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God is the Savior
There is deep and heavy truth in these first 13 verses of Ephesians.
Ultimately, the overall theme is that God is entirely responsible for salvation.
He is sovereign over it completely.
No one can come can come to faith in Jesus Christ apart from the Holy Spirit.
No one can rely on their own native resources apart from grace.
the spiritually deaf can’t open their own ears.
the spiritually blind can’t open their own eyes.
The spiritually dead cannot revive themselves.
In these last few chapters we will learn that our salvation is the work of God, the Trinity.
and in him alone.
The God Who Saves
Names ascribed to God.
Throughout scripture, there is textual evidence that God intercedes on behalf of men to bring about salvation.
Savior
mo-she-uh.
(noun) from the root yasha, (verb, to deliver.) meaning deliverer.
rescuer, deliverer
ga-al (buy back, redeem)
soter (gr)
Redeemer
Redeemer
ga-al (buy back, redeem)
ga-al (buy back, redeem)
Lev
Ruth 4:1-
Ps 3:8
Ps 3:37:39
Working: pah-ahl.
“bringing about” Not the clock winder
yeshuah (deliverance, salvation)
God the only Savior.
Salvation is exclusively the work of God
Implications
Salvation is exclusively the work of God.
Diety of Christ ()
Actively working to bring about salvation.
Response
A general Call, that all mankind repent.
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God’s Plan of Salvation
God already planned out salvation
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Hermeneutic error.
pro-gee-nos-ko, to know before hand.
The word is a verb, with God as the subject.
Foreknowledge
Two views:
Prescient
God sees our behavior, knowing ahead of time what we will do.
What is wrong with this view.
synergistic, two efficient agents in regeneration, ie., Man’s will cooperates with God to produce regeneration.
Predestination (Reformed view, Biblical view)
proginosko is used five times in the NT.
two with man as subject.
each time the object is a result of an action.
three with God as subject (; ; )
each time the object is a person.
OT equivalent.
yada, to know (translated gnisko in LXX), infers an intimate choosing.
2 pet 3:17
each time the object is a result of an action.
Ex 33:17
When was it planned?
Before the Foundations of the Earth.
Pre-History.
Eph
What does teach us about God’s plan of salvation?
When did He choose us?
Pre-History
In whom did God choose us?
Christ
What purpose?
( to be holy)
What does tell us?
To what did God predestine every believer.
(adoption)
Through whom?
Jesus.
What was his motivation?
Because it pleased him to do so.
(purpose of his will = good pleasure)
According to , why did God design and decree our salvation.
For His glory.
Golden Chain
Why were the elect chosen?
The Father’s Work of Salvation
Sending
Imputing
Hypostatic Union
Heidelberg Catechism
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Why must he be a true and righteous man?
He must be a true man because the justice of God requires that the same human nature which has sinned should pay for sin.
He must be a righteous man because one who himself is a sinner he cannot pay for others.
The penalty for sin requires suffering in body and soul and only a human can do this.
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Why must he also be true God?
So that, by the power of his divinity, he might bear the weight of God’s anger in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
Jesus had to be truly God so that he could satisfy God’s wrath and secure for us true righteousness and life.
Jesus had to be truly God so that he could satisfy God’s wrath and secure for us true righteousness and life.
1 Cor 5:21
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