1. Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard Sunday, May 22, 2011 www.GraceDoctrine.org

2. John 16:8-11 The Convicting Ministry of God the Holy Spirit: Sin, vs. 9 Righteousness, vs. 10 Judgment, vs. 11

3. The three fold convicting ministry of GtHS is part of His Common Grace ministry of making the gospel understandable to the unbeliever.

4. With an understanding of the gospel the unbeliever can make a choice for or against Christ. If for Christ, the Efficacious Grace ministry of GtHS is applied for salvation.

5. Common and Efficacious Grace

6. C.G. is the Spirit’s universal ministry to all of mankind by making the Gospel of Jesus Christ real and understandable to them as the Sovereign executive.

7. As a living person cannot communicate with a dead person, so a living evangelist cannot make the gospel understandable to the spiritually dead unbeliever.

8. Therefore, GtHS acts as a human spirit to enable the spiritually dead unbeliever to comprehend the gospel.

9. With understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ the spiritually dead person is now able to make a decision; do I believe it or not?

10. The faith of the spiritually dead person indicates positive volition, but the volition of the spiritually dead person has no power to produce the intended result.

11. Yet, God found us in grace, saved us by grace, and provides for us by grace.

12. Grace is the work of God, not the work of man. Grace is the policy of God before and after salvation.

13. Works added to faith in Christ are dead works. Dead works are the function of human power, because they depend on human power.

14. Bear story/pictures

15. Efficacious grace is defined as an instant act of the power of the Holy Spirit whereby faith in Jesus Christ, originating from a spiritually dead person, is made effective for eternal salvation.

16. Divine omnipotence and human power are mutually exclusive. Consequently, there is no efficacy in dead works added to faith in Christ for salvation.

17. Spiritual death causes the unbeliever to be helpless.

18. Efficacious grace is an act of GtHS proceeding from his omnipotence. Only GtHS has the power to make faith effective for salvation. Eph 1:13

19. Grace Offering

20. Grace Fellowship Church Sunday, May 22, 2011 Tape # 11-060 Convicting Ministry of God the Holy Spirit Common and Efficacious Grace Upper Room Discourse, Part 510 John 16:11; 3:18, 36; Eph 1:13-14; Rev 20 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2011