SOTERIOLOGY II LDP 2014-2015. Calling Greg Breazeale

SOTERIOLOGY IISOTERIOLOGY IILDP 2014-2015

CallingCallingGreg Breazeale

Ordo Salutis (Order of Salvation)Ordo Salutis (Order of Salvation)

× It is a series of events in time by which God applies to us to the benefits of Christ’s work (life, death, resurrection).

× Election, Calling, Regeneration, Conversion, Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, Perseverance, Glorification

General CallGeneral Call

× God’s call through a human witness.

General CallGeneral Call× Isaiah 45:22 "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends

of the earth." × Isaiah 55:1, "Everyone who thirsts, come to the

waters." × Matthew 11:28, "Come unto me, all who are weary

and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." × John 7:37, "If any man is thirsty, let him come to

me." × Revelation 22:17 "Let the one who is thirsty come."

Effectual CallingEffectual Calling

× God sovereignly summons the elect into fellowship with Himself.

Effectual CallingEffectual Calling

× 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. . . 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. (John 6:44, 37)

× Acts 16:14 “The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.”

Effectual CallingEffectual Calling× And those whom he predestined he also

called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. (Romans 8:29-30)

× To this he called you, through our gospel” (2 Thess. 2:14).

Gospel Call and Effectual CallGospel Call and Effectual Call

Gospel Call

•Comes through human speech

•Goes out to all

•Often rejected

•External

Effectual Call

•Comes through divine speech

•Goes out to elect

•Always effective (willing response)

•Internal

C.S LewisC.S Lewis

× I was the deer. He was the hunter. He stalked me like a redskin, took unerring aim, and fired. —“The Seeing Eye”

Discussion Questions Discussion Questions 

× Discuss the differences between the general call and the effectual call. How does this impact evangelism?

RegenerationRegenerationGreg Breazeale

RegenerationRegeneration

× God sovereignly imparts new life in us.

× First effect of effectual calling

RegenerationRegeneration

John 1:13 ×"born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God,"

John 3:3×"Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

RegenerationRegeneration

Ephesians 2:4-5

× “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—”

RegenerationRegeneration

× Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God.” (1 John 5:1)

× “He has caused us to be born again to a living hope . . .” (1 Peter 1:3)

× “Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth. . .” (James 1:18)

Discussion Questions Discussion Questions 

× Why do you think (or not think) that regeneration occurs before conversion; that is, before we believe and repent?

- Support your answer from Scripture. 

ConversionConversionJon Dansby

ConversionConversion

× The change of the new believer’s way of thinking and life. It's a turn away from sin in repentance and toward Jesus in faith. True repentance and true faith ALWAYS go together.

RepentanceRepentance

× A redirection of the human mind, heart, and will. A purposeful decision to forsake all unrighteousness and pursue righteousness instead.

1 Thess 1:9

× "...you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God"

RepentanceRepentance

× Repentance is fundamental to the gospel.

Matthew 4:17

× “From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

RepentanceRepentance

× Repentance naturally produces change

Matthew 3:7–8

× 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

RepentanceRepentance

× Repentance is painful because of love for God

2 Corinthians 7:10

× For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Psalm 51:4

× Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

RepentanceRepentance

× Repentance is a gift of God’s grace

Acts 11:18

× 18 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

2 Timothy 2:24–26

× 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

FaithFaith

× An understanding, assent, and willing trust in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus to save you from your sins and bring you to God.

FaithFaith

× Faith alone justifies and places one in Christ. Romans 5:1

× Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 4:2–3

× 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

Colossians 2:12,10

× …and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority…having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

FaithFaith

× Faith, like repentance, is also a gift

John 6:44

× “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.”

× Deut 29:4; 2 Chron 30:10-12; Matt 16:17; John 6:44,65; Acts 18:27; Eph 2:8-9; Phil 1:29; Heb 12:2; 1 Cor 1:30; 1 Cor 3:7

FaithFaith

× True faith is a working faith. James 2:14–17

× 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

James 2:21–22

× 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;

FaithFaith× True endures to the end, though it will waver

Romans 8:29

× “and the golden chain of salvation”

Colossians 1:22–23

× [He has reconciled you to present you holy and blameless…] if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Mark 9:23–24

× 23 And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can! All things are possible for one who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

Discussion QuestionsDiscussion Questions× How would you describe, in your own words,

the difference between "faith" and “saving faith?"

× Why would someone repent falsely? How can you know that you have repented biblically?

JustificationJustificationJon Dansby

Justification Justification

Romans 3:26 …so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

• Mercy• Grace• Justice

Romans 3:21-26Romans 3:21-2621 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

4 Features of Biblical Justification4 Features of Biblical Justification

•It is a gift of God, without internal cause, by grace

•It is by blood – substitution

•It is by faith

•It is by commercial transaction

Romans 4:3Romans 4:3

•For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

Discussion QuestionsDiscussion Questions

× What does the doctrine of justification say about God's disposition toward us when we sin (in the future)?

× So, if we are given Christ's righteousness, why do we attempt to live rightly? Why not just sin?

AdoptionAdoptionMatt Blackwell

Adoption Adoption

Galatians 3:26 

× "You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."

Galatians 4:6 

× "Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba Father.’”

Ephesians 1:4-5

× “In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ”

Adoption Adoption

×Adoption is a legal act whereby believers are made legally adopted children of their creator God.

Adoption Adoption

Galatians 3:26 

× "You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."

Galatians 4:6 

× "Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba Father.’”

Ephesians 1:4-5

× “In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ”

Adoption Adoption

Galatians 4:1-7

× I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.”

Adoption Adoption

Romans 8:13-17

× For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.”

Discussion QuestionsDiscussion Questions× Why do you think it’s easier for some people

to view God as ‘King’ or ‘Judge’ rather than ‘Father’?

× Summarize how our relationship with God would change if we more fully embraced the characterization of our salvation as adoption.

SanctificationSanctificationMatt Blackwell

SanctificationSanctification

× Setting apart of a person to righteousness

× God makes us more and more like Jesus

× Positional and Progressive

Positional Sanctification (Sets us apart for Himself and His kingdom)Positional Sanctification (Sets us apart for Himself and His kingdom)Colossians 1:13

דFor He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the Kingdom of His beloved Son.”

1 Corinthians 1:2

×"To the church, which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified."

Positional Sanctification (Sets us apart for Himself and His kingdom)Positional Sanctification (Sets us apart for Himself and His kingdom)

1 Corinthians 6:11

×"Such were some of you but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus."

Progressive Sanctification (makes us more and more like Christ)Progressive Sanctification (makes us more and more like Christ)

1 Thessalonians 4:3×"This is the will of God, your sanctification."

Phil 2:12-13×work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Progressive Sanctification (makes us more and more like Christ)Progressive Sanctification (makes us more and more like Christ)Romans 6:3-6דDo you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.”

Progressive Sanctification (makes us more and more like Christ)Progressive Sanctification (makes us more and more like Christ)

Romans 6:11-13דSo you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.”

Discussion QuestionsDiscussion Questions× From Romans 6, which do you struggle with

the most, knowing who you are in Christ, considering it done or presenting yourself to God? 

× How do we balance our position in Christ with our continual struggle with sin?  

PerseverancePerseveranceChad Kincer

PerseverancePerseverance× We are kept by God’s power and we endure

to the end.

× How those who are truly believers are kept by God’s power and will endure as Christians to the end of their lives. It is the evidence of making it to the end that is the sign that someone is truly born again.

PerseverancePerseverance

Jude 3, 21

×To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ . . . keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

PerseverancePerseverance

John 10:26-29

“No one shall snatch them out of my hand.”Romans 8:28-30

"Whom he justified, he glorified.”2 Peter 1:10

 “be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election”

PerseveranceWork and will to kill your sin, and do it with fear and trembling,

because God Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, Redeemer, Justifier, Sustainer, Father, Lover is so close to you that your working and willing are his working and willing. Tremble at this breathtaking thought. God Almighty is in you. God is the one in you willing. God is the one in you working. Your “continuous, sustained, strenuous” effort is not only being carried out in the very presence of an all-holy God, but is the very continuous, sustained, strenuous effort of God himself. You are not waiting for a miracle. You are acting a miracle. Your action is God’s action in fighting your sin. Your willing is God’s willing.

-John Piper

Discussion QuestionsDiscussion Questions× Discuss the tension between being kept by

God and working out your salvation?

Death/GlorificationDeath/GlorificationChad Kincer

GlorificationGlorification

× The final step in God’s redemptive work of the believer. It will happen when Christ returns and grants all believers from all time, living and dead, perfect resurrection bodies like his own, powered perfectly by the Spirit of God.

GlorificationGlorification

1 John 3:2

× "When we see him we will be like him for we will see him as he is."

GlorificationGlorification

Romans 8:29

× “those whom He justified, He also glorified.”

HomeworkHomework• Bible Reading Plan and Scripture Memory

• Read Systematic Theology, Chapter 16

• Providence Study Guide