The Five Points of Calvinism

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The Five Points of Calvinism 5

• Once-Saved-Always-Saved

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Position Stated

• The Westminster Confession of Faith states,
• "They whom God hath accepted in his Beloved,
  effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit,
  can neither totally nor finally fall away from
  the state of grace but shall certainly persevere
  therein to the end, and be eternally saved.

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Position Stated

• The Westminster Confession of Faith states,
• "This perseverance of the saints depends not upon
  their free will, but upon the immutability of the
  decree of election, flowing from the free and
  unchangeable love of God the Father, upon the
  efficacy of the merits and intercession of Jesus
  Christ, the abiding of the Spirit and of the seed
  of God within them, and the nature of the
  covenant of grace from all which ariseth, also,
  the certainty and infallibility thereof." (Chap.
  XIX, Sect. 1)

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No Way To Be Lost Again

• Sam Morris, a Baptist preacher, adds,
• "All the prayers a man may pray, all the Bibles
  he may read, all the churches he may belong to,
  all the services he may attend, all the sermons
  he may practice, all the debts he may pay, all
  the ordinances he may observe, all the laws he
  may keep, all the benevolent acts he may perform
  will not make his soul one whit safer and
• all the sins he may commit, from idolatry to
  murder, will not make his soul in any more
  danger.The way a man lives has nothing whatever
  to do with the salvation of his soul." (Do a
  Christian's Sins Damn His Soul?)

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Perseverance of the Saints
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• Since man has no part in his salvation, so it is
  the rest of his life
• Once saved, always
  saved
• Impossibility of apostasy

Galatians 54 1 Corinthians
1012 1 Corinthians 927
2 Peter 15-11
Jude 21, 24 Matthew 1022
Revelation 210
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Once Saved, Not Always Saved

• You have become estranged from Christ, you who
  attempt to be justified by law you have fallen
  from grace (Galatians 54).

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Can fall from grace (Gal. 54)
Can depart in unbelief (Heb. 312)
Once sanctified fear judgment (Heb. 1023-29)
Can shipwreck faith (1 Tim. 119)
The Bible Says
Can err danger of death (Jas. 519-20)
Peter sinned condemned (Gal. 211)
Simon sinned lost (Acts 820-22)
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A Scriptural Contrast

• The Scriptures teach salvation involves many
  various aspects.
• Yet, those various things that save us, can also
  be rejected by us.
• For example
• we are saved by faith (Romans 51).
• Yet, some shall depart from the faith (1
  Timothy 41).
• Many other comparisons can be made, like this
  one, including

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A Scriptural Contrast

• For by grace you have been saved through faith,
  and that not of yourselves it is the gift of
  God, not of works, lest anyone should boast
  (Ephesians 28,9).
• For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is
  seen is not hope for why does one still hope for
  what he sees? (Romans 824,25).

• You have become estranged from Christ, you who
  attempt to be justified by law you have fallen
  from grace (Galatians 54).
• you, who once were alienated and enemies in
  your mind by wicked works, yet now He has
  reconciledif indeed you continue in the faith,
  grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away
  from the hope of the gospel which you heard
  (Col. 121-23).

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The Direct Statements of Scripture

• Hebrews 312 says,
• Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an
  evil heart of unbelief in departing from the
  living God.
• John 151-6,
• I am the true vine, and My Father is the
  vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not
  bear fruit He takes away and every branch that
  bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more
  fruit. You are already clean because of the word
  which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I
  in youI am the vine, you are the branches. He
  who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit
  for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone
  does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch
  and is withered and they gather them and throw
  them into the fire, and they are burned.

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Calvinism Perseverance of the Saints

• Crystal Clear Passages
• For if, after they have escaped the pollutions
  of the world through the knowledge of the Lord
  and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
  in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for
  them than the beginning. For it would have been
  better for them not to have known the way of
  righteousness, than having known it, to turn from
  the holy commandment delivered to them. But it
  has happened to them according to the true
  proverb "A dog returns to his own vomit," and,
  "a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the
  mire." (2 Peter 220-22)

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A SYSTEM OF INFIDELITY
CALVINISM
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CONCLUSION
NOT Total Depravity, But Total Accountability!
NOT Unconditional Election, But Conditional!
NOT Limited Atonement, But Available To All!
NOT Irresistible Grace, But Resistible!
NOT Pers. Of Saints, But We Must Persevere!
God Has Done What We Could Not Now We
Must Do What We Can