AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

scripture might be fulfilled. John 17:12
1. …thereby affirming God’s absolute sovereignty over everything, including
even the evil decisions of His ____________________.
The book of Hebrews says that God and God alone is the
“…author and finisher (or guarantor) of our (the elect’s) faith.”
Hebrews 12:2
This truth was summed up in the 17 th Chapter of the Westminster Confession of
Faith:
“They, whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called, and
sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally Fall away from the
state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be
eternally saved.” Westminster Confession of Faith, 17:1.
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. Arminians shake their heads in disbelief. This promise that “once you’re
saved, you’re always saved” seems 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
salvation.
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