Always ready to give a defense for the hope that is in you.

The Scripture Behind the Four

Every reading, in class order

The Bible is our final authority: The Bible is our final authority; when tradition contradicts it, the Bible wins.

Christ's work is finished: Christ's death fully paid the debt for sin; nothing left for us to add.

God chooses: God's choice to save rests on His own will; not on anything we earn.

Salvation is God's work from start to finish: Salvation is God's work from start to finish; we receive it, we don't author it.

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2 Timothy 3:10-17 — All Scripture is God-breathed

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Ephesians 2:1-10 — Dead in trespasses, made alive with Christ

Augustine and the Gospel of Rescue

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Proverbs 3:5-8 — Lean not on your own understanding

Pelagius and the Gospel of Willpower

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John 6:35-45 — No man can come, except the Father draw him

The Church Decides

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Romans 9:10-24 — The children being not yet born

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Psalms 119:89-96 — Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled

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Why Gottschalk Matters for Our Story

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John 10:31-38 — The Scripture cannot be broken

John Wycliffe Put Scripture Above the Pope (c. 1328–1384)

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Class 6 — Magisterial Reformation (1517 – 1563)

Romans 1:14-17 — The just shall live by faith

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Ephesians 1:3-14 — Chosen in Him before the foundation of the world

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Galatians 1:6-12 — Though an angel preach another gospel

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Romans 3:19-28 — Justified freely by His grace

2. The cross finished the job

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Class 7 — Reformed orthodoxy (1563 – 1643)

Acts 15:13-21 — With this the words of the prophets agree

The Anchor Is the Canons of Dort (1618–19)

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2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 — God hath from the beginning chosen you

The Problem That Forced the Era

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Hebrews 9:11-15 — Having obtained eternal redemption

One Paraphrased Sample

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Acts 13:44-49 — As many as were ordained to eternal life believed

What the Canons of Dort Actually Said

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Jude 1:24-25 — Able to keep you from falling

A Word for Us Now

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Class 8 — Puritans and Particular Baptists (1643 – 1700)

Jeremiah 31:31-34 — I will write it in their hearts

The Particular Baptists emerge (1644)

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Philippians 2:12-16 — It is God which worketh in you

John Bunyan, tinker, preacher, prisoner (1628–1688)

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Acts 4:18-20 — We cannot but speak

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2 Corinthians 5:17-21 — Made Him to be sin for us

The 1689 London Baptist Confession

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Class 9 — First Great Awakening (1700 – 1800)

John 3:1-8 — Except a man be born again

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Romans 8:28-34 — Foreknew, predestinated, called, justified, glorified

Jonathan Edwards and Freedom of the Will

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Romans 5:6-11 — While we were yet sinners

What actually happened

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Philippians 1:3-11 — He which hath begun a good work will perform it

Back to the hollow name

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Class 10 — Nineteenth century (1800 – 1900)

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 — Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus

Why this class matters

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Isaiah 53:4-12 — He bore the sin of many

The cross in an age of moral religion

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Romans 8:1-11 — No condemnation

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Deuteronomy 7:6-9 — Not because ye were more in number

The Great Commission and the missionary century

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Class 11 — Modernist conflict (1900 – 1950)

2 Peter 1:16-21 — A more sure word of prophecy

The Bible as final authority

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Colossians 2:8-15 — Nailing it to His cross

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John 19:28-30 — It is finished

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Hebrews 9:24-28 — Once in the end of the world

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John 15:12-19 — Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you

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