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When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He frees him from his natural bondage under sin,7 and by His grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good;8 yet so as that by reason of his remaining corruptions, he does not perfectly, nor only will, that which is good, but does also will that which is evil.9

7 Col. 1:13; John 8:36
8 Phil. 2:13
9 Rom. 7:15,18–19,21,23

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This will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in the state of glory only.10

10 Eph. 4:13

1. In this earthly tent, we groan!, (vv.1-4).

2. While we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord, (vv.5-8).

3. We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ!, (vv.9-10).

Acts 20:28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Because;

1. It Is Jesus Who Was Crucified, (v.1).

2. The Spirit Is Given & Received By Faith, (vv.2-5).

3. Father Abraham Had Faith, (v.6).

1. God Has Numbered Our Days

2. God Gives Us Specific Opportunities To Do Specific Things

3. God Has Given Us Work To Do

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Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good and well-pleasing to God,2 but yet was unstable, so that he might fall from it.3

2 Eccles. 7:29
3 Gen. 3:6

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Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation;4 so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin,5 is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.6

4 Rom. 5:6, 8:7
5 Eph. 2:1,5
6 Titus 3:3–5; John 6:44

1. Lot’s Choice For Himself, (vv.10-13).

2. God’s Choice For Abram, (vv.14-17).

3. Abram’s Response To God, (v.18).

1.A justified life is experienced through the right understanding of the Gospel (v.17-18)

2.A justified life is experienced through a proper understanding of the Law (v.19)

3.A justified life is a present reality that is experienced everyday of our lives (v.20-21)

1.Jesus Christ is our pattern.

2.Renewing our minds.

3.The Word and Prayer.

4.Reading and Meditation

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God has endued the will of man with that natural liberty and power of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor by any necessity of nature determined to do good or evil.1

1 Matt. 17:12; James 1:14; Deut. 30:19