• Justification by Faith — Romans 8; 9
  • God saves sinners completely
  • The Gospel of the grace of God
    • The sovereignty of God in salvation
      • Sanctification
      • Glorification
      • Predestination
      • Election
• Continuation of the Theme — Romans 10
  • Salvation of Jew
  • Salvation of Gentile
  • The necessity of repetition
    • Testimony
    • Preaching
    • Sent
    • Read
• The Fact of Salvation
  • "Saved"
    • Uncomfortable word to the unbeliever
    • Ray Stedman
  • Paul —concern for the Israelites in His prayers
    • Our concern
    • Chief thing — to be saved
  • The Israelites" problem
    • Self-righteousness — attempts to establish their own
      • A merit system
      • A works system
      • Keeping the law by ritual — not by faith
      • Zeal that is not of faith
        • Jehovah —Witnesses — Mormons
        • Activities — programs — committees
        • Fruitless
        • Paul had been in self-righteousness
    • Failure to trust Christ
      • He is the goal — purpose — end of the law
    • Unwillingness of Jew and Gentile to be saved by grace
      • Righteousness by faith
        • Not law
        • Not ritual
      • Our forms can be hypocritical — empty
      • Faith never looks at worth of self-merit
      • Christ is the end — the goal
        • Fulfills it all
          • All the shadows
          • All the types
          • All the demands
      • All the law — points to Christ
      • Now the love of Christ constrains — controls
        • In obedience to God
  • The saving work of God
    • The Lordship of Christ
    • The believing in the heart
    • The confession with the mouth — the testimony
    • The overview of the salvation experience
      • The Gospel of the grace of God
      • Sin and death
      • God's "election and predestination" unconditional
      • Effective atonement
        • Limited — definite
      • Effective calling — conversion
      • Certainty of glory
        • Growing — in sanctification
        • Glorification
    • Salvation of Jew and Gentile — no difference
• The Process of Salvation
  • The preaching
    • All — saved are preachers
    • Some — have a designated call
      • Set free
      • Fully devoted
      • Shepherds
      • Must be recognized by the church
      • The ordaining
        • Called by a local church
        • Ordained by a local church
          • Act 13
          • Set apart
          • Cannot be man-made
      • A preacher is a channel of the Word of God
        • Nice sermons are not sufficient
        • Entertaining sermons are useless
        • Good outlines are inadequate
      • A preacher is a man thru whom it pleases Christ to speak His Word
  • The hearing
    • The Word
    • The opening of the heart of Lydia — Act 16:14
    • Impossible for man
    • Given by God
      • By His Spirit, in His Word
      • Thru His preacher
  • The believing in the heart
  • The sending
    • He sends
      • Christ
    • We are sent
      • Apostles — Missionaries
      • "As the Father" —
    • Our priority
      • Our career
    • A church full of sent people
• The Purpose of Salvation
  • The glory of God
  • The testimony of the elect
    • The response to God
    • To say — Jesus is Lord
    • The importance of testimony
    • Do we have a testimony?
    • Can you say how long since you have confessed?
    • People I have known
      • Gone — Never had a testimony
    • With the mouth do it — boldly
      • Declaration
      • Get free
      • Do not fear
    • The serving testimony
      • Volunteer
      • Sign-ups
      • Have a testimony
    • Testimony of the tongue
    • The testimony of holiness
      • Purity — Honesty
      • Overcoming the world
      • Don"t give in
      • Basketball team
        • Their testimony
    • The testimony of humility
      • Do not need to win the argument
      • To win your way
      • Win thru self-assertion — but lose your testimony
    • The testimony of priorities
      • Lord
      • Marriage
      • Family
      • Church — Personal growth attendance
      • World
    • The united testimony
      • A church with a testimony before God
        • To each other
        • Locally
        • Nation
        • World
• How Great Is the Lord
  • We are in His great plan
    • Saved
    • Sent
    • Giving testimony

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