Fall Conference with Andrew Rappaport – October 12-14, 2018
We are excited to announce Andrew Rappaport from Striving for Eternity Ministries for a fall conference October 12-14. Andrew is the author of What Do We Believe?, and What Do They Believe? Andrew is a gifted evangelist and teacher and he will be teaching...
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Conclusion I hope you see now why this doctrine of God's sovereignty is so important. The doctrine of the sovereignty of God in salvation, the doctrine of the bondage of the human will, it's subjection in its unregenerate state to the power of sin and its...
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Regeneration and the Freedom of the Human Will So what does all this mean for the doctrine of the human will? Do people have free will or do they not? The testimony of Scripture is this: people have the freedom to do as they please, and God exercises...
read moreThe Reformation – Bondage of the Will (Part 5)
God has caused us to be born again He has caused us to be born again. Now, understand this - He has caused it, as He causes all things! The Scripture is explicit and unequivocal on the sovereignty of God in all things. Psalm 136:5, "Whatever the Lord...
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God has caused us to be born again He has caused us to be born again. God has caused this - this was caused by God, not by the human will. Or do you have an Arminian Bible in your hands today - one that says, "Blessed be you who according to your own...
read moreThe Reformation – Bondage of the Will (Part 3)
God has caused us to born again We can mean nothing more or less by the term "will" than the entire spiritual aspect of a human being. The human will is the human spirit, and that will, was dead in trespasses and sins, unable to respond to the gospel,...
read moreThe Reformation – Bondage of the Will (Part 2)
A Brief Outline In this article, we're going to see the Biblical, compatibilist view of the human will and the sovereignty of God in salvation and some implications of that truth by briefly looking at 1 Peter 1:3. We'll then look at a competing view of...
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