chapter 20 the 5 parts of john calvin’s doctrine

JULY 22, 2015

CHAPTER 20

THE 5 PARTS OF JOHN CALVIN’S DOCTRINE

THE 5 PARTS OF JOHN CALVIN’S DOCTRINE

MOST DENOMINATIONS ADHERE TO PARTS IF NOT ALL OF CALVIN’S TEACHINGS

THE 5 PARTS OF JOHN CALVIN’S DOCTRINE

1. TOTAL HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY EVERY CHILD IS BORN WITH SIN

"Raccoon" John Smith

1784-1868

“RACCOON” JOHN SMITH

IN THE EARLY 1800’S HE STARTED PREACHING FOR THE “CALVINIST” BAPTIST CHURCH

In 1814, after much thought, John took his wife and four children to Alabama with dreams of settling and

farming a large farm and eventually becoming a prosperous landowner. But, as we will see, God had other plans for this man. The Smiths settled into a

house near Huntsville and rapidly found new friends.

Then tragedy struck. When he was away from home on a preaching mission and his wife was visiting an ill neighbor, a fire broke out in the Smith cabin and was totally destroyed. Inside, fatally trapped, were the two Smith children, seven-year old Eli and two-year old Elvira. Grief stricken, Anne went to bed, unwilling to

acknowledge the tragic loss of her children.

She sank into deep depression and refused to eat. Slowly, in spite of all efforts to save her, she

weakened and died within months and was buried in Alabama.

The deaths of his two young children caused him to question the Calvinism of the day, as under the

doctrine he’d been taught, the children were surely lost.

Smith moved to Kentucky, where he remarried.

While preaching at Bethel Baptist Church in Parmleysville, John began to question some of the

tenets of his own church. The doctrine which expressed eternal damnation of infants disturbed him

powerfully. He did not want to believe that his own two children after suffering a particularly painful death, would be condemned by God to eternal

suffering.

HE STARTED SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH AND BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH ALEXANDER

CAMPBELL AND BARTON STONE AND LISTENING TO THEM PREACH HE WAS CONVERTED.

He labored hard to get others to accept the truth, and his labors were not in vain. He was able to get entire congregations of the Baptist faith to turn away from their creed and theories and accept the Bible and

work and worship as it directed.

At another time, after he had shown the absurdities of the mourner's bench theory of getting religion, he was asked: "What is the difference between your baptism and our mourner's bench?" He replied: "One is from

heaven, the other is from the sawmill."

Smith was a tall, wiry man. He was known to enter a new town, find the preacher for the local Presbyterian

Church, and begin to drag him through the town square, announcing to all that he intended to baptize him in the river. Inevitably, the preacher would sputter that it would do no good to baptize a man against his

will!

Smith would reply, “But you baptize babies against their will every day, with the poor babies crying out

just as you are doing!” He’d then announce the time and place of his preaching that night, and always

draw a large crowd.

John Smith died on February 28, 1868, and was buried in Lexington, Kentucky

THE 5 PARTS OF JOHN CALVIN’S DOCTRINE

2. UNCONDITIONAL PREDESTINATION IT WAS PREDETERMINED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN WHETHER YOU WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE OR DAMNINATION.

THE 5 PARTS OF JOHN CALVIN’S DOCTRINE

3. LIMITED ATONEMENT DEATH OF CHRIST ATONED ONLY FOR THE SINS OF THE ELECT (THOSE PREDESTINED TO BE SAVED)

THE 5 PARTS OF JOHN CALVIN’S DOCTRINE

4. IRRESTIBLE GRACE TEACHES THAT WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE ALONE

THE 5 PARTS OF JOHN CALVIN’S DOCTRINE

5. PERSEVERANCE IN GRACE ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to

seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the

truth.

1 TIMOTHY 4: 1-3

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

MATTHEW 23: 9

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death,

blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

DEUT 30: 19

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of

the wicked shall be upon him.

Ezek 18: 20

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-

ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 PETER 3: 9

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear

and trembling.

PHILLIPIANS 2: 12

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

GAL 5: 4

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison,

that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee

a crown of life.

REV 2: 10

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with

the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

1 JOHN 2: 2

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly,

in this present world;

TITUS 2: 11-12

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and

were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

HEBREWS 6: 4-6

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have

preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

1 COR 9: 27

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in

his deed.

JAMES 1: 25

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

MATT 24: 35

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

JOHN 17: 17

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for

instruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

2 TIM 3: 16-17

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have

preached unto you, let him be accursed.

As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have

received, let him be accursed.

GAL 1: 8-9

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

2 TIM 4: 3-4

CHAPTER 21

ACTS 2: 38

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus

Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

ACTS 2: 38

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus

Christ because of the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

ACTS 2: 38

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ “EIS” the remission of sins, and ye shall

receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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MATTHEW 26: 28

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

MATTHEW 26: 28

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many BECAUSE OF the remission of sins.