AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

If any one saith, that man is truly absolved from his sins and
justified….and that, by this faith alone, absolution and justification
are effected; let him be anathema." The Council of Trent: Canons on
Justification, Canon 14
6. What are some common things that people point to as “proof” that someone is
saved which by themselves, in fact, prove nothing? __________________________
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7. The idea that one is saved by “praying the sinner’s prayer” or “walking the
aisle” without the subsequent fruit of a changed life is not the Reformed teaching
of the “perseverance of the saints” and we stand with them in condemning this
teaching as a doctrine of demons. Jesus made it clear that while the law is not
the gospel — the gospel is not___________________.
In the 7 th chapter of Matthew, Jesus warned,
“Not everyone who says to Me, 'LORD, LORD,' shall enter the
kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in
heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘LORD, LORD, have we
not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and
done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to
them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice
lawlessness!’” Matthew 17:21-23
8. Any teaching that suggests that the Christian is free from the law and may sin
as he pleases and still have __________________ is a damnable lie and as much a
___________________of God’s word as the distortion breathed by the serpent in
Eden’s garden.
Reformed Theology recognizes that:
• People can hear the word and respond with joy — but because there is no
root of true regeneration in their heart, they soon fall away.
“Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and
immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. But when
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