Bible Readings:
Ezekiel 36:16 – 37:17
Hebrews 8:1-13
Sermon Outline:
Ezekiel 37:1–3 (NKJV)
1The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
2Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry.
3And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” So I answered, “O Lord God, You know.”
John 5:24–25 (NKJV)
24“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
25Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.
TULIP – Doctrine of Grace
Total depravity
Unconditional election
Limited atonement – definite atonement
Irresistible grace
Perseverance of the saints
I Misunderstanding cleared
II The mysterious work of the Holy Spirit in conversion
Jeremiah 31:33 (NKJV)
33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Ezekiel 36:26–27 (NKJV)
26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
27I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
John 6:37 (NKJV)
37All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
John 6:44 (NKJV)
44No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 10:14 (NKJV)
14I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
John 10:27 (NKJV)
27My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
The Canons of the Synod of Dort (A. D. 1618–1619)
Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine.
The Corruption of Man, His Conversion to God, and the Manner
Thereof
Article 11 CD 3&4 A11
But when God accomplishes His good pleasure in the elect, or works in them true conversion, He not only causes the gospel to be externally preached to them, and powerfully illuminates their minds by His Holy Spirit, that they may rightly understand and discern the things of the Spirit of God; but by the efficacy of the same
regenerating Spirit He pervades the inmost recesses of man; He opens the closed and softens the hardened heart, and circumcises that which was uncircumcised; infuses new qualities into the will, which, though
heretofore dead, He quickens; from being evil, disobedient, and refractory, He renders it good, obedient, and pliable; actuates and strengthens it, that like a good tree, it may bring forth the fruits of good actions.