slides to accompany my Sunday message: (http://torontocpc.com/2011/05/01/unpacking-salvation/)

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5. Unpacking Salvation

6. My hand hitting the lectern...

8. Choosing

9. Total Depravity

10. “I decide to do good, but I don’t really
do it; I decide not to do bad, but then
I do it anyway. My decisions, such as
they are, don’t result in actions.
Something has gone wrong deep
within me and gets the better of me
every time.”
Paul - Romans 7:17-20

11. John Calvin

12. John Calvin
God chooses us

13. John Calvin
God chooses us
Irresistible Grace

14. John Calvin
God chooses us
Irresistible Grace
The ‘Elect’

16. Election

17. Election
Unconditional Election: nothing
we can do to merit His choice

18. Election
Unconditional Election: nothing
we can do to merit His choice
God chooses those who will be
saved, and also those who will
not be saved...

20. Didn’t Jesus come to save

21. Didn’t Jesus come to save
the whole world?

22. Didn’t Jesus come to save
the whole world?
What about human free will?

23. Jacobus Arminius

24. Jacobus Arminius
“Prevenient” grace

25. Jacobus Arminius
“Prevenient” grace
We freely choose

26. Jacobus Arminius
“Prevenient” grace
We freely choose
Election has a
condition

28. Election

29. Election
Conditional Election

30. Election
Conditional Election
God chooses those who believe
Jesus in faith

31. Choosing

32. Changing
Choosing

33. Church Nursery Scripture Verse

34. “Behold, I shew you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed!”

35. Changing

36. Changing
Conversion

37. Changing
Regeneration
Conversion

38. Choosing

39. Changing
Choosing

40. Changing
Choosing
Conforming

41. Conforming

42. Conforming
Union with Christ

43. Conforming
Union with Christ
Justi cation

44. Conforming
Union with Christ
Justi cation
Sancti cation

45. Conforming
Union with Christ
Justi cation
Sancti cation
Glori cation

47. Can you lose your salvation?

48. Only by willful and deliberate
rejection of God

49. “This is the will of God, that I should
not lose even one of all those
he has given me, but that I should
raise them up at the last day.
For it is my Father’s will that all
who see his Son and believe
in him should have eternal life.”
Jesus Christ - John 6:39-40