FAITH: A Gift of Gods Grace

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FAITH A Gift of Gods Grace

• Exploring the Truths
• and Significance of
• Ephesians 28-10

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How We Got Here

• Chosen
• Redeemed
• Plan of Redemption Revealed
• Sealed by the Spirit
• Made the Inheritance of God
• Were Dead in Trespasses and Sin
• Made Alive with Christ
• Destined for the Ages of His Kindness

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All is a Gift of Grace

• 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith
  and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of
  God

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No One May Boast in Themselves

• 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may
  boast.

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Created in Christ for Good Works

• 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ
  Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand so that we would walk in them.

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Guarding against mere Mental Assent

• Titus 211-14 For the grace of God has appeared,
  bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to
  deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live
  sensibly, righteously and godly in the present
  age, looking for the blessed hope and the
  appearing of the glory of our great God and
  Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to
  redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify
  for Himself a people for His own possession,
  zealous for good deeds.

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A Living Faith is a Saving Faith

• James 214-17 What use is it, my brethren, if
  someone says he has faith but he has no works?
  Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister
  is without clothing and in need of daily food,
  and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be
  warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give
  them what is necessary for their body, what use
  is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is
  dead, being by itself.

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Why Faith is Such a Glorious Gift

• A Living Faith is Preserved by God
• 1 Peter 13-5 Blessed be the God and Father of
  our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great
  mercy has caused us to be born again to a living
  hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
  from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is
  imperishable and undefiled and will not fade
  away, reserved in heaven for you, who are
  protected by the power of God through faith for a
  salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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Why Faith is Such a Glorious Gift

• A Living Faith Produces
• Galatians 56 For in Christ Jesus neither
  circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything,
  but faith working through love.

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Cling to Compatibalism

• Definition of Compatibalism
• Two Unassailable Truths
• 1) God is Sovereign
• 2) Humans are morally responsible beings and are
  free to choose what they want

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Relating Compatibalism to Faith

• A Living Faith is Given by God
• A Living Faith is Exercised by Humans

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Application Work out Your Salvation in Fear and
Trembling

• PHI 16 For I am confident of this very thing,
  that He who began a good work in you will perfect
  it until the day of Christ Jesus.
• PHI 212-13So then, my beloved, just as you have
  always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but
  now much more in my absence, work out your
  salvation with fear and trembling for it is God
  who is at work in you, both to will and to work
  for His good pleasure.