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Questions for Reflection and Discussion
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For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
1. How is life in Christ different from outside of Christ?
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
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To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
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For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—
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so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
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How is life in Christ different from outside of Christ? (Also see .)
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
2. Why is an explicit recognition of Christ and His work necessary for salvation versus a mere implicit or vague recognition of Him? Moreover, why must faith manifest itself in “the fear of the Lord” in order to be called faith?
3. Calvin addresses the problem of assurance of salvation. What is his analysis of doubting faith and what solutions does he propose?
4. How does David’s life confirm Calvin’s point? Look up , ; and . Why is assurance so essential to faith?
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
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Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
5. Calvin maintains that people will not turn to God in repentance unless they are persuaded that He will receive them in mercy. Explain Calvin’s remark that faith must begin with God’s promise in the gospel, rest in it, and end with it. Why is this so important?
6. If faith is a gift from God, does that negate “the call to faith”? Why or why not?
For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
7. (a) How does repentance as transformation challenge the common notion that one can have Jesus as Savior without surrendering to Him as Lord?
7. (a) How does repentance as transformation challenge the common notion that one can have Jesus as Savior without surrendering to Him as Lord?
(b) How does a lack of “earnest fear” affect the health of the church today?
(c) Why is it important to see “knowledge of sin” as a perpetual part of the Christian life?
8. May a believer declare without qualification, “I’m not a sinner, I’m a saint”? Defend your answer.
9. What might be instances or examples of the unpardonable sin today?