God and Salvation

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GOD'S PART IN SALVATION

Scriptures to Study

1. Ephesians 1:4-6 God planned it from the beginning of time.
2. Genesis 3:15
        A. Seed of woman = virgin birth
        B. Bruise head of serpent
                1. Serpent = Satan
                2. Head wound = kill, destroy
                3. I John 3:8
3. Isaiah 7:14
        A. Double-meaning prophesy
                1. Genesis 15:5 - Galatians 3:16
                2. Hosea 11:1 - Matthew 2:15
        B. The two meanings
                1. Before a new king can arise-threat will be gone
                2. Virgin Birth of Christ will remove the threat
4. Isaiah 53:3-9
        3 -        Despised and rejected
                A man of sorrows
                Acquainted with grief

        4 -        Bears our grief, sorrows
                Stricken, smitten of God, afflicted

        5 -        Wounded for our transgressions
                Our chastisement was upon him
                We are healed by his stripes

        6 -        We are like sheep, wandering away
                We "do our own thing"
                He has our iniquity on himself

        7 -        Oppressed, afflicted
                Opened not his mouth
                Lamb to the slaughter

        8 -        Who will stand up for him?
                Cut off from the living

        9 -        Grave with the wicked
                Grave with the rich
                Did no violence
                No deceit in his mouth

Questions to Answer

1. Why did Jesus die?

2. Did he have to die?

3. For whom did Jesus die?
        A. All the world alive when he died?
        B. Those who lived before he came to earth?
        C. Those (like us) who were yet unborn?
        D. All men of all time?

4. Look at John 19:30 "It is finished."
        A. What was completed?
        B. Was the work of salvation completed?

5. Will all men be saved?
        A. Explain - If Jesus died for all men?
                 If salvation is complete?
        B. Will the majority of all men be saved?

6. Study and explain the following:
        A. Matthew 7:21-23
        B. John 5:28-29
        C. Matthew 7:13-14
        D. II Peter 3:9
        E. Luke 13:3
        F. John 8:24