08.07.2022 AM | The Spiritual Bread Of God (pt 1)

PREACHER: Dr. Brian Payne | Pastor

 

John 6:30-40

 

 

1 | Sin Induced Spiritual Blindness (6:30-36)

 

 

2 | Sovereign Grace Induced Spiritual Bread (6:37-40)

- John 10:27-29

- John 17:1-2, 6, 9, & 24 

 

 

Truths We Should Agree With Concerning the Relationship Between Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility:

 

1. The Father giving the Son a people is biblical language

 

2. Faithfulness requires we deal with it

 

3. We agree that God is the one who saves (Jonah 2:9). 

 

4. We all agree that Romans 10:13 is true: For everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.

 

5. We all agree that Romans 10:14 is true: How are they to believe in whom they have never heard. And how are they to hear without someone preaching.

 

6. Sovereign grace doesn’t undermine responsibility.

 

7. Scripture nowhere explains the relationship between divine sovereignty in salvation and human responsibility

 

8. God's Grace in salvation does not diminish the need for prayer:

- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 & 3:3 

 

9. We must affirm God’s divine sovereignty at some point in the equation

 

10. There have been godly people who disagree on this (e.g. George Whitfield and John Wesley)

 

11. There will be no victims in the Day of Judgment.

- Psalm 96:13

 

12. The doctrine of divine sovereign grace in salvation does not exclude or condemn. Rather it works exclusively as a benefit to a world with no natural desire to love God 

 

13. If our understanding of God's grace in salvation is correct, it will provoke the same question hypothetically raised in Romans 9:14-16 What shall we shall then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy & I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So then it depends not on human will or exertion but on God who has mercy.