1:1-3; Rom 3:9-20
    • Other texts
      • 2Th 2:13-14
      • 1Co 1:23-24
      • 2Ti 1:9
      • Act 16:13, 16
  • Justification
    • The means —Rom 3:24; 4:5
    • The meaning — The act of God by which He declares righteous those who believe in Christ
      • It includes full and complete pardon
      • The pardon is as if the sinner was never guilty
    • The proof — Rom 4:25; 5:1
      • The atonement is perfect
      • The resurrection is proof
    • The Grace — Rom 5:6, 8, 10
      • We were "without strength"
      • We were "yet sinners"
      • We were "enemies"
      • Christ died
  • Glorification
    • We share the Glory of Christ — 1Pe 1:4; Jhn 17:22; Rom 8:16-17; 1Jo 3:1; Phl 3:20-21; Rom 8:29
    • We are secure for eternity

Return to Top