2. Here are three examples of free will for you to go through
today .
1. We have free will to decide who we will serve.
2. We have free will to decide if we will obey or disobey.
3. We have free will to decide between life or death.
3.
4. 1. We have free will to decide who we will serve.
Joshua 24:14-15
Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw
away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates
River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord
seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day
whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served
beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose
land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will
serve the Lord”.
5. Matthew 6:24 NIV
““No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the
one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one
and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and
money.”
6. 2. We have free will to decide if we will obey or
disobey.
Deuteronomy 28:1-2
“If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all
his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set
you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will
come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your
God”.
7. Deuteronomy 28:15
“However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do
not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am
giving you today, all these curses will come on you and
overtake you”.
8. 3. We have free will to decide between life or
death.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20
“This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against
you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and
curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may
live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his
voice, and hold fast to him.
9. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in
the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob”.
10. Romans 6:20-23 NIV
“When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control
of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from
the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in
death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have
become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness,
and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but
the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
11. THE “STANDARD” THEOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVES
OF ARMINIANISM
1. The salvation or ultimate condemnation of a
person is “conditioned” by or is the result of the
God-given faith or unbelief of that person;
12. Salvation is available for every person (Luke 19:10; John 3:16;
Romans 10:11–13; Hebrews 2:9; 2 Peter 3:9; Revelation 22:17).
Luke 19:9-10 NIV
”Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house,
because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of
Man came to seek and to save the lost.”“
13. John 3:16-18 NIV
”For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does
not believe stands condemned already because they have not
believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.“
14. Romans 10:10-13 NIV
”For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified,
and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are
saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will
never be put to shame.” For there is no difference between Jew
and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all
who call on him, for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the
Lord will be saved.”“
15. 2. The divinely provided atonement is sufficient
for all persons but is applied only to those who trust
in Christ. Thus it is limited to believers, not by God
but by the person who trusts or fails to trust;
16. Salvation is received and assured through faith (Galatians 2:20–
21; Hebrews 10:38; 1 Peter 1:5).
Galatians 2:19-21 NIV
”“For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for
God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but
Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith
in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do
not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be
gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”“
17. Hebrews 10:37-39 NIV
”For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and
will not delay.” And, “But my righteous one will live by faith.
And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.” But we
do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but
to those who have faith and are saved.“
18. 3. No person can save himself or herself.
Without the help of the Holy Spirit, no one can
respond to God’s will that all be saved;
19. Faith is not a achieve due to your own works.
Consider
Ephesians 2:8-10: “For by grace you have been
saved through faith. And this is not your own doing;
it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no
one may boast.
20. Romans 9:16-18 NIV
”It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or
effort, but on God’s mercy. For Scripture says to
Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that
I might display my power in you and that my name
might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Therefore
God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy,
and he hardens whom he wants to harden.“
21. 4. God’s grace, applied by the Holy Spirit, is the
sole source of good and of human salvation, yet this
grace may be resisted; and
22. Acts 7:51-53 NIV
”“You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still
uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always
resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your ancestors
did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the
coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed
and murdered him— you who have received the law that was
given through angels but have not obeyed it.”“
23. 5. God’s grace in the life of the believer enables
resistance of sin and Christ will keep them from
falling. Whether one who has experienced this grace
can ultimately forsake God “must be more
particularly determined.”
24. The believer’s salvation may be forfeited or abandoned by
willfully turning away from Christ (1 Timothy 4:1; 5:12, 15;
Hebrews 6:4–6, 10:26–27, 38; 2 Peter 2:20; 1 John 5:16).
1 Timothy 4:1-2 NIV
”The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon
the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by
demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars,
whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.“
