1. Week three Sin, 3:9-20 Salvation, 3:21-31 Trying, 4:1-17 Trusting, 4:18-25 2 credithours

2. Session Overview How does God see the world? I. How to Handle Humanity, 3:9-20 How does God get us saved? I. Trying for Salvation, 1-17 II. Trusting for Salvation, 18-25 2 credit hours

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4. Point 2. Not all people are as bad as they could be, but all people are as bad off as they could be

5. Point 3. The various experiences of life that lost men and women go through are the attempts of God to get their attention long enough to get them to listen to the gospel one time.

6. Point 4. The final end of mankind is proof positive we have a disease.

7. Point 5. It is because all the world is guilty that every sinner must come individually and surrender to Jesus Christ or else never get to heaven.

8. Point 6. All legalism does is give you a standard that brings out the carnality that is in you.

9. Thesis: There is no way man can attain righteousness with God by starting from himself.

10. Point 1. The one sinpeople go to Hell for is rejecting the righteousness of God.

11. Definition: Justification is righteousness provided by means of a legal declaration.

12. Definition: Redemption is the payment of the price required to set a prisoner free from sin.

13. Definition: The word propitiation means a payment that makes God pity us because it satisfies his offended justice.

14. Point 2. God was satisfied by the divine blood of the Son of God, not just by his death.

15. Point 3. When God dealt with sin publicly he dealt with it permanently.

16. Point 4. In order to be saved, you have to let God select what satisfies him.

17. Definition: The word remission literally means to send back or send away.

18. Definition: Forbearance is God’s self-restraint in the Old Testament at punishing sin because of his foreknowledge of the cross.

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22. Definition: Reconciliation means to bring two parties back into union.

23. The Scepter of Righteousness 1. Salvation: deliverance to get God's health 2. Redemption: purchasing to get God's freedom 3. Reconciliation: uniting to get God's fellowship 4. Propitiation: satisfying to get God's mercy 5. Expiation: purging to get God's cleansing 6. Sanctification: setting apart to get God's holiness 7. Imputation: accounting or reckoning to get God's merit 8. Justification: declaring righteous to get God's life

24. Thesis: Under the old dispensation somebody could fake the works if they did not have the faith, but God closed that loophole with grace.

26. Justification by works is when God deals with you in time (not eternally), so men see what you do, and what you do before men demonstrates your relationship to God.P a u l J a m e s

27. Point 1. Justification by works is for the benefit of men, not the benefit of God.

28. Point 2. Salvation in any dispensation is always the same, it is always by faith; salvation is always linked to believing what God says enough to do it.

29. Point 3. Work gives you the right to demand, and God will never be put in a position where man can demand anything of him.

30. If I were asked, “Why is a man damned?” I should answer as an Arminian answers, “He destroys himself.” I should not dare to lay man’s ruin at the door of divine sovereignty. On the other hand, if I were asked, “Why is a man saved?” I could only give the Calvinistic answer, “He is saved through the sovereign grace of God, and not at all of himself.” My God is not a mere omnipotent being, who can rule dead materialism; but he can rule free agents, leaving them absolutely free, and yet effecting all his purposes with them. God’s eternal purposes are accomplished, and yet men remain responsible free agents both in their beginning and in their ending. —C.H. Spurgeon 8/27/2009

31. Point 4. God takes the posture of God, but he does it from a position of love and purpose.

32. Definition: Counted (or reckon) means to credit to your account; to take an inventory and calculate.

33. Point 5. God forgave David on the basis of his faith in God, not on the basis of what he could offer.

34. Point 6. It is possible to have the internal reality without the external sign.

36. Isaac is a type of the Son, needing a bride

38. Four stages in Abraham's faith 1. Not weak in faith, v 19 (Gen 12) 2. Not staggering at faith, v 20 (Gen 13) 3. Strong in faith, v 20 (Gen 17) 4. Fully persuaded, v 21 (Gen 22)

39. Definition: Faith is being persuaded of God’s promise so as to usher in God’s performance.

40. Point 7. The perfection of the object of our faith makes up for any imperfection in the believer.

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