North Avenue Church Podcast

Paul anticipates that his listeners will wrongly draw the conclusion that his doctrine of unconditional election is unjust. However, this misunderstands what mercy and justice really mean.

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Here are the three points of the message:

1. Famine and faithlessness
2. Suffering
3. Return

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This past Sunday, Greg Rentz and Zach Hutzell began a new Sunday school series in the book of Genesis.

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Here are the six points from the message:

1. The offer of the gospel is universal (v 38-39)
2. We must personally believe in Jesus to be forgiven (v 38-39)
3. We are responsible for all our sin, including unbelief in the gospel (v 40-41, 45-46, 50-51)
4. We as Christians are the primary means God has chosen to bring unbelievers to faith (v 47; 14:1)
5. Our faith is owing to God's appointment (v 48)
6. We can identify the elect only when they respond positively to the gospel (v 48)

Why evangelize if the doctrine of unconditional election is true?

1. Guaranteed success!
2. Motivation for prayer
3. Perseverance in the face of discouragement

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In our last week in 1 Thessalonians, we lingered on the issue of how we are to think about prophecy in the church today.

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In this last sermon on the Golden Chain, we spend time working through each of the five terms. We linger especially on the first three which most closely relate to the issue of God's sovereignty in salvation: Foreknown, Predestined, and Called.

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There is no such thing as a "boring" testimony!

 

The more desperate our plight the more glorious our conversion! And we are *all* born morally unable to come to Christ because we are by nature willingly enslaved by our 1) love of darkness; 2) hatred of God; 3) spiritual blindness; and 4) spiritual deadness. [For more on these points, see John Piper's excellent sermon that Mark said he adapted these points from.]

 

Only sovereign grace could overcome each of this and transform our hearts to make us willing to believe!

 

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We could all use more joy and gratitude, along with a more consistnent prayer life!

 

Don't miss toward the end when Jerry is asked about how the Lord kept him from despair in the hosptial in the months following his spinal cord injury nearly 43 years ago, at the age of 17.

 

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This was our last Table Talk for this summer! We focused on how all that we have is a gift from God that we must use for His glory.

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Jerry, Mark, and Scott cover this section of 1 Thessalonians that alerts us to the fact that we are in the midst of a battle in the Christian life and we must keep our armor on, the gospel clear, and be actively invovled in a faithful local church.

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The Golden Chain is a source of great comfort for the believer! However, we must make sure we understand each of the five linkes correctly. This sermon is a meditation on the first two. What does it mean to be foreknown and predestined?

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It has become popular to see Romans 9 as being mainly about (1) temporal blessings and judgments on *nations* in history, or (2) the salvation of individuals based on *foreseen faith*.

However, there are good reasons to reject these views and accept that Romans 9 really does teach unconditional election unto salvation. Really!

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To live as though Jesus is not returning is to live in the dark about where humanity is heading. No matter how intelligent or informed someone is about worldly things, to lack this knowledge is to be asleep to reality. As Christians, we must not give into moments of sleepiness, but sould be awake, aleter, and spiritually sober minded. We need to put on God's armor to be ready for battle, not sleeping on the battlefield.

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