Last Things
Predestination is the doctrine that God sovereignly and unconditionally chose certain individuals to be redeemed before the creation of the world.
Key Text: Rom. 9:1-29
What is Predestination?
Ecclesiology - The church is the covenant assembly of God, called from all nations, to be a holy sanctuary where God's glory dwells and his blessings are communicated to his people who serve him as a kingdom of priests in accordance to his commands. A congregationalist church governs itself under the authority of Christ by the two offices of _____ and _____.
Acts 2:42-47; 1 Pet. 2:4-10
What are pastors and deacons?
Jesus Christ is one person possessing two complete natures. These natures are without confusion, change, division, or separation.
Key text: Matt. 16:13-17
What is the Person of Christ?
The attributes of God that are exclusive to him, showing that he is not only quantitatively greater, but qualitatively greater than humans. These attributes are his aseity, immutability, infinity, and simplicity.
Key texts: John 5:26; Malachi 3:6; 2 Peter 3:8; Deuteronomy 6:4
What are Incommunicable Attributes?
The self-communicated action of God through his word and acts in which he perfects fellowship with man who comes to know, love, and fear him by Spirit-illumined faith.
Key text: Heb. 1:1-3
What is Special Revelation?
Those who are truly saved will be preserved by God's power and will persevere in faith until they reach eternal glory. Glorification is the final stage of salvation when God perfectly completes believers, bringing them into participation of his glory.
John 10:26-29; Romans 8:30
What is Perseverance and Glorification?
Church _______ is the act of the church where they confront someone in sin, call them to repent, and in continuous and deliberate sin, they will be removed from the congregation with the aim of reconciliation, protecting the rest of the congregation, and honoring Christ.
Matt. 18:15-20; 1 Cor. 5:4
What is Discipline?
Christ suffered on behalf of the church the penalty that was due for her sins and thereby satisfied both the justice and mercy of God
Key Text: Isa. 52:13-53:12
What is the Atonement?
The God of the Scriptures is a God of steadfast ___ and the ___ He has for His church is unconditional, irreversible and our chief comfort.
Key text: 1 John 4:8
What is the Love of God?
The Word of God is breathed out by God and contained in sixty-six books, which can neither be added to or subtracted from.
Key text: Matt. 5:17-18; 2 Pet. 1:19-21
What is Inspiration and Canon?
Hell is a place of eternal agony and separation from the Lord, the just punishment for rebelling against the Lord. Heaven is where the Lord dwells, where there is no sin or rebellion against his reign.
In this place, his rule will be fully established on earth and his people will dwell in perfect harmony, joy, peace, and pleasure with him.
2 Thess. 1:8-10; Rev. 21-22
What is the New Creation?
This is commanded by Christ as an act that signifies our death, burial, and resurrection with him. It is reserved for believers only because they are the members of the new covenant inaugurated by Christ.
Jeremiah 31:31-34; Matt. 28:19-20; Col. 2:11-12
What is Baptism?
Saving faith consists of not only of knowing what is true and affirming it, but also of trusting and embracing it. Repentance is the act where a sinner hates his sin and turns from it, turning to God and walking in obedience.
Matthew 4:17; 2 Cor. 7:8-11; Hebrews 11:1, 6
What is Faith and Repentance?
This is not just foreknowledge, but God's ongoing care for and direction of all he created. The three aspects of it are preservation, concurrence, and governance.
Key Texts: Colossians 1:15-17; Genesis 50:20
What is Providence?
Doing this against God is both privation and rebellion and results in the depravity of man.
Key text: Gen. 3
What is Sin?
There are four primary views of Christ’s _____, all of which have stirred up much division within Christ’s church, but should instead stir up hope.
Rev. 20
What is the Millenium?
This is to be God-centered, regulated by God and on God’s appointed Lord’s Day.
John 4:20-24
What is Worship?
The act of God where he calls sinners through the proclamation of the gospel and the inward renewal by the Spirit to produce repentance and faith in
Christ.
Ezekiel 36:25-28; John 6:44; Romans 3:9-19
What is Calling and Regeneration?
God is incomprehensible yet knowable and therefore we approach Him as both the transcendent and immanent Lord.
Key text: Isa. 55:8-9
What is the Knowledge of God?
The Triune God is the Maker of heaven and earth, He has made all things good, and has made man as pinnacle of this thing that will one day be restored.
Key text: Gen. 1-2
What is Creation?
This state refers to the condition of people between their bodily death and their bodily resurrection. Immediately upon death, everyone goes to be with the Lord or eternally separated. When Christ returns he will finally judge the living and the dead.
2 Cor. 5:1-10
What is the Intermediate State?
Church ________ is the formal relationship between a local church and an individual Christian who has been affirmed by the church, under the care of the pastors, and devoted to one another.
Matt. 18:15-20; 1 Cor. 5:4
What is Membership?
“Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein He pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone” - WSC Q33
Key Text: Rom. 3:21-26
What is Justification?
This most central doctrine to Christianity, though impossible to fully comprehend, is undeniably Scriptural.
Key text: Matt. 3:16-17; 28:19
What is the Holy Trinity?
God reveals Himself through all of creation, but this revelation is not sufficient to save sinners.
Key text: Rom. 1:18-23
What is General Revelation?