Test All Things
Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
It is necessary for our children to learn many things to be successful in life. We make sure that they learn to read and write, to learn arithmetic, etc. We encourage...
The Bible is God’s Word. God wrote the Bible. This is how He wrote it. He told some men who were His children what to write, and they wrote it down....
Sin is anything that we do, or say, or even think that is bad or wrong. God tells us what is right and wrong in the Bible. When the first man...
God has always been. Nobody made God. He was never born, He never had a beginning, and He will never die. There is just one God, but the one God is...
God knows everything. He knew before the world began that Adam and Eve would sin. He knew that all the people in the world, being born of sinful parents, would be...
It is a terrible thing to die without God’s grace and forgiveness. Jesus, Who talked more about Hell than anyone else in the Bible, tells us that it is a place...
There is a very evil being who hates God and all of God’s children. This evil being is called Satan. He does not have horns and a long tail as some...
The salvation of God’s children is entirely by the grace of God. This means that salvation is a free gift from God. God’s children do not save themselves nor help save...
We have already learned that salvation is by God’s grace. Now we want to learn a little more about how that salvation took place. To do this we are going to...
“T” is for Total Depravity. This means that all people are sinners. Sin entered into the world by the first man, Adam. Since that time everyone has been born into the...
The “U” in TULIP is for Unconditional Election. We have already seen how all mankind are born dead in trespasses and sins. They cannot get themselves out of this condition. If...
The “L” in TULIP is for Limited Atonement. We have already seen how all mankind are born dead in trespasses and sins. If left in this condition they will spend eternity...
The “I” in TULIP is for Irresistible Grace. “Irresistible” means something that you can’t resist. It is too strong for you. That is the way God’s grace is for a child...
The “P” in TULIP is for Preservation of the Saints. We have already shown that all men are by nature dead in sin (Total Depravity), that God chose His people in...
It is necessary for our children to learn many things to be successful in life. We make sure that they learn to read and write, to learn arithmetic, etc. We encourage...
1. What is the Bible? God’s Word. 2. What is the first book of the Bible? Genesis. 3. How many books are in the Bible? 66. 4. What is Genesis 1:1?...
33. What does I John 4:19 say? “We love him, because he first loved us.” 34. Who built the ark? Noah. 35. How many sons did Noah have? Three. 36. What...
54. Who was the man who had faith? Abraham. 55. Who was his wife? Sarah. 56. Who was his promised son? Isaac. 57. What did God tell Abraham to do to...
Joseph Is Faithful 82. How many sons did Jacob have? Twelve. 83. Who were his two favorite sons? Joseph and Benjamin. 84. Who was their mother? Rachel. 85. What did Jacob...
Moses Gets Ready to be a Leader 114. What did Moses’ mother put him in, to hide him from Pharaoh? A basket boat or ark. 115. Why did she have to...
Joshua Leads Israel into the Promised Land 154. Who led the children of Israel after Moses died? Joshua. 155. Who was the woman at Jericho who helped Moses’ spies to escape?...
Gideon and His Small Army 165. Why did God let the bad Midianites do bad things to His people? Because God’s people had disobeyed Him. Was this kind of like God...
Samson Disobeys God 180. What did Manoah and his wife want to know when the angel told them they would have a baby? They wanted to know how to raise the...
Godly Ruth is Blessed 188. Where did Naomi and her husband and sons go when there was a famine in Israel? Moab. 189. What happened to Naomi’s husband and sons in...
Samuel Leads Israel 201. Why was Hannah so sad? Because she didn’t have any children. What did she do about it? She prayed. 202. How did God answer Hannah’s prayer? He...
217. Whom did God choose to take Saul’s place as King of Israel? David. 218. Who was the prophet that went to Jesse’s house to anoint David? Samuel. 219. How many...
253. Which one of David’s sons became king after David died? Solomon. 254. God told Solomon that he would give him whatever he asked for. Did Solomon ask for money? No....
260. When God’s people did wrong in the old days, God sent good men to preach to them. What were these men called? Prophets. 261. When King Solomon died, what happened...
Elijah Faces the Prophets of Baal 270. Who was one of these prophets of God? Elijah. 271. Who was the wicked king of Israel to whom God sent Elijah? Ahab. 272....
Jonah Is Swallowed By a Fish 295. Who was Jonah? He was one of God’s prophets. 296. What did God tell him to do? To go preach to the people of...
Daniel and the Three Hebrew Children 310. Who were the three Hebrew children? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 311. What did Daniel and the three Hebrew children not do? They did not...
1. What do you call the four books in the Bible that tell about the life of Jesus? The Gospels. 2. What are the names of the four gospels? Matthew, Mark,...
78. Who preached on the day of Pentecost? Peter. 79. What did he preach? Repent. 80. How many people were converted and baptized? Three thousand. 81. Who came down with tongues...
A. Paul’s Letter to the Romans 143. Was Paul ashamed of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ? No. Should we be ashamed of it? No. If we are not ashamed...
The Epistles of Peter: 183. Are we to obey those who rule over us? Yes, for the Lord’s sake. When do we not obey them? When they ask us to do...
God made man good and very good (Genesis 1:31). He made man in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27). In this condition man was without sin. God put man in the garden...
When man fell into sin and died the death of separation from God, he also fell under the wrath of God (John 3:36; Romans 5:9; Romans 9:22; Ephesians 2:3; I Thessalonians...
When man fell into sin his nature became corrupt. By this we mean that his disposition, his desires, his appetites became prone to evil. Man’s very nature — his very instinct,...
Every part of a spiritually dead sinner is affected by sin. Since this is a very misunderstood subject, let us see what we do not mean by the above statement. We...
Salvation is entirely by the grace of God. The Bible tells us, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:...
Our assignment for this time is to read “Dead Men Can’t See” by Bro. Zack Guess. This is a study of the truth contained in I Corinthians 2:14. After reading this,...
When man became dead in sins, every part of him was affected. Therefore, there is no part of man that is able to respond to God while man is in this...
Our assignment for this time is to read the pamphlet “What Does the Bible Say About Election?” by Eld. Zack Guess. After reading this, let us answer the following questions: Questions...
Our assignment is to continue to read the pamphlet “What Does the Bible Say About Election?” by Bro. Zack Guess. As we read this, let us answer the following questions: Questions...
Our assignment is to continue to read the pamphlet “What Does the Bible Say About Election” by Bro. Zack Guess. As we read this, let us answer the following questions: Questions...
Our assignment is to continue to read “What Does the Bible Say About Election?” As we read, let us answer the following questions: Questions 1. If someone said the doctrine of...
We can see God manifesting His purpose of election down through the centuries. Even in the second generation of mankind, Abel was a man of faith and Cain was of the...
God does just exactly what He wants to do. This is plain from Daniel 4:35. So if God wanted to save all men it is certain that all men would be...
We have been studying the doctrine of election. Election itself actually saved no one; it only marked out particular sinners (the elect) for salvation. Those chosen by the Father were given...
The simple fact is that Christ simply did not die for all men. He did not intend to save all men or He would have done so. He certainly has enough...
Redemption from sin was accomplished by the suffering and death of the Lord Jesus Christ. This happened nearly two thousand years ago. Therefore, when we talk about redemption, we are talking...
We have already stated that the doctrine of Particular Redemption teaches that Christ died for the elect and the elect only. Christ did not die for any that would perish in...
There are some Scriptures which seem at first glance to support the idea of universal redemption. But the Bible doesn’t contradict itself and teach particular redemption in some places and universal...
In the following lesson, we will continue to examine some Scriptures which are used by some to teach the doctrine of universal redemption. I. “And he is the propitiation for our...
There are some passages of Scripture where the use of the words “all,” “every man” etc. are thought by some to teach universal redemption. But as was the case with the...
In our previous studies, we have examined some Scriptures which, at first glance and isolated from other Scriptures, seem to some people to teach universal redemption. In each case, we have...
In this study, we will examine one passage of Scripture which Arminians, Universalists, and others use to teach the doctrine of General or Universal Atonement. We have not studied all such...
In this study we will examine II Peter 3:9 and endeavor to obtain the correct meaning:“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering...
This will be our final study on the subject of Particular Redemption. Most of the studies have been devoted to a defense of this doctrine against those who advocate Universal Redemption...
Having considered the subjects Man Dead in Sins, Unconditional Election, and Particular Redemption, we now come to study the subject of Irresistible Grace. Long before we reached this point, we parted...
It needs to be pointed out that if the truths that we have previously studied be true, then the truth of irresistible grace must necessarily follow. For example, one cannot maintain...
The great majority of Christians believe in gospel regeneration. They believe that a person must hear and believe the gospel (or at least read the Word of God) in order to...
When we speak of irresistible grace, we mean that when God moves in power to bring salvation to a sinner, that this power cannot be resisted–it is always effectual. Those who...
Our assignment this time is to read God’s Drawing Power by Zack Guess and to answer the following questions: 1. Give five examples from the New Testament of the use of...
There is much misunderstanding in the religious world about “faith” or “belief.” Many preachers will say that salvation is by grace but that a person must “put his trust in Jesus...
In our last study sheet, we considered Scriptures which spoke of “faith,” “believe,” etc. In them we saw that faith is a gift of God, given in the new birth, and...
In the last few study sheets, we have considered the subject of “saving faith.” In this sheet we will conclude our study of this subject with some very sound comments from...
We have studied the doctrine of “Irresistible Grace” for several study sheets now. We have seen that this means that God’s grace cannot be resisted when He operates by the Holy...
We will consider now the question of the gospel. Many people who believe in the irresistible grace of God think this work is accomplished by the preaching of the gospel. In...
We have previously studied that regeneration is a direct work of the Holy Spirit while conversion is a work of the gospel (the preached or written word). Before we examine the...
We come now to the final point in our study of the doctrine of the salvation of God’s people. We have studied the truths of Total Depravity (Mankind Dead in Sins),...
In the last study sheet we examined article one of the chapter “Of Perseverance of the Saints” from the London Confession of Faith of 1689. In this study sheet we will...
In the previous two study sheets we have examined the London Confession of Faith as it dealt with “Of the Perseverance of the Saints.” In this study sheet we will examine...
It is important to remember that the child of God will overcome the world by his God-given Faith: “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the...
In the last lesson in our little book I would like to further study the relationship between Preservation and Perseverance. To state again the doctrine of Preservation, we say that this...
Preservation and Perseverance as Sung by the Saints Introductory note: it is a very interesting phenomenon that in religion the songs that people sing usually reflect their beliefs. This is as...
Test All Things 