Paul’s Use of Foreknowledge and Predestination in Romans 8:28-30 (Part 6)

(This is part 6 of 6; Click for: part 5; part 4; part 3; part 2; part 1. Appendix available upon request)
CONCLUSION
God’s plan is redemption and He works all things in accordance with His will in that plan. He calls according to this plan. He works in those He calls for His good and His [...]

Plugging In To Prestonwood: Engaging in Dynamic Worship

These are my notes on the Sunday morning sermon by Dr. Jack Graham at Prestonwood Baptist Church for 27 August 2006.
Focal passage: 1 Corinthains 3:6
God is looking for people He can use. 
Warren W. Wiersbe said, “If you can explain it, God didnb’t do it.”
Our vision at Prestonwood is:

To engage in the worship of our Lord Jesus Christ which is [...]

Paul’s Use of Foreknowledge and Predestination in Romans 8:28-30 (Part 5)

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RELATION TO THE BOOK
When looking at chapter eight in its entirety, we see Paul speaking of the suffering of believers. Then when he gets to 8:28 he reminds his readers of the gospel and [...]

Paul’s Use of Foreknowledge and Predestination in Romans 8:28-30 (Part 4)

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PREDESTINATION
The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters defines foreknowledge as the exercise of God’s will in establishing a special relationship with this whom He elects by grace and before all time. It then defines predestination as expressing God’s appointing [...]

Simple Church (continued)

 A Simple Church is defined, by the book of the same name, as “a congregation designed around a straight-forward and strategic process that moves people through the stages of spiritual growth.” The book defines it as a process that moves people.  People are attracted to Christ and the church and then are moved to points [...]

Paul’s Use of Foreknowledge and Predestination in Romans 8:28-30 (Part 3)

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Foreknowledge can also be argued to apply to either individuals or to groups. We can look at Israel as an example of its application to a group. Does the Bible say that Israel will be saved as a group? Then foreknowledge [...]

Are Biblical Covenants Dissoluble?

I received my Fall 2004 Southwestern Journal of Theology issue this weekend.  Strange that it is the Fall 2004 issue and is copyrighted 2006 and distributed this weekend.  Oh well. 
The first article is entitled Are Biblical Covenants Dissoluble?: Toward a Theology of Marriage.  It is written by David W. Jones and John K. Tarwater of [...]

Beat the Odds

These are my notes on the Sunday morning sermon by Dr. David McKinley at Prestonwood Baptist Church for 20 August 2006.
Focal passage: 1 Samuel 17
There are three types of learning styles: auditory (hearing it), visual (seeing it), and kinesthetic (doing it).  To reach all these styles, the message today will be told as scenes. 
This is the [...]

Paul’s Use of Foreknowledge and Predestination in Romans 8:28-30 (Part 2)

(This is part 2 of 6; Click for: part 3; part 1. Appendix available upon request)

FOREKNOWLEDGE
Paul explains how the calling of the saints occurs. Verse 28 describes a beginning in man’s lost estate. The first step God takes is to foreknow the saint. Προγινώσκω is used seven times in the New Testament as either a verb or [...]

Absent From the Body

Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 about the temporal and the eternal.  He was encouraged by God’s promise, sealed in the Holy Spirit, that when his time on earth was done, he would be in the presence of the Lord.  In verses seven and eight he writes, “for we walk by faith, not by sight– we are [...]