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Muchos cristianos profesos están horrorizados por la frases "la redención particular," "la expiación limitada,” y "redención limitada." Sin embargo, todos los cristianos profesos limitan la redención. Sino que se limita tanto en su extensión (los elegidos), o en su calidad. Los que dicen que Cristo murió por todos sin excepción limitan su calidad, ya que la Biblia dice que muchos murieron y morirán en sus pecados. El alcance es limitado (a los elegidos que son en realida...
El evangelio no es forzado sobre los elegidos contra de su voluntad (Sal. 110:3). El hombre no tiene la capacidad de responder a Dios a menos que nuestras voluntades se cambian mediante la regeneración por el Espíritu Santo. Dios da la fe a los cristianos a creer y obedecer. Este cambio nos hace dispuestos a aceptar el Evangelio. Puesto que la salvación es enteramente el acto soberano y gracioso de Dios, no depende del hombre, por lo que no se puede perderlo.
La inundación de “limpieza” del perdón de Dios puede ser experimentada solamente en la medida en que una persona está completamente abrumado por el pecado y la necesidad de ser perdonado. El tema del perdón no puede ser debidamente abordado aparte del concepto bíblico del pecado, sus orígenes y sus consecuencias. Una persona no puede apreciar el perdón a menos que sepa que lo ha perdonado y de lo que ha sido perdonado. No tenemos ninguna esperanza aparte de perdón ete...
La enseñanza común se expresa con las siguientes palabras: "Jesús tenía la capacidad de pecar, pero no lo hizo.” El punto de vista de que Cristo "podría" pecado es designado por la idea de la "impecabilidad,” y el hecho de que El "no podía" pecado se expresa con el término "impecabilidad.” Jesucristo es impecable.
This pamphlet studies God’s decree in Scripture, the different views used to describe it (supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism), and the order in God’s purpose and His execution of it.
This pamphlet studies the New Testament Greek term ekklesia (called out ones, assembly, congregation, or church) and how a church is Biblically named and functions—not as a denomination.
All the debate over the inerrancy of Scripture manifests the heart trouble of religionists. Biblical Christianity alone honors God.
This study distinguishes between God-given, saving faith and human faith, and examines the Scriptures for God-given faith theologically within the eternal covenant of grace, textually as the order of salvation is revealed in the Bible, and experientially as Christians grow in love, faith, and joy.
This verse-by-verse study of John 3:1-21 examines the three views of regeneration: baptismal regeneration, faith regeneration, and Spirit regeneration.
Paul begins by showing us that we are helpless and hopeless apart from the saving work of God. God must open our eyes to our depravity before declaring the remedy beginning with Romans 3:24. NOTE: Only Volume I was completed in the series.
God is currently preparing His assembly, the church, His bride, to be ready for Christ’s return. Jesus Christ assumed human nature in order to bring Himself into reality with His covenant people, both elect Jews and elect non-Jews. The current age is a time of preparation for God’s people.
The coming of the King includes the incarnation of Jesus Christ, His mother, the King’s forerunners, Christ’s baptism, the testing in the wilderness, and the details of Joel’s and John’s baptisms and their prophecies of the King. The coming of the kingdom includes the prophecies of its coming, its definition, its approach, and its preparation from the foundation of the world.
The hope of the kingdom has its foundation in the covenants of eternity and time. This study presents the genealogy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 1 in the context of God’s covenants. The kingdom prophesied in the Old Testament is the same kingdom that is taught by Jesus Christ and the apostles in the New Testament.
This is a study of II Timothy 1:8-10. This text shows God’s order of salvation and the purpose of the gospel. The design of the gospel was not that it should be the means of giving the principle of life but that it should bring the gift that was given by the sovereign Spirit to light. Regeneration is the gift of new life. Saving faith is the fruit of that new spiritual life which responds to God’s call, and the transformed heart is called to a holy life by sanctification...
This is a study of Romans 9, and it is a companion book to God’s Longsuffering is Salvation (which is a study of 2 Peter 3:9). Both are primarily a discussion of God’s election of some to salvation, “vessels of mercy,” and His passing by others, “vessels of wrath.”
This is a study of 2 Peter 3:9, and a companion book to The Most Neglected Chapter In The Bible (Romans 9). Both are primarily a discussion of God’s election of some to salvation and His passing by others. “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
The average professing Christian says the word “justify” means to make one righteous before God. If that is true, does a person’s faith or his works make him righteous before God? This study shows what saving faith is not, what saving faith is, and that justification before God is by Christ’s righteousness imputed to Christians. Neither faith nor works make a person righteous before God. Although God, faith, and works all declare the elect to be righteous, the declaratio...
With the degeneration of God’s first institution, the home, society in general degenerates accordingly. The greatest contributor to a deteriorating society is the departure from God’s teaching concerning the home. This study takes us through the opening chapters of Genesis and traces the role of men and women in the home through the Bible. God’s original teaching on any subject must never be ignored. Therefore, man and woman in the institution of marriage for life was and is God’s standard.
Since time presently coexists with eternity, man who is a creature of time has difficulty differentiating between them. Man’s short time on earth bears a never ending relationship to eternity. Time, as we know it, will end someday, but God will usher in a New Heaven and New Earth, and believers will have resurrected, immortal bodies. There, we will worship and serve God forever, enjoying an “eternal weight of glory.”
The seven churches represent local churches of every age. God commanded, condemned, warned, rebuked, and gave promises to the seven churches. The call to each of the seven churches is to hear. Seven lessons should be learned from the seven churches. Overcomers in each of the churches are comforted by the triune God because of their position in Christ.