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Oct 15, 2017

#3 - Grace Alone

Passage: Ephesians 2:8-9

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: Reformation - The Five Solas of the Reformation

Category: Ephesians

Summary:

Main Text - Ephesians 2:8-9; OT Reading - Deuteronomy 4:32-40; NT Reading - Ephesians 2:1-10

Detail:

The Five Solas of the Reformation – 10/15/2017

 #3 - Sola Gratia

 

 Ephesians 2:8-9 teaches, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”

  1. Certain by Grace Alone but then….   From Paul to Augustine  

 

     Prescience –

                                                        

     a slow chipping away  

 

 

  1. Possible without Grace But Not Certain  

 

      Augustine  

 

     Pelagius –  

 

 

  1. Possible with some grace but Not certain– the middle Ages

 

        Semi-Pelagianism & Prevenient grace  

 

4  Certain  by Grace Alone

 

     Paul to Luther

 

             RC = Grace is unmerited favor earned by good works???

 

                                       

            Luther – Sola Scriptura led to Sola Gratia – Grace is the unmerited favor of God  

                                      Ephesians 2:8-10      

                                      Titus 3:4-

                                      John 1:10-13    

 

  1. Possible but not certain with some grace OR Certain by Grace Alone

 

     After Luther to Now

 

             Possible but not certain with some grace           

                                     

                   Thanks tol…

                                       

             Certain by Grace Alone

 

               Thanks to…