1. The document covers many topics related to theology and faith including the types of Abraham, Isaac, and Daniel; the four stages of Abraham's faith; definitions of faith and hope; and the results of justification including peace, place, prospect, patience, proof, passion, power, protection, priest, preservation, portion, and propitiation. 2. It also discusses the nature and effects of sin, how sin entered the world through Adam, and how Christ's righteousness can be passed on to believers. 3. The conclusion states that Christians don't properly serve God because they don't appreciate what happened on Calvary.

1. Part One Trying, 4:1-17 Trusting, 4:18-25 2 credithours

2. Point 6. It is possible to have the internal reality without the external sign.

4. Isaac is a type of the Son, needing a bride

6. Three Elements to Faith 2 credit hours

7. Four stages in Abraham's faith 1. Not weak in faith, v 19 (Gen 12) 2. Not staggering at faith, v 20 (Gen 13) 3. Strong in faith, v 20 (Gen 17) 4. Fully persuaded, v 21 (Gen 22)

8. Definition: Faith is being persuaded of God’s promise so as to usher in God’s performance.

9. Point 7. The perfection of the object of our faith makes up for any imperfection in the believer.

10. Part Two Justification, 5:1-11 Propitiation, 5:12-21 2 credithours

11. What is Therefore There For?

12. Definition: Peace with God defines my status in front of God.

13. Definition: Peace with God defines my status in front of God. Thepeace of God refers to a tranquility within.

14. Thesis: If a person does not have peace with God he always has to find substitutes for the peace of God.

15. Point 1. As I walk with the God I am at peace with, he gives me his peace in the midst of my circumstances, so the peace of God gives me the everyday experience of peace with God.

16. Point 2. The peace that passes understanding comes when I take my judicial relationship of peace with God and walk in intimate fellowship with him.

17. Point 3. We have a future because we know God is going to demonstrate his glory using us.

18. Results of Justification 1. Peace (1) 2. Place (2) 3. Prospect (2)

19. Our focus is not on Christ when our affection is not on things above. Point 4.

20. Results of Justification 1. Peace (1) 2. Place (2) 3. Prospect (2) 4. Patience (3)

21. Point 5. The reason your wind and waves can be called peace, is because they are all falling providentially in the program of God, and what you have to do to see that is exercise patience.

22. Results of Justification 1. Peace (1) 2. Place (2) 3. Prospect (2) 4. Patience (3) 5. Proof (4)

23. Point 6. Afflictions are God’s method to give you maturity and enable you to minister.

26. Results of Justification 1. Peace (1) 2. Place (2) 3. Prospect (2) 4. Patience (3) 5. Proof (4) 6. Passion (5)

27. Point 8. God will not give you tribulation leading to hope and not let you know he loves you.

28. Results of Justification 7. Power (5)

29. Results of Justification 7. Power (5) 8. Protection (9) 9. Priest (10a) 10. Preservation (10b) 11. Portion (11a) 12. Propitiation (11b)

30. Salvation’s Three Tenses 1. We have been saved because we were born again—a past transaction 2. We are being saved because we are being cleansed by the word of God daily—a present sanctification 3. We will yet be saved because we will one day get a body like Christ’s—a future glorification

31. Definition: Atonement is restoration to divine favor.

32. Four Distinctives of Sin 1. Its origin

33. Four Distinctives of Sin 1. Its origin 2. Its effect

34. Four Distinctives of Sin 1. Its origin 2. Its effect 3. Its scope

35. Four Distinctives of Sin 1. Its origin 2. Its effect 3. Its scope 4. Its guilt

36. Point 9. The choices you have made show you have also made Adam’schoice.

37. The Way Sin Works 1. Sin entered the world through the door of one man 2. Death entered the world through the door of sin, Gen 2:17 3. All people have contracted death through sin 4. Sin was in existence even before the law of Exod 20, Gen 6:5

38. The Way Sin Works 5. Sin, even if it exists, is not imputed if there is no law 6. Prior to the giving of the law, people were condemned only for what they knew but did not obey, not for a law they were ignorant of

39. Dispensational Reigns 1. Deathreigned: Adam—Moses 2. Law reigned: Moses—Christ 3. Gracereigns: Christ—rapture 4. Righteousness reigns: 2ndComing —Millennium 5. Righteousness DWELLS: eternally

40. Point 10. If Adam’s guilt were not imputed to us then neither could Christ’srighteousness be representatively passed-on to us who have become his children by faith.

41. Point 11. Adam is a type of Christ because Adam communicated to those whom he represented what belonged to him.

42. Definition: A type is something in the Old Testament that prefigures something in the New Testament.

43. Four Types of Types 1. Person: Adam, Melchizedek, Isaac, Joseph 2. Event: Passover, Israel crossing Red Sea 3. Thing: brazen serpent, tabernacle furniture 4. Ritual: sacrifices &offerings, circumcision

44. Point 12. A type is a forecast of future doctrine.

46. Point 13. The things in the Old Testament were a shadow cast by the coming body of truth in New Testament teaching.

47. Point 14. Salvation is a gift offered freely, which means it is offered without obligation for you to take it.

48. Point 15. Since eternity in Hell cannot make up for what Jesus Christ endured, Hell is not an equal punishment for an infinite crime.

49. Point 16. God had to interrupt his own existence to make a way for you into heaven.

50. Conclusion: Christians don’t serve God properly because they don’t appreciate what happened on Calvary.

51. Point 17. Righteousness and salvation is available to all, but it is obtainable only by those who exercise faith in Jesus Christ.

52. Definition: Life as defined in the Bible is the possession and experience of the knowledge of God.

53. Point 18. For the Christian, the only difference between heaven and earth is that on earth our experience of God is subject to interruption and in heaven it is not.

54. Point 19. The death of Christ so satisfied the demands of God that God is not holding people’s sins against them now; what God is now holding against men and women is their rejection of the gift of his Son.

55. Point 20. Since disobedience is inherited but obedience is always a choice, it is my identification with Christ that gives me the righteousness of God and transfers me from my identification with Adam.

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