The Five Points of Calvinism

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The Five Points of Calvinism 4

• Irresistible grace

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Total depravity All born in sin can do
no good Unconditional election
Predestined to be lost or saved Limited
atonement Christ died only for the
elect Irresistible grace Holy Spirit
enables elect Perseverance of the saints
Once saved, always saved
Calvinism
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Calvinism
T Total Depravity U Unconditional Election L
Limited Atonement I Irresistible Grace P
Perseverance of the Saints
John Calvin
Links in a Chain
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Calvinism
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Irresistible Grace
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• The direct operation of the Holy Spirit
• The Spirit overwhelms the chosen against their
  will

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CalvinismPerseverance of the Saints
This doctrine does not stand alone but is a
necessary part of the Calvinistic system of
theology. The doctrines of Election and
irresistible grace logically imply the certain
salvation of those who receive these blessings.
If God has chosen men absolutely and
unconditionally to eternal life, and if His
Spirit applies to them the benefits of
redemption, the inescapable conclusion is that
these persons shall be saved. And, historically,
this doctrine has been held by all Calvinists.
(Loraine Goettner, The Reformed Doctrine of
Predestination, p 182)
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1 Tim. 24 God desires all men to be saved and
to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Pet.
39 God is not willing that any should perish
but that all should come to repentance. Acts
1034 God is not one to show partiality, but
in every nation the man who fears Him and does
what is right is welcome to Him.
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Irresistible Grace

• Irresistible Grace-Means that when God
  undertakes to save a person by his grace or
  unmerited favor, that grace is invincible. Even
  in making every effort, a person could not refuse
  it. Therefore no credit should be due for
  accepting it.
• (Presbyterians, Their History and Beliefs, Walter
  Lingle, p.36)

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Calvinism

• Irresistible Grace
• Man is so depraved that it takes a special
  working of the Holy Spirit to regenerate him and
  cause him to be born again. This working is
  irresistible because he has been unconditionally
  elected to be saved.

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Calvinism

• Irresistible Grace
• A man is not saved because he believes in
  Christ he believes in Christ because he is
  saved.
• - Lorraine Boettner, The Reformed Doctrine of
  Predestination

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Calvinism

• Irresistible Grace
• This effectual call is of Gods free and special
  grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in
  man, who is altogether passive therein, until,
  being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit,
  he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to
  embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.
• - Presbyterian Confession of Faith

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Can Grace Be Resisted?

• Bible Answers
• Gods grace is something in which one must
  continue (Acts 1343).
• Gods grace can be received in vain (II
  Corinthians 61).
• Gods grace is something from which one may fall.
  (Galatians 59).

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Can Grace Be Resisted?

• Bible Answers
• Gods grace is something in which one can choose
  to be strong (II Timothy 21).
• Gods grace empowers man only in the sense that
  it is something that teaches man (Titus 211).

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Does Man Have The Free Will To Refuse God?

• Proverbs 124 Because I have called and you
  refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one
  regarded,
• Proverbs 129 Because they hated knowledge And
  did not choose the fear of the LORD,

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Does Man Have The Free Will To Refuse God?

• Acts 751
• "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and
  ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit as your
  fathers did, so do you.

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Does Man Have The Free Will To Refuse God?

• Joshua 2415
• And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD,
  choose for yourselves this day whom you will
  serve, whether the gods which your fathers served
  that were on the other side of the River, or the
  gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.
  But as for me and my house, we will serve the
  LORD."

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Does Man Have The Free Will To Refuse God?

• 2 Peter 39
• 9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise,
  as some count slackness, but is longsuffering
  toward us, not willing that any should perish but
  that all should come to repentance.

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Does Man Have The Free Will To Refuse God?

• 1 Timothy 23-4
• 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of
  God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved
  and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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Examples of Conversion
Conversions in Acts
What MUST I Do To Become A Christian?
Holy Spirit
Examples of Conversions in Acts
Resisted
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