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Introduction: Effectual Calling and Making that Calling Sure

I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)

II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Fruitfulness (5-9)

II. Salvation's Surety: The Believer's Security (10-11)

I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)

     A. An Inheritance Granted by Grace (3a)

    B. An Inheritance Grounded in God's Call (3b)

        1. The External and Internal Call to Salvation

        2. A Look at 1 Peter 2:9 . . .

            a. Effectual calling and the Reformation

          b. Three things that are required for something to be a good work in God’s sight

            1. Must be true (biblical warrant)

            2. Done in faith

            3. Done to God’s glory

          c. Rightly defining “free will”

          d. God called us from “darkness to light”