The Son of Man came to seek and save that which was lost. It is Jesus' favorite title of Himself. I chosen this title because Jesus loved this title of Himself. We ought to never forget that Jesus is fully God and fully man: two natures in One Person. He is the God-man, the Incarnate Second Person of the Trinity. May we mediate on His life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension that we may be conformed to the image of the divine Son of Man! This blog web site will be a Christian defense of the Reformed doctrines of the Incarnate Son of Man. May all glory be to His name!

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

95-Disputations on Spiritual Condemnation for those in Christ Jesus

  1. There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

  1.  Someone must be “in” Christ to be free from condemnation.

  1. If someone is outside of Christ they dwell in the state of condemnation.

  1. In order to be “in” Christ we must be born again to have union with Him.

  1. In order to be “in” Christ we must have saving faith in God and Jesus.

  1. In order to be “in” Christ we must be justified by God through faith.

  1. Mortal sin does not take someone out of our position with God through Jesus Christ our Creator and Redeemer.

  1. To be “in” Christ we must be adopted and sanctified by Christ.

  1. No condemnation touches us at the Day of Judgment.

  1. There is no charge laid to our account at the Day of Judgment.

  1. Christ is our sole mediator, intercessor and defense attorney regarding our spiritual salvation in and through Christ Jesus.

  1. All those who know God understand that Jesus Christ is all-sufficient for how we are right with God.

  1. No sin will be held against us who have Jesus as their divine Savior.

  1. Jesus knows all His people but the damned He never knew them.

  1. Some cry “Lord, Lord” and do not know Him.

  1. All of God’s people are known by the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

  1. The good works are descriptive not prescriptive.  That is, we are saved unto good works.  We are called to work out our salvation.

  1. God’s people know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior.

  1. Everyone who is not condemned is pursuing holiness unto the Lord.

  1. Rome teaches that those who commit mortal sin fall from the state of grace.

  1. Orthodoxy teaches a person can fall from the state of grace if that person willfully sinned.

  1. The Bible teaches once someone is saved that person will never lose their spiritual salvation.

  1. Jesus will say to people who merely claimed they had an intimate relationship that He never knew them.

  1. God is the only one who can reverse someone’s condemnation.

  1. All people outside of Christ need His all-sufficient grace to be saved.

  1. Rome adds the merits of saints to the merits of Christ for the spiritual redemption of the soul.

  1. There is no boasting in our own so-called “merit” because there is the one merit of Christ alone.

  1. We ought not to interpret suffering in this life as meritorious.

  1. The Spirit of God is the only one to make us born from above.

  1. The treasury of merit is not a collection of merit from other saints but it is the merit of Christ alone.

  1. Indulgences do not help us to haven but only hinder us.  Anything that adds to the finished work of Christ is in error.

  1. The people of God do not accept indulgences because it is a violation of Scripture.

  1. Everyone will have to give an account for our lives.

  1. Grace is the all-sufficient atonement that makes us clean from all defilement.

  1. The people of God read devotions, partake of the Lord’s Supper and hear the Word of God's proclamation.

  1. The people of God regularly attend worship every Christian Sabbath.

  1. The state of grace is not broken in a final and full sense because it is irrevocable and paramount.

  1. The Gospel is for everyone that is condemned.

  1. All of God’s children will be in heaven with Him.

  1. No one can make someone fall away from grace or someone cannot be taken out of God’s hand.

  1. The fruits or gifts of regeneration are faith and repentance.

  1. None of God’s people will perish.

  1. Every one of God’s little children will be led to faith by our Heavenly through His Son by His Spirit.

  1. No one who is condemned has faithful repentance.

  1. Everyone who is not condemned believes Jesus is our divine Creator.

  1. Everyone condemned denies the full deity of Christ Jesus our Lord.

  1. No one will be touched by the second death who knows as their Lord and Savior.

  1. Condemnation rests with people who deny Jesus as their all-sufficient grounds for how they are right with God.

  1. Condemnation rests with those who deny the personhood and deity of the Holy Spirit.

  1. Condemnation rests with those who deny faith alone through Christ alone.

  1. God alone is our refuge and high tower in times of trouble.  This is contrary to Rome’s understanding of entering through the Virgin Mary in order to get to Jesus Christ.

  1. The people of God practice holiness and godliness.

  1. The people of God are justified, sanctified and glorified.

  1. Everyone justified will be glorified in final glorification.

  1. Conditional salvation is contrary to the Bible’s view of spiritual salvation.

  1. Modified universalism is contrary to the Bible’s view of the exclusivity of Christ.

  1. Evangelical Universalism is contrary to the Bible view of particular redemption.

  1. The Lord will bless us with every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus.

  1. If God gave us His Son how much more will He give us all things?

  1. We do not have to wait until Judgment Day to know we are God’s children.

  1. We can know today that we belong to Him by faith.

  1. Now is the day of salvation.  That is, do you know Jesus now?

  1. Everyone condemned does not know Christ as their personal Redeemer.

  1. No one saved will be condemned.

  1. We all will be judged for how we lived our lives.

  1. Everyone justified has all their sins forgiven: past, present and future.

  1. We ought to be zealous to repent of all of our sins.

  1. No one saved can will themselves out of their position with God.

  1. Everyone who repents to the true Triune Lord is forgiven.

  1. God will not hold any sin against us because Jesus died for us.

  1. There is no unjust condemnation with God.

  1. Our heart may condemn us but God is greater then our hearts and knows all things.

  1. Do you trust Christ for spiritual salvation?

  1. If God is for us, who can be against us?

  1. If someone adds to faith when the Spirit makes us born again, it is adding to the Gospel of grace and peace.

  1. Every one of God’s people will see the beatific vision.   That is, the face of God.

  1. Everyone without Christ will perish.

  1. All of God’s children will be rejoined with loved ones of the past.

  1. All of His people have been predestined to eternal life by free grace.

  1. All of the damned have been foreordained to eternal destruction.

  1. If we trust Christ we show the evidence of the Spirit and the Word.

  1. People made to be self-aware of their poor state should repent and believe the Gospel of God.  That is, someone can only be made self-aware of their miserable state in the deadness of their sin but by God Himself and God alone.

  1. All the redeemed will be like the angels of God in heaven.

  1. Every sin committed should be repented of.

  1. God is the only one to change our state to eternal life.

  1. Everything works out for the good of everyone who loves God.

  1. Things do not work out for the good if you do not love God.

  1. God hates every one of the condemned.

  1. God loves every one of the spiritually saved.

  1. Spiritual redemption is God’s work alone.

  1. For the condemned there is no cruelty in hell.

  1. There is justice for every one of the condemned.

  1. The law of God condemns because it is perfection, but it should be used as a guide to morality.

  1. The grace of God alone saves us.

  1. “Repent and believe the Gospel” (Mark 1:15).
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