The North Coast Men's Bible Study will be taking a week off for Thanksgiving.
No meeting November 23, 2011.
From everyone on the leadership team - Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Romans - Chapter 8 (part 3)
Romans 8:31-39
Craig continued this week with the final look at Chapter 8. Below is all his notes again. Feel free to comment or give us feedback. As we continue getting deeper into Romans, the power of the Holy Spirit and God's grace and love becomes more and more evident.
Craig continued this week with the final look at Chapter 8. Below is all his notes again. Feel free to comment or give us feedback. As we continue getting deeper into Romans, the power of the Holy Spirit and God's grace and love becomes more and more evident.
ROMANS 8 PART III
OUR ETERNAL SECURITY – CAN YOU LOSE YOURS?
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
CAN YOU LOSE YOUR SALVATION? IF IT WAS BASED ON YOU – CERTAINLY!
28 And we know (Do you know?) that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[i] have been called according to his purpose. Not for everybody! God asks us every day; “Do you trust me?”
29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
Philippians 3:21 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
30 And those he predestined, he also called; (Jesus said; “My sheep hear my voice and they follow Me” Jn 10:27-30) those he called, he also justified; (declared righteous) those he justified, he also glorified (become conformed to His son).
Ephesians 1:5, 11 5 he[a] predestined us for adoption to sonship[b] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 11 In him we were also chosen,[a] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
More Than Conquerors CAN OPPOSITION DEFEAT THE CHRISTIAN?
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (THE FIX IS IN!)
Psalm 118:6 6 The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
WILL WE HAVE THE RESOURCES?
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Romans 5:8 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
WILL OUR FAILURES REVERSE OUR JUSTIFICATION?
33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
Isaiah 50:8, 9 8 He who vindicates me is near. Who then will bring charges against me? Let us face each other! Who is my accuser? Let him confront me! 9 It is the Sovereign LORD who helps me. Who will condemn me? They will all wear out like a garment; the moths will eat them up.
CAN ANYONE CONDEM US FOR ANY REASON?
34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Hebrews 7:25 25 Therefore he is able to save completely[a] those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. Hebrews 9:24 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. 1John 2:1 1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
WHAT KIND OF ASSURANCE CAN WE HAVE OF VICTORY?
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? (Paul experienced all of these)
36 As it is written:
Psalms 44:22 22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. 2 Corinthians 4:11 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
1 Corinthians 15:57 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
HIS FINAL GUARANTEE
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ephesians 1:21 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
Chapter 8 opens with a guarantee of “No condemnation”, and ends with a guarantee of no separation!
Can a man lose his salvation? Yes! If it depends on him:
· The Armenian denies that the true child of God is eternally secure. (You must persevere to the end or lose it.)
· The Calvinist insists that, if he does not persevere in holiness, he was never regenerated in the first place. (You were predestined but you won’t find out until the end.)
The Basis of our Eternal Security
1. Upon His Sovereign Purpose
Eternal purpose declared: Ephesians 1:11-12 11 In him we were also chosen,[a] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
Eternal purpose declared: Ephesians 1:11-12 11 In him we were also chosen,[a] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
2. Upon His Solemn Promise
Our salvation depends upon His promise, and not our faithfulness: Romans 4:16 16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. (Our part is 0, just to accept the gift!) Romans 4:23-24 23 The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. (Believe in Christ and you shall be saved!)
Our salvation depends upon His promise, and not our faithfulness: Romans 4:16 16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. (Our part is 0, just to accept the gift!) Romans 4:23-24 23 The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. (Believe in Christ and you shall be saved!)
3. Upon His Infinite Power
He is free to save us. Christ’s death has rendered God free to save us in spite of moral imperfection. Our eternal security does not depend upon our moral worthiness. Christ is the propitiation for our sins. (1Jn 2:2) He has purposed to keep us saved: John 6:37-40 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
He is free to save us. Christ’s death has rendered God free to save us in spite of moral imperfection. Our eternal security does not depend upon our moral worthiness. Christ is the propitiation for our sins. (1Jn 2:2) He has purposed to keep us saved: John 6:37-40 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
John 17
Jesus Prays to Be Glorified
1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
6 “I have revealed you[a] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of[b] your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by[c] that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
13 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by[d] the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
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