2. Year A, Lesson 10

3. Top of page: John 19:30 Christ’s work of saving the world is completed, finished.

4. Acts 16:31 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

5. How we come to trust in Jesus Christ Diagram (write on back cover?)

6. By nature_________

7. By nature Blind 1 Cor 2:14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God.

8. By nature enemy Rom 6:6-7 The mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God.

9. By nature dead Eph 2:1 You were dead in your transgressions and sins.

10. By nature Blind enemy dead = 100 % lost Let’s add it up!

11. By God By nature

12. By God Enlight -ened By nature 1 Cor 2:9-10 No mind has conceived what God has prepared -- but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. 1 Cor 2:14

13. By God Con- verted By nature Rom 5:1,5 We have peace with God through Jesus… because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. Rom 6:6-7

14. By God Made alive, born again By nature Eph 2:4 God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ. Eph 2:1

15. By God Enlight -ened Con- verted Made alive, born again = 100 % saved Let’s add it up!

16. What we are like by nature: Back to the book! a. Dead in sin b. Enemies of God c. Blind to spiritual truth

17. 2. Therefore we cannot by our own thinking or choosing come to believe in Jesus as our Savior.

18. The message of Jesus Christ is foolishness to the natural mind!

19. 2. How saving faith comes:

20. a. It is the gift from God Eph 2:8,9 It is by grace you have been saved through faith- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- not by works, so that no man can boast.

21. Rom 10:17 ( p. 112) says: B. Through the message about Christ (the gospel). 4. The one…this work…. is the Holy Spirit Go and Tell! “Faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of (about) Christ.”

24. Gospel in Word Gospel in Sacrament

25. 3. Work of the Holy Spirit 1. The Holy Spirit calls me that is he brings me to trust in Jesus as my Savior by the gospel. 2 Thess 2:14 1043)

26. Conversion (being turned around) Regeneration (being born again)

27. 2. The Holy Spirit enlightens me that is, he leads me to spiritual understanding through the Gospel. Diagrams on page 186 & 189

28. 3. The Holy Spirit sanctifies me that is, he sets me apart for holy living through the Gospel.

29. John 3 ~ 3) I tell you the truth, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 7) You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8) So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.

30. What about “Decision Theology”? Billy Graham

31. “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.” Jn 6:44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.” Jn 6:44 God draws us to himself thru faith!

32. 4. The Holy Spirit keeps me in the faith through the gospel. Diagram on page 195

33. Two Reminders for God’s Children 1. Do not resist the Holy Spirit Diagram on p. 195

34. 2. Be filled continually with the Holy Spirit through regular use of the Word. (Diagram p. 195) Church divisions