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Year A, Lesson 10

Top of page: John 19:30

Christ’s work of saving the world is completed, finished.

Acts 16:31

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

How we come to trust in Jesus Christ

Note: The following diagram is to be reproduced on a blank page in

the back or front of your book.

By nature By God

By nature

Blind

1 Cor 2:7,8,14 p. 1129

By nature

Blind

Eph 4:18 “The gentiles…are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them.”

By nature

enemy

Rom 8:7 p. 1118

By nature

enemy

Col 1:21 Once you were

alienated from God were enemies in

your minds….

By nature

dead

Eph 2:1 p. 1156

By nature

dead

Col 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in

the uncir- cumcision of your sinful

nature

By nature

Blind

enemy

dead

= 100 % lost

Let’s add it up!

By God

Enlight-ened

1 Cor 2:8-12 p. 1129

By nature

By God

Con-

verted

Rom 5:9-11 p. 1116

By nature

By God

Made alive, born again

Eph 2:4-8 p. 1157

By nature

By God

Enlight-ened

Con-verted

Made alive, born again= 100 % saved

Let’s add it up!

By God

Enlight-ened

Con-verted

More proofCol 2:13 When you

were dead in your sins... God made

you alive with Christ.

Made alive, born again= 100 % saved

By God

Enlight-ened

Con-verted

More proofActs 16: 15 The Lord

opened her [Lydia’s] heart to respond to Paul’s mes-

sage [and was baptized].

Made alive, born again= 100 % saved

By nature By God

Blind

enemy

dead

Enlight-ened

Con-

verted

100 % lost

Made alive, born again= 100 % saved

Note: Make sure this diagram is now completed in your book!

What we are like by nature:

Back to the book!

a. Dead in sin

b. Enemies of God

c. Blind to spiritual truth

2. Therefore we cannot

by our own thinking or

choosing come to believe

in Jesus as our Savior.

2. How saving faith comes:

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.

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.”

Gospel in Word

Gospel in Sacrament

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)

Conversion (being turned around)

Regeneration (being born again)

2. The Holy Spirit enlightens me that is, he leads me to spiritual understanding

through the Gospel.

Diagrams on page 186 & 189

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

Gospel.

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.

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.

What about “Decision

Theology”?

Billy Graham

“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

“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!

4. The Holy Spirit keeps me in the faith through the gospel.

Diagram on page 195

Two Reminders for God’s Children

1. Do not resist the Holy Spirit

Diagram on p. 195

2. Be filled continually with the Holy Spirit through regular use of the Word.

(See Diagram p. 195 of Catechism)