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Title = 'Acts 4:12 - The Salvation of the Soul';
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From the Natural to the Spiritual
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The teaching of Jesus in the Gospels
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From the “limb” to the Spirit
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Salvation!
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What is included
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Cleansing of our conscience from all guilt
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Delivery of our soul from the dominance of evil
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The undoing of all that Adam did
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The total restoration from our fallen estate
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Lifted far above principalities and powers
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Salvation crowns us with Christ forever
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The way of salvation
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The negative
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The tolerance of religion
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The intolerance of God
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“Thou shalt have no other gods before me” – <a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('Exd',20,3);">Exo 20:3</a>
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“Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one LORD” – <a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Deu',6,4);">Deuteronomy 6:4</a>
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The tolerance of liberalism
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The many roads to Heaven
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The pursuit of the ecumenical
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The intolerance of Christianity
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“I am the way...” – <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Jhn',14,6;">Jhn 14:6</a>
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“There is no other name...” – <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Act',4,12);">Act 4:12</a>
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A thousand errors can live together
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But truth must stand alone
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There is no salvation apart from Christ
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The positive - there is salvation in Christ
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His purity is greater than our depravity
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He is almighty God
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God the Father has accepted the sacrifice of Christ
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God the Father has accepted Christ as our substitute for punishment
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The judge is satisfied
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The guarantee; the resurrection
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The approach to salvation
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Confess the need
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Believe that Christ is the Saviour
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Submit to His process
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Trust Him
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Salvation Is God’s Work
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The negative
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Not by ritual
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Not by self-righteousness
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Not by good works
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Not by our own will
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The positive
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By God’s love – <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('1Jo',4,10);">1Jo 4:10</a>
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By God’s grace – <a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Eph',2,8);">Eph 2:8</a>
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By God’s will – <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Rom',9,'1-');">Rom 9</a> and <a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Rom',11,'1-');">Rom 11</a>
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The Doctrine of Sovereign Grace
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Grace is God’s blessing upon the unworthy
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The least likely from human viewpoint
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The ability to change the worst of sinners
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Salvation is all of grace from first to last
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By God’s choice before creation of the world – <a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('Eph',1,4);">Eph 1:4</a>
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By God’s will (decree) – <a id="si_11" onclick="return mV('Jhn',1,13);">Jhn 1:13</a>
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By God’s drawing work in the sinners heart
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<a id="si_12" onclick="return mV('Jhn',6,64,65);">Jhn 6:64-65</a>, <a id="si_13" onclick="return mV('Jhn',6,44);">Jhn 6:44</a>
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Lydia – <a id="si_14" onclick="return mV('Act',16,13,14);">Act 16:13-14</a>
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By the gift of faith – <a id="si_15" onclick="return mV('Eph',2,8,9);">Eph 2:8-9</a> He who gives the Gospel to believe also gives the faith to believe the Gospel
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Man left to himself is an unbeliever and will remain so
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Grace continues our believing what God initiates - He maintains what is born of self - will die of self
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The Gospel of the grace of God – <a id="si_16" onclick="return mV('Act',20,24);">Act 20:24</a>
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Worth dying for
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Worth living for
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Grace
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No goodness can commend us
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No badness can shut us out
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Grace
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Casts us entirely upon God
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Carnality is counting on self
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Spirituality is resting on the activity of God
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