AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

14. We will be saved only when God reaches in to our hearts and changes them.
He is the ____________. He is the one who is aggressive. He is the one who
reaches to us.
15. Dr. D. James Kennedy: (In our natural condition) we _________ God. The
more we know about Him the more we ___________ Him.
16. The senate of Dordt said the grace of God is ________________________.
And the work of God is ___________________________.
17. In John 6:44, the word “draw” is a powerful word. It was used of a
__________ _______.
18. The word “draw,” in this context, means _______________.
19. By rejecting irresistible grace, the Arminians made man and his _________
ultimately sovereign.
20. When Jesus said, “I stand at the door and knock’ the passage was not
referring to an individual but to the______________.
21. It is important to note that by “Irresistible Grace” the Calvinists were in no
way saying that people cannot resist the grace of God. Quite the contrary, unless
God makes us alive not a single one of us would ever _______ resisting it.
22. This issue of saving grace — was it resistible or irresistible? — was at its core
a theological battle over who was_____________________________: God or man?
Chapter 12: Perseverance
1. Jesus affirmed God’s absolute sovereignty over everything, including even the
evil decisions of His ____________________.
2. To put it in the vernacular of today: “Once you have been truly saved by God,
that’s it. Your eternal salvation is ______________________.”
3. For Arminians, the idea that “once you’re saved, you’re always saved” seems
to be a recipe for disaster, an inducement to _________________ living and
_________________.
4. More than a few theologians and Christian authors argue that
“____________________” is an option for mature believers only, a brass ring for
those who want a “better resurrection.” At the end of the day, these same
authors insist, the gracious gift that is salvation could very well result in a person
who remains a ____________ to sin their whole lives while professing to be
blood-bought, redeemed sons and daughters of the living God. _______________
then is incidental to the Christian life and the grace of God does not necessarily
produce any outward effect.
5. The Arminian party again sided with the _____________________________
against the Reformation, insisting that no man could be truly sure of his
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