Introduction All that God does is good All that God does is right All that God does is holy

Schedule Before Conversion During Conversion After Conversion Common grace Election and Reprobation The Gospel Call and Effective Calling   Regeneration Conversion Justification Adoption Baptism in and Filling With the Holy Spirit Sanctification Perseverance of the Saints Death and the Intermediate State Glorification Union with Christ

Election and Reprobation Romans 8:28-30 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Election and Reprobation Ephesians 1:4-6 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

Election and Reprobation 1 Thessalonians 1:2-4 2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, 4 knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God.

Election and Reprobation 2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Election and Reprobation Jude 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Election and Reprobation Romans 11:7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

Election and Reprobation Romans 9:22-23 22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

Gospel Call & Effective Calling Matthew 11:28-30 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Gospel Call & Effective Calling John 1:11-12 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

Gospel Call & Effective Calling Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Gospel Call & Effective Calling John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

The difference between the two Gospel Call Effective Call Man’s action God’s action Offered to all Particular External Internal Often rejected Always effective The means for effective calling  

Gospel Call & Effective Calling 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, 14 to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Gospel Call & Effective Calling Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

Gospel Call & Effective Calling John 6:44 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Closing All that God does is good All that God does is right All that God does is holy

Schedule Before Conversion During Conversion After Conversion Common grace Election and Reprobation The Gospel Call and Effective Calling   Regeneration Conversion Justification Adoption Baptism in and Filling With the Holy Spirit Sanctification Perseverance of the Saints Death and the Intermediate State Glorification Union with Christ