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| Share and describe The Three Wills of God according to R.C. Sproul. |
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1. Decreed Will: sovereign will; will always come to pass.
2. Preceptive Will: commands and precepts of God.
3. Dispositional Will: emotion of God; what pleases God and causes Him to be delighted. |
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| "Election is an act of God before creation in which he chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of his sovereign good pleasure." |
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| Predestination is God's sovereign decision before the foundation of the world to elect some of his creation for adoption as his children and to create and select some for the purpose of reprobation. |
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| "God, looking into the future, thought of certain people in saving relationship to himself, and in that sense he 'knew them' long ago." |
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| "Effective calling is an act of God the Father, speaking through the human proclamation of the gospel, in which he summons people to himself in such a way that they respond in saving faith." |
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| The Gospel call, also called an external calling or general calling, is the offering of the message of the Gospel to all people, even to those who will not accept it. |
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| "Regeneration is a secret act of God in which he imparts new spiritual life into us. This is sometimes called 'being born again.'" |
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| The three areas of newness that God opens in each person. |
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1. The Understanding
2. The Affections
3. The Will |
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| "Conversion is our willing response to the Gospel call, in which we sincerely repent of sins and place our trust in Christ for salvation." |
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| "And inward humbling that brings about outward change." ~Thomas Watson |
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| Trust and confidence in the Person and work of Jesus Christ, to do for us what we were hopeless and helpless to do for ourselves. By faith, we have been brought into right standing with God - meaning that through Christ, we are right with God today and right with God forever! |
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| Two major concerns of a person who comes to Christ |
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Emotions: guilt and peace
Concerns: forgiveness and eternal life |
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| "Justification is an instantaneous legal act of God in which he (1) thinks of our sins as forgiven and Christ's righteousness as belonging to us, and (2) declares us to be righteous in his sight." |
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| What is the opposite of justification? |
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| "Justification is an instantaneous legal act of God in which he (1) thinks of our sins as forgiven and Christ's righteousness as belonging to us, and (2) declares us to be righteous in his sight." |
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| Write the difference between imputation and impartation. |
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Partial Answer:
Imputation: stands outside of you
Impartation: is imparted; goes inside of you |
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| "Sanctification is the progressive work of God and man that makes us more and more free from sin and like Christ in our actual lives." |
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| God Himself has rescued us and is rescuing us; has renewed us and is renewing us, through the Person and work of Jesus Christ on our behalf. |
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| A learner, who by faith, has apprehended the gospel in such a way that it changes her entire life! |
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| Our response to the work of sanctification; yielding; surrender. |
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| Perseverance of the Saints |
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| The perserverence of the the sains means that all those who are truly born again will be kept by God's power and will perservere as Christians until the end of their lives, and that only those who perservere until the end have been truly born again." |
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| What doctrine is someone usually weak in understanding if they don’t believe in “once saved always saved”" |
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| The Doctrine of Atonement |
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| What doctrine is someone usually weak in understanding if they don’t believe in “once saved always saved”" |
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| The Doctrine of Atonement |
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| "The atonement is the work Christ did in his life and death to earn our salvation." |
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| "Glorification is the final step in the application of redemption. It will happen when Christ returns and raises from the death the bodies of all believers for all time who have died, and reunites them with their souls, and changes the bodies of all believers who remain alive, thereby giving all believers at the same time perfect resurrection bodies like his own." |
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| What is the ultimate experience God allows us to experience before we receive all the benefits of salvation earned for us? |
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