FOUNDATIONS Equipping the Church to know what the Bible ______________, so we can live what the Bible __________________. Our four core values of discipleship: ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Ordo Salutis: Election, Calling, Regeneration, Conversion, Justification & Adoption, Sanctification, Perseverance, Death & Glorification. Sanctification is a _________________ work of God and man that makes us more and more _________________ from sin and more and more like _________________ in our actual lives. Chapter 24, Perseverance of the Saints Definition: all those who are ____________ ____________ ____________ will be kept by God’s power and will persevere until the end of their lives. Only those who ____________ until the end have been truly born again. “once saved, always saved” “______________ through ______________” Scriptural evidence 1. The promise of ____________ (John 6:38-40; John 10:2729; John 5:24) 2. The promise of the ____________ ____________ (Ephesians 1:13-14) 3. The promise in ________________ (John 8:31; Colossians 1:22-23) The purpose is never to make those who are presently trusting in Christ ____________ that sometime in the future they might fall away. The purpose is always to ____________ those who are thinking of falling away or have fallen away that if they do, this is a strong indication that they were never ____________ in the first place.
Those who finally fall away may give ________________ signs of conversion. a. ________________ (Matthew 26:22; John 6:64, 70) b. ________________ ________________ (disguised as servants of righteousness) (Galatians 2:4; 2 Corinthians 11:15, 26) c. “____ ________ ________ ______” (Matthew 7:21-23) d. “they have no ________________ in themselves, but ________________ for a while” (Mark 4:5-6, 16-17) e. ________________ in the ______________ (John 15:1-7) f. Were they ever ________________ born again? (Hebrews 6:4-6) What can give a believer assurance? 1. Do I have a ________________ trust in Christ for salvation? (Colossians 1:23; Hebrews 6:12; John 3:16) 2. Is there ____________ of a regeneration work of the Holy Spirit in my life? a. Is there a subjective ________________ of the Holy Spirit bearing witness that we are God’s children? (Romans 8:15-16; 1 John 4:13) b. Is there evidence of the ___________ of the Spirit in our lives? (Galatians 5:22-23) c. Is there evidence of believing and accepting the sound ________________ of the church? (1 John 2:23-24; 1 John 4:6) d. Is there evidence of a present ________________ with Christ? (John 15:4,7) e. Is there evidence of ________________ to God’s ________________? (1 John 2:4-6; 1 John 3:14, 17; James 2:17-18) 3. Do I see a ____________-________________ pattern of _______________ in my Christian life? (2 Peter 1:5-7; 10)