tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9587288869721683222024-03-13T19:21:06.209-07:00BIBLE DOCTRINE AND MESSAGEThe doctrines of the Bible are the backbone of revelation, and the attentive student of the Bible has to be impressed with the New Testament emphasis on "sound doctrine" (Mt. 7:28; Jn. 7: 16-17; Acts 2:42; Ro 6:17; Eph 4:14; 1 Tim 1:... 3;. 4: 6,16; 6: 1; 2 Tim 3: 10,16; 4:. 2-3; 2 John. 940). And with that persudirse of salvation.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-50071256100701567262016-04-03T13:48:00.000-07:002016-04-03T13:48:09.419-07:00DOCTRINE, CREED AND CONFESSION OF FAITH CHRISTIAN CHURCH BIBLICAL<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NATURE OF RELIGION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible tells us that man was created in the image of God and that even when this fell into sin image of the High God was not completely erased or man or ceased to be the bearer of this image.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the sinful nature of man to react against it, the seed of religion is implanted in every man and missionaries testify that religion expressed in one form or another, is in all nations and tribes Earth. What many denounce as a curse or the "opium of the people" it is one of the greatest blessings that mankind has experienced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Religion not only affects the depths of human life but also controls your thoughts, feelings and desires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What thing is for religion? Only through the study of the Word of God we can understand the nature of true religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word "religion" comes not from the biblical original Greek and Hebrew but Latin. In our translation of the Bible we are found four times, Acts 26: 5, James 1: 26-27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Old Testament defines religion as "the fear of the Lord". This fear is not a feeling of terror, but a reverent respect for God. It is a fear that accompany love and trust. This is the response of the Old Testament believer to the revelation of the Law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the New Testament it is rather the response to the Gospel to the law, and is presented in the form of faith and piety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The scriptures teach us that religion is a relationship of man to God in which man realizes the absolute majesty and infinite power of God, on par with your own smallness and insignificance and its complete impotence .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can thus define religion as well: A relationship with God voluntary and conscious, which is expressed in an overflowing adoration of gratitude and loving service. The form of this religious worship and service to God, is not the product of the arbitrary will of man, but has been determined by God himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MEMORY TO LEARN ABOUT THE NATURE OF RELIGION:<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Deut. 10: 12-13. " And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love and serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and can all your soul; To keep the commandments of Jehovah and his statutes which I command thee to thy good? "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Sal. 111: 10. "The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. Good understanding have when they that work; His praise endures forever. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ec. 12:13. "Fear God and keep his commandments; because this is the whole duty of man. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 6:29. "This is the work of God, that you believe in he has sent."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Acts 16:31. "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE SOURCE OF RELIGION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are certain erroneous views about the source of religion in man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some speak of religion as if it were a knowledge that resides in intelligence. Others believe that it is a feeling of closeness to God and located in the area psychic feeling, while others put their emphasis on the moral activity of man and the will speak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All these opinions are biased and contrary to Scripture, who teach us that religion has to do with the heart. In biblical psychology we found that the heart is the central organ of the soul. It is the heart of where the wellspring of life, thoughts, feelings and desires, Proverbs 4:23. Religion includes all the faculties of man, intellectual, emotional and moral. This is the only opinion that fits the nature of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MEMORY TO LEARN ABOUT THE SOURCE OF RELIGION:<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Sal. 51:10, 17. "Create in me, O God, a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; Contrite and humbled heart desapreciarás are not you, O God. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Prov. 4:23. "Above all else Keep your heart because it is the wellspring of life."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Matthew 5: 8. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">During the last fifty years it has carefully studied the question of the origin of religion. He tried to give natural explanations of it, but without success. Some spoke of it as the invention of cunning and deceitful priests who tried to make it and in primitive times, a source of income, but today this explanation has lost all its value.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Others claimed that religion began with the worship of inanimate objects (fetishes) or with the worship of the spirits of the ancestors. However this explanation did not come to solve the 'problem of how it came to this worship of inanimate objects or living. There were those who believed that religion originated with the worship of nature, ie, its wonders and powers or the practice of magic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The essential defect of all these theories is that they do not tell us how man came to be a religious being and all start with the concept of an already religious man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible gives us the true and only story about the origin of religion. First he tells us about the existence of God, the only worthy object of worship. Then God says and says, whom the man would never discover their natural abilities, first revealed in nature and in a special way in his divine Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This God, the Bible says, requires worship and service of man and also defines the kind of worship and service that pleases him. Finally, the Bible teaches that God created man in his image and likeness, and thereby enabled him to understand and respond to his revelation and at the same time engendered in him a natural desire to seek fellowship with God, and glorify Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MEMORY TO LEARN ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION:<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Genesis 1:27. "And God created man in his image, in the image of God created it ."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Deut. 4:13. "And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to 'perform, the ten words" (or commandments).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ezekiel 36:26. "And I give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">REVELATION ITSELF.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The study of religion leads us to the study of the origin of revelation. If God had not revealed, religion would be impossible. If God had not released the man would have had no knowledge of God, and by itself, he would never have come to discover God. In this study we distinguish the revelation of God in nature, and his revelation in Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Atheists and agnostics do not believe in revelation. The pantheistic talk about it sometimes, even when they have no place for her in his philosophical system. Deists admit that God is revealed in nature but deny the necessity, reality and even the possibility of a special revelation as it is given in Scripture. We believe, however, in general disclosure and other special. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">General revelation<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The general disclosure differs from its special revelation only as regards the time. This revelation is given to us in the form of verbal communication, but in fact, you were and laws of nature, in the constitution and operation of the human mind and the facts of experience and history. The Bible speaks of it in so many passages as Ps. 19: 1-2; Ro. 1: 19-20; 2:14:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FAILURE OF GENERAL REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">While Pelagians, Rationalists and Deists believe this revelation as sufficient for our present needs, the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches agree that it is not enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The stain of sin that fell on the creation obscured this revelation. Nevertheless, the image of the Creator was not completely erased the man, but became hazy and indistinct. Currently we not give us certain knowledge of God and spiritual things, and therefore can not give us a sure foundation upon which we can build for our eternal future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The failure of this natural revelation is demonstrated in the confusion among those seeking to establish their religion on a natural basis. If such disclosure is not yet an adequate basis for religion in general, the less for the true religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In fact, even the pagan nations appeal to some supposed natural revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, this revelation completely fails in regard to meeting the needs of sinners. Even though it gives us some knowledge of goodness, wisdom and power of God does not give us any knowledge of Christ as the only way of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE VALUE OF GENERAL REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The foregoing does not mean that general revelation is of no value. This revelation explains the true elements that are still in pagan religions. Because of this revelation, the nations feel they are the offspring of God, Acts 17:28, and seek God, if perhaps they might grope for him and find him, Acts 17:27, contemplate nature in its eternal power and divinity, ro. 1: 19-20, and do, by nature the things of the law, Rom. 2: 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The fact that the pagans living in the darkness of sin and ignorance, and corrupted the truth of God, does not prevent them that somehow participate in the illumination of His Word, John 1: 9 and in the general work his Spirit, Gn. 6: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">At the same time, the general revelation of God establishes a precedent for special revelation. This would not be fully understood without it. Science and history illuminate the pages of the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MEMORY TEXTS TO LEARN ABOUT THE GENERAL REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Sal. 8: 1. "O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Sal. 19: 1-2. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handywork. The one day day utters speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rom. 1: 20. "For the invisible things of him, his eternal power and divine nature , have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rom. 2: 14-15. "For the Gentiles who do not have law do by nature what the law, these, having not thelaw, are a law unto themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Showing the work written in their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and law accusing or else excusing their thoughts with each other. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SPECIAL REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition to the revelation of God in nature we have His special revelation locked in the Scriptures. The Bible book of special revelation of God is. This is a revelation in which the words and deeds complement each other; the words interpret the facts and they credited the words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NEED FOR SPECIAL REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The entrance of sin into the world necessitated this special revelation. The vision of God's hand, which until then had been revealed in nature, was obscured and corrupted. The man was spiritually blind, subject to error and disbelief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even now his blindness and perversion you from correctly interpreting the remaining vestiges of the original revelation, and is totally unable to understand any subsequent divine revelation. It was therefore necessary that God re-interpret the truths of nature, proveyera a new revelation of His redemption and illuminate the human mind and redeem the power of error.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Number. 12: 6-8. "And he said , Hear now my words: If hast prophet of the Lord will appear to him in avision, in a dream I speak with him. Not so my servant Moses, who is faithful in all my house. Word of mouth will speak to him. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Heb. eleven. "God spoke many times and in many ways formerly to the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days has spoken to us by his Son."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2nd Pe. 1: 21. "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SPECIAL FORMS OF REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God gave His special revelation to man in different ways:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Theophanies or visible manifestations of God. God revealed His presence in the form of fire and cloud, Ex.3: 2; 33: 9; Ps . 78: 14; 99: 7; in tempestuous winds, Job 38: 1; Ps . 18: 10-16 and in a still small voice, 1 Kings 19: 12. All these were manifestations of his presence, which were to reveal something of his glory.Among the Old Testament appearances, are very prominent the Angel of the Lord, the second person of the Trinity, Genesis 16: 13 and 31:11; Acts. 23: 20-23; Mal 3: 1. The most sublime point of the revelation of God to men was the incarnation of Jesus Christ. In it, the Word of God became flesh and dwelt among us.John 1:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Direct communications Sometimes God spoke directly to men as Moses and the people of Israel, Deut. 5: 4 and sometimes by means of the prophets through the internal operation of the Holy Spirit, 1 Peter 1: 11. In other cases revealed by means of dreams and visions and also by the Urim and Thummim, no. 12: 6, Isaiah 27:21 6. in the New Testament we find Jesus Christ as the Divine Master sent to reveal the will of his Father and his Spirit the apostles became organs of subsequent revelations, John 14; 26; .. 1 Corinthians 2: 12-13;1 Thess. 2:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Miracles; The miracles of the Bible should never be considered as mere wonders to fill men with amazement but as an essential part of God's revelation. They are manifestations of a special divine power and presence of God in a particular way. In many cases are symbols of spiritual truths, of the coming Kingdom of God and the divine power for redemption. The greatest miracle was the coming of the Son of God in human form. It is in Christ that the whole creation is restored and restored to its original beauty. 1 Tim. : 16; Rev. 21: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE CHARACTER OF THE SPECIAL REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This special revelation of God speaks of redemption. It teaches us God's plan for the redemption of sinners and the world, and how this plan is carried out. In a special way renews man, brightens your mind and inclined to do good, so full of holy aspirations and prepares for the heavenly home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This redemption is presented to us as a fact that not only enriches our knowledge, but transforms the lives of sinners and saints ago. Such a revelation is progressive. The great truths of redemption first appear very dark, but gradually illuminate until the New Testament appear in all its beauty and fullness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">1 SCRIPTURE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Holy Scriptures are the only sufficient, certain and infallible rule of all knowledge, faith and obedience saviors .: 2 Tim. 3: 15-17; Is 8:20.; Lk. 16:29, 31; Eph. 2:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the light of nature and the works of creation and providence so manifest kindness, wisdom and power of God that leave men without excuse: Rom. 1: 19-21, 32; Ro. 2: 12a, 14, 15;Psalm 19: 1-3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, they are not enough to give the knowledge of God and his will which is necessary for salvation: Ps 19: 1-3 with vv. 7-11; Ro. 1: 19-21; 2: 12a, 14,15 with 1: 16.17 and 3:21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, it pleased the Lord, at different times and in different ways, to reveal himself and declare his will to his church: I 1: 1,2a.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And then, to better preserve and spread the truth and to a more secure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh , and the malice of Satan and the world, he liked to write down this revelation in its entirety, which makes the Holy Scriptures very necessary. Prov .22: 19-21; Lk. 1: 1-4; 2 Peter 1: 12-15; 3: 1; Dt . 17: 18ff .; 31: 9ff . , 19ff .; 1 Corinthians 15: 1; 2 Thes. 2: 1, 2.15; 3:17; Ro. 1: 8-15; Gal. 4: 20; 6: 11; 1 Tim. 3:14. Ap . 1: 9, 19; 2: 1, etc .; Ro. 15: 4; 2 Peter 1: 19-21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Having ceased and previous ways by which God revealed his will to his people: I 1: 1,2a; Acts. 1:21, 22; 1 Cor 9: 1; 15: 7, 8; Eph. 2:20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Under the name of Holy Scripture or Word of God written, they are included all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">OLD TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NEW TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, of Romans Apostles, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1st Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They were given by inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life: 2nd Ti. 3: 16 1st Ti. 5: 17,18; 2nd Peter 3: 16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, not part of the canon or rule of Scripture and, therefore, have no authority to the church of God, nor should they beaccepted or used in the same way except that other human writings: Lc. 24: 27.44; Ro. 3: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The authority of Scripture, why be believed, does not depend on the testimony of any man or church: Lc. 16: 27-31; Gal. 1: 8.9; Eph. 2:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author of it; therefore, it must be received because itis the Word of God: 2 Tim. 3:15; Ro. 1: 2; 3: 2; Acts. 2:16; 4:25; Mt. 13:35; Ro. 9:17; Gal. 3: 8; Ro. 15: 4; 1 Cor 10:11; Mt. 22:32; Lk. 16:17; Mt 22: 41ss; 10:35 June.; Gal. 3:16; Acts. 1:16; 2: 24ff; 13:34, 35; June 19: 34-36 . ; 19:24; Lk. 22:37; Mt. 26:54; 13:18 June.; 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1: 19-21;Matthew 5:17, 18; 4: 1-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The testimony of God's church can be moved and induced to have a high and reverent esteem for Scripture: 2 Ti. 3:14, 15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And the celestial nature of the content, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the harmony of all parties, proposed to reach across a whole (which is to give all glory to God), full disclosure that give the only way of salvation for man, and many other incomparable excellencies ,and the entire perfections thereof, are arguments which give abundant evidence of being the Word of God: .Jer. 23:28, 29; Lk. 16: 27-31; 6:63 June.; 1 Peter 1: 23-25; I have 4:12, 13; Dt . 31: 11-13;20:31 June.; Gal. 1: 8, 9; Mark 16:15, 16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority comes from the inward work of the Holy Spirit, who testifies in our hearts through the Word and with it: Mt. 16:17; 1 Cor 2: 14ff .; June 3. 3; 1 Cor 2: 4,5; 1 Thes. 1: 5.6; June 1 . 2: 20.21, with v. 27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scriptures; to which nothing at any time, it must be added, whether by new revelation of the Spirit or traditions of men: 2 Ti. 3: 15-17; Deut . 4: 2; Acts. 20:20, 27; Psalm 19: 7; 119: 6, 9, 104.128.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God is necessary for a saving understanding of the things revealed in the Word: Jun . 6:45; 1 Corinthians 2: 9-14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And there are some touching to the worship of God and the government of the Church, common to human actions and societies, to be determined according to the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of circumstances the Word, which must always be kept: 1 Cor 14: 26,40<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Not all things in Scripture are equally clear in themselves. 2 Peter 3:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Neither are equally clear to all: 2 Ti. 3: 15-17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, the things that are necessary to know, believe and keep for salvation, are proposed and forth so clearly in one or another place of Scripture that not only scholars but those who are not, can acquire a sufficient understanding such things by the proper use of ordinary means. 2 Tim. 3: 14-17; Psalm 19: 7-8; 119: 105; 2 Peter 1:19; Pr . 6: 22,23; Dt . 30: 11-14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the language of God's people in ancient times) Ro. 3: 2, 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And the New Testament in Greek (which at the time was written was the language most commonly known among the nations), being inspired by God immediately and kept pure throughout all time by his special care and providence, they are, therefore, authentic: Mt. 5:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So that, in all religious controversy, the church must appeal to them as the determining authority: Is 8:20;. Acts. 15:15; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17; June 10. 34-36.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But because these original languages are not known for all the people of God, who is entitled to the Scriptures and interest in them, and is commanded to read and search them : Dt . 17: 18-20; Pr 2: 1-5;. 8:34; Jun. 5:39, 46.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In the fear of God, have to be translated into the common language of every nation to which are carried: 1 Corinthians 14: 6, 9, 11, 12, 24, 28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For the Word of God dwelling richly in all may worship Him in an acceptable manner and that, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures have hope: Col. 3:16; Ro. 15: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture constitute the Scriptures themselves; and therefore, when a question about the true and full sense of any scripture (which is not manifold, but one) arises, it should be sought in other passages express themselves more clearly. Is 8:20;June 10: 34-36 . ; Acts. 15: 15,16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The supreme judge, by which must decide all religious controversies, and which should be examined all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men and private spirits, and whose sentence we obey, can not be none other than the Holy Scriptures delivered by the Spirit. To these Scriptures so delivered, our faith is reduced in short: Mt. 22:29, 31.32; Eph. 2:20;Acts. 28: 23-25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">2. GOD AND THE HOLY TRINITY<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord our God is a true God, and live: Dt . 6: 4; Jer. 10:10; 1 Corinthians 8: 4, 6; 1 Thes. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">whose livelihood is in himself and is himself infinite in being and perfection. 2. Is 48:12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Whose essence can not be understood by anyone but himself: Ex 3:14;. Job 11: 7, 8; 26:14; Ps 145: 3; Ro. 11:33, 34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is pure, invisible spirit, without body, parts, or passions, who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light: Jun . 4:24; 1 Tim. 1:17; Dt 4:15 . 16; Lk. 24:39; Acts. 14:11, 15; Stg. 5:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is immutable, immense, eternal, inscrutable, almighty, infinite in every way, most holy, mostwise, most free, absolute: Mal . 3: 6; Stg. 1:17; 1 Kings 8:27; Jer.23: 23, 24; Psalm 90: 2; 1 Tim. 1:17;Gn. 17: 1; Ap . 4: 8; Isa . 6: 3; Ro. 16:27; Ps 115: 3; Ex. 3:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With God in himself and for himself all life, glory, goodness and bliss, is all - sufficient in itself and for itself and not in need of any of the creatures he has made, nor deriving any glory from them, but only manifesting his own glory in, by, unto , and upon them: Jul 5:26;. Acts. 7: 2; Ps 148: 13;119: 68; 1 Tim. 6:15; Job 22: 2, 3; Acts. 17:24 25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> He is the only source of all being, of whom, by whom and for whom are all things, taking over all creatures most sovereign dominion to do by them, for them and about them all that pleases him Ap . 4:11; 1 Tim. 6:15; Ro. 11: 34-36; Dn. 4:25 34 And 35.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">all things are naked and open to his eyes; his knowledge is infinite, infallible , and independent of the creature, so that for him there is no contingent or uncertain thing I've 4:13; Ro. 11:33, 34; Ps 147: 5; Acts. 15:18; Ez. 11: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is most holy in all his counsels, in all his works and in his commandments: Ps 145: 17; Ro. 7:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this divine and infinite Being there are three keeps, the Father, the Word or Son and the Holy Spirit: Matthew 3:16, 17; 28:19; 2 Cor 13:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In a substance, power and eternity, each having the whole divine essence, but the essence undivided: Ex 3:14;. John 14: 11; 1 Corinthians 8: 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Father is of none, neither by generation nor procession; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son: they are infinite, without beginning and, therefore, are one God, who is not to be divided in nature and being, but distinguished by several peculiar relative properties and personal relations; the doctrine of the Trinity is the foundation of all our communion with God and our dependence on him consoling: Pr . 8: 22-31; June 1: 1-3 . , 14.18; 3:16; 10:36; 15:26; 16:28; I 1: 2; June 1 4:14.; Gal. 4: 4-6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">3. THE DECREE OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, has declared itself free and unalterably: Pr . 19: 21; Is . 14: 24-27; 46:10, 11; Ps 115: 3; 135: 6; Ro. 9:19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All things, everything that happens: Dn. 4:34, 35; Ro. 8:28; 11:36; Eph. 1:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, so that is why God is neither the author of sin and fellowship with one in the same: Gn.18:25; Stg. 1:13; 1 June 1: 5 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No violence is done to the will of the creature, neither liberty or contingency of second causes are removed, but rather established: Gn. 50:20; 2 Samuel 24: 1; Is . 10: 5-7; Mt. 17:12; 19:11 June.;Acts. 2:23; 4:27 28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In his wisdom which manifests itself in having all things, and power and faithfulness in carrying out its decrees: Nm. 23:19; Eph. 1: 3-5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although God knows everything that could or may happen in all conditions which may involve: 1 S. 23:11, 12; Matthew 11:21, 23; Acts. 15:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However nothing has decreed that foresaw as future or as what had happened in these conditions: Is 40:13, 14;. Ro. 9: 11-18; 11:34; 1 Cor 2:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestined, or foreordained to eternal life through Jesus Christ, to the praise of the glory of his grace , 1 Tim. 5:21;Mt. 25:34; Eph. 1: 5, 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Others are left to act in their sin to their just condemnation, to the praise of the glory of his justice on June 12. 37-40; Ro. 9: 6-24; 1 Peter 2: 8-10; Jud. Four.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> These angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite that it can not increase or decrease: Mt. 22: 1-14; 13:18 June.; Ro. 11: 5, 6; 1 Cor 7: 20-22; 2 Tim. 2:19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Humans who are predestined to life, God (before the foundation of the world, according to his eternal and immutable purpose and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will) has chosen in Christ to everlasting glory, merely by his free grace and Love: Ro. 8:30; Eph. 1: 4 to 6.9; 2 Tim. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> without any other thing in the creature as a condition or cause moving him to it: Ro. 9: 11-16; 11: 5.6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As God has appointed the elect to glory, in the same way, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, he has pre-ordained all the means for this: 1 Peter 1: 2; 2 Thes. 2:13; Eph. 1: 4; 2:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Therefore, those who are chosen, having fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ: 1 Thes. 5: 9, 10;Tit. 2:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> effectually called to faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due time, they are justified, adopted, sanctified: Ro. 8:30; Eph. fifteen; 2 Thes. 2:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> kept by his power through faith unto salvation: 1 Peter 1: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> nobody else is redeemed by Christ, or effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified , and saved, but only the chosen ones: Jul . 6: 64,65; 8:47; 10:26; 17: 9; Ro. 8:28; 1 Jun. 2:19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of deep mystery of predestination be handled with special prudence and care. Dt 29:29; Ro. 9:20; 11:33.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For men, when dealing with the will of God revealed in His Word and to obey it , they can, by the certainty of their effectual calling, be assured of their eternal election: 1 Thes. 1: 4, 5; 2 Peter 1:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Thus, this doctrine afford matter of praise, reverence and admiration of God: Eph. 1: 6; Ro. 11:33.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And humility: Ro. 11: 5, 6.20; Col 3:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And diligence: 2 Peter 1:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and abundant consolation to all that sincerely obey the Gospel: Lk. 10:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">4. CREATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit: I 1: 2; June 1. 2, 3; Gn. 1: 2; Job 26:13; 33: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For the manifestation of the glory of His power, wisdom and goodness Eternals: Ro. 1:20; Jer.10:12; Ps 104: 24; 33: 5, 6; Pr 3:19.; Acts. 14:15, 16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Create or making the world and all things in it, whether visible or invisible: Gn. eleven; June 1. 2;Col 1:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In the span of six days Gn. 2: 1-3; Ex . 20: 8-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And all good: Gn. 1:31; Ec 7:29.; Ro. 5:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female, with rational and immortal souls, making them fit for life with God for which they were created: Gn. 1:27; 2: 7; Stg.2:26; Mt. 10:28; Eq . 12: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Being made in the image of God, in knowledge, righteousness and holiness of truth: Gn. 1: 26,27; 5: 1-3; 9: 6; Ec 7:29.; 1 Corinthians 11: 7; Stg. 3: 9; Col. 3:10; Eph. 4:24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Having the law of God written in their hearts, and power to fulfill it, and yet, with the possibility of transgressing, they are having been left to the liberty of their own will, which was mutable: Ro.1:32; 2: 12a, 14-15; Gn. 3: 6; Ec 7:29.; Ro. 5:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Besides the law written in their hearts, received a command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil; and, while they kept, they were happy in their communion with God and had dominion over the creatures: Gn. 1: 26.28; 2:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">5 DIVINE PROVIDENCE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God, the Creator of all good: Gn. 1:31; 2:18; Psalm 119: 68.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In His infinite power and wisdom: Ps 145: 11; Pr 3:19.; Psalm 66: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> holds, direct, dispose , and govern all creatures: I 1: 3; Is 46:10, . 11; Dn. 4:34, 35; Ps 135: 6; Acts.17: 25-28; Job 38-41.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And everything from the largest to the smallest: Mt. 10: 29-31.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For his most wise and holy providence: Pr . 15: 3; Ps 104: 24; 145: 17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In order for which they were created: Col. 1:16, 17; Acts. 17: 24-28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> According to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own will: Ps 33: 10,11; Eph. 1:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, infinite goodness and mercy: Is 63:14;.Eph. 3:10; Ro. 9:17; Gn.45: 7; Psalm 145: 7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first cause, all things happen immutably and infallibly, so that nothing happens to anyone by chance or without his providence: Acts. 2:23; Pr. 16:33.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, by the same providence, arranges them so that occur depending on the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely , or contingently: Gn. 8:22; Jer. 31:35; Ex 21:13.; Dt . 19: 5; Is . 10: 6, 7; Lk. 13; 3, 5; Acts. 27:31; Matthew 5:20, 21; Phil. 1:19; Pr 20:18.; Lk. 14: 25ss.Pr. 21:31; 1 Kings 22: 28,34; Rt . 2: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God in his ordinary providence makes use of means: Acts. 27:22, 31.44; Is . 55: 10,11; You. 2: 21,22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, you have the freedom to act without them: Os. 1: 7; Lk. 1: 34,35.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> above them: Ro. 4: 19-21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And against them, as he pleases: Ex . 3: 2,3; 2 Kings 6: 6; Dn. 3:27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom , and infinite goodness of God is manifested in His providence to such an extent that its determinant council extends even to the first fall and all other sinful actions both of angels and men: ro. 11: 32-34; 2 Samuel 24: 1; 1 Cr . 21: 1; 1 Kings 22: 22,23;2 Samuel 16:10; Acts. 2:23; 4: 27,28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (And that not by a bare permission), which the most wise and powerfully limits, and also directs and governs in many ways to his most holy purposes: Acts. 14:16; 2 Kings 19:28; Gn. 50:20; Is . 10: 6, 7, 12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> however, so that the sinfulness of the actions of these proceeds only from the creatures, and not God, who , being most holy and righteous, is not, nor can be, the author of sin nor approve: Stg.:13 , 14, 17; June 1 2:16.; Psalm 50:21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The most wise, most just and merciful God often leave for a season his own children to manifold temptations and the corruptions of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins , or to reveal the hidden strength of corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts, to be humiliated; and to lead to a dependence on it more intimate and constant support for it; and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for other just and holy ends: 2 Cr 32:25, 26, 31,. 2 Samuel 24: 1; Lk. 22:34, 35; Mark 14: 66-72; June 21: 15-17 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Therefore, everything that happens to any of his elect is by his appointment, for his glory and for the good of them: Ro. 8:28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As for those wicked and ungodly whom God, as fair, blind and harden because of his previous sin judge men: Ro. 1: 24-26, 28; 11: 7, 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Not only denied his grace which could have illuminated their understanding and acted in their hearts. Deuteronomy 29: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which were: Mt. 13:12; 25:29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and leaves them exposed to things that their corruption makes occasion of sin: Dt . 2:30; 2 Kings 8:12, 13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and, in turn, delivers them to their own lusts, the temptations of the world and the power of Satan: Ps 81:11, 12; 2 Thes. 2: 10-12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">so happens that harden under the same means God uses to soften others: Ex . 7: 3; 8:15, 32; 2 Corinthians 2:15, 16; Isa . 6: 9, 10; 8:14; 1 Peter 2: 7; Acts. 28:26, 27; Jun. 12:39, 40.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Just as God's providence generally reaches all creatures, and also more especially cares for his church and all things for the sake of it: Pr . 2: 7, 8; Am . 9: 8, 9; 1 Tim. 4:10; Ro. 8:28; Eph. 1:11, 22;3:10, 11, 21; Is . 43: 3-5, 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">6. THE FALL OF MAN, SIN AND PENALTIES<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although God created righteous and perfect man, and gave him a righteous law, which had been for life if he had saved, and threatened with death his transgression, man honored for long: Ec. 7:29; Ro. 5: 12a, 14, 15; Gn. 2:17; 4: 25-5: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Using Satan the subtlety of the serpent to subdue Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who without any coercion, deliberately transgressed the law under which they were created and the mandate that had been given them, eating the forbidden fruit: Gn. 3: 1-7; 2 Corinthians 11: 3; 1 Tim. 2:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Which allow pleased God, according to his wise and holy counsel, having ordained for the purpose it was for his own glory: Rom. 11: 32-34; 2 Samuel 24: 1; 1 Cr . 21: 1; 1 Kings 22: 22,23; 2 Samuel 16:10; Acts. 2:23; 4: 27,28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For this sin, our first parents fell from their original righteousness and righteousness and communion with God, and we in them, so death came to all Gn. 3: 22-24; Ro. 5: 12ff. 1 Cor. 15: 20-22; Psalm 51: 4,5; 58: 3; Eph. 2: 1-3; Gn. 8:21; Pr. 22:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Coming be all dead men in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body: Gn. 2:17; Eph. twenty-one; Tit. 1:15; Gn. 6: 5; Jer. 17: 9; Ro. 3: 10-18; 1:21; Eph. 4: 17-19; 5:40 June.; Ro. 8: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They being the root of the human race, and being by God 's design instead of all mankind, the guilt of sin was imputed and transmitted corrupt nature to all posterity descended from them by ordinary generation, being now conceived in sin, and by nature children of wrath, the servants of sin, subject to death and all other - spiritual, temporal and eternal - misery, unless the Lord Jesus set them free: Ro. 5: 12ff. 1 Corinthians 15: 20-22; Psalm 51: 4,5; 58: 3; Eph. 2: 1-3; Gn. 8:21; Pr 22:15.; Job 14: 4; 15:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled , and opposite to all good , and wholly inclined to all evil: Matthew 7: 17,18; 12: 33-35; Lk. 6: 43-45; June 3. 3.5; 6: 37,39,40,44,45,65; Ro. 3: 10-12; 5: 6; 7:18; 8: 7.8; 1 Cor 2:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They come itself all transgressions: Matthew 7: 17-20; 12: 33-35; 15: 18-20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The corruption of nature remains in this life where they are regenerated: June 1 . 1: 8-10; 1 Kings 8:46; Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2; Pr . 20: 9; Ec 7:20.; Ro. 7: 14-25; Stg. 3: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and although that is pardoned and mortified through Christ, herself and her first impulses are truly and properly sin: Psalm 51: 4,5; Pr 22:15.; Eph. 2. 3; Ro. 7: 5, 7, 8, 17, 18,25; 8: 3-13; Gal. 5: 17-24; Pr 15:26.; 21: 4; Gn. 8:21; Matthew 5: 27,28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">7. THE COVENANT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The distance between God and the creature is so great that even though rational creatures owe obedience unto him as their Creator, they could never have attained the reward of life unless by some voluntary condescension on God 's part, that he he has been pleased to express in the form of covenant: Job 35: 7,8; 113: 5.6; Isa . 40: 13-16; Lk. 17: 5-10; Acts. 17: 24,25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In addition, having the man brought the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace: Gn. 3:15; Psalm 110: 4 (with He 7: 18-22; 10: 12-18); Eph. 2:12 (Ro 4: 13-17 and Gal . 3: 18-22 . ); I have 9:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In which freely offers to sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring faith in him so they can be salvos2: Jun . 3:16; Ro. 10: 6.9; Gal. 3:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And promising to give his Holy Spirit to those who are ordained to eternal life, to give them willing and able to believe: Ez. 36: 26,27; June 6. 44.45.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This covenant is revealed in the gospel; first, Adam in the promise of salvation through the seed of the woman, and then through additional steps to complete their full revelation in the New Testament: Genesis. 3:15; Ro. 16: 25-27; Eph. 3: 5; Tit. 1: 2; I 1: 1.2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And that is grounded in federal and eternal transaction that was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect: Psalm 110: 4; Eph. 1: 3-11; 2 Tim. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And it is only through the grace of this covenant as all descendants of the fallen Adam who are saved obtain life and blessed immortality, man being now utterly incapable of being accepted by God under those conditions in which it was Adam in his state of innocence: Jun 8:56;. Ro. 4: 1-25;Gal. 3: 18-22; I have 11: 6, 13, 39,40.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">8. CHRIST THE MEDIATOR<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> pleased God: Is . 42: 1; Jun. 3:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, His only begotten Son, according to the covenant made between them: Psalm 110: 4; I have 7:21, 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To be the mediator between God and man; prophet, priest and king; head and Savior of the church, the heir of all things and judge of the world: 1 Tim. 2: 5; Acts. 3:22; I 5: 5, 6; Psalm 2: 6; Lk. 1:33;Eph. 1:22, 23; 5:23; I 1: 2; Acts. 17:31.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Who gave, from all eternity, a people to be his seed and to his time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified , and glorified: Ro. 8:30; June 17. 6; Isa. 53:10; Ps 22:30; 1 Tim. 2: 6; Isa . 55: 4, 5; 1 Cor 1:30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Son of God, the second person in the Holy Trinity, being very and eternal God, the brightness of the glory of the Father, consubstantial with him and like him, who made the world, and who upholds and governs all things he has done: Jul 8:58;. Jl. 2:32 with Rom. 10:13; Psalm 102: 25 with He 1:10; 1 Peter 2: 3 with Psalm 34: 8; Is . 8: 12,13 with 3:15; June 1: 1 . ; 5:18; 20:28; Ro. 9: 5; Tit.2:13; I 1: 8.9; Phil. 2: 5,6; 2 Peter 1: 1; 1 Jun. 5:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Gal: When the fullness of time came. 4: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He took upon himself the nature of man, with all the essential properties: I 10: 5; Mark 14: 8; Mt. 26: 12,26; Lk. 7: 44-46; 13:23 June.; Mt. 9: 10-13; 11:19; Lk. 22:44; I 2:10; 5: 8; 1 Peter 3:18; 4: 1;June 19. 32-35; Mt. 26: 36-44; Stg. 2:26; June 19:30.; Lk. 23:46; Mt. 26:39; 9:36; Mr. 3: 5; 10:14;11:35 June.; Lk. 19: 41-44; 10:21; Matthew 4: 1-11; I 4:15 with James. 1:13; Lk. 5:16; 6:12; 9: 18.28; 2: 40.52; I have 5: 8, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And with its attendant weaknesses: Matthew 4: 2; Mr. 11:12; Mt. 21:18; June 4. 7; 19:28; 4: 6; Mt. 8:24; Ro. 8: 3; I have 5: 8; 2: 10.18; Gal. 4: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Though sinless: Is 53: 9;. Lk. 1:35; 8:46 June.; 14:30; Ro. 8: 3; 2 Cor 5:21; I 4:15; 7:26; 9:14; 1 Peter 1:19; 2:22; 1 June 3: 5 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, coming upon it the Holy Spirit and cover the Almighty with his shadow; and so it was made of a woman from the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham and David according to the Scriptures: Rom. 1: 3.4; 9: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> So, two whole, perfect and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition , or confusion. This person is truly God: Tit. 2:13; I 1: 8.9; Phil. 2: 5,6; 2 Peter 1: 1; 1 Jun. 5:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And truly man. Acts. 2:22; 13:38; 17:31; 1 Cor 15:21; 1 Tim. 2: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although one Christ, the only mediator between God and man: Rom. 1: 3.4; Gal. 4: 4,5; Phil. 2: 5-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord Jesus, in his thus united to the divine, in the person of the Son, was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit without measure, taking itself all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, in whom it pleased human nature to father that all fullness, so that being holy, innocent and undefiled, and full of grace and truth, was fully capable to execute the office of mediator and guarantor: Psalm 45: 7; Col. 1:19; 2. 3; I 7:26; 1:14 June.; Acts. 10:38; I have 7:22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Which she did not take for himself, but was called to it by his father, who also placed in his hands all power and judgment, and ordered him to fulfill: I 5: 5; June 5th. 22.27; Mt. 28:18; Acts. 2:36.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord Jesus very willingly assumed this office: Psalm 40: 7-8 with Hebrews 10: 5-10; 10:18 June.; Phil. 2: 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and to discharge, born under the law, Gal. 4: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The perfectly fulfilled and suffered the punishment due us, which we should have taken and suffered: Mt. 3:15; 5:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Being made sin and a curse for us: Matthew 26: 37,38; Lk. 22:44; Mt. 27:46.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Enduring the most terrible afflictions in his soul and the most painful sufferings in his body: Mt. 26-27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> He was crucified and died, and remained in the state of the dead, but without seeing corruption: Phil. 2: 8; Acts. 13:37.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> On the third day he rose from the dead with the same body in which he suffered: Jun . 20:25, 27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> With which he also ascended into heaven: Acts. 1: 9-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And there sitteth at the right hand of the Father interceding: Ro. 8:34; I have 9:24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">J.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and return to judge men and angels at the end of the world: Acts. 10:42 Ro. 14: 9, 10; Acts. 1:11; Mt. 13: 40-42; 2 Peter 2: 4; Jud. 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord Jesus, by His perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, Rom. 5:19; Eph. 5: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> They offered God once through the eternal Spirit: I 9:14, 16; 10:10, 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It has fully satisfied the justice of God: Rom. 3:25, 26; I 2:17; 1 June 2: 2;. 4:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">has earned reconciliation: 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19; Col. 1: 20-23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and purchased an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven: I 9:15; P . 5: 9, 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> for all those whom the Father has given him June 17. 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Even though the price of redemption was not actually paid by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy , and benefits thereof were communicated to the elect in all ages from the beginning of the world: Gal . 4: 4, 5; Ro. 4: 1-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the promises, types and sacrifices and through them, in which was revealed and identified as the seed that would bruise the head of the serpent , Gn. 3:15; 1 Peter 1:10, 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Rev. 13: 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Being the same yesterday, today and forever: I 13: 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Christ, in the work of mediation, acts according to both natures, by each nature through what is proper to it; although, because of the unity of the person, which is proper to one nature issometimes in Scripture attributed to the person denominated by the other nature: Jun . 3:13; Acts.20:28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To all those for whom Christ has obtained eternal redemption, certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same: John 6: 37,39; 10: 15,16; 17: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Making intercession for them: 1 June 2: 1,2;. Ro. 8:34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> uniting them to himself by his Spirit: Rom. 8: 1.2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> revealing in the Word and through it the mystery of salvation: Jul . 15: 13,15; 17: 6; Eph. 1: 7-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> persuading them to believe and obey: June 1 5:20..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> governing their hearts by His Word and Spirit. 14:16 June.; I have 12: 2; Ro. 8: 9.14; 2 Cor 4:13; Ro.15: 18,19; Jun. 17:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom: Ps 110: 1; 1 Cor 15: 25,26;Col 2:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So and in ways that best match his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation: Eph. 1: 9-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And all for the free and absolute grace, without any condition foreseen in them to granjearla: June 1 . 3: 8; Eph. 1: 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This office of mediator between God and man is proper only to Christ, who is the Prophet, Priest and King of the church of God; and can not, whole or in part, be transferred from him to any other: 1 Tim. 2: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This number and order of trades are necessary; So our ignorance, we need his prophetic office: Jul . 1:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And our separation from God and the imperfection of the best of our services, we need his priestly office to reconcile us to God and accepted introduce to him: Col. 1:21; Gal. 5:17; I 10: 19-21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And our unwillingness and inability to complete return to God and to redeem ourselves and protect us from our spiritual adversaries, we need his kingly office to convince, subdue, draw us , sustain, deliver and preserve us for his heavenly kingdom: May . 16: 8; Psalm 110: 3; Lk. 1: 74.75.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">9. FREE WILL<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God has endowed man's will a natural freedom and power to act by choice, that is not forced or determined to do good or bad by any necessity of nature: Mt. 17:12; Stg. 1:14; Dt. 30:19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The man, in his state of innocence, had freedom and power to will and to do what was good and pleasing to God. Ec 7:29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">but it was unstable and could fall from that state: Gn. 3: 6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has completely lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; therefore, as a natural man who is entirely opposite to that good , and dead in sin, can by its own forces not convert himself or to prepare for it: Ro. 6: 16,20; June 8. 31-34; Eph. twenty-one; 2 Cor 3:14; 4: 3.4; June 3. 3; Ro. 7:18; 8: 7; 1 Cor 2:14; Mt. 7: 17,18; 12: 33-37;Lk. 6: 43-45; 6:44 June.; Jer. 13:23; June 3. 3, 5; 5:40; 6: 37, 39, 40,44, 45, 65; Acts. 7:51; Ro. 3: 10-12; Stg. 1:18; Ro. 9: 16-18; June 1. 12.13; Acts. 11:18; Phil. 1:29; Eph. 2: 8.9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> When God converts a sinner and move to a state of grace, frees him from his natural bondage tosin and by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and do what is spiritually good: Col. 1:13 ;8:36 June.; Phil. 2:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, because of the corruption that still does not want, neither perfect nor just, what is good, but also wants what is wrong: Ro. 7: 14-25; Gal. 5:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to want only good, only in the state of glory: Eph. 4:13; I 12:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">10. THE CALLING EFFICIENT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those whom God: Rom. 8:28, 29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> has predestined to life: Ro. 8:29, 30; 9: 22-24; 1 Cor 1: 26-28; 2 Thes. 2:13, 14; 2 Tim. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It has a well in its appointed time and acceptable: Jul . 3: 8; Eph. 1:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Call effectively: Mt. 22:14; 1 Cor 1:23, 24; Ro. 1: 6; 8:28; Jud. 1; Psalm 29; 5:25 June.; Ro. 4:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By His Word: 2 Thes. 2:14; 1 Peter 1: 23-25; Stg. 1: 17-25; June 1 5: 1-5;. Ro. 1:16, 17; 10:14; I have 4:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And Ghost: June 3. 3, 5, 6, 8; 2 Corinthians 3: 3, 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> taking them out of the state of sin and death that are by nature and taking them to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ: Rom. 8: 2; 1 Corinthians 1: 9; Eph. 2: 1-6; 2 Tim. 1: 9, 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Illuminating of spiritual and saving way their minds, to understand the things of God: Acts. 26:18;1 Cor 2:10, 12; Eph. 1:17, 18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By taking away the heart of stone and giving them a heart of flesh: Ez. 36:26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">J.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Renewing their wills and, by his omnipotent power, leading them to want to do good, and effectively bringing them to Jesus Christ: Dt . 30: 6; Ez. 36:27; June 6. 44.45; Eph. 1:19; Phil. 2:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">K.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But so come to him freely, having received by the grace of God's willingness to do: Ps 110: 3; 6:37 June.; Ro. 6: 16-18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This effectual call comes exclusively from free and special grace of God, not of anything foreseen in man, nor by power or instrumentality in the creature: 2 Ti. 1: 9; Tit. 3. 4. 5; Eph. 2: 4, 5, 8, 9; Ro.9:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Being altogether passive therein , being dead in trespasses and sins, until it is quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit; 1 Cor 2:14; Ro. 8: 7; Eph. 2: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> is thus able to respond to this call and to receive the grace and transmits it offers, and this by no less power than that raised Christ from the dead Eph. 1: 19,20; 6:37 June.; Ez. 36:27; Jun. 5:25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The children chosen * who die in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who works when, where and how you want: Jun . 3: 8. And so are all the chosen people who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Others, who are not chosen, although they are called by the ministry of the Word and have some common operations of the Spirit: Mt. 22:14; Matthew 13:20, 21; I have 6: 4, 5; Mt. 7:22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Because they are not effectively brought by the Father, do not want nor can truly come to Christ and, therefore, can not be saved: Jul 6:44, 45, 64-66;. 8:24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Much less can be saved who do not receive the Christian religion, no matter how diligent they are in shaping their lives in the light of the nature and the law of the religion they profess: Acts. 4:12;4:22 June.; 17: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">11. THE JUSTIFICATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those whom God effectually calls, also justifies free. Ro. 3:24; 8:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No infusing justice and righteousness but forgiving their sins, and considering and accepting their persons as righteous: Rom. 4: 5-8; Eph. 1: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> not for anything in them or done by them, but only for Christ 's sake: 1 Corinthians 1:30, 31; Ro. 5: 17-19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No imputing faith itself, or the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience as justice; but imputing Christ's active obedience to the whole law and his passive obedience in his death for the complete and only justice from them by faith, which they have not themselves; it is the gift of God: Phil. 3: 9; Eph. 2: 7, 8; 2 Cor 5: 19-21; Tit. 3: 5, 7; Ro. 3: 22-28; Jer. 23: 6; Acts. 13:38, 39.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The faith that receives Christ and trust him and his justice is the only instrument of justification: Ro. 1:17; 3: 27-31; Phil. 3: 9; Gal. 3: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> however, is not alone in the person justified, but is always accompanied by all other saving virtues, and not a dead faith , but works by love: Gal. 5: 6; Stg. 2:17, 22.26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Christ, by his obedience and death, fully discharge the debt of all those that are justified; and by the sacrifice of himself in the blood of his cross, suffering in place of them the punishment they deserved, proper, real and completely to God's justice in favor of them met: Ro. 5: 8-10, 19; 1 Tim.2: 5, 6; I 10:10, 14; Is . 53: 4-6, 10-12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, since Christ was given by the Father for them: Ro. 8:32.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And his obedience and satisfaction accepted in lieu of them: 2 Corinthians 5:21; Mt. 3:17; Eph. 5: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And both freely, not for anything in them, their justification is only of free grace: Rom. 3:24; Eph. 1: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To ensure that both the precise justice as the rich grace of God will be glorified in the justification of sinners: Rom. 3:26; Eph. 2: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">From all eternity, God decreed to justify all the elect: 1 Peter 1: 2, 19,20; Gal. 3: 8; Ro. 8:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And in the fullness of time, Christ died for their sins, and rose again for their justification: Ro. 4:25;Gal. 4: 4; 1 Tim. 2: 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, they are not personally justified until, in due time Christ is actually applied to them by the Holy Spirit: Col. 1: 21,22; Tit. 3: 4-7; Gal. 2:16; Eph. 2: 1-3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God continues to forgive the sins of those who are justified: Mt. 6:12; 1 June 1: 7-2:. 2; June 13. 3-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And although they can never fall from the state of justification. Lk. 22:32; 10:28 June.; I 10:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However , they may, by their sins, fall into God's fatherly displeasure; and in that condition, often they do not receive the restoration of the light of his countenance, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon , and renew their faith and repentance: Psalm 32: 5; 51: 7-12; Mt. 26:75; Lk. 1:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The justification of believers under the Old Testament was, in all these respects, one and the same as the justification of believers under the New Testament: Gal. 3: 9; Ro. 4: 22-24. Chosen: not appear in some editions of Confession, but in the original.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">12. ADOPTION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To all those who are justified: Gal. 3: 24-26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God deigned: 1 June 3: 1-3 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> in his only Son Jesus Christ and love this: Eph. fifteen; Gá.4: 4.5; Ro. 8: 17.29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Make them participate in the grace of adoption, which are included in the number of the children of God and enjoy their liberties and privileges, have their names written on them: Ro. 8:17; 1:12 June.; 2 Cor 6:18; Ap. 3:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> receive the Spirit of adoption, have access to the throne of grace with confidence, trained to cry, "Abba, Father: Rom. 8:15; Eph. 3:12; Ro. 5: 2; Gal. 4: 6; Eph. 2:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> receive compassion, protection, provision and correction as a parent, are never discarded, but are sealed unto the day of redemption: Psalm 103: 13; Pr 14:26.; Matthew 6:30, 32; 1 Peter 5: 7; I have 12: 6; Is 54: 8, 9;. Lm. 3:31; Eph. 4:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And inherit the promises as heirs of eternal salvation: Rom. 8:17; I 1:14; 9:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">13. Sanctification<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who are in Christ, are effectually called and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them by virtue of the death and resurrection of Christ: June 3. 3-8; June 1 2:29.; 3: 9,10; Ro. 1: 7; 2 Cor 1: 1; Eph. eleven; Phil. eleven; Col. 3:12; Acts. 20:32; 26:18; Ro. 15:16; 1 Cor 1: 2; 6:11; Ro. 6: 1-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Even more sanctified of a real and personal way: 1 Thes. 5:23; Ro. 6:19, 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By the same virtue: 1 Co. 6:11; Acts. 20:32; Phil. 3:10; Ro. 6: 5, 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By His Word and Spirit dwelling in them: Jul 17:17;. Eph. 5:26; 3: 16-19; Ro. 8:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The domain of the whole body of sin is destroyed, and the several lusts thereof are weakening and mortifying more and more, and go quickening and strengthening more and more in all the saving virtues, for the practice of all true holiness: ro. 6:14; Gal. 5:24; Ro. 8:13; Col. 1:11; Eph. 3: 16-19; 2 Cor 7: 1; Ro. 6:13; Eph. 4: 22-25; Gal. 5:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No one will see the Lord: I 12:14.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This sanctification is carried out in the whole man, but is incomplete in this life; there are still some remnants of corruption in every part: 1 Thes. 5:23; June 1 . 1: 8.10; Ro. 7: 18.23; Phil. 3:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Where a continual and irreconcilable war arises: 1 Corinthians 9: 24-27; 1 Tim. 1:18; 6:12; 2 Tim.4: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: Gal. 5:17; 1 Peter 2:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In that war, although the remaining corruption prevails much for some time: Ro. 7:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The part regenerated triumphs through the continued provision of forces by the sanctifying Spirit of Christ: Rom. 6:14; June 1 5: 4;. Eph. 4: 15,16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">14. SAVING FAITH<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The grace of faith, whereby the elect are to believe capacity for the salvation of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts, and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the Word: Jun . 6: 37, 44; Acts. 11:21, 24; 13:48; 14:27; 15: 9; 2 Cor 4:13; Eph. 2: 8; Phil. 1:29; 2 Thes. 2:13; 1 Peter 1: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Whereby, and the administration of baptism and the Lord's Supper, prayer and other means appointed by God, that faith increased and strengthened: Ro. 10: 14.17; Lk. 17: 5; Acts. 20:32; Ro.4:11; 1 Peter 2: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By this faith, a Christian believes to be reliable all revealed in the Word for the authority of God himself, and it perceives excellence superior to all other writings and all things in the world, it shows the glory God in his attributes, the excellence of Christ in his nature and offices, and the power and fullness of the Holy Spirit in his works and operations; and thus, the Christian receives ability to trust your soul to the truth and believed. Acts. 24:14; 1 Thes. 2:13; Psalm 19: 7-10; 119: 72.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And also acts differently depending on whether the content of each particular passage: yielding obedience to the commands. 15:14 June.; Ro. 16:26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Shuddering to threats: Is . 66: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And embracing the promises of God for this life and the next. 1 Tim. 4: 8; I 11:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But the main actions of saving faith have to do directly with Christ: accept, receive and rest in him alone for justification, sanctification , and eternal life, under the covenant of grace: Jun . 1:12; Acts.15:11; 16:31; Gal. 2:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This faith, albeit in a different level and may be weak or strong: Mt. 6:30; 8:10, 26; 14:31; 16: 8; Mt. 17.20; I have 5:13, 14; Ro. 4:19 20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It is, however, still at its lowest level, different in kind and nature (as is all other saving grace) from the faith and common grace of those believers who are only for a time: Stg. 2:14; 2 Peter 1: 1;June 1 5: 4..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And as a result, though often attacked and weakened, it is , however, victorious: Lc. 22:31, 32; Eph.6:16; 1 June 5. 4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> growing in many until complete safety: Psalm 119: 114; I have 6:11, 12; 10:22, 23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Through Christ, who is both the author and finisher of our faith: Hebrews 12: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">15. REPENTANCE AND SALVATION FOR LIFE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those of the elect who become when full grown, having lived for some time in the natural state: Tit. 3: 2-5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And having served in the same to various passions and pleasures, God, to call them effectively, give them repentance unto life 2 Cr . 33: 10-20; Acts. 9: 1-19; 16: 29,30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . While there is no one who does good and does not sin: Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2; Pr.20: 9; Ec. 7:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and the best men, through the power and deception of corruption dwelling in them, along with the predominance of temptation, may fall into great sins and provocations: 2 Samuel 11: 1-27; Lk. 22: 54-62.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers who sin and fall thus be renewed through repentance unto salvation: Jer. 32:40; Lk. 22: 31.32; 1 June 1: 9 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This repentance for salvation is an evangelical grace: Acts. 5:31; 11:18; 2 Tim. 2:25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Whereby a person whom the Spirit made aware of the many evils of his sin: Psalm 51: 1-6; 130: 1-3; Lk. 15: 17-20; Acts. 2:37 38.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Through faith in Christ: Psalm 130: 4; Mt. 27: 3-5; Mark 1:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It humiliates by him with a sorrow according to God, he loathes and abhors himself, prays for forgiveness and forces from the grace: Ez. 16: 60-63; 36:31, 32; Zc. 12:10; Mt. 21:19; Acts. 15:19;20:21; 26:20; 2 Corinthians 7:10, 11; 1 Thes. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For the purpose and commitment by providing the Spirit, to walk before God to please Him in all: Pr . 28: 13; Ez. 36:25; 18: 30.31; Psalm 119: 59, 104.128; Matthew 3: 8; Lk. 3: 8; Acts. 26:20; 1 Thes. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Since repentance must continue throughout our lives, because of the body of death and inclinations: Ez. 16:60; Matthew 5: 4; 1 June 1: 9 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is therefore the duty of every man to repent specifically of the specific sins who knows: Lc. 19: 8;1 Tim. 1: 13,15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Such is the provision God has done through Christ in the covenant of grace for the preservation of believers to salvation, although there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation: Psalm 130: 3;143: 2; Ro. 6:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> There is, however, so great sin which causes condemnation to those who repent, which requires the constant preaching of repentance: Isa . 1: 16-18; 55: 7; Acts. 2: 36-38.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">16. GOOD WORKS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . Good works are only those that God has commanded in His Holy Word: Mi 6: 8; Ro. 12: 2; I 13:21;Col. 2: 3; 2 Tim. 3: 16,17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And not, without the authority of this, men have invented by a blind fervor or the pretext that they have good intentions: Matt . 15: 9 Is 29:13; 1 Peter 1:18; Ro. 10: 2; June 16:. 2; 1 Samuel 15: 21-23;1 Cor 7:23; Gal. 5: 1; Col 2: 8.16 to 23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> These good works, done in obedience to God's commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and living faith: Jas. 2:18, 22; Gal. 5: 6; 1 Tim. fifteen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Strengthen security: June 1 . 2: 3, 5; 3:18, 19; 2 Peter 1: 5-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> edify their brethren. 2 Corinthians 9: 2; Mt. 5:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> adorn the profession of the Gospel: Matthew 5:16; Tit. 2: 5, 9-12; 1 Tim. 6: 1; 1 Peter 2:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Tapan mouth of the adversaries: 1 Peter 2:12, 15; Tit. 2: 5; 1 Tim. 6: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . And glorify God, whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus for this: Eph. 2:10; Phil.1:11; 1 Tim. 6: 1; 1 Peter 2:12; Mt. 5:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To that having their fruit unto holiness, have the end eternal life: Rom. 6:22; Mt. 7:13, 14.21 to 23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The ability of believers to do good works is not themselves in any way, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ. And so they can have this capability, in addition to the virtues they have received, theyneed a real influence of the same Holy Spirit to work in them to will and to do of his good pleasure: Ez. 36: 26,27; June 15:. 4-6; 2 Corinthians 3: 5; Phil. 2: 12,13; Eph. 2:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, they should not become careless for it, as if they were not bound by any duty other than a special motion of the Spirit, but must be diligent in stirring up the grace of God in them: Ro. 8:14;June 3. 8; Phil. 2: 12,13; 2 Peter 1:10; I 6:12; 2 Tim. 1: 6; Jud. 20.21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who achieve the highest possible obedience in this life are so far reaching supererogate, and do more of what God requires, they lack much of what of duty are required to do: Kings 8:46 ; 6:36 2 Kr.; Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2; Pr . 20: 9; Ec 7:20.; Ro. 3: 9,23; 7:14 ff .; Gal. 5:17; June 1 . 1: 6-10; Lk.17:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We can not, even by our best works, merit pardon of sin or eternal life in God's hand, because of the great disproportion between our work and the glory that is to come. Ro. 8:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And by the infinite distance between us and God, who can not benefit from these works, nor satisfy the debt of our former sins; even when we have done all we can, but we have not done our duty ,and are unprofitable servants. Job 22: 3; 35: 7; Lk. 17:10; Ro. 4: 3; 11: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And both are good as coming from the Spirit: Gal. 5:22, 23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And as they are made by us, they are impure and are mixed with so much weakness and imperfection that they can not endure the severity of God's punishment: 1st R. 8:46; 6:36 2 Kr.;Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2; Pr . 20: 9; Ec 7:20.; Ro. 3: 9,23; 7: 14.GA. 5:17; June 1 . 1: 6-10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him. Ex 28:38; Eph. 1: 6.7; 1 Peter 2: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Not as if they were in this life wholly blameless and irreproachable in the eyes of God life: 1 Kings 8:46; 6:36 2 Kr.; Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2; Pr . 20: 9; Ec 7:20.; Ro. 3: 9,23; 7; 14ff .; Gal. 5:17; June 1 . 1: 6-10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere ,although it is accompanied by many weaknesses and imperfections: I 6:10; Mt. 25: 21,23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Works done by unregenerate men, although in themselves be things which God commands, and of good use both to themselves and others: 1 Kings 21: 27-29; 2 Kings 10: 30,31; Ro. 2:14; Phil. 1: 15-18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, not come from a heart purified by faith: Gn. 4: 5 with Hebrews 11: 4-6; 1 Tim. fifteen; Ro.14:23; Gal. 5: 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And not be done in a right manner according to the Word: 1 Corinthians 13: 3; Is. 1:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> nor to a right end (glory of God): Matthew 6: 2, 5, 6; 1 Cor 10:31.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">are therefore sinful, and can not please God or make someone worthy to receive grace from God: Rom. 9:16; Tit. 1:15; 3: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And despite this, the neglect of good works is more sinful and displeasing to God: 1 Kings 21: 27-29; 2 Kings 10: 30,31; Psalm 14: 4; 36: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">17. PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those whom God has accepted in the Beloved, and effectually called and sanctified by His Spirit, and who has given the precious faith of his elect can not fall from grace in whole or definitely, but certainly persevere it to the end and be saved for eternity, since the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable, so he continues engendering and nurturing in them faith, repentance, love, joy, hope and all the virtues of the Spirit for immortality: Jul . 10: 28,29; Phil. 1: 6; 2 Tim. 2:19; 2 P.1: 5-10; 1 Jun. 2:19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And even arise and flogged them many storms and floods can never wrest the foundation and rock which by faith are clinging; even though, through unbelief and the temptations of Satan, the perceptible vision of light and love of God can ensombrecérseles and oscurecérseles for a while: Ps 89: 31-32; 1 Cor 11:32; 2 Tim. 4: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He, however, remains the same, and they will be saved, no doubt, by the power of God for salvation, where they shall enjoy their purchased possession, being them carved into the palms of his hands and names written in the book of life from all eternity: Psalm 102: 27; Mal . 3: 6; Eph.1:14; 1 Peter 1: 5; Revelation 13: 8 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but one of the immutability of the decree of election: Phil. 2: 12,13; Ro. 9:16; June 6. 37.44.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It flows free and unchangeable love of God the Father, on the basis of the effectiveness of the merits and intercession of Jesus Christ and union with him: Matthew 24:22, 24:31; Ro. 8:30; 9: 11.16; 11: 2.29; Eph. 1: 5-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The oath of God: Eph. 1: 4; Ro. 5: 9, 10; 8: 31-34; 2 Cor 5:14; Ro. 8: 35-38; 1 Corinthians 1: 8, 9;14:19 June.; 10:28 29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> From the dwelling place of his Spirit, of the seed of God in the saints: Heb 6: 16-20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And the nature of the covenant of grace: June 1 2:19, 20, 27,. 3: 9; 5: 4, 18; Eph. 1:13; 4:30; 2 Cor 1:22; 5: 5; Eph. 1:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Jer: From all which the certainty and infallibility of perseverance also arise. 31:33, 34; 32:40; I 10: 11-18; 13: 20,21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And though the saints (through the temptation of Satan and the world, the prevalence of corruption remaining in them and neglect the means for preservation) may fall into serious sins and for some time remain in them: 26 Mt. : 70, 72, 74.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (As incur God's displeasure and grieve his Holy Spirit: Psalm 38: 1-8; Isaiah 64: 5-9; Eph 4:30; 1 Thessalonians 5:14....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> They damage their virtues and consolations: Psalm 51: 10-12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> They hardens the heart and conscience hurts them: Psalm 32: 3, 4; 73:21, 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They hurt and scandalize others: 2 S. 12:14; 1 Corinthians 8: 9-13; Ro. 14: 13-18; 1 Tim. 6: 1, 2; Tit.2: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and temporal judgments are trucked): 2 S. 12: 14ff. Gn. 19: 30-38; 1 Corinthians 11: 27-32.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> renew their repentance and be preserved until the end through faith in Christ Jesus Lk. 22:32, 61.62; 1 Cor 11:32; June 1 . 3: 9; 5:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">18. THE SAFETY OF GRACE AND SALVATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although believers who are so for a while and others unregenerate vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions that they have God's favor and are in a state of salvation (but hope they perish ): Jer. 17: 9; Matthew 7: 21-23; Lk. 18: 10-14; 8:41 June.; Eph. 5: 6,7; Gal. 6: 3,7-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who truly believe in the Lord Jesus and love him in sincerity, endeavoring to walk in all sincerity before him in this life can be absolutely certain of being in the state of grace, and may rejoice in the hope of glory of God; and such hope never embarrass them, Ro. 5: 2.5; 8:16; June 1 2: 3;. 3:14, 18, 19,24; 5:13; 2 Peter 1:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This certainly is not a mere conjectural and probable conviction, based on a fallible hope, but an infallible assurance of faith: Rom. 5: 2.5; I have 6:11, 19,20; 1 June 3: 2,14;. 4:16; 5:13, 19,20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Based on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed in the Gospel: I 6:17 18; 7:22; 10:14 19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And also in the internal evidence of those graces of the Spirit to which this makes them promises: Matthew 3: 7-10; Mark 1:15; 2 Peter 1: 4-11; June 1 2: 3;. 3:14, 18, 19, 24; 5:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And in the testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing with our spirit that we are children of God: Rom. 8: 15,16; 1 Cor 2:12; Gal. 4: 6,7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And, as a result of his, keeps the humble and holy heart: 1 June 3: 1-3 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This infallible assurance does not belong to the essence of faith to the point that a true believer can not wait long , and conflict with many difficulties before he be part of such security: Acts. 16: 30-34; 1 Jun. 5:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, being empowered by the Spirit to know the things that are freely given by God, you can reach: Ro. 8: 15,16; 1 Cor 2:12; Gal. 4: 4-6 with 3: 2; June 1 4:13.; Eph. 3: 17-19; I have 6: 11.12; 2 Peter 1: 5-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Without an extraordinary revelation, by the proper use of the media; and therefore it is the duty of everyone to be diligent to make your calling and election; so that his heart was enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience, which are the proper fruits of this assurance: so is of safety distance is to lead men to debauchery: 2 Peter 1:10; Psalm 119: 32; Ro. 15:13; Neh. 8:10; 1 June 4: 19,16;. Ro. 6: 1, 2,11-13; 14:17; Tit. 2: 11-14; Eph. 5:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The safety of the salvation of the true believers can be shaken, diminished and interrupted in various ways by negligence in preserving: I 6:11, 12; 2 Peter 1: 5-11. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By falling into some special sin which wounds the conscience and grieves the Spirit: Psalm 51: 8, 12, 14; Eph. 4:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> by some sudden or strong temptation: Ps 30: 7; 31:22; 77: 7, 8; 116: 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By withdraw the light from his face, allowing even those who fear him to walk in darkness and have no light: Isa . 50:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, never fall short of the seed of God and life of faith, that love of Christ and the brethren, that sincerity of heart and conscience of duty, by which, through the operation of the Spirit, this security can be relived over time; and which, in the meantime, true believers are preserved from falling into utter hopelessness: June 1 . 3: 9; Lk. 22:32; Ro. 8:15, 16; Gal. Four. Five; Psalm 42: 5, 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">19. THE LAW OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God gave Adam a law of universal obedience written in his heart , Gn. 1:27; Ec 7:29.; Ro. 2: 12a, 14,15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And a particular precept of not eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil: Gn. 2: 16, 17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Therefore he forced him and all his posterity to complete, accurate , and perpetual obedience;promised life upon the fulfillment of his law, and threatened with death by his offense; and also he gave him power and ability to keep: Gn. 2: 16,17; Ro. 10: 5; Gal. 3: 10,12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The same law that was first written in the heart of man continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness after the Fall: For the Fourth Commandment, Gn. 2. 3; Ex . 16; Gn. 7: 4; 8: 10.12; for the Fifth Commandment, Gn. 37:10; for the Sixth Commandment, Gn. 4: 3-15; for the Seventh Commandment, Gn. 12:17; for the Eighth Commandment, Gn. 31:30; 44: 8; for the Ninth Commandment, Gn. 27:12; for the Tenth Commandment, Gn. 6: 2; 13: 10.11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And it was given by God on Mount Sinai: Ro. 2: 12a, 14,15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In ten commandments, and written in two tables; the first four commandments containing our duty to God, and the other six, our duty towards men: Ex . 32: 15,16; 34: 4.28; Dt . 10: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Besides this law, commonly called moral law, it pleased God to give the people of Israel ceremonial laws containing several typical ordinances; partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his virtues, actions, sufferings , and benefits: I have 10: 1; Col. 2:16, 17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and partly proposing various instructions of moral duties: 1 Cor 5: 7; 2 Cor 6:17; Jud. 2. 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All those ceremonial laws, having been prescribed only until the time of his reform, when they were abrogated and taken away by Jesus Christ, the true Messiah and only legislator who was invested with power by the Father for this purpose: Col. 2: 14, 16,17; Eph. 2: 14-16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God also gave the Israelites various civil laws, which ended when he finished that town as a state, not being now mandatory for anyone under that institution: .lc. 21: 20-24; Acts. 6:13, 14; I 9:18 19cons 8: 7, 13; 9:10; 10: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Being only its principles of equity used today: 1 Cor 5: 1; 9: 8-10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The moral law requires forever to all, as well justified as others, to the obedience: Mt. 19: 16-22;Ro. 2: 14-15; 3: 19-20; 6:14; 7: 6; 8: 3; 1 Tim. 1: 8-11; Ro. 13: 8-10; 1 Cor 7:19 with Gal. 5: 6; 6:15;Eph. 4: 25-6: 4; Stg. 2: 11-12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And this not only in regard to its content, but also regarding the authority of God, the Creator, who gave it : Stg. 2: 10-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Neither Christ in the gospel, in no way cancels this obligation but strengthens considerably: Matthew 5: 17-19; Ro. 3:31; 1 Cor 9:21; Stg. 2: 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although true believers are not under the law as a covenant of works , to be thereby justified or condemned: Acts. 13:39; Ro. 6:14; 8: 1; 10: 4; Gal. 2:16; 4: 4, 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But it is useful for them and for others, as a rule of life that informs them of the will of God and their duties, directs them and forced to walk in conformity with it: Ro. 7:12, 22, 25; Psalm 119: 4-6;1 Cor 7:19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We also reveals the sinful pollution of their natures, hearts and lives; so that, when examined in the light of it, they can reach a deeper conviction of sin, humiliation for, and hatred against him;along with a clearer view of the need of Christ, and the perfection of his obedience: Rom. 3:20; 7: 7, 9, 14, 24; 8: 3; Stg. 1: 23-25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> also is the moral law to the regenerate to restrain their corruptions, in that it forbids sin; and threats serve to show what even their sins deserve, and what afflictions can wait for them in this life, even if they are free from the curse and the sheer extent of the law: Stg. 2:11; Psalm 119: 101, 104.128.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> also promises manifest regenerated obedience that God approves and what blessings they may expect compliance with it are: Eph. 6: 2, 3; Ps 37:11; Matthew 5: 6; Psalm 19:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> While not as if they are due by law as a covenant of works: Lc. 17:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> So if someone does good and refrains from evil because the law commanded prohibited one and the other, not because it shows that is under the law and not under grace: See book Proverbs;Matthew 3: 7; Lk. 13: 3.5; Acts. 2:40; I 11:26; 1 Peter 3: 8-13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The uses of the aforementioned law are not contrary to the grace of the gospel, but do sweetly comply with it; For the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do freely and cheerfully which requires the will of God revealed in the law, Gal. 3:21; Jer. 31:33; Ez. 36:27; Ro. 8: 4; Tit. 2:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">20. THE GOSPEL AND SCOPE OF HIS GRACE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Having been transgressed the covenant of works by sin and having been useless to give life back, it pleased God give the promise of Christ, the seed of the woman, as the means of calling the elect, and begetting in them faith and repentance. In this promise, the gospel in its substance was revealed, and therefore is effective to bring sinners to conversion and salvation: Gen. 3:15 with Eph 2: 12; Gal. 4: 4; I 11:13; Lk. 2: 25.38; 23:51; Ro. 4: 13-16; Gal. 3: 15-22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This promise of Christ, and salvation by him, is revealed only by the Word of God: Acts. 4:12; Ro.10: 13-15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Neither the works of creation or providence, with the light of nature, reveal Christ or grace that is through him, not generally or evening: Psalm 19; Ro. 1: 18-23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Equal nor men who do not have a revelation of him by the promise of the gospel can get a saving faith or repentance: Ro. 2: 12a; Mt. 28: 18-20; Lk. 24: 46.47 Ac. 17: 29,30; Ro. 3: 9-20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The revelation of the gospel to sinners, made in different times and different places, with the addition of promises and precepts for the obedience it requires nations and people to whom it is granted only by the sovereign will and pleasure God: Matthew 11:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No appropriating under a promise not obtained by good use of the natural abilities of men, or under common light received apart from him, which no one ever did or can do: Ro. 3: 10-12; 8: 7.8.Therefore, in all ages, the preaching of the gospel has been granted to persons and nations, their extension or restriction, with great variety, according to the counsel of the will of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although the Gospel is the only outward means of revealing Christ and saving grace, and is, as such, completely sufficient for this purpose: Ro. 1: 16,17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For men who are dead in trespasses may be born again, be quickened or regenerated, it is also necessary, in every soul, an effective and unsurpassed work of the Holy Spirit, in order to produce in them a new spiritual life ; without it, no other medium can make your conversion to God: Jun .6:44; 1 Cor 1: 22-24; 2:14; 2 Corinthians 4: 4, 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">21. THE CHRISTIAN FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The freedom that Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God and the severity and curse of the law: Jun . 3:36;Ro. 8:33; Gal. 3:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and being delivered from this present evil world from slavery to Satan , and dominion of sin: Gal.1: 4; Eph. 2: 1-3; Col. 1:13; Acts. 26:18; Ro. 6: 14-18; 8: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> From the evil of afflictions, fear and sting of death, victory over the grave and eternal damnation: Ro. 8:28; 1 Corinthians 15: 54-57; 1 Thes. 1:10; I have 2:14, 15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All this was also substantially applicable to believers under the law: Jun . 8:32; Psalm 19: 7-9; 119: 14, 24, 45, 47,48, 72.97; Ro. 4: 11.05; Gal. 3: 9; I 11:27 33.34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But under the New Testament the liberty of Christians widens much more because they are free from the yoke of the ceremonial law was holding the Jewish church, and now have more confidence to approach the throne of grace, and have a communication more complete with free Spirit of God who ordinarily were believers under the law: Jun . 1:17; I 1: 1,2a; 7:19, 22; 8: 6; 9:23;11:40; Gal. 2: 11ss.4: 1-3; Col. 2:16, 17; I 10: 19-21; Jun. 7:38, 39.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God alone is Lord of the conscience: Stg. 4:12; Ro. 14: 4; Gal. 5: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> So believe such doctrines , or obey such commands out of conscience , it is to betray true liberty of conscience: Col. 2:20, 22, 23; Gal. 1:10; 2: 3-5; 5: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who under the guise of Christian liberty , do practice any sin , or cherish any lust, as well pervert the main purpose of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction: Rom. 6: 1.2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Consequently, completely destroy the purpose of Christian liberty, which is that, being delivered from the hands of our enemies, we may serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our lives: Lk. 1: 74.75; Ro. 14: 9; Gal. 5:13; 2 Peter 2: 18.21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">22. RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AND THE SABBATH<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The light of nature shows that there is a God who has lordship and sovereignty over all; It is right, good and does good to all; and, therefore, to be feared, loved, praised, called, believed and served with all your soul, with all your heart and with all your strength: Jer. 10: 7; Mr. 12:33.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But the acceptable way of worshiping the true God was instituted by himself, and is in such alimited way by his own revealed will that you should not worship God according to the imaginations and devices of men , or the suggestions of Satan, or under any visible representation or in any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scriptures: Genesis. 4: 1-5; Ex . 20: 4-6; Matthew 15: 3, 8-9; 2 Kings 16: 10-18; Lv. 10: 1-3; Dt . 17: 3; 4: 2; 12: 29-32; Jos. 1: 7; 23: 6-8; Mt. 15:13; Col. 2: 20-23; 2 Tim. 3: 15-17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Religious worship is given to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and to him alone: Matthew 4: 9, 10; 5:23 June.; 2 Cor 13:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No angels or saints, or any other creature: Ro. 1:25; Col. 2:18; Ap. 19:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And since the Fall, not without a mediator; nor in the mediation of any other but Christ alone: June 14: 6;. Eph. 2:18; Col. 3:17; 1 Tim. 2: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Being prayer, thanksgiving, one part of natural worship, is by God required of all men: Psalm 95: 1-7; 100: 1-5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But for it to be accepted, it must be done in the name of the Son: Jun . 14:13, 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> With the help of the Spirit. Ro. 8:26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> According to his will: June 1 5:14..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> With understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love and perseverance. Psalm 47: 7; Ec 5: 1, 2,. I 12:28; Gn. 18:27; Stg. 5:16; 1: 6, 7; Mark 11:24; Matthew 6:12, 14, 15; Col. 4: 2; Eph. 6:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And when you pray with others, should be done in a known language: 1 Corinthians 14: 13-19, 27,28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Prayer should be for things lawful, and for all kinds of living persons, or who will live later. June 1 5:14; 1 Tim. 2: 1,2; Jun. 17.20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But not for the dead or those who may know who committed the sin unto death: 2 Samuel 12: 21-23; Lk. 16: 25,26; Rev 14:13.; 1 Jun. 5:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Reading the Scriptures: Acts. 15:21; 1 Tim. 4:13; Rev 1: 3 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The preaching and hearing of the Word of God: 2 Tim. 4: 2; Lk. 8:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Instruction and warning each other through psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord, Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As also bautismo4 administration and the Lord's Supper: 28:19, 20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> They are part of religious worship of God to be performed in obedience to Him, with understanding, faith, reverence and godly fear; moreover, solemn humiliation: 1 Cor 11:26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> With fasting, and thanksgiving on special occasions, are to be used in a holy and godly. Est 4:16;2:12 Jl.; Mt. 9:15; Acts. 13: 2, 3; 1 Corinthians 7: 5, 7. Ex 15: 1-19;. Psalm 107.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Now, under the gospel, neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship are limited to a place, nor are more acceptable by any place in which they occur, or to the address that target: Jun .4:21 .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But God is to be worshiped everywhere in spirit and in truth. Mal 1:11; 1 Tim. 2: 8; June 4. 23.24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Whether each family in particular: Dt . 6: 6,7; Job 1: 5; 1 Peter 3: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> daily: Mt. 6:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As a most solemn manner in public meetings: Psalm 84: 1, 2, 10; Mt. 18:20; 1 Cor 3:16; 14:25; Eph.2:21, 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Which are not carelessly or willfully or negligently abandoned when God by His Word or providence calls us to them: Acts. 2:42; I 10:25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As it is the law of nature that in general a proportion of time, by God 's design, is dedicated to the worship of God and His Word, by a positive, moral , and perpetual commandment binding all men in all ages, particularly God has appointed a day in seven as the Sabbath, to be kept holy to him: Gen. 2. 3; Ex . 20: 8-11; Mark 2:27, 28; Ap. 1:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Who from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week and since the resurrection of Christ was changed into the first day of the week, which is called the Lord 's Day and should be continued to the end the world as the Christian Sabbath, being abolished the observance of the last day of the week: Jul . 20: 1; Acts. twenty-one; 20: 7; 1 Corinthians 16: 1; Rev. 1:10.; Col. 2:16, 17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(8)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Sabbath is kept holy to the Lord when men, after due preparation of his heart and having foreordained all their daily affairs, not only observe a holy rest all day in their own work, words and thoughts: Ex 20: 8-11;. Neh. 13: 15-22; Is 58:13, 14.; Ap. 1:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">23. LAWFUL OATHS AND VOWS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A lawful oath is part of religious worship in which the person swearing in truth, righteousness and judgment, solemnly calls God to witness what he swears, and judge him according to the truth or falsity of what he swears: Dt 10:20;. Ex . 20: 7; Lv. 19:12; 2 Kr 6:22, 23.; 2 Cor 1:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Men should only swear by the name of God, and in doing so have to use it with all holy fear and reverence. Therefore, swear vainly or rashly by that glorious and fearful name, or just swear by anything else, it is sinful and must reprobated: Dt . 6:13; 28:58; Ex . 20: 7; Jer. 5: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, in matters of weight and importance, for confirmation of truth and to put an end completely to a contest, the Word of God justifies the oath, so when a legitimate authority requires a lawful oath in such cases, the oath should be: I 6: 13-16; Gn. 24: 3; 47: 30.31; 50:25; 1 Kings 17: 1;Neh. 13:25; 5:12; Esd. 10: 5; Nm. 5: 19.21; 1 Kings 8:31; Ex 22:11.; Is 45:23.; 65:16; Mt. 26: 62-64;Ro. 1: 9; 2 Cor 1: 23; Acts. 18:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Anyone who takes an oath warranted by the Word of God should seriously consider the seriousness of such a solemn act, and not say the same nothing but what you know is true, because reckless, false and vain oaths is caused the Lord and because of this the earth groans: Ex . 20: 7; Lv.19:12; Nm. 30: 2; Jer. 4: 2; 23:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> An oath must be done with common words whose meaning is clear, without equivocation or mental reservation: Psalm 24: 4; Jer. 4: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> One vote (which must not be made to any creature, but to God). Nm. 30: 2,3; Ps 76:11; Jer. 44: 25,26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It must be done and fulfilled all pious care and fidelity Nm. 30: 2; Psalm 61: 8; 66:13, 14; Eq . 5: 4-6; Is. 19:21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But the papists monastic vows of perpetual celibacy, poverty and obedience intended to ecclesiastical rules, so far from being degrees of higher perfection that are really superstitious and sinful snares in which no Christian should become entangled: 1 Co. 6:18 with 7: 2, 9; 1 Tim. 4: 3;Eph. 4:28; 1 Cor 7:23; Mt. 19:11, 12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">24. CIVIL AUTHORITIES<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God, the supreme Lord and King of the world, has instituted civil authorities to submit to him and govern the people: Psalm 82: 1; Lk. 12:48; Ro. 13: 1-6; 1 Peter 2: 13.14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To the glory of God and the public good: Gn. 6: 11-13 with 9: 5,6; Psalm 58: 1,2; 72:14; 82: 1-4; Pr 21:15.; 24: 11.12; 29: 14.26; 31: 5; Ez. 7:23; 45: 9; Dn. 4:27; Mt. 22:21; Ro. 13: 3.4; 1 Tim. 2: 2; 1 Peter 2:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And to this end, has provided them with the power of the sword, for the defense and encouragement of those who do good, and for the punishment of evildoers: Gn. 9: 6; Pr 16:14.;19:12; 20: 2; 21:15; 28:17; Acts. 25:11; Ro. 13: 4; 1 Peter 2:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It is lawful for Christians to accept positions within the civil authority when they are called to fill them : Ex . 22: 8, 9, 28,29; Daniel; Nehemiah; Pr 14:35.; 16: 10.12; 20: 26.28; 25: 2; 28: 15,16; 29: 4.14; 31: 4,5; Ro. 13: 2, 4.6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> in the performance of such charges must especially maintain justice and peace, as good laws of each kingdom and state; and so, now for this purpose, under the New Testament, they can lawfully war on just and necessary occasions: Lc. 3:14; Ro. 13: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Having been instituted by God civilian authorities with the aforementioned purposes, they should be held subject: Pr . 16: 14,15; 19:12; 20: 2; 24:21, 22; 25:15; 28: 2; Ro. 13: 1-7; Tit. 3: 1; 1 Peter 2: 13.14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> in the Lord in all things lawful: Dn. 1: 8; 3: 4-6,16-18; 6: 5 to 10.22; Mt. 22:21; Acts. 4: 19,20; 5:29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> to send, not only because of wrath but also for conscience; and we should offer supplications and prayers for kings and all who are in authority, that under his government live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty: Jer. 29: 7; 1 Tim. 2: 1-4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">25. MARRIAGE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The marriage must be between a man and a woman; It is not lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband: Gn. 2:24 with Mt. 19: 5,6; 1 Tim. 3: 2;Tit. 1: 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Marriage was instituted for the mutual help of husband and wife: Gen. 2:18; Pr 2:17.; Mal. 2:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To multiply the human race through a legitimate descendants: Gen. 1:28; Psalm 127: 3-5; 128: 3.4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And to avoid impurity: 1 Cor 7: 2.9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> lawfully can marry all kinds of people able to give their consent in his right mind: 1 Co. 7:39; 2 Cor 6:14; I have 13: 4; 1 Tim. 4: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, it is the duty of Christians to marry in the Lord. And therefore, those who profess the true faith should not marry unbelievers or idolaters; neither should such as are godly be unequally yoked, by marrying those who live an evil life or hold damnable heresies: 1 Co. 7:39; 2 Cor 6:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden in the Word, nor can such incestuous marriages ever be legalized by any human law, or consent of the parties, so that these people can live together as husband and wife: Lv. 18: 6-18; Am . 2: 7; Mr. 6:18; 1 Cor 5: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">26. THE CHURCH<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Christian or universal church: Mt. 16:18; 1 Cor 12:28; Eph. 1:22; 4: 11-15; 5: 23-25, 27, 29, 32;Col. 1:18, 24; I 12:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> That (with respect to the internal work of the Spirit and truth of grace) may be called invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect that have been, are or will be gathered into one under Christ, her head; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him who fills all in all: Eph. 1:22; 4: 11-15; 5: 23-25, 27, 29,32; Col. 1:18, 24; Rev. 21: 9-14 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All around the world who profess the faith of the gospel and obedience to God by Christ according to it, not destroying their own profession by fundamental errors or impious behavior, they are and may be called visible saints: 1 Cor 1: 2 ; Ro. 1: 7, 8; Acts. 11:26; Mt. 16:18; 28: 15-20; 1 Cor 5: 1-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And such must be composed all local congregations: Mt. 18: 15-20; Acts. 2: 37-42; 4: 4; Ro. 1: 7; 1 Cor 5: 1-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The purest churches under heaven are subject to mixture and error: 1 Co. 1:11; 5: 1; 6: 6; 11: 17-19; June 3 . 9,10; Ap. 2 and 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And some have degenerated so much that have come Aser no churches of Christ , but synagogues of Satan: Revelation 2: 5 to 1:20;. 1 Tim. 3: 14.15; Rev. 18: 2 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, Christ has always had and will always have a kingdom in this world, until the end thereof, composed of those who believe in him and profess his name: Matthew 16:18; 24:14;28:20; Mark 4: 30-32; Ps 72: 16-18; 102: 28; Is . 9: 6,7; Rev. 12:17.; 20: 7-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Head of the Church is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the Father 's plan , all the power required for call establishment, the order or church government is supreme and sovereign invested: Col. 1 : 18; Eph. 4: 11-16; 1: 20-23; 5: 23-32; 1 Cor 12:27, 28; June 17:. 1-3; Mt. 28: 18-20; Acts. 5:31; June 10: 14-16 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No Pope of Rome can be the head of it in any sense, but he is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, who exalts himself in the church against Christ and all that is called God, whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 2 Thes. 2: 2-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In the exercise of this power which has been entrusted, the Lord Jesus, through the ministry of His Word and by His Spirit, calls itself the world to those who have been given by his Father: Jun . 10 : 16, 23; 12:32; 17: 2; Acts. 5:31 32.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> That they may walk before him in all the ways of obedience that he prescribes in His Word: Matthew 28:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A so - called, orders them to walk together in concrete congregations, or churches, for their mutual edification and the due observance of public worship, he requires of them in the world: Mt. 18: 15-20; Acts. 14: 21-23; Tit. fifteen; 1 Tim. 1: 3; 3: 14-16; 5: 17-22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Members of these churches are saints The calling, and manifest in a visible form and evidence (for his profession of faith and conduct) their obedience to the call of Christ: Matthew 28: 18-20; Acts.14: 22,23; Ro. 1: 7; 1 Cor 1: 2 with vv. 13-17; 1 Thes. 1: 1 with vv. 2-10; Acts. 2: 37-42; 4: 4; 5: 13.14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And voluntarily agree to walk together, according to the plan of Christ, giving themselves to theLord and each other, by the will of God, professing Subject to the provisions of the gospel: Acts. 2: 41,42; 5: 13.14; 2 Cor 9:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To each of these churches thus gathered, the Lord, according to his declared in His Word will, has given all the power and authority necessary to carry out any order in worship and discipline sense that he has instituted for they keep; together with commands and rules for the proper and correct exercise and implementation of that power: Mt. 18: 17-20; 1 Cor 5: 4, 5,13; 2 Corinthians 2: 6-8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(8)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A local, gathered and completely organized according to the will of Christ church is composed of officers and members; and the officers appointed by Christ to be chosen and set apart by the church (so called and gathered), for the peculiar administration of ordinances and the exercise of power or duty, which he entrusted to them or calling them , to continue until the end of the world, are <b>bishops or elders, and deacons:</b> Phil. eleven; 1 Tim. 3: 1-13; Acts. 20:17, 28; Tit. 1: 5-7; 1 Peter 5: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(9)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The way appointed by Christ for the calling of any person who has been called and gifted by the Holy Spirit: Eph. 4:11; 1 Tim. 3: 1-13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For the office of bishop or elder in a church, is to be chosen for it by the common vote of the church itself: Acts. 6: 1-7; 14:23 with Matthew 18: 17-20; 1 Corinthians 5: 1-13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And solemnly section through fasting and prayer with the laying on of hands of the elders of the church, if there are some previously made it: 1 Tim. 4:14; 5:22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And to the office of deacon, to be chosen by the same vote and set apart by prayer and the same laying on of hands: Acts. 6: 1-7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As the work of pastors constantly to attend the service of Christ in their churches, in the ministry of the Word and prayer, and watch for your souls, as those who must give account to him: Acts. 6: 4; 1 Tim. 3: 2; 5:17; I 13:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It is the responsibility of the churches to which they minister not only give all due respect, but also share with them all their good things according to their possibilities: 1 Tim. 5:17, 18; 1 Cor 9:14;Gal. 6: 6, 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> So they have adequate provision, without having to become entangled in secular activities: 2 Ti. 2: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And can also practice hospitality towards others: 1 Tim. 3: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This requires the law of nature and express mandate of our Lord Jesus, who has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live by the gospel: 1 Corinthians 9: 6-14; 1 Tim. 5:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although it is the responsibility of the bishops or pastors of the churches, according to his office, constantly dedicated to the preaching of the Word, the work of preaching the Word is not so peculiarly confined to them but that others also gifted and qualified by the Holy Spirit for it and approved and called by the church, they can and should perform it : Acts. 8: 5; 11: 19-21; 1 Peter 4: 10.11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(12)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All believers are bound to join local churches when and where they have opportunity. Also, all those who are admitted to the privileges of a church are also subject to the discipline and government of the same, according to the norm of Christ: 1 Thes. 5:14; 2 Thes. 3: 6, 14.15; 1 Cor 5: 9-13; I 13:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(13)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No church member, for any offense received, having fulfilled the duty required of him to the person who has offended you, should disturb the order of the church, missing meetings or church or refrain from participation in any ordinances for such an offense of any other member, but must wait in Christ while continue the actions of the church: Mt. 18: 15-17; Eph. 4: 2,3; Col. 3: 12-15; 1 June 2: 7-11, 18.19;. Eph. 4: 2,3; Mt. 28:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(14)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Since each church, and all members are obliged to pray continually for the good and prosperity of all the churches of Christ in all places and at all times help each within the limits of their areas and vocations, in the exercise of their gifts and virtues. June 13:. 34,35; 17: 11,21-23; Eph. 4: 11-16;6:18; Ps 122: 6; Ro. 16: 1-3; June 3 June 2 8-10 with 5-11..; Ro. 15:26; 2 Cor 8: 1-4,16-24; 9: 12-15;Col. 2: 1 to 1: 3, 4.7 and 4: 7,12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> So the churches, when they are established by the providence of God so that they may enjoy the opportunity and benefit from it: Gal. 1: 2.22; Col. 4:16; Ap . 1: 4; Ro. 16: 1,2; 3 Jun. 8-10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">should have fellowship with one another, for peace, love and growth in mutual edification: 1 June 4: 1-3 2 and 3 John;. Ro. 16: 1-3; 2 Corinthians 9: 12-15; Jos. 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(fifteen)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In cases of difficulties or differences in doctrine or church government, in which churches in general or one church are concerned about their peace, union and building; or one or more members of a church are damaged by disciplinary procedures that do not match the truth and order, is according to the will of Christ that many churches have fellowship with one another, they meet through their representatives to consider and his advice on the issues in dispute, to inform all the churches involved: Gal. 2: 2; Pr . 3: 5-7; 12:15; 13:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, the representatives meeting were not allowed any ecclesiastical power delivery itself or jurisdiction over them to exercise discipline on any of them or their member churches, or to impose its decisions on them or their officers: 1 Cor.7 : 25, 36, 40; 2 Cor 1:24; June 1 . 4: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">27. COMMUNION OF SAINTS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All saints that are united to Jesus Christ: Eph. 1: 4; June 17:. 2, 6; 2 Cor 5:21; Ro. 6: 8; 8:17; 8: 2; 1 Cor 6:17; 2 Peter 1: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> His head, by his Spirit and through faith: Eph. 3:16, 17; Gal. 2:20; 2 Corinthians 3:17, 18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (but certainly not come to be a person with him): 1 Corinthians 8: 6; Col. 1:18, 19; 1 Tim. 6:15, 16;Is . 42: 8; Psalm 45: 7; I 1: 8, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> participate in their virtues, sufferings, death, resurrection and glory: June 1 . 1: 3; 1:16 June.; 15: 1-6; Eph. 2: 4-6; Ro. 4:25; 6: 1-6; Phil. 3:10; Col. 3: 3,4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And, being united to one another in love, they involved another of his gifts and virtues: Jul 13:34, 35;. 14:15; Eph. 4:15; 1 Peter 4:10; Ro. 14: 7, 8; 1 Cor 3: 21-23; 12: 7 : 25-27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Y are obliged to comply with such duties, public and private, in an orderly manner, leading to their mutual good, both inside and outside man: Rom. 1:12; 12: 10-13; 1 Thes. 5: 11,14; 1 Peter 3: 8; 1 June 3: 17,18;. Gal. 6:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Saints by profession are bound to maintain each other holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God and the fulfillment of other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification: I 10:24, 25; 3:12, 13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and to help each other in outward things according to their abilities and needs: Acts. 11:29, 30; 2 Cor 8, 9; Gal. 2; Ro. fifteen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> According to the standard of the gospel, though this communion must be exercised especially in relationships where they are located, whether in families or in churches: 1 Tim. 5: 8, 16; Eph. 6: 4;1 Cor 12:27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> should be extended, as God gives opportunity, the whole family of faith, that is, to all who everywhere call upon the name of the Lord Jesus: Acts. 11:29, 30; 2 Cor 8, 9; Gal. 2; 6:10; Ro.fifteen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, their mutual communion as saints does not take away or infringe the right or property which every man has on his property and possessions: Acts. 5: 4; Eph. 4:28; Ex. 20:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">28. BAPTISM AND THE LORD'S SUPPER<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances that have been positive and sovereignly instituted by the Lord Jesus, the only legislator: 28:19, 20; 1 Cor 11:24, 25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> to continue in the church until the end of the world: Matthew 28: 18-20; Ro. 6: 3, 4; 1 Corinthians 1: 13-17; Gal. 3:27; Eph. Four. Five; Col. 2:12; 1 Peter 3:21; 1 Cor 11:26; Lk. 22: 14-20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> These holy institutions must be administered only by those who are qualified and called to it, according to the commission of Christ: Matthew 24: 45-51; Lk. 12: 41-44; 1 Cor 4: 1; Tit. 1: 5-7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">29. BAPTISM<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament , instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptized a sign of his fellowship with him in his death and resurrection, of being grafted on it: Ro.6: 3-5; Col. 2:12; Gal. 3:27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> From the remission of sins: Mark 1: 4; Acts. 22:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And his dedication to God through Jesus Christ to live and walk in newness of life: Ro. 6: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who actually profess repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and obedience to him are right to receive this ordinance only: Matthew 3: 1-12; Mark 1: 4-6; Lk. 3: 3-6;Mt. 28: 19,20; Mark 16: 15,16; June 4. 1.2; 1 Corinthians 1: 13-17; Acts. 2: 37-41; 8: 12,13,36-38;9:18; 10: 47.48; 11:16; 15: 9; 16: 14,15,31-34; 18: 8; 19: 3-5; 22:16; Ro. 6: 3.4; Gal. 3:27; Col. 2:12;1 Peter 3:21; Jer. 31: 31-34; Phil. 3: 3; June 1. 12.13; Mt. 21:43.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The outer member to be used in this ordinance is water, which must be baptized: Mt. 3:11; Acts. 8: 36.38; 22:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The person in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit: Matthew 28: 18-20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The immersion of the person in the water is necessary for the proper administration of this ordinance: 2 Kings 5:14; Ps 69: 2; Is . 21: 4; Mark 1: 5,8-9; 3:23 June.; Acts. 8:38; Ro. 6: 4; Col. 2:12;Mark 7: 3,4; 10: 38,39; Lk. 12:50; 1 Corinthians 10: 1-2; Mt. 3:11; Acts. 1: 5.8; 2: 1 to 4.17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">30. THE LORD'S SUPPER<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord's Supper was instituted by Jesus the same night that he was delivered: 1 Corinthians 11: 23-26; Mt. 26: 20-26; Mark 14: 17-22; Lk. 22: 19-23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To be observed in their churches: Acts. 2:41, 42; 20: 7; 1 Corinthians 11: 17-22, 33.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hasta el fin del mundo: Mr. 14:24, 25; Lk. 22: 17-22; 1 Corinthians 11: 24-26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For the perpetual remembrance and the manifestation of the sacrifice of himself in his death: 1 Cor 11: 24-26; Matthew 26:27, 28; Lk. 22:19, 20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To confirm the faith of believers in all the benefits of it: Ro. 4:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For their spiritual nourishment and growth in him: Jun 6:29, 35.47 to 58..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To a greater commitment to all obligations owed to him. 1 Cor 11:25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him and among them another: 1 Cor 10: 16,17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In this ordinance Christ is not offered to his Father, nor any real sacrifice for the remission of sin or living or dead is made at all; but it is only a memorial of that one offering of himself and by himself on the cross, once for ever: Jun . 19:30; I 9: 25-28; 10: 10-14; Lk. 22:19; 1 Cor 11:24, 25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And a spiritual offering of all possible praise to God for the same: Matthew 26:26, 27, 30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So the papal sacrifice of the mass, as they call it , is most abominable, injurious to the sacrifice of Christ himself, the only propitiation for all the sins of the elect: Hebrews 13: 10-16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord Jesus, in this ordinance, has appointed his ministers to pray and bless the elements of bread and wine, and that apart from a common use for sacred use; to take and break the bread, and take the cup and (participating also themselves) to give both participants: Co. 11: 23-26; Mt. 26: 26-28; Mark 14: 24,25; Lk. 22: 19-22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Denying the cup to church members: Mt. 26:27; Mr. 14:23; 1 Corinthians 11: 25-28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Worshipping the elements, raise them or take them from one place to another to worship and save them for any pretended religious use: Ex . 20: 4, 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is contrary to the nature of this ordinance as Christ instituted. Matthew 15: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> External elements of this ordinance, duly separated for use ordained by Christ, have such relation to the Crucified in a true sense, but figuratively, they are sometimes called by the name of the things they represent, namely : the body and blood of Christ: 1 Cor 11:27; Matthew 26: 26-28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, in substance and nature, they still remain truly and only bread and wine, as they were before: 1 Corinthians 11: 26-28; Mt. 26:29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The doctrine which maintains a change of substance of bread and wine into the substance of the body and blood of Christ (commonly called transubstantiation) by consecration of a priest, or in some other way, is repugnant not only to Scriptures. Mt. 26: 26-29; Lk. 24: 36-43, 50, 51; 1:14 June.; 20: 26-29; Acts. 1: 9-11; 3:21; 1 Corinthians 11: 24-26; Lk. 12: 1; Rev. 1:20.; Gn. 17:10, 11; Ez.37:11; Gn. 41:26, 27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But also to common sense and reason; overthrows the nature of the ordinance; and it has been and is the cause of many superstitions and also of crass idolatry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who receive this ordinance worthily: 1 Corinthians 11:28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> participating externally visible elements, also inwardly by faith, a real and true, though not carnal or bodily, but spiritually feeding of Christ crucified and receive all the benefits of his death. Jun 6:29 , 35, 47-58.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C: </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The body and blood of Christ are then neither carnal nor body but spiritually present in this ordinance for the faith of believers, as well as the elements themselves they are for your body senses: 1 Cor 10:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(8)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All ignorant and ungodly, not being unfit to enjoy communion with Christ are, therefore, unworthy of the Lord's table and, while they remain as such, can not, without sinning greatly against him, partake of these holy mysteries or admitted to them: Matthew 7: 6; Eph. 4: 17-24; 5: 3-9; Ex . 20: 7,16; 1 Cor 5: 9-13; 2 June 10.; Acts. 2: 41,42; 20: 7; 1 Corinthians 11: 17-22, 33-34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">also receive them unworthily whoever is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, for eats and drinks judgment to himself: 1 Cor 11: 20-22,27-34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">31. THE STATE OF MAN AFTER DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The bodies of men turn to dust after death and corruption are: Gn. 2:17; 3:19; Acts. 13:36; Ro. 5: 12-21; 1 Cor 15:22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But their souls (which neither die nor sleep) having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them : Gn. 2: 7; Stg. 2:26; Mt. 10:28; Eq . 12: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The souls of the righteous, being then perfected in holiness, are received in Paradise where they are with Christ, and behold the face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies: Psalm 23: 6; 1 Kings 8: 27-49; Is 63:15.; 66: 1; Lk. 23:43; Acts. 1: 9-11; 3:21; 2 Cor 5: 6-8; 12: 2-4; Eph. 4:10; Phil. 1: 21-23; I 1: 3; 4: 14.15; 6:20; 8: 1; 9:24; 12:23; Ap . 6: 9-11; 14:13;20: 4-6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The souls of the wicked are cast into hell, where they remain in torment and utter darkness, reserved for judgment of the great day Lc. 16: 22-26; Acts. 1:25; 1 Peter 3:19; 2 Peter 2: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Outside these two places for souls separated from their bodies, the Scriptures do not support any other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Saints who are alive on the last day not sleep, but will be transformed: 1 Corinthians 15: 50-53; 2 Cor 5: 1-4; 1 Thes. 4:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And all the dead will be resurrected: Dn. 12: 2; June 5:28, 29.; Acts. 24:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> With their own bodies, and not others: Job 19:26, 27; June 5:28, 29.; 1 Corinthians 15: 35-38, 42-44.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> although with different qualities: 1 Corinthians 15: 42-44,52-54.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And they will come together again to their souls forever: Dn. 12: 2; Mt. 25:46.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The bodies of the unjust, through the power of Christ, will be raised to dishonor: Dn. 12: 2; Jun. 5:28, 29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The bodies of the just, by his Spirit: Rom. 8: 1, 11; 1 Cor 15:45; Gal. 6: 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To honor: 1 Cor 15: 42-49.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And will then be like the glorious body of Christ facts: Ro. 8: 17,29,30; 1 Corinthians 15: 20-23,48,49; Phil 3:21.; Col. 1:18; 3. 4; June 1 3: 2;. Rev. 1: 5 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">32. THE FINAL JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by Jesus Christ, to whom all power and judgment has been given by the Father: Acts. 17:31; Jun. 5:22, 27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On that day not only the apostate angels shall be judged 1 Corinthians 6: 3; Jud. 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> but also all the people who have lived on the earth appear before the tribunal of Christ: Mt. 16:27;25: 31-46; Acts. 17:30, 31; Ro. 2: 6-16; 2 Thes. 1: 5-10; 2 Peter 3: 1-13; Ap . 20: 11-15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> to account for their thoughts, words and actions, and to receive according to what they have done while in the body, whether good or bad: 2 Cor 5:10; 1 Cor 4: 5; Mt. 12:36.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God's purpose in establishing this day is the manifestation of the glory of his mercy in the eternal salvation of the elect, and his justice in the eternal damnation of the reprobate, who are wicked and disobedient: Ro. 9: 22, 23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> for then the righteous will enter into eternal life and receive the fullness of joy and glory with eternal rewards in the presence of the Lord; but the wicked, who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of Jesus Christ, they shall be cast into eternal torment and punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power: Mt. 18: 8; 25: 41.46; 2 Thes. 1: 9; I have 6: 2; Jud. 6; Rev. 14:10, 11;. Lc. 3:17; Mark 9: 43.48; Mt. 3:12; 5:26; 13: 41,42;24:51; 25:30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As Christ wants us to be totally convinced that there will be a Day of Judgment, both to deter all men from sin: 2 Corinthians 5:10, 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> to be of greater consolation of the godly in their adversity: 2nd Ts. 1: 5-7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and also wants men do not know when will that day, for relinquishing all carnal security and are always looking for they know not what time shall the Lord: Mark 13: 35-37; Lk. 12: 35-40.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and are always ready to say: Come, Lord Jesus; come quickly, Amen: Ap . 22: 20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> "This little volume is not presented as an authoritative rule or a code of faith, but as an aid in cases of controversy, a confirmation in faith and a means of building on justice. In it the youngest of our church members will have a summary of divine teachings set, and through biblical evidence, be prepared to give a reason for the hope that is in them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Do not be ashamed of your faith; remember that it is the ancient gospel of martyrs, confessors, reformers and saints. Above all, it is God's truth, against which the gates of hell can not prevail. Make your life decorate your faith, let your example adorn your beliefs. Above all, she lives in Christ Jesus, and remains in him, not believing any teaching that has not been clearly approved by him and is itself the Holy Spirit. <span class="">Cling to the Word of God is explained here for you Hadon Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 - Spanish.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-62414509145459738342016-04-03T13:44:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:44:35.388-07:00THE SCRIPTURE<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Holy Scriptures are the only sufficient, certain and infallible rule of all knowledge, faith and obedience saviors. <b>2 Tim. 3: 15-17. Is . 8: 20. Luke. 16: 29-31. Eph. 2:20.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the light of nature and the works of creation and providence so manifest kindness, wisdom and power of God that leave men without excuse: <b>Rom. 1: 19-21, 32; Ro. 2: 12a, 14, 15; Psalm 19: 1-3.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, they are not enough to give the knowledge of God and his will which is necessary for salvation: <b>Ps 19: 1-3 with vv. 7-11; Ro. 1: 19-21; 2: 12a, 14,15 with 1: 16.17 and 3:21.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, it pleased the Lord, at different times and in different ways, to reveal himself and declare his will to his church: <b>I 1: 1,2a.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And then, to better preserve and spread the truth and to a more secure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh , and the malice of Satan and the world, he liked to write downthis revelation in its entirety, which makes the Holy Scriptures very necessary. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pr. 22: 19-21; Lk. 1: 1-4;2 Peter 1: 12-15; 3: 1; Dt . 17: 18ff .; 31: 9ff . , 19ff .; 1 Corinthians 15: 1; 2 Thes. 2: 1, 2.15; 3:17; Ro.1: 8-15; Gal. 4: 20; 6: 11; 1 Tim. 3:14. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ap. 1: 9, 19; 2: 1, etc .; Ro. 15: 4; 2 Peter 1: 19-21.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Having ceased and previous ways by which God revealed his will to his people: <b>I 1: 1,2a; Acts. 1:21, 22;1 Cor 9: 1; 15: 7, 8; Eph. 2:20.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SPECIAL REVELATION AND THE BIBLE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness, he rebuked the demon with these words: "Not by bread alone doth man live, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God" (Matthew 4: 4).Historically, the church has echoed the teaching of Jesus by claiming that the Bible is the vox Dei, the "voice of God" or verbuni Dei, the "Word of God". Call the Bible the Word of God does not mean to suggest that it was written by God's own divine hand or fell from the sky on a parachute. The Bible itself directs our attention to many of its human writers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we study the Scriptures diligently, we will notice that each has its human writers, his vocabulary, his emphasis, his perspective, and other characteristics own literary style.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If the production of the Bible involved human effort, how you can consider the Word of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible is called the Word of God because she declares, and the church believe that human writers did not simply wrote their own opinions, but their words were inspired by God. The apostle Paul wrote: "All Scripture is inspired by God" (2 Timothy 3: 16). The word inspiration is a translation of the Greek word meaning "breathed out by God". God breathed the Bible. In the same way the air we breathe through our mouths when we speak, so Scripture is God speaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although Scripture came into our hands from the pens of human authors, the original source of Scripture is God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">That is why the prophets could put before this preface his words: "Thus saith the Lord". That is why Jesus could say, "Your word is truth" (John 17:17), and "Scripture can not be broken" (John 10:35).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word inspiration also directs our attention to the process used by the Holy Spirit to oversee the production of Scripture. The Holy Spirit guided the human authors so that his words were nothing but the word of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We do not know how God oversaw the original writings of the Bible. But inspiration does not mean that God dictated his messages to those who wrote the Bible. The Holy Spirit communicated the words of God through human writers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christians affirm the infallibility and inerrancy of the Bible because ultimately God is the author of the Bible. And as it is impossible for God inspire falsehoods, his word must be completely true and reliable.Any literary product usually prepared by humans is likely to contain errors. But the Bible is not a normal human project. If the Bible is inspired by God and supervised, then you can not go wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This does not mean that translations of the Bible with which we today do not contain errors, but the original manuscripts were absolutely correct. Nor does it mean that all statements in the Bible are true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The writer of Ecclesiastes, for example, states that "in Sheol, where you go, there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom" (Ecclesiastes 9: 1O). The writer was writing from the perspective of human despair, and we know that his statement is not true in the light of other parts of Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But even when it reveals the false reasoning of a desperate man, the Bible tells us the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Inspiration is the process by which God has breathed his word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God is the original source of the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God is the ultimate supervisor of the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Only the original manuscripts of the Bible did not contain any error.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES MEMORY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Psalm 119, John 17:17, 1 Thessalonians 2: 13; 2 Timothy 3: 15-17. 2 Peter 1: 20-21. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Under the name of Holy Scripture or Word of God written, they are included all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">OLD TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NEW TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, of Romans Apostles, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1st Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They were given by inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life: <b>2nd Ti. 3: 16 1st Ti. 5: 17,18; 2nd Peter 3: 16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, not part of the canon or rule of Scripture and, therefore, have no authority to the church of God, nor should they be accepted or used in the same way except that other human writings: <b>Lc. 24: 27.44; Ro. 3: 2.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The authority of Scripture, why be believed, does not depend on the testimony of any man or church: <b>Lc.16: 27-31; Gal. 1: 8.9; Eph. 2:20.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author of it; therefore, it must be received because it is the Word of God: <b>2 Tim. 3:15; Ro. 1: 2; 3: 2; Acts. 2:16; 4:25; Mt. 13:35; Ro. 9:17; Gal. 3: 8; Ro. 15: 4; 1 Cor 10:11; Mt. 22:32; Lk. 16:17; Mt 22: 41ss; 10:35 June.; Gal. 3:16; Acts. 1:16; 2: 24ff; 13:34, 35;June 19: 34-36 . ; 19:24; Lk. 22:37; Mt. 26:54; 13:18 June.; 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1: 19-21; Matthew 5:17, 18; 4: 1-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The testimony of God's church can be moved and induced to have a high and reverent esteem for Scripture: <b>2 Timothy. 3:14, 15.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And the celestial nature of the content, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the harmony of all parties, proposed to reach across a whole (which is to give all glory to God), full disclosure that give the only way of salvation for man, and many other incomparable excellencies , and the entire perfections thereof, are arguments which give abundant evidence of being the Word of God. <b>Jer. 23:28, 29; Lk. 16: 27-31; 6:63 June.; 1 Peter 1: 23-25; I have 4:12, 13; Dt . 31: 11-13; 20:31 June.; Gal. 1: 8, 9; Mark 16:15, 16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority comes from the inward work of the Holy Spirit, who testifies in our hearts through the Word and with it: <b>Mt. 16:17; 1 Cor 2: 14ff .; June 3. 3; 1 Cor 2: 4,5; 1 Thes. 1: 5.6; June 1 . 2: 20.21, with v. 27.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scriptures; to which nothing at any time, it must be added, whether by new revelation of the Spirit or traditions of men: <b>2 Tim. 3: 15-17; Deut .4: 2; Acts. 20:20, 27; Psalm 19: 7; 119: 6, 9, 104.128.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God is necessary for a savior understanding of the things revealed in the Word: <b>Jun. 6:45; 1 Corinthians 2: 9-14.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And there are some touching to the worship of God and the government of the Church, common to human actions and societies, to be determined according to the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of circumstances the Word, which must always be kept: <b>1 Cor 14: 26,40<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Not all things in Scripture are equally clear in themselves. <b>2 Peter 3:16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Neither are equally clear for everyone: <b>2 Tim. 3: 15-17.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, the things that are necessary to know, believe and keep for salvation, are proposed and forth so clearly in one or another place of Scripture that not only scholars but those who are not, can acquire a sufficient understanding such things by the proper use of ordinary means. <b>2 Tim. 3: 14-17;Psalm 19: 7-8; 119: 105; 2 Peter 1:19; Pr . 6: 22,23; Dt . 30: 11-14.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the language of God's people in ancient times) <b>Ro. 3: 2, 3.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And the New Testament in Greek (which at the time was written was the language most commonly known among the nations), being inspired by God immediately and kept pure throughout all time by his special care and providence, are, therefore, true: <b>Mt. 5:18.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So that, in all religious controversy, the church must appeal to them as the determining authority <b>Is.8:20; Acts. 15:15; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17; June 10. 34-36.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But because these original languages are not known for all the people of God, who is entitled to the Scriptures and interest in them, and is commanded to read and search them : <b>Dt. 17: 18-20; Pr 2: 1-5;.8:34; Jun. 5:39, 46.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In the fear of God, have to be translated into the common language of every nation to which are carried:<b>1 Corinthians 14: 6, 9, 11, 12, 24, 28.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For the Word of God dwelling richly in all may worship Him in an acceptable manner and that, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures have hope: <b>Col. 3:16; Ro. 15: 4.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture constitute the Scriptures themselves; and therefore, when a question about the true and full sense of any scripture (which is not manifold, but one) arises, it should be sought in other passages that express more clearly: <b>Is. 8:20; June 10: 34-36 . ; Acts. 15: 15,16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The supreme judge, by which must decide all religious controversies, and which should be examined all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men and private spirits, and whose sentence we obey, can not be none other than the Holy Scriptures delivered by the Spirit. To these Scriptures so delivered, our faith is reduced in short: <b>Mt. 22:29, 31.32; Eph. 2:20; Acts. 28: 23-25.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We usually think of the Bible as one great book. Actually, it is a small library of sixty-six individual books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The meeting of these books is what we call the canon of Sacred Scripture. The term canon comes from the Greek word meaning "measuring rod" "metro", "standard" or "standard". Historically, the Bible has always been the authoritative for faith and practice in the church precept.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With regard to the books included in the New Testament, Catholics and Protestants agree. However, the two groups disagree sharply with respect to the books that should be included in the Old Testament.Catholics believe that the Apocrypha should be considered canonical, while Protestantism thinks otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(These apocryphal books were written after he completed the Old Testament and before he started writing the New Testament.) The debate regarding the Apocrypha focuses on the broader issue of what was considered canonical by the Jewish community. There is strong evidence that the Apocrypha were not included in the Palestinian canon of the Jews. On the other hand, it seems that the Jews living in Egypt have included the Apocrypha (translated into Greek) in the Alexandrian canon. More recent evidence, however, that cast doubt in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some Bible critics argue that the church did not have a Bible as such until almost the beginning of the fifth century. But this is a distortion of the whole process of canonical development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The church councils met on several occasions during the first centuries to decide which books belonged properly to the canon. The first formal canon of the New Testament was created by Marcia heretic, who produced his own redacted version of the Bible. To combat this heretic, the church was forced to declare what was the exact content of the New Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the vast majority of books that are now included in the New Testament in their day clearly ran canonical authority since they were written, there were a few books for inclusion in the canon of the New Testament was a subject of discussion. These were Hebrews, James, the Second Epistle of Peter, the second and third epistle of John, Jude, and Revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There were also several books that vied for this canonical position but were not included. The vast majority of these were spurious works written by Gnostic heretics of the second century. These books were never given serious consideration. (This is a key point that critics often overlook when they argue that the more than two thousand contenders canon were chosen only twenty And then ask. "Not unlikely to be selected at twenty correct?")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In reality, they are only two or three books that were not included after being seriously considered.These were Clement, The Shepherd of Hermas, and The Didache. These books were not included in the canon of Scripture because they were not written by the apostles, and their authors acknowledged that their authority was subordinate to that of the apostles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some Christians are concerned about the fact that there has been a selective historical process. They resent the question: how is it possible to know that the canon of the New Testament includes the books that should contain? The traditional Catholic theology answers this question by appealing to the infallibility of the church. The church is then seen as "creating" the canon, and thus has the same authority as Scripture itself. Classical Protestantism denies the fact that the church is infallible and that the church "has created" the canon. The difference between Catholicism and Protestantism may be summarized as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Catholic view: </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Canon is an infallible collection of infallible books. The classical Protestant view: The Canon is a fallible collection of infallible books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The liberal critic view: </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Canon is a fallible fallible collection of books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">While Protestants believe that God in His providence exercised his special care to ensure that only appropriate books were included, he not turned the church itself infallible. Protestants also remind Catholics that the church did not "create" the canon. The church recognized, accepted, received and held the canon of Scripture. The term used in church councils was recipimus, "We received". What was the criteria used to evaluate the books? The so-called canonical evidence included the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The books should have apostolic authorship or endorsement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The authority should have been received by the early church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> They should be in harmony with the books of which no one doubted his canonicidad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although at one stage of his life Martin Luther questioned the canonical character of Santiago, later he changed his mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is no good reason to doubt that the books currently included in the canon of the New Testament are not the ones who should be there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The term canon comes from the Greek and means "standard" "standard" or. The word canon is used to describe the authoritative list of books that the church recognizes as sacred Scripture and therefore the "precept" for faith and practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In addition to the sixty-six books of the Bible accepted by Protestants, Catholics also accept the Apocrypha as authoritative Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To combat heresy, the church recognized the need to declare what books they had recognized his authority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> There were some books whose inclusion in the canon was a matter of dispute (Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, Jude, and Revelation), and other books whose inclusion was considered but were not admitted to the canon, between those found Clement, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the Didache.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The church did not create the canon, simply he recognized the canonical books had evidence and therefore enjoyed authority within the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The canonical evidence includes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> the apostolic authorship or endorsement,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> that the authority of these books has been recognized by the early church, and;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> being in harmony with the books without any doubt were part of the canon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Luke 24: 44-45, 1 Corinthians 15: 3-8, 2 Timothy 3: 16-17, 2 Peter 1: 19-21, 2 Peter 3: 14-16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">INTERPRETING THE BIBLE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Any written document must be interpreted if it is to be understood. The United States has nine highly trained individuals whose daily task is to interpret the Constitution. They constitute the Supreme Court of that country. Interpreting the Bible is a much more solemn duty to interpret the Constitution of the United States of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">America. Demand great care and diligence. The Bible itself is its own Supreme Court. The main rule of biblical interpretation is "sacred Scripture is its own interpreter." This principle means that the Bible is to be interpreted by the Bible. A dark passage in Scripture can be clarified by another passage. Interpret Scripture with Scripture means that we can not face a passage of Scripture with another passage. Each text must be understood not only in light of its immediate context but also in light of the context of Scripture as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, properly understood, the only method </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lawful </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and valid to interpret the Bible is the method of interpretation </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">literal. However, there is much confusion about the idea </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of literal interpretation. The literal interpretation, in a sense </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">restricted, means that we have to interpret the Bible as it </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">is written. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A noun is to be treated as a noun, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">verb as a verb. It means that all forms </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">used in the writing of the Bible must be interpreted in </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">accordance with the normal rules governing these forms. The </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">poetry should be treated as poetry. Historical accounts are to </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">be treated as history. Parables as parables, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">hyperbole as hyperbole, and so on.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this respect, the Bible must be interpreted according to the rules governing the interpretation of any book. In some ways the Bible is very different from any book ever written. in which, however, has to do with its interpretation, it must be treated like any other book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible is not to be construed in accordance with our desires and prejudices. We must find what it actually says and be careful not to force our own views. The sport of heretics is to seek the support of Scripture for false doctrines that have no basis in the text. Satan himself quoted Scripture invalidly to tempt Christ to sin (Matthew 4: 1-11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The basic message of the Bible in so simple and clear that even a child can understand. However, to properly understand the meat of Scripture requires careful attention and study. Some of the issues addressed by the Bible are so complex and profound that capture the perennial effort of more specialized academic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are a few principles of interpretation that are essential for any proper study of the Bible. Among them are the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The narrative accounts must be interpreted in the light of the passages "teaching". For example, the story of Abraham offering Isaac on Mount Moriah seem to suggest that God knew that Abraham's faith was true. But the didactic portions of Scripture clearly reflect that God is omniscient.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The implicit must always be interpreted in the light 10 explicit; and I never explicit by the implicit. In other words, if a particular text seem to imply something, we must not accept as right text implies that if such an interpretation is contrary to an explicit statement of Scripture elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The laws of logic govern biblical interpretation. If, for example, we know that all cats have tails, we can not deduce that some cats do not have tails. If it is true that some cats do not have tails, then itcan not be equally true that all cats have tails.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is not a mere matter of technical laws of inference; it is a matter of common sense. However, the vast majority of the misinterpretations of the Bible have been caused by not legitimate deductions of Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Bible is its own interpreter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We must interpret the Bible literally , as has been written.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Bible must be interpreted like any other book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The dark parts of the Bible must be interpreted in the light of the brighter portions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The implication must be interpreted in light of the explicit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The logical laws govern everything that can reasonably be inferred or concluded from Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">PASSAGES </span></b><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Acts 15: 15-16, Ephesians 4: 11-16, 2 Peter 1: 16-21, 2 Peter 3: 14-18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PRIVATE INTERPRETATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Two of the great legacies of the Reformation were the principle of private interpretation and translation of the Bible into the common language of the people. Luther himself brought this issue to light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Luther appeared before the Diet of Worms (a council that was accusing him of heresy because of his teaching), he said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If not convince me with Scripture and clear reason I do not accept the authority nor the Pope nor the councils alone, since they often have contradicted each other - my conscience is captive to the Word of God. Therefore, I can not and will not recant, because doing something against conscience does not reassure or would be fine. My God, help me. Amen </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Luther's statement, and subsequent translation of the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bible into their mother tongue, had two consequences. First, he </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">withdrew to the Catholic Church the exclusive right of interpretation.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Since then the people would not be at the mercy of the doctrine of the church, having to accept the authority of the traditional teaching of the church or equal to the Word of God. Second, the interpretation put in the hands of the people. This change has been more problematic. He led to the same excesses that the Catholic Church wanted to prevent -the subjective interpretation of the text which departs from the historic Christian faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Subjectivism has been the great danger of private interpretation. However, the principle of private interpretation does not mean that God's people have the right to interpret the Bible as he pleases. The "right" to interpret Scripture goes along with the responsibility to interpret it correctly. Believers are free to discover the truths of Scripture, but they are not free to make their own truths. Believers are called to understand the valid interpretation principles and to avoid the danger of subjectivism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When looking for an objective understanding of Scripture we are not reducing Scripture to something cold, abstract and lifeless. What we are seeking is to understand what the Word says in context, before striving toward the equally necessary task of putting it into practice in our lives. A statement in particular can have many possible personal applications, but only one correct meaning can have. The right to interpret Scripture entails the obligation to interpret accurately. The Bible is not a wax that can be molded and that may be the way that best suits the opinions of the interpreter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Reform the church gave him a translation of the Bible into the common language of the people, and granted every believer the right and responsibility of private interpretation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The tradition of the church, although it may serve as an instructive guide, does not have the same authority as Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Private interpretation is not a license for subjectivism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The principle of private interpretation carries with it the obligation to seek the correct interpretation of the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Every biblical text has multiple applications, but only one correct meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">REVELATION AND SCRIPTURE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The term "special revelation" can be used in more ways than one. Sometimes it denotes direct communications from God to man in verbal messages and miraculous events. The prophets and the apostles received divine messages often long before the write.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Today we find in the Scriptures but do not form the whole of the Bible. Much of the Bible was not given to the sacred writers in this supernatural way, but is the fruit of study and reflection. Anyway, the phrase "special revelation" is used with reference to the whole Bible, that is, to all the facts and redemptive truths found in Scripture within its historical sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Scripture assures us these truths because they have been unfailingly inspired by the Holy Spirit. We can therefore say that the whole Bible, and the Bible alone, is the special revelation of God for each of us.Special revelation of God lives in the pages of the Bible and even today gives us life, light and holiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PROOF OF THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The whole Bible was given by inspiration of God and is the infallible guide for faith and practice for all mankind. Since many deny the inspiration of the Bible this matter requires special consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible is not a human invention but is founded on the Bible itself.There are many passages that speak of it, but we will indicate only a few. The authors of the Old Testament were instructed by God to write what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He ordered to them. Former. 17:14; 34: 27; Isa. 8: 1; 30: 8; Jer. 25: 13; 30: 2; Ezek. 24: 1-2; Dan.12: 4;Hab. 2: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The prophets were aware of carrying the word of the Lord and for that reason introduced his messages with the words "Thus saith the Lord" or, "and went to my word of the Lord saying," Jer. 36:27, 32; Ezekiel chapters 26, 27, 31, 32, 39.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The apostle Paul speaks of his own words as the Spirit had taught him, 1 Cor. 2: 13, and claims that it is Christ who spoke to him, 2 Cor. 13: 3. In his letter to the Thessalonians says that his message was "word<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God, "2 Thess. 2:13. In the Epistle to the Hebrews Old Testament quotations are mentioned as the word of God or the Holy Spirit, Hebrews 1: 5; 3: 7; 4: 3; 5: 6; 7: 21.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The most important passage that exists on the inspiration of Scripture is found in 2 Timothy 3:16: "All Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NATURE OF INSPIRATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are two misconceptions of inspiration. Both represent extremes to avoid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MECHANICS INSPIRATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">sometimes that God literally dictated what the human authors of the Bible were written, as if they were feathers in which the writer's hand, ie, completely passive agents has been said. This means that their minds did not contribute absolutely nothing to the form and content of the Scriptures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The same Scriptures show that it was not. The human authors were real authors, and in some cases materials derived from sources that were at his disposal, 1 Kings 11: 41; 14: 29; 1 Chronicles 29:29 and Luke 1: 1-4 In other cases these authors tell us about their own experiences, as in the book of Psalms and writings bear the traces of his own literary style. Isaiah's style is different from that of Jeremiah, nor John writes in the same style of Paul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">DYNAMICS INSPIRATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Others have said that the phenomenon of inspiration affects only writers but not his writings. It is said that their spiritual life and intellectual power was raised to such a level that best understood everything and had a deeper spiritual guidance of their true value.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It has also said that this inspiration was not limited to the time when they wrote the books of the Bible, but it was a permanent feature in the lives of such writers, and only in an indirect way has something to do with his writings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It was like a kind of spiritual enlightenment similar to that enjoyed by all believers, but only in a much higher degree. This theory has no Biblical foundation and is far from the biblical doctrine of inspiration, as we shall see later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ORGANIC INSPIRATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The true concept of biblical inspiration teaches that the Holy Spirit acted on the writers of the Bible in an organic form, which his organs, but in harmony with the laws of their inner being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Holy Spirit used them as it were, with his character and temperament, their gifts and talents, education and culture, vocabulary and style. The Holy Spirit enlightened their minds, helped his memory, prompted them to write, dominated the influence that sin could have on his writings, and guided them in the expression of his thoughts to the point of word choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However he gave them a good measure of freedom in their activities. He let us give the results of their investigations, and to put on the sacred books the imprint of his own style and vocabulary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">EXTENT OF INSPIRATION.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are differences of opinion on this point, it is necessary to study.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PARTIAL INSPIRATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Under the influence of Rationalism is not uncommon today who completely deny the inspiration of the Bible, or keep only parts of it are inspired. Some deny the inspiration of the Old Testament but the New accept.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Others claim that only moral and religious teachings of the Bible are inspired but in regard to its historical parts, there is chronological, archaeological and scientific errors. Some inspiration to limit the Sermon on the Mount.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Those who accept such views do not already have a Bible on which to stand, since the same differences of opinion that exist are proof positive that no such persons can determine with the lowest degree of certainty, what parts of Scripture they are inspired and which are not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is yet another way to deny the biblical inspiration of the Scriptures is to say that only thoughts are inspired, but the choice of words was completely left in the hands of human authors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Such a claim falls under its own weight, since it is based on the misconception that it is possible to separate the thoughts of words. Instead, we can say that without words is impossible to think accurately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE PLENARY INSPIRATION</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible teaches that every part of it is inspired. Jesus Christ and the apostles often appealed to the Old Testament with the words "Scriptures" or "Scripture" to solve a point of controversy. For them appeal to Scripture was the same appeal to God. It is also noteworthy that the list of books that cite this way, historical books are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the Epistle to the Hebrews they are frequently cited passages of the Old Testament as words of God or the Holy Spirit. Peter puts Paul's letters to the same level as the books of the Old Testament 2 Peter 3: 16 and Paul says that all Scripture is divinely inspired, 2 Timothy 3:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can then go a step further and say that the inspiration of the Bible reaches the same words used. The Bible is verbally inspired, which is not to be confused with mechanical inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of verbal inspiration is well justified by Scripture. In many cases we find that God himself said exactly Moses and Joshua what to write. Lev. 3 and 4; 6: 1, 24; 7:22, 28; Joshua 1: 1; 4: 1; 6: 2, etc.Prophets speak as if the Lord would put his word in their mouths, Jer. 1: 9 or order them to speak to the people the same words' God,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ezek. 3: 4, 10, 11. Paul tells us that his word is taught by the Spirit, 1 Cor. 2: 13 and both Paul and Jesus himself founded a whole argument on a single word, Matthew 22: 43-45; John 10:35; Gal. 3:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">WRITING perfections.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Reformers developed the doctrine of Scripture in contrast to the Roman Catholic Church and some of the sects. Rome teaches that the Bible owes its authority to the Church, while the reformers claimed that the Bible has its own authority, as the inspired Word of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They also affirmed the necessity of Scripture as the means of grace prepared by God Himself. The Roman Catholic Church affirms that the Church has no absolute necessity of Scripture and some sects put their emphasis on the "inner light" and the message of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of believers to the detriment of Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Also against the Roman Church, the Reformers defended the clarity of Scripture. They did not deny that Scripture contains mysteries too deep for human understanding, but said that the Bible gives us all the knowledge necessary for salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This knowledge even if not found equally clear in each of the pages of the Bible, we are given so that anyone who sincerely seeks the salvation of his soul can obtain for itself and needs no reliable interpretation of the Church or clergy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, they defended the sufficiency of Scripture, that is, they denied the necessity of Tradition that the Roman Catholic Church maintains, or inner light that advocated the Anabaptists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE / BIBLE AUTHORITY<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 Cor. 2:13. "We speak, not in words of human wisdom, but which the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 Thess. 2:13. "Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing, that having received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not the word of men, but as it is truly, the word of God."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2 Timothy. 3:16. "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Isaiah 8:20. "To the law and to the testimony. If you do not speak according to this it is because there is no light in them. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CLARITY OF SCRIPTURE<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Sal. 19: 7b. "The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 119: 105. "Lamp is to my feet your word and light to my path." And the v. 130, "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it gives understanding to the simple. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE NEED FOR THE BIBLE / THE SUFFICIENCY OF SCRIPTURE<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2 Timothy. 3: 15. "And that from childhood you have known the holy scriptures, which are able tomake you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Do they have any authority human traditions? Matthew 5: 21-48; 15: 3-6; Mark 7: 7; Col. 2: 8; Titus 1:14; 2 Peter 1:18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> They understood clearly the prophets things they wrote? Dan. 8: 15; 12: 8; Zech. 1: 7 to 6: 11; 1 Peter 1:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What does 2 Timothy 3:16 teaches us about the practical value of the inspiration of the Bible? </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-63587236265302259212016-04-03T13:42:00.002-07:002016-04-03T13:42:24.765-07:00THE BIBLE: THE WORD OF GOD<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Even for a casual reader of the Bible, it soon becomes clear that reading a book is out of the ordinary. Although it covers thousands of years of human history and is written by more than forty human writers, the Bible is not just a collection of writings, but a whole book that has a fascinating continuity. It is called "The Bible", from the Greek word </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Biblos, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">which means "A book." Its outstanding feature is due to the fact that it is indeed the Word of God, even if it was written by human authors.</span></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Two lines of evidence support the conclusion that the Bible is the Word of God offered: 1) internal evidence; the facts found in the Bible itself and the self-affirmation of the Bible concerning its divine origin; 2) external evidence; the nature of the facts given in Scripture to support their supernatural character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Hundreds of passages, the Bible says or claims itself to be the Word of God </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(Deuteronomy 6: 6-9, 17-18; Jos 1: 8 . ; . 8: 32-35; 2 Sam 22:31; Psalm 1: 2; 12: 6 . ; 19: 7-11; 93: 5; 119: 9, 11, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18, 89-93,97-100, 104-105, 130; Prov . 30: 5-6; is . 55: 10-11; Jer 15:16; 23:29; Dn 10:21;.. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 5: 17-19; 22:29; Mr. 13:31; Lk 16:17; Jn.. 2:22; 5:24; 10:35; Acts 17:11;. Ro 10:17;. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1 Cor 2:13; Col. 3:16; 1 Thessalonians 2:13;.. 2 Timothy 2:15 ; 3: 15-17; 1 P.1: 23-25; 2 Peter 3: 15-16; Rev. 1: 2;. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">22:18). The Scriptures declare, in many different ways, that the Bible is the Word of God and that his statement is clear and intelligible to anyone. The constant assertion of the writers of the Old Testament, the New and Jesus Christ himself, is that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. For example, Psalm 19: 7-11 states that the Bible is indeed the word of the Lord, and appoints six perfections, with its six corresponding transformations of human character, that the Word fulfilled. Jesus declared that the law must be fulfilled (Matthew 5: 17-18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Hebrews 1: 1-2, not only it states that God spoke in the Old Testament prophets with God's word, but so did His Son in the New. The Bible can only be rejected if their constant claims to be the Word of God are rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Bible not only claims and claims for itself to be the Word of God, but supports these claims by abundant evidence that often have convinced even the most skeptical readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE CONTINUITY OF THE BIBLE </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> One of the most surprising and extraordinary facts about Scripture is that, although they were written by more than forty authors who lived over a period of over 1,600 years, the Bible is not However, a book and not just a collection of 66 books. Their authors come from diverse places and life situations; There are kings, peasants, philosophers, statesmen, fishermen, doctors, scholars, poets and farmers. They lived in different cultures, different existential experiences, and often were completely different in character. The Bible has a continuity that can be seen from Genesis to Revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The continuity of the Bible can be observed in historical sequence beginning with the creation of the present world to the new heavens and new earth. The Old Testament reveals doctrinal issues such as the nature of God Himself, the doctrine of sin, salvation and the program and purpose of God for the world as a whole, for Israel and for the Church. The doctrine is gradually introduced since its beginnings in the form of introduction to its fullest development. The type is followed by the anti-type, prophecy compliance. One of the ongoing themes of the Bible is the anticipation, presentation, realization and exaltation of the most perfect person on earth and the heavens, our Lord Jesus Christ. The story so fascinating book, with its continuity of development, requires a much greater inspiration in itself a miracle. Accordingly, believers of Scripture, while recognizing human bill of several of his books, continuity and guidance are due to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE EXTENSION OF BIBLICAL REVELATION.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In its manifestation of Truth, the Bible is unquenchable. Like a telescope, it delves into the universe from the infinite heights and depths of the heavens, to the tremendous depth of hell and captures the works of God from the beginning to the end. As a microscope reveals the tiniest details of the plan and purpose of God and the mostperfect work of creation. As a stereoscope, it places all beings and objects, whether they are in heaven and on earth, in right relationship with each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While many of the books of the Bible were written in the early days of human knowledge, at a time when its authors knew nothing of modern discoveries, what they wrote, however, it has never been contradicted by later discoveries, and ancient writings of Scripture are amazingly adapted to modern situations. In the broad context of its revelation, biblical truth reaches unsuspected horizons beyond human discovery, reaching, as indeed it does, from eternity past to eternity future, revealing facts that only God can know. There is no other book in the world that has even attempted to present the truth in an understandable way the Bible does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. THE INFLUENCE AND PUBLICATION OF THE BIBLE.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> No other book has ever been published in many languages and languages, and so different peoples and cultures, as the Bible itself. Its pages are among the first that were printed when modern printing presses were invented. Millions of copies of Scripture have been published in all the major languages of the world, and no single written language that does not have at least a printed portion of the Bible. While skeptics like French Voltaire, unfaithful and heretical, have predicted often the Bible would be relegated to oblivion in the passing of a generation, and even writers of the twentieth century have predicted that the Bible soon be a forgotten book, the truth it is that the Bible continues to be published more often and in more languages than before. Other religions have surpassed Christianity in number of followers, but have not been able to offer any comparable written revelation to Scripture. In our modern era, the influence of the Bible continues its relentless pace of diffusion. For the unsaved is the "sword of the Spirit" (Eph 6:17.) And saved for an effective, sanctifying and clean from all stain (John 17:17 power;. 2 Corinthians 3:17, 18; Eph. 5:25, 2O). The Bible remains the only basis for divine law and morality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. THE CONTENTS OF THE BIBLE.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The supernatural character of the Bible is seen in the fact that so freely about the unknown and, of course, unknowable, as it is known. Describe eternity in the past, including the creation before man existed. The nature and the works of God are revealed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Bible prophecy the whole divine program for the world, for Israel and for the Church, culminating in the latter, which is eternal is manifested. In each subject presented and described, their statements are decisive, specific and are outside of time. Its comprehensive nature has made her wise readers the truth is told both in time and in eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Considered as a literary work, the Bible is also something supreme.Not only it contains the graphical history, but the prophecy in detail, the most beautiful poetry and drama, stories of love and war, speculation and philosophy as it relates to Biblical truth. The variety of the production of its authors is contrasted by the multiplicity of its subjects. No other book of literature has so many passionate readers of all ages and all. Degrees of intelligence and erudition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. AUTHORITY WITHOUT PREJUDICE OF THE BIBLE.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The human character of the authors of the Bible, no bias in favor of men. The Bible records and notes, without hesitation, sin and weakness of the finest men and graphically warns those who rely on their own virtues of their ultimate doom.Although written by humans, it is a message from God to man, rather than a message from man to man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although sometimes he speaks of earthly things and human experiences, also described clearly and authoritatively things both of heaven and earth, visible and invisible; revealing facts about God, angels, men, time and eternity; of life and death, sin and salvation, heaven and hell. Man such a book could not have been written if had had to choose to do it, and even he could, never would have wanted to do so apart from divine guidance. Therefore, the Bible, though written by men, is a message from God, with certainty, security and peace that only God can provide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. THE SUPREME NATURE OF THE BIBLE.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Above all the above, the Bible is a supernatural book that reveals the person and glory of God manifested in His Son is. Such a person, Jesus Christ, could never have been the invention of a mortal man, as perfections could never have been understood neither by the wisest men and saints of this land. The supreme character of the Bible is supported by its revelation of the supreme character in the person of Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As a result of the combination of the supernatural and the man from entering into the composition of the Bible qualities, it can be observed a similarity between the Bible as the written Word and the Lord Jesus Christ as the living Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Both are supernatural in origin, presenting an inscrutable and perfect what is divine and what is human mix. Both also exert a transformative power over those who believe, and also allowed by God as something negative and rejected by those who do not believe. Divine, spotless and in all its grandeur perfections that does not suffer the smallest decline, they are immersed in both. The revelations shows are equally as simple as the mental capacity of a child, and as complex as the infinite treasures of divine wisdom and divine knowledge, sustained by the God who has revealed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What does the word "Bible"?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the two main lines of evidence that the Bible is the Word of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> List five passages from the Old Testament and five New in the Bible declare or assume itself to be the Word of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Mentioning six perfections, with its six corresponding transformations of human character that meets the Word according to Psalm 19: 7-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is the continuity of the Bible evidence of his inspiration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the evidence of the continuity of the Bible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . What the Bible differs from other books for the expression of his revelation of the truth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How extensive is related publication of the Bible with its transforming power?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe and relate the supernatural character of the Bible regarding its content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . Evaluate the Bible as a literary character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can it be related human quality of its preparation with prejudice exempt authority of the Bible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Relate the Bible as a supernatural book with Jesus Christ as a supernatural person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e;">THE BIBLE: GOD INSPIRED BY<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Bible is the only book written by inspiration of God, in the sense that God has personally led his writers. The inspiration of the Bible is defined as a teaching that God has imparted directly to their authors and, without destroying or cancel their own individuality, his literary style or personal interests, God has sent in the same His full and intimate thought, and so it has been registered by their human authors. By forming the Scriptures, it is true that God used human writers; but these men, but could not have understood what they were writing, however, under the guidance of God and His guiding hand, they produced the 66 books that make up the Bible, which is a fascinating continuity and consistent evidence the work of the Holy Spirit directing their feathers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Therefore, although written by human means, the Bible is God's message to man, rather than a message for his fellow man. Regardless of whether the recorded words are God dictated literally copies found from ancient codices and the results of research on human authors, or their thoughts, aspirations and fears, show that in every detail God led those men so that what they wrote was exactly what God intended to write, with the result, then, that the Bible is indeed the Word of God.Although certain passages of the Bible may differ markedly in character, each and every one of the words of Scripture are equally inspired by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The doctrine of inspiration, precisely because it is supernatural, presents some problems for human understanding. How can a human author, recording their own thoughts and knowledge, be guided to write exactly what God wants me to write? Precisely because there is questions like this have ventured some, like the extension of divine control over human authors. There are various "theories of inspiration" and all Bible interpreters follow any of these theories. The prospect of inspiration accepted by the commentator is the foundation on which are built all interpretations of the Bible, and for this reason we must pay careful attention to the real prospect of inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THEORIES OF INSPIRATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">VERBAL plenary inspiration.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the history of the church, the orthodox view of inspiration has been described as verbal and plenary. By verbal inspiration we mean that the Spirit of God was the onewho guided the choice of words used in the original writings. However, Scripture indicates human bill. Several books of the Bible reflect the personal characteristics of the writer, in style and vocabulary, and often their personalities are expressed in their thoughts, opinions, or fears prayers.However, although evident human elements in the Bible, the doctrine of plenary inspiration sustains and affirms that God directed him, so that all the words that were used were as equally by God and inspired by Him. This it is highlighted by the use of the word "plenary", which means "full inspiration , " as opposed to the views that claim that there is only a partial inspiration in the Bible term.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Other additional descriptive words are often added to clarify what is orthodox doctrine. It declares that Scripture is infallible in the sense of being accurate and immune to all error. also it states that Scripture is inerrant, meaning thereby that the Bible contains no errors, as a statement of fact.Although the Bible can register sometimes declarations of men that are not true, or even words of Satan, as in Genesis 3: 4, in all these cases, although the statement attributed to Satan or men is faithfully recorded, it is clear that God does not affirm the truth of such statements. By asserting that the Bible is verbally and fully inspired, besides being inerrant and infallible in his declarations of truth, it is argued that the perfect and supernatural God's guidance is provided to every word of Scripture so that the Bible can It is regarded as a precise and accurate statement of divine truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The safety of inspiration applies, of course, to the original writings only and not to copies, translations or annotations. As there is no original manuscript, scholars have expanded greatly to determine the accuracy of the text of the Bible that we now have. For the purpose of teaching the truth, it can be assumed and taken for certain that our present copies of the Bible are exact reproductions of the original writings. While there are slight variations in the text, such variations affect just any teaching of the Bible and subsequent manuscripts findings tend to confirm this conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">For all practical purposes, the Old Testament, written in Hebrew and the New Testament, written in Greek, can be accepted as the true Word of God and a true statement of what God intended to communicate to man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THEORY ISSUED OR MECHANICS</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> . </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In contrast to the true doctrine of inspiration that allowed the human authors, with his personality, compose written under the direction of God, some have argued that God actually dictated the Scripture and the Bible writers acted only as stenographers. But if God had dictated the Bible, writing style and vocabulary of the Bible would be the same throughout its length. In many cases the authors of Scripture expressed their own fears and feelings, or your prayers for divine salvation, and in various ways left the imprint of his personality in the divine record. Prayer of Paul's heart emerged by Israel in Romans 9: 1-3, for example, would have lost its meaning being dictated by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Okay, then, with the foregoing, while the inspiration extends to every word of Scripture, not the human personality, literary style or personal interest is dismissed. The Bible says human fulfillment, as it does with the divine authority of the book. God accomplished exactly what He wanted to lead the human authors who wrote it, but without the mechanical process of dictation. Some portions of the Bible were dictated by God and thus is indicated in the same sacred text, but most of the Bible was written by human authors without evidence of a direct dictation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE THEORY OF THE CONCEPT.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Some have tried to weaken the full inspiration of the Bible and make concessions to human authority, saying that God inspired the concept, but not the precise words. This view, however, presents serious problems if you think that the human authors only partially understood what God had revealed to them and, in doing so in their own words, could well have introduced errors of consideration in his writings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Bible explicitly contradicts the idea that it was only supplied with the concept of their human authors. Again and again the emphasis is on the sense that the words of Scripture are inspired. The importance of words is frequently mentioned (Ex 20: 1; John 6:63; 17:.. 8; 1 Cor 2:13). In the Old Testament notes repeatedly also claims that the words themselves, they are inspired by God, as in Jn. 10: 34-35; Gal. 3:16; and frequent references to the Bible as the Word of God in Eph. 6:17; Stg. 1: 21-23; and 1 Peter 2: 2. Pronounced a solemn condemnation on anyone who deleted the Word of God (Rev. 22: 18- 19). The theory of the concept therefore has no consistency regarding Scripture is drafted so; fails entirely in the light of what the Bible itself says about the true doctrine of inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. PARTIAL INSPIRATION.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> They have also ventured other theories in the sense that only part of the Bible is inspired. For example, some have argued that revealed portions of the Bible that refer to divine truth are accurate and true, but can not accept the statements of historical, geographical and scientific information . Matched with partial inspiration is the idea that some fragments of Scripture are more inspired than others, and thus the right and wrong become a matter of degree. This applies, sometimes, to what is known as the "mystical inspiration" or the idea that God helped in varying degrees to the authors in what they wrote, but not giving completely the ability to write Scripture without error all forms of partial inspiration let inspiration to the reader 's judgment and consequently the authority of Scripture becomes the authority of the person reading the Scripture, there being so two readers who agree exactly with respect to what is true and what is not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE NEO-ORTHODOX INSPIRATION. OPINION</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the twentieth century has ventured a new opinion or view on divine inspiration, starting with Karl Barth, and called neo-orthodox. While not denying that there are necessarily supernatural elements in the writings of Scripture, this view recognizes that there are errors in the Bible, and thus the Bible can not be taken literally true. The neo-orthodoxy holds that God speaks through Scripture and uses them as a means to communicate with us. According to this view, the Bible becomes a channel of divine revelation, much like the concept that a beautiful flower or a lovely sunset supply the concept that God is the Creator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Bible, considered under such a theory is true only when understood, and evidence of truth is also the opinion of the individual reader. The history of this view shows that no two people are exactly agree on what the Bible really teaches and, as partial inspiration, leaves the individual as the final authority as regards to what is true and what is false.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">INSPIRATION NATURALISTA </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> This is the view most extreme of disbelief and holds that the Bible is like any other book. Although God could give authors an unusual ability to express concepts, it is, after all, a human production without any divine and supernatural guidance. The Bible, subject to this concept becomes just any other book of religion, which expresses ancient concepts and views of spiritual experience that men have had in the past. This review destroys any distinctive statement about the divine authority of the Bible and leaves unexplained the wonderful and actual accuracy of the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Ultimately the reader of Scripture has to take a stand and make a choice. Either the Bible is what it claims to be-the inspired Word of God and a book in which trust, as if God had written it himself, without human authors, or has to be considered as a book that no substance their claims and it is certainly not the Word of God. While many tests can join in support of the inspiration of the Bible, the best evidence is in the fact that the action of the book in history supports their own assertions.His power has been manifested in the transformed lives of millions of people who have put their trust in the words and promises of Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE TESTIMONY OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact that the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit is supported by many internal evidence that it is indeed the Word of God, and is confirmed by the power of God's Word to influence and transform men. From all evidence, however, one of the most important is the testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ himself that, indeed, the Bible is inspired by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Wherever Jesus quote Scripture-and He did it with often-did it as having the authority and the full recognition that had come at the hands of men by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to Matthew 5:18, Christ said that not one jot or tittle of the law shall be without compliance with this He stated that one jot (the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet) or a tilde (the smallest part of a letter that could change their meaning) would be broken. If the accuracy and inspiration extend to each of his letters, Christ was obviously affirming the inspiration of the entire Old Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In John 10:35 Christ said that "the Scripture can not be broken" can not fail. Again and again the New Testament affirms an exact fulfillment of the Old Testament, as in Matthew 1:22, 23 (Mt. 4:14; 8:17; 12:17; 15: 7-8; 21: 4-5; 42; 22:29; 26:31, 56; 27: 9, 10, 35). These references from the Gospel of Matthew are typical of what is disseminated throughout the New Testament in its entirety. Even when he says a dispensational change or modification of a rule of life, authority and inspiration of the original statements of Scripture are not discussed at all (Mt. 19: 7-12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The entries from the Old Testament extend to any important section and often are books that are the most discussed by liberals such as Deuteronomy, Jonah, and Daniel (Dt 6:16 critics; cf. Matt. 12: 40; Dn 9:27;. 12:11; cf. Mt. 24:15). It is impossible to put into question the inspiration of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Old Testament without doubt the character and veracity of Jesus Christ. It is for this reason that the denial of the inspired Word of God leads to the denial of the Incarnate Word of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Jesus Christ not only affirmed the inspiration and the unerring accuracy of the Old Testament, but He predicted the writing of the New. According to John 16: 12-13, the disciples were to receive truth from the Holy Spirit after Christ had ascended to heaven. Christ it established that the disciples would be witnesses of truth (Matthew 28:19; Luke 10: 22-23; Jn 15:27; Acts 1:... 8). Jesus gave the disciples authority in his speech and dissemination of truth (Lk 10:16; Jn 13:19; 17:14, 18; Hebrews 2:.. 3-4.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As was being written the New Testament authors were aware that they were led by the Spirit of God and freely said that the New Testament was inspired like the Old. In the same way that David wrote by the Spirit (Matthew 22:43), and as the psalmist was inspired (Heb 3: 7-11; Ps. 95: 7-11.), The New Testament, in the same way, says his inspiration. In 1 Timothy 5:18; Deuteronomy 25: 4 and Luke 10: 7 Scripture cited as equally inspired. In 2 Peter 3: 15-16 Paul's Epistles are classified as Scripture has to be received as the Word of God, like all other Scripture. The New Testament clearly states have the same inspiration as the Old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. IMPORTANT PASSAGES OF INSPIRATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">One of the key passages on the inspiration of the Bible is found in 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Timothy 3:16, which states: "All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness." By "Scripture" the apostle refers to the "Holy Scriptures" mentioned in 2 Timothy 3:15, including both the Old and New Testament. The expression "inspired by God" is a word that is in the New Greek Testament </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">theopneustos, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">which means "the breath of God." With this we want to definitely mean that Scripture comes from God and this fact has the same perfection that characterizes God himself. It would be absolutely impossible for God to be the author of error. The inspiration extends not both the authors and the Word of God itself. While the authors were fallible and subject to error, the breath of God breathed such authors His infallible Word, directing them with His divine power, and what is written about them was indeed the infallible word of God. And it is the Word of God, is profitable for doctrine or teaching, and for reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">One of the important issues that often arises is: How could God inspire scripture being so, on the one hand, allows man-made and, secondly, comes the inspired Word of God without error? The question of how God performed a supernatural act is always inscrutable; however, you can catch some light on the subject at 2 Peter 1:21, where, in connection with a prophecy of Scripture states:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"For prophecy he never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." Whether it was verbal or prophets prophets who put it in writing, the explanation is that they were " moved and driven by the Holy Spirit. " The translation of the word "moved" is corresponding to bear a burden, a task. In this statement, therefore, the human authors are taken to a destination and a desired target by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God, in the same way that a ship takes passengers to their final destination. Although passengers traveling on a boat have a certain human freedom and can move freely inside the ship, they can not prevent, safely and decisively, the ship go to your destination marked beforehand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While this explanation is not complete to illustrate inspiration for clarification is beyond human understanding, it becomes clear that the human authors were not free to meet their own designs, or exercised, therefore its purpose staff. God acted within them, insuflándolos His thoughts and utilizándoles as appropriate channels for achieving such a work. Undoubtedly, some portion of Scripture was explicitly dictated by God, as, for example, the giving of the Law in Exodus 20: 1-17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Again and again the Old Testament declares that "God said" (Genesis 1: 3.). Another common expression is that "the word of the Lord came" one of the prophets (cf. Jer 1: 2; Os. 1: 1; Jon. 1: 1; Mi.. 1: 1; Zeph. 1: 1; Hag. 1: 1; Zech 1: 1).. In other situations God spoke through visions and dreams (Dan. 2: 1), or appeared as a vision (Dan. 7: 1). Although they could vary the forms and circumstances of divine revelation, God speaks to all of them with a perfect authority, absolute precision and unerring way. For all this, the Word of God participates in the same quality of absolute, own truth of the person and character of God himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. CONSIDERATIONS CUALIFICATIVAS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Declaring that the entire Bible is true and is inspired by God, it should be noted that sometimes the Bible records as such lie a lie; Such is the case of Satan's lie in Genesis 3: 4. The Bible also records the experiences and reasonings of men, as I is illustrated in the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes. In them, what Scripture transcribed as words of his characters have to be verified by the clear statements of truth that are spread throughout the Bible. Accordingly, some of the statements of Job's friends are not true, and some of the philosophical thoughts of Ecclesiastes not go beyond human wisdom. Whenever the Bible states a fact as true, it is certainly true whether comes from God himself as revelation, whether moral principles or a prophetic program, or questions of history, geography or facts that are related to science . It is a fascinating testimony to the accuracy of the Word of God that, although the authors could not anticipate modern scientific discoveries or used technical language, not contradict, however, any discovery that man has done and that is genuinely true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">There are problems in the Bible that make certain questions arise. Sometimes, for lack of information, the Bible seems to contradict itself, for example, in the story of the healing of the blind of Jericho, where various accounts indicate two or blind (Matt 20:30; Mr. . 10:46; Lk 18:35) and where the incident appears to have occurred elsewhere outside Jericho (Mark 10:46; Luke 19: 1)..Problems of this kind, however, invite a patient study and the difficulty can be resolved if all the facts were known to us. For example, there were two cities in Jericho: an ancient, the other modern.Christ could well have left one to enter the other. Many alleged errors in the Bible have been perfectly clarified by archaeological discoveries and findings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">No one really knows enough to contradict the established facts and statements given in the Bible, whether related to the creation of the world, the origin of man or lying in certain details of narrative order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Properly understood, the Bible remains the monument's own truthfulness of God and truth, and can be believed as if God himself had spoken directly to the individual who reads Scripture Although there have been attempts to undermine and destroy the Bible, for those who seek the truth about God continues to be the single source of inerrant authority of divine revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Define what the inspiration of the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent the Bible is inspired?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What does distinguish themselves by verbal and plenary inspiration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent is infallible and immune from error and what these terms mean?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can you explain that the Bible refers misrepresentations of men?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent the inspiration extends to copies and translations of the Bible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Define the mechanical theory of inspiration and why it is inadequate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the problems of the theory of the concept of inspiration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the problems of the theory of partial inspiration or degrees of inspiration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What differs from the point of view of neo-orthodox inspiration, orthodox?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why the naturalistic point of view of the Bible has to be rejected?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What Christ taught concerning the inspiration of the Bible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does support annotations Old Testament inspiration from that part of the Bible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What indications are given in the New Testament that is also inspired by God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Discuss the statement of 2 Timothy 3:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does 2 Peter 1:21 contributes to the method of inspiration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Indicate the extent to which the Bible affirms its own inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How inspiration with the truth of human experience and reasoning relates as is illustrated in the Book of Job and in Ecclesiastes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What should be our response to the apparent contradictions of the Bible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE BIBLE: YOUR THEME AND PURPOSE<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. JESUS AS A THEME.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Our Lord Jesus Christ is the supreme theme of the Bible. Scripture reading, however, the perfections of Christ in His Person and His work are presented in various aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. JESUS CHRIST AS CREATOR.</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The first chapters of Genesis describes the creation of the world as carried </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">out by God, using the word </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Elohim, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">which includes God the Father, God the Son </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">and God the Holy Spirit. Only when it comes to the New Testament is when it is </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">clearly revealed that all things were made by Christ (Jn . 1: 3). According </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">to Colossians 1: 16-17: "For by him were all things created, that are in </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible; whether thrones, or dominions, </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">or principalities, or powers; All things were created through him and for him. And he is </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">before all things, and in him all things hold together . "This does not mean that</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God the Father and God the Holy Spirit did not have a part in the creation, but Christ is given to the primary site as author of the creation of the universe. Accordingly, the perfections of the universe reflect the work of His hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. JESUS CHRIST AS THE SUPREME RULER OF THE WORLD.</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Since He is the Creator, Jesus Christ also takes the place of supreme ruler </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of the universe. Since Scripture attributes the full sovereignty to God the Father, it is </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">clear that it is His purpose that Christ should rule the world (Ps . 2: 8-9). It is</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God 's purpose that every tongue has to confess that Christ is Lord and that every </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">knee will bow to, The (Is 45:23; Rom 14:11; Phil . 2: 9-11 . .). The history of man, </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">but recorded his rebellion against God (Ps . 2: 1-2), reveals that Christ is waiting for the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">day when its full sovereignty is expressed over the entire world (Ps. </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">110: 1). The day will come when Christ is the Lord of all things; It will be judged the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">sin and the sovereignty of Jesus Christ revealed (Ap. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19: 15-16).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In fulfilling its purpose God has allowed earthly rulers have held their thrones. Great nations and empires have risen and fallen, such as Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persian Empire, Greece and Rome; but the final kingdom will be the kingdom from heaven, on which Christ is to reign (Dan. 7: 13-14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Not only is Christ the King who will rule all nations but will rule on the throne. David as the Son of David, and especially be the King of Israel (Lk. 1: 31-33). This, in particular, will become apparent when the return and reign over the whole world, including the Kingdom of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">His sovereignty is also expressed in its relationship with the church, which is the head (Eph. 1: 22-23). As supreme ruler of the world, Israel and the Church (. Ephesians 1: 20-21), Christ is the Supreme Judge of all men (John 5:27; cf. Isa. 9: 6-7; Ps.. 72: 1-2, 8, 11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Jesus Christ as the Incarnate Word.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the New Testament especially, Jesus Christ is revealed as the Word Incarnate, </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the physical embodiment of what is God himself, and a revelation of the nature and</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">being of God. In Christ they are revealed all the attributes that belong to God, </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">especially his wisdom, power, holiness and love. Through Jesus Christ, men </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">can know God in a more precise and detailed than any other </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">form of divine revelation. Jesus Christ is the Word (John 1: 1 . ). According to what </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">is said in Hebrews 1: 3, Christ, "being the brightness of his glory, and the express image </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of his person , and upholding all things by the word of his power, having </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">made purification of our sins through himself, sat down at the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">right hand of the Majesty on high. " It is a fundamental purpose of God reveal </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">himself to his creatures, through Jesus Christ.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. JESUS AS SAVIOR.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the drama of history, beginning with the creation of man, the fall and end </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">with the new heavens and new earth, the work of Jesus Christ as Savior is a topic </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">prominent of Scripture. Christ is the promised seed that will conquer Satan </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(Gn. 3:15). In the Old Testament, Christ is described as the servant of the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Lord, who will cast upon him the sins of the whole world (Isa . 53: 4-6; cf. Jn. </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1:29). As a sacrifice for sin, He must die on the cross and suffer the judgment </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of sin in the world (1 Cor 15: 3-4; 2 Cor 5: 19-21; 1 Peter 1: 1849, 1 Jn 2: 2; Ap.. </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1: 5). As Savior, He is not only the sacrifice for sin, but also </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">our High Priest (Heb . 7: 25-27).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">One of the central purposes of God, as revealed in Scripture, is to provide salvation through Jesus Christ for a race that is lost. Accordingly, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, Jesus Christ is presented in supreme form, as the only Saviour (Acts. 4:12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the Bible is primarily produced and designed for the glorification of God, also records the history of man, in close connection with that purpose. The narrative in the creation, in the early chapters of Genesis culminates in the creation of Adam and Eve. Scripture as a whole, God has a plan and a purpose for the human race </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As later chapters are being shown, sovereign majestically designs of God are manifested in the history of the race. The immediate descendants of Adam and Eve are wiped off the face of the earth in the Flood, I happened in Noah. In Genesis 10 it tells that the descendants of Noah are the three major divisions of the human race. Then the descendants of Noah also failed and they were judged at the Tower of Babel, and God chose Abraham to carry out its intention to reveal himself by the people of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Beginning in Genesis 12, the dominant theme of the Bible is the appearance and history of the nation of Israel. Most of the Old Testament deals with this small nation, in relation to the mass of the Gentiles that exist with respect to it. God's purposes in this culminates in the New Testament with the coming of Jesus Christ, who supremely originally fulfilled the promise given to Abraham that through his seed all the nations of the world would be blessed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the New Testament emerges another important division of humanity, that is, the church as the body of Christ, including both Jews and Gentiles who believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Thus, the New Testament is concerned, particularly through the Acts and the Epistles, God procedures with the Church. The Book of Revelation is the great climax of the whole context. The succession of great empires, beginning with Egypt and Assyria and continuing with Babylon, the Medo-Persian, Greek and Roman empire is the culmination the coming kingdom of heaven at the second coming of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Jews and Gentiles alike, are in the millennial kingdom with Israel sees fulfilled prophecies owning the land under their King Messiah, and the nations of the world also enjoy the blessings of the millennial kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While the subject of Scripture is centered on Jesus Christ and tells the history of the world for the purpose of God and His glorification, the most important actions of God can, according to it, be seen in the demonstration of its sovereignty in relation to nations, confidence and faith in relation to Israel and grace with respect to the church. The consummation of all this is in the new heaven and the new earth and the new Jerusalem. And so the story begins back and Eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. THE PURPOSE OF THE BIBLE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to the written Word of God, a supreme purpose is revealed in all that God has done or will do, from the beginning of creation to the farthest eternity. This supreme purpose is the manifestation of the glory of God. For this purpose the angels were created was designed the material universe is like a reflection of his glory, and man created in the image and likeness of God.In the inscrutable wisdom of God, even sin was permitted and provided redemption as a perspective towards the realization of such supreme purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Which God manifests his glory agrees with its infinite perfections. When man tries to glorify himself it is always an open question, given its imperfection. God, manifesting His glory is to express and reveal the truth, which has an infinite capacity for blessing for the creature. Since God is infinite in being and absolute perfection, infinite glory He deserves, and it would be an injustice of infinite proportions if he will be spared the full expression of such honor and glory that are entirely his own. To manifest His glory, God is not looking for himself, but rather expressing his glory for the benefit of creation, his work. The revelation of God to his creatures has provided a valuable object for love and devotion, it has also provided material for the faith and peace of mind, and has given man the assurance of salvation in time and in the eternity. The more you understand the man the glory of God, the greater the blessing that enriches their existence and which is provided himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Since the Bible is God's message to man, its ultimate purpose is that He might be glorified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE BIBLE REFERS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> That "all things which are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible.; whether thrones, or dominions, or powers, are powers; All things were created through him and for him "(for his glory Col. 1:16). Angels and men, material and every creature universe, everything has been created for His glory. "The heavens declare the glory of God" (Ps . 19: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The nation of Israel is for the glory of God (Isaiah 43: 7, 21, 25; 60. 1, 3, 21; Jer 13:11.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> That salvation is for the glory of God (. Ro 9:23), as it will be a manifestation of God's grace (Eph . 2: 7) and is now a manifestation of the wisdom of God (Eph 3 : . : 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> That all service must be for the glory of God (Matthew 5:16; John 15: 8; 1 Cor 10:31; 1 Peter 2:12; 4:11, 14.). The Bible itself is the instrument of God by which He prepares the man of God for every good work (2 Tim . 3: 16-17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> That the new passion of the Christian is that God can be glorified (Rom . 5: 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Even the believer's death is said to be for this purpose (Jn 21:19. Philippians 1:20.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Whoever is saved is intended to share the glory of Christ (John 17:22; Col. 3: 4 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Taken as a whole, the Bible differs in its theme and purpose of any existing book in the world. It stands as glorious, reflecting man's place in life and his chance of salvation, the supreme character and work of Jesus Christ as Savior, and provides, in detail, the infinite glories that belong to God Himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is the only book that reveals the creature from its Creator, the plan whereby man, with all its imperfections, can be reconciled in an eternal coexistence subsidiary with the eternal God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence is that Christ has participated in creation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense is Christ the supreme ruler of the world and how it is expressed?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Explain how Christ is the supreme revelation of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Determine the theme of Scripture is Christ as Savior, including mention of the passages of the New Testament<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the Bible records concerning the history of man in Genesis 1: 1?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What purpose did God choose Abraham?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what way Israel's history culminates in Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What new purpose is revealed in the New Testament?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What great nations characterize the history?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Distinguish the purposes of God in their relationship with the nations, Israel and the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent does the Bible reveals God's glory as their ultimate purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE BIBLE AS A DIVINE REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. FORMS OF DIVINE REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Bible aims and purpose to be the revelation of being, works and God's program. To seek the infinite God reveal himself to his creatures, it is reasonable and essential to the fulfillment of God's purposes in creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is, moreover, rational beings naturally try to know something about the Creator who gave them life. If man is the highest order of the creatures, which have the ability to recognize and have an intimate communion with the Creator, it is therefore also reasonable to expect that the Creator communicate with his creatures, revealing his purpose and his will . There are three ways of utmost importance and have been used by God to reveal himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE REVELATION OF GOD IN CREATION.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The eternal power and character of God are revealed by the things that have been created (Rom. 1:20). The world of natural things, being a work of God, God shows that God is an infinite power and wisdom and has designed and created the physical world to an intelligent purpose. The revelation of God through Nature, however, has its limitations, not be clearly manifested the love and holiness of God. While revealing the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Nature is enough for God to judge the pagan world not to worship him as their Creator, reveals a way of salvation by which sinners can be reconciled to a holy God, sacred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">REVELATION IN CHRIST.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A supreme revelation of God was provided in the person and work of Christ, who was born in due time (Gal . 4: 4). The Son of God came into the world to reveal God to men in terms they could understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">On arrival as a man through the act of the Incarnation, the facts relating to God, who would otherwise have been very difficult for human understanding, are transferred to the limited scope of understanding and human understanding. So in Christ, not only it revealed the power and wisdom of God, but also his love, God's goodness, holiness and grace. Christ said: "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (Jn. 14: 9). Consequently, the one who knows Jesus Christ, God also knows the Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3 </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. THE REVELATION IN THE WORD </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">WRITTEN.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The written Word of God is able, however, to reveal God in even more explicit than those that can be observed in the person and work of Christ terms.As previously shown, it is the Bible that Jesus Christ presents us as much as the object of prophecy, and compliance. However, the Bible goes even further; giving details concerning Christ shows God's program for Israel, for nations and for the church, and about many other issues in the history of mankind and the universe. The Bible not only presents God as its central theme, but also shows its purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The written disclosure includes everything in itself. Exposes of the most clear and convincing all the facts concerning God and are revealed in nature, and provides the only record that concerns the manifestation of God in Christ form. It also extends the divine revelation in great details that relate to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, angels, demons, man, sin, salvation, grace and glory. The Bible, therefore, can be considered the perfect complement to the divine revelation of God, partially revealed in nature, and more fully revealed in Christ, and fully revealed in the written Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. SPECIAL REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Throughout human history, God has provided a special revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">many cases are recorded in the Word of God that speaks directly to man, as He did in the Garden of Eden, or Old Testament prophets or the apostles in the New. Some of these special revelations were recorded in the Bible and are the only authorized inspired record we have of such special revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Once complete the 66 books of the Bible, special revelation in the ordinary sense of the term seems to have ceased. No one has been able to successfully add a single verse of Scripture as true statement. Apocryphal additions are clearly inferior without the proper inspiration that always characterizes all writing of Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Instead of special revelation, however, a work of the Holy Spirit has especially characterized the present age. As the Spirit of God illuminates or sheds light on the Scriptures, there is a legitimate form of the present tense in the revelation from God, in which the teachings of the Bible are clarified and applied to the life of individuals and circumstances . Matched with the work lighting is the work of the Spirit as a guide, when general scriptural truths apply to the particular needs of an individual. Although both -the guidance and enlightenment are genuine works of God, they do not guarantee that an individual fully understand the Bible, or in all cases adequately understand with God's guidance. So while enlightenment and guidance are a work of the Spirit, they do not possess infallibility of Scripture, as human beings receivers are inherently fallible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Apart from this work of the Spirit of God, however, to reveal what Scripture means, no real understanding of the truth, as stated in 1 Corinthians 2:10. The truth of the Word of God needs to be revealed to us by the Spirit of God, and we need to be taught by the Spirit (1 Cor 2:13). According to 1 Corinthians 2:14, "the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned." Accordingly, the Bible is a closed book, with respect to its true meaning, for who is not a Christian and is not taught by the Spirit. This also required by the individual student of Scripture, an intimate closeness with God in which the Spirit of God is able to reveal the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. INTERPRETATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Upon receiving the revelation that comes through the Holy Spirit, in the way that teaches the Word of God to a believer in Christ, problems of interpretation of the Bible become evident. certain basic rules are necessary if you have to understand the science of interpretation, called "hermeneutics".Although there is confidence and security in the Holy Spirit for instruction in the Word of God, there are certain principles that have to be listed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1 </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. THE PURPOSE OF THE BIBLE AS A WHOLE.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In interpreting the Bible, every text has to be taken in light of the total content of Scripture, that the Bible does not contradict itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2 </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. EACH PARTICULAR MESSAGE BOOK OF </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLE </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The interpretation of Scripture needs to always take into consideration the purpose of the book, which is a part.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A study of Ecclesiastes is, accordingly, completely different from that of a book like the Apocalypse, or the Psalms, and the interpretation must be in relation to the purpose of the book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3 </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. A TARGET AUDIENCE.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> While all Scripture alike received inspiration from God, not all Scripture is equally applicable. Many false doctrines have occurred through misapplication of Scripture. Thus, the question arises concerning who is considered in a particular passage. It is necessary todistinguish primary and secondary application. The primary application can be extended only to theindividual or group to whom it is addressed Scripture, for example, the Epistle to the Galatians or a psalm written by David. There is almost always a second application, how particular truths the scriptural text occur and are found to have a general application beyond that who are really addressed. So while the law in the Old Testament is directed to Israel, Christians can study with profit as a revelation of God's holiness, changing some individuals in their application to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">5 </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. SIMILAR TEACHINGS ELSEWHERE IN THE WORD OF GOD.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Since the Bible can not contradict itself, when a theological statement is made in a verse must be harmonized with other similar theological statement elsewhere. This is the particular task of systematic theology, which tries to take all divine revelation and expose clearly and convincingly doctrinal content in a way that is not contradictory to any portion or part of Scripture. Often, some books complement each other. For example, the book of Revelation repeatedly depends for its interpretation of the book of Daniel or another of the Old Testament prophecies. If the Holy Spirit is the author of the whole Word of God, what is said in one place, you should help us understand what is said in another, in Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">6 </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. EXEGESIS PRECISE WORDS IN A PARTICULAR TEXT.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Bible was originally written in Hebrew and Greek, and often the difficulty of correct translation is presented. Therefore, knowledge of the original language is very necessary to determine exactly what the text says. Scripture scholars who do not have these technical resources, can often help by comments made by trained and exhibitions to shed light on a particular text authors. Although for most purposes a good translation is sufficient, a scholar , be careful effort will help sometimes at work competent authorities, able to clarify specific text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In addition, to determine the actual meaning of the words, the proper interpretation assumes that every word has its normal literal meaning, unless there are good reasons to consider it as a figure of speech. For example, the land promised to Israel should not be considered as a reference to heaven, but rather as a literal reference to the Holy Land. For the same reason, the promises given to Israel should not be spiritualized to apply to the Gentile believers in Christ. The rule of interpretation is that words must have their normal meaning unless the context clearly indicates that attempts to use a figure of speech in the speech.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">7 </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST PREJUDICE.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> While it is suitable for any interpreter of Scripture the approach a passage with the theological conviction that emerges from the study of the whole Bible, we must be careful not to twist the text about what He does not say, in order to align it with preconceived ideas. Each text should speak for itself, and it must allow it even if you leave temporarily without harmonization solve some problems with another part of Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In interpreting the Bible, it is important to Scripture as a comprehensive revelation that aims to being understood by all who are taught by the Spirit. The Bible intends to communicate the truth, and when properly interpreted, contains within itself a system of doctrine that is harmonious and non-contradictory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-87037765587971332262016-04-03T13:40:00.002-07:002016-04-03T13:40:32.452-07:00HOLY GOD AND DIVINITY<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: -14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord our God is a true God, and live: <b>Dt. 6: 4; Jer. 10:10; 1 Corinthians 8: 4, 6; 1 Thes. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">whose livelihood is in himself and is himself infinite in being and perfection: <b>2. Is. 48:12<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Whose essence can not be understood by anyone but himself: <b>Ex. 3:14; Job 11: 7, 8; 26:14; Ps 145: 3;Ro. 11:33, 34.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is pure, invisible spirit, without body, parts, or passions, who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light: <b>Jun. 4:24; 1 Tim. 1:17; Dt 4:15 . 16; Lk. 24:39; Acts. 14:11, 15; Stg. 5:17.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is immutable, immense, eternal, inscrutable, almighty, infinite in every way, most holy, most wise, most free, absolute: <b>Mal. 3: 6; Stg. 1:17; 1 Kings 8:27; Jer.23: 23, 24; Psalm 90: 2; 1 Tim. 1:17; Gn.17: 1; Ap . 4: 8; Isa . 6: 3; Ro. 16:27; Ps 115: 3; Ex. 3:14.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What does all things after the counsel of his immutable and most righteous will for his own glory: <b>Eph.1:11; Is 46:10.; Pr . 16: 4; Ro. 11:36.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">is loving, kind, merciful, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin: <b>Ex. 34: 6.7; 1 June 4: 8 . .<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, and above all, most just and terrible in his judgments, hating all sin , and that will by no means clear the guilty: <b>I 11: 6; Neh. 9: 32,33; Ps 5: 5,6; Naha 1: 2.3; Ex . 34: 7.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The possibility of knowing God has been denied for different reasons and although it is true that man can never reach a full understanding of the divine being, this does not imply that we have no knowledge of him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can know God only in part, but with a knowledge that is real and true. This is possible because God has revealed Himself to us. If man had been left to his own efforts, he had never come to discover him or know him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our knowledge of God is of two kinds. Man has an innate knowledge of God. This does not mean that by virtue of their creation in the image and likeness of God, man has a natural ability to know God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nor does it imply that man from birth lead the world to a certain knowledge of God. The innate knowledge means that under normal conditions in man develops naturally some knowledge of God.Anyway this knowledge is of a very general nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition to this innate knowledge of God man you can gain some knowledge of Him through general revelation and special revelation. This knowledge is obtained as the result of a conscious and continual search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even if such knowledge is possible because of natural ability in man to know God, the knowledge gained takes you far beyond those limits on the innate knowledge of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">1: THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IS DERIVED FROM THE SPECIAL REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although we recognize that it is impossible to define what God is possible change give an overview of his being. The more we can describe as a pure spirit of infinite perfections. This description includes the following elements:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD IS A PURE SPIRIT.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible does not give any definition of God. What comes closest to a definition are the words of Jesus to the Samaritan woman saying, "God is a spirit." This means that God is essentially spirit, and all those qualities that belong to the idea of a perfect spirit necessarily in it. The fact that God is a pure spirit excludes the idea that God has a body of some kind that might be visible in a complete way stay human.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD IS A PERSONAL BEING<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The idea of God as a spirit includes the idea of personality. A spirit is an intelligent and moral being, so when we ascribe personality to God, we mean it is a reasonable, able to determine and decide things be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are many today who deny the personality of God and conceived simply as an impersonal force or power. However, the God of the Bible is a personal Being, a God with whom men can talk, they can trust, who knows your experiences, it helps them in their difficulties and fills their hearts with joy and rejoicing.Moreover, God revealed himself in a personal way through the Lord Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">God is infinitely perfect<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What distinguishes God from his creatures is infinite perfection. His being and virtues or attributes are completely free of any limitation or imperfection. God is not only an infinite and unlimited being, but is infinitely above all creatures in their moral perfections and glorious majesty. The children of Israel sang the greatness of God after passing the Red Sea with these words:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"Who is like you, Lord, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders ?, Exodus 15:11. Some contemporary philosophers speak wrongly of God as a "finite, developing, struggling and suffering sharing the defeats and victories of man" being. This existentialist concept departs from the biblical truths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD and perfections are one<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Simplicity is one of the fundamental characteristics of God. This means that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God is not divided into parts, but its being and its attributes are one. You could say that the divine attributes are as God has chosen to reveal it to the man and are simply manifestations of the Divine Being. Therefore the Bible says that God is truth, life, light, love, justice, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Ttulo5Car"><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TEXTS TO LEARN MEMORY attesting</span></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"> :<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span class="Ttulo4Car"><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD CAN BE KNOWN</span></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"> .<o:p></o:p></span></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 John 5:20. "Now we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us understanding to know him that is true, and we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 17: 3. "This is eternal life, that they know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD IS SPIRIT<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 4:24. "God is Spirit; and those who worship him in spirit and in truth must worship him. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 Tim. 6:16. "Who only hath immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen or can see. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD IS A PERSONAL BEING<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Wrong. 2:10. "Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 14: 9b. "He who has seen Me has seen the Father; How, you say, ' Show us the Father?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD IS AN INFINITE BE IN PERFECTION.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Exodus 15:11. "Who is like you, Lord, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 147: 5. "Great is our Lord, and of great power; and his understanding is infinite. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER BIBLE STUDY<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Do they teach the following passages we can not know God? Job 11: 7; 26: 14; 36: 26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> If God is spirit and therefore has no body how the following passages are explained? Ps . 4: 6; 17: 2;18: 6, 8-9; 31: 5; 44: 3; 47: 8; 48: 10, and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> How do these verses prove the personality of God? Gen. 1: 1; Deut. 1: 34-35; 1 Kings 8: 23-26; Job 38: 1; Ps . 21: 7; 50: 6; 103: 3 Matthew 5: 9; Romans 12: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">The incomprehensibility of God<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">During a seminar in the United States, a student asked the Swiss theologian Karl Barth: "Dr. Barth, what has been the deepest you have learned in his study of theology?" Barth thought for a moment and then replied: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." The students laughed at his simplistic answer, but his laughter became nervous when something soon realized that Barth had said seriously.Barth gave a simple answer to a very profound question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In doing so he was calling attention to at least two fundamentally important concepts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In the simplest of Christian truths lies a depth that can occupy the minds of the brightest people throughout their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> That even within the more academic theological sophistication we never can elevate us beyond the understanding of a child to understand the mysterious depths </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">riches of God's character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John Calvin used another analogy. He said that God speaks to us as if he was babbling. In the same way that parents talk to their newborn children imitating the babbling of babies, so God when you want to communicate with mortals must condescenderse and talk with babbling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">No human being has the ability to understand God fully. There is an insurmountable barrier to a complete and thorough understanding of God. We are finite beings; God is an infinite being. And therein lies the problem. How can something that is finite understand something that is infinite? The medieval theologians had a phrase that has become a dominant axiom in any study of theology. "The finite can not grasp (or contain) at infinity." There is nothing that is more obvious than this, that an infinite object can not be introduced within a finite space.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This axiom contains one of the most important doctrines of orthodox Christianity. This is the doctrine of the incomprehensibility of God. This term may not be well understood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It may suggest that as the finite can not "grasp" the infinite, then it is impossible to know anything about God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If God is beyond human understanding, it does not that suggest that all religious discussion is nothing more than mere theological verbiage </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">then, at most, all that remains an altar to an unknown God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of course this is not the intention. The incomprehensibility of God does not mean that we know nothing about God. Actually means that our knowledge is partial </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">limited, we can never reach the full knowledge </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">depth of God. The knowledge that God gives us about himself through revelation is true</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">useful. We can know God to the extent that he decides to reveal himself. The finite can "grasp" the infinite, but the finite can never contain the infinite in their hands. There will always be something more of God than we can grasp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible expresses this same this way: "Things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">REVEALED<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The secret aspect of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The revealed aspect of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Secret belong to our Lord God; but the things revealed belong to us </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to our children forever "(Deuteronomy 29:29). Martin Luther referred to the two aspects of God's secret </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the revealed. A portion of divine knowledge remains hidden from our eyes. We work to in light of what God has revealed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY</span></b><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Even the simplest Christian truths contain a deeper meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Regardless of how deep it can be our theological knowledge, there is always a lot about the nature and character of God that will remain a mystery to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No human being can have a thorough knowledge of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The doctrine of the incomprehensibility of God does not mean we can not get to know anything about God. It means that our knowledge is restricted, limited by our humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With God in himself and for himself all life, glory, goodness and bliss, is all - sufficient in itself and for itself and not in need of any of the creatures he has made, nor deriving any glory from them, but only manifesting his own glory in, by, unto , and upon them: <b>Jun. 5:26; Acts. 7: 2; Ps 148: 13; 119: 68; 1 Tim. 6:15; Job 22: 2, 3; Acts. 17:24 25.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> He is the only source of all being, of whom, by whom and for whom are all things, taking over all creatures most sovereign dominion to do by them, for them and about them all that pleases him <b>Ap .4:11; 1 Tim. 6:15; Ro. 11: 34-36; Dn. 4:25 34 And 35.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">all things are naked and open to his eyes; his knowledge is infinite, infallible , and independent of the creature, so that for him there is no contingent or uncertain thing <b>I've 4:13; Ro. 11:33, 34; Ps 147: 5;Acts. 15:18; Ez. 11: 5.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is most holy in all his counsels, in all his works and in his commandments: <b>Ps 145: 17; Ro. 7:12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He is owed by angels and men, all worship, any service or obedience as creatures owe the Creator, and anything extra that he sue them he pleased: <b>Rev. 5: 12-14.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE NAMES OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we read in the Bible that God gives names to certain people or things, these names have meaning and give us an idea of the nature of people or things they designate. The same applies to the names that God Himself has given itself. Sometimes the Bible tells us the name of the Lord in the singular, and in such cases such word designates a general manifestation of God in a special way with reference to his people, Ex. 20: 7; Sal. 113: 3; or it refers to God alone, Prov. 18: 18; Isaiah 50: 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The name of God in general has been divided into several special names that express the many aspects of your Being. These names are not the product of human invention, but were given by God Himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE NAMES OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some Old Testament names denote that God is the Almighty God or higher. He and Elohim names indicate that God is strong and powerful and therefore to be feared. Elyon denotes its lofty nature as the High God the object of reverence and worship. Another name that belongs to this classification is Adonai, usually translated "Lord", ie, the Possessor and Ruler of all men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Other names express the fact that God is benevolent or friendly relations with his creatures. One 'of such names, common among the patriarchs, was the name Shaddai or' EI-Shaddai, which emphasizes the divine greatness, but only as a source of comfort and blessing to His people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The name indicates that God governs the powers of nature and makes it serve their own purposes. The largest of 'the names of God, which has always been sacred to Jews, is the name of the Lord (Yahweh). Its origin and meaning are we given in Exodus 3: 14, 15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This name expresses the immutability of God, that is, that God is always the same, and in a special way that never changes in the relations of his covenant, which is always faithful in fulfilling his promises. In consequence we find another name, that of "Lord of hosts." This name gives us a picture of the Lord as the King of glory surrounded by the heavenly host.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE NAMES OF GOD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The names of God in the New Testament are none other than the Greek translations of the Hebrew forms in the Old Testament. Noteworthy are the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NAME THEOS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This word translated "God" and is the one used most often in the New Testament, most often used in the genitive (possessive) translated as "my God," "your God", <our God "" your God. " In the person of Christ, God is the God of all her children. This individual form takes the place of the national form, "the God of Israel" that is so prevalent in the Old Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NAME KURIOS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word "Kurios" means "Lord," and this name applies not only to God but also to Christ. In its meaning takes the place of the Hebrew Adonai and Jehovah, but its meaning corresponds much more closely to the Adonaí form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">it designates God as the Possessor and Ruler of all things, and in a special way, of his people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NAME Pater<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some have said that the New Testament introduces this name as a new name, but such an assertion is incorrect. The name "Father" is also found in the Old Testament to express the special relationship between God and His people Israel, Deut. 32: 6; Isaiah 63: 16. In the New Testament meaning is even more individual and denotes God as Father of all believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sometimes designates God as Creator of all that exists, 1 Cor. 8: 6; Efes. 3:14; Hebrews 12: 9; Santo 1: 17, others as the first person of the Holy Trinity and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, John 14: 11; 17: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TEXTS TO LEARN ABOUT MEMORY:<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span class="Ttulo4Car"><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE NAME OF GOD IN GENERAL</span></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 14pt;"> .<o:p></o:p></span></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Exodus 20: 7. "You shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; because it will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Sal. 8: 1. "O Lord, our Lord how great is your name in all the earth!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SPECIAL NAMES<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Genesis 1: 1. "In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ex. 6: 3. "And I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob under the name of Almighty God (" El Shaddai), but by my name Jehovah I not known me to them. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Sal. 86: 8. "O Lord (Adonai), there is none like you among the gods, and works like your works."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Mal. 3: 6. "I am the Lord, I do not move; and so you sons of Jacob, are not consumed. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Matthew 6: 9 "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Revelation. 4: 8. "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord (Kurios) Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER BIBLE STUDY<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> How illuminates the passage of Exodus 3: 13-16 the meaning of the name Jehovah?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What was the name of God most common in the days of the patriarchs? Gen. 17: 1; 28: 3; 35: 11; 43: 14; 48: 3; 49:25; Exodus 6: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Can you give some names that describe God? Isaiah 43:15; 44: 6; Amos 4:13; Luke 1:78; 2 Cor. 1: 3;Santo 1:17; Heb. 12: 9; Apoc . , 1: 8.17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God is revealed to us through not only their names but also their attributes, ie, the perfections of the divine being. It is customary to distinguish between communicable attributes and incommunicable. There are traces of the first in human but not the second creatures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Incommunicable ATTRIBUTES<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Its emphasis is on the absolute distinction between the creature and the Creator. Such attributes are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">INDEPENDENCE OR SELF-EXISTENCE OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This means that the reason for the existence of God is God himself, and unlike man, does not depend on anything other than itself. God is independent in his being, in his actions and virtues, and makes all creatures depend on Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This idea is expressed in the name of the Lord and in the following passages: Ps. 33: 11; 115: 3; Isaiah, 40: 18s; Dan. 4: 35; John 5:26; Rom. 11: 33-36; Acts 17:25; Rev.. 4:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">The immutability of God<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Scripture teaches us that God does not change. Both in his divine being and in its attributes, its purposes and promises, God always remains the same, Num. 23: 19; Ps. 33: 11; 102: 27; Mal. 3: 6; Heb. 6: 17, Holy 1:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This does not mean in any way that there is no motion in God. The Bible tells us about his comings and goings and that hides and reveals. NOs also says he regrets, but it is clear that this is only a human way of referring to God, Exodus 32: 14; Jonah 3:10; and rather it indicates a change in man's relationship with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE INFINITY OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With this we say that God is not subject to any limitation. We can talk about his infinity in different directions. Regarding your Being, we can call its absolute perfection. In other words, God is not limited in his knowledge and wisdom, goodness and love, justice and holiness, Job 11: 7-10; Psalm 145: 3..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Over time, we call His eternity. While such a notion in Scripture is given to us in the form of unlimited duration, Ps. 90: 2; 102: 12, actually means that God is above time, and therefore is not subject to limitations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For God there is only an eternal present, and no past or future. With regard to space, His infinity is called immensity. God is present everywhere, dwells in all creatures, fills every point in space, but is not limited in any way by space, 1 Kings 8: 27; Ps. 139: 7-10; Isaiah 66: 11; Jer. 23: 23, 24; Acts 17: 27-28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SIMPLICITY OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Speaking of the simplicity of God we mean that God is not composed of different parts, such as the body and soul in man, and for this very reason, God is not subject to any division. The three persons of the Godhead are not many parts of the divine essence it consists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The whole being of God belongs to each of the three Persons Therefore we affirm that God and His attributes are a whole and that He is life, light, love, justice, truth, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE communicable attributes<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These are the attributes which there is some resemblance in man. We should note, however, that what we see in man is a finite (limited) and imperfect of what God is infinite (unlimited) and perfect likeness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">so we call that divine perfection by which God, in his own way, knows himself and all things possible and actual. God has in itself this self-knowledge and do not get from anything or anyone outside. This knowledge is complete and is always present in his mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Since such an all-encompassing knowledge, he has been called omniscience. God knows all past, present things, future and not only those that have a real existence but also those that are merely possible, 1 Kings 8: 29; Ps. 139: 1-16; Isa. 46: 10; Ezek. 11: 5; Acts 15:18; John 21:17; Hebrews 4:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD'S WISDOM<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wisdom is an aspect of the knowledge of God. It is the divine attribute that is manifested in the selection of 'worthy ends and the selection of the best means for performing such purposes. The ultimate purpose and that God causes all things is subordinating his own glory. Rom. 11: 33; 1 Cor. 2: 7; Ephesians 1: 6, 12, 14; Col 1:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOODNESS OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God is good, that is, perfectly holy in his way of being. However, this is not the kind of goodness to which we refer here. This goodness to which we refer is that goodness is revealed in doing good to others. It is that perfection which compels him to act with kindness and generosity to all creatures. The Bible speaks of it repeatedly. Psalm 36: 6. 104: 21; 145: 8, 9.16; Matthew 5: 45; Acts 14:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD'S LOVE<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It has been called to this attribute the most important attribute of God but it is doubtful that it is more important than any other. Under such, God delights in his own perfections and also in man, reflecting his image. We can look at it from different points of visit. The undeserved love of God revealed in the forgiveness of sins is called grace, Ephesians 16: 7; 2: 7-9; Titus 2: 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The love revealed in alleviating the misery of those who suffer the consequences of sin, call it mercy or compassion, Luke 1: 54.72, 78; Rom. 15: 8; 9:16, 18; Ephesians 2: 4. When this love has patience with the sinner who does not listen to the instructions and warnings of God call His longsuffering or patience, Rom.2: 4; 9:22; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 3:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD'S HOLINESS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The holiness of God is above all that divine perfection by which God is absolutely distinct from all His creatures, and exalted far above them in infinite majesty. Exodus 15: 11, Isaiah 57:15. Second also denotes that God is free from any moral impurity sin b, and therefore is morally perfect. In the presence of a holy God, man feels deeply his sin, Job 34: 10; Isaiah 6: 5; Habakkuk 1: 13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JUSTICE OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The righteousness of God is that divine attribute by which God's holy remains in front of any violation of his holiness. Under this, God maintains his moral government in the world and imposes a just law man, rewarding obedience Y. punishing disobedience, Ps. 99: 4; Isaiah 33: 22; Rom. 1: 32.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God's justice manifested in giving rewards called remunerative justice; which is revealed when executing their punishment is called retributive justice. The first is an expression of his love and the second of his wrath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE ACCURACY OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This attribute denotes that God is true in His inner being, in his revelation and relationships to his people. God is true in contrast to the idols, knows things as they are, and is faithful in fulfilling his promises. This latter feature also called faithfulness of God, Num. 23: 19; 1 Cor. 1: 9; 1 Tim. 2: 13; Heb.10:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This attribute can be considered from two points of view, their sovereign will and sovereign power. The will of God, according to Scripture, is the ultimate cause of all things. Ephesians 1: 11; Rev.. 4: 11. According to Deut. 29: 29 has been customary to distinguish between the secret will of God and the revealed will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first has been called the will of the divine decree, is hidden in God himself and can only be known through its effects. The second is the will of its precepts and has been revealed in the law and the gospel.God's will is absolutely free in his relationship with his creatures, Job 11: 10; 33: 13; Ps. 115: 3; Prov. 21: 1;Matthew 20: 15; Rom. 9: 15-18; Rev.. 4: 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even the sinful actions of man are under the control of their sovereign will, Genesis 50: 20; Acts 2:23.The power to execute his will has been called omnipotence. To say that God is omnipotent, it does not mean that God can do anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible teaches us that there are certain things that even God himself can not do. God can not lie, sin, or deny himself. Num. 23:19; 1 Sam. 15: 29; 2 Timothy. 2:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">13; Heb. 6:18; Santo 1:13, 17. It means instead that God can, by the mere exercise of his will, doing anything that he has decided to carry out, and that if He wanted, he could even do more than this, Gen. 18:14; Jer. 32:27, Zech. 8: 6; Matthew 3: 9; 26: 53.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MEMORY TEXTS TO LEARN TO PROVE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Incommunicable ATTRIBUTES OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Independence. John 5:26. "For as the Father has life in himself, so He gave the Son to have life in himself."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> immutability. Mal . 3: 6. "For I the Lord I change not; and so you sons of Jacob, are not consumed. "Holy 1:17. "Every good gift and every perfect good is 10 above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Eternity. Psalm 90: 2. "Before the mountains were brought forth, and formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God." Ps . 102: 27. "But thou art the same, and your years will never end."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> omnipresence. Ps . 139: 7-10. "Where do I go from thy spirit? And where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend into heaven , thou art there: if I make my bed in abyss, behold , thou art there. If Itake the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. "Jer. 23: 23-24. "I am God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? ¿Hide any one, says the Lord, in secret places that I shall not see him? Do not I fill, saith theLord, heaven and earth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE communicable attributes<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Omniscience.</b> John 21: 17b. "And he said: Lord, thou knowest all things; you know that I love you . "Heb. 4: 13. "And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked ... and open the eyes of him to whom we must give account. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Wisdom.</b> Ps. 104: 24. "How many are your works, O Lord! Wisdom you made them all. "Dan. 2: 20-21b. "Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for theirs is the wisdom and strength ... He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to the discerning."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Goodness.</b> Ps. 86: 5. "For thou, Lord, art good and forgiving, and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee." Ps . 118: 29. "Praise the Lord for He is good; forever because his mercy. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Love.</b> John 3:16. "Because God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." 1 John 4: 8. "Whoever does not love does not know God; for God is love. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Grace.</b> Nehemiah 9: 17b. "You, however, are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercy." Rom. 3:24 "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Mercy.</b> Rom. 9:18. "So then he hath mercy; and whom he will he hardens "Eph . 2: 4-5" But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">7. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Long - suffering and patience.</b> No. 14: 18. " The Lord is slow to anger , and plenteous in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression." Rom. 2: 4, "O despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">8. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Holiness.</b> Exodus 15: 11, "Who is like you, Lord, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Isaiah 6: 3b. "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: thewhole earth is full of his glory."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">9. Justice and judgment.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 89:14. "Justice and judgment are the foundation of your throne." Psalm 145: 17, " The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works." 1 Peter 1: 17, "and if you call on the Father , who without partiality judges according to the work of each, with truths. Fear throughout the time of your sojourning. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">10. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Truth and fidelity.</b> No. 23:19. "God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that he should repent: hath he said what will not ?; he spoke, and shall he not make it good ? "2 Tim. 2: 13. "If we are faithless, he remains faithful: he can not deny himself."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">11. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Sovereignty.</b> Ephesians 1:11. "In say, in whom also we were, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of his will." Revelation. 4: 11, "Lord, you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">12. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>secret and revealed will.</b> Deut. 29:29. "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those that are revealed belong to us and to our children. Ever, that we may do all the words of this law. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">13. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Omnipotence.</b> Job 42: 2. "I know that everything can." Matthew 19:26. "For with God all things are possible." Luke 1:37. "For nothing it is impossible with God."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER BIBLE STUDY<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In cases in which the Bible identifies God. 'with their attributes. <b>Jer. 23: 6; Hebrews 12:29; 1 John 1: 5; 3:16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> How can God be just and merciful to the sinner time? <b>Zech. 9: 9. Rom. 3: 24-26.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Prove by Scripture that even foreknowledge includes conditional events. 1 Sam. 23: 10-13. 2 Kings 13: 19; Ps 81: 13-15; Jer. 38: 17-20; Ezekiel 3: 6; Matthew 11: 21. Isaiah 48: 18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this divine and infinite Being there are three keeps, the Father, the Word or Son and the Holy Spirit:<b>Mt. 3:16, 17; 28:19; 2 Cor 13:14.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In a substance, power and eternity, each having the whole divine essence, but the essence undivided: <b>Ex.3:14; John 14: 11; 1 Corinthians 8: 6.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Father is of none, neither by generation nor procession; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son: they are infinite, without beginning and, therefore, are one God, who is not to be divided in nature and being, but distinguished by several peculiar relative properties and personal relations; the doctrine of the Trinity is the foundation of all our communion with God and our dependence on him consoling: <b>Pr. 8: 22-31; June 1: 1-3 . , 14.18; 3:16;10:36; 15:26; 16:28; I 1: 2; June 1 4:14.; Gal. 4: 4-6.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE TRIPLE UNIT OF GOD</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of the Trinity we find it difficult and confusing. Sometimes even it has been thought that Christianity teaches the absurd notion that 1 </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">+ </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1 </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">+ </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1 = 1. It is clear that this is a false equation. The term Trinity describes a relationship of a God who is three persons, and not a relationship between three gods.The Trinity does not mean tritheism, ie, that there are three things that together make up one God. The word Trinity is used as an effort to define the fullness of the Godhead in terms of its unity and diversity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The historic formulation of the Trinity is that God is one in essence and three in person. Although this formula is mysterious and paradoxical, so it does not involve any contradiction. With regard to the essence or being, the unity of the Godhead is affirmed; with respect to the person, the diversity of the Godhead is expressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">While the term Trinity is not found in the Bible, the concept appears clearly in it. On the one hand the Bible declares forcefully the unity of God (Deuteronomy 6: 4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, the Bible clearly states </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">full divinity of the three persons of the Godhead: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The church has rejected the heresies of modalism and tritheism.Modalism denies the difference between persons of the Godhead, claiming that the Father, the Son and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Holy Spirit are different ways in which God expresses himself. Tritheism, on the other hand, falsely claims that there are three beings who together constitute God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The term person does not mean a difference in essence but a different subsistence in the Godhead. A subsistence in the Godhead is a real difference but it is not an essential difference in terms of a difference in being. Each person or there exists "under" the pure essence of the divine. Subsistence is a difference within the same being, not a separate being or essence. All persons of the Godhead share all the divine attributes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is also a difference in the role of each member of the Trinity. The work of salvation is somewhat shared by the three persons of the Trinity sense. However, with regard to how to act, the Father, the Son</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the Holy Spirit operate differently. The Father is the one who initiates the creation </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">redemption;the Son who redeems creation, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the Holy Spirit regenerates </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">sanctifies, operating the redemption of believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Trinity does not refer to the parts of God, even to the roles. Human analogies, like those of a man who is a father, a son and a husband, are insufficient to reflect the mystery of God's nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of the Trinity does not fully explain the mysterious character of God. Actually what it does is set the limits that we should not cross. Defines the limits of our finite reflection. He commands us to be faithful to the biblical revelation that God is one in one direction </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">three in another sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The doctrine of the Trinity affirms the triple unity of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . The doctrine of the Trinity is not a contradiction: God is one in essence </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">three in person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Bible declares both the oneness of God as the divine character of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Trinity is distinguished by the work assumed by the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of the Trinity sets the limits of human speculation regarding the nature of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Deuteronomy 6: 4, Matthew 3: 16-17, Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14, 1 Peter 1: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TRINITY: </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Doctrinal statement.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible teaches that even though God is one, exists in three persons called Father, Son and Holy Spirit.These are not three people in the ordinary sense of the word; Nor are three individuals, but rather three modes or forms of existence of the Divine Being. At the same time its nature is such that they can enter personal relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Father can speak to the Son and vice versa, and both can send the Holy Spirit. The real mystery of the Trinity is the fact that each of the three has the sum total of the divine essence, and what 'does not exist apart from or outside such persons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">None of them is subordinate in terms of his being to another, but in order of existence the Father is first, the Son and the Holy Spirit second third. An identical order is reflected in his work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TRINITY BIBLICAL TEST.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Old Testament and God tells us that more than one person. God speaks of himself in the plural, Gen. 1: 26; 11: 7 .; the Angel of the Lord is presented to us as a divine person, Gen. 16: 7-13; 18: 1-21; 19: 1-22, and the Holy Spirit presents us as a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">different person, Isaiah 48:16; 63: 10. There are also passages in which the Messiah is speaking and mentions two other Persons, Isaiah 48: 16; 61; 63: 9-10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Given the progress that we find in Revelation, the New Testament presents us clear evidence. The strongest evidence are found in the facts of redemption. The Father sends his Son into the world, and the Son sends the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, there are a number of passages in which the three Persons are we specifically mentioned, such as "the Great Commission" Matthew 28:19, and "apostolic blessing" 2 Cor. 13:13. See also, Luke 3: 21-22; 1:35; 1 Cor. 12: 4-6; 1 Peter 1: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of the Trinity was denied by the Socinians in the days of the Reformation and today by Unitarians and Modernists. These speak of it in terms of the Father, the man Jesus, and a divine influence which is called the Spirit of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE FATHER<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The name "Father" is often applied in Scripture to the triune as the creator of all things, 1 Corinthians God. 8: 6; Hebrews 12: 9; Santo 1:17, as the Father of Israel, Deut. 32: 6: Isaiah 63:16; and as a father of believers, Matthew 5: 45; 6: 6, 9.14; Rom. 8:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In 'a deeper sense, the word "Father" refers to the First Person of the Trinity, to express their relationship to the Second Person, John 1: 14, 18; 8: 54; 14: 12, 13. This is the original paternity and human paternity which is nothing more than a weak reflection. The essential feature of the Father is to have begotten the Son from eternity. The works usually attributed to him are the redemptive work planning, creation, providence, and the representation of the Trinity in the counsel of redemption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE SON<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Second Person of the Trinity is called "Son" or "Son of God". This name is given not only as the only begotten Son of the Father, John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18; Gal. 4: 4, but also as the Messiah chosen of God, Matthew 8:29; 26:63; John 1:49; 11:27 and by virtue of their special birth by the Holy Spirit, Luke 1:32, 35.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The essential feature of the Son is to have begotten from all eternity by the Father. Psalm 2: 7; Acts 13: 33; Hebrews 1: 5 By reason of this eternal generation the Father is the cause of personal existence of the Son in the Holy Trinity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The works attributed to the Son in a special way Ron mediation works. The Son of God is the mediator of creation, John 1: 3, 10; Hebrews 1: 2-3, and the mediator of the redemptive work, Ephesians 1: 3-14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE HOLY SPIRIT<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the Socinians, Unitarians and Modernists of today speak of the Holy Spirit as merely a divine power or influence, the Bible presents him as a person, John 14:16, 17, 26; 15:26; 16: 7-15; Rom. 8: 26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Holy Spirit has intelligence, John 14:26, feeling, Isaiah 63:10; Ephesians 4:30, and will, Acts 16: 7; 1 Cor. 12:11. Scripture tells us that the Holy Spirit speaks, scrutinizes, witnesses, orders, and intercedes dispute. In addition, the person is presented to us as distinct from power in Luke 4: 14; 1: 35; Acts 10: 38; 1 Cor. 2: 4. The essential characteristic of the Holy Spirit proceed from the Father and the Son by expiration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Generally speaking the Holy Spirit is to complete the work of creation and redemption, Genesis 1: 2; Job 26:13; Luke 1:35; John 3:34; 1 Cor. 12: 4-11; Ephesians 2: 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MEMORY TEXTS TO LEARN ABOUT THE TRINITY<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Isaiah 16: 1, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me" (Messiah). See Luke 4: 17-18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Matthew 28:19. "Go therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2. Cor. 13:14. "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, and the participation of the Holy Spirit be with you all."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GENERATION ETERNAL SON<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 2: 7. "I declare the decree: Jehovah said unto me: Thou art my son; I begotten thee "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 1:14. "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father , ) full of grace and truth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 15:26. "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send you from the Father. The Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER STUDY BIBLlCO<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In what sense we can speak of the Fatherhood of God? 1 Cor. 8: 6; Ephesians 3: 14-15; Hebrews 12: 9;Santo 1:17. See also no. 16:22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Can you prove the divinity of the Son made flesh? John 1: 1; 20:28; Phil. 2: 6; Titus 2:13; Jer. 23: 5-6;Isaiah 9: 6; John 1: 3; Rev.. 1: 8; Col. 1:17; John 14: 1; 2 Cor. 13: 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. How do the following passages personality of the Holy Spirit? Gen. 12; 6: 3; Luke 12:12; John 14:26;15:26; 16: 8; Acts 8:29; 13: 2; Rom. 8:11; 1 Cor. 2: 10-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What works are attributed to the Holy Spirit in Psalm 33: 6; 104: 30; Former. 28: 3; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 Cor. 3:16; 12: 4 ff.?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the Bible declares that God is the Creator of the universe we are saying that God himself has not been created. There is a crucial difference between the Creator and creation. Creation has the seal of the Creator and is witness to his glory. But this creation will never be worthy of worship. It is not supreme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is impossible that something is thought to himself. The concept of self-creation is a contradiction in terms, it is a meaningless statement. I request the reader to stop and think a bit. Nothing can self-created.Even God can not create itself. For God created himself should have been before him. Not even God can do that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Every effect must have a cause. This is true by definition. But God is not an effect. He has no beginning and therefore has no preceding cause. He is eternal. He has always been or is. He has within himself the power to be. No you need any external aid to continue existing resources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is what the idea of pre - existence. We recognize that this is a high and tremendous concept. We know nothing else like it . Everything we perceive in our frame of reference is dependent </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">has been created. We can not fully understand something that is existing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But just because it is impossible (by definition) is a pre-existing creature does not mean it impossible for the Creator to be pre-existing. God, like us, can not create itself. But God, unlike us, can be pre-existing. In fact this is the very essence of the difference between the Creator and creation. This is what makes the Supreme Being yen The source of all other beings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The concept of pre-existence does not violate any rational, logical or scientific law. It is a valid rational notion. On the contrary, the concept of self-creation violates the most basic of all laws rational, logical and scientific-the law of non-contradiction. The pre-existence is a rational concept; self-creation is irrational.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The notion that something is rationally preexisting is not only possible, it is rationally necessary. Again, reason demands that if something is, then there must be something </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">that contains </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">within itself the capacity to be. Otherwise there was nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If there were something that exists in itself, nothing could exist. Possibly the oldest and deepest question is: Why is there something rather than nothing a necessary response to </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">l </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">least part of the question is that God exists. God </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">exists </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in itself eternally. It is the origin and source of being. He alone has within himself the power to be. Paul declares </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">that </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">our very existence depends on the power of being of God: "For in him we live, and move, and have our being " (Acts 17:28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Every effect must have a cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God is not an effect; God has no cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The self-creation is an irrational concept.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The pre - existence is a rational concept. .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The pre - existence is not only possible but is reasonably necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Psalm 90: 2, John 1: 1-5, Acts 17: 22-31, Colossians 1: 15-20, Revelation 1: 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">God's omnipotence<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All theologians, sooner or later, a student will pose them a question that turns out to be rompedero head. This old question is: can God create a rock so big that can not move? At first glance this question seems to create a fence that encloses the theologian in a unsolvable dilemma. If we say yes, then we are saying that there is something God can not do; you can not move the rock. If we say no, then we are saying that God can not build this rock. Whatever the answer we are forced to establish you limit the power of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This problem is similar to another: what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?It is possible to conceive of an irresistible force. It is also possible to conceive an immovable object. What we find impossible to conceive is the coexistence of both. If an irresistible force faced with an immovable object and the object to move, then it could not properly be called immovable. If the object does not move, then our "irresistible" force could be called irresistibly property. We see, then, that reality can not contain both-an irresistible force and an immovable object.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let us now turn to the issue of immovable rock. The dilemma that arises here (as in the case of the irresistible force) is a false dilemma. It is false because it is based on a false premise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is assuming that the "omnipotence" means that God can do anything. However, it considered a theological term, omnipotence does not mean that God can do anything. The Bible tells us several things God can not do. You can not lie (Hebrews 6: 18). You can not die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It can not be eternal and yet have been created. You can not act against nature. It can not be God and not be God at the same time and in the same direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Omnipotence means that God has power over creation. There is no part of creation out of reach of their sovereign control. Therefore, there is a correct answer to the dilemma of the rock. The problem has a solution. The answer is no.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God can not build a rock so big impossible to move. Why? If God build that rock he would be creating something that could not exercise their power. It would be destroying his own omnipotence. God can not ceasing to be God; You can not not be omnipotent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the Virgin Mary was confused by the annunciation of Gabriel about the conception of Jesus in her womb, the angel said, "because nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:37). The angel was reminding Mary God's omnipotence. I think even the angels are able to use hyperbole. In a narrow sense, the angel was expressing an incorrect theology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But in a broader biblical sense we understand that God's power exceeds that of the creature. What is impossible to God for us is possible. To say that nothing is impossible for God means that God can do whatever he will. His power is not limited by finite limitations. Nothing or "nothing" can restrict their power. However, his power is still limited by what he is. It sin it is impossible because one can not sin if you do not want. God can not sin because never have the will to sin. Job came to the heart of the matter when he said: "I know that everything can, and that no thought can be withholden from thee" (Job 42: 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For the Christian, God's omnipotence is a great source of comfort. We know that the same power that God displayed in creating the universe is at your disposal to ensure salvation. He showed his power in the Exodus from Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He showed his power over death in the resurrection of Christ. We know that no part of creation can thwart their plans for the future. No lost random molecules in the universe that can destroy their plans.Although the powers and forces threaten to destroy this world, we need not fear. We can rest confident in the knowledge that nothing can overcome the power of God. God is the Almighty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The omnipotence does not mean that God can do anything. God can not act against nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The omnipotence refers to the power, authority and God's sovereign control exercised over the created order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The omnipotence is a threat to the wicked, and is a source of comfort for believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The same power God exhibited in the creation demonstrated in our redemption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> There is nothing in the universe that can thwart God's plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR </span></b><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis 17: l, Psalm 115: 3, Romans 11:36, Ephesians 1: </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">11 </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">, Hebrews 1: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">God's omnipresence<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Astral projection is a fantasy. There are people who say they can leave their bodies and travel to California or India and return unused trains, planes or ships; but when they make these claims, they have deceived themselves and are deceiving others. Even if the soul or spirit of a person could "project" in this way to wander through </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">world, such trips could only include a stop at a time. Our human spirits are finite spirits and can not and never will be able to be in more than one place at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Only an infinite Spirit has the ability of omnipresence. When we talk about the omnipresence of God we mean that his presence is everywhere. There is no place where God is not. However, as spirit, God has no place, in the sense that physical objects occupy </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">space. It has no physical qualities that can occupy the space.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The key to understanding this paradox is to think in terms of another dimension. The barrier between us and God is no barrier of space or time. Meet God does not imply a "place" where to go or a "moment" in which to spend. Being in the immediate presence of God is crossing the threshold of another dimension.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is another second aspect of the omnipresence of God that we often ignore. The "omni" particle refers not only to the places where God is, but how much of God is in a certain place. God is not only present everywhere but God is fully present everywhere. This characteristic is called the Immensity.Believers in New York enjoy the fullness of God's presence while believers in Moscow also enjoy the same presence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">His Immensity does not, then, their size, but their ability to be fully present everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of the omnipresence of God fills us with awe. This doctrine engenders reverence in us, but also serves as a consolation. We can always be sure of God's undivided attention. We need not make a row or request an interview to be with God. When we are in the presence of God, God is not concerned about the events that are happening across the planet; This doctrine, however, is no consolation for unbelievers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is no place where they can hide from God. There is no corner of the universe where God is not.The wicked in hell are not separated from God, they are separated from their benevolence. The wrath of God accompanies them constantly. David, who often praised the glory of God's omnipresence in the psalms, gives us a poetic summary of this doctrine: Where do I go from your Spirit? Already Where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; and if I make my bed Sheol, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. (Psalm 139: 7-10)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Only an infinite Spirit can be omnipresent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God is not limited by time or space. His Being transcends time and space.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The omnipresence of God includes his immensity, which allows it to be present in its fullness at all times and in all places.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God's omnipresence is a comfort to the believer and a terror for </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">nonbeliever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1 Kings 8:27 Job 11: 7-9, Jeremiah 23: 23-24, Acts 17: 22-31.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">God's omniscience.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">My first memory of the concept of omniscience is related to my childish understanding about Santa Claus. I was told "I was making a list </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">checking it ." I also thought the Easter Guinea living in our attic (off season) and could watch me all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word omniscience means "to have all (omni) knowledge (science)". It is a term that can only be properly applied to God. Only a being that is infinite and eternal is able to know everything. Knowledge of a finite creature will always be limited by a finite being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God, being infinite, is able to be aware of all things, to understand all things </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to understand all things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Never learn anything or acquire new knowledge. The future and the past and present him are completely known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nothing can surprise. As knowledge of God far exceeds our knowledge (a higher rate), some Christians believe that their thinking is radically different to our type. For example, for Christians it has become commonplace to assert that God operates with a different logic from ours. This concept is very convenient when encallamos in our theology. If we are affirming both poles of a contradiction, we can relieve the tension by appealing to an order of logic different from our God. We can say with confidence: "This we can be contradictory, but it is not contradictory in the mind of God."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This type of reasoning is fatal to Christianity. Why? If God has a different logical order, by which what is contradictory to Him for us is logical, then we have no reason to trust any word of the Bible. Anything to tell us the Bible could mean exactly the opposite to God. In the mind of God to </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">evil </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the good could not be contrary, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the Antichrist could even become the Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The superior knowledge of God allows us to solve mysteries that dazzle us. But this is pointing to a difference in the degree of knowledge of God, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">he has </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a difference in the kind of logic that he uses. As God is rational, even He can not reconcile the contradictions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God's omniscience also comes from its omnipotence. God knows all things for the simple fact that he has applied his superior to a diligent study of the universe and all its contents intellect. In fact, God knows all things because He created them and their will exist. As Sovereign of the universe, God controls the universe. While some theologians have tried to separate these two things, it would be impossible for God knew all if not control everything, and it would be equally impossible that God controlled all if he did not know everything. As with all other attributes of God are interdependent, both necessary for all parties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The omniscience of God, just as his omnipotence and omnipresence, is also given with respect to time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Knowledge of God is absolute in the sense that God always aware of all things. The intellect of God is different from ours in that he does not have to "access" to information, such as a computer access and open a file.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All kinds of knowledge is always directly before God. God's knowledge of all things is a double-edged sword. For the believer this thought gives security God maintains control, God understands. A God is not confused by problems that confound us. For the non-Christian, however, this doctrine again emphasize the fact that people can not hide from God. Their sins are exposed. Like Adam, they try to hide. However, there is no corner of the universe away from the gaze of God, his love and his anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God's omniscience is also a crucial part of the promise of God to bring justice to this world. Before a judge can give their verdict just you need to be aware of all the facts. There is no evidence that can be hidden from the scrutiny of God. Any extenuating circumstances will be known by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Omniscience </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">means "knowledge".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Only an infinite being can possess infinite knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God has a higher degree of knowledge of his creatures, but it is the same order of logic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The attribute to God a different kind of logic is fatal to Christianity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The omniscience of God is based on His infinite character and His omnipotence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The omniscience of God is crucial to the role as Judge of this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Psalm 147: 5, Ezekiel 11: 5, Acts 15:18, Romans 11: 33-36, Hebrews 4:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD'S HOLINESS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first sentence I learned as a child was the simple prayer of thanks over food, "God is great, God is good and we appreciate these foods.". I guess this sentence should rhyming. At least rectaba rhymed when my grandmother who utters low Ozi ( "food") so that rhymed with good ( "good").<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These two virtues assigned to God in this prayer, greatness and goodness, are included in one biblical word, holiness. When we talk about the holiness of God, we are accustomed to associate almost exclusively with purity and justice of God. No doubt the idea of holiness contains these virtues, but not the primary meaning of holiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The biblical word holy has two different meanings. The main meaning is "remoteness" or "other". When we say that God is holy, we are calling attention to the profound difference between him and all other creatures. It refers to the transcendent majesty of God, His august superiority, under which He is worthy of all our honor, our reverence, our worship and our praise. He is "other" or is different from us in his glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the Bible speaks of holy objects or holy people or holy time, it refers to objects that have been set apart, consecrated or different facts by the hand of God. Moses trod the ground in front of the burning bush was holy ground because God was there, present in a very special way. It was the closeness of the divine that turned suddenly the ordinary into something extraordinary, and the everyday into something unusual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The second meaning of holy refers to the pure and righteous acts of God. God does what is right. It never does anything wrong. God always acts fairly because its nature is holy. We can then differentiate the internal justice of God (His holy nature) of the external righteousness of God (his actions).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As God is holy, it is great and good at the same time. No intermingled evil with goodness. When we are called to be saints, does not mean we have to share the divine majesty of God, but we must move away from our normal sinfulness as fallen. We have been </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">called </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to reflect the moral character and activity of God. We have to put together his goodness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Holiness has two meanings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> "other" or "remoteness" and.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> "pure and righteous acts."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Exodus 3: 1-6, 1 Samuel 2: 2, Psalm 99: 1-9, Isaiah 6: 1-13, Revelation 4: 1-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOODNESS </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">OF </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Perhaps one of the funniest moments of this life is when we look like a small dog or cat chasing its own shadow. Vainly they try to reach it. When they move, your shadow moves with them. This does not happen in the case of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">James tells us: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning" (James 1:17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God never changes. In Him there is no "shadow of turning." This is not only suggesting that God is immaterial and therefore is unable to have a shadow, but also tells us that God does not have a "dark side" in a figurative or moral sense. Shadows suggest darkness, and in spiritual terms darkness suggests evil. As there is no evil in God, there is no indication nor darkness in Him. He is the Father of lights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When James adds that there is no "shadow of turning" in God is not enough to understand this simply in terms of being unchanging and unchangeable God. It is also a reference to the character of God. God is not only quite good, but it's always good. God does not know how to be anything other than good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The relationship between goodness and God is so narrow that even the pagan philosophers like Plato equated the maximum goodness, the supreme good, with God himself. The goodness of God refers to his character as his conduct both. His actions come from your own self. God acts on what he is. In the same way that a corrupt tree can not produce fruit uncorrupted, not an uncorrupted God can produce corrupt fruit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God's law reflects His goodness. That God is good is not a result of God obey and can be judged by some alien cosmic law itself, or because God defines goodness so that it can act without being subject to any law and the only power his authority is allowed him to declare his actions as good. God's goodness is neither arbitrary nor capricious. God does not obey a law, but the law is the law which obeys its own character.God always acts according to its own character, which is eternal, immutable, and inherently good. James teaches us that every good and perfect comes from God. God is not only the main standard of goodness; It is the source of all goodness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">One of the most popular verses of the New Testament is Romans 8:28. "And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, that is, that according to his purpose are called". This text on divine providence is as difficult to understand as it is popular. If God is able to make everything that happens to us redound to our right, then ultimately everything that happens to us is good. It should be noted here the expression ultimately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the mundane plane can happen to us things that are evil. (We must be cautious and not call good, evil or evil, either.) We found affliction, misery, injustice, and a lot of mischief. However, God in His goodness transcends all these things and makes them work together for our good. For </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christian, ultimately, there are no tragedies. Ultimately, God's providence will make all these evils so close redound to our ultimate benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Martin Luther understood very well this aspect of the good providence of God when he said that "if God asked me to eat the dung of the streets, not only would eat but know it is for my good."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The creatures have shadow because of the darkness of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God does not have a dark side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God is not under any law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God is inseparable from the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God is his own law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Exodus 34: 6-7, Psalm 25: 8-10, Psalm 100: 1-5, Romans 8: 28-39, James 1:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JUSTICE OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Justice is a word that we hear every day. We use it in our personal relationships, in social intercourse, with regard to the law, and on the occasion of the verdicts of the court. But although it is a word so often used, it has confounded philosophers seeking to define it exactly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Often we relate and equate justice with what he has earned or deserved. We speak of people who receive their just retribution in terms of rewards or punishments. But the rewards are not always awarded on merit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Suppose we make a beauty contest and declare that a prize to the person considered the most beautiful be granted, if the "beauty" receives the prize, not because there is something worthy to be beautiful. In fact, when justice will be granted the award for the most beautiful participant. If the judges vote for someone who does not consider the most beautiful person (whether for political reasons or because they were bribed) then the result! competition will be unfair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For this kind of reason is that Aristotle defined justice horn </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">give a person what he deserved." Lo "deserved" can be determined by ethical obligations or any prior agreement. If a person is punished more severely than required for his crime, punishment is unfair. If a person receives a lesser reward to which she is entitled, then the reward has not been fair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">How then relates the mercy with justice? Mercy and justice are obviously two different things, although sometimes confuse them. Mercy occurs when those who acted badly given a lesser punishment deserved or greater rewards to which they have earned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God tempers his justice with mercy. His grace is essentially a kind of mercy. God is merciful to us when not punish us as we correspond and reward our obedience even when taking into account that you owe us obedience and that therefore there would deserve no reward. God always has the will to exercise his mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is bound to be merciful. You reserve the right to exercise grace according to his will. So he tells Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I compassion on whom I have compassion" (Romans 9:15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">People often complain that God is not fair because it does not distribute His grace or mercy to all equally. We complain that if God forgives someone is then required to forgive everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, we clearly see in Scripture that God does not treat everyone the same way. God revealed himself to Abraham in a way as it did with the other pagans in the ancient world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In his grace he appeared to Paul on the road as he appeared not Judas Iscariot. Paul received the grace of God; Judas Iscariot received his justice. Mercy and grace are not forms of justice, but are not acts of injustice. If the punishment of Judas had been more severe than it deserved, then he would have had reason to complain. Paul received grace, but this does not mean that Judas is also entitled to receive grace.If grace should be required to God, if God is obligated to manifest His grace, then we are not talking about grace but justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Biblically, justice is defined in terms of righteousness. When God is just, he is acting righteously.Abraham </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">he </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">asked a rhetorical question that God has only one obvious answer: "The Judge of all the earth, not to do what is right?" (Genesis 18:25). Likewise, the apostle Paul made the same rhetorical question: "What shall we say What's wrong in God forbid?" (Romans 9:14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Justice is to give what you deserve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Biblical justice is related to righteousness, to act justly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Injustice falls outside the category of justice and a violation of justice. Mercy also falls outside the category of justice but is not a violation to justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis 18:25, Exodus 34: 6-7, Nehemiah 9: 32-33, Psalm 145: 17, Romans 9: 14-33. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-61638656606592690502016-04-03T13:37:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:37:17.741-07:00THE TRINITY OF GOD AND UNITY IN YOUR BEING<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF GOD</span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The belief that there is a much larger man divine being, has been common in all cultures and civilizations. This is due, in part, to the fact that the man reasons that there must be an explanation for our world and human experience and that only a man would be superior to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The man, intuitively, by its religious nature, tends to seek a being that somehow is much higher and superior to him. This can also be explained in part by the work of the Holy Spirit in the world and extends to every creature, a work that is designated in theology as common grace, in contrast to the special work of related Spirit salvation man. The modern phenomenon of many who claim to be atheists arises from the perversion of the human mind and the denial that it is possible any rational explanation of the universe. Accordingly, the Bible declares that an atheist is a stupid fool (Ps. 14: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Ordinarily, the man does not seek evidence of their existence, or the existence of material things, which recognizes his senses. Though God is invisible in his person, his existence is so obvious that men usually do not require testing for the fact of God. The question of God's existence is evidently due to the wickedness of man himself, his blindness and satanic influence. Evidence of the existence of God in creation is so clear that the reject is the foundation of the condemnation of the pagan world that has not heard the Gospel. According to Romans 1: 19-20, it is "because what is known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it, because the invisible things of him, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, They are understood. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God's revelation through prophets, before Scripture was written, and the revelation from Scripture, has penetrated to some extent, the total consciousness of man today. Although the world in general, is ignorant of the scriptural revelation, some concepts of God have penetrated the thinking of everyone, so that belief in a kind of higher being is generally true even among men who were not come directly Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the ancient Greek philosophers ignored the biblical revelation, when they had not been familiar, did, however, some attempts to explain our universe on the basis of a higher being. Several systems have evolved thinking:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> polytheism; that is, the belief in many gods;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> hylozoism, which identifies the beginning of life found in all creation as being God himself;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> materialism, which argues that matter itself works according to a natural law and does not need any god for operation, theory behind modern evolutionism; Y:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> pantheism, which holds that God is impersonal and identical with nature itself, and that God is immanent, but not transcendent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">There are so many variants of such concepts concerning God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Arguing for the existence of God, proceeding from the facts of creation, apart from the revelation of Scripture, four general classes or lines of reason can be observed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The ontological argument; He argues that God must exist, because the man universally believed to exist. This sometimes is called an a priori argument.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The cosmological argument; It maintains that every effect must have a sufficient cause, and therefore the universe, which is an effect, must have had a Creator as the cause. Involved in this argument is the complexity of an orderly universe, which could not have been inexistence accident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The theological argument; stresses that each design must have had a designer, and as the whole of creation is intricately designed and interrelated, had, therefore, have had a great designer. The fact that all things work together indicates that this designer has necessarily had to have been one of infinite power and wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The anthropological argument; argues that the nature and existence of man is absolutely inexplicable were it not for God's creation, who has a similar nature, but much higher than that of men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It involved in this argument is the fact that man has intellect (ability to think), sensitivity (ability to feel) and will (capacity for moral choice). Such extraordinary capacity points to the One who has similar but much larger capacities and created man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although these arguments for God's existence have considerable validity and man can be justly condemned for rejecting them (Rom. 1: 18-20), they have not been enough to bring man in the proper relationship with God or produce a faith real in God, without the assistance of the full revelation of God, confirming all the facts found in nature, but adding to the natural revelation many truths that this had not revealed itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE UNITY OF THE DIVINE TRINITY<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In general, the Old Testament stresses the emphasis of the unity of God (Ex 20: 3; Deut . 6: 4; Is . 44: 6 . ), A fact that is also taught in the New Testament (Jn 10:30. ; 14: 9; 17:11, 22, 23; Col. 1:15). In both the Old and much of the New Testament also indicates that God exists as a Trinity: God theFather, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Many believe that the doctrine of the Trinity is implicit in the use of the word </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Elohim, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">as a name for God, which is in a plural form and seems to refer to thetriune God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the beginning of Genesis there are references to the Spirit of God, and plural pronouns used for God in Genesis 1:26; 3:22; 11: 7. Often in the Old Testament is no distinction in the nature of God, in terms of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Isaiah in 7:14, speaks of the Son as Emmanuel, "God with us" that has to be different from God the Father and the Spirit. This is called Son, in Isaiah 9: 6, "Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Psalm 2: 7, God the Father, he referred to as "I" indicates that its purpose is to have his Son as the supreme ruler on earth. Therefore the Father and the Son are distinguished, so God also distinguished the Holy Spirit, as in Psalm 104: 30, where the Lord sends His Spirit. To this evidence must add all references to the Angel of the Lord, pointing the apparitions of the Son of God in the Old Testament as one sent by the Father, and references to the Spirit of the Lord as the Holy Spirit, distinct from the Father and Son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">At that evidence of the Old Testament the New adds a further revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Here, in the person of Jesus Christ is the incarnate God, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and yet, Son of God, the Father. In the baptism of Jesus, the distinction of the Trinity is evident with God the Father speaking from heaven, the Holy Spirit descending like a dove and shedding light upon Him, and Jesus Christ himself baptized (Matthew 3: 16-17). These distinctions of the Trinity are also seen in passages such as John 14:16, where the Father and Comforter are distinguished of Christ himself, and in Matthew 28:19, where the disciples are instructed to baptize believers "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The many indications that there is, in both the Old and New Testaments that God exists or subsists as three and one, have shaped the doctrine of the Trinity as a central fact of all orthodox beliefs, from the early church to modern times. Any deviation from this is regarded as a departure from the true scriptural. Although the word "trinity" is not given in the Bible, the facts of scriptural revelation not allow another explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the doctrine of the Trinity is a central fact, the core of the Christian faith is beyond human understanding and has no parallel in human experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The best definition is the hold that although God is one, He exists in three persons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">These people are the same, have the same attributes and are equally worthy of worship, worship and faith. However, the doctrine of the unity of the Godhead is clear in the sense that there are three separate gods, as three separate human beings, such as Peter, James and John. Accordingly, the true Christian faith is not a tritheism, as belief in three gods. Moreover, the Trinity must not be explained as three modes of existence, ie one God manifests itself in three ways. The Trinity is essential to the being of God and is more than a form of divine revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Persons of the Trinity, even though they have the same attributes, they differ in certain properties.Hence the First Person of the Trinity is called Father. The Second Person is called the Son as sent by the Father. The Third Person is the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. This is called in theology the doctrine of the procession, and the order is never reversed, ie, the Son never sends the Father and the Holy Spirit never sends the Son. The nature of the oneness of Divinity there is no illustration or parallel in human experience. So, this doctrine must be accepted by faith on the basis of scriptural revelation, even though it is beyond human understanding and definition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. THE NAMES OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the Old Testament there are three names given to God. The first name, "Lord> or" Yahweh "is God's name applied only to the true God. The first name appears in connection with the creation in Genesis 2: 4, and the meaning of the name is defined in Exodus 3: 13-14 as "I am who am", ie, existing by itself, everlasting God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The most common name for God in the Old Testament is </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Elohim, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a word that is used both for the true God to the gods of the pagan world. This name appears in Genesis 1: 1. It has been much discussed this name, but seems to include the idea of being the "One and Strong" Being that has to be feared and revered. Because of being in a plural form it seems to include the Trinity, but also can be used in individual Persons of the Trinity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The third name of God in the Old Testament is </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Adonai, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">which commonly means "master or lord" and is used not only God as our owner, but also men who are masters over their servants. Often joins </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Elohim, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">as in Genesis 15: 2; and when used well, recharge the emphasis of the fact that God is our Master and Lord. Many combinations of these names of God are found throughout the Old Testament. The most common is Jehovah Elohim, Adonai or Elohim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">These combinations of the three primitive names of God must be added many other compounds that are found in the Old Testament, such as Jehovah-jire, which means "the Lord will provide" (Gen. 22: 13-14); Jehovah-rafah, "the Lord who heals" (Ex 15:26.); Jehovah-Nissi, "The Lord is our flag" (Ex. 17: 8-15); Jehovah-shalom, "the Lord is our peace" (Judges 6:24.); Jehovah-sidkenu, "The Lord is our righteousness" (Jer. 23: 6); Jehovah sama, "the Lord is present" (Ezek. 48:35).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the New Testament are additional titles where the First Person is distinguished by "the Father", the second as "the Son" and the third as "the Holy Spirit". These titles, of course, are also found in the Old Testament, but are most common in the New. The discussion regarding these terms will remain in the chapters dealing with the three Persons of the Trinity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the essential Being of God there are certain inherent attributes or essential qualities of God. Such attributes are eternally maintained by the Triune God and are equal to each person of the Godhead.Included in these attributes is the fact that God is Spirit (Jn. 4:24), God is life (Jn. 5:26), God is self-existent (Ex. 3:14), God is infinite (Ps. 145: 3), God is immutable or unchanged (Ps 102: 27; Mal 3:... 6; James 1:17), God is truth (Deuteronomy 32: 4; Jn 17:.. 3), God is love (1 Jn 4: 8.) God is eternal (Psalm 90: 2; Jer. 23: 23-24.) God is omniscient (. Ps 147: 4-5) and God is omnipotent (Matthew 19 : 26).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Other variants of these attributes can be seen in the fact that God is good, God is merciful and God is sovereign. All perfections are attributed to God infinitely, and their works, as well as their being, are perfect. The great design and details of the universe are evidence of His infinite greatness and sovereignty, power, wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">His plan of salvation as it is revealed in Scripture, is another evidence of His love, His justice and grace. No aspect of creation is too great to be on all the existing complete control, and even the smallest detail, even the fall of a sparrow, is too small not to be included in his sovereign plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The attributes of God show that God is supreme over all that exists. Nothing remains subject to another power, authority or glory and is not subject to any entity that is over. He represents perfection to an infinite degree in any aspect of your being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He can never be surprised, defeated or diminished. However, without sacrificing their authority or compromise the final realization of His perfect will, God has been pleased to give men a measure of freedom and choice, and the exercise of this election God holds the man responsible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Because of being the man in his depraved state, blind and insensitive to God's work, it is clear in Scripture that men should not depart from God, suppressing the Spirit of their hearts (John 6:44, 16.: 7-11). The human side, however, the man is responsible for his disbelief and directed to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in order that it can be saved (Acts. 16:31). It is also true that in the affairs of men, especially Christians, God acts for His will (Phil. 2:13) is fulfilled. Yet he does not force men to surrender to God, but rather exhorts them to do so (Rom. 12: 1, 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact that God has given some freedom to man does not introduce a factor of uncertainty in the universe, since God is anticipated and known to infinity everything that men make in response to the divine and human influences and produced In their lifes. His sovereignty, therefore, extends infinitely any act, even if temporarily must be in the wrong, do so, and that ultimately everything is in God may be glorified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">F. God's command<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The sovereign purpose of God is theologically defined as the command of God, referring to the general plan that includes all events of any kind that may occur. God's command includes those events that God does for himself, and also includes all that God accomplished by natural law, on which the sovereign is absolute. More difficult to understand is the fact that its sovereign mandate also extends to all acts of men, which are included in his eternal plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although it is incomprehensible to us, it is clear that the omniscient God, having full knowledge of what man will do his freedom, to decide to grant man the freedom of choice, does not introduce any element of uncertainty. The divine plan accordingly, included allowing sin as Adam and Eve committed, with all the results of this commission of sin. This includes the divine remedy of Christ dying on the cross, and all the work of the Holy Spirit in men bring repentance and faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the work of God in the human heart is unsearchable, the Bible clearly states that while on the one hand, what man does was included in the eternal God's command, another, man operates with freedom of choice and is responsible for acts of their free choice. God's command is not fatalism-a blind control of all events and mecánico--, but is the intelligent, loving and wise plan, in which the man responsible for his actions, remains responsible for making He is, moreover, rewarded for his good deeds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God's command can be divided into subdivisions such as its mandate to create, its mandate to preserve the world, its mandate Providence and his wise government of the universe. Its mandate includes the promises God or alliances, its purposes in Divine Providence and grace, supremely manifested to man. Faced with such a God, man can only bow in submission, in love and adoration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can we estimate the common belief in the existence of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why atheism is unreasonable?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How clearly the revelation of God manifested in Nature?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Define four systems of thought that attempt to explain the universe on the basis of a higher being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the ontological argument for the existence of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the cosmological argument for the existence of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What theological argument?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the anthropological argument for the existence of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent recharge the emphasis the Old Testament God's unity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent does the Old Testament teach the doctrine of the Trinity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> And to what extent, too, does the New Testament?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Distinguish the doctrine of the Trinity tritheism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why can not explain the Trinity as three modes of the existence of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . Explain how the Trinity is distinguished by certain properties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Establish and define the three most important names of God in the Old Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the compounds mentioned names for God in the Old Testament?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the distinguished names of the three persons of the Trinity in the New Testament?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Appoint some of the important attributes of God as revealed in Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What it is what it is meant by sovereignty of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What does distinguish themselves by God's command?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">21.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what way can be subdivided God's command?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">22.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does God's command is distinguished fatalism?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">23.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why biblical revelation ask our submission, our love and worship in relationship with God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE FATHER<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE FATHER AS THE FIRST PERSON<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is indicated that there are three Persons in the Trinity-the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit-and that they are one God. The First Person is designated as the Father. Therefore, the Father is not the Trinity, the Son is not the Trinity and the Spirit is not the Trinity. Trinity includes the three Persons.Although the doctrine of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is presented in the Old Testament and these terms are given to persons of the Trinity, the New Testament defines and reveals the full doctrine. And in this neo-testamentary revelation he appears choosing the Father, loving and giving;Son reveals the suffering, redeeming and sustaining; while the Spirit manifests regenerating, teaching and sanctifying power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The revelation of the New Testament is centered in reveal Jesus Christ, but at the same time, presenting Christ as the Son of God, the truth of God the Father is revealed in this way. Given the irreversible order of the Father sending the Son and commissioning, and the Son sending and commissioning the Holy Spirit, the Father is designated correctly in theology as the First Person without reducing in any way the ineffable deity of the Second or Third Person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the revelation concerning God's fatherhood four different aspects can be observed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God as the Father of all creation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God the Father intimate relationship;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God as the Father of all who believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the three persons involved in the creation and maintenance of the physical universe and the creatures that exist in it, the First Person, or God the Father in a special way is the Father of all creation. According to Ephesians 3: 14-15, Paul writes: ". For this reason I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom every family in heaven and on earth" Here the whole family of moral creatures including angels and men are declared to constitute a family of which God is the Father. In a similar manner, in Hebrews 12: 9 First Person is named as "the Father of spirits", which seems again to include all moral beings such as angels and men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to James 1:17, the First Person is the "Father of lights", a peculiar expression which seems to indicate that he is the originator of all spiritual light. In Job 38: 7 the angels are described as sons of God (Job 1: 6; 2: 1). Adam is referred to as God by creation in Luke 3:38, by implication, a child of God. Malachi 2:10 asks the question: "Have we not all one father? Did not one God created us "Paul, addressing the Athenians on Mars Hill, included it in this argument:" Being then the offspring of God "(Acts 17:29.). In 1 Corinthians 8: 6 the statement is made: "For us, however, there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things only."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">On the basis of these texts there is enough room to conclude that the First Person of the Trinity, as the Creator, the Father of all creation, and all creatures that have physical life owe their origin to God. Only in this sense it is correct to refer to the universal fatherhood of God. All creatures involved in this sense in the universal brotherhood of creation. This does not, however, the misuse of this doctrine by liberal theologians to teach universal salvation, or that every man has God as his Father in a spiritual sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The concept and relationship of father and son are used in the Old Testament in many instances to relate to God with Israel. According to Exodus 4:22, Moses instructed the Pharaoh, "Thus says the Lord. Israel is my son, my firstborn" This was more than being merely his Creator and was less than say they were regenerated, because not all Israel he had spiritual life. Says a special relationship of divine care and solicitude for similar to that of a father to a son Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Predicting the special favor upon the house of David, God revealed to David that his relationship to Solomon would be like a father to a son. He said to David, "I will be his father, and he shall be my son" (2 S.7: 14). In general, God declares that his care as a Father is upon all who trust Him as their God. According to Psalm 103: 13, the statement is made: "As a father pities his children, so the Lord those who fear him."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The most important and extensive regarding the fatherhood of God disclosure relates to linking the First Person to the Second Person. The First Person is described as "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Eph. 1: 3). The most comprehensive theological revelation of the New Testament is that God the Father, the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">First Person is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Second Person. The fact that Jesus Christ in the New Testament is often referred to as the Son of God, and the attributes and works of God you are constantly assigned, is once proof of the deity of Jesus Christ and the doctrine of the Trinity as a However, with Christ as the second person in relation to the First Person, as a son is related to a parent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Theologians from the l century have struggled with a precise definition of how God is the Father of the Second Person. Obviously the terms "father" and "son" are used by God to describe the intimate relationship of the First and Second Person, without necessarily fulfill all aspects that would be true in a human relationship of father and son. This is especially evident in the fact that both-the Father and Son-are eternal. The error of Arius in the fourth century, that the Son was the first of all created beings, was denounced by the early Church as heresy, in view of the fact that the Second Person is as eternal as the First Person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Some theologians, while affirming the pre - existence of the Second Person, has tried to start the role of the second person as a </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">child </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">at some time in the creation, in the Incarnation, or at some subsequent point special recognition to the Second Person, as his baptism, death, resurrection and ascension. All these views, however, are false, since Scripture seems to indicate that the second person was a child in relation to the First Person from all eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The relationship of Father and Son, therefore, refers to the deity and unity of the Holy Trinity from all eternity, in contrast to the Incarnation, in which the Father was related to the humanity of Christ, which began in a time. Within Orthodoxy, and according to it, the words of the Nicene Creed (325 AD) -in response to the Arian heresy of the fourth century declared: "the only begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; Mighty God, Light from Light, absolute God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the <Father>. In the same way, the Athanasian Creed states: "The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten from eternity ... the substance of the Father. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Using the terms <Father> and <child> to describe the First and Second Persons, the terms are raised to its highest level, indicating unity of life, unity of character and attributes, and even a relationship in which the Father could give and send the Son, even though this is essentially related to the obedience of the Son dying on the cross. Christ's obedience is based on its quality Son, in no inequality with God the Father in the unity of the Trinity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While the relationship between the First and the Second Person of the Trinity is actually like a father with his son and a son with his father (2 Cor 1: 3; Galatians 4: 4; Hebrews 1.. 2) the fact itself of this relationship illustrates a vital truth to be accessible to us condescends to be expressed in the form of thought that corresponds to a finite mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although briefly mentioned in the Old Testament (Ps 2: 7; Isaiah 7:14; 9:.. 6-7), it is one of the broader teachings of the New Testament, as seen in the points noted below:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . It is declared that the Son of God was begotten by the Father (Ps 2: 7; Jn 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18; 1 John 4:.. . 9).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Father recognizes as His Son the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 3:17; 17: 5; Luke 9:35.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Lord Jesus Christ recognizes the First Person of the Trinity as his Father (Matthew 11:27; 26: 63-64; Lk 22:29; Jn . 8: 16-29, 33-44; 17: 1 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Men recognize that God the Father is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 16:16; Mr. 15:39; Jn 1:34, 49;. Acts 3:13.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Son of the Father expresses its appreciation undergoing Him (Jn. 8:29, 49).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Even the demons recognize the relationship between the Father and the Son (Matthew 8:29).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. THE FATHER OF ALL WHO BELIEVE IN CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In contrast to the concept of God the Father as the Creator, which extends to all creatures, is the truth that God is the Father in a special way, of those who believe in Christ and have received eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact that God is the Father of all creation does not ensure the salvation of all men nor give them eternal life to all. Scripture declares that there is salvation only for those who have received Christ by faith as their Savior. The claim that God the Father is the Father of all mankind, and there is, therefore, a universal brotherhood among men, does not mean all are saved and go to heaven.Scripture teaches, instead of the above, that only those who believe in Christ for salvation are children of God in a spiritual sense. This is not in the field of natural birth within the human race, or the soil in which God is the Creator, but is rather based on its second birth or spiritual birth into the family of God (Jn . 1:12; Gal 3:26; Eph 2:19; 3:15; 5:.. 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Through the work of regeneration making the Holy Spirit, the believer is indeed a legitimate child of God. And being God the Father in truth, the redeemed is driven by the Spirit to cry out, "Abba, Father." Having been born of God, is already a participant of the divine nature and, on the basis of that birth, has reached be an heir of God and joint heir with Christ (John 1: 12-13; 3: 3-6., Ro 8: 16-17; Tit. 3: 4-7; 1 Pet. 1: 4). The act of imparting the divine nature is such a profound operation performed in the believer; I never said that nature thus imparted can be removed for cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Upon reaching the consideration of what Scripture teaches regarding the power and authority of Satan today, more evidence that all men are not, by their natural birth, children of God will be given.In this regard we have the evidence of the most clear and direct teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ.Referring to those who persist in their unbelief, He says, "You are of your father the devil" (John 8:44.). And similarly it expressed when, in describing the unregenerate, says: "The weeds are the sons of the evil" (Matthew 13:38). The apostle Paul says that the unsaved are "children of disobedience" and "children of wrath" (Eph. 2: 2-3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">You should always emphasized that no human being can by his own strength to become a child of God. This is a transformation that only God is able to do, and He made only based on the sole condition that it has established, that is, Christ is believed and received as the sole and sufficient Savior (Jn. 1 : 12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God's fatherhood is an important doctrine of the New Testament (John 20:17; 1. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Co. 15:24; Eph 1: 3; 2:18; 4: 6 . ; Col. 1: 12-13; 1 Peter 1: 3; 1 John 1: 3; 2:. 1, 22, 3: 1) . </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the safety of the love and care of our Heavenly Father are a great comfort to Christians and a stimulus to faith and prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How are contrasted the works of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the New Testament?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the four different aspects of the fatherhood of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Summarize the evidence that God is the Father of all creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What does the fatherhood of God intimate relationship?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Treat the question of the eternity of father and son relationship between God the Father and Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the evidence supporting the concept of God the Father in relation to Jesus Christ the Son?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What does it mean that God is the Father of all who believe in Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can a man becomes a child of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the results of becoming a child of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What error incurred when it is said that all men are children of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the fatherhood of God provides confortamiento a believer in Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE SON: His pre-existence<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While being perfectly human and perfectly divine time, the Lord Jesus Christ is like and yet unlike the children of men. The Scriptures are very clear regarding the likeness of Him with humans (John 1:14; 1 Tim 3:16; Hebrews 2:... 14-17), and present it as a man who was born, lived, suffered and he died among men. But just as the Bible teaches that He is different from us, not only in the impeccable character of his earthly life, in His vicarious death and glorious resurrection and ascension, but also in the wonderful fact of his eternal pre-existence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As for his humanity, He had a beginning, it was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. As for their deity, He had no beginning, as it has existed from eternity. In Isaiah 9: 6 says, "For to us a child is born, unto us a son is given." The distinction is obvious between the child who was born and the Son who is given to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">So in Galatians 4: 4 states: "When the fullness of time, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law." Anyone who existed from eternity, became, in the fullness of time , "born (offspring) of women."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Declaring that Christ was pre-existent, merely it states that He existed before he would have become incarnate, since all purposes also claim that He existed from all eternity past. The idea that he was existing only in the sense of being the first of all created beings (the so-called Arian heresy of the fourth century) is not a modern education. So his pre-existence tests and tests for eternity can be grouped together. It is also evident that if Christ is God, He is eternal, and if He is eternal, He is God, and evidence for the deity of Christ and eternity are held each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Eternity and deity of Jesus is established by two lines of revelation. 1st) direct statements, and 2nd) Implications of Scripture..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. DIRECT OF ETERNITY STATEMENTS AND DEITY OF THE SON OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Eternity and deity of Jesus Christ are held in a vast area of Scripture, which affirms its infinite Person and his eternal existence same with the other Persons of the Trinity. This fact is not affected by his incarnation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Scripture declares in John 1: 1-2: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This was in the beginning with God "According to Micah 5: 2:" But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of you will come for me to be ruler in Israel. and whose origins are from the beginning, from the days of eternity. "Isaiah 7:14 says his virgin birth and gives him the name Emmanuel, which means" God with us. " According to Isaiah 9: 6-7, although Jesus was a child born, He was also given as a Son and is specifically called "the mighty God." When Christ said in John 8:58:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am" the Jews understood that this was an affirmation of the deity and eternity (cf. Ex 3:14; Isaiah 43:13..). In John 17: 5, Christ in his prayer, he said: "And now, Father, glorify me for you, with the glory I had with you before the world was" (Jn. 13: 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Philippians 2: 6-7 says that Christ was "in the form of God" before his incarnation. A more explicit statement is made in Colossians 1: 15-19, which states that Jesus Christ is before all creation, the Creator himself, and the exact image of the invisible God. In 1 Timothy 3:16 declares Jesus Christ as "God manifested in the flesh." In Hebrews 1: 2-3 that the Son is the Creator and the exact image of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God declares again, and eternity is stated in 13: 8 (cf. Eph 1: 4; Rev. 1:11..). Scripture says very often that Christ is eternal and that He is God. Contemporary education, which accepts the Bible as the irresistible authority except some sects, says eternity and deity of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. IMPLICATIONS OF THE SON OF GOD IS ETERNAL<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Word of God constantly and consistently implies the pre-existence and eternity of the Lord Jesus Christ. Among the obvious evidence of this fact can be highlighted several:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The works of creation are ascribed to Christ (John 1: 3; Col. 1:16; I 1:10..). Therefore, He precedes all creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Angel of the Lord, whose appearance is often remembered in the Old Testament, is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Though he sometimes appears as an angel or even as a man, He bears the marks of the deity. He appeared to Hagar (Genesis 16: 7.) Abraham (Genesis 18: 1; 22:.. 11-12; cf. Jn 8:58), Jacob (Gn . 48: 15-16; see also Gen. 31: 11-13; 32:.. 2432), Moses (Exodus 3: 2, 14), Joshua (Jos 5: 13-14) and Manoa (Thu 13: 19-22).. He is the one who fights for his people and defends them (2 Kings 19:35; 1 Cr 21: 15-16; Ps . 34: 7; Zech . 14: 1-4.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The titles awarded to the Lord Jesus Christ indicate the eternity of Being </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He is exactly what their names suggest. He is "the Alpha and Omega," "the Christ," "Admirable," "Counselor," "Mighty God," "Eternal Father," "God," "God with us", the "great God and Savior" and "God blessed forever." These titles identify the Lord Jesus with the revelation of the Old Testament Jehovah-God (cf. Mt. 1:23 with Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 4: 7 . Dt 6:16; 5:19 Mr. Sal. . 66:16 and Ps . 110: 1 with Matthew 22: 42-45). In addition, the names that the New Testament gives the Son of God are closely related to the titles of the Father and the Spirit, indicating that Christ is on an equal footing with the First and Third Person of the Trinity </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(Mt. . 28:19; Acts 2:38; 1 Cor . 1: 3; 2 Cor 13:14; Jn 14: 1; 17: 3 . ; Eph 6:23; Rev . 20: 6; 22: 3 . ), </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">and explicitly he is called God (Romans 9: 5; Jn . 1: 1; Tit 2:13; Hebrews 1:.. 8)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The pre - existence of the Son of God is understood in the fact that He has the attributes of Deity: Life (Jn . 1: 4), Existence itself (John 5:26.) Immutability (Heb . 13: 8), Truth (John 14: 6), Love (1 Jn 3:16), holiness (Heb 7:26), Eternity (Col. 1:17; I 1:11), omnipresence (Matt.... 28:20), omniscience (1 Cor 4: 5; Col. 2: 3) and Omnipotence (Mt. 28:18; Rev. 1: 8)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Similarly, the pre - existence of Christ is implied in the fact that He is worshiped as God (Jn 20:28; Acts . 7: 59-60; Hebrews 1: 6 . .). Therefore, we conclude that the Lord Jesus Christ being God, He exists from eternity to eternity. This chapter, which stresses the deity of Christ, must be inseparably linked to the following, in which emphasis is given to the humanity of the Son of God, made through the incarnation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Contrasting evidence for the divine and human natures of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the evidences for the eternity of the Son of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the eternity of God proves His deity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What additional implications about his works that the Son of God is eternal?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the works of the Son of God prove His deity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the eternity of Christ supported by their titles?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the eternity of Christ supported by its other attributes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the attributes of Christ prove his deity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How important it is for our Christian faith the doctrine of the deity and eternity of Jesus Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE SON: HIS INCARNATION<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When considering the incarnation should be admitted two important truths:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ was at the same time and in an absolute sense, true God and true man; Y<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> to become the flesh, yet he laid aside his glory, in no sense put aside his deity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He retained his incarnation in every essential attribute of their deity. His full deity and full humanity are essential for their work on the cross. If He had not been man could not have died; if he had not been God, His death would not have had such infinite value.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">John states (Jn. 1: 1) that Christ, who was one with God and was God from all eternity, became flesh and dwelt among us (1:14). Paul also states that Christ, who was in the form of God, took upon himself the likeness of men (Phil. 2: 6-7); "God was manifest in the flesh" (1 Tim 3:16.); and He, who was the full revelation of the glory of God, was the exact image of His person (Heb. 1: 3). Lucas, in larger detail, presents the historical fact of his incarnation, and both its conception and birth (Luke 1: 26- 38; 2: 5-7.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Bible presents many contrasts, but none more surprising than that which Christ in his person should be at the same time true God and true man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The illustrations in these contrasts in the Scriptures are many: He was tired (Jn. 4: 6) and He offered rest to those who were weary and burdened (Matthew 11:28); He was hungry (Matthew 4: 2), and he was "the bread of life" (John 6:35.); He was thirsty (Jn. 19:28), and He was the water of life (Jn. 7:37).He was in agony (Lk. 22:44), and cured all kinds of diseases and all pain eased. Although he had existed from eternity (Jn. 8:58), He grew "age" as they grow all men (Lk. 2:40). He suffered temptation (Matthew 4: 1) and, like God, could not be tempted. He just himself in his knowledge (Lk. 2:52), even though He was God's wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Referring to his humiliation, for which he was made a little lower than the angels (Heb 2: 6-7.) He says, "My Father is greater than I" (Jn 14:28.); and "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30.), and "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (Jn. 14: 9). He prayed (Lk. 6:12), and He answered the prayers (Acts. 10:31). He wept at the tomb of Lazarus (Jn. 11:35), and raised the dead (Jn. 11:43). He asked, "Who do people say the Son of man am" (Matthew 16:13), and "had no need that anyone should testify of man: for he knew what was in man" ( Jn. 2:25).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When he was on the cross he exclaimed, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34). But the same God who cried and was at that time "in Christ reconciling the world to himself" (2 Cor 5:19). He is eternal life; however, he died for us. He is the perfect God and perfect man for man God. From this it follows that the Lord Jesus Christ lived his earthly life sometimes in the sphere of what is perfectly human, and sometimes in the field of what is perfectly divine. And it must be remembered that the fact of their humanity never set limit, in any way, your divine Being, or prompted him to draw on his divine resources to meet their human needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He had the power to turn stones into bread to satisfy their hunger; but he never did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE FACT OF HUMANITY OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ's humanity was determined before the foundation of the world (Eph 1: 4-7; 3:11; Rev. 13: 8 . .). The main significance of the type of the Lamb is in the physical body offered a bloody sacrifice to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Each type and Old Testament prophecy concerning Christ, anticipates the coming of the Son of God in his incarnation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The fact of the humanity of Christ is seen in the annunciation of the angel to Mary and the birth of Jesus (Lk . 1: 31-35).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The earthly life of Christ reveals his humanity:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> By their names: "the Son of man," "the Son of David", or similar;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> by his earthly descent: You referred to as "the firstborn of Mary" (Lk 2: 7), "the seed of David" (Acts 2:30; 13:23), "the seed of Abraham" (.. I 2:16), "born of woman" (Gal 4: 4), "stem Judah" (Is 11:... 1);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">C)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> by the fact that he possessed body and soul and human spirit (Mt. 26:38; Jn 13:21; 1 John 4:.. 2, 9); Y.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">D)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> by human limitations imposed himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The humanity of Christ is manifested in his death and resurrection. It was a human body that suffered death on the cross, and it was the same body that emerged from the tomb in glorious resurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The reality of Christ's humanity is also seen in his ascension into heaven and that He is there, in his glorified human body interceding on their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> And in his second coming will be "the same body" glorified though already adopted in the miracle of incarnation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. BIBLICAL REASONS FOR THE INCARNATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ came into the world to reveal God to men (Matthew 11:27; John 1:18; 14: 9 . ; Romans 5: 8, 1 John 3:16..). Through the incarnation, God, whom men could not understand, is revealed in terms that are accessible to human understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ came to reveal the man. He is the ideal man to God, and as such, is presented as an example for those who believe in Him (1 Peter 2:21), but not for the unconverted, for God's purpose as to them is not merely reform them , but save them .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ came to offer a sacrifice for sin. For this reason, He gives praise God in your body, and it does so in relation to the true sacrifice for our sin He offered on the cross (Heb . 10: 1-10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ became flesh to destroy the works of the devil (Jn 12:31; 16:11; Col. 2:. 13- 15; He 2:14; 1 John 3:. . 8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ came into the world to be "merciful and faithful high priest in what refers to God" (Heb 2: 16-17; 8:. 1; 9: 11-12, 24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ became flesh to fulfill the Davidic Covenant (2 S.7: 16; Luke 1: 31-33; Acts 2: 30-31 . , 36; Rom . 15: 8.). He will appear in His glorified human body and shall reign as "King of kings and Lord of lords" and will sit on the throne of his father David (Luke 1:32; Ap . 19:16.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Through his Incarnation, Christ became "head over all things and the church , " which is the New Creation, that is, the new human race (Eph. 1:22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the incarnation, the Son of God took to himself, not only a human body but also a soul and human spirit. And having thus both the material part as immaterial of human existence, he became a man in every sense that this word contains, and identify so closely and permanently with the children of men, that He is rightly called " the last Adam "; and "the body of His glory" (Phil. 3:21) is now a reality that remains forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christ is the eternal Son, Jehovah God, was also the Son of Mary, the Child of Nazareth, the Master of Judea, the Guest of Bethany, the Lamb of Calvary. And one day manifest as the King of glory, and now is the Savior. Men, the High Priest who is in heaven, the Bridegroom comes for His Church, and the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What two important truths should be highlighted in the study of the incarnation of the Son of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it important to hold both: the full deity and full humanity of Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the evidence that Christ had a total humanity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the evidence that Christ had normal human experiences?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the fact his deity is held even when Christ was on earth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the incarnation related to the revelation of God to man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the incarnation related to Christ's sacrifice for sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the relationship of incarnation with respect to destroy the devil 's work?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the incarnation of Christ is related to his job as High Priest?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the relationship of the Davidic covenant with the incarnation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Christ's position as head of the church is related with respect to the incarnation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE SON: his vicarious death<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Scripture the death of Christ reveals himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.Accordingly, John the Baptist introduced Jesus with the words: "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (Jn. 1: 29). Jesus in his death, was the substitute dying in the place of all men. Although "substitute" is not specifically a biblical term, the idea that Christ is the substitute for sinners constantly affirmed in Scripture. Through the vicarious death and incommensurable righteous judgment of God against the sinner they were brought by Christ. The result of this substitution is itself simple and definitive as the same transaction. El Salvador has already loaded with divine Jews against the sinner to total satisfaction of God. To receive the salvation that God offers, they are asked to men who believe this good news, recognizing that Christ died for their sins and hereby claim Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The word "replacement" only partially expresses everything that took place in the death of Christ. In fact, there is a term that we could say that includes all of that incomparable work. The popular use has tried to introduce for this purpose the word </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">atonement, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">but this word does not appear even once in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">New Testament, and according to its use in the Old Testament, means only cover sin. This provided a basis for a temporary pardon "because of having overlooked in his patience, past sins" (Rom. 3:25).Although it required nothing more than the sacrifice of an animal for in Old Testament times</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">forward </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(literally "tolerate", "ignore" Rom. 3:25) and </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">hide </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(literally "ignore" without punishment , Acts. 17:30) of sins, God was nevertheless acting in perfect justice to this requirement, since He looked toward the manifestation of his Lamb, which would not only ignore or cover sin but to remove once and forever (Jn. 1:29).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When considering the total value of the death of Christ to distinguish the following facts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The death of Christ gives us assurance of the love of God toward the sinner (Jn 3:16; Rom . 5: 8; 1 John 3:16; 4:.. 9); and in addition to this there is , naturally, a reflex action or moral requirement that projects through this truth concerning the divine love, about the life of the redeemed (2 Cor 5:15; 1 Peter 2: 11- 25); but do not forget that all claims concerning the daily conduct was never directed to unbelievers but to those who are already saved in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The death of Christ is a redemption or ransom paid to the holy demands of God to the sinner and to release the sinner from the just condemnation. It is significant that the discriminator word "by" means "instead of" or "in favor" and is used in each passage in the New Testament where Christ's death is mentioned as a ransom (Matthew 20:28; Mr . 10:45; 1 Timothy 2: 6).. Christ's death was a necessary punishment, which He bore for the sinner (Ro 4:25; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal . 1: 4; Heb 9:28..). By paying the price of our redemption Christ redeemed us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the New Testament three important Greek words are used to express this idea:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A) </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">agorazo</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> , which means "buy in a market" (agora means "market"). The man, in his sin, is considered under the sentence of death (Jn 3:.. 18-19; Ro 6:23), a slave "sold under sin" (. Ro 7:14), but in the act of the redemption purchased by Christ through the shedding of his blood (1 Cor 6:20; 7:23; 2 Peter 2: 1; Rev. 5: 9; 14: 3-4 . );<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B) </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">exagorazo</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> , which means "buy and take market sale", adding the thought of not only the purchase but also that never again be exposed for sale (Gal 3:13; 4:. 5; Eph 5:16; Col. 4: 5 . ), indicating that redemption is once and forever;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">C) </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">lutroo</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> , "to free" (Lk 24:21;. Tít 2:14;. 1 Peter 1:18). The same idea is found in the lutrosis word (Lk 2:38;.. I 9:12), and other similar expression, epoiesen lutrõsin (Luke 1:68.), And otherwise frequently used, apolutrosis, indicating that is released a slave (Lk 21:28; Ro 3:24; 8:23; 1 Cor 1:30; Eph . 1:. 7, 14; 4:30; Col. 1:14; 9:15 I.. ; 11:35). The concept of redemption includes the purchase, sale removing, and complete freedom of individual redemption through the death of Christ and the application of redemption through the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">So, too, the death of Christ was an offering for sin, not like the offerings of animals presented in OT times, which could only cover sin, in the sense of delaying the time of fair and deserved judgment against sin. In his sacrifice Christ brought about "his body on the tree" our sins, removing them once and forever (Isaiah 53: 7-12; John 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:.. 7; Eph. 5: 2. ; I 9:22, 26;. 10:14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The death of Christ is represented in its part as an act of obedience to the law that sinners have broken, which fact constitutes a propitiation or satisfaction of all just demands of God upon the sinner. Hilasterion The Greek word used for "mercy seat" (Heb . 9: 5) which was the lid of the ark in the Holy of Holies, and covering the law in the ark. On the Day of Atonement (. Lv 16:14) the mercy seat was sprinkled with blood from the altar and that changed the place of judgment at a place of mercy (Heb . 9: 11-15). Similarly, the throne of God becomes a throne of grace (Heb . 4: 14-16) through the atoning death of Christ. A Greek word similar hilasmos, refers to the act of propitiation (1 Jn . 2: 2; 4:10); the meaning is that Christ dying on the cross, fully satisfied all the just demands of God as judgment for the sin of mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Romans 3: 25-26 God declares, therefore, that forgives sins in His righteousness before the cross, on the basis that Christ would die and completely satisfy the law of justice. In all this God is not described as a God who delights in vengeance upon the sinner, but rather a God who because of their love delights in mercy for the sinner. In redemption and atonement, therefore, the believer in Christ is certain that the price has been paid in full, he has been set free as a sinner and that all the just demands of God for judgment on him because your sins have been met.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The death of Christ not only satisfy a Holy God, but provided the basis by which the world was reconciled to God. The Greek word </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">katallasso </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">, meaning "reconcile" has in it the thought of bringing God and man together by a thorough change in man. . 18- 20; Eph 2:16; Col. 1:. 20-; 11:15;; 1 Cor 7:11 2 Cor May 10 to 11: (Romans 5 frequently appears in various forms in the New Testament twenty-one). The concept regarding reconciliation does not mean that God willchange, but their relationship to the man changes because of the redemptive work of Christ. Man is forgiven, justified and spiritually risen to the level where it is reconciled with God. The thought is not that God is reconciled with the sinner, that is, set to a sinful state, but rather that the sinner is set to the holy character of God. Reconciliation is for everyone, because God redeemed the world and is the propitiation for the sins of the world (2 Corinthians 5:19; 2 Peter 2: 1; 1 John 2: 1-2.). So complete and far - reaching is this wonderful provision of God in redemption, atonement and reconciliation, the Scriptures declare that God is not now imputing sin into theworld (2 Cor . 5: 18-19; Eph 2:16; Col. 2:20).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The death of Christ took away all moral hindrances in the mind of God to save sinners in sin has been redeemed through the death of Christ, God has been satisfied and man is reconciled with God. There is no obstacle for God to accept freely and justify to anyone who believes in Jesus Christ as Savior (Rom. 3:26). From the death of Christ's infinite love and power of God they are free of all restrictions to save, by all judgments that Divine justice could sue against the sinner being fulfilled in it. There is no one in the universe who has obtained more benefit than God in the death of his beloved Son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> At his death, Christ became the substitute who suffered the penalty or punishment that deserved the sinner (Lev 16:21; Is . 53: 6; Luke 22:37; Matthew 20:28; John 10... : 11; Romans 5: 6-8; 1 Peter 3:18).. This truth is the foundation of certainty for anyone who comes to God for salvation. In addition, it is a fact that every individual must believe concerning his own relationship with God in what touches the problem of sin. It generally believe that Christ died for the world is not enough; is demanded in Scripture a personal conviction that the sin of self was the Christ, our Substitute, completely took on the cross. This is the faith that results in a feeling of inner rest, in an inexplicable joy and deep gratitude to Him (Rom 15:13; I 9:14; 10:.. 2). Salvation is a powerful work of God, which is done instantly who believes in Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. Fallacies CONCERNING THE DEATH OF THE SON<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christ's death is often misunderstood. Every Christian will do well to fully understand the fallacy of the false teachings on this subject are spreading widely in today:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> It is claimed that the doctrine of substitution is immoral because, as they say, God could not, acting in strict justice, putting an innocent victim of the sins of the guilty. This teaching might merit more serious consideration if it could prove that Christ was an unwitting victim; but, on the contrary, the Bible reveals that He was in complete affinity with the will of his Father and was powered by the same infinite love (Jn 13: 1; Hebrews 10: 7 . .). Similarly, in the inscrutable mystery of the Divine, it was God who "was in Christ reconciling the world" (2 Corinthians 5:19).Far from being the death of Christ a moral imposition, was God, the righteous Judge, who in an act of love and sacrifice of himself suffered all the punishment that his holiness demanded for the sinner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Ensures that Christ died as a martyr and that the value of his death is their example of courage and loyalty to his convictions </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Just answer this erroneous assertion that, Christ the Lamb offered in sacrifice for God, his life he was snatched by man, but he put himself to take it again (John 10:18;. Acts 2:23.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> It is said that Christ died to exert some influence of moral character. That is, that men who contemplate the extraordinary fact of Calvary will be compelled to leave their sinful life, because on the cross he reveals with singular intensity which is the divine concept of sin. This theory, which has no basis in Scripture as an established fact that God is currently seeking the</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">reformation </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of men, when in fact the cross is the basis for its </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">regeneration.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is meant by the statement that Christ is the substitute for sinners?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the Old Testament doctrine of the atonement?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Christ's death is related to the love of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the three basic concepts in the doctrine of redemption?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Define the doctrine of propitiation and explain what is accomplished by it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Define the doctrine of reconciliation and explain what is accomplished by it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> If the whole world is reconciled to God, why are there some who are lost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How redemption, propitiation and reconciliation free of all restrictions on God to save the sinner?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why does the New Testament emphasizes that salvation is only through faith?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Name some of the misinterpretations of the death of Christ and explain why they are wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE SON: HIS RESURRECTION<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE RESURRECTION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The doctrine of the resurrection of all men, and the resurrection of Christ, taught in the Old Testament. The doctrine appears as early as in the time of Job, probably a contemporary of Abraham, and expressed in his statement of faith in Job 19: 25-27, "I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand upon the earth ; and after my skin is destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God; whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, though my heart yearns within me. "Here Job affirms not only his own personal resurrection, but the truth that his Redeemer longer lives and later will be on the earth. That all men are to be resurrected so taught in John 5: 28-29 and Revelation 20: 4 6: 12-13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Specific prophecies in the Old Testament anticipate the resurrection of the body </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">human (Job 14: 13-15; Psalm 16: 9-10; 17:15; 49:15; Is 26:19; Dn 12:.. 2; Hos.. 13:14; Heb. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11: 17-19). The resurrection of Christ is specifically taught in Psalm 16: 9-10, where the psalmist David states: "He was glad, therefore, my heart and my soul rejoices; my flesh also shall rest in hope; thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol, nor let your Holy One see decay. "Here David not only says that he personally awaits the resurrection, but also that Jesus Christ, who is described as the" Holy One "would not see corruption that is, it would not be in the grave enough to corrupt your body time. This passage is quoted by Peter in Acts 2: 24-31 and Paul in Acts 13: 34-37 pointing to the resurrection of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The resurrection of Christ is also mentioned in Psalm 22:22, which followed his death Christ declares that he will announce his name to his "brothers". In Psalm 118: 22-24 exaltation of Christ to become the cornerstone is defined in Acts 4: 10-11 signifying the resurrection of Christ. The resurrection of Christ also appears to be anticipated in the typology of the Old Testament priesthood of Melchizedek (Gen. 14:18; I 7: 15-17. 23-25.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Similarly, the type of the two birds (Lev. 14: 4-7), where the live bird is released, the feast of firstfruits (Lev. 23: 10-11), indicating that Christ is the first fruits of the resurrection harvest, and Aaron's rod that budded (Num. 17: 8) speaks of the resurrection. The doctrine of the resurrection of all men, as well as the resurrection of Christ, is well established in the Old Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE PREDICTIONS OF CHRIST OF YOUR OWN RESURRECTION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the Gospels, Christ often predicts both houses, his own death and resurrection (Matthew 16:21; 17:23; 20: 17-19; 26:12, 28-29, 31-32; Mark 9: 30-32; 14:28; Luke 9:22; 18: 31-34.; In 2: 19-22; 10: 17-18.). The predictions are so frequent as explicit and given in so many different contexts there can be no doubt that Christ foretold his own death and resurrection, and the fulfillment of these predictions verifies the accuracy of prophecy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. EVIDENCE OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The New Testament presents an overwhelming proof of the resurrection of Christ. At least seventeen appearances of Christ occurred after His resurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">These are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Appearance to Mary Magdalene (Jn 20: 11-17; Mark 16: 9-11 . );<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appearance women (Matthew 28: 9-10);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appearance to Peter (Luke 24:34; 1 Cor . 15: 5);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Appearance of Christ to the disciples die, collectively referred to as "the eleven" Thomas absent (Mark 16:14 being; Luke 24: 36-43; Jn 20:.. 19-24);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appeared to the eleven disciples a week after his resurrection (Jn . 20: 26-29);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appeared to seven disciples at the Sea of Galilee (Jn . 21: 1- 23);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appearance to five hundred (1 Cor 15: 6); </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appearance to James the brother of the Lord (1 Cor 15: 7);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appeared to the eleven disciples on the mountain in Galilee (Matthew 28: 16-20; 1 Cor 15: 7);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Appearing to his disciples during his ascension from the Mount of Olives (Luke 24: 44-53; Acts 1:.. 3-9);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appearance of the risen Christ Stephen moments before his martyrdom (Acts 7: 55-56 . );<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus (Acts 9: 3-6; Acts 22: 6-11 . ; . 26: 13-18; 1 Corinthians 15: 8);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> appeared to Paul in Arabia (Acts 20:24;. 26:17; Gal 1:12, 17).;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Appearance of Christ to Paul in the temple (Acts 22: 17-21; cf. 9:.. 26-30; Gal 1:18);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Appearance of Christ to Paul in prison at Caesarea (Acts 23:11).;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Appearance of Christ to the Apostle John (Rev . 1: 12-20).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The number of these occurrences, the wide variety of circumstances and evidence that confirms everything surrounding these apparitions are the most powerful quality of historical evidence that Christ rose from the dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In addition to the tests that give us their appearances, you can still cite more evidence supporting this fact. The tomb was empty after his resurrection (Matthew 28: 6; Mark 16: 6; Luke 24: 3, 6:12; Jn. 20: 2,5-8.). Clearly witnesses of the resurrection of Christ were not stupid or easy to fool people. In fact, they were slow to understand the evidence (Jn. 20: 9: 11-15, 25). Once convinced of the reality of his resurrection, they wanted to die for their faith in Christ. It is also evident that there was a great change in the disciples after the resurrection. His sentence was replaced with joy and faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Later, the book of Acts testifies of the divine power of the Holy Spirit in the disciples after the resurrection of Christ, the power of the gospel which they proclaimed, and the evidence supporting miracles. Pentecost is another important test as it would have been impossible to have convinced three thousand people of the resurrection of Christ, who had had an opportunity to examine the evidence if it had been a mere fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The custom of the early Church to observe the first day of the week, time to celebrate the Lord's Supper and bring their offerings, is another historical evidence (Acts 20: 7; 1 Cor. 16: 2). The very fact that the early Church was born despite the persecution and death of the apostles, would be left without explanation if Christ had not risen from the dead. It was a literal, bodily resurrection, which transformed the body of Christ according to his heavenly role.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. GROUNDS FOR THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">At least they can be cited seven major reasons for the resurrection of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ was raised because of who he is (Acts. 2:24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ was raised to fulfill the Davidic covenant (2 Sam 7: 12-16; Ps 89: 20-37; Isa . 9: 6-7; Lk . 1: 31-33; Acts . 2: 25-. 31).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ rose again to be the giver of resurrection life (Jn . 10: 10-11; 11: 25-26; Eph 2: 6; Col. 3:. 1- 4; 1 John 5: 11-12.) .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ rose again so that He is the source of power of the resurrection (Matthew 28:18; Ephesians 1: 19- 21; Phil 4:13..).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ was raised to be the Head of the Church (Eph . 1: 20-23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ was raised for our justification is fulfilled (Rom. 4:25).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ was raised to be the first fruits of the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15: 20-23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. THE MEANING OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The resurrection of Christ, because of its historical character, is the most important proof of the deity of Jesus Christ. Because it was a great victory over sin and death, it is also the present value of divine power, as is stated in Ephesians 1: 19-21. Since the resurrection is such an outstanding doctrine, the first day of the week in this dispensation has been set apart for the commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and, accordingly, take place on the Sabbath law, which put apart the seventh day for Israel. The resurrection is, therefore, the cornerstone of our Christian faith, and as Paul puts it in 1 Corinthians 15:17, "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. "Having risen Christ, our Christian faith is sure, the final victory of Christ is true and our Christian faith is fully justified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Does the Bible teach that all men who die will be resurrected?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Make a summary of the teachings of the Old Testament that teach about the resurrection of the human body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent the Old Testament anticipates the resurrection of Jesus Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what degree Christ predicted his own resurrection?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How many appearances of Christ occurred between his resurrection and ascension?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What happened appearances of Christ after his ascension?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How to contribute the empty tomb, the character of the witnesses of his resurrection and the degree of their convictions to the doctrine of resurrection?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What changes took place in the disciples after the resurrection of Christ, and how they were used as witnesses of the resurrection?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence can be found in the Pentecost for the Resurrection of Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the custom of the early Church to observe the first day of the week and its continued existence despite the persecution theorize the resurrection?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Name at least seven reasons for which Christ rose from the dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it important for Christian faith the resurrection of Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the resurrection of Christ relates to this standard of divine power?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE SON: YOUR ASCENSION AND PRIESTHOOD<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE FACT OF CHRIST'S ASCENSION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Since the resurrection of Christ is the first in a series of exaltation of Christ, his ascension to heaven can be considered the second important step. This is recorded in Mark 16:19; Luke 24: 50-51 and Acts 1: 9-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The question has been raised is whether Christ ascended into heaven before their formal ascension.They often cite the words of Christ to Mary Magdalene in John 20:17, where Jesus said, ". Ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the typology of the Old Testament where the priest, after slaughter, bringing the blood into the Holy of Holies (Heb. 9:12, 23-24) is also cited. While exhibitors have differed in their opinions, most evangelicals interpret the present time John 20:17 "climb" as a vivid future. Expressions in Hebrews that Christ entered heaven with his blood translate more correctly "through his blood" or "through his blood." The physical implementation of the blood only happened on the cross. The benefits of the finished work continue to be applied to believers today (1 Jn. 1: 7).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">One last question has been raised as to whether the ascension in Acts 1 was literally an act. The whole passage completely supports the fact that Christ literally went to heaven, as well as wine literally earth when it was conceived and born. Acts 1 uses four Greek words to describe the ascension: "He was raised" (v. 9); "Him a cloud received him out of their sight" (v. 9); "He was" (v. 10);and "has been taken from you into heaven" (v. 11), better translated as "taken up" (cf. 9). These four statements are significant because in verse 11 is predicted that his second coming will be in the same way; that is, his ascension and his second coming will be gradual, visible, tangible and clouds (Acts. 1: 9- 11). This refers to his coming to establish his kingdom, rather than the rapture of the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the evidence for its ascent from earth to heaven is complete, the fact that it is claimed that Christ has gone to heaven confirms the fact of his ascension (Acts. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2: 33-36; 3:21; 7: 55-56 ; 9: 3-6; 22: 6-8; 26: 13-15; Ro 8:34; Eph . 1: 20-22; 4: 8-10 . ; Phil 2: 6. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11; 3:20 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 4:16; 1 Tim 3:.. 6; Hebrews 1: 3, 13, 2. 7; 4:14; 6:20; 7:26; 8: 1; 9:24 ; </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10: 12-13; 12: 2; 1 John 2: 1; Revelation 1: 7 . , 13-18; 5:. 5/12, 6: 9-17; 7: 9-17; 14: 1- 5; 19: 11-16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The ascent marked the end of his earthly ministry. As Christ had come, he born in Bethlehem, so now He had returned to the Father. It also marked the return to his glory manifest, which was hidden in his earthly life even after his resurrection. His entrance into heaven was a great triumph, meaning finishing his work on earth and an entry into his new area of work at the right hand of the Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The position of Christ in heaven is universal lordship as he awaits his last win and his second coming, and frequently presents Christ at the right hand of the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Father (Ps 110: 1; Mt 22:44; Mr 12:36. ; 16:19; Luke 20: 42- 43; 22:. 69; Rom 8:34; Eph 1:20;.. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Col. 3: 1; Hebrews 1: 3-13; 8:. 1; 10:12 ; .12: 2; 1 Peter 3:22) </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the Christ occupies the throne in heaven is the Father 's throne; not to be confused with the Davidic throne, which is earthly. The land still awaits the time when it will be made his footstool and his throne will be established on earth (Mt. 25:31). His present position is, of course, of honor and authority, and always remaining as head of the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. THIS WORK OF CHRIST IN HEAVEN.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In his position at the right hand of the Father, Christ fulfills the seven figures that relate to the church:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ as the last Adam and head of a new creation;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ as the Head of the body of Christ;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ as the Great Shepherd of his flock;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ as the True Life in relation to the branches;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ as the chief cornerstone in relation to the church as a building stone;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ as our High Priest in relation to the church as a royal priesthood;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ as the Bridegroom in relation to the church as his bride. All these figures are full of meaning in describing his present work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">His main ministry, however, is as high priest representing the Church before the throne of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">four important truths are revealed in his work as High Priest:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> As High Priest of the true tabernacle on high, the Lord Jesus Christ has entered into heaven itself to minister as a priest in favor of those who are their property in the world (Heb . 8: 1-2). The fact that the, when he ascended, he was received by his Father in heaven is evidence that his earthly ministry was accepted. Which he sit indicated that his work for the world was completed.Which sit on the throne of his father and not his own throne reveals the truth, so constantly and consistently taught in the Scriptures, that He did not establish a kingdom on earth at His first coming into the world, but He is now "waiting" until the time when the kingdom will come on earth and the divine will be done on earth as in heaven. "The kingdoms of this world are become our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever "(Revelation 11:15.); -King asked yet - the Son of the Father, which will give " you the nations as his possession the ends of the earth" (Ps . 2: 8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, Scripture clearly indicates that he is now establishing this legislation kingdom on earth (Matthew 25: 31-46), but rather is calling for both Jews and Gentiles, a heavenly people which is related with him as his body and girlfriend. After the present purpose is fulfilled The return and "will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen" (Acts 15:16;. Cf. vs. 13-18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although he is a King-Priest according to the type of Melchizedek (Heb 5:10; 7:. 1), He is now serving as a priest and not as King. The coming again and will then be the King of kings, it is now promoted to be "head over all things" (Eph. 1: 22-23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> As our High Priest, Christ is the giver of spiritual gifts. According to the New Testament, a gift is a divine enablement brought the believer and through the believer by the Spirit who dwells in it.Spirit is working to fulfill God 's purposes and use certain who dwells for this purpose. He dwells for that purpose. It is in no way a human work aided by the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although certain general gifts are mentioned in the Scriptures (Romans 12: 3-8; 1 Cor. 12: 4-11), the variety possible is innumerable, since two lives were never live under exactly the same conditions. However, every believer is given some gift; but the blessing and power of the gift will be experienced only when life is totally surrendered to God (cf. Rom. 12: 1-2, 6-8). There will be little need of exhortation for an honest service to God who is filled with the Spirit; because the Spirit is working on it both ways, both to will and to do his good pleasure (Phil. 2:13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Similarly, certain men who are called "among men" are locally provided and placed in service by the ascended Christ (Eph. 4: 7-11). The Lord did not leave his work to the uncertain and insufficient judgment of men (1 Cor 12:11, 18)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The ascended Christ as Priest ever lives to make intercession for His own. This ministry began before He left the earth (Jn . 17: 1-26), and the saved rather than for the unsaved (Jn . 17: 9), and will continue in heaven as long as yours are in the world. His work of intercession has to do with the weakness, need for help and the immaturity of the saints on earth - things in which they are not in any way culpables-. He who knows the limitations of their own, and the power and the strategy of the enemy with whom they have to fight, is to them a pastor and bishop for their souls. His care of Peter is an illustration of this truth (Lk . 22: 31-32).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The priestly intercession of Christ is not only effective, but also endless. The priests of old failed because of death; but Christ, since he lives forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. "Wherefore he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them" (Heb. 7; 25). David recognizes the same pastoral care and guarantee of eternal security (Ps. 23: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ is currently presented by his family in the presence of God. Often the Son of God is guilty of a sin that will completely separate from God if it was not through the law of Christ and the work that he made for his death on the cross. The effect of sin on Christian is loss of joy, peace and spiritual power. Moreover, these blessings are restored according to God's infinite grace solely on the basis of confession of sin (1 John 1: 9 . ); but more important it is to consider the sin of Christians in relation to the holy character of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Through this priestly advocacy of Christ in heaven, no absolute assurance of salvation for children of Heavenly Father even while they are sinning. A lawyer is one who exposes and defends the cause of another before the public courts. In the performance of their functions Lawyer, Christ is now in heaven intervening on behalf of his people (Heb 9:24.) When they sin (1 Jn. 2: 1). It is revealed that makes his defense before the Father, and that Satan is there also accusing incessantly day and night the brothers, in the presence of God (Rev. 12:10). It is possible that the Christian seems that sin that he has committed is negligible; but not so for God's sake, who could never treat lightly representing an offense to the divine justice. Even sin is secret on earth is a big scandal in the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the wonderful grace of God, without any request to intervene on behalf of men, the Advocate defends the cause of the guilty Christian. And what the lawyer does to guarantee the security of the believer is so in accordance with divine justice that He is called, in relation to this ministry to advocate for their own, "Jesus Christ the righteous." He defends the children of God based on the blood that was shed on the cross, and in this way the Father has complete freedom to defend them against every accusation from Satan or men and against any judgment that in other circumstances sin would impose upon the sinner; and all this is made possible because Christ, through his death, became the "propitiation for our sins" (sins of Christians) (1 Jn. 2: 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The truth concerning the priestly ministry of Christ in heaven is no way for true Christians facilitating the practice of sin. On the contrary, these same things are written that you may not sin (1 Jn. 2: 1); because none can sin lightly or neglect when considering the enormous task of defense because of the sin of the Christian must necessarily perform the Advocate Christ Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It can be said, in conclusion, that Christ fulfills his ministry of intercessor and Advocate for eternal security of those who are already saved in Him (Rom. 8:34).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. THIS WORK OF CHRIST ON EARTH.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christ is also at work in his church on earth while at the right hand of the Father in heaven. In many passages it is said that Christ dwells in his church and is with his church (Mt. 28: 18-20; Jn 14:18, 20; Colossians 1:27.). He is in his church in the sense that it is the who gives life to his church (John 1: 4; 10:10; 11:25; 14: 6.; Col. 3: 4; 1 John 5: 12. ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It can be concluded that the present work of Christ is the key to understanding this task from God to call a people to form the body of Christ, and the power and the sanctification of the people to be witnesses of Christ to the ends of the Earth. His present work is preliminary and it will follow the events that relate to his second coming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Christ's ascension is related to its exaltation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Treat the point on whether Christ ascended on the day of his resurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence can be provided to prove that the Ascension related in Acts was a literal ascension?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent Scripture testifies the coming of Christ to heaven after his ascension?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the ascension of Christ relates to His earthly ministry?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense Christ's ascension was a triumph?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Distinguish Christ's throne in heaven the Davidic throne.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Name the seven figures concerning Christ and his Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the meaning of Christ now sits on the throne of the Father?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Christ relates as our High Priest and the giver of spiritual gifts to men?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Test the priestly intercession of Christ with Old Testament priests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe the work of Christ as our Advocate in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent is Christ also working on earth during this present age?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE SON: HIS RETURN FOR HIS SAINTS<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. PROPHECY STILL NOT SATISFIED<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Selected for development in this chapter doctrine is one of the most important issues of prophecy that has not yet been fulfilled. The student must not forget that prophecy is written in advance by the Lord history, and it is, therefore, as worthy of belief as are other parts of Scripture. Almost a quarter of the Bible was in the form of prophecy when the sacred pages were written. Much of biblical prophecy has been accomplished, and in each case the performance has been the most literal realization of all that had been prophesied. As was announced centuries before the advent of Christ, He came in his humanity as a son of Abraham, descended from the tribe of Judah and the house of David and born of a virgin in Bethlehem. Similarly, those concerning his death explicit details, revealed in Psalm 22, a thousand years before the coming of the the world, met with admirable precision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God's Word contains much prophecy that at present is still waiting to be fulfilled, and it is reasonable and honorable to God, we believe that this prophecy will be fulfilled with the same fidelity as has been characteristic of all works and all the acts until today. The teaching that Christ will return to earth as He was when he ascended to the right hand of God - "This Jesus, in his resurrection body and in the clouds of heaven" (Acts 1:11.) - Is so clear and widely presented in the prophetic Scriptures, she has been included in all the great creeds of Christendom. However, it is a doctrine that we must study carefully and clear spirit of discernment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In consideration of the prophecy as it relates to the future coming of Jesus Christ, many Bible students distinguish the coming of Christ for His Church, referring to the rapture (the taking of the saints to heaven) of His coming with His saints to establish his kingdom (his second formal coming to earth) to reign for a thousand years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Between these two events several important events such as a worldwide church, the formation of a world government with a dictator, and a gigantic global war predict, which will take place when Christ comes to establish his kingdom. The coming of Christ for His church is the first event in this series, if the prophecies are interpreted literally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the events of recent times, which occur after the rapture of the church, are given in many prophecies in the Old and New Testaments, the truth that Christ would come first by his church was not revealed in the Old Testament and is specifically a New Testament revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The first revelation that Christ would come for His saints before the events of recent times were met was given to the disciples in the upper room the night before the crucifixion of Christ. According to John 14: 2-3, Christ told his disciples: "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it did not I would have told you; I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The disciples were in no way prepared for this prophecy. They had been instructed, according to Matthew 24: 26-31, with respect to the glorious return of Christ to establish his kingdom. Until this time they had no indication that Christ would come first to take them from earth to heaven and hereby remove from the earth during the time of tribulation that characterizes the end of the age. In John 14 is clear that the Father's house refers to heaven, Christ was going to leave to prepare a place there. He promises that, having prepared a place, would come again to receive them there. This means that its purpose is to take them from the earth to the Father's house in heaven. Paul then expanded with extensive details this preliminary announcement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Writing to the Thessalonians regarding these questions as to the relationship of the resurrection of the saints and the coming of Christ for His saints living on earth, Paul gives details of this important event (1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18. ). He declares in vs. 16-17 "For the Lord himself with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God, descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. "The order of the events of the coming of Christ for His saints begins to leave his throne in the heavens and descend into the air over the land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The exclamation literally give you a "voice command" ~. This will be accompanied by the triumphant voice of the archangel Michael and the sound of the trumpet of God. In obedience to the command of Christ (Jn. 5: 28-29), Christians who have died will be raised from the dead. The souls of the dead have accompanied Christ from heaven, as indicated in 1 Thessalonians 4:14 - "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him" - and enter in their resurrected bodies. A moment after the dead in Christ are raised, living Christians will be "caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In this way the whole church will be removed from the scene of the earth and fulfill the promise of John 14 to be with Christ in the house of the Father in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Further details of this are given in 1 Corinthians 15: 51-58. Here the coming of Christ for His church is declared as "a mystery", that is, a truth unrevealed in the Old Testament but revealed in the New Testament (cf. Rom. 16: 25-26; Col. 1:26) . In contrast to the truth of the coming of Christ. earth to establish His kingdom, which is revealed in the Old Testament, the Rapture is revealed only in the New Testament. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15, indicates that the event will take place at a moment of time, "in the blink of an eye," which resurrected bodies of the dead who will be raised with incorruptibility, ie not grow old and be immortal, without being subject to death (1 Cor. 15:53).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Scripture it is clear that our new bodies will also be without sin (Eph 5:27; cf. Phil 3: 20-21..). The bodies of those in the tombs, as well as those living on earth, are not fit for heaven. This is why Paul says "we shall all be changed" (1 Cor 15:51).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In contrast to the resurrection and the rapture of the church, the resurrection of the saints who died before Pentecost, or who died after the rapture, is apparently delayed until the time of the coming of Christ to establish his kingdom (Dan. 12: 1-2; Revelation 20: 4).. The wicked dead, however, are not resurrected until after the thousand-year reign of Christ (Revelation 20: 5-6, 12-13.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. contrasts between COMING FOR HIS SAINTS CHRIST AND HIS COMING WITH HIS SAINTS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The theory that the rapture happens before the end of time is called pre-tribulation theory, in contrast to the post-tribulation theory, which makes the coming of Christ for His saints and his saints one event. The question of which of these theories is correct depends on how the prophecy is interpreted literally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">They can be a number of differences between the two events:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The coming of Christ for His saints to take them to the house of the Father in heaven is obviously a movement (from earth to heaven, while his coming with his saints is a movement from heaven to earth when Christ returns from Mount of Olives and establishes his kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the rapture, the living saints are raptured, while no saint is taken in connection with the second coming of Christ to earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the rapture, the saints go to heaven, while the second coming the saints are on earth without being caught.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the rapture, the world remains unchanged and without judgment and continues in sin, while in the second coming the world is judged and justice on earth is established.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The rapture of the church is a day release from the curse that follows, while the second coming is a release of those who have believed in Christ during the time of tribulation and have survived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Rapture is always described as an event that is imminent, that is, it can occur at any time, while the second coming of Christ to earth is preceded by many signs and events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The rapture of the saints is a truth revealed only in the New Testament, while the second coming of Christ to earth with events that precede and follow is a prominent doctrine in both Testaments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Rapture relates only to those who are saved, while the second coming of Christ to earth deals with both saved and those who are not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the Rapture Satan is not bound, but is very active in the period following, while in the second coming Satan is bound and become inactive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> As presented in the New Testament, unfulfilled prophecy is given placing it between the church and the time of his rapture, which is presented as an imminent event, while many signs must be met before the second coming of Christ to establish his kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> As for the resurrection of the saints in relation to the coming of Christ to establish his kingdom, in the Old and New Testament never the rapture of the living saints mentioned at the same time.Therefore, such a doctrine would be impossible, since the saints living need to keep their natural bodies in order to function in the millennial kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the series of events that describe the second coming of Christ to earth no suitable place for an event like the rapture. According to Matthew 25: 31-46, believers and nonbelievers are still mixed at the time of this trial, which comes after the coming of Christ to the earth, and it obviously has not taken place or the rapture or the separation of the saved with respect to the unsaved in Christ's descent from heaven to earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A study of the doctrine of the coming of Christ to establish his kingdom with the events preceding and following it clear that these events are not related to the church but rather Israel and the Gentile believers and nonbelievers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This will be explained in the next chapter. The truth of the imminent coming of Christ for His church is a very practical truth. The Thessalonians Christians were instructed in 1 Thessalonians 1:10 to "wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come." His hope was not to survive through the tribulation, but the release of the wrath of God to be spread over the earth (cf. 1 Thes . 5: 9 and Revelation 6:17.). As presented in the New Testament, the Rapture is a comforting hope (John 14: 1-3; 1 Thessalonians 4:18, a purifying hope (1 John 3: 1-3 . ) And a blessed or happy expectation (.. Tit. 2:13). While the world does not see Christ until his second coming to establish his kingdom, Christians see Christ in his glory at the time of the rapture and will be for them "the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ "(Tit 2:13.) for a detailed study of the doctrine of the Rapture see. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Rapture Question, by Walvoord (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1957).</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What proportion of the Bible was prophecy when it was written?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the significance of the fact that many prophecies have already been fulfilled literally?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the difference between the coming of Christ for His saints and the coming of Christ with His saints?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What important events will take place between the two events?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> When Christ first announced the rapture of the church and revealed Him about this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why do the disciples had difficulty understanding the first mention of the rapture?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe the order of events for the coming of Christ for His saints as given in 1 Thes. 4: 13-18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why did Christ bring with Him from heaven the souls of Christians who have died at the time of the rapture?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is the coming of Christ for His Church qualifies as a mystery in 1 Corinthians 15: 51-52?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What additional facts concerning the Rapture are brought to light in 1 Corinthians 15: 51-58?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What kind of bodies will those caught or raised from the dead?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> If the saints of the Old Testament will be resurrected at the rapture, when will they be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> When the wicked be raised?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In view of the teaching of Scripture on the subject of the rapture and resurrection, why the theory that all people will be resurrected at the same time should be rejected?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Name one of the important contrasts between the rapture of the Church and the Second Coming of Christ to earth to establish His kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In light of these contrasts, what arguments can be made for the pre-tribulation rapture opposed to post-tribulation rapture?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What practical application is made in writing Snatch truth as to our lives?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE SON: HIS RETURN FOR HIS SAINTS<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Since the subject of this chapter is so commonly confused with the coming of Christ </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">for <b></b></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">His saints, it is important that the two events are studied together so that they can be seen contrasts that appear on almost every point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. IMPORTANT EVENTS preceding the Second Coming of Christ<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As will be discussed later in connection with the prophecies of the end times, the period between the rapture of the church and the second coming of Christ to establish his kingdom was divided into three distinct periods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . Will the rapture a period of preparation in which ten nations will join a confederation in a revival of the old Roman Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> come upon a period of peace brought by a dictator in the Mediterranean area, starting with Israel can a pact planned for seven years (Dan. 9:27).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> will come a time of persecution for Israel and all believers in Christ when dictator break his covenant after three and a half years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">At the same time he becomes the world dictator, abolishes all religions of the world for the worship of himself, and take control of all businesses in the world so that no one can buy or sell without your permission. This period of three and a half years is called the Great Tribulation (Daniel 12: 1; Matthew 24:21; Rev. 7:14.). In this period God will pour their great judgments (described in Rev. 6: 1 - 18:24). The great tribulation will culminate in a major world war (Rev. 16: 14-16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">At the climax of this war, Christ will return to liberate the saints, which have not yet been martyred, to bring judgment on the earth and bring his kingdom of righteousness. Of the many passages that describe this period, it is clear that these great movements of shock must precede the second coming of Christ, and it would be impossible to contemplate the second coming to earth as imminent given that these events have not yet taken place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. VITAL FACTORS RELATED TO THE SECOND COMING<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ will return to earth (Zechariah 14: 4.) Personally (Matt 25:31; Rev . 19: 11- 16), and in the clouds of heaven (Mt. 24:30 ; Acts 1:11; Rev 1: 7) . .. According to all scriptures, it will be a glorious event to which everyone will see (Rev 1: 7 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> According to the revelation given by Christ himself in Matthew 24: 26-29, glorious appearance will be like lightning shining from east to west. In the days preceding, described as "the tribulation of those days , " there will be stir in the sky, the sun was darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the very heavens will be shaken. In Revelation 6: 12-17 and 16: 1-21 give further details. The return of Christ will be seen by everyone on earth (Matthew 24:30; Revelation 1: 7 . ) "And then all the tribes of the earth" (Matthew 24:30), because the vast majority of them are unbelievers who are awaiting trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In his second coming to earth, Christ is accompanied by saints and angels in dramatic procession.This is described in detail in Revelation 19: 11-16. Here John writes: "Then I saw heaven opened;and behold a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; He had a name written , that no one knows but himself. He was dressed in a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Word of God. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He shall rule them with a rod of iron; He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. On his robe and on his thigh a name written , </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact that this is a procession in which Christ is accompanied by all the saints and angels indicates that it is gradual and can take several hours. During this period the earth will rotate, allowing the world to see such an event. The second coming will culminate in the Mount of Olives, the same place from which Christ ascended to heaven (Zechariah 14: 1-4; Acts 1: 9-12 . .). At the moment your feet touch the Mount of Olives, it will split in two and form a large valley extending from Jerusalem in the east to the Jordan Valley.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In His coming, Christ will judge first world armies deployed in battle (Rev . 19: 15-21). In establishing the kingdom, will bring together Israel and judge them (Ezek . 20: 3-38) as to their worthiness to enter the millennial kingdom. In a similar way the meet to the Gentiles , or "nations" and the judge (Matthew 25: 31-46). The then he brings them into His kingdom of justice and peace on earth, with Satan bound and judged all open rebellion. Further details will be given in later chapters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. THE SECOND COMING WITH PROVEN SNATCH<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As we saw in the previous chapter, there are many contrasts between the coming of Christ for His saints and His coming with His saints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The two events- the coming of Christ </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">for</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> His saints and His coming </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">with</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> His saints can be distinguished as well (for short, the first event will be indicated by </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> , and the second event by </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> :</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"Our meeting with him"; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> "The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Ts.:2:1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He comes as the "morning star" (Rev 2:28; 22:16; 2 Peter 1:19). </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> as "the Sun of Righteousness" (Mal 4: 2)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"The day of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Cor 1: 8; 2 Corinthians 1:14; Phil . 1: 6, 10; 2:16); </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the "Day of the Lord" (2 P. 3:10)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">An event without signals; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> must be addressed signals its proximity (1 Thessalonians 5: 4; I 10:25)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A sudden event at any time; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> fulfillment of the prophecy that precedes (2 Thes 2: 2, 3)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">There is no reference to evil; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the finished evil, Satan judged, the Man of Sin destroyed (2 Ts.:2:8; Rev. 19:20; 20: 1-4 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Israel unchanged; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> all covenants met (Jer.23: 5-8; 30: 3-11; 31: 27-37).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The church removed from the earth; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> returning with Christ (1 Thessalonians 4:17;. Jud 14-15; Ap . 19:14)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The nations unchanged; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> freed from the bondage of corruption (Is 35; . 65: 17- 25).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The creation not changed; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> delivered from the bondage of corruption (Is 35; . 65: 17-25).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A "mystery" never before revealed; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> seen through the Old and New Testaments (Dn 7: 13-14; Matt . 24: 27- 30; 1 Corinthians 15: 51-52).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The hope centered on Christ: "The Lord is near" (Phil . 4: 5); </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the kingdom is near (Matthew 6:10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christ appears as the Bridegroom, Lord and Head of the church (Eph . 5: 25-27 . ; Tit 2:13);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> He appears as King Messiah and Emmanuel for Israel (Isaiah 7:14; 9:. 6-7; 11: 1-2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">His coming not seen by the world; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> coming in power and great glory (Matthew 24:27, 30; Rev. 1: 7)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christians judged in terms of rewards; </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the nations judged for the kingdom (2 Cor 5: 10-11; Mt. 25: 31-46). Important scriptures: </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Jn. 14: 1-3; 1 Corinthians </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15: 51-52; 1 Thes. 4: 13-18; Phil. 3: 20-21; 2 Cor 5:10; </span><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Dt. 30: 1-10; . Psalm 72. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Notice all the prophets; Mt. 25: 1-46; Acts. 1:11; 15: 1-18; 2 Thes. 2: 1-12; 2 Peter 2: 1-3: 18; Ap . 19: 11-20: 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe the preparation period that will follow the rapture of the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the extent of the period of peace that will follow the period of preparation, and how will ensue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the main features of the time of persecution for Israel, which will continue to peacetime?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the exact meaning of time of great tribulation, and what will bring this period to theend?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why would it be impossible for the Lord Jesus Christ to come and establish his kingdom on earth today?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe the appearance of the second coming of Christ as will be seen by the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What will the situation on earth and in heaven at the time of the second coming of Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why all the tribes of the earth mourn at the time of the Second Coming?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Who accompanies Christ in his second coming?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can you say that everyone will see the second coming?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What place on earth return Christ in his second coming, and that will happen when your feet touch the ground?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the first act of judgment of Christ's return?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What will Christ concerning Israel in his return?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What will Christ in relation to the Gentiles in his return?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What contrast between the rapture and the second coming clear that these are two different events?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Name some of the important scriptures that relate to the rapture and the second coming of Christ to earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is the literal interpretation of prophecy makes it impossible to make the rapture of the church and the coming of Christ to establish his kingdom same event?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e;">GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT: YOUR PERSONALITY<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR PERSONALITY<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the teaching of the fundamental truths concerning the Holy Spirit should be a special emphasis on the fact of his personality. This is because the Spirit does not speak now of himself; Rather, he speaks what He hears (Jn 16:13; Acts 13:.. 2), and He says he has come into the world to glorify Christ (John 16:14.). In contrast to this, Scripture represents both the Father and the Son as talking about themselves; and this not only with final authority and through the use of the personal pronoun I </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">but also presenting and immediate communion, cooperation, conversion, each other. All this tends to make less real the personality of the Holy Spirit, who does not speak from himself or herself. As a result, in the history of the church, the Spirit's personality was neglected for centuries;only when the doctrine of the Father and of the Son was defined, as in the Nicene Creed (325 AD), the Spirit was recognized as a personality in the creeds of the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The way was defined later orthodox doctrine, the scriptural truth that God the Father subsists or exists in three persons-the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit was generally recognized. Scripture is quite clear when it says that the Holy Spirit is a person both as God the Father and God the Son, and yet, as seen in the study of the doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons are one God and not three .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN SCRIPTURE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. THE SPIRIT THAT MAKES YOU ONLY ONE PERSON CAN DO.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He convicts the world: "And when He comes, will convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment" (Jn . 16: 8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He teaches: "He will teach you all things" (Jn 14:26; see also Neh 9:20;.. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Jn. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16: 13-15; 1 John 2:27)..</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">C)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Spirit speaks: "And because ye are sons, God sent into your hearts the Spirit of his Son, crying , Abba, Father" (Gal . 4: 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">D)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Spirit intercedes: "But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans" (Romans 8:26)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">E)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Spirit guides: "Guided by the Spirit" (Galatians 5:18; Acts 8:29; 10:19; 13:.. 2; 16: 6- 7; 20:23; Ro 8:14. ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">F)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Spirit draws men to the specific service, "said the Holy Spirit , Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them " (Acts 13: 2; Acts 20:28)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">G)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Spirit is himself subject to a plan (Jn. 15:26).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">H)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Spirit ministers: He regenerates (Jn . 3: 6), the seals (Eph 4:30), He baptizes (1 Cor 12:13), He fills (Eph 5:18)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. IT AS A PERSON IS AFFECTED BY OTHER BEINGS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Father sends to the world (Jn 14:16, 26), and sends the Son into the world (Jn . 16: 7 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Men can angering the Spirit (Is 63:10) can contristarle (Eph 4:30), can resist (1 TS.5.. 19) can blasfemarle. (Matthew 12:31), may lie (Acts 5: 3), can give reproach (Heb 10:29.) Can speak against Him (Matthew 12:32).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. ALL BIBLICAL TERMS RELATING TO SPIRIT INVOLVING YOUR PERSONALITY.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He is called "another Comforter" (Lawyer), indicating that he is a person as much as Christ (Jn . 14: 16-17; 26; 16: 7; 1 John 2: 1-2). .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A is called The Spirit in the same personal sense that God is called Spirit (Jn. 4:24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">C)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The pronouns used for the Spirit imply personality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the Greek language the word "spirit" is a neutral name, which naturally requires a neutral pronoun, and in a few opportunities is used (Ro 8:16. 26); but often the masculine form of the pronoun used, emphasizing the fact the personality of the Spirit (Jn 14: 16-17; 16: 7-15.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e;">C. AS A PERSON OF THE TRINITY, THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CO-EQUAL WITH FATHER AND SON.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. IT IS CALLED GOD.</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This will be seen by comparing Isaiah 6: 8-9 with Acts 28: 25-26; Jeremiah 31: 31-34 </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">with Hebrews 10: 15-17 . </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(Note also Acts 3:18 2 Cor . 5: 3, 4 "Why has Satan filled your heart to </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">lie to the Holy Spirit ...? you have not lied to men but to God ") although. </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">that the judgments of God have fallen so drastically on some who have lied </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">against the Spirit (Acts 5: 3 . ), and although men clearly not allowed </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">swear in the name of the Holy Spirit, and though He is called the Holy Spirit, it is </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">true that he is not holier than the Father or the Son; the absolute holiness is the first </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">attribute of the Triune God.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2. He has the attributes of God.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (Gen. 1: 2; Job 26:13; 1 Cor . 2: 9-11; I 9:14.).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3. The Holy Spirit performs the works of God.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (Job 33: 4; Psalm 104: 30; Lk . 12: 11-12; Acts . 1: 5; 20:28; 1 Cor 6:11; . 2: 8-11; 2 Peter 1:21).</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4. As indicated above, the use of personal pronouns asserts its personality.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5. presents the Holy Spirit in Scripture as a personal object of faith.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (Psalm 51:11; Matthew 28:19; Acts 10: 19-21 . .).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As an object of faith, He is also someone who is must obey. The believer in Christ, walking in fellowship with the Spirit, experience their power, their guide, their education and their sufficiency, and experimentally confirmed the great doctrines concerning the personality of the Spirit, which is revealed in Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it necessary to emphasize the personality of the Holy Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the important works of the Spirit which show your personality?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent does the Scripture indicates that the Holy Spirit is a person affected by other beings?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What biblical terms imply the personality of the Holy Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the fact that the Holy Spirit is called God demonstrates His equality with the Father and the Son?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence supports the conclusion that the Holy Spirit has the attributes of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How are personal pronouns used for the Holy Spirit confirm their personality?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent Christian experience, in which the Holy Spirit is the object of faith and obedience, holds his equality with the Father and the Son?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT: HIS ADVENT<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The coming of the Spirit into the world on the day of Pentecost must be seen in relation to his work in previous dispensations. In the Old Testament the Holy Spirit was in the world as the omnipresent God; however, it is said that He came into the world on the day of Pentecost. During the present age it is said that he remains in the world, but leave out the world in the same way as it came on the day of Pentecost when the rapture of the church occurs. In order to understand this truth of the Holy Spirit, they must be considered various aspects of the Spirit's relationship with the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Through the long period before the first coming of Christ, the Spirit was present in the world in the same sense in which it is present everywhere, and He acted in and through the people of God according to His divine will ( Gn 41:38; Ex. 31:. 3; 35:31; Nm 27:18; Job. 33: 4; Ps. 139: 7; Hag. 2: 4-5; Zechariah 4: 6).. In the Old Testament the Spirit of God is having a relationship with respect to the creation of the world. He had part in the revelation of divine truth to the holy prophets. He inspired the Scriptures which are written, and has a ministry in general to the world restricting sin, empowering believers for service and performing miracles. All these activities show that the Spirit was very active in the Old Testament; however, there is no evidence in the Old Testament that the Spirit dwell in every believer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As John 14:17 indicates, He was "with" them but not "in" them. Similarly, there is no mention of the work of sealing the Spirit or about the baptism of the Holy Spirit before Pentecost. Accordingly, it could be anticipated that after Pentecost would have a much greater work of the Spirit in the preceding ages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST ON EARTH<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is reasonable to assume that embodied and active presence of the Second Person of the Trinity in the world affect the ministries of the Spirit, and found that this is true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. IN RELATION TO CHRIST, THE SPIRIT WAS THE POWER GENERATOR THROUGH WHICH THE GOD-MAN WAS FORMED IN THE WOMB MAIDEN </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Spirit also is seen descending in the form of a dove upon Christ at the time of his baptism . And again it is revealed that it was only through the eternal Spirit that Christ offered himself to God (Heb. 9:14).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPIRIT FOR MEN DURING THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST WAS TERRENAL PROGRESSIVE </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Christ gave his disciples first assured that they would receive the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Spirit asking for it(Lk. 11:13). Although the Spirit had previously come upon the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">men according to the sovereign will of God, his presence in the human heart </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">had never been before conditional on the petition, and this new privilege was never </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">claimed by anyone at that time regarding what the Scriptures show.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">At the end of his ministry and just before his death, Christ said, "And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-the Spirit of truth (Jn. 14: 16-17). Similarly, after his resurrection the Lord breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit" (Jn. 20:22); but, despite this temporary gift of the Spirit, they should stay in Jerusalem until they were permanently endowed with power from on high (Luke 24:49; Acts 1: 4..).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AT PENTECOST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As promised by the Father (Jn. 14: 16-17, 26) and the Son (Jn. 16: 7), the Spirit who as the only Omnipresent had always been in the world came into the world on the day of Pentecost. The strength of this apparent repetition of ideas is when it is understood that his coming on the day of Pentecost was that He might make his dwelling in the world. God the Father, although Omnipresent (Eph. 4: 6), is, in their abode, "Our Father who art in heaven" (Matthew 6: 9). In the same way, God the Son, yet omnipresent (Matthew 18:20; Col. 1:27), in their abode is now seated at the right hand of God (Heb 1: 3; 10:12.). Similarly, the Spirit, though omnipresent, is now here on earth when it comes to his home. The occupy his dwelling on earth was the sense in which the Spirit came on the day of Pentecost. His dwelling place was changed from heaven to earth. It was for this coming of the Spirit to the world that the disciples were told to wait. The new ministry of this age of grace could not start apart from the coming of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the chapters that follow it will be presented the work of the Spirit in the present age. The Spirit of God first has a ministry to the world, as stated in John 16: 7-11. Here He is revealed convincing the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. This work, which prepares an individual to receive Christ intelligently is a special work of the Spirit, a work of grace, which enlightens the minds of the unbelieving men, blinded by Satan, on three great doctrines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1 TO UNBELIEVER is made to understand that the sin of unbelief in Jesus Christ as their personal savior is the only sin BETWEEN STAYING AND SALVATION</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> . </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It 's not a matter of his righteousness, feelings or any other factor. The </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">sin of unbelief is the sin that prevents your salvation (Jn. 3:18).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Doubting IS INFORMED WITH RESPECT TO JUSTICE OF GOD </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> While on earth Christ was the living illustration of the righteousness of God, after his departure the Spirit is sent to reveal the righteousness of God to the world. This includes the fact that God is a just God who demands much more than any man can do for himself, and this eliminates any possibility of human works as thebasis for salvation. Most importantly, the Spirit of God reveals that there is an obtainable righteousness by faith in Christ, and that when one believes in Jesus Christ can be declared righteous, justified by faith and accepted by faith in Christ, who is right in both, his person and his work on the cross (Romans 1: 16-17; 3:22; 4: 5 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. REVEALS THE FACT THAT THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD, THAT IS, THE SAME SATAN IS JUDGED ON THE CROSS AND IS SENTENCED TO ETERNAL PUNISHMENT</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> . </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This reveals the fact </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">that the work on the cross is finished, that trial has taken place, that Satan </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">has been defeated and that salvation is obtainable for those who put their </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">trust in Christ. While it is not necessary for an unbeliever tounderstand </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">fully all these facts to be saved, the Holy Spirit should disclose </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">enough so that, as he believes, intelligently receives Christ in his </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">person and his work.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">There is a sense in which this was partially true in past ages, since even in the Old Testament it was impossible for a person to believe and be saved without a work of the Spirit. However, in the present age, following the death and resurrection of Christ, these facts are much clearer again now, and the work of the Spirit, to reveal to unbelievers, is part of the important reason for coming to the sphere of the world and make it their residence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In his coming into the world on the day of Pentecost, the Spirit's work in the church took place in many new ways. This will be considered in later chapters. It is said that the Holy Spirit regenerates every believer (John 3: 3-7; 36.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Holy Spirit dwells in every believer (John 7: 37-39; Acts. 11: 15-17; Rom. 5: 5; 8: 9-11.; 1 Corinthians 6: 19-20). I dwell in the believer, the Holy Spirit is our seal until the day of redemption (Eph. 4:30). Then, every child of God is baptized into the body of Christ by the Spirit (1 Cor 12:13).All these ministries apply equally to every true believer in this present age. In addition to these works that are related to the believer's salvation, is the possibility of being filled with the Spirit and walk by the Spirit, which opens the door to all the ministry of the Spirit in the believer in this present age. These great works of the Spirit are the key not only salvation but also for effective Christian life in the present age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When the purpose of God in this age is completed by the rapture of the church, the Holy Spirit will have fulfilled the purpose of its special advent into the world and leave the world in the same sense that He came on the day of Pentecost. You can see a parallel between Christ's coming to earth to fulfill his work and his departure to heaven. Like Christ, however, the Holy Spirit will continue to be omnipresent and after a work similar to that which was true before the day of Pentecost rapture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The present time is, according to this, in many respects, the age of the Spirit, an age in which the Spirit of God is working in a special way to call a company of believers from Jews and Gentiles to form the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit continue to work after the rapture, as will also the age of the kingdom, which will have its own characteristics and is likely to include all ministries of the Holy Spirit in the present age that except the baptism of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The coming of the Spirit should be seen as an important event, essential to the work of God in the present age and the coming of Christ is essential to salvation and elemental purpose of God to provide salvation for everyone and especially for those who would believe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense the Holy Spirit was in the world before Pentecost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What important works of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Distinguish the meaning of the Holy Spirit he was "with" the saints of the Old Testament, in contrast to the present age, in which the Holy Spirit is "in" them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the Holy Spirit is related to the conception and birth of Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What did the Holy Spirit ministry in the period of the Gospels?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why they had to wait until Pentecost the disciples for the coming of the Holy Spirit even if the Lord had breathed on them? (Jn. 20:22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense Christ's promise to give you another Comforter, who would abide with his disciples forever, promised a new ministry of the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, and how does this relate to his omnipresence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What three doctrines are taught by the Spirit in what refers to convince the world?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In his coming on the day of Pentecost, what important works of the Spirit can be seen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Where is the home of the Father and the Son during this era?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Where is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit during this present age?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What change in the ministry of the Holy Spirit will take place at the time of the rapture?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Will you continue working the Holy Spirit on earth after the rapture?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What can be expected of the ministry of the Spirit in the millennium?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How important is the ministry of the Spirit for the present purpose of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT: HIS REGENERATION<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Since the Christian life of faith begins with the new birth, regeneration is one of the fundamental doctrines regarding salvation. An exact definition of this work of the Spirit and an understanding of their relationship with the whole Christian life are important for effective evangelism enough to spiritual maturity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. DEFINITION OF REGENERATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the Bible the word "regeneration" is found only twice. In Matthew 19:28 it is used in the renovation of the earth in the millennial kingdom and does not apply to Christian salvation. In Titus 3: 5, however, the statement is made:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit." On the basis of this text, the word </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">'regeneration'</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> has been chosen by theologians to express the concept of new life, new birth, spiritual resurrection, the new creation and, in general, a reference to the new life supernatural believers they receive as children of God. In the history of the church, the term has not always had an exact use but understood correctly means the source of eternal life, which is introduced into the believer in Christ at the time of their faith, the instantaneous change from state spiritual death to spiritual life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. REGENERATION BY THE HOLY SPIRIT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">By its nature, regeneration is God 's work and aspects of their veracity are declared in many passages (Jn 1:13; 3:. 3-7; 5:21; Ro 6:13; 2 Cor . 5: 17; Ephesians 2: 5, 10; 4:24; Titus 3:.. 5; James 1:18; 1 Peter 2: 9 . ). According to John 1:13, "are not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of thewill of man, but of God." In many passages it is compared to spiritual resurrection (Jn 5:21; Rom 6:13;.. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Eph. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2: 5). It is also compared to the creation, because it is a creative act of God (2 Cor 5:17; Eph 2:10;. 4:24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The three Persons of the Trinity are involved in the regeneration of the believer. The Father is related to regeneration in James 1: 17-18. The Lord Jesus Christ reveals is frequently involved in regeneration (John 5:21;. 2 Corinthians 5:18; 1 John 5:12.). It seems, however, that, as in other works of God where three people are involved, the Holy Spirit is specifically the Regenerator, as stated in John 3: 3-7 and Titus 3: 5. A parallel can be seen in the birth of Christ, in which God was his Father, the Son's life was in Christ and yet was conceived of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. ETERNAL LIFE GIVEN BY THE REGENERATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The central concept of regeneration is a believer which initially was spiritually dead has now received eternal life. To describe this three figures are used. One is the idea of being born again or reborn figure. In the conversation of Christ with Nicodemus He said, "You must be born again."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It appears in contrast to the human birth in John 1:13. In a second figure, the spiritual resurrection, a believer in Christ is declared as "alive from the dead" (Rom. 6:13). In Ephesians 2: 5 declares that God, "even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ", literally "made us alive together with Christ." In the third figure, that of the new creation, the believer is exhorted to "put on the new man, created according to God in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph. 4:24). In 2 Corinthians 5:17 thinking becomes clear: "So if anyone is in Christ is a new creation; old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new. "The three figures speak of new life, which is received by faith in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Given the nature of the act of rebirth, resurrection and spiritual creation, it is clear that regeneration is not carried out for a good work of man. It is not an act of human will in itself, and is not produced by any church ordinance as baptism by water. It is entirely a supernatural act of God in response to man's faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Similarly, regeneration must be distinguished from the experience that follows. Regeneration is instantaneous and is inseparable from salvation. A person will genuinely saved in a subsequent spiritual experience, but the experience is evidence of regeneration, not regeneration itself. In a sense we can say that the new birth experience, but what we mean by this is that we experience the results of the new birth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In many respects, regeneration is the foundation upon which is built our total salvation. Without new life in Christ there is no possibility of the other aspects of salvation such as the indwelling Spirit, justification, or all other subsequent results. However, there are some features that are immediately apparent in the act of regeneration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When a believer receives Christ by faith, he is born again and in the act of new birth receives a new nature. This is what the Bible refers to as the "new man" (Eph. 4:24), which we are exhorted to "clothe us" in the sense that we should take advantage of their contribution to our new personality.Because of the new nature, a believer in Christ can often experience a drastic change in his life, in his attitude toward God and his ability to have victory over sin. The new nature is modeled in accordance with the nature of God himself and is somewhat different from the human nature of Adam before sin, which was fully human, yet without sin. The new nature is divine qualities and craves the things of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although it has no power to fulfill his desires apart from the Holy Spirit in itself, gives a new direction to life and a new aspiration to achieve the will of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While regeneration itself is not an experience, the new life received in regeneration gives the believer new capacity for experience. Before that he was blind, and now you can see. Before I was dead, now alive to spiritual things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Before God it was strange and out of communion; now has a basis for communion with God and can receive the ministry of the Holy Spirit. In proportion as the Christian surrenders himself to God and God's provision obtains, your experience will be wonderful, a supernatural demonstration of what God can do with a life that is surrendered to Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Another important aspect of having eternal life is that it is the ground for eternal security. Although some have taught that eternal life can be lost and that a person who was once saved can be lost if it deviates from the faith, the very nature of eternal life and new birth prevent backtracking in this work of God. It is primarily a work of God, not of man, which does not depend on any human dignity. While faith is necessary, it is not considered a good deed which deserves salvation, but rather opens the channel through which God can work in individual life. Just as the natural birth can not be reversed, the same way the spiritual birth can not be; once made, he assures the believer that God will always be your Heavenly Father. Similarly, the resurrection can not be revoked, since we are raised to a new order of being by an act of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The new birth as an act of creation is other evidence that once that is done continues forever. Man can not itself override this creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The doctrine of eternal security, accordingly, rests on the question of whether salvation is a work of God or man, if entirely by grace or based on human merit. Although the new believer in Christ may fail in what he should be like a son of God, as occurs in the case of human relationship, this does not alter the fact that he has received a life that is eternal. It is also true that eternal life we have now only partially expressed in spiritual experience. You will have its final joy in the presence of God in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is regeneration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What important passages on regeneration are found in the New Testament, and what theyteach in general?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How are the three involved persons of the Trinity in the regeneration of the believer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe regeneration as revealed in the figure of the Renaissance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is called the new birth the spiritual resurrection?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the fact that a believer in Christ is a new creature is a result of regeneration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it impossible for the human will itself produce the new birth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense regeneration is not an experience?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the experience relates regeneration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the new nature an outcome of regeneration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What new experiences will come to a believer regenerated?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How regeneration with eternal security is related?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT: HIS RESIDENCE AND SEALING<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. A NEW FEATURE THIS AGE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Though the Spirit of God was with the men in the Old Testament and was the source of their new lives and meanings of spiritual victory, there is no evidence that all believers in the Old Testament had the Spirit dwelling in them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This is explained by the silence in the Old Testament about this doctrine and the express teaching of Jesus Christ, when contrasted the situation of the Old Testament age present in the words "He dwells with you and will be in you" (Jn. 14 : 17). The believer indwelling Spirit is a feature of the present age that will be repeated in the millennial kingdom, but not in another period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE UNIVERSAL RESIDENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE BELIEVERS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although Christians can vary greatly in spiritual power and manifestation of the fruits of the Spirit, Scripture plainly teaches that every Christian has the Spirit of God dwelling in him from the day of Pentecost. Some of this experience temporary delays that are sometimes in Acts (8: 14- 17; 19: 1-6) exceptional circumstances were not normal, and due to the temporary nature of the book of Acts.The fact his home is mentioned in many passages in the Bible that should not be questioned by anyone who recognizes the authority of Scripture (John 7: 37-39; Acts 11:17; Romans 5:.. 5;. 8: 9, 11; 1 Cor 2:12; 6: 19- 20; 12:13; 2 Cor 5: 5; Gal. 3: 2; 4: 6; 1 John 3:24; 4:13).. These passages make it clear that before the day of Pentecost the Old Testament dispensation-in which only a few had this privilege it existed, but after Pentecost normal work of the Spirit has been dwelling on every Christian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 8: 9 maintains the universal indwelling of the Spirit declaring that this was "if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, is not of Him." Similarly, in Jude 19 nonbelievers they are described as "not having the Spirit." Even Christians who are living outside the will of God and are subject to punishment from God, yet have bodies, which are temples of the Holy Spirit. Paul uses this argument in 1 Corinthians 6:19 to exhort the carnal to avoid sins against God Corinthians, because their bodies are made holy by the presence of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Repeatedly it declared that the Holy Spirit is a gift of God and a gift, by its nature, is something without merit on the part of the recipient (John 7: 37-39 Acts 11:17; Romans 5:.. 5. ; 1 Cor 2:12; 2 Cor 5: 5). Similarly, the high standard of living that is required of Christians who want to walk with the Lord presupposes the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit to provide the necessary divine enablement. As kings and priests they were anointed and set apart for their sacred tasks, just as the Christian is anointed by the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation, and the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit is set aside for their new life in Christ (2 Cor 1:21; 1 John 2:20, 27.). The anointing is universal, occurs at the moment of salvation, and doctrinally is the same as the indwelling of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The teaching that one is anointed subsequent to salvation and that is a second work of grace, or is possible only when it is filled with the Holy Spirit, is not the teaching of Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. PROBLEMS IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE SPIRIT DWELLING<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact that every believer is indwelling Spirit has sometimes been challenged on the basis of problem passages. According to three passages in the Old Testament and the Gospels (1 5. 16:14; Ps 51:11;.. Lk 11:13), some have believed that one possessing the Spirit can lose. David's prayer (Ps. 51:11) not taken him off the Spirit of God, as was the experience of Saul (1 5. 16:14), it is based on the life of the Old Testament. So it was not normal that all he had with him abiding, and, accordingly, it had been given sovereignly, in the same way could be taken away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Three passages in Acts also seem to imply a problem in the universal indwelling of the Spirit. In Acts 5:32 it describes the Holy Spirit as One "which God has given to those who obey him." However, obedience, here, is obedience to the Gospel, as Scripture clearly indicates that some who are partially disobedient still possess the Spirit. The delay in administering the Spirit to those who heard the gospel through Philip in Samaria was caused by the need to connect this new work of the Spirit to the apostles in Jerusalem. Accordingly, giving the Spirit it was delayed until laid hands on them (Acts. 8:17), but this was not the normal situation, as illustrated in the conversion of Cornelius, who received the Spirit without the imposition of hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The situation in Acts 19: 1-6 seems to refer to those who had believed in John the Baptist, but who had never believed in Christ. They received the Spirit when Paul laid his hands on them, but again this is rather an abnormal normal situation and has not been repeated. Anointing 1 John 2:20 (referred to as "anointing") and in 1 John 2:27, if interpreted correctly, is related to the initial act of dwelling, rather than a subsequent work of the Spirit. On each occasion of anointing in the New Testament, whether it relates to the period before or after Pentecost, the anointing of the Spirit is an initial act (Lk 4:18;. Acts 4:27;. 10:38; 2 Cor . 1:21; 1 John 2: 20, 27).. So this doctrine difficulties disappear with a careful study of the passages in which the problems arise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. THE DWELLING OF THE SPIRIT IN CONTRAST WITH OTHER MINISTRIES<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Since some works of the Spirit in the believer occur simultaneously at the time of new birth, you should be a careful distinction between these works of the Spirit. Therefore, the indwelling of the Spirit is not the same as the regeneration of the Spirit, but occur at the same time. Similarly, regeneration and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit are not the same as the baptism of the Spirit, which will be discussed shortly. The indwelling of the Spirit is not the same as the fullness of the Spirit, since all Christians are indwelling Spirit but not all are filled with the Spirit. In addition, the indwelling of the Spirit happens once and forever, while the fullness of the Spirit can often occur in the Christian experience. The indwelling of the Spirit is, however, the same as the anointing of the Spirit and the sealing of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact of the indwelling of the Spirit or the anointing is a characteristic feature of this age </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(John 14:17; Rom . 7: 6, 8. 9; 1 Corinthians 6: 19-20; 2 Cor 1:21; 3: 6; 1 John 2:20, 27).. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Through the indwelling of the Spirit the individual is sanctified or set apart for God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the Old Testament the anointing oil typifies the present anointing by the Spirit, oil being one of the seven symbols of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Anything touched with anointing oil was, therefore, holy (Ex . 40: 9-15). Similarly, the Spirit now sanctifies (Rom 15:16; 1 Cor 6:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:.. 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The prophet was sanctified with oil (1 Kings 9:16), just as Christ was a prophet by the Spirit (Isa .61:. 1; Lk 4:18), and the believer is a witness by the Spirit (Acts 1: 8 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The priest was sanctified with oil (Ex. 40:15), also was Christ in his sacrifice by the Spirit (Heb. 9:14), and the believer by the Spirit (Rom. 8:26:12 : 1; Eph 5: 18-20)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The king was sanctified with oil (S.16 1: 12-13), in the same way it was Christ through the Spirit (Ps . 45: 7), and the believer is called to rule by the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The anointing oil was for healing (Lk. 10:34), suggesting the healing of the soul in salvation by the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The oil makes his face shine, which was the oil of joy (Ps . 45: 7), and fresh oil (Ps 92:10.) Required. The fruit of the Spirit is joy (Gal. 5:22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the furniture for the tabernacle oil for lamps (.: 6 Ex 25) is specified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Spirit suggests the oil, the wick the believer as a channel, and the visible light of Christ shine. The wick should rest in the oil; so the believer must walk in the Spirit (Gal. 5:16). The wick should be free of obstruction: so the believer must not resist the Spirit (1 Thes. 5:19). The wick should be fixed; so the believer must be cleaned by confession of sin (1 John 1: 9.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Holy anointing oil (Ex. 30: 22-25) was composed of four spices added to the oil as a base. These spices represent peculiar virtues found in Christ. Thus, this compound symbolizes the Spirit taking the life and character of Christ and applying the believer. This oil could in no way be applied to human flesh (John 3: 6; Gal 5:17..). It could not be imitated, indicating that God can not accept anything but the manifestation of life, which is Christ (Phil. 1:21). Each item of furniture in the tabernacle had to be anointed and therefore apart for God, suggesting that the dedication of the believer must be complete (Rom. 12: 1-2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. THE SEALING OF THE SPIRIT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is represented as the seal of God in three passages in the New Testament (2 Cor 1:22; Eph 1:13;. 4:30). In each important consideration the sealing of the Spirit is entirely a work of God. To Christians are never encouraged to seek the sealing of the Spirit, because every Christian already sealed. The sealing of the Holy Spirit, therefore, is as universal as the abode of the Holy Spirit occurs at the moment of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 1:13 says, "Having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise." In other words, believing and receiving occur at the same time. It is, therefore, no subsequent work of grace nor a reward for spirituality. The Ephesian Christians were exhorted: "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption" (Eph 4:30 pm.). Even when they sinned and contristaran the Spirit, however they were sealed for the day of redemption, that is, until the day of resurrection or transformation, when receive new bodies and no longer sin no more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As the indwelling of the Spirit, the sealing of the Spirit is not an experience, but a fact to be accepted by faith. The sealing of the Spirit is a tremendously significant part of the Christian salvation and indicates their safety, and that is God's property. In addition to the above, it is the symbol of a completed transaction. The Christian is sealed until the day of redemption of his body and its presentation in glory. Taken as a whole, the doctrine of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit as our label brings great security and confortamiento the heart of every believer who understand this great truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence supports the conclusion that the indwelling of the Spirit in every believer is a distinctive characteristic of the present age?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What important passages in the New Testament they teach in unquestionably the universal indwelling of the Holy Spirit in believers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why the indwelling Holy Spirit is necessary for the high level of spiritual life of the believer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can define the anointing of the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What problems in the doctrine of the indwelling of the Spirit are raised by such passages as 1 Samuel 16:14; Psalm 51:11; Luke 11:13?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the explanation of Acts 5:32 in relation to the universal indwelling of the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why give the Holy Spirit was delayed according to Acts 8:17?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can it be explained the problem Acts 19: 1-6 concerning the universal indwelling of the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can contrasted the indwelling of the Holy Spirit with regeneration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can contrasted the indwelling of the Holy Spirit with the baptism of the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can the indwelling of the Spirit contrasted with the fullness of the Holy Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How anointing oil used in the Old Testament typifies the work of the Holy Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the meaning of the four spices added to holy anointing oil in the Old Testament?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the relationship between the dwelling and the seal of the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Explain the true meaning of Ephesians 1:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT: YOUR BAPTISM<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE MEANING OF BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Probably no other doctrine of the Holy Spirit has created more confusion than the baptism of the Spirit. Much of this stems from the fact that the baptism of the Spirit began simultaneously occurring in other great works of the Spirit, such as regeneration, purple and sealing. Sometimes also the baptism of the Spirit and fullness of the Spirit occur at the same time. This has led some exhibitors to make synonyms for these two events. The conflict in interpretation, however, is solved if you examine carefully what Scripture says regarding baptism of the Spirit. In total there are eleven specific references to the baptism of the Spirit in the New Testament (Matthew 3:11; Mr. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1: 8; Luke 3:16; John 1:33; Acts 1:.. 5; 11:16; Rom. . 6: 1-4; 1 Cor 12:13; Gal 3:27; Eph . 4: 5; Colossians. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2:12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT before Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In examining the references in the four Gospels and in Acts 1: 5, it is clarified that the Spirit baptism is considered in each case as a future event, which had never previously occurred. There is no mention of baptism of the Spirit in the Old Testament and the four Gospels unite with Acts 1: 5 in anticipating the baptism of the Spirit as a future event. In the Gospels, the baptism of the Spirit is presented as a work which Christ will by the Holy Spirit as your agent, for example, in Matthew 3:11, where John the Baptist predicts that Christ </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"will baptize you with the Holy Spirit And Fire. "</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The reference to baptism by fire seems to refer to the second coming of Christ and the judgments that will occur at that time, and also mentioned in Luke 3:16, but not in Mark 1: 8 or John 1: 33. Sometimes the intervention of the Holy Spirit is expressed by the use of the Greek preposition </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">as in Matthew 3:11, Luke 3:16 and John 1:33. Whether you use the preposition or not, the thinking is clear in that Christ baptized by the Holy Spirit. Some have taken this as something different from baptism of the Spirit spoken of in Acts and the Epistles, but the point of view is preferable that the baptism of the Spirit is the same throughout the New Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Baptism in any case through the Holy Spirit. The standard of doctrine is expressed by Christ Himself when He contrasted his baptism administered by John, with the future baptism of believers by the Holy Spirit, which would happen after his ascension. Christ said, </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"For John </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">not many days"</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(Acts 1: 5 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. ALL CHRISTIANS ARE BAPTIZED BY THE SPIRIT IN THE PRESENT AGE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Because of the confusion as to the nature and time of the baptism of the Spirit, it has not always been recognized that every Christian is baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ at the moment of salvation. This fact is highlighted in the central passage on the baptism of the Spirit in the New Testament in 1 Corinthians 12:13. There it is stated: "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free; and all were made to drink of one Spirit in this passage the Greek preposition </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"in"</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">is translated correctly </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"for",</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">in what is called the instrumental use of this preposition. This instrumental use is illustrated by the same preposition in Luke 4: 1, which says it was </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"led by the </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Spirit into the wilderness"</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">and the expression </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"for you"</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">in 1 Corinthians 6: 2, by the expression </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">' through Him "</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Colossians 1: 16 and the phrase </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">" God theFather "</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">in Jude 1. the argument that the preposition is not used with respect to people in Scripture is wrong. Accordingly, if it is true, as stated in 1 Corinthians 2:13, that Spirit baptism we enter into a new relationship with the Spirit, teaching is not so much that we brought into the Spirit like that through the spirit we are brought into the body of Christ. The expression </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"all </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">we"</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">clearly refers to all Christians, not all men, and not be limited to any particular group of Christians. The truth is rather that every Christian from the moment that is saved is baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ. Thus, Ephesians 4: 5 refers to </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"one Lord, one faith, one baptism."</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While water baptism rituals vary, one baptism of the Spirit. The universality of this ministry as highlighted by the fact that in Scripture Christian is never exhorted to be baptized by the Spirit, while he is himself exhorted to be filled with the Spirit (Eph. 5:18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. BAPTISM OF SPIRIT IN THE BODY OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Through baptism of the Spirit two important results are met. The first, that the believer is baptized or placed within the body of Christ; related this is the second figure of baptism in Christ himself.These two simultaneous results of Spirit baptism are tremendously significant. Through baptism: the Spirit the believer is placed within the body Christ in the living union of all true believers in the present age. Here baptism has its primary meaning in fact be located, started, and we have been given a new and permanent relationship. Therefore, the baptism of the Spirit relate to believers whole body of truth revealed in Scripture concerning the body of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The body of believers, thus formed by the baptism of the Spirit and increased as additional members are added, it is frequently mentioned in the Scriptures (Acts 2:47; 1 Cor 6:15; 12: 12-14.; . Eph 2:16; 4: 4-5, 16; 5: 30-32; Col. 1:24; 2:19). Christ is the Head of His body and the One who directs its activities (1 Corinthians 11: 3; Eph 1: 22-23; 5: 23-24.; Col. 1:18). The body thus formed and led by Christ is also nurtured and cared for by Christ (Eph 5:29;. Phil 4:13;. Col. 2:19). One of the works of Christ is to sanctify the body of Christ in preparation for presentation in glory (Eph. 5: 25-27).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As a member of the body of Christ, the believer is also give gifts or special functions in the body of Christ (Rom 12: 3-8; 1 Cor . 12: 27-28; Eph 4: 7-16.). Being placed within the body of Christ through the Holy Spirit, it is not only secure the unity of the body, regardless of race, culture or social background, but it is also certain that every believer has his particular place and role and opportunity for serve God without the frame of his own personality and gifts. The body as a whole is </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"bound together"</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(Eph . 4: 16); that is, although members differ, the body as a whole is well planned and organized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT IN CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In addition to its relationship to other believers in the body of Christ, which is baptized by the Spirit it has a new position as to be in Christ. This was anticipated in the prediction of John 14:20, where Christ said the night before His crucifixion: </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">. Ye in me, and I in you"</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">expression </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"you me </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> anticipated the future baptism of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As a result of the believer in Christ, he is identified in what Christ did in His death, resurrection and glorification. This is presented in Romans 6: 1-4, which states that the believer is baptized in Jesus Christ and his death, and if it is in his death, is buried and resurrected with Christ. This has been often taken to represent the rite of baptism by water, but in any case also represents the work of the Holy Spirit, without which the rite would be meaningless. A similar passage is found in Colossians 2:12. Our identification with Christ through the Spirit is an important basis for everything God does for the believer in time and eternity base.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As a believer in Christ, he also has the life of Christ, which is shared by the head with the body.Christ's relationship with the body as its Head is also related to the sovereign headship of Christ from his body, just as the mind directs the body in the body of believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">F. BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT IN CONNECTION WITH THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In view of the fact that every Christian is baptized by the Spirit at the moment of salvation, it is clear that baptism is a work of God to be understood and received by faith. Although the subsequent spiritual experience can confirm the baptism of the Spirit, baptism is not an experience in itself. Being universal and related to our position in Christ, baptism is an instantaneous act of God and is not a work to be sought after being born again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Much confusion has arisen by the statement that Christians should seek the baptism of the Spirit especially as manifested in speaking in tongues in the early church. While in the three examples in Acts (chs. 2, 10 and 19) the believers spoke in tongues at the time of his baptism in the Spirit, it is clear that this was an exceptional and temporary nature related to the book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In all other cases named salvation no mention of speaking in tongues as something that accompanies the baptism of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Later, it is quite clear that while all Christians are baptized by the Spirit, not all Christians spoke in tongues in the early Church Therefore, the concept of seeking the baptism of the Spirit as a means of an exceptional work of God in the Christian life it is without scriptural foundation. Even the fullness of the Spirit is not manifested in speaking in tongues, but rather the fruit of the Spirit, as mentioned in Galatians 5: 22-23. The fact is that the Corinthian Christians spoke in tongues without being filled with the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Sometimes a similar error, which holds that there are two baptisms of the Spirit, one in Acts 2 and the other in 1 Corinthians 12:13 is alleged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A comparison of the conversion of Cornelius in Acts 10-11 with Acts 2 clarifies that what happened to Cornelius, a Gentile, was exactly the same as what had happened to the disciples at Pentecost.Peter says in Acts 11: 15-17: "And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us at the beginning. Then I remembered the word of the Lord, saying, "John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. If God therefore gave them the same gift as us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who I that I could withstand God? "Whereas the Spirit baptism places the believer into the body of Christ, is, therefore, the same work of Acts 2 through the present dispensation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The baptism of the Holy Spirit is, therefore, important, since it is the work of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Spirit puts us in a new union with Christ and our fellow believers, a new position in Christ. It is the basis for justification and for all the work of God, which has the end to the perfect believer in glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How would you distinguish the baptism of the Spirit, of the Spirit's work in regeneration, indwelling and sealing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How would you distinguish the baptism of the Spirit of the fullness of the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why there has been confusion between the Spirit baptism and other works of the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the significance of the fact that baptism in the Spirit in the four Gospels and in Acts 1 is mentioned as a future work?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence can be argued about that all Christians are baptized by the Spirit in the present age?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why Christians never be baptized by the Spirit calls?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the meaning of being baptized into the body of Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the figure indicates the body of Christ that Christ leads the Church?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How has the figure of the body of Christ special gifts given to believers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What special truths are presented by the baptism of the Spirit in Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does baptism relate to our identification with Christ in His death, resurrection and glorification?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How baptism in Christ sustains the idea that we share eternal life?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why Spirit baptism is not in itself a spiritual experience?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is it necessary to speak in tongues to be baptized by the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Do you need to speak in tongues to be filled by the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is wrong in teaching that baptism of the Spirit in Acts 2 differs from baptism of the Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12: 13?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Summarizing the importance of baptism of the Spirit as a work related to our salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT: HIS FULLNESS<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. DEFINITION OF THE FULFILLMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In contrast to the work of the Holy Spirit in salvation such as regeneration, dwell, the sealing and baptism, the fullness of the Spirit relates to the Christian experience, power and service. The works of the Spirit in relationship to salvation are once and forever, but the fullness of the Spirit is a repeated experience and is frequently mentioned in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">On a limited scale, you can see the fullness of the Spirit in certain individuals before Pentecost (Ex 28: 3; 31:. 3; 35:31; Luke 1:15, 41, 67; 4: 1.). Undoubtedly, there are many other examples where the Spirit of God came upon individuals and trained them in power for service. In total, however, a few were filled with the Spirit before Pentecost, and the work of the Spirit seems to be related to the sovereign purpose of God to fulfill some special work in individuals. There is no indication that the fullness of the Spirit had been open to everyone who surrendered his life to the Lord before Pentecost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Starting with the day of Pentecost, he dawned a new age in which the Holy Spirit would work in every believer. Then they were all home made the Spirit and could be filled if He found the right conditions. This conclusion is confirmed by numerous illustrations in the New Testament (Acts 2: 4; 4:. 8:31; 6: 3,5; 7:55; 9:17; 11:24; 13: 9, 52; Eph. 5:18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fullness of the Spirit may be defined as a spiritual state where the Holy Spirit is doing all that he came to do in the heart and life of the individual believer. It is not a matter of acquiring more of the Spirit, but rather that the Spirit of God begins to take possession of the individual. Rather than being an abnormal and infrequent situation, as it was before Pentecost, be filled by the Spirit in the present age is normal, although it is not usual, in the experience of the Christian. Every Christian is commanded to be filled with the Spirit (Eph. 5: 18), and not be filled with the Spirit is to be in a state of partial disobedience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">There is a noticeable difference in the character and quality in the daily life of Christians. Few can be characterized by being filled with the Spirit. This lack, however, is not due to a failure of God in His provision, but rather is failure of the individual to appropriate this provision and allow the Holy Spirit fill your life. The state of being filled with the Spirit should be contrasted with spiritual maturity. A new Christian who has recently been saved can be filled with the Spirit and manifest the power of the Holy Spirit in your life. However, maturity comes only through spiritual experiences, which can span a lifetime and cover a growth in knowledge, continuing experience of being filled with the Spirit, and maturity in judgment on spiritual things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Just as a newborn child can be vehement, in the same way a Christian can be filled with the Spirit;but, like a newborn, only life and experience can bring out the spiritual qualities that belong to maturity. This is why numerous Bible passages speak of growth. Wheat grows until the harvest (Mt. 13:30). God works in His church through men endowed with personal gifts to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ so that Christians may grow in faith and in spiritual stature (Eph. 4: 11 -16). Peter speaks of spiritual babies who need spiritual milk to grow (1 Peter 2: 2), and calls "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">There is an obvious relationship between the fullness of the Spirit and spiritual maturity, and Spirit-filled Christian will mature faster than one that is not. The fullness of the Spirit and spiritual maturity as a result are the two most important in the execution of the will of God in the life of a Christian and also in God's purpose to create you for good works (Eph. 2:10) factors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Therefore, the fullness of the Spirit is fulfilled in every believer when he is fully surrendered to the Holy Spirit who dwells in it, resulting in a spiritual condition in which the Holy Spirit controls and provides power to the individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While there may be several degrees in the manifestation of the fullness of the Spirit and degrees in divine power, the central thought in the fullness is that the Spirit of God is able to operate in and through the individual without hindrance, provided the perfect will God for that person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The concept of the fullness of the Spirit is brought to light in a number of references in the New Testament. It is illustrated preeminently in Jesus Christ, who, according to Luke 4: 1, was continually "filled with the Holy Spirit." John the Baptist had the unique experience of being filled with the Spirit since I was in the womb of his mother (Lk. 1:15), and both his mother and his father Zechariah Elizabet were temporarily filled with the Spirit (Lk. 1 : 41, 67). These examples are still in the mold of the Old Testament, in which the fullness of the Spirit was a sovereign work of God that was not within the reach of every individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Starting with the day of Pentecost, but the whole crowd was filled with the Spirit. In the early Church the Spirit of God repeatedly filled those who sought God's will, as in the case of Peter (Acts 4: 8.)., The group of Christians who prayed for courage and the power of God (Acts 4 31), and Paul after his conversion (Acts 9:17).. Some are characterized by being in a continuous state of fullness of the Spirit, as illustrated in the first deacons (Acts 6: 3.) And Stephen the martyr (Acts 7:55.) And Barnabas (Acts 11:24.). Paul was filled with the Spirit repeated times (Acts 13: 9.), And so were other disciples (Acts 13:52.). In each case only Christians surrendered to God were filled with the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the Old Testament believers they are never commanded to be filled with the Spirit, but sometimes were reprimanded, as Zorobabel, that the work of the Lord is fulfilled, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Lord of hosts "(Zech. 4: 6). In the present age every Christian is commanded to be filled with the Spirit, as in Ephesians 5:18: "Do not get drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit. "Being filled with the Spirit, as well as receive salvation by faith, not satisfied, however, by human effort, rather it is to allow God to fulfill his work in the life of individual. In Scripture it is clear that a genuinely Christian can be saved without being filled with the Spirit, and, therefore, the fullness of the Spirit is not a part of salvation itself. The fullness of the Spirit can also be contrasted with the work done once and for all that is fulfilled in the believer when it is safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fullness of the Spirit, but can occur at the time of salvation, occurs again and again in the life of a devoted Christian, and should be a normal experience of Christians they had this constant fullness of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact that the fullness of the Spirit is a repeated experience, it becomes noticeable in the present tense of the commandment in Ephesians 5:18: "Be filled with the Spirit." It is literally translated "keep yourselves being filled by the Spirit." In the text compared to a state of intoxication in which the wine affects the entire body, including mental activity and physical activity of the body. The fullness of the Spirit is not, therefore, an experience that happens once and forever. It is not correct to call it a second work of grace, since it occurs again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Undoubtedly, the experience of being filled with the Spirit for the first time is very strong in the Christian life and can be a milestone that raises the Christian experience to a new level. However, the Christian depends on God for continuous fullness of the Spirit, and no Christian can live in the spiritual power of yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The nature of the fullness of the Spirit it can be concluded that the wide difference in observed in Christian spiritual experience and various degrees of conformity to the mind and will of God can be attributed to the presence or absence of the fullness of the Spirit. You want to do God's will must therefore enter fully into the privilege God has given a dwelling of the Spirit and have the ability to completely surrender your life to God's Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. CONDITIONS FOR fullness of the Spirit<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Often they pointed out three simple commandments as the condition to be filled with the Spirit. In 1 Thessalonians 5: 19 the command is given: "Quench not the Spirit." In Ephesians 4:30 instructs Christians: "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption . "a third, as more positive instruction is given in Galatians 5:16:" I say </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">,</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> then, Walk in the Spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh "Although other passages shed light on these basic conditions to be filled. with the Spirit, these three passages summarize the main idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. THE COMMAND OF "Quench not the Spirit"</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> in 1 Thessalonians 5: 19, although it is not explained in context, using as obvious Figure of fire as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. 20 and Hebrews 11: In the way that references to extinguish the fire in Matthew 12 it is 34 illustrates what is meant. According to Ephesians 6:16, "the shield of faith" is able to "turn off the darts of the evil one ." Therefore quench the Spirit is to stifle or suppress the Spirit and not allow him to fulfill his work in the believer. It can be defined as simply saying "No", or not be willing to let the Spirit conduct their own way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Satan's original sin was rebellion against God (Isaiah 14:14.), And when a believer says "I love you" instead of saying as Christ said in Gethsemane: "Not my will not do, but yours" (Lk . 22:42), then it is quenching the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">So you can experience the fullness of the Spirit is necessary for a Christian to surrender your life to the Lord. Christ observed that a man can not serve two masters (Matthew 6:24), and Christians are constantly urged to surrender themselves to God. Speaking of surrender to the will of God in the life of a Christian, Paul wrote in Romans 6: 13: "Neither yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead ., and your members to God as instruments of righteousness "This is clearly the choice before every Christian says, he can give himself both God and sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A similar passage is found in Romans 12: 1-2. In presenting the work of salvation and sanctification in the believer's life, Paul urges the Romans: "So, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living, holy, acceptable sacrifice to God, which is your reasonable service. It will not beconformed to this world : but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the will of God, pleasing and perfect "In both passages Romans 6:13 . 12: 1 is used the same Greek word. The verb tense is </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">aorist</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> , which means </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"surrender to God once and forever."</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to this, the experience of being filled with the Spirit can only be carried out when a Christian takes the initial step of presenting his body a living sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christian has been prepared for this through salvation, which makes the sacrifice holy and acceptable before God. It is reasonable to expect from God that Christ having died for this individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In presenting his body, the Christian must face the fact that should not conform outwardly to the world, but must be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit with the result that his mind is renewed to recognize spiritual values<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He is able to distinguish what is not the will of God, what is "good, pleasing and perfect will of God" (Rom. 12: 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Surrender is not referring to any particular point, but rather discern God's will for life in each particular case. It is, therefore, an attitude of being willing to do whatever God wants the believer to do. Is to make the final will of God in your life and be willing to do anything when, where and how God can lead it. The fact that the exhortation "not quench the Spirit" is in the present tense indicates that this should be a continuous experience initiated by the act of surrender.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A Christian who wants to be rendered to God continually find that this surrender is related to several aspects. It is, first, a surrender to the Word of God in their exhortations and truth. The Holy Spirit is the Master course, and as you will know the truth, a believer must surrender to it as the understanding is. Refusing to submit to the Word of God makes the fullness of the Spirit is impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Surrender is also related to the guide. In many cases the Word of God is not explicit about decisions that a Christian has to face. Here the believer must be guided by the principles of the Word of God and the Spirit of God can give guidance on the basis of what Scripture reveals. Accordingly, obedience to the Spirit's guidance is necessary for the fullness of the Spirit (Rom. 8:14). In some cases, the Spirit may order a Christian to do something and sometimes may prohibit that follow the course of action. An illustration is the experience of Paul, who was prevented from preaching the gospel in Asia and Bithynia in the early stages of his ministry and later was instructed to go to these same areas to preach (Acts 16: 6-7; 19. : 10). The fullness of the Spirit includes follow the Lord's guidance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A Christian also must be surrendered to the providential acts of God, which often carry situations or experiences that are not desired by the individual. Accordingly, a believer must understand what it means to be submissive to the will of God even when it involves suffering and paths themselves are not pleasant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The supreme illustration of what it means to be filled with the Spirit and surrendered to God is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. In Philippians 2: 5-11 reveals that Jesus, come to earth and die for the sins of the world, was willing to be what God had chosen, wanting to go where God had UK- caught and willing to do what God had chosen .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A believer who wants to be filled with the Spirit must have a similar attitude to surrender and obedience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. IN CONNECTION WITH THE SPIRIT FILLED, YOU ALSO URGES "NO grieve the Spirit"</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (Eph. 4:30). Here it is presumed that sin has entered the life of a </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christian and as a fact his experience has befallen the unaccountability. To be </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">able to enter a state in which it can be filled with the Spirit, or to return to </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">that state, you are urged not to continue in their sin, which grieves the Spirit </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Santo. When the believer the Spirit of God is grieved, communion, guidance, </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">instruction and power of the Spirit are clogged; the Holy Spirit, but is </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">abiding, is not free to carry out its work in the believer's life.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The experience of the fullness of the Spirit may be affected by physical conditions. A Christian who is physically tired, hungry or sick can not experience the normal joy and peace, which are fruits of the Spirit. The same apostle exhorts them to be filled with the Spirit confesses in 2 Corinthians 1: 8-9 that they were "burdened beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life itself."Accordingly, even a Christian filled with the Spirit you may experience some inner disorder.However, the greater the need in the circumstances of the believer, the greater the need for the fullness of the Spirit and surrender to the will of God for the power of the Spirit can be manifested in the individual life. When a Christian becomes aware of the fact that it has grieved the Holy Spirit, the remedy is to cease to grieve the Spirit, as expressed in Ephesians 4:30 literally translated. This can be accomplished by obeying 1 John 1: 9, where the Son of God are instructed: "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." This passage refers to a child of God he has sinned against his Heavenly Father. The restoration path is open because the death of Christ is sufficient for all their sins (1 John 2: 1-2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Thus the way back to communion with God for a believer is to confess his sins to God, acknowledging the groundwork for forgiveness in Christ's death again and looking forward to the restoration to intimate communion with God the Father, as well as with the Holy Spirit. It not a is a matter of justice in a court of law, but rather a relationship. "Restored between father and son who had gone astray. The passage says that God is faithful and righteous to forgive sin and remove a barrier that It stands in communion when a Christian sincerely confess their sins to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While in some situations confession of sin may be required to go to individuals who have been wronged and correct the difficulties, the main idea is to establish a new intimate relationship with God. Confessing their sins, the Christian must be sure that the side divine forgiveness is immediate.Christ as the intercessor of the believer and as the one who died on the cross, has already made all the necessary adjustments on the heavenly side. The restoration to fellowship is subject, therefore, only human attitude of confession and surrender. The Bible also warns the believer against the serious results of constantly grieving the Spirit. This sometimes results in the punishment of God for the believer with the purpose of restoring, as mentioned in Hebrews 12: 5-6. The Christian is warned that if he does not judge himself, God need to intervene with divine discipline (1 Cor 11: 31-32). In any case, there is an immediate loss when a Christian is walking out of fellowship with God, and there is constant danger of severe judgment of God as a faithful father dealing with his son wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. THE WALK IN THE SPIRIT IS A POSITIVE COMMANDMENT IN CONTRAST TO PREVIOUS COMMANDMENTS, WHICH ARE NEGATIVE.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Walk in the Spirit (Gal. 5:16) is </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">an order to seize power and blessing that is provided by the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">spirit who dwells in the believer. Walking in the Spirit is a commandment in the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">present time, that is, a Christian must keep walking through the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Spirit.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Christian spiritual life level is high, and he is not able to fulfill the will of God apart from the power of God. Accordingly, the provision of the indwelling Spirit makes it possible for the Christian to be walking through the power and guidance of the Spirit living in him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Walking in the Spirit is an act of faith. It is depending on the Spirit do what only the Spirit can do.The high standards of this era, where we are commanded to love as Christ loves (Jn 13:34; 15:12.) And where it is ordered that every thought is brought to obedience in Christ (2 Corinthians 10: 5) - they are impossible apart from the power of the Spirit. Similarly, the other manifestations of spiritual life -such as the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5: 22-23) and such commands as "Be joyful always.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Pray without ceasing "(1 Thes. 5: 16-17) and" in everything give thanks, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus "(. 1 Thessalonians 5:18) - are impossible unless one is walking in the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Get a high standard of spiritual life is the most difficult because the Christian is living in a sinful world and is under constant malign influence (Jn 17:15; Rom. 12: 2; 2 Cor 6:14; Gal. 6. : 14; 1 John 2:15).. Similarly, the Christian is unopposed by the power of Satan and is engaged in a constant struggle with this enemy of God (2 Cor 4: 4; 11:14; Eph. 6:12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In addition to the conflict with the world system and with Satan, the Christian is an enemy from within, his old nature, which you want to lead him back to life of obedience to the sinful flesh (Rom 5:21; 6:. 6; 1 Co. 5: 5; 2 Cor 7: 1; 10: 2-3; Gal. 5: 16-24; 6: 8; Eph 2: 3).. Being the old nature constantly at war with the new nature in the Christian, only continued reliance on the Spirit of God can bring victory. So, although some have come to the erroneous conclusion that a Christian can reach sinless perfection, there is a need to constantly walk in the Spirit so that this power to carry out the will of God in the life of a believer . The believer awaits the final perfection of body and spirit in the sky, but the spiritual struggle continues unabated until death or spiritual transfer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">All these facts emphasize the importance of appropriating the Spirit walk in their power and guidance and letting the Spirit have control and direction of a Christian life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. RESULTS OF THE SPIRIT FILLED<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When you are surrendered to God and filled with the Spirit come unpredictable results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. A CHRISTIAN STEPPING ON THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT EXPERIENCES A PROGRESSIVE SANCTIFICATION, ONE LIFE HOLINESS IN WHICH THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT (Gal . 5: 22-23) is finished </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This is the supreme manifestation of the power of the Spirit and is preparing </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">earth for the time when the believer, -in the heavens will be completely </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">transformed into the image of Christ.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. ONE OF THE MAJOR MINISTRIES OF THE SPIRIT IS TO TEACH THE BELIEVER SPIRITUAL TRUTHS.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Only through the guidance and illumination of the Spirit a believer </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">can understand the infinite truth of the Word of God. As the Spirit of God </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">is necessary to reveal the truth concerning salvation (Jn .16: 7-11) before </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a person can be saved, so the Spirit of God also guides the Christian to all </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">truth (Jn 16. : 12-14).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The deep things of God, truths that can only be understood by a man taught by the Spirit, are revealed to one who is walking in the Spirit (1 Cor 2: 9 to 3: 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CAPABLE OF LEADING TO A CHRISTIAN AND IMPLEMENT THE GENERAL TRUTHS OF THE WORD OF GOD TO THE PARTICULAR SITUATION OF CHRISTIAN</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . This is what is expressed </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">in Romans 12: 2, showing "what is the will of God, pleasing and </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">perfect." As the servant of Abraham, a Christian can experience the statement </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">" the Lord guiding me along the way . " (Gen. 24:27). A guide such is the normal experience of </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christians who are in a right relationship with the Spirit of God (Rom 8:14;. Gal. </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5:18).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. SECURITY OF SALVATION IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT RESULT OF COMMUNION WITH THE SPIRIT </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to Romans 8:16, "The Spirit himself testifies with our </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">spirit that we are children of God" (cf. Gal . 4: 6; 1 John 3:24;. 4:13). It is normal for a </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christian to have the assurance of salvation, as it 'is for an individual to know </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">who is physically alive.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. ALL WORSHIP AND THE LOVE OF GOD ARE POSSIBLE ONLY WHEN ONE IS WALKING BY THE SPIRIT.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the context of the exhortation of Ephesians 5: 18 the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">following verses describe the normal life of worship and fellowship with God. One </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">person out of fellowship can not truly worship God even when </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">attending church services in beautiful cathedrals and comply with the ritual of </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">worship.Worship is a matter of the heart, and as Christ said to the woman of </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Samaria, "God is Spirit; and those who worship him in spirit and in truth it is necessary </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">to worship "(Jn. 4:24).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. ONE OF THE LARGEST LIFE OF A BELIEVER ASPECTS OF PRAYER IS YOUR communion with the Lord </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Here again the Spirit of God to guide and direct if the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">prayer must be intelligent. Here you must also understand the Word of God if </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the prayer must be according to the Word of God: True praise and of</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">thanks are impossible apart from the training of the Spirit. In addition to the prayer of the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">believer himself, Romans 8:26 reveals that the Spirit intercedes for the believer. De </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">accordingly an effective prayer life depends on the walk in the Spirit.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. ADDITION TO ALL QUALITIES AND MENTIONED, A LIFETIME OF SERVICE A BELIEVER AND THE EXERCISE OF ITS NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL GIFTS ARE DEPENDING ON THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Christ referred to this in John 7: 38-39, where He described the work </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of the Spirit as a river of living water flowing from the heart of man. According to </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">this, a Christian can have great spiritual gifts and not use them because they were not </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">walking in the Spirit 's power. In contrast, others with relatively few gifts </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">spiritual can be greatly used by God because they walk in the power </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of the Spirit. The teaching of Scripture on the fullness of the Spirit is, therefore, by </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">one of the most important lines of truth that a Christian should understand, apply </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">and appropriate it.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How would contrast the fullness of the Spirit with the Holy Spirit in salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What examples of fullness of the Spirit can be seen before the day of Pentecost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Was the fullness of the Spirit within reach of all who surrender to God before Pentecost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How will the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost changed the possibility of being filled with the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Define the fullness of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Contrasting being filled with the Spirit with spiritual maturity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Can any Christian can be filled with the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the relationship between the fullness of the Spirit and spiritual maturity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense there are three degrees of manifestation of the fullness of the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What remarkable illustrations of being filled with the Spirit found in the book of Acts?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the meaning of the comparison to be filled with wine and be filled with the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it inaccurate to refer to the fullness of the Spirit as a second work of grace?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is meant by the commandment of "not quench the Spirit"?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it necessary to surrender to God to be filled with the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Contrasting the initial step of presenting the body as a living sacrifice to the life of continual surrender.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Name the various aspects of the surrender of a Christian God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense Christ is the supreme example of surrender to God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the meaning of the commandment "Do not grieve the Spirit"?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the circumstances of a Christian affect their experience of being filled with the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the remedy to be grieved the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">21.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is a Christian confesses his sin will be forgiven trusting?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">22.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the serious results to continue in a state of grieving the Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">23.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Define what it means to walk in the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">24.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How high standard of spiritual life in the Christian makes the walk in the Spirit necessary?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">25.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it necessary to walk in the Spirit in light of the fact that Christians live in a sinful world?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">26.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why walk in the Spirit is necessary in view of the sinful nature of a Christian?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">27.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why the need to walk in the Spirit shows that it is impossible for a Christian to reach sinless perfection in this life?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">28.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Appoint and briefly define seven outcomes of the fullness of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">29.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><span class=""> Name the important for a Christian to </span><span class="">be filled with </span><span class="">the Spirit reasons.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-71530694318287192432016-04-03T13:31:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:31:22.516-07:00THE DECREE OF GOD<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: -14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, has declared itself free and unalterably: <b>Pr. 19: 21; Is . 14: 24-27; 46:10, 11; Ps 115: 3; 135: 6; Ro. 9:19.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All things, everything that happens: <b>Dn. 4:34, 35; Ro. 8:28; 11:36; Eph. 1:11.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, so that is why God is neither the author of sin and fellowship with one in the same: <b>Gn. 18:25;Stg. 1:13; 1 June 1: 5 . .<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No violence is done to the will of the creature, neither liberty or contingency of second causes are removed, but rather established: <b>Gn. 50:20; 2 Samuel 24: 1; Is . 10: 5-7; Mt. 17:12; 19:11 June.; Acts.2:23; 4:27 28.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In his wisdom which manifests itself in having all things, and power and faithfulness in carrying out its decrees: <b>Nm. 23:19; Eph. 1: 3-5.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE BEGINNING GOD'S ETERNAL.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The title of this article may not be enough to indicate its theme explicit. This is due in part to the fact that very few Christians today, they are accustomed to meditate upon the personal perfections of God.Relatively few of those who read the Bible occasionally know the greatness of the divine nature, which inspires fear and incites worship. God is great in wisdom, wondrous in power, yet full of mercy, is considered by many as almost the public domain; but consider something like a proper knowledge of their being, their nature, their attributes, as revealed in Holy Scripture, it is something that very few Christians have achieved in these decayed and degenerate times. God is unique in its excellence. "Who is like you, Lord, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in their praises, doing wonders "?(Exodus 15: 11)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"In the beginning God" (Genesis 1: 1). There was a time, if "time" can be called, when God, in the unity of its nature (although existing in three equally divine beings) "people" lived alone. "In the beginning, God" There was no heaven, where His glory is now particularly manifested. There was no land to occupy his attention. There were no angels to sing his praises, or universe that could stand on the word of His power.There was nothing and no one but God; and this, not for a day, a year, or a time, but "from everlasting" During a past eternity, God was alone: Full, Sufficient, Pleased itself, needing nothing. If a universe, or angels, or humans it would have been necessary in some way, it had been called into existence from all eternity. God essentially added nothing to be created. He does not change (Malachi 3. 6), so its substantial glory can not be increased nor diminished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God was not coerced, forced, nor any need to create. The fact that wished to do so was purely a sovereign act on his part, not produced by anything outside himself; not determined by anything but his own good will, since He "worketh all things after the counsel of his will" (Ephesians 1: 11). He created was simply pair your manifestative glory. Do you think any of our students who have gone beyond what Scripture authorizes us? Then our appeal will be to the law and to the testimony: "Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting; and bless the name of Thine, glorious and exalted above all blessing and praise "(Nehemiah 9: 5). God does not leave even won anything with our worship. He did not need that external glory of his grace that comes from His redeemed, because it is glorious enough in Himself without it. What was it that moved him to ordain his elect to the praise of the glory of His grace? It was like Ephesians 1 tells us: 5, "The pleasure of his will."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We know that the high ground we are treading is new and strange to almost all of our students and readers; For this reason, we do well to move slowly. Let us turn back to the Scriptures. At the end of Romans 11: 34-35, where the Apostle concludes his long argument on salvation by pure and sovereign grace, he asks, "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? Or who gave him first so that it is paid. The importance of this is that it is impossible to submit to Almighty obligation to the creature; God does not leave us won anything. "If you you are righteous, what do you give to Him? Or do you receive from your hand? Man like you Your wickedness, and the son of man your righteousness "(Job 35: 7-8), but can not really affect God, who is blessed in Himself. "When thou done all that I have commanded you, say, 'We are useless servants" (Luke 17: 10), our obedience is not used at all to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to be essential glory of God, not for what he did, or what he suffered because itself has all its fullness of God, both as eternal and glorious existence. (John 1: 1-3). It is true, holy and glorious truth that told us the glory of God the Father, but added nothing to God. He himself declares explicitly and without appeal and without appeal saying: "My good not to thee" Psalm 16: 2). All this psalm is of Christ. The goodness or righteousness of Christ took to his saints on earth, (Psalms 16: 3), but God was above and beyond all this, it is "The Blessed" (Mark 14: 61).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is absolutely true that God is honored and dishonored by men; not in their substantial Being, but in their official capacity. It is equally true that God has been "glorified" by creation, providence and redemption. This does not deny, nor dare to do so. But all this has to do with his manifestative Gloria, and our recognition of it. Yet if God had so desired, he could have continued alone for all eternity, without revealing his glory to any creature. Which he did so or not was determined solely by his own will. He was perfectly blessed in Himself before the first creature was created, or call to life. And, what are God all the works of their hands, even now? Let Scripture again answers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"Behold, the nations are as a drop of a acetre, and as the dust of the weight; behold, He taketh up the isles as dust. Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals for sacrifice. As all nations are nothing before Him; and they are counted estimated at less than nothing, and what is not. "What then will ye liken God, or what likeness will?" (Isaiah 40: 15-18). This is the God of Scripture; yes, it is still "the unknown God" (Acts 17: 23) for neglected crowds. "He sits on the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and tends as a tent to dwell; He becomes nothing the powerful, and those who govern the earth as vanity. " (Isaiah 40: 22-23). How infinitely different is the God of Scripture the "god" of current contemporary pulpits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The testimony of the New Testament is no different than anything found in the Old: it could not be otherwise, both having the same author. Also there read: "Which in his time show the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man hath seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. (1 Timothy 6: 15-16). The such should be revered, worshiped and glorified. He is alone in his majesty, is unique in its excellence, unmatched in its perfections. He holds it all, but, in itself, is independent of everything. He gives everyone but is not enriched by anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Such a God can not be known through research; He can only be known as the Holy Spirit he reveals to the heart, through the word. It is true that creation reveals a creator, and that men are totally "inexcusable" however, we have yet to say with Job, "Behold, these are parts of his ways; But, how little we have heard of Él¡ Because the thunder of his power, who will stop it "? (Job 26: 14). We think you called argument according to his purpose, used by some "apologists" sincere, has produced more harm than good, as they have tried to lose the great God to the level of finite comprehension, and thereby has lost sight of its only excellence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It has drawn an analogy with the savage finding a watch in the jungle, who after careful consideration, follows that there is a watchmaker. So far this very well. But we try to go further: suppose the wild is to form a conception of this watchmaker, his personal affections and ways available, knowledge and moral character; all that together form a personality. Could you ever think or imagine a real man; the man who manufactured the watch and say, "I know him?" Such a question seems Futile But is the eternal and infinite God more accessible to human reason? Certainly not. The God of Scripture can be known only by those to whom he himself disclosed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Neither the intellect can know God. "God is spirit" (John 4: 24), and therefore can only be known spiritually. The fallen man is not spiritual, but carnal. He's dead to all that is spiritual. Unless born again, it brought supernaturally from death to life, miraculously moved from darkness to light, you can not see the things of God (John 3: 3), much less understand (1 Cor 2. : 14). The Holy Spirit has to shine in our hearts (not the intellect) to give us "the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ" (2 Cor. 4: 6). And even spiritual knowledge is only fragmentary. The regenerated soul has to believe in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Pet. 3: 18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The main purpose of prayer and Christians must be the 2andar worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God "(Col. 1: 10). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although God knows everything that could or may happen in all conditions which may involve: <b>1 Samuel 23:11, 12; Matthew 11:21, 23; Acts. 15:18.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However nothing has decreed that foresaw as future or as what had happened in these conditions: <b>Is.40:13, 14; Ro. 9: 11-18; 11:34; 1 Cor 2:16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestined, or foreordained to eternal life through Jesus Christ, to the praise of the glory of his grace , <b>1 Tim. 5:21; Mt. 25:34; Eph. 1: 5, 6.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Others are left to act in their sin to their just condemnation, to the praise of the glory of his justice: <b>June 12: 37-40; Ro. 9: 6-24; 1 Peter 2: 8-10; Jud. Four.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">DEFINITION OF GOD'S DECREES<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"And we know that God causes all things work together for good to those who love him, that is, those who are called according to his purpose" (Rom. 8:28) "according to the eternal purpose accomplished in Christ Jesus, our Lord". (Eph. 3:11) God's decree is their purpose or determination with respect to future things. Here we have used the singular, as does the Scripture because there was only one act of His infinite mind about the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We speak as if there had been many, because our minds can only think of successive cycles, as thoughts and occasions arise; or reference to the various objects of His decree, which, being many, we seem to require a different for each purpose. But gradually the Divine knowledge is not necessary, or in stages: (Acts 15:18;.). "Known unto God from eternity all his works"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Scriptures mention the decrees of God in many places and using various terms. The word "decree" is found in Psalm 2: 7, (I will declare the decree.). In Efe. 3:11, we read about his "eternal purpose". In Acts.2:23 its "determinate counsel and foreknowledge." In Efe. 1: 9, the mystery of his "will." In Rom. 8:29, he also "predestined". In Efe. 1: 9, their "welcome".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God's decrees are called his "advice" to mean that they are perfectly wise. They are called his "will to show that God is under no restraint, but acts according to his own desire, in the Divine proceeding, wisdom is always associated with the will, and therefore it is said that God's decrees are "the counsel of his will."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The decrees of God relate to all future things without exception: everything is done in time, he was predetermined before the beginning of time. God's purpose affected everything, big or small, good or bad, but we must say that, although God is the Computer and Controller of sin, not its author in the same way that the author is good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sin could not come from a holy God by direct or positive creation, but only by his permission, by decree and its negative action. God's decree is as broad as its government, and extends to all creatures and events.It relates to our life and death; with our state in time and in eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the same way that we judge the plans of an architect inspecting the building erected under his direction, so by their works, we learn what is (was) the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will. God did not decree simply creating man, put on earth, and then leave under his own uncontrolled guidance; but set all the circumstances of the death of individuals, and all the details that the history of the human race comprises, from its beginning to its end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Not only it decreed that they should be established laws for the government of the world, but ordered the implementation of the same in each case. Our days are numbered, as well as the hairs of our head.(Matt. 10:30). We can understand the scope of the Divine Decrees if we think dispensations of Providence in which those are met. The care of Providence reaches to the most insignificant of creatures and the most thorough of events such as the death of a sparrow or the fall of a hair. (Matt. 10:30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let us now consider some of the characteristics of the Divine Decrees. They are, first, eternal. Suppose that one of them was issued in time, is to say that there has been an unforeseen event or some combination of circumstances that has led to the Almighty to take a new resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This would mean that the knowledge of the Godhead are limited and will eventually grow in wisdom, which would be a horrible blasphemy. No one who believes that the Divine understanding is infinite, encompassing the past, present and future, assert the doctrine of temporal decrees. God does not ignore the future events to be executed by the will; he predicted countless times, and prophecy is nothing but the manifestation of His eternal presence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Scripture says that believers were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1: 4), moreover, that grace was their "dada" and then: (2 Tim. 1: 9). "It was he who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time." Second, the decrees of God are wise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wisdom is shown in the selection of the best possible ends, and the most appropriate means to achieve them. From what we know of the decrees of God is evident they deserve such a feature. We are discovered in compliance; all samples of wisdom in God's works are proof of the wisdom of the plan which are carried out. As says the psalmist (Ps. 104: 24). "How many are your works, O Lord! In all wisdom you have made;the earth is full of your creatures. " We can only see a small part of them, but, as in other cases, should we proceed to judge the whole by the sample; the unknown with the known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">One who, in examining part of the operation of a machine, perceives the admirable ingenuity of its construction, believe of course that the other parts are equally admirable. Similarly, when doubts about the works of God assail our minds, we should reject the objections suggested by something we can not reconcile with our ideas (Rom. 11:33).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways "Third, they are free (Isa. 40: 13,14).."! Who has scrutinized the Spirit of the Lord, and who has been his counselor has taught him? who asked for advice to make him understand, or guided him on the right path, and taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding? "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When God issued his decrees, he was alone, and its findings were not influenced by external cause. He was free to enact or quit, to decree one thing and not another. This freedom must be attributed to the One who is supreme, independent, and sovereign in all its actions. Fourth, God's decrees are absolute and unconditional. Its implementation is not subject to any that may or may not fulfill condition. In all cases where God has decreed an end, He has also decreed every means to that end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Which he decreed the salvation of His elect also decreed to give faith (2 Thes. 2:13). "But we ought to thank God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth" (Isa 46:10.); "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not yet done. I say: My plan will be made, and I will do everything I want. " But this might not be so if your council depended on a condition that could be waived.God "worketh all things after the counsel of his will" (Eph. 1:11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Along with the immutability and inviolability of God's decrees. Scripture clearly teaches that man is responsible for his actions, which is accountable creature. And if our ideas are the way God's Word, the affirmation of a teaching of them will not lead to the denial of the other. We recognize that there is real difficulty in defining where one ends and the other begins. This occurs whenever the divine and the human are mixed. True prayer is written by the Spirit, however, is also the cry of a human heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Scriptures are the inspired Word of God, but were written by men who were something more than machines in the hands of the Spirit. Christ is God and man. He is omniscient, more grew in wisdom (Lk. 2:52). "And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men" is all-powerful and yet was (2 Cor. 13: 4 "crucified in weakness"). Is the Spirit of life, however he died. These are great mysteries, but faith receives without discussion. In the past it has often been noted that every objection made against the eternal decrees of God applies with equal force against His eternal foreknowledge. "Whether God has decreed all things that occur as if you have not done, all who recognize the existence of a God, they acknowledge that knows all things beforehand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now it is evident that if He knows all things beforehand, approves or not, that is, or would that happen or not. But wanting is to order such that happen. " Finally treat yourself to make a guess, and then consider the opposite of it. Denying God's decrees would accept a world, and everything connected with it, regulated by an accident without design or blind fate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So what peace, that security, what consolation would be for our poor hearts and minds? What would that qualify refuge in the hour of need and trial? Not the slightest. There would be nothing better than black darkness and the sickening horror of atheism. How grateful we should be that everything is determined by infinite wisdom and goodness!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">How much praise and gratitude we owe to God for his decrees! It is for them that "We know that God makes all things work together for good to those who love him, that is, those who are called according to his purpose" (Rom. 8:28). Well we can exclaim as Paul: "For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen". (Rom. 11:36).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> These angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite that it can not increase or decrease: <b>Mt. 22: 1-14; 13:18 June.; Ro. 11: 5, 6; 1 Cor 7: 20-22; 2 Tim. 2:19.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Humans who are predestined to life, God (before the foundation of the world, according to his eternal and immutable purpose and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will) has chosen in Christ to everlasting glory, merely by his free grace and Love: <b>Ro. 8:30; Eph. 1: 4 to 6.9; 2 Tim. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Without anything else in the creature as a condition or cause moving him to it: <b>Ro. 9: 11-16; 11: 5.6.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Predestination or Divine election terms are used, many people cringe; and imagine the man trapped in the clutches of a horrible and impersonal Destiny. Other -even some who believe in the doctrinal think this is fine but for classrooms of theology, but that need not be mentioned from the pulpit.They would prefer people to study secretly at home. <b>*<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">such an attitude is unbiblical and originates from the lack of knowledge of the Bible it says about the election. Because the election, far from being a horrible doctrine, if understood biblically, is perhaps the best education, the warmest and most cheerful of the whole Bible. This will make the Christian praise God and thank him for his kindness to save it for free, as a sinner what he deserved was hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">*</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As predestination is so closely associated with John Calvin, is very instructive to see the humble, pious and God - fearing attitude of the reformer took to the subject. It was so deliciously biblical and human, that I have quoted extensively in the final part of the study.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In order to understand what the Bible says about God's choice, examine it under the following aspects:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">II.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Biblical Base.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">I. WHAT IS<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In order to clearly understand what unconditional election, it will help to know the meaning of some terms:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. PREDETERMINATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Predetermination means the sovereign plan of God, by which he decides everything that will happen in the entire universe. Nothing happens in this world by chance. God is behind all things. He decides and makes things happen. It is not located outside, perhaps fearing what might happen next. No, He has predetermined all things "after the counsel of his will" (Eph. 1.11): the movement of a finger, the palpitation of the heart, the laughter of a child, the mistake of a typist-even sin. (See Gen. 45.5-8;. Acts 4.27-28;. And Chapter 6 of this book..)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. PREDESTINATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Predestination is part of predetermination. While predetermination refers to the plans God has for all things happening, predestination is part of the predetermination that refers to man's eternal destiny: heaven or hell. Predestination is composed of two parts: election and reprobation. The choice has to do with going to heaven, and reprobation with those who go to hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. unconditional election.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To understand this term, we believe every word:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">. 1. Election</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> all know that is a national choice: choose between one candidate to be president. Select means to choose, choose, choose. Divine election means that God chooses some to go to heaven.Others are overlooked and they will go to hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. Unconditional.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A conditional election is a choice that is conditioned by something in the person who is chosen. For example, all political elections are conditional elections, voter choice is conditioned by something the candidate is or has promised.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some candidates promise heaven if elected. Others promise only be good representatives and do whatever they think best. Others appeal to the fact that they are of a particular group or a particular social class. So human choices are always conditional election because voter's decision is based on the promises and nature of which will be chosen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But, surprising as it may seem, the divine choice is always unconditional election. God never based their choice on what man thinks, says, does or is. We do not know what God bases his selection, but it is not something that is in man. Not that he sees something good in a specific man, something that induces God to decide choose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And is not this wonderful? Suppose the choice God made heaven to be based on something that had to be or think or do. Who is then saved? Who could stand before God and say who has done something even for an instant, it was really good in the deepest sense of the word? All of us are dead in our trespasses and sins (Eph. 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is no one who does good, no one (Rom. 3) If God's choice was based on a single good thing that is in us, then no one would be chosen. Then no one would go to heaven; all go to hell. Because no one is good.Therefore, thank God its unconditional election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To make it clear what he means unconditional election, it is necessary to refer to Arminianism. I do not like having to do it, because may seem to be the enemy of the Arminians. On the contrary, I think Arminians can be born again Christians. <b>*</b> They believe there is a triune God, that Jesus is God and died for the sins of man, claim salvation by faith alone and not by works . Therefore, all true believers who trust in Jesus as his savior should feel in true Christian fellowship with Arminians. They are one in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the Arminians are sincere Christians, they are completely wrong about the following doctrines of total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace and perseverance of the saints. And the only reason I mentioned Arminianism is to show more clearly the biblical teachings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">*</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Arminianism was named after the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius, who lived from 1560 to 1609. He developed the Five Points of Arminianism, against which the church council of Dort (Netherlands) ruled in 1618-1619.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Because the white neck is as white as when contrasted to black. Also, the biblical truths of Calvinism are never as clear as when it is contrary to the misconceptions of Arminianism. Thus, it is only with reluctance that I mention both Arminianism, but we do it for love and appreciation for them. We just want to present the full joy of the Christian faith that is not obscured by the misconception of conditional election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">According to the Arminian, divine election and if they believe in the election is unconditional. They believe that God foresees who will believe in Christ, and then, based on that foreknowledge, God decides to choose believers to heaven. They believe that sometimes the natural and unregenerate man has enough good in itself, so that if the Holy Spirit help, want to choose Jesus. Man chooses to God, and then God chooses the man. God's choice is conditioned by the choice of man. The Arminian, as taught conditional election; while the Calvinist teaches unconditional election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">II. BIBLICAL BASE<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Five Points of Calvinism are closely linked. Which accepts one of the points accept others.Unconditional election necessarily follow from total depravity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If men are totally depraved and yet some are saved, then it is obvious that the reason some are saved and others lost rests entirely on God. All mankind would continue to remain lost if left to himself and God chose some to be saved. Because by nature man he is spiritually dead (Eph. 2) and not just sick. He does not possess in itself neither life nor spiritual goodness. You can not do anything that is truly good nothing, not even understand the things of God and Christ, much less desire Christ or salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Only when the Holy Spirit regenerates man to have faith in Christ and be saved. Therefore, if the total depravity is biblically true, then faith and consequent salvation is given only when the Holy Spirit acts through regeneration. And the decision as to what will be covered by its action should belong completely, one hundred percent, God, since man, as is spiritually dead, can not ask for help. This is unconditional election: God's choice does not depend on anything man does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JUAN A. 6.37, 39<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus promised his listeners, "All that the Father gives me will come to me; and who comes to me will never drive away, and this is the will of the Father who sent me. Let everything that hath given me I should lose nothing but raise it up at the last day "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It looks very clearly that those who will be resurrected at the last day- all believers verdaderos- Father gives them to Christ. And only those that the Father Christ can come to him. Salvation is entirely in the hands of the Father. He is the one who gives them to Jesus to be saved. Once they have been handed over to Jesus, it is then worry that none of them is lost. Thus, salvation depends entirely on the Father give some to Christ. This is nothing but unconditional election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JUAN B. 15.16.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ said, "You did not choose me but I chose you."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If there is some text which clearly point unconditional election is this. The Arminian says he chooses Christ. Christ says, "No, you did not choose me. On the contrary, I have chosen you. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is true that the Christian chooses Christ. Believe in it. It is up to you. And yet Christ says, "No, not choose me you to me." The negative observation of Christ is a way of saying that while Christians believe sometimes that he himself is the deciding factor in choosing Christ factor, the truth is that ultimately Christ who chooses the believer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And then after that, the believer chooses Christ. We think that all the good things we do in life, as we believe in Christ's on our own; but we must remember that God is working in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Phil. 2.12, 13). John put it another way in his first letter, "We love Him because He first loved us." Love of God precedes the love of man. This is the selective love of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C: 13.48 FACTS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lucas said, "They believed all those who were ordained to eternal life."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here is another text complete clarity for anyone who read the Bible without preconceived notions about the election. Luke tells conversions occurred in Antioch where Paul and Barnabas had preached. Reporting on the results of their ministry uses the words of that text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This has troubled Arminians to the extent that their theologians have tried to twist the words to make them say, "All who believed were ordained to eternal life"; and predecessor Unitarianism, Socino (1539-1604), in fact resulted in this way, but this completely violent text. This translation harmonize well with the Arminian theory that God foresees who will believe and then predetermines. But the Bible says exactly the opposite: "They believed all those who were ordained to eternal life." The full text of this simplicity is amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. 2 Thessalonians 2.13.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The apostle Paul said, "But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Note first of all that it is said that the Lord loved the Thessalonians. This is because selective love. The term "loved by" is never used in the case of the unbeliever, or the world, in any of the passages of the Bible.God never calls Judas or the world that rejects it, "beloved of the Lord." This term is reserved for those who love Jesus and who have been saved by his death. This is already a sign of eternal love of God and selective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then notice that Paul expressly says that God chose the Thessalonians, implying that others overlooked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, Paul writes that God chose from the beginning; ie before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1.4) -from eternity. Someone will say, "Surely he chose from eternity, which foreordained who would go to heaven; but it did so based on prior knowledge. God foresaw those who would believe in Christ and chose them based on this. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This form of reasoning ignores the clear teaching of Paul. Paul does not say that God chose because they were saints or believed the Thessalonians. On the contrary, says exactly the opposite. God chose "salvation". Some of the modern versions translate "to be saved" (New International Version). Salvation comes only through faith; so that when Paul says that God chose "to be saved" to the Thessalonians, this, of course, implies that God chose them the only way to get that salvation namely faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If God chose to give someone the result without giving them the means to achieve this, the election has no meaning. In case there are still some who doubted that faith is a gift of God and not the result of the efforts of man (Eph. 2.8), Paul expressly says that God chose them to salvation "through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in truth. " In other words, salvation, sanctification and faith form a whole that the Thessalonians came from God. Thus, 2 Thessalonians teaches a choice of God does not depend on anything that is in man, or his holiness or his faith. No, God's election is unconditional.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. Ephesians 1.4-5.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul says that God the Father has blessed us with every spiritual blessing, "as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ , according to the good pleasure of his will. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Notice how Paul speaks force the election. He says that God "chose" not that we chose God. Then he adds that God has "predestined" us. In addition, the sovereign choice is emphasized more with the statement that God chose us in Christ; that is to say, because we chose not ourselves but for the sake of Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Perhaps some Arminians will continue to argue that God does predestined to some, but this was based on the knowledge that God had of those who would believe. Therefore, the decision is actually man and not God. But note that Paul does not say that God chose because we are holy, but that we should be holy and without blame us. And holiness includes faith, because there is no holiness without faith. Ephesians 1 completely opposed to what the Arminian, and excludes the choice that is based on something that is in man-works or faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This conclusion is further reinforced when Paul adds that this election and predestination were "according to the good pleasure of his will". God did not choose the man because he foresaw that had in it something worthwhile, like faith, because then you would have said that predestined us "according to the faith foreseen in man." On the contrary, Paul omits any reference to the man and says the reason is found only in "the good pleasure" of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To emphasize more strongly this sovereign choice of God, which was not based on anything that exists in man, Paul adds the expression, "his will". This was not necessary for their reasoning. He had said that the election had been according to the purpose of God; this was sufficient to indicate that God's choice was based on reasons that were totally in it. But then adds "his will", which still indicates more vigorously the freedom of choice of God, the fact that the reason is to be found only in his will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ROMANS F. 8.29, 30.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul says, who foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son ... And those whom he predestined he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If there is a verse that seems to support the Arminian concept of predetermination based on prior knowledge, this is it. But only on a superficial reading it would lead to this conclusion. For the word translated in the old version as "foreknow" is a Greek and Hebrew expression meaning "love before."When the Bible says that Adam "knew" Eve, it does not mean that Adam knew how high it was and the kind of temperament he had. No, it means that Adam loved Eve. And when David says that God "knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish "(1 Sal), does not say that God knows the righteous and the wicked does not know. God knows all things and all people, including the poor. David itself means that God loves and hates right way the path of evil, which he punished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In like manner, when God says through Amos, "You only have I known of all the families of the earth" (3.2), he does not deny his omniscience, saying he does not know anyone more intellectually. This is not a metaphor that means, "among all the families of the earth but I have loved you."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, when Paul says in Romans 8.29, "whom he foreknew he also predestined" Paul uses the biblical expression "know" instead of "love" and means "to those who previously loved, predestined . "If" knew "mean here only intellectual knowledge, then God would not know all; because then you would not know that he has not predestined for justification and glorification. What Paul says in Romans 8 is that there is a golden chain of salvation that begins with the eternal and selective love of God and continuous unbreakable links through predetermination, effective call, justification, until the final glorification in heaven .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Instead of supporting the Arminian view that predetermination is based on prior knowledge, Romans 8 agrees definitively with the rest of Scripture in the sense that the predetermination of the believer is based on the eternal love God. Thank God that there is this unbroken chain of salvation. He who believes in Christ knows that part of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">G. ROMANS 9: _6-26.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All texts previously mentioned are excellent to show that God does not choose people because there is something about them that appeals to you. But the most splendid statement of all is in Romans 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The main problem of Romans 9-11 is this: "How can the Israelites, who possessed all the blessings of God in the past, be spiritually lost? Has God forgotten his promises to Israel? "Paul answers with a resounding no. "Not that the word of God has failed" (9.6). Then he spends the rest of the chapter to show that salvation is not obtained because one is physical descendant of Abraham, but that is received from the sovereign grace of God. And this is what we want to show: The first clue is in the fact that Rom. 9.7 Paul speaks of the sovereign choice of Isaac instead of Ishmael. God spoke sovereignly and selective, "in Isaac shall thy seed be called."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then Paul says the same sovereign choice in the case of Jacob and Esau. Jacob and Esau had the same parents and had even been born at once: they were twins. But God sovereignly chose Jacob and Esau ignored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To show that God's choice was not based on prior knowledge, Paul writes that God made known his choice Rebekah before the twins were born and before they had done anything good or bad (9.11). "That was Paul says that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not by works but by calling" (9.11). God chose Jacob because he saw in advance that would be good or believe. The source of the election is not in man, but in "calling", ie God simply says, "A. Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated "(9.13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As human beings we would like to ask, "But why Dio? And God answered simply reiterating the fact, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated" and gives no reason that satisfies the question concerned that man is made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul perceives the feeling of dissatisfaction will certainly awaken in the minds of those who will listen to his letter. Spontaneously perceive that some will think, "What kind of God is this? It is not right to love and loathe one another even before they are born and before they have a chance to show what they are "why in the next verse (14) Paul asks." What shall we say then? What's injustice in God "This is the crux: Unconditional election seems to imply the idea of an unjust God and therefore can not be. So argues the man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Before we move on to examine Paul's response to the accusation, we reflect a moment on the fact that this same question Paul unconditional election is assumed. The question of injustice in God never, never arises within the Arminian theory. For according to the Arminian, God does not choose arbitrarily, as it provides who will be good or bad, or who will believe. God's choice is based on something man does or thinks. His predetermination is completely fair; It is deciding on the merits of man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The accusation of injustice done to God arises only if the election is unconditional; because the man seems foolish talk of a good and just God who simply chooses Jacob and Esau overlooked, especially when Jacob is not better than Esau, or has more merit than him. This is crazy, he thinks. God must be unjust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, the fact that Paul raises the question about the injustice it presupposes that talks about unconditional election. According to the Arminian theory of unconditional election, there would be no possibility of raising the problem of injustice. But Paul does, which shows he is teaching unconditional election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The response of the infallible word of God to Paul's question is not retract his comments about the sovereignty of God's choice, or try to offer a rational explanation for the man who doubts. Paul simply says "In any way." Neither dare to say or think that God is unfair. It is not. It is a good and holy God is never unjust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maybe we can not understand everything here. After all, we are only human; we are not God. Can he surprisingly petty sinners and not understand everything that refers to God? Do their ways are not higher than ours as much as the infinite sky is high above the earth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even Paul says otherwise unconditional election by God with an expression of the Old Testament. "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I compassion on whom I have compassion" (9.15). And later he says, "of whom he will have mercy, and whom he hardeneth" (9.18) According to the Bible, the choice is exclusively God. It is free to love you want and ignore the want, not because of how good or bad that is in man, but for their own good reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Could be regarded as sufficient evidence alleged in any of the numerous points mentioned in Romans 9. Paul has demonstrated conclusively that salvation is not the acting, but the caller, and that election is unconditional. Needless to pursue other arguments. And yet it seems as if Paul had in mind Arminians when he wrote verse 16. Because Paul says so in so unequivocally that there can be no misunderstanding, "So do not depend on the man who wants, desires or decides; nor of him that runneth. It depends solely on God who has mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If there is still someone who doubts these explicit statements of the Bible that our salvation is entirely in God's hands, and that does not depend in the least of which want or running, to read one and other time Romans 9.16. For this is the word of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As God has appointed the elect to glory, in the same way, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, foreordained all the means for this: <b>1 Peter 1: 2; 2 Thes. 2:13; Eph. 1: 4; 2:10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Therefore, those who are chosen, having fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ: <b>1 Thes. 5: 9, 10; Tit.2:14.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> effectually called to faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due time, they are justified, adopted, sanctified: <b>Ro. 8:30; Eph. fifteen; 2 Thes. 2:13.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> kept by his power through faith unto salvation: 1 Peter 1: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> nobody else is redeemed by Christ, or effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified , and saved, but only the elect: June 6. <b>: 64.65; 8:47; 10:26; 17: 9; Ro. 8:28; 1 Jun. 2:19.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of deep mystery of predestination be handled with special prudence and care: <b>Dt. 29:29;Ro. 9:20; 11:33.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For men, when dealing with the will of God revealed in His Word and to obey it , they can, by the certainty of their effectual calling, be assured of their eternal election: <b>1 Thes. 1: 4, 5; 2 Peter 1:10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Thus, this doctrine afford matter of praise, reverence and admiration of God: Eph. 1: 6; Ro. 11:33.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And humility: <b>Ro. 11: 5, 6.20; Col 3:12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And diligence: <b>2 Peter 1:10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and abundant consolation to all that sincerely obey the Gospel: <b>Lk. 10:20.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">IN ALL PREDESTINATION they get what they want.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sometimes people complain that predestination is a hard doctrine that forces people to do what they do not want to do. They say that if they wanted to believe, could not, unless God had predestined; and if they wished not believe God would be forced to go to heaven. So, what good is believing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It must be said very firmly that everyone gets exactly what they want. To put it in the sharpest possible way: Convicts are happy to be in hell. No one is in hell against their will. All who are there are happy about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Do not misinterpret that statement. Convicts know that after death all go or heaven or hell. They do not like hell, because otherwise there would be hell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">*</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Neither God has free will, God can not choose to do evil, because it's just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They do not like hell, because otherwise there would be hell. It is the place where the worms never die and where you fire never goes out. In hell there is only eternal agony. It is hellish. So those convicted do not like being there. But one thing hate more than the same torment: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The last place they want to be ele is in heaven. They can not digest the idea of repenting of their sins and to love God and others more than themselves. They do not want to be in hell, but when they know that the alternative is hell to heaven with a pure heart, prefer to stay in hell. It is therefore true that everyone gets what they want: Christians are happy to be with God, and the damned are not happy to be with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">How often complains the non-Christian teaching of predestination, usually a hypocritical rationalization of their rejection of Christ. I would ask:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What do you want? Are you repented of his sins? Do you trust Christ as Savior? Do you love God and want to go to heaven? If the answer is yes, then you should know that it is Christian. It has already believed. And "that cometh to me I will never drive away", Jesus says. You have what you want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If you answer no to these questions, then you ask, "Why do you complain? It has everything you want.Christ does not want, do not want the sky. Well, you have exactly what you want. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These biblical teachings about the election are difficult to understand. If anyone still doubting them, you should remember that salvation depends not believe everything the Bible says about unconditional election. We can have confusion of ideas and even negate some biblical truths, and yet be saved. Salvation does not depend on having the knowledge of a theologian. It depends only on whether one has truly put trust in Jesus Christ to save him from his sins. Therefore, both Arminians and Calvinists who repent of their sins and turn to Christ for salvation will go to heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But if I were Arminian, I would like to know with certainty what the Bible says about the choice; because it is undeniable that the Arminian loses much of the richness of Christian life because of their views. See how this happens in two ways:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. PRAISE thankfulness to God.</span></b><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If you believe that Christ died for their sins and that with the partial support of the Holy Spirit has come to this conviction, it will be very thankful to God. But suppose that, besides being grateful to Christ for dying on the cross for you, fall into the account that he had never loved Jesus unless he had first loved, I never would have chosen unless the I had chosen unless that would have given faith in him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then I would love more. His humility would be much greater because he would know that neither is good enough to distinguish something good that is before your eyes. His appreciation would be much higher because it would have much to be thankful for. His decision to live a better life would be much stronger because there would be more reasons to be grateful. How good it is God not only forgive sins but also to give us faith in Christ so that we can get the forgiveness of sins. How good is God!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. TRUST TO BE SAVED.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If ultimately our salvation depended on our free will to accept Christ, and God will supply the vicarious atonement of Christ, but not our faith, then we are in a deplorable condition. Think about it - that remain Christian or not, depended on nosotros¡ What a terrible¡ thoughts Is salvation depends on us, who by nature are corrupt and do not love God? How we, as Christians we still have the old man in us? How we who hesitate, waver, and we sin? Is salvation depends on us? Oh, no, it's not. I think today, but maybe tomorrow will not believe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maybe I succumb to sinful desires rather than remain faithful to Christ. Perhaps my skeptical teachers convinced me that the Bible is not true. These may be the disturbances of thinking that faith ultimately it depends mainly on himself and who has not received from God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the Calvinist knows that all salvation depends on God and not himself. He knows that not only Christ died for their sins, but God gave him faith. Knows that it has begun a good work in him will continue until the day of judgment (Phil. 1.6) Thus the Arminian can not have the joy and comfort of salvation because it makes rest his faith in himself and not God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Praise God, from whom all blessings, including faith, which is the means of securing the blessings of the Atonement of Christ. Praise God for his selective love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MEDITANDO ABOUT GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"Canst thou trace of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven, what will you do? It is deeper than hell; what canst thou know? Its dimension is longer than the earth and wider than the sea "(Job 11: 7-9). In previous studies, we have observed some of the admirable and precious perfections of the Divine character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">After this simple and poor meditation attributes, it must be clear to all of us who God is, first, an incomprehensible being, and marvel at His infinite greatness, we are forced to use the words of Sofar, " You will reach the trail you God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven, what will you do? It is deeper than hell; what canst thou know? Its dimension is longer than the earth and wider than the sea "When we turn our thoughts to the eternity of God, his immaterial being, his omnipresence and omnipotence, we feel overwhelmed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the impossibility of understanding the Divine nature is no reason to give up on our efforts and reverent devotees to understand what God himself has so graciously revealed in His Word. It would be crazy to say that, because we can not acquire a perfect knowledge it is better not strive to achieve part.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">'Nothing increases both the capacity of the intellect and the human soul as the devout, sincere and constant research of the great theme of Divinity. The most excellent study to develop the soul is the science of Christ crucified and knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. " Quoting CH Spurgeon, the great Baptist preacher of the last century, we will say that:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"The proper study for Christians is the Divine: The highest science, the most sublime speculation and the most important philosophy that the son of God can occupy your attention is the name, nature, person, work and the existence of the great God whom he calls Father. "in meditation of Divinity there is something extremely beneficial to the mind. It is such a vast subject, which makes our thoughts are lost in the immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can understand and master other subjects; in doing so, we are satisfied, we say: I am here wise, and follow our own path. However, we approach our master science and we realize that our plumb line does not reach its depth, and that our eagle eye can not reach its height, we turn away thinking: We are of yesterday, and know nothing, (Mal. 3: 6). Yes, our inability to understand the divine nature should teach us to be humble, cautious and reverent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">After all our search and meditation, we have to say like Job: "Behold, these are parts of his ways; But, how little is heard of him! "(Job 26:14). When Moses implored to show him his glory, he replied: "I proclaim the name of the Lord before thee" (Exodus 33:19.), And, as someone said, "the name is the set of attributes".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can dedicate ourselves completely to the study of the various perfections by which God reveals his own self, attributing all, although we still poor and bad of each conceptions. However, while our understanding corresponds to the revelation he gives us his several Excellencies, we have this vision of his glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Indeed, the difference between the knowledge of God have the saints in this life and which will in heaven is great; however, neither the first to be dismissed, or exaggerated the second. It is true that Scripture declares that "face to face" and "know as we are known" (1 Cor. 13:12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But to deduce from this then know God as he knows us is to be seduced by the mere appearance of words, and without limitation that necessarily impose themselves on subject like this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is a big difference between saying that the saints will be glorified, and that will be divine facts.Christians, even in his state of glory, are finite creatures, and, therefore, unable to fully comprehend the infinite God. "In heaven, the saints see God with spiritual eyes, because he will always be invisible to the physical eye; you will see more clearly as you could see by reason and faith, and more extensively than they have so far revealed their works and dispensations; but the ability of their minds will not be increased to the extent to behold at a time and in detail all the excellence of their nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To understand the infinite perfection would require them to be infinite. Even in heaven their knowledge will be partial; however, their happiness will be complete because their knowledge will be perfect, in the sense that it will be appropriate to the capacity of being, although not exhaust the fullness of the end, we believe it will be progressive, and, as his vision to develop , your bliss will also increase; but it will never reach a limit beyond which there is nothing more to discover; and when the centuries have passed, he will still be the incomprehensible God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Second, the study of the perfections of God is evident that it is quite enough. It is in itself and for itself.First of all beings could not receive any other thing. Being infinite, it is in possession of all perfection possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the triune God was just, he was all for himself. His understanding, love and energy were directed at himself. If I had needed something external, it had not been independent, and therefore had not been God. He created all things "for him" it (Col. 1:16). However, he did not to meet any need you may have, but to transmit life and happiness to angels and men, and to admit them to the vision of His own glory. It is true that demands loyalty and devotion of his intelligent creatures; however, it does not benefit from their service, on the contrary, they are the beneficiaries (Job 22: 2,3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God uses means and instruments to fulfill his purposes, not because his power is inadequate, but often to prove more surprising despite the weakness of the instruments mode. The all-sufficiency of God makes the supreme object of our aspirations. True happiness consists only in the enjoyment of God. His favor is life, and his care is better than life itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"My portion is the Lord, says my soul; therefore I hope in him "(Lam. 3:24); the perception of his love, his grace and glory is the main object of the desires of the saints, and the source of its noblest satisfaction.Many say, "Who will show us good?" Make shine upon us, O Lord, the light of your face. You have given such joy to my heart that surpasses the joy that they have on the occasion of his harvest and his harvest "(Ps. 4: 6-7)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yes when the Christian is in his right mind can say: "Although the fig tree shall not blossom or the vines fruit, even if it fails the olive crop and produce no food fields, although sheep sheepfold run out and no cattle in the stables; yet I will rejoice in the Lord and I will joy in the God of my salvation "(Hab. 3: 17-18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Third, the study of the perfections of God highlights the fact that He is Supreme Ruler of the universe.Someone has said rightly that "no domain is as absolute as that of creation. One who could not have hacho anything, had the right to do everything according to his will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the exercise of its sovereign power made some parts of creation were mere inanimate matter, more or less refined texture, very different qualities, but inert and unconscious. He gave other body, and made them capable of growth and expansion, but still, lifeless in the proper sense of the word. Others gave them not only body but also conscious existence, organs of sense and proper motion. To these added in man the gift of reason and an immortal spirit which is connected to a higher order of beings that inhabit the upper regions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The waves the scepter of omnipotence over the world he created. Praised and honored him who lives forever; whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom for all ages. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, does as he pleases: none can stay his hand and say, what are you doing? (Dan. 4: 3435).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The creature, considered as such, has no rights. You can not demand anything to your Creator, and whatever it is treated, has no reason to complain. However, the thought of the absolute lordship of God over all things, we should never forget their moral perfections. God is just and good, and always does what is right. However, it exercises its sovereignty by imperial and equitable will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Assigns each creature his place as seems good to him. Arrange the different circumstances of each according to its own devices. Molds each vessel according to its immutable determination. He has mercy he wants, and he wants to harden. Wherever we are, His eye is upon us. Whoever we are, our lives and possessions are at your disposal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For Christians it is a tender Father; for the rebellious sinner he will be consuming fire. <span class="">"Therefore, the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. </span>Amen "(1 Tim. 1:17). </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-86811398346310151012016-04-03T13:28:00.003-07:002016-04-03T13:28:50.921-07:00THE CREATION<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit: <b>I 1: 2; June 1. 2, 3; Gn. 1: 2; Job 26:13;33: 4.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For the manifestation of the glory of His power, wisdom and goodness Eternals: <b>Ro. 1:20; Jer. 10:12; Ps 104: 24; 33: 5, 6; Pr 3:19.; Acts. 14:15, 16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Create or making the world and all things in it, whether visible or invisible: <b>Gn. eleven; June 1. 2; Col 1:16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In the span of six days <b>: Gn. 2: 1-3; Ex . 20: 8-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And all good: <b>Gn. 1:31; Ec 7:29.; Ro. 5:12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE CREATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Everything that exists in time and space had a beginning. I had a beginning; all had a beginning. The house in which we live has had a beginning. The clothes we wear has had a beginning. There was a time when our homes, our clothes, our cars, our washing machines, and ourselves, we did not exist. They were not, did not exist. Nothing can be more obvious than this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As we are surrounded by things and people who obviously had a beginning, we are tempted to jump to the conclusion that everything had a beginning. This conclusion, however, could be a fatal abyss of absurdity jump. It would be fatal to religion. It would also be fatal to science and reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Why? Did not I say at the outset that everything that exists in time and space had a beginning? Is it not</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">same as saying that everything had a beginning? No way. It simply logical and scientifically impossible that everything has had a beginning. Why? If all that exists had a beginning, then there must have been a time when nothing existed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let us pause a moment to reflect. We try to imagine that nothing exists. Absolutely nothing. We can not even conceive absolute nothingness. The concept itself is the negation of something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, if the time when there was nothing, what would now? Exactly. Nothing! If there was nothing, then logic compels me to conclude that there will always be nothing. It is not even possible to speak of an "always" when there was nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">How can we be so certain, in fact, the most absolute certainty, that if there was anything then there would be nothing now? The answer is surprisingly simple, despite that even very smart people stumble upon this obvious fact. The answer is simply that you can not extract something from nothing. An absolute law of science and logic is ex nihilo nihil fit (out of nothing, nothing comes). Nothing can not produce anything. Nothing you can not laugh, sing, mourn, work, dance or breathing. And in no way you can create.Nothing can not do anything because nothing is. Does not exist. It has absolutely no power because it is not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For something out of nothing would have to possess the power of self-creation. You should be able to create itself, to be brought into existence. But this is clearly absurd. For something to create or produce itself it needs to be before it. But if something is already, you do not need to be created.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To create itself, something should be and not be, should exist and not exist at the same time and in the same direction. This is a contradiction. Violates the most fundamental of all scientific and rational laws, the law of non-contradiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we know anything, we know that if something exists today, then, somehow and somewhere, there must have been something that had no beginning. I am aware that brilliant thinkers like Bertrand Russell, in his famous debate with Frederick Copelston, argued that the present universe is the result of an "infinite series of finite causes". Posits an infinite series, developed into eternity past, causing other things caused forever. What makes this idea is simply reframe the problem of self-creation to infinity. It is a fundamentally silly concept. The fact that has been proposed by smart people makes it no less silly. It's worse than silly. Silliness can be real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But this concept is logically impossible. Russell can deny the law that nothing comes from nothing, but can not refute it without committing mental suicide. We know (with logical certainty) that if something exists now, then there must be something that had no beginning. The question now becomes knowing what or who.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are many scholars who believe that the answer to what we find in the universe itself. They argue (as in the case of Carl Sagan) that there is no need to look beyond the universe to find something that has a beginning from which everything comes. In other words, it is not necessary to assume that there is something like "God" that transcends the universe. The universe, or something in the universe, can fulfill this role perfectly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is a very subtle error in this scenario. It has to do with the transcendent meaning of the term. In philosophy and theology the idea of transcendence means that God is "above and beyond" the universe in the sense that God is a being superior to other beings order. We often refer to God as the Supreme Being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What is making the Supreme Being something other than human beings? Note that both concepts have something in common, the word being. When we say that God is the Supreme Being, we are saying it is a kind of being different from ordinary beings. What is precisely this difference? We call supreme because no beginning. He is supreme because all other beings owe their existence to him, while he does not owe its existence to anyone. He is the eternal Creator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Everything else is the work of creation. When Carl Sagan and others say that within the universe, and not above or beyond the universe, there is something that has not been created, they are simply using sophistry to discuss the abode of the Creator. They are saying that what was not created live here (in the universe), and not "out there" (above or transcending the universe). But this still requires the existence of a Supreme Being. The mysterious part, from which come all created things, yet be beyond and above anything else of creation in terms of being. In other words, the existence of a transcendent Being is still required.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The more we investigate this "Creator within-universe" is more like God. It has not been created. Create everything else. It has the inherent power of being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What is so crystal clear now is that if something exists, then there must be a Supreme Being that did exist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first statement of the Bible is "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This text is foundational to all Christian thought. It is not only a religious statement but a rationally necessary concept.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Everything that exists in time </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">space had a beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> From nothing comes something. Nothing, nothing can do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> If there was nothing, so now there would be nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Now there is something; therefore, there must be something that had no beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Things can not create themselves because this would imply that they were before it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> If any "part" of the universe has not been created, then this "part" is superior or transcendent to the parties that have had a beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A being that has not been created is paramount (is a being of a higher order created beings), regardless of where your home is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Transcendence refers to a level of existence, not geography.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis 1, Psalm 33: 1-9, Psalm 104: 24-26, Jeremiah 10: 1-16, Hebrews </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">11: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ORDER IN CREATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our discussion of the divine decrees leads to review of its implementation, ie the work of creation pointing his start. This is the principle and basis of revelation and foundation of religious life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CREATION IN GENERAL<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word creation is not always used in the Bible with the same meaning. In the strict sense this word denotes the work of God which produced the universe and everything in it, in part without the use of pre-existing materials, but also using materials which by their nature are inappropriate for the manifestation of his glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Creation is the work of the triune God, Genesis 1: 2, Job. 26: 13; 33: 4; Psalm 33: 6; Isaiah 40: 12-13; John 1: 3; 1 Cor. 8: 6; Col. 1: 15-17. Against Pantheism must hold that creation was a free act of God. That is, God did not need the material universe, Ephesians 1:11; Rev.. 4:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Against deism we affirm that God created the universe in such a way that depended on him forever. It is because God must hold day by day, Acts 17:28; Hebrews 1: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TIME OF CREATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible teaches that God created the world "in the beginning", that is, at the beginning of all things temporal. Behind this "beginning" we are dealing with an infinite eternity. The first part of the creative work is we mentioned in Genesis 1: 1 and was the creation without pre-existing materials or rather creation out of nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The expression "create out of nothing" is not found in the Bible, but only one of the Apocrypha, 2 Maccabees 7:28. The idea of creation ex nihilo is enclosed in the following passages: Genesis 1: 1; Psalm 33: 9; 148: 5; Romans 4: 7 and Hebrews 11: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE FINAL PURPOSE OF CREATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some teach that the purpose of creation is the happiness of man. They argue that God can not be in itself the ultimate purpose of creation because God is a being in itself enough. On the contrary, man exists for God and not God to man. The Bible clearly teaches that God created the world in order to manifest His glory. Naturally this manifestation of His glory is to promote a certain admiration by the creature, but you want to contribute to their well-being, do arise in your hearts worship the Creator. Isaiah 43: 7; 60:21; 61: 3; Ezekiel 36: 21-22; 39: 7; Luke 2:14; Romans 9:17; eleven; 36; 1 Cor. 15:28; Ephesians 1: 5. 6, 12, 14; 3: 9-10; Col 1:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SUBSTITUTE FOR THE DOCTRINE OF CREATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Those who refuse to accept the doctrine of creation have the following theories to explain the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Some say that the original matter is eternal and that the universe emerged from it by chance or effect of some higher force. This theory incurs contradiction to suppose the existence of two eternal and infinite things, there's one next to the other, ie, matter and force. Such an explanation is logically impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Others maintain that God and the universe are actually one thing and that the universe is the necessary consequence or product of divine being. This theory God removes the power of his own determination, and denies men their freedom and moral and responsible character. At the same time God the author of evil in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Finally , some took refuge in the theory of evolution. Evolution offers no solution to explain the origin of the world, since in principle implies the existence of something that develops gradually.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE SPIRITUAL WORLD<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God not only created a material universe but also created an angelic spirit world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TEST FOR THE EXISTENCE OF ANGELS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The modern liberal theology has abandoned his belief in spiritual beings. The Bible, in contrast, assumes their existence and gives them a real personality. 2 Samuel 14:20; Matthew 24:36; Jude 6; Rev.. 14:10.Some teach that angels have etheric bodies, but this is contrary to Scripture. Angels are spiritual and pure beings (although sometimes we presented in material forms), Ephesians 6:12; Hebrews 1:14, without flesh and bones, Luke 24:39, and therefore invisible, Col 1:16. Some of them are good, holy and elect, Mark 8:38;Luke 9:26; 2 Cor. 11:14; 1 Tim. 5:21; Rev.. 14:10 and others fell from their original state and consequently are evil beings, John 8:44; 2 Peter 2: 4; Jude 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CLASSES OF ANGELS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Clearly, there are different kinds of angels. The Bible speaks of the cherubs, who reveal the power, majesty and glory of God, and keep his holiness in the Garden of Eden, the tabernacle and the temple.Genesis 3:24; Ex 25:18; 2 Samuel 22:11; Psalm 18:10.; 80: 1; 99: 1; Isaiah 37:16. We also found the seraphim mentioned only in Isaiah 6: 2, 3. 6. The seraphim are the servants of God on his throne, sing praises to Him and are always ready to do their purposes. Its purpose is to reconcile and prepare men to approach God properly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Two of the angels know them by name. The first is Gabriel, Dan. 8:16; 9:21 Luke 1:10, 26. His special task was to communicate to men divine revelations and interpreted. The second is Michael, Daniel 10:13, 21; Jude 9; Rev.. 12: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the letter of Judas called Archangel. It is a brave fighter who fights, battles against the enemies of God of His people and the evil powers in the spiritual world. The Bible also mentions several general namely, principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, manors, Ephesians 1: 21; 3: 10; Col. 1: 16; 2: 10; 1 Peter 3: 22.These names denote differences in rank and dignity among the angels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE WORK OF ANGELS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The angels worship and praise God without ceasing, Psalm 130: 20; Isaiah 6, Revelation. 5:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Since sin entered the world, angels serve the heirs of salvation, Hebrews 1: 14 rejoice in the conversion of sinners, Luke 15: 10, saved believers, Psalm 34: 7; 91: 11, protect small, Matthew 18:10, they are present in the church, 1 Cor. 11: 10; Ephesians 3: 10; 1 Tim. 5: 21, and lead believers to the bosom of Abraham, Luke 16: 22. They are often the bearers of special revelations from God, Daniel 9: 21-23, Zech. 1: 12-14. Impart the blessings of God to his people, Psalm 91: 11-12; Isaiah 63: 9; Dan 6: 22; Acts 5:19 and execute God's judgments against their enemies, Genesis 19: 1, 13; 2 Kings 19:35; Matthew 13:41.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">BAD ANGELS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Apart from the good angels there are also evil angels who rejoice to oppose God and to destroy his work.These angels were created good, but failed to retain its original position, 2 Peter 2: 4; Jude 6. We do not know exactly what his sin, but probably rebelled against God and aspired to divine authority, v. 2 Thes. 2: 4, 9. Satan, who was a prince among the angels, became the head of those who fell into sin, Matthew 25:41;9:34; Ephesians 2: 2. With his supernatural powers Satan and his hosts seek to destroy the work of God.We know that trying to blind and deceive even the elect, and give encouragement to sinners to continue in their evil ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In Genesis 1: 1 we find the story of the original creation of the heavens and the earth. The rest of the chapter explains what some have called the secondary creation, ie, how God carried out the world was created in six days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">DAYS OF CREATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It has deliberated much about whether the days of creation were ordinary days or not. Geologists and proponents of the theory of evolution tell us about long periods of time. It is true that the word "day" in Scripture does not always mean a day of 24 hours. See: Genesis 1: 5; 2: 4; Psalm 50: 15; Ecclesiastes 7: 14;Zech. 4:10. However, we believe that the following considerations favor interpret the days of creation as 24-hour days:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Hebrew word yom (day) usually denotes an ordinary day, and unless the context otherwise requires, should be understood as a day of 24 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Repeat the expressions "morning" and "evening" favors this interpretation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It was also a day of 24 hours God separated as a day of rest at the end of creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Exodus 20: 9-11 teaches us that Israel must work six days and rest on the seventh, because the Lord made the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It is clear that the last three days were days of 24 hours because they were determined by the relationship of the earth to the sun. Now if the past three days were 24 hours, why not the first four?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE WORK DAY SIX<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the first day God created light and formed the day and night to separate light from darkness. This does not contradict the fact that the sun, moon and stars were created on the fourth day as the stars are not the same light but only luminaries. The work of the second day was also a separating work. God separated the upper and lower waters and established the sky. On the third day the work of separation continued separation of the sea and the dry land. God also established on this day the plant kingdom, trees and plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By the power of His Word God he made the earth to bring forth flowerless plants, vegetables and fruit each according to his seed trees and class. On the fourth day God created the sun, moon and stars for various purposes, ie, to divide the day from the night, be signs of weather conditions, regulate the succession of days, months and years and seasons, but also for land ports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The work of the fifth day was the creation of birds and fish, the inhabitants of the air and water. Finally, the sixth day marked the climax of the creative work. God created the higher animals, and as a crown of this creation put the man made in the image of God. The man's body was made from the dust of the earth, but his soul was the result of the immediate creation of God. On the seventh day God rested from his work and was glad to see it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Note the parallel between the work of the first three days and the last three:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Creation of light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Creation of expansion and separation of the water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . Separation of water and dry land and preparing it to be the room of animals and man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Creating ports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Creating the birds of the air and the fish of the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Creation of the wild animals, cattle and reptiles, and finally man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Evolutionists try to replace the biblical origin of creation for their own views and theories. They say that all species of plants and animals, including man, and that the different manifestations of life such as intelligence, morality and religion were developed by a natural process perfect, simply as a result of the forces of nature. However, such a theory is just a guess and has innumerable errors. In addition it is in serious conflict with the account of creation found in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TEXTS TO LEARN MEMORY<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE CREATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Genesis 1: 1. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 33: 6. "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 1: 3. "All things were made by him; without him nothing being done was done. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hebrews 11: 3. "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that what is seen, what he was not seen."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE FINAL PURPOSE OF CREATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Isaiah 43: 6-7. "Bring ... all called by my name; for my glory I grew up, the trained, and did. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 19: 1-2. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handywork."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 148: 13. "Praise the name of Jehovah, for his name alone is excellent; His glory is above earth and heaven".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE ANGELS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 103: 20. "Bless the Lord, you his angels, you mighty. That you may fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hebrews 1:14. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Judas 6. "And the angels which kept not their first estate , but left their own habitation, reserved under darkness in eternal bonds until the judgment of the great day."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TIME OF CREATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Genesis 1: 1. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Exodus 20:11. "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it ."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER STUDY BÍBLlCO<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In what sense the word is used to "create" in Psalm 51:10; 104: 30; Isaiah 45: 7?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Can we say that Genesis 1:11, 12, 20, 24, favor the theory of evolution? See also Genesis 1:21, 25; 2: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What do the following passages teach us about the sin of the angels? 2 Peter 2: 4; Jude 6; see also 2 Thessalonians 2: 4-12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female, with rational and immortal souls, making them fit for life with God for which they were created: <b>Gn. 1:27; 2: 7; Stg. 2:26; Mt. 10:28; Eq . 12: 7.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Being made in the image of God, in knowledge, righteousness and holiness of truth: <b>Gn. 1: 26,27; 5: 1-3;9: 6; Ec 7:29.; 1 Corinthians 11: 7; Stg. 3: 9; Col. 3:10; Eph. 4:24.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Having the law of God written in their hearts, and power to fulfill it, and yet, with the possibility of transgressing, they are having been left to the liberty of their own will, which was mutable: <b>Ro. 1:32; 2: 12a, 14-15; Gn. 3: 6; Ec 7:29.; Ro. 5:12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MAN IN ORIGINAL STATE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He is having considered the doctrine of God we pass to the study of the doctrine of man, which is the crown of God's work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF HUMAN NATURE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The most common point of view is that man is composed of two parts, body and soul. Such a belief is in harmony with human feeling and also with the Scriptures that speak of man as a being composed of "body and soul". Matthew 6:25; 10:28 either "spirit and body", Ecclesiastes 12: 7; 1 Corinthians 5: 3, 5. Some believe that the words "soul" and "spirit" denote different elements and therefore man is "body, soul and spirit." See 1 Thessalonians 5:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Instead, it is clear that the words "soul" and "spirit" are used synonymously. Death is described us as a "get out of the soul" Genesis 53:18; 1 Kings 17:21 and other times and leaving the spirit, Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59. The dead are called "souls" in some cases, Revelation 9: 6 and 20: 4, but in other cases of "spirits", 1 Peter 3:19 and Hebrews 12:23. These terms denote the spiritual element of man seen from different viewpoints. As a "spirit" is the principle of life and action that controls the body, and as a "soul" is the personal subject who thinks, feels, wants and origin of the affections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE ORIGIN OF THE SOUL<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are three different views on the origin of the human soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PREEXISTENCE<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some teach that human souls existed in a previous state and that something happened which explains its present condition. For some such hypothesis it has helped them explain the fact that man is born in sin, but that opinion has been generally discarded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Traducianism<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">According to those who believe that man derives his soul, the soul of their parents. This is the common opinion in the Lutheran Churches. Their arguments are that there is in any place an account of the creation of the soul of Eva and elsewhere in the Bible spoken of descendants as being in the loins of their fathers, Genesis 46:26; Hebrews 7: 9-10. It favors such an opinion that in humans and even animals there are features family moving from the old to the young, and in the case of men, the children inherit from their parents the sinful nature, something that has more to do with the soul with the body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, such an opinion is faced with serious difficulties, as it makes the creators fathers of their children in a sense, or assumes that the human soul can be divided into several parts. It also jeopardizes the doctrine of the sinless nature of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Creationism<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Creationism holds that the soul is the direct creation of God in a time that can not be accurately determined. The souls are created pure but contaminated with 'sin before birth by contact with sin plaguing humanity. This review is very common among Reformed churches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In favor of it we find that the Bible assigns different origins to body and soul, Ecclesiastes 12: 7; Isaiah 42: 5; Zechariah 12: 1; Hebrews 12: 9. In addition it harmonizes well with the spiritual nature of the soul and the sinless nature of Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But it also has its difficulties because it does not explain the origin of peculiarities and hereditary characteristics, and for some it may seem that makes God the author of sinful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MAN AS THE IMAGE OF GOD<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The man, according to the Bible, was created in the image and likeness of God. Genesis 1:26 teaches that God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Both words "image" and "likeness" denote the same thing and prove the following passages are used synonymously: Genesis 1:26, 27; 5: 1; 9: 6; 1 Corinthians 11: 7; Colossians 3:10; Santiago 39. The word "likeness" probably denotes that this picture is much the same or similar. There are several opinions about the image of God in man:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Ttulo5Car"><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH</span></b></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Roman Catholics are the image of God in certain natural gifts that man possesses, such as the spirituality of the soul, free will and immortality. At that God adds another supernatural gift called original justice to repress the lower nature. This, they say, is the image of God in man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE LUTHERAN CHURCHES<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lutherans are not completely agree with each other on the point, but the opinion more generally accepted is that the image of God consists in those spiritual qualities that were given to man during creation, ie, true knowledge, righteousness and holiness. At such is called original justice. But such a view is too narrow and restricted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE REFORMED CHURCHES<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reformed distinguish between natural image and the moral image of God. The first is much broader and covers the moral, rational, spiritual and immortal human being. Such an image was obscured but not destroyed by sin. The moral image of God is used in more restricted to express true justice, knowledge and holiness that man lost by original sin sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These features are restored in Christ, Ephesians 4:24 and Colossians 3:10. Since man retained the image of God in the broadest sense it can even be called bearer of God's image; Genesis 9: 6; 1 Corinthians 11: 7;15:49; James 3: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MAN ON THE COVENANT OF WORKS<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God immediately established a covenant with man. This original pact has been called the covenant of works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL TESTIMONY ON THE COVENANT OF WORKS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In Rom. 5: 12-21 Paul draws a parallel between Adam and Christ. In Adam all die, so in Christ over all those who are His receive life. This. It means that Adam was the representative head of all men now as Christ is the head and representative of all who are yours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In Hosea 6: 7 we read: But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant. Adam's sin is called a transgression of the covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ELEMENTS OF THE COVENANT OF WORKS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The parties. Any agreement is always an agreement between two parties. Here are the triune God, Lord and Ruler of the universe and Adam as representative of the human race. Since these two parts are very unequal, the pact is more of a tax man arrangement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The promise. The covenant promise is a promise of life in its highest meaning, life above all possibility of death. This life is what believers now receive through Jesus Christ, the second Adam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The condition. The condition of the covenant was absolute obedience. The positive command not toeat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, was nothing less than a test of such obedience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Punishment. The punishment was death in its broadest sense, physical, spiritual and eternal death.This is not only the separation of body and soul but also the separation of soul and God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The sacraments. The Tree of Life was in all likelihood the only sacrament of this covenant, if it can be called with the name of sacrament. In this sense it was a symbol and seal life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THIS VALIDITY OF THE COVENANT OF WORKS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Arminians maintain that this covenant was completely abolished, but that view is not correct. Demands perfect obedience are still in force for those who do not accept the righteousness of Christ, Leviticus 18: 5;Galatians 3:12. Although man can not fulfill such justice, the condition remains the same. However, it does not apply to those who are in Christ Jesus because He fulfilled the demands of the law in place. Also the covenant of works ceased to be a way of life, and remained deprived of its power after the fall of man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The elements of human nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Matthew 10:28. "And do not fear those who kill the body but can not kill the soul: but rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Romans 8:10. "But if Christ is in you , the body indeed is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The creation of the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ecclesiastes 12: 7. "And the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hebrews 12: 9. "Moreover, we had to chasten parents of our flesh, and reverence. Why not better obey the Father of spirits and live? "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The creation of man in the image of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Genesis 1:27. "And God created man in his image, in the image of God he created him; and male and female he created them . "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Genesis 9: 6. "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he made man. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The man has something of the image of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> See the above verse, Genesis 9: 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> James 3: 9. "With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The restoration of the image of God in man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ephesians 4:24. "And put on the new man who is created according to God in righteousness and holiness of truth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Colossians 3: 10. "And put on the new man , which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . The covenant of works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hosea 6: 7. "But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 Corinthians 15:22. "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER STUDY BIBLE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> How can we explain those passages that seem to teach that man consists of three elements? See 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 4: 12; compare Matthew 22:37.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Does the man 's dominion over the rest of creation is likewise part of the image of God? Genesis 1:26, 28; Psalm 8: 6-8; Hebrews 2: 5-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What signs a pact can be found in Genesis 2 and 3?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD'S WILL<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Doris Day sang a popular song called "(It) will be will be". At first glance, the theme of this song seems to convey a kind of fatalism that is depressing. Islamic theology frequently says about a specific event: "This is the will of Allah."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God's sovereign authority over His creation and everything in it is a very important theme in the Bible.When we refer to the will of God we do, at least three different ways. The broader concept known as the secret decretal, or sovereign will of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Theologians use this term to refer to the will of God through which sovereignly ordains everything that takes place. As God is sovereign </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">His will can not be frustrated, we can be sure that nothing happens outside their control. At least, should "allow" no matter what happens. But even when God passively permits things to happen, choose enable them to the extent that always has the power and the right to prevent and intervene in the actions and events of this world. To the extent that allows things to happen, "is disposing" of them in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the sovereign will of God is often unknown to us until it has been completed, there is one aspect of his will that we find very clear His preceptive will. God reveals his will through his holy law. For example, it is the will of God not steal; to love our enemies; we repent; be holy. This aspect of the will of God has been revealed to us in His Word and in our consciences, in which God has written His moral law upon our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Its laws, whether those found in Scripture or in our hearts, are fully applicable. We have no authority to violate their will. We have the power or ability to distort the preceptive will of God, but never have the right to do so. Nor is it an excuse for sinning disculpemos us, saying, "(We) will be will be". May be the secret and sovereign will of God that we "allow" sin, by stating that his will be done through sinful acts of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God ordained that Jesus was betrayed by instrument betrayal of Judas. But this does not make the sin of Judas in lower Judas betrayal or less evil. When God "allow" transgress his preceptive will, we must not understand this permission in a moral sense, to give us a moral right. His permission gives us the power of sin, but not the right to sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The third way the Bible speaks of God's will is regarding the disposition of God's will. This will describes God's attitude. We define what pleases God. For example, God does not delight in the death of the wicked, but has decreed death or evil. The supreme delight of God is in his own holiness and justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When God judges the world, it delights in vindicating his own righteousness and justice, but not pleased for having avenged, to say it in a way, of those who were to receive their judgment. God is pleased when we find our pleasure in obedience. It dislikes, and much, when we are disobedient.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many Christians are concerned, and they even obsess, to find the "will" of God for their lives. If the will we are looking for is your secret will, hidden, or decretal, then our search will be fruitless. The secret counsel of God is a secret that belongs. He has not liked it known to us. Far from being a sign of spirituality, the search for the secret will of God is inexcusable to what God is proprietary invasion. The secret counsel of God is not our business. That is why the Bible assumes, in part, a very negative position with respect to diviners, necromancy, and other forms of prohibited practices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We must be wise and follow the advice of John Calvin when he said: "When God closes His holy mouth, keep insisting."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The true sign of spirituality is found in those who seek to know the will of God revealed in His preceptive will. It is the pious person who meditates on God's law day and night. As we seek the "guidance" of the Holy Spirit, it is essential to remember that the Holy Spirit guides us above all to justice. We are called to live our lives according to every word that comes from the mouth of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The revealed will of God must be our occupation; even, actually it should consist of the main occupation of our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The will of God means three things:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(A)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The decretal sovereign will is the will by which God makes all his decrees and ordinances are fulfilled. This will be secret until the moment it happens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(B)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The preceptive will is the law or the commandments revealed by God. We have the ability to transgress, but not the right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(E)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The arrangement will describe the attitude or disposition of God. It reveals what pleases God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The human sin has the sovereign "permission" of God but has no moral approval.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES </span></b><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John 19:11, Romans 9: 14-18, Ephesians 1: </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">11 </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">, Colossians 1: 9-14, Hebrews 6: 13-18, 2 Peter 3: 9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Besides the law written in their hearts, received a command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil; and, while they kept, they were happy in their communion with God and had dominion over the creatures: <b>Gn. 1: 26.28; 2:17.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE COVENANT OF WORKS<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Adam and Eve were created, they had a moral relationship with God, his Creator. They owed obedience without any inherent right to claim a reward or blessing for such obedience. In his love, mercy, and grace, however, God willingly entered into an alliance with its creatures to add a promise of blessing to His law. It was not an alliance between partners on equal terms, but an alliance that rested on the initiative of God and His divine authority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The original covenant between God and humanity was a covenant of works. In this covenant, God required a perfect and complete obedience to his government. He promised eternal life as blessing him obedience, but humanity threatened with death if he disobeyed God's law. All human beings from Adam until today are unavoidably included in this covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">People can refuse to obey or even may not even recognize the existence of such a pact, but can not escape clauses. All human beings are under an agreed relationship with God, either as transgressors of the pact or as faithful followers of it. The covenant of works is the basis of our need for salvation (because we have violated) and our hope of redemption (because Christ has taken our place and complied with the terms of the covenant).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Suffice only a sin to transgress the covenant of works and become unable to repay our debt to God debtors. The fact that we, after committing although only a sin, we have some hope of being redeemed is due to the grace of God, and only God's grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The rewards we receive from God in heaven are also acts of grace. God is the crowning of their own gifts of grace. If Adam had been obedient to the covenant of works, there would only be achieved merit under the agreement have complied with God. As Adam sinned, God, in his mercy, he instituted a new covenant of grace that made it possible and force salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is only one man who fulfilled the covenant of works. That person was Jesus. His work as the second or the new Adam fulfilled all the terms of our original covenant with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The merit that managed to fulfill it is available to all who trust in Jesus. Jesus is the first person to enter heaven by their good works. We can also reach heaven by good works, good deeds of Jesus. Become "our" good works when we receive Jesus by faith. When we put our faith in Christ, God qualifies us the good works of Christ in our own. The covenant of grace fulfills the covenant of works because God freely assigns the merit of Christ in our own. By grace, then, it is that we can meet the terms of the covenant of works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God established a covenant of works with Adam </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Eve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All human beings are inescapably committed to the covenant of works established by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All human beings have violated the covenant of works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Jesus fulfilled the covenant of works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The covenant of grace gives us the merits of Christ, which can satisfy the terms of the covenant of works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Passages PAR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis 2:17, Romans 3: 20-26, Romans 10: 5-13, Galatians 3:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE ALLIANCE<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The basic structure of the relationship that God has established with his people is the alliance. An alliance is something like a contract. While there are some similarities between alliances and contracts, there are also some important differences. It is in both cases agreements which create commitments.Contracts are consolidated from two negotiating positions on an equal footing, and both parties are free not to sign the contract.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">An alliance is an agreement. However, alliances in the Bible are not usually peer. On the contrary, they follow the common pattern of treaties between sovereign and his vassals in ancient Near East. Treaties between the sovereign and his vassals (as seen in the case of the Hittite kings) were agreed between a conquering king and conquered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There was no negotiation between the parties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> element of these covenants is the preamble, which identifies the respective parties. Exodus 20: 2 begins by saying: "I am the Lord thy God." God is the sovereign; the people of Israel are the vassals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The second</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> element is the historical prologue. This section describes what the sovereign (or Lord) has done to deserve loyalty, as having freed the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. In theological terms, this is the section of grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the next section, detailing what the Lord require of those under his government. In Exodus 20, these requirements are the Ten Commandments. Each of the commandments was considered a moral commitment throughout the community that made the pact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The final part of this type of agreement details the blessings </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">curses. The Lord describes the benefits that correspond </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to the vassals to abide by the terms of the covenant.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Find an example of this in the fifth commandment. God promises the Israelites that their days will be long in the Promised Land if they honor their parents. The pact also describes the curses that will come if the people do not meet their responsibilities. God warns Israel will not free of guilt if you do not honor your name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This basic scheme is also evident in God's covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus in the covenant with his church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In biblical times, alliances were ratified with blood. It was a custom for both sides of the alliance pass between dismembered animals, as evidence of the agreement on the terms of the covenant (see Jeremiah 34:18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">An example of this type of alliance in Genesis 15: 7-21 where God made certain promises to Abraham, which were ratified by the sacrifice of animals. In this case however, it was only God who passed between those pieces, thereby indicating that he was committing by a solemn oath to fulfill the alliance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The new covenant, the covenant of grace was ratified by the bloodshed of Christ on the cross. In the center of this alliance is God's promise of redemption. God has not only promised to redeem all who trust in Christ, but sealed and confirmed that promise with the most sacred of all votes. We serve and worship a God who gave himself for our full redemption.</span><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The elements of a covenant are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The preamble identifies the sovereign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The historical prologue describing the history of the relationship between the parties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The terms: the terms of the agreement are detailed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The oaths / vows: promises that commit the parties to comply with the terms of the covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Penalties: blessings and curses (rewards and punishments) to be executed by save or break the covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ratification: the seal of the covenant with blood; ie animal sacrifice and death of Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES </span></b><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="">FOR REFLECTION</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis 15, Exodus 20 Jeremiah 31: 31-34, Luke 22:20 Hebrews 8 Hebrews 13: 20-21. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-56654873117851790152016-04-03T13:26:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:26:24.204-07:00LOS ANGELES, SATAN AND DESTINATION<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE NATURE OF ANGELS</span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to the Scriptures, long before the creation of man God created an innumerable company of beings called angels. Like men, they have personality, intelligence and moral responsibility. The word "angel" means messenger, when referring to a special class of beings; the term is sometimes used by pointing to others who are the messengers, as with the angels of the seven churches of Asia (Rev. 2 to 3.), from which it follows that refers to men (Rev. 1:20; 2. : 1, 8, 12, 18; 3: 1, 7, 14), and sometimes the term is used for human messengers (Lk 7:24; James 2:25)... The term also applies to the spirits of men who have died (Mt. 18:10;. Acts 12:15), but when used in this way should not be concluded that the angels are the spirits of men or that dying men become angels. One must understand that the term "messenger" is a general term. Similarly, the term "angel" is applied to the Angel of the Lord referring to the apparitions of Christ in the Old Testament in the form of an angel as a messenger of God to men (Genesis 16: 1-13; 21. : 17-19; 22: 11-16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When not used in reference to men or God himself, the term refers to a different order of beings who, like man, have moral responsibility and are servants of God in the moral sphere. Like the man, the angels, since its inception, have an eternal existence and are distinct from all other created beings. They form a prominent part in God's program for ages, and are mentioned over a hundred times in the Old Testament and even more frequently in the New Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It follows that the angels were created simultaneously and all were a considerable number (Heb 2:22; Ap. 5:11.). They have all the essential elements of personality, including intelligence, moral responsibility, will and sensitivity or emotions, and are able to intelligently worship God (Ps. 148: 2).They are also responsible for the quality of their service and their moral choices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">His nature does not include the body, unless we understand that they are bodies of a spiritual order (1 Cor 15:44), although sometimes they can be seen in bodies and appear as men (Matthew 28: 3; Rev. . 15: 6; 18: 1). Experience no increase in their number through birth or physical experience of death or cessation of existence. Thus, while they are similar in character to man, man differ in very important features.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. The Holy Angels<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Angels are generally divided into two groups: 1) the holy angels, 2) the fallen angels. In the first classification are the angels who have remained saints throughout its existence, and hence received the name of "holy angels" (Matthew 25:31). Generally, when Scripture mentions angels, it refers to those who have not fallen. The fallen angels are those who have not kept their holiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The holy angels are divided into several special classes, some are mentioned individually.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1. The Archangel Michael is the head of all the angels and his name means "who is like God" (Dn 10: 21; 12: 1.; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jud 9; Rev. 12... 7-10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Gabriel is one of the main messengers of God, his name means "hero of God." He was the bearer of important messages; as delivered to Daniel (Daniel 8:16; 9:21.), the message to Zechariah (Luke 1:18, 19.) and the message to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1: 26-38.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A most angels are not given an individual name, but are mentioned as elect angels (1 Tim . 5: 21).This leads us to think that, like the saved men are chosen or elected, the holy angels were divinely chosen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The terms "principalities" and "powers" are used both in relation to the holy angels and the fallen (Luke 21:26;. Ro 8:38;. Eph 1:21;. 3:10; Col. 1 : 16; 2: 10,15; 1 Peter 3:22). Throughout history there has been a constant struggle between angels and fallen for control of men angels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Some angels are designated as "cherubim" living creatures who defend holiness of God of any sign of sin (Gen. 3:24; Ex 25:18, 20; Ezek 1:.. 1-18.). Satan, the chief of the fallen angels, was originally created for this purpose (Ezek. 28:14). Angelic figures in the form of golden cherubs and looking towards the mercy seat of the ark and the Holy of Holies was in the tabernacle and temple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The seraphim are mentioned only once in the Bible in Isaiah 6: 2-7. They are described as having three pairs of wings; apparently they have the task of praising God and being messengers of God on earth, but its main concern is the holiness of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The term "angel of the Lord" is often found in the Old Testament regarding the apparitions of Christ in the form of an angel </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The term belongs to God and is used in connection with the divine manifestations. On earth and therefore no reason to include it in the angelic hosts (Genesis 18: 1- 19:29; 22:11, 12; 31: 11-13 . ; 32: 24-, 1 32; 48:15 16; Jos . 5: 13-15; Thu 13: 19-22; 2 Kings 19:35; 1 Cr 21:.. 12-30; Psalm 34: 7).. The great contrast between Christ who is the Angel of the Lord and the angelic beings is presented in Hebrews 1: 4-14. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. THE FALLEN ANGELS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In contrast to the holy angels, countless fallen angels are described as its first state. Led by Satan, who was originally a holy angel countless angels fell, rebelling against God and became sinners in nature and works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fallen angels are divided into two classes: 1) those that are free, and 2) those who are in chains.Fallen angels, Satan is mentioned only in a particular way by Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is likely that when Satan fell (Jn. 8:44) he took after him a crowd of beings who had a lower his rank. Of these, some are reserved for judgment (1 Cor 6: 3; 2 Pet. 2: 4; Jude 6), while the remaining are free and demons are frequently mentioned in the pages of the New Testament (Mr. . 5: 9, 15; Lk 8:30; 1 Timothy 4: 1).. They are helping Satan in all his works and finally part of their eternal ruin or condemnation (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY ANGELS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Many of the references in Scripture about angels refer to his ministry, which covers a wide range of achievements. First they worship God, and, according to Revelation 4: 8, some "no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, who is and who is to come".References are also within his ministry in portions as Psalm 103: 20 and Isaiah 6: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In general, the ministry of the holy angels extends to many different forms of service to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> were present at the creation (Job 38: 7), in the revelation of the law (Acts 7:53; Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 2:.... 2; Rev 22:16) in the birth of Christ (Luke 2:13.) in the temptation of Christ (Matthew 4:11), in the garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:43.), in the resurrection (Matthew 28: 2), ascension ( . Acts 1:10), and also appear with Christ in his second coming (Matthew 24:31; 25:31; 2 Thessalonians 1: 7)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Angels are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for the heirs of salvation (Heb 1:14; Ps F . 34: 7; 91:11.). Although we have no means of communication with the angels, and enjoyed fellowship with them must, however, recognize the fact of his ministry, which is constant and effective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Angels are spectators and witnesses of earthly things (Ps 103: 20; Lk . 12: 8-9; 15:10; 1 Cor 11:10; 1 Timothy 3:16; 1 Peter 1..: 12; Rev. 14:10)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Lazarus was carried by the angels into Abraham 's bosom (Lc.16: 22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In addition to his ministry on. history, angels are included in the large crowd that descends from heaven to earth at the second coming, and is said to be in an eternal state in the New Jerusalem ( Acts 12: 22-24; Rev. 19:14.. ; 21:12). Apparently, the angels will be judged and rewarded at theend of the millennium and the beginning of the eternal state, while the fallen angels or are judged and thrown into the lake of fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The ministry of angels through the Scriptures is an important and essential doctrine to understand God's providence and sovereign direction of its creation in history<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the origin of angels?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense the angels are like men?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense is used the word "angel" when referring to other beings and what is derived from the meaning of the name?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How often do angels appear in Scripture and how it explains their appearance when they take the form of men?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> ¿In what two major divisions can be classified angels and what meaning does it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What holy angels are mentioned in the Bible and what is their work?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the meaning of the terms "elect angels", "principalities" and "powers" in relation to the angels?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What they are the cherubim and what they do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How seraphim described in the Bible and what their mission ?.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the meaning of "Angel of the Lord" in the Old Testament and why not refer to the angels?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What two major classifications can be divided fallen angels and what their respective roles are according to the Scriptures?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe some of the important ministries of the holy angels in Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How are angels related to the providential and sovereign direction of God over his creation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What part have the angels at the second coming of Christ and the eternal state?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SATAN: YOUR PERSONALITY AND POWER<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Satan was originally created as the highest among the moral creatures of God being, although there is an abyss of immeasurable difference between this prince of beings created by God and the three Persons of the Godhead, which were not created and there itself same forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. PERSONALITY OF SATAN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Since Satan is not manifested in flesh, the fact of its existence must be accepted, as in the case of Divinity and all the angelic host, based on the evidence offered in the Scriptures. When considering this evidence we note the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. SATAN WAS CREATED AS A PERSON </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In Colossians 1: 16 states that the creation was carried out by Christ and that "all </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">things that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">thrones , or dominions, or principalities, or powers "all things were created by Him and </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">for Him. the time of the creation of angels is not revealed beyond the fact </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">that this event probably preceded the creation of all material things and </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">which in turn it was preceded by the same eternal existence of God, which is given </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">testimony in John 1: 1-2.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Among all the heavenly host only one being whose creation is mentioned in particular: Satan. This indicates the supremacy of the respect he enjoys all invisible creatures of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Ezekiel 28: 11-19 we read the lamentation that goes to the "King of Tyre"; but if it is true that this passage could have an immediate and partial application to the king of that city, it is also clear that the prophet's words have in view when it is supreme among all creatures of God, for the character mentioned here he says that "is full of wisdom and perfect in beauty"; he had been "in Eden the garden of God" (probably the primitive Eden of the original creation of God, not the Eden of Genesis 3); which it was created according to God's plan and anointed cherub on the holy mountain, which, according to the biblical symbolism, represents the throne or the center where God exercises his power in the government of all things. This description, which may not correspond to the person and experience any of the kings of Tyre, it is possible to apply only to Satan, as he was before his sin and its corresponding drop of the place it had occupied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. SATAN performs all the functions of a person.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Of the many Bible portions that highlight the personality of Satan </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">may be noted the following:</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #000081; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Isaiah 14: 12-17. Contemplating Satan as if he were already finished his career as if he had already been finally judged in the end times, the prophet gives the title of "Lucifer, son of the morning" and treats it as a being who has fallen from its original state and its primitive glory.Which "weakened the nations" (v . 12) it is also guilty of having opposite his own will to that of God in five particular disclosed herein; and both this passage in Ezekiel 28:15 says that Satan's sin was a secret purpose was hidden deep in his heart, but God found him and revealed (cf. 1 Tim . 3: 6) .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 14pt;">B)</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Genesis 3: 1-15. It is for the events narrated in this passage that Satan received the title of "Snake", as it was through the serpent that he told Adam and Eve. Every word he uttered and every plan he revealed in this story of the fall of our first parents is evidence of the personality of Satan </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(cf. 2 Cor 11: 3, 13-15; Rev. 12: 9; 20. :2).</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">C)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Job 1: 6-12; . 2: 1-13 </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A peculiar revelation of these passages is that Satan has access to God (cf. Lk 22:31; Rev. 12:10..) As much as men (Eph . 6: 10-12; 1 P . 5: 8) and he shows all the characteristics of a real personality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">D)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Lucas 4: 1-13. Satan's personality is also revealed when confronted in the desert with the Son of God, who is the last Adam. Who had aspired to be "like the Most High" (Isaiah 14:14.) And had recommended this same purpose the first man (Gen 3: 5 . ), Is now offering all their earthly possessions Christ, with the proviso that he prostrates to adore him. The authority and power that Christ rejects this time will be received and exercised in the future by the character that Scripture called the Man of Sin (2 Thess 2: 8-10; 1 John 4: 3 . .).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">E)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Ephesians 6: 10-12. The tactic of Satan and his fight against the children of God presented in this passage as proof positive personality so powerful enemy. The Scriptures do not say that Satan is waging war against unregenerate men; they belong and, therefore, are under his authority (Jn 8:44; Eph . 2: 2; 1 John 5:19..).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE POWER OF SATAN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although Satan is morally already fallen and was judged on the cross (Jn 12:31;. 16:11; Col. 2:15), he still maintains its elevated position and has not lost but a little of their power, which both in relation to his person with the authority he exercised, it is revealed by the way Scripture noted below:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. YOUR PERSONAL POWER CAN NOT BE ESTIMATED AT ALL.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> According to his own statement, which certainly did not deny Christ, he has power over </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the kingdoms of this world, which, having been delivered to him, you can give them according to </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the dictates of his own will (Lk . 4: 6). It is said that Satan had the power of </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">death (Heb. 2:14), but that this power has already been given to Christ (Rev. 1:18).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Satan had power over disease, as in the case of Job (Job 2: 7), and could sift Peter as wheat (Lk 22:31; 1 Cor. 5: 5). The Bible also reveals that Satan weakened the nations, made the earth tremble, shake kingdoms, put the world as a wilderness, devastated cities and their prey never opened the prison (Is. 14: 12-17). Satan's power against even the archangel Michael dared to use judgment curse (Jud. 9); but no victory for the Son of God through the power of the Spirit and the blood of Jesus Christ (Eph 6: 10-12; 1 John. 4: 4; Rev. 12:11..). Satan exercised his authority and power only within the permissive will of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. SATAN IS HELPED BY DEMONS.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Satan's power is increased by the innumerable host of demons who do his </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">will and serve. Although he is not omnipresent, omnipotent or omniscient, he </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">has contact all over the world through evil spirits.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Demons play a very important role in the control of Satan on earth paper and make your power is present everywhere (Mark 5: 9). They are able to live and control both animals and men (Mark 5: 2-5, 11-13) and apparently want to be in physical bodies (Mt. 12: 43-44; Mr. 5: 10-12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Sometimes the demons only have influence over men, and in other cases have so that their physical bodies and their language is controlled by </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">demons (Mt. 4:24; 8: 16,28,33; 9:32; 12:22; Mr 1:32; 5: 15-16, 18; Luke 8:36; Acts 8:.. 7; </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16:16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Like Satan, they are totally wicked and malicious and thus affect those whom they control (Mt. 8:28; 10: 1; Mr. 1:23; 5: 3-5; 9: 17-26; . Lk 6:18; 9: 39-42). In many cases they show that they know that Jesus Christ is God (Mt. 8: 28-32; Mark 1: 23-24; Acts 19:15; James 2:19..).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the same way that Satan, demons are fully aware that they are doomed to eternal punishment (Matthew 8:29; Luke 8:31.). They are able to bring physical disorders (Matthew 12:22; 17: 15-18. Lk 13:16) and mental illness (Mark 5: 2-13). While some mental disorders can be due to physical causes, there is no doubt that some forms of mental illness are due to demonic control. Demonic influence can lead to a false religion, skepticism and unbelief (1 Tim. 4: 1-3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact of the influence of demons in Christians is evident (Eph 6:12; 1 Tim. 4: 1. 3). There seems to be a difference between the power and influence of demons on unsaved people and those who are born again, due to the fact that the Holy Spirit dwells in the Christian. While demons can take possession of an unsaved person and can oppress a saved person, there is a difference in the length and power of demonic influence on those who are born again. Satan's work as a whole would be impossible if it were not for the many demons that carry out their wishes, and continually a struggle of tremendous proportions between angels and demons is brought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What was Satan originally place in God's creation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the evidence that Satan was created as a person, and what qualities he possessed before his fall?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does Satan exercise the function of a person? Illustrate his dealings with Adam and Eve, Job and Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Satan's personality is revealed in its conflict with Christians?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Explain the evidence of the great power of Satan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does it help the demons Satan?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To illustrate the degree of demonic influence on men and how far can a man be controlled by demons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the hell are related to physical and mental disorders of men?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can relate demonic influence with false religions and religious practices?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the difference seems to exist between the power and influence of demons on unsaved people contrasted with those who are saved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the Holy Spirit who dwells in the Christian helps him in his conflict with Satan and demons?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SATAN: HIS WORK AND DESTINATION<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. FALSE CONCEPTS ON SATAN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">There are two very common errors regarding the person of Satan; and since only he is taking advantage to carry out its purpose, it is reasonable to conclude that they are of satanic origin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Many believe that Satan does not exist in reality and that his alleged person is no more than a principle of evil, or influence, manifested in man and the world in general. The error of this concept is demonstrated by taking into account that there is the same abundant evidence regarding the personality of Jesus Christ as in that Satan is a real person. The Scriptures, which are the only word of authority in this matter, consider that both Jesus Christ and Satan are personal beings; and if the personality of Jesus Christ is accepted based on what the Bible teaches, the personality of Satan must also be accepted on the same testimony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Others believe that Satan is the direct cause of the sins of every person. But this idea is not in harmony with the truth:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> because, first, the purpose </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">principal of Satan is not to promote sin in the world. He did not at first </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">attempt to become a demon, but to be "like the Most High" (Isa. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14:14); he has no intention of destroying both as to build and realize his great </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">ambition authority over this world system, in which program includes </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">culture, morality and religion (2 Corinthians 11: 13- 15). The idea that Satan is currently </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the direct cause of sin is false:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE WORK OF SATAN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Isaiah 14: 12-17 is one of the many passages that testify about the work of Satan. This passage reveals the original and ultimate purpose of Satan. He wanted to ascend to heaven, exalt his throne above the stars of God and be like the Most High. In pursuit of this end he would throw hand immeasurable wisdom and power; weaken the nations; would shake the earth; disrupt the kingdoms; become the world like a desert; devastate cities and refuse to release their prisoners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although each of these statements is itself frightening, there including two that deserve special attention:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1. </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"be like the Almighty" </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(V. 14).</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This expression indicates the main reason that guides him after his fall all its activities. As we revealed in Scripture, the course of the activities of Satan after his downfall can be traced only along the lines of what has been its supreme motive "be like the most High." This was the purpose in all seriousness he recommended Adam and Eve (Genesis 3: 5 . ), And accepting the satanic ideal, they became independent of God, were depending on their own resources and the center of his life became his own self. Moreover, this attitude of Adam and Eve became its very nature, which have been transmitted to their posterity, to the extent that all their descendants are called "children of wrath" (Eph 2: 3, . 5: 6; Rom. 1:18), and they must be born again (John 3: 3 . ), and when they are already saved, have to go through major conflicts if they wish tosurrender your life completely to the will of God. Also Satan's desire to be "like the Most High" is seen in his passion to be worshiped by Christ (Lk . 4: 5-7). When for a brief moment the Man of Sin "sitteth in the temple of God as God, showing himself that he is God" (2 Thessalonians 2: 3-4; Dan 9:27; Matthew 24:15; Revelation 13... 4-8), the ultimate purpose of Satan will be carried out under the permissive will of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. "To his prisoners loose JAIL"</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (V. 17). </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This refers to this power of Satan so much about the unconverted as their inability to help them in their eternal judgment. All prophecy where this statement is extracted is what will be the work of Satan and accomplished in the days of his final judgment. .de Can not be doubted that there is much that will be fulfilled in the future in this prophecy; however, we know that now the devil is doing everything it can to prevent the unsaved are freed from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of the beloved Son of God (Col. 1: 13). Satan encourages "the children of disobedience" (Eph . 2: 2), blind the minds of men to keep them from seeing the glorious light of the Gospel (2 Cor 4: 3-4) and keeps the unconscious world in their arms (1 Jn. 5:19 VM).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It also reveals that as part of its strategy, Satan seek to imitate the things of God, which is in good agreement with its purpose to be "like the Most High". Therefore, he will promote the creation and dissemination of many religious systems (1 Tim 4: 1-3; 2 Cor. 11: 13-15). And in this connection it is necessary to remember that Satan may promote certain forms of religion that are based on certain texts from the Bible, exalting Christ as a leader and incorporate all aspects of the Christian faith, with the exception of one the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, based on the blood shed by Christ on the cross. Such satanic errors are present in the world today and multitudes are deceived by them. We need to test these religious systems they adopt the attitude toward the divine saving grace through effective blood of the Lamb of God (Rev. 12:11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Evidently Satan is enmity against God. He is not, in any way, enemy of the unredeemed; and if directed his "fiery darts" against the children of God, this is only because they participate in the divine nature and, therefore, he can through them attack God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It should also be remembered that the children of </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">are not attacked by "flesh" or "blood", but their conflict develops in the area of his heavenly relationship with Christ. This means that the believer may not be led to practice what is immoral, but he can completely fail in what touches to prayer, the Christian witness and spiritual victory. We should always bear in mind that such a state of spiritual failure is so dishonorable to the sight of God as are those sins spontaneously condemned by the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">MORAL 1. THE FALL OF SATAN.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Although the time of this event, which occurred in the distant past, not been revealed, the moral fall of Satan and his consequent separation from God are clearly indicated in the pages of the Bible (Ez . 28:15; 1 Tim 3: 6).. It is clear, however, that he did not lose his heavenly position, nor most of his power, nor his access to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. 2. SATAN'S JUDGMENT ON THE CROSS</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Through the cross Satan was judged in a complete way (Jn 12:31; 16:11; Col. 2: 14-15 . ); but the execution of the sentence is still pending for the future. In the garden of Eden God he foretold this judgment and their respective execution (Gn. 3:15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Satan will be cast from heaven.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the middle of the Great Tribulation and as a result of a war in heaven, Satan will be cast from the heights and limited in their activities only to the land. Then he will act with great fury, knowing that it will only have a little time to continue his work (Rev. 12: 7-12; cf. also Isa 14:12; Luke 10:18...).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. SATAN WILL BE CONFINED TO THE ABYSS </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> During the thousand year reign of Christ on earth Satan will be bound into the abyss; but then it is released for "some time" (Rev . 20: 1-3, 7). The purpose to confine the abyss is to make it impossible to act and continue deceiving the nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. CONDEMNATION END OF SATAN AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Having promoted a rebellion against God, for the "little time" that will be released, Satan will be cast into the lake of fire to be tormented day and night for forevermore . (Rev. 20:10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence supports the conclusion that Satan exists as a person and that is more than a principle or evil influence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is wrong in teaching that Satan causes sin directly to each person?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is revealed in Isaiah 14 relative to the original purpose of Satan to rebel against God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the original purpose of Satan is reflected in the temptation of Adam and Eve?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does Satan's purpose is related to his desire to be worshiped by Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> When Satan held for a short time its intention to be worshiped as God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does Satan work in those who are not saved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent Satan counterfeits the things of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the purpose of Satan to attack a child of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe the five progressive judgments of Satan.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-19948715324984377632016-04-03T13:23:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:23:26.438-07:00DIVINE PROVIDENCE<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God, the Creator of all good: <b>Gn. 1:31; 2:18; Psalm 119: 68.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In His infinite power and wisdom: <b>Ps 145: 11; Pr 3:19.; Psalm 66: 7.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> holds, direct, dispose , and govern all creatures: <b>I 1: 3; Is 46:10, . 11; Dn. 4:34, 35; Ps 135: 6; Acts.17: 25-28; Job 38-41.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And everything from the largest to the smallest: <b>Mt. 10: 29-31.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For his most wise and holy providence: <b>Pr. 15: 3; Ps 104: 24; 145: 17.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In order for which they were created: <b>Col. 1:16, 17; Acts. 17: 24-28.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> According to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own will: <b>Ps 33: 10,11; Eph. 1:11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, infinite goodness and mercy: <b>Is. 63:14; Eph.3:10; Ro. 9:17; Gn.45: 7; Psalm 145: 7.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL EXPLANATION AND BASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Once we understand that God is the Almighty Creator (see Chapter 15), it seems reasonable to conclude that he also preserves and governs everything in the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the term providence is not in the Bible, it has traditionally been used to denote the continuous relationship between God and his creation. When we accept the biblical doctrine of providence, we avoid four common mistakes when thinking about the relationship between God and his creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The biblical doctrine is not deism (which teaches that God created the world and then essentially abandoned) nor pantheism (which teaches that creation has no real and distinct in itself existence, but is nothing more than a part of God) but providence, which teaches that although God is actively involved in related and creation at every moment, creation is something apart from it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even more, the biblical doctrine teaches that the events of creation are determined by chance (or chance), nor are determined by the impersonal fate (or determinism), but God who is personal and yet infinitely powerful Creator and Mr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can define the providence of God as follows: God continually intervenes in all created things so that it;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The remains exist and retaining the properties that created them ;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Cooperate with all created things in action, and directs the properties that distinguish them to make them act as they act; Y;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The directed to fulfill the purposes assigned to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Under the general category of providence we have three sub-themes, according to the three elements of the definition given above:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Preservation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Concurrency and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We will examine each of these separately, and then consider different criteria and objections to the doctrine of providence. It should be noted that this is a doctrine for which there has been substantial disagreement among Christians from the early history of the church, particularly regarding the relationship of God with the voluntary decisions of moral creatures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In this chapter we will present a summary of the position is favored in this textbook (commonly known as the position "reformed" or "Calvinist" first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. PRESERVATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God makes all things created continue to exist and maintaining the properties that created them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hebrews 1: 3 tells us that Christ is "sustaining all things by his powerful word." The Greek word translated "holds" is ftro, "carry, load".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is commonly used in the New Testament to take something from one place to another, such as carrying a paralytic on a stretcher to Jesus (Lk 5:18), bring the wine to the director of the festival Genesis 2: 8), or Paul bring a cloak and books (2 Tim 4:13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Not simply mean "hold" but has the sense of active control and determined what is taking from one place to another. In Hebrews 1: 3 the use of the present participle indicates that Jesus is "continually bringing all things" of the universe by his powerful word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ actively involved in the work of providence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, in Colossians 1:17 Paul says of Christ "in him all things hold together" (RVR 1960). The phrase "all things" refers to all creation in the universe (see v. 16), and verse says that Christ holds all things exist;it continuously exist or "remain" (NKJV).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Both verses indicate that if Christ would cease its support continued activity of all things in the universe, everything except the triune God instantly cease to exist. Such instruction also states Paul when he says that "in him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17: 28), and Ezra:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"You alone are the Lord! You have made the heavens and the heaven of heavens with all their stars. You give life to all creation: the land and the sea with all that is in them. That's why you love the armies of heaven "(Nehemiah 9: 6). Peter also says that "the heavens and the earth which are now" are "reserved for fire in the day of judgment" (2 Peter 3: 7 RVR 1960).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">One aspect of God's providential preservation is the fact that he continues to give us breath every moment. Elihu in his wisdom says of God: "If you think about retiring his spirit, in life we remove your breath, all mankind would perish, all humanity would be dust!" Job 34: 14-15; Ps 104: 29).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God, by preserving all the things he has done, also makes maintaining the properties that created them.God preserves water so that continues to act as water. It makes the grass continue to act as grass, with all its distinctive features.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Makes the paper it is written this prayer continue to act as role so as not to dissolve spontaneously in water and is floating away, Do not become a living thing and start growing! While some other part of creation does not act on it and change its properties (for example, if the fire burns and turns to ash), this role will continue to act as role as God preserve the land and building has made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We should not think, however, that the preservation of God is a continual new creation; he is not continually creating new atoms and molecules for all that you exist. Rather, he preserves what has already created; he "upholds all things" by his word of power (Hebrews 1: 3, author's translation).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We must also appreciate that created things are real and that its features are real. Not that I simply imagine that the stone that I have in hand is hard; It is hard. If I hit the head with it, I do not just imagine it hurts; indeed it hurts! Because God keeps this stone with the properties that created it, the stone has been tough from the day it was formed, and (unless something else in creation interact with it and change) will be hard to day when God will destroy the heavens and the earth (2nd Peter 3: 7, 10-12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God's providence provides basis for science; God has done and continues to hold a universe that acts in predictable ways. If a scientific experiment gives a result today we can have confidence that (if all factors are the same) will give the same result tomorrow and a hundred years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of providence also provides a foundation for technology; I can trust that gasoline will cause my car to work today as it did work yesterday, not only because "it has always worked that way," but because of God's providence sustains a universe in which he created things that keep the properties that he created them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The result may be similar in the life of the unbeliever and the Christian life; both we put gasoline in our cars and drive. But the unbeliever will not know the real reason for it to work the way it works, and I will do it with the knowledge of the true reason (God's providence) and grateful to my Creator for the wonderful creation that made and preserves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. CONCURRENCE<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God cooperates with all created things in action, directing their distinctive properties to make them act as they act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This second aspect of providence, concurrency, is an expansion of the idea in the first aspect, preservation. Moreover, some theologians (like John Calvin) deal with the fact of competition under the category of preservation, but it is useful to treat it as a separate category.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In Ephesians 1: 11 Paul says that God "works all things according to the counsel of His will." The word translated "makes" (energeo) indicates that God's "work" or "produces" all things according to his will.Nothing happens in creation falls out of his providence. Of course, this fact is hidden from our eyes unless we read in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the preservation of God's work in competition is not clearly evident from observation of the natural world around us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To test concurrency biblical start with inanimate creation, then move on to the animals, and finally to different kinds of events in the life of human beings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first cause, all things happen immutably and infallibly, so that nothing happens to anyone by chance or without his providence: <b>Acts.2:23; Pr. 16:33.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, by the same providence, arranges them so that occur depending on the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely , or contingently: <b>Gn. 8:22; Jer. 31:35; Ex 21:13.; Dt . 19: 5; Is . 10: 6, 7; Lk. 13; 3, 5; Acts. 27:31; Matthew 5:20, 21; Phil. 1:19; Pr 20:18.; Lk. 14: 25ss.Pr. 21:31; 1 Kings 22: 28,34; Rt . 2: 3.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Inanimate creation.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are many things in the creation of which we think are simple "natural" occurrences. Yet the Bible says that God makes happen. We read of "lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding" (Ps 148: 8). Similarly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To Snow he ordered: "Fall on the earth!", And rain, "Show Your Power!" By the breath of God ice and frozen water bodies is formed. With Rain Water Charge Clouds, And Launches Its Lightning From Ellas; And they run from side to side across the face of the earth, ready to fulfill their mandates. By His Goodness, it Makes Come Clouds, either to punish or to bless. Job 37: 6-13;Similar statements In 38: 22-30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Again, the psalmist declares that "The Lord does everything you want in heaven and on earth, in the seas and in all deeps" (Ps 135: 6), and then in the next sentence illustrates God making his will climate: "He raises clouds from the ends of the earth; sends lightning with the rain and brings their deposits to the winds' (Ps 135: 7; 104: 4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God also makes the grass grow, "You make grass grow for the cattle, and plants that people cultivate to get food from the earth" (Ps 104: 14). God directs the stars in heaven, and asks Job: "Can you make the time go constellations? Can you guide Ursa Major and Minor "Job 38:32; v. 31 refers to the Pleiades and Orion) constellations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, God continually leads the arrival of the Job morning. 38:12), a fact that Jesus said when he said that God "makes the sun rises on evil and good, and sends rain on the just and unjust" (Mt 5:45).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"> ANIMALS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible says that God feeds the wild animals, because "all they expect from you that in time give them their food. You give them, they gather; open your hand, and are filled with goods. If you hide your face, they are terrified; if you take away their breath, they die and return to dust "(Psalm 104: 27-29; Job 38: 39-41) .Jesus also said this when he said:" Look at the birds of the sky the heavenly Father feeds them "(Mt 6: 26). He said that not a single sparrow "fall to the ground without your Father" (Mt 10: 29).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">EVENTS THAT SEEM TO HAPPEN "random" or "by chance".<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">From the human perspective, the casting of lots (or its modern equivalent, roll the dice or toss a coin) is the most typical of chance in the universe. But the Bible states that the result of such a thing comes from God: "The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is from the Lord" (Proverbs 16: 33).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">NOTE: It is true that Ec 9: 11 says that "it is not to the swift race, or the brave battle; and neither of the wise bread, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor skillful, but time and chance come to them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FULLY EVENTS CAUSED BY GOD AND FULLY ALSO CAUSED BY THE CREATURE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Any of the above events (rain and snow, the growth of grass, sun and stars, animal feed and casting lots) could (at least in theory) give a "natural" completely satisfactory explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">An expert in botany can detail the factors that make the grass grow, such as the sun, humidity, temperature, soil nutrients, etc. Yet the Bible says that God makes the grass grow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A meteorologist can give a full explanation of the factors that cause rain (humidity, temperature, atmospheric pressure, etc.), and can even produce rain in a climate laboratory. Yet the Bible says that God makes the rain fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A physical correct information about the strength and direction of a pair of dice was launched could fully explain what made the dice give the result they gave; yet the Bible says that God determines the decision of the fate that is cast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This shows us that it is wrong to reason we do know the "natural" because of something in this world, God caused. Rather, if it rains we should thank him. If the planting grows we must thank him. In all of these facts it is not as if they were caused partly by God and partly by factors in the created world. If that were the case, we would always be looking for some small feature of something that happened that we could not explain (say 1% of the cause) to attribute it to God. But certainly this is not a correct concept.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rather, these passages say that God is who produces such events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yet we know that (in another sense) are also entirely caused by factors of creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of concurrency states that God directs, and work through the particular properties of each created thing, so these things in themselves produce the results we see. So one can say that in a sense the events are fully (one hundred percent) produced by God and fully (one hundred percent) produced by the creature. However, the divine and the creatures causes act in different ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The divine cause of each event acts as an invisible cause that acts and directs behind the scenes, and could be called the "primary cause" that plans and initiates everything that happens. But what created produces actions that are consistent with the characteristics of the created properties, actions that often we or professional scientists who carefully observe the processes we describe. These factors and properties of creation can therefore be called "secondary" causes of everything that happens, even if the causes are obvious for us to observe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MATTERS OF NATIONS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible also speaks of God's providential control of human affairs. We read that God "exalts or destroys nations; It makes them prosper or scatters "(Job 12: 23). "For the Lord is the kingdom; He rules over the nations "(Ps 22: 28). He has determined all the time "(NKJV). But Michael Eaton correctly observes: "On the lips of Israel's" lucky "means the unexpected, which is not random '<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Existence and location of every nation on earth, because Paul says, "From one man he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the periods of its history and the boundaries of their territories "(Acts 17: 26; 14: 16). And when Nebuchadnezzar repented, he learned to praise God:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">His dominion is an everlasting; His kingdom endures forever. None of the peoples of the earth are taken into account. God does what he wants With Heavenly Powers and the peoples of the earth. No one opposes their power or who asked to account (Dn 4: 34-35).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is amazing to see the extent to which the Bible says that God makes things happen in our lives. For example, our dependence upon God for food every day we repeat every time we pray: "Give us this day our daily bread" (Mt 6: 11), although we work to earn food and (as far as mere human observation can discern) we get entirely through "natural" causes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, Paul, looking with the eyes of faith what happens, says that children "my God will meet all your needs" (Philippians 4: 19), but God can use "ordinary" means (such as others) to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God plans our days before we are born, because David says: "Your eyes saw my unformed everything was already written in your book; all my days were being designed, but not before one of them "(Ps 139: 16). And Job says that "Man's days are already determined; you have decreed the months of his life; you've set limits he can not exceed "Job 14: 5).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This can be seen in the life of Paul, who says, "God had set me apart from my mother's womb" (Gal 1: 15), and Jeremiah, whom God said, "Before I formed you in the womb, and you had chosen; before you were born, I already had departed; I appointed you a prophet to the nations "Jer 1: 5).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All our actions are under the providential care of God, for "in him we live and move" (Acts 17: 28). The steps we take each day the Lord directs. Jeremiah confesses: "I know that man is not master of his destiny, which is not given to direct his steps" Jer 10: 23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We read that "man's steps are directed by the Lord" (Proverbs 16: 9). Similarly, Proverbs 16: 1 says: "Man proposes and God disposes."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Success and failure come from God, for we read: "The exaltation does not come from the east, nor from the west nor from the south, but it is God who judges: a few humiliates and exalts another" (Ps 75: 6-7) . So Mary can say: "From their thrones overthrew the powerful, while it has lifted up the lowly" (Lk 1: 52).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Lord gives children, for "children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward" (Ps 127: 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All our talents and abilities are the Lord, because Paul can ask the Corinthians: "What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as if they had given you "(1 Cor 4: 7).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">David knew that was true about his military skills, for many hours, but must have been trained in the use of bow and arrow, could say, "[God] trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze "(Ps 18: 34).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God influences the decisions of rulers, because "in the Lord's hands the heart of kings as a river follows the course that the Lord has laid him" (Proverbs 21: 1). An illustration of this was when the Lord made the king of Persia help his people, "and allow rebuild the temple of the God of Israel" (Ezra 6: 22), or "in the first year of the reign of Cyrus king of Persia, the Lord ordered the king's heart "(Ezra 1: 1) to assist the people of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But it is not only the king's heart that God has, because he looks "from his throne to all inhabitants of the earth" and "he who forms the hearts of all" (Ps 33: 14-15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we realize that in the Bible the heart is where reside our thoughts and desires more intimate, this is a significant passage. God directs special way the desires and inclinations of believers, working in us "both to will and to do for his good pleasure" (Phil 2: 13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All these passages, which contain general statements about the work of God in the life of every individual and specific examples of the work of God in the lives of individuals lead us to conclude that the providential work of God concurrency extends to all aspects of our life. Our words, our steps, our movements, our hearts and our abilities come from the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But we must guard against misunderstandings. Here too, as in the lower creation, the providential guidance of God as an invisible "primary cause" behind racks, there should lead us to deny the reality of our decisions and actions. Again and again the Bible states that we make things happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We are significant and responsible. We indeed take decisions and these are real decisions that produce real results. The Bible also says repeatedly these truths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As a stone is hard indeed because God made with the properties of hardness, as the water is really wet because God took ownership of moisture, and as the plants are truly alive because God took ownership of life, our decisions are decisions truth and come into significant effects, because God has made us in such a wonderful way that has endowed us with free will ownership.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">One way to address these passages about the concurrence of God is really saying that if we decide, our decisions can not originate in God (see below further explanation of this point of view). But the number of passages that say this providential control of God is so considerable, and the difficulties involved in giving some other interpretation are so formidable, that in fact I do not think that can be the best way to address them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It seems better to say that God makes all things happen, but it does so that it retains the power we have to make responsible, who have real results and eternal and of which we are considered responsible voluntary decisions. The Bible does not tell us exactly how God's providential control combines with our volunteers and significant decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But instead of denying one or the other (simply because we can not explain how both can be true), we must accept the two in an attempt to be faithful to the teaching of the whole Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The analogy of an author who writes a work can help us to grasp how both can be true. In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare, Macbeth kills King Duncan. Now (if for a moment we assume that this is fiction), one could ask the question "Who killed King Duncan?" On one level, the correct answer is "Macbeth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Within the context of the drama he committed the murder and rightly takes the blame. But on another level, a correct answer to the question 'Who killed King Duncan it "would be" William Shakespeare "; he wrote the work, created the characters and wrote the part where Macbeth kills King Duncan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It would not be correct to say that because Macbeth killed King Duncan, William Shakespeare did not kill him. Nor would it be correct to say that because William Shakespeare killed King Duncan, Macbeth did not kill him. Both things are true. At the level of the characters in the play Macbeth completely (one hundred percent) caused the death of King Duncan, but at the level of the creator of the work, completely William Shakespeare (one hundred percent) caused the death of King Duncan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, we can fully understand that God causes things a certain way (as Creator), and we fully we cause things differently (like creatures).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of course, someone might object that the analogy does not really solve the problem because the characters in the drama are not characters from real life; They are characters without their own freedom or genuine ability to make decisions, and suchlike. But in response we emphasize that God is great and infinitely wiser than we are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">While we as finite creatures we can only create fictional characters in a drama, not characters from real life, God, our infinite Creator has made a real world and it has created us as real people who make decisions on their own . To say that God could not make a world in which he makes us make decisions on our own (as some would argue today, see account below) is to limit the power of God. Also it seems to belie a large number of passages of the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God in his ordinary providence makes use of means: <b>Acts. 27:22, 31.44; Is . 55: 10,11; You. 2: 21,22.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, you have the freedom to act without them <b>: Os. 1: 7; Lk. 1: 34,35.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> above them: <b>Ro. 4: 19-21.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And against them, as he pleases: <b>Ex. 3: 2.3; 2 Kings 6: 6; Dn. 3:27.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom , and infinite goodness of God is manifested in His providence to such an extent that its determinant council extends even to the first fall and all other sinful actions both of angels and men: <b>ro. 11: 32-34; 2 Samuel 24: 1; 1 Cr . 21: 1; 1 Kings 22: 22,23; 2 Samuel 16:10; Acts. 2:23; 4: 27,28.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (And that not by a bare permission), which the most wise and powerfully limits, and also directs and governs in many ways to his most holy purposes: <b>Acts. 14:16; 2 Kings 19:28; Gn. 50:20; Is . 10: 6, 7, 12<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> however, so that the sinfulness of the actions of these proceeds only from the creatures, and not God, who , being most holy and righteous, is not, nor can be, the author of sin nor approve <b>: Stg.:13 , 14, 17;June 1 2:16.; Psalm 50:21.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">USA GOD ALL THINGS TO MEET YOUR PURPOSES AND EVEN FOR EVIL USA glory and our good.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So, when evil comes into our lives to torment us, we can get from the doctrine of providence greater assurance that "God all things work together for good to those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose "(Ro 8:28). This kind of conviction allowed Joseph tell his brothers, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good" (Gn 50: 20).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can also realize that God is glorified even in the punishment of evil. The Bible tells us that "all the work the Lord has a purpose; Even the evil was done for the day of disaster "(Pr 16: 4) .11 Similarly, the psalmist says:" Surely the wrath of man shall praise you "(Ps 76: 10, RVR 1960). And the example of Pharaoh (Romans 9: 14-24) is a clear example of how God uses evil for His glory and for the good of his people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NEVERTHELESS, GOD NEVER IS BAD, AND NEVER WILL BE EVIL Blaming.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h6>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In a statement similar to the above mentioned Acts 2: 23 and 4: 27-28, Jesus also combines God's predestination of the Crucifixion with the moral guilt of those who conducted it "truly the Son of Man will go as is decreed, but woe to that man who betrays "(Lk 22: 22; Mt 26: 24; Mr 14:21)!.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And in a more general statement about evil in the world, Jesus says, "Woe unto the world because of the things that make people sin! Such things must come, but woe that makes sin to others "(Mt 18: 7).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">James speaks similarly to warn that let's not blame God for the evil we do, and says, "Let no man, being tempted, say. God is tempting me" For God it can not be tempted by evil nor does he tempt anyone. on the contrary, each one is tempted when their own evil desires "earmark" in this verse is best taken as referring both to stumble as disobedience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is incorrect to say that God only set aside the fact that those who disobey stumble, because it is not a fact but people (them) that are said to be "destined" in this case dragged away and enticed "(James 1: 13 -14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The verse does not say that God never causes evil; He says that we should not think that he is like an agent who is tempting us or account that should be sought by temptation. We can never blame God throw temptation, nor think he approves give in to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We must resist evil and always blame ourselves or others that tempt us, but we should never blame God.Even a verse like Isaiah 45: 7, God speaks of "creating calamity" does not say that God himself does wrong, but we understand that means that God commanded that evil result of voluntary decisions of his creatures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All these verses clearly indicate that the "secondary causes" (human beings, angels and demons) are real and that humans actually cause bad and are responsible for it. Although God commanded to take place, both in general and in specifics, however, God is far from doing evil and the fact that he does take place through "secondary causes" does not challenge his holiness nor guilty. John Calvin wisely says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Thieves, murderers and other evildoers are instruments of God's providence, which the Lord To Run the designs served in Self Determined; But I deny that therefore may have excuse. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Because how they can Mix God in His Own Evil or disguising his sin with Divine Justice? None of these things they can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A little later, Calvin a chapter titled "God uses the wicked and bends his will to execute his designs, leaving however it clean from all stain." We should note that alternatives to say that God uses evil for his purposes, but he never does wrong and is not to be blamed for evil, are undesirable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we say that God himself does wrong, we would have to conclude that it is not a good and just God, and therefore would not be God at all. On the other hand, if we maintain that God does not use evil to accomplish his purposes, we should recognize that there is in the universe an evil that God did not propose, that is not under its control, and that may not fulfill God's purposes. This would make us very difficult to say that "all things" contribute to the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose (Rom 8: 28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If evil emerged in the world even though God is not proposed nor wanted to be here, what guarantee do we have that there will be more and more evil than he did not propose and did not want? And what guarantee do we have that he can use it for your purposes, or you can triumph over it? Surely this is an undesirable alternative position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GUILT PROPERLY GOD CREATURES AND JUDGES FOR MORAL EVIL DOING.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h6>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many scriptures affirm this. One is found in Isaiah: "They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations. For I also will choose affliction for them and send upon them what they fear.Because no one answered when I called; when I spoke, no one listened. Rather, they did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me "(ls 66: 3-4). Similarly we read:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"God made perfect the human race, but he has sought fuzz" (Ec 7: 29). Evil always blame lies with the creature responsible, whether man or demon, which makes it, and the creature who does evil always deserves punishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible says that God is always fair to punish for our sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we object that he must not find us guilty because we can not resist their will, we must meditate on the response of the apostle Paul to that question: "But you tell me:" Then why do you still blame us God Who can oppose his will? "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I answer: "Who are you to talk back to God Do you tell the crock pot to the Model: 'Why did you make me so" (Romans 9: 19-20). In each case we do evil, we know that voluntarily chose to do so, and we realize that justice are guilty of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">REAL EVIL IS NOT AN ILLUSION, AND NEVER SHOULD DO EVIL, BECAUSE WE hurt us and others.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h6>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible teaches that never always have the right to do evil, and we must persistently oppose evil in ourselves and in the world. We pray: "Deliver us from evil" (Mt 6: 13, RVR 1960), and if we see someone away from the truth and doing evil, we must try to get him back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible says, "If any of you strays from the truth and someone turns him back to her, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from his loss, save him from death and cover a multitude of sins" (James 5: 19 -twenty). Should not even want to do evil, for harboring desires of sin in our minds is to allow them to "make war" against our souls (1st P 2: 11) and therefore make us spiritual harm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If ever we are tempted to say, "Why not do evil to make it good?" As some accused slanderously Paul of teaching, we should remember 10 Paul says about those who teach false doctrine: " well deserved must condemnation "(Romans 3: 8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When thinking God uses evil to accomplish his purposes, we must remember that there are things that God does is right, but it is wrong for us to do: He demands that others worship, and accepts their worship.Seeking glory for himself. Run the final punishment on wrongdoers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">also uses evil to produce good purposes, but does not allow us to do so. Calvin Augustine cites a statement approvingly: "There is a big difference between what is fitting that the man wants and what is appropriate for God. Because by the ill will of evil men God does what it wants correctly. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Herman Bavinck uses the analogy of a parent using a sharp knife but do not allow your child to use it, to show that God himself uses evil to produce good intentions, but never allows your kids do that. While we should imitate the moral character of God in many ways (Ephesians 5: 1), this is one of the ways that we should not imitate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">DESPITE ALL THE ABOVE STATEMENTS,<o:p></o:p></span></b></h6>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We have reached the point where we confess that we do not understand how God can order to do evil deeds and yet feel guilty for them and not blame himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can say that all these things are true because the Bible teaches. But the Bible does not tell us exactly how God does and how might consider us responsible for what he commands takes place. Here the Bible is silent, and we have to agree with Berkhof that ultimately "the problem of the relationship of God with sin remains a mystery."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">WE'RE FREE"? DO WE "free will"?<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If God exercises providential control over everything that happens, we are free in any sense? The answer depends on what we mean by the word free. In some senses of the word free all would agree that we are free in our will and our decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even prominent theologians of Reformed or Calvinist tradition concur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Both Louis Berkhof in his Systematic Theology (pp. 103, 173) and John Calvin in his Institutes of religion cristiana16 are willing to speak some sense of acts and "free" man's decisions. However, Calvin explains that the term is so subject to misunderstanding that he tries to avoid using it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is because the "free will is not enough to enable man to do good works, unless grace help him" .17 Therefore, Calvin concludes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Accordingly, it is said that man has free will, not because it is free to choose good and evil, but because evil does is done voluntarily and not under duress. This is true; But what Attributing such an arrogant title to something as inconsequential?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Calvin goes on to explain how this expression is easily misunderstood:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But there many men, I ask, who hear that The Man is credited Freewill not consider immediately that the man is Lord of His understanding and His Will, With Natural Potestad To Bowing to good or evil? If anyone, then, can use this expression without understanding In a bad sense, I will not object to it does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, when we asked if we have "free will", it is important to be clear what is meant by the phrase.The Bible nowhere says that we are "free" in the sense of being beyond the control of God.19 or being able to make decisions that are not caused by anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(This is the sense in which many seem to assume that we should be free; see what we say below.) Nor does it say that we are "free" in the sense that we can do well on their own without the power of God. But in any way we are free at greater than any creature of God can be felt free; We take voluntary decisions, decisions that supply real effects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We are not aware of any restrictions on our will from God when we make decisions. We must insist that we have the power to decide voluntarily; otherwise we fall into the error of fatalism or determinism, and thus conclude that our decisions do not matter, because in reality we can not make their own decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, the kind of freedom that require those who deny the providential control of God over all things, freedom to be out of the supporting and controlling activity of God, it would be impossible if Jesus Christ is truly "continuously supported all the things his word of power "(Heb 1: 3, author's translation).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If this is so, be out of that providential control would not exist! An absolute "freedom", totally free from the control of God, is not possible in a world providentially sustained and directed by God Himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The most wise, most just and merciful God often leave for a season his own children to manifold temptations and the corruptions of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins , or to reveal the hidden strength of corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts, to be humiliated; and to lead to a dependence on it more intimate and constant support for it; and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for other just and holy ends: <b>2 Cr 32:25, 26, 31,. 2 Samuel 24: 1; Lk. 22:34, 35; Mark 14: 66-72; June 21: 15-17 . .<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Therefore, everything that happens to any of his elect is by his appointment, for his glory and for the good of them: Ro. 8:28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">God's decrees<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God's decrees are eternal plans of God by which, before the creation of the world, he determined to make that take place whatever happens. This doctrine is similar to the doctrine of providence, but here we refer to the decisions of God before the world was created and not their providential actions in time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">His providential actions are the results of the eternal decrees that made long ago. To see 'decrees' used in a somewhat different sense.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">David confesses: "Everything was already written in your book; all my days were being designed, but not before one of them "(Ps 139: 16; Job 14: 5: the days, months and limits of man's God determines).There is also a "set purpose and foreknowledge of God" (Acts 2: 23) by which they killed Jesus, and the actions of those who condemned and crucified him were "predestined" by God (Acts 4: 28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our salvation was determined long ago that God "chose us in Him [Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless before him" (Eph 1: 4). Our good works as believers are "God prepared beforehand so that we practice" (Eph 2:10;. Jud 4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These examples touch on many different aspects of human activity. It seems appropriate to conclude from these examples that everything God does have planned since before the creation of the world; indeed, these things have been an eternal plan for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The benefit of an emphasis on God's decrees is that it helps us to realize that God does not draw plans suddenly go. He knows the end from the beginning, and make all their good intentions. This should greatly increase our confidence in him, especially in difficult circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR HUMAN ACTIONS.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sometimes we forget that God works through human actions in his providential government of the world. When we forget, we begin to think that our actions and decisions make no difference or not take great effect on the course of events. To precavemos against any misunderstanding of the providence of God we must emphasize the following points of emphasis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">YET WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR ACTIONS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God made us responsible for our actions, which have real and eternally significant results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In all his providences God preserves these characteristics of responsibility and significance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some analogies from the natural world may help us understand this. God has created a stone with the characteristic that is hard, and it is. God created the water with the characteristic that is wet, and it is. God created plants and animals with the characteristic that are alive, and they are. Similarly, God created us with the feature that we are responsible for our actions, and we are!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we do good and obey God, he will reward us and things will go well for us both in age and in eternity. If we do wrong and disobey God, he will discipline us and maybe punish us, and things will go badly for us.The we realize these facts help us to have pastoral wisdom in talking with others and encourage them to avoid idleness and disobedience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The fact that we are responsible for our actions mean that we should never think, "God made me sick, and therefore I have no fault to be." Significantly, Adam began to make excuses for the first sin in terms that sound suspiciously like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"The woman you gave me by companion of that fruit, and I ate" (GN3: 12). Unlike Adam, the Bible never God pours the guilt of sin. If ever we begin to think that God is the guilt of sin, we are thinking wrongly regarding the providence of God, because it is always the creature, not God, who is to blame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sure, we can object that is not good that God considers us guilty if he, indeed, who has ordered all things that happened, but Paul corrects us: "But you tell me: So why do you still blame us God? Who can oppose his will? "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I answer: Who are you to talk back to God "(Rom 9: 19-20). We must realize and resolve in our hearts that God is good reprove us and discipline us and punish evil. And when we have the responsibility to do so, it's okay to rebuke and punish the evil in our families, in the church and even, in some ways, in the society around us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We should never say bad has happened: "God wanted it therefore is good." Because we recognize that some things that the will of God has planned decree are not good in themselves, and should not receive our approval, nor receive God's approval.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">OUR ACTIONS ARE ACTUAL RESULTS AND EFFECT CHANGE THE COURSE OF EVENTS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the ordinary events of the world, if I neglect my health and address I have bad eating habits, or abuse my body with liquor or snuff, probably die sooner. God has ordained that our actions have an impact. Of course, we do not know what God has planned, even for the rest of this day, to say nothing of next week or next year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But we do know that if we trust in God and obey Him, discover that he has planned good things that result because of that obedience! We can not simply dismiss others with whom we are, because God makes many cross our path and gives us the responsibility to act towards them significantly eternal ways, either for good or ill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Calvin wisely note to encourage you to use ordinary care in life and plan ahead, "God is pleased to hide all future events, so that the resist as doubtful, and let not oppose them with remedies ready until that overcome or are beyond God's providence concern us not always comes to meet in its naked form, but in a sense God saw her with the means used. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In contrast, if we expect some danger or bad events may occur in the future, and do not use reasonable means to avoid them, we can really Enchant our lack of action was the means God used to allow it to submit!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PRAYER IS A SPECIFIC KIND OF ACTION IS DEFINED IN EFFECT RESULTS AND CHANGE THE COURSE OF EVENTS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God has also ordained that prayer is a very significant means of producing results in the world.26 When we intercede fervently for a specific person or circumstance, often we find that God has ordained that our prayer is a means that he has to use to produce changes in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible reminds us of this when he says: "I do not have, because they do not ask" (James 4: 2). Jesus says, "Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete "(Jn 16:24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">IN CONCLUSION, WE MUST TAKE ACTION!<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of providence in no way encourages us to arrellanarnos with loafing to await the outcome of events. Of course, God can impress upon us the need to wait before acting on him and trust him before in our own abilities, and that certainly is not bad. But simply to say that we are trusting God instead of acting responsibly is pure laziness and a distortion of the doctrine of providence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In practical terms, if one of my children has homework to do for the next day, I have the right to force him to finish the task before it comes out to play. I realize that your score is in the hands of God, and that God has determined how much will that rating, but I do not know, nor will my son does. What I do know is that if you study and faithfully do your homework, get a good grade. If not, it will not receive it. So Calvin can say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And now, it is very clear what our duty: If the Lord has entrusted us Protecting Our Life, Our duty is to protect it; If offers us aids, we use them; Yes No We Warns With advance of hazards, do not we Metamos Recklessly On Them; If remedies available to us, do not you despise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But No Danger harm us, they will say, unless Fatal Sea, and in this case is beyond Los Remedios. But what if hazards are not Fatales, for the Lord he has provided you Remediation to remove them and overcome them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A good example of vigorous activity combined with trust in God is in 2nd Samuel10: 12 wherein Joab says, "Courage! Let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God! "But then immediately adds in the same sentence," and may the Lord do what seems good to him. " Joab both going to fight and trust that God will do what feels good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similar examples found in the New Testament. When Paul was at Corinth, to prevent the opposition he had received from the Jews discouraged, the Lord appeared one night in a vision and said, "Do not be afraid; but speak and do not be silent, for I am with you. Although attack you, do not go let anyone hurt you, because I have many people in this city "(Acts 18: 9-1O).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If Paul had been a fatalist with an inappropriate understanding of God's providence, he would have heard the words of God: "I have many people in this city," and concluded that God had determined to save many of the Corinthians, and therefore not It matters if Paul was there or not:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God had already chosen that many would be saved! Paul would have thought That could well pack your bags and go! But he did not make that mistake. Rather, it concluded that if God had chosen many, then it probably would be through Paul's preaching the gospel to those many would be saved. Paul therefore made a wise decision: "So Paul stayed there a year and a half, teaching them the word of God" (Acts 18: 11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul puts this kind of responsibility in the light of God's providence in one sentence in 2 Timothy 2 Action: 10, which says: "All stand for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain eternal glory salvation that is in Christ Jesus. " Do not grasp the fact that God had chosen some to be saved to conclude that not to do anything; rather, it concluded that there was much to be done so that God's purposes will be made by the means God had also established.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Indeed, Paul was willing to endure "everything", including all sorts of adversity and suffering, so that God's plans could be realized. A heartfelt belief in the providence of God is not a discouragement but a stimulus to action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">One example is found in the story of Paul's journey to Rome. God had clearly revealed to Paul that none of the ship's passengers would die because of the long storm that had endured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By the way, Paul stood before passengers and crew and told them to encourage:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Because none of you will lose life; Only the ship was lost. Last night I found an angel of the God I belong and whom I serve, and I said, 'Fear not, Paul. You have to appear before the Emperor;And God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you. '<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So courage, men! He trusted in God that it will as I said. However, we must run aground on some island (Acts 27: 22-26).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But shortly after Paul said this, he noticed that the sailors aboard the ship were secretly trying to lose a life boat sea, "in an attempt to escape from the ship" (Acts 27: 30). They planned to leave the other helpless with no one who knew how to steer the boat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Paul saw this, he did not take a wrong and fatalistic attitude, thinking that God miraculously take the boat to shore. Rather, he immediately went to the centurion who was in charge of the sailors and "said to the centurion and the soldiers," Unless these stay in the ship, you can not be saved ' "(Acts 27: 31).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wisely Paul knew that God's providential oversight and even clear prediction of what would happen to all involved using ordinary human means to that result. He even had the courage to say that those means were necessary: "If those do not stay on the ship, you can not be saved" (Acts 27: 31).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We do well to imitate his example of combining a complete trust in the providence of God and realize that the use of ordinary means is necessary so that things turn out the way God has planned that result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As for those wicked and ungodly whom God, as fair, blind and harden because of his previous sin judge men: <b>Ro. 1: 24-26, 28; 11: 7, 8.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Not only denied his grace which could have illuminated their understanding and worked in their hearts:<b>Dt. 29: 4.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which were: <b>Mt. 13:12; 25:29.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and leaves them exposed to things that their corruption makes occasion of sin: <b>Dt. 2:30; 2 Kings 8:12, 13.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and, in turn, delivers them to their own lusts, the temptations of the world and the power of Satan: <b>Ps 81:11, 12; 2 Thes. 2: 10-12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">so happens that harden under the same means God uses to soften others: <b>Ex. 7: 3; 8:15, 32; 2 Corinthians 2:15, 16; Isa . 6: 9, 10; 8:14; 1 Peter 2: 7; Acts. 28:26, 27; Jun. 12:39, 40.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">HOW GOD WORKS IN HUMAN ACTIVITY ordinarily.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In examining the Old Testament passages that refer to the providential intervention of God in the world, David].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. Clines says that predictions and statements of God in their limited purposes or refer to specific events:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Almost all specific references to God's plans have before it a particular event or series of Events Limited, for example, "What You Have Planned Against the land of the Babylonians' Jer 50: 45). More still, not a question of one divine Plan; Several passages speak Of Various Intentions, and some references are indeed God's Plans In A Plural [Passages are] an assertion that within the story God is accomplishing His purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jack Cottrell agrees that in some cases God intervenes in the world in a very unusual way, using "[natural] subtle manipulation of such laws and mental states."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But nothing usual calls these events "special providence" and says: "It is natural that the Old Testament abounds in stories of special providence. But we have no reason to assume that God was working in Australia and South America such ways at the same time. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE CONCEPT ARMINIAN ERRONEOUSLY BLAME GOD OF SIN.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Those who hold an Arminian position ask, "How can God be holy if decrees to sin?" They say that God is not the "author of sin" that "God can not be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; "(James 1: 13), that" God is light and in him there is no darkness "(1 Jn 1: 5), and" The Lord is righteous; and in it there is no injustice "(Ps 92: 15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The concept of God's providence that advocated above, say, makes us puppets or robots can not do anything other than what God makes us do. But this imposes moral reproach on God, because Marshall says, "I am responsible for what my agent does" 39 Pinnock says that "it is blasphemous to maintain, as does this theory that man's rebellion against God in a sense the product of the sovereign will or primary causality of God. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">DECISIONS THAT GOD DOES TAKE DECISIONS CAN NOT BE TRUE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the Calvinist states that God makes us voluntarily choose things, those who hold an Arminian position respond that any decision that ultimately it is God who cause may not be a true decision, and if it is true that God makes us take decisions we make, we are not really people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Cottrell says the Calvinist concept of God as primary cause and secondary cause men actually unravels so that there is only one cause: God. If a man uses a lever to move a rock, he argues, "the lever is not a cause second true but only an instrument of the true cause of the movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In my view the concept of cause has no real meaning when used in this regard. In such a system the man contributes only what has already been predetermined. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pinnock writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Personal class is conceived fellowship in the gospel exists only when consumed in a free decision. If we want to understand the Grace of God as Directed personally His creatures must grasp, as does the Bible, in terms Dynamical, Ni No Coercive Manipulators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He also says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If The World Were A structure completely determined in which no decision Man has no effect, the basic intuition Man Is An Actor And A Free Agent would make no sense: there would, then, reason to make plans or exercise efforts the purpose of transforming the world. Human freedom is the Precondition for the moral and intellectual responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Why, then, according to the Arminian concept, the fall took place and sin? Pinnock responds that "occurred because God refuses to mechanize man or impose his will on him." And Marshall says, regarding the "possibility that I predetermine a course of action including myself and other subjects" that "free agent level is impossible." Objected that the analogy of God and the world as an author and a play is not useful because if we ask whether the characters are truly free, "this is an unrealistic question."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, it should be noted that the Arminian theologians are certainly willing to give ground to some sort of influence of God on humans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Marshall says: "Prayer also influence men. The will of men can then be affected by prayer or otherwise not would pray for them. Believe in prayer is, therefore, believe in some kind of limitation of human freedom, and in some kind of incomprehensible influence on the will of men. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To hammer his point regarding the essential freedom of the human will, proponents of the Arminian position draw attention to the frequency of the free offer of the gospel in the New Testament. They will say that these invitations to humans to repent and accept Christ to be saved, if they are bonafide must involve the ability to respond to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So every human being without exception has the capacity to accept, not simply those whom God sovereignly gave them that ability in a special way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition to this point support, Arminians take 1 Corinthians 10:13 as clearly stating that we can not sin. Paul tells the Corinthians:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"You have not suffered any temptation that is not common to man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But God is faithful, and will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand. " But, they say, this claim would be false if sometimes God commands us to sin, because we could not then escape the temptation without sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE CONCEPT ARMINIAN PROMOTES RESPONSIBLE CHRISTIAN LIFE, WHILE THE CONCEPT CALVINIST ENCOURAGES A DANGEROUS fatalism.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christians who hold an Arminian position argue that the Calvinist view, when fully understood, destroys the motivation to maintain a responsible Christian behavior. Randall Basinger says the Calvinist concept "establishes what should be discarded and the consideration of things that could or should have been different."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Basinger continues that:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christians evoking An Act based on the sovereignty of God are guilty of Fatalism Arbitrario, Insufferable and dangerous. Contrary to this, the Arminian believes that what actually happens in the world is, to some extent, consistent in Human Will; The Exhaustive of God on the World Refuses Control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This means that things can happen that God does not desire or want; Not only things that can differ but often should be different. And all this is our responsibility to cooperate with God to produce a Better World.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, Basinger passes indicate a point. Calvinists, in practice, often avoid such fatalism and "live and speak as Arminians." O So, on the other hand, the challenge of Basinger is a warning against the practical ends which says that Calvinism logically urges Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, his objection states that when the Calvinists live the way they know they must live in responsible obedience to God, or are not consistent with his concept of divine sovereignty, or not allow their concept of sovereign control God affects their daily lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">RESPONSE TO Arminian position.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many within the evangelical world these four Arminians find convincing arguments. They believe that these arguments represent what we intuitively know about themselves, their own actions and the way the world works, and these arguments best explain the repeated emphasis in the Bible about our responsibility and the real consequences of our decisions. However, there are some answers that can be given to the Arminian position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ARE THESE EXAMPLES scriptures UNUSUAL OR IN EFFECT DESCRIBE HOW God frequently works?<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In response to the objection that the examples of providential control of God refer only to limited or specific events, you can say, first, that the examples are too numerous (see pp. 330-41) that appear to be designed to describe the ways God always works. God not only makes some grass grow; he makes all the grass grow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He not only sends some rain; He sends all the rain. He not only prevents some sparrows fall to the ground without his will; he keeps all the sparrows fall to the ground without his will. He not only knew every word that David was going to say before the said; he knows the words we say before we say them.He not only chose Paul and the Christians of the churches of Ephesus to be holy and blameless before him;he has chosen all Christians to be holy and blameless before him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Thus the assertion that God Cottrell was working differently in Australia and South America than in the Old Testament is not convincing; we were given the Bible to teach the ways of God, and when we have dozens of examples throughout the Old and New Testaments where there is such a clear teaching on this, it is appropriate to conclude that this is the way God always acts humans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In contrast, there seems to be nothing in the Bible to indicate that some things are out of control providential God, or that these ways God acts are unusual or unrepresentative of the ways in which acts generally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, many of the verses that speak of God's providence are very general: Christ "continually upholding all things by the word of his power" (Heb 1: 3, author's translation), and "all things in it hold together "(Col1: 17, RVR 1960). "In him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). He "works all things according to the counsel of His will" (Eph 1: 11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Food (Mt 6: 11), supplies all our needs (Phil 4: 19), directs our steps (Proverbs 20: 24) and works in us to will and to do of his good pleasure (Phil 2: 13). Such Bible passages have given more than usual nothing exceptional examples of God's intervention in the affairs of human beings; describe the way God always works in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">DO the Calvinist doctrine PROVIDENCE OF GOD GOD RESPONSIBLE FOR SIN?<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Against the Calvinist concept of God's providence (which allows him to enact allow sin and evil) Arminians say that God is not responsible for sin and evil because he did not order nor caused in any way. " This is indeed a way to absolve God of responsibility and guilt in regard to sin, but what is the biblical way?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The problem is whether the Arminian position can really explain the many passages that clearly say that God commands some sin or do wrong. The death of Christ is the prime example of this, but there are many others in the Bible (the brothers of Joseph, Pharaoh, Egyptians, Canaanites, the sons of Eli, the census of David and Babylonians, to name a few ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">One could say that these were unusual events, exceptions to the ordinary way of acting of God. But that does not solve the problem, because in the Arminian concept, how can God be holy if you order even a single act of sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Calvinist position seems preferable; God Himself never sins but always executes its will through secondary causes; ie through personal moral agents who voluntarily do what God has ordained. These personal moral agents (both human and evil angels) bear the guilt of evil they do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">While the Arminian position argues that, at the human level, people are also responsible for what they do others do, we can answer that the Bible is not willing to apply such reasoning to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rather, the Bible repeatedly gives examples where God in a mysterious way and hidden somehow ordered people to do evil, but always placed the blame for this evil the individual human being who does evil and never God Himself .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Arminian position seems to have succeeded in showing why God can not work this way in the world, preserving both his holiness as our human individual responsibility for sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">DECISIONS CAN YOU BE ORDERED THAT TRUE GOD DECISIONS?<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In response to the assertion that the decisions that God commands can not be true decisions, it must be said that this is simply a deduction based again on experience and human intuition, not specific passages of the "mystery" of the will God said enEfl: 9 is not limited to unite Jews and Gentiles (as in 3: 6) but defined as a plan 1:10 to unite all things in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The term mystery (gr, musterion) in Paul means something previously hidden but now has been made known by revelation, and can refer to different things in different contexts; in EF5: 32 refers to marriage as a symbol of the union between Christ and the church; 1st Corinthians 15: 51 refers to the resurrection of the body; etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bible. However, the Bible does not indicate that we can extrapolate from our human experience in addressing the issue of God's providential control of his creatures, especially humans. Arminians have not been able to say where the Bible that God commands a decision that is not a true decision says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we read passages indicate that God works through our will, our power to choose, and our personal will, on what basis we can say that a decision that God produced by these means is not really a decision? It seems best to affirm that God says that our choices are real and conclude that therefore are real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible repeatedly states that our decisions are genuine decisions, and have real results and that results will last for eternity. "Do that and you will live" (Lk 10: 28). "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" Gn 3: 16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This leads us to conclude that God has made us so that;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> the ordering everything we do, and;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> we exercise our will and take real and voluntary decisions. Because we can not understand this, we must reject?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can not understand (in some definite sense) how a plant can live, how the bumblebee can fly or how God can be omnipresent and eternal. Should we therefore reject these realities? Should not we rather accept them as true either because we see that plants really live and in ventad bumblebees fly or because the Bible itself teaches that God is omnipresent and eternal?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Calvin several times a distinction made between "need" and "compulsion" with respect to our will; those who believe not necessarily sin, but nothing forces them to sin against his will. In response to the objection that an act can not be voluntary if it is a necessary act, Calvino points out the good works of God (which necessarily does good) and bad works of the devil (which necessarily do evil):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If De Done That must of necessity do good not prevents the free will of God to do good; And If The Devil Is Not Able To Do More than evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is the case with the analogy of Cottrell man using a lever to move a rock. He says that the lever "is not a real cause second, but only an instrument of the real cause" (The Nature ofthe Divine Sovereignty), p.104).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But here Cottrell make a common mistake, assuming that the analogies of human experience rather than the testimony of the Bible itself, can determine what is a real cause and what is not. The analogy of a man using a lever to move a rock does not fit, because God is much bigger than any man, and us as real people are much larger than any lever sins willfully, who will dare say that man does not sin less voluntarily because it is subject to the need for sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Who are we to say that decisions that somehow God caused can not be true decisions? On what basis do we prove that? In the Bible God he tells us that he commands everything that happens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It also tells us that our decisions and actions are significant to your view and are responsible to Him for our actions. just we need to believe these things and take breath in them. After all, he alone determines what is significant, what is real and what is genuine personal responsibility in the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But our actions have any effect on God? At this point the armiñamos object that although Calvinists can say that a decision that God causes is a real decision, is not real in the final sense, because, according to the Calvinist concept, nothing that God does can never be an answer to what we do. Jack Cottrell says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Calvinism is still a theology of determinism long as Declares That God Does Nothing can be conditioned by man nor can be a reaction to something in the world. The Sovereign that a God Idea always must act and never React is a point on which nearly all Calvinists seem to agree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reformed theologians agree that the Eternal Decree is unconditional and absolute. "Theology Decree decrees that" God can not be affected by anything, or respond to anything external to him ", says Daane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But here Cottrell mesh Reformed theology has understood for two reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">First,</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> he has cited James Daane, who; although it belongs to the Christian Reformed Church, he has written an opponent, no defender, classical Reformed theology, and his statement does not represent a position that Reformed theologians would endorse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Second,</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Cottrell has confused the decrees of God before creation with God's actions in time. It is true that the Calvinists would say that the eternal decrees of God were not influenced by any of our actions or can be changed for us, since they were made before creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But to conclude that Calvinists believe that God does not react in time to anything we do, or that is not influenced by anything we do, it is simply false. No Calvinist theologian I know has ever said that God is not influenced by what we do or do not react to what we do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It grieves for our sin. He delights in our praise. Answers our prayers. To say that God does not react to our actions is to deny the whole story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A Calvinist add that God has eternally decreed that he will respond to us as it does. Moreover, it has decreed that act like us and respond to our actions. But their answers are all genuine, their answers to prayers are still genuine answers to prayer, his delight in our praise is still genuine delight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Cottrell could, of course, a response object that God has planned a long time is not a real answer, but this is very different from saying that Calvinists believe that God does not respond to what we do. Even more, we return to the same backless presupposition underlying this objection: On what biblical basis can Cottrell say that an answer that God has planned a long time is not a rea answer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is useful for us to realize that there is another reality in the universe except what God Himself has done. Is it a storm that God causes a real storm? Is a king on a throne God establishes a real king? Is a word that God makes me say (Ps 139: 4; Proverbs 16: 1) a real word? Of course they're real! There is no other reality than God produces!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So is a human decision that somehow God makes a real decision is made? Yes, it is, in the same way that a storm or a king are real according to their own characteristics and properties. The decision we made is not a "forced" or "involuntary" decision; We make decisions all the time, and we have absolutely the feeling of being coerced or forced to choose one thing over another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now some may object that this notion makes us "puppets" or "robots". But we are neither puppets nor robots but real people. Puppets and robots do not have the power to make personal decisions nor individual thought. We, on the contrary, we think, decide and choose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Again, the Arminian erroneously takes information from our situation as human beings and uses that information to place limitations on what God can or can not do. All these analogies of human experience do not recognize that God is far greater than our human capacities limited.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, we are much more real and complex than any robot or puppet never will be; we are people in every sense of the word created by an infinitely powerful and infinitely wise God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Much of our difficulty understanding how God can make something voluntarily choose arises from the finite nature of our existence as creatures. In a hypothetical world where all living things created by God were rooted in the soil plants, we could imagine a discussion with another that God could not do living creatures that can move through the ground floor because how could they carry their estate?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And if the roots are not on the ground, how could they receive their nutrition? A plant "Arminian" could even argue: "For God could create a world of living things, he had to create them with roots and characteristics of living their entire lives in one place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To say that God could not create living things that move on the earth is not a challenge to the omnipotence of God, because that's just say you can not do things that logically can not be done. It is therefore impossible that God had created a world where living things also have the ability to move around the earth. " The problem with this plant is that it has limited the power of God by virtue of their own experience "as a plant."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">At a higher level, we could imagine a creation that had plants and animals but not humans. In this creation, we can imagine a debate between a dog "Calvinist" and a dog "Arminian" where the dog "Calvinist" argue that it is possible that God created creatures that can not only communicate with each other by barking but also can print your barking marks on paper and can send silently to understand other creatures that many days away, creatures that have never seen the creature sending and scored his barking on paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The dog "Arminian" answer that God can not do that, because essential to the idea of communication between creatures is to hear and see (And usually sniff) the creature from which the communication is received. To say that there may be communication without ever seeing, hearing or smell to the other creature it's an absurd idea! It is beyond the range of possible events and is logically inconceivable. It is therefore impossible to think that God could create a creature with such communication capabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In both cases, the "Arminian" plant and the dog "Arminian" are wrong, because they incorrectly limited what God can create, inferring what is possible with God (in their opinion) of his own finite existence as creatures . But this is very similar to the Arminian theologian who claims (based on their own perception of human experience) that God can not create a creature that takes voluntary, meaningful, decisions and that those decisions are all ordained by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, the Arminian theologian who argues that God can not order that evil takes place and not have himself to blame for that evil is limiting God merely based on observation of finite human experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Does it stimulate CONCEPT CALVINIST PROVIDENCE FATALISM OR DANGEROUS TENDENCY TO "LIVE LIKE Arminians'?<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The concept of providence presented above emphasizes the need for responsible obedience, so it is not correct to say that encourages the kind of fatalism that says what will be, will be. Those who accuse the Reformed writers believe this have not understood the Reformed doctrine of providence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But what Calvinists live "as Arminians" anyway? Both Calvinists and Arminians believe that our actions have really significant results and are eternally. Both agree that we are responsible for our actions and we make voluntary decisions. Both groups agree that God answers prayer, to proclaim the gospel results in people who are saved, and that obedience to God results in blessings in life, while disobedience results in the lack of God's blessing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the differences are significant. Calvinists, when they are faithful to their doctrine, live with a much more comprehensive trust in God in all circumstances and with a freedom of desire for much greater future, because they are convinced not only that God somehow will make its main purposes turn out well in the end, but all things work for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They will also be grateful to God for all the benefits that come from anywhere, because he who believes in providence is certain that all things that happen not just happen in the universe, nor the "free will" of another human being, but it is ultimately the goodness of God himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They will also have more patience in adversity, knowing that this has not arisen because God could not prevent it, but she, too, is part of the wise plan of God. So the difference is immense. Calvin says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we consider this knowledge necessarily follow the heartfelt thanks prosperity, and patience in adversity, and also a unique Security for the future. The abject poverty is to ignore God's providence; And, on the contrary, La Suma Happiness is to know.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Just as God's providence generally reaches all creatures, and also more especially cares for his church and all things for the sake of it: <b>Pr. 2: 7, 8; Am . 9: 8, 9; 1 Tim. 4:10; Ro. 8:28; Eph. 1:11, 22; 3:10, 11, 21; Is . 43: 3-5, </b><b>14.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">HOW CAN WE KNOW GOD triumph over evil?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we return to the Arminian statement that evil is not according to the will of God, another problem arises: if all the evil in the world now came to the world even without God wanted him, how can we be sure God ultimately triumph over evil? Of course, God says in the Bible that he will triumph over evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But if to start could not prevent enter his universe, and if it was so against his will, and if he is unable to predict the outcome of future events that include free or demonic decisions of human beings, angelic, how, then, we can be sure that God's declaration that triumph over evil is real in itself? Perhaps this is just an optimistic something that (according to the Arminian view) God can not know prediction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Far from the "incredible freedom of concern about the future" Calvinists have because they know that an omnipotent God "all things work together for good" (Rom 8: 28), the Arminian position seems logically push to a deeply rooted on the final outcome of the story anxiety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These last two objections to the wrong make us realize that, although there may be difficulties in thinking about the concept reformed evil ordered God and is completely under the control of God, there is much more serious difficulties point Arminian view that God did not have evil and even did not want, and therefore there is no doubt that is under the control of God certainty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE DIFFERENCE IN RESPONSE unanswered.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h6>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Since we are finite in what we understand, we will inevitably have some answers unanswered as to all biblical doctrine. However, on this issue matters Calvinists and Arminians must leave unanswered are very different. On the one hand, Calvinists must say they do not know the answer to the following questions:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Exactly how God can order Voluntarily do evil, yet that did not contain God Can Pouring A Guilt Of Evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Exactly how God can make us choose something Voluntarily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As for both Calvinists they would say that the answer must be found in the perception of the infinite greatness of God, and knowledge of the fact that he can do much more than we could ever think possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So the effect of these unanswered questions is that it increases our appreciation of the greatness of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, Arminians should leave unanswered questions about the knowledge of God the future, why he allows evil when it goes against their will, and if he certainly triumph over evil. The fact that they can not resolve these questions tends to diminish the greatness of God; His omniscience, His omnipotence and absolute reliability of its promises for the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And these unanswered questions tend to exalt the greatness of man (his freedom to do what God wants) and the power of evil (is and remains in the universe but God does not want). <span class="goog-text-highlight" style="background-color: #c9d7f1; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 170) 2px 2px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Moreover, by denying that God can make creatures that have real choices which anyway are caused by him, the Arminian position decreases the wisdom and skills of God the Creator. </span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-20567284482958045212016-04-03T13:20:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:20:18.305-07:00THE FALL OF MAN, SIN AND PENALTIES<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although God created righteous and perfect man, and gave him a righteous law, which had been for life if he had saved, and threatened with death his transgression, man honored for long: Ec. 7:29; Ro. 5: 12a, 14, 15; Gn. 2:17; 4: 25-5: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Using Satan the subtlety of the serpent to subdue Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who without any coercion, deliberately transgressed the law under which they were created and the mandate that had been given them, eating the forbidden fruit: Gn. 3: 1-7; 2 Corinthians 11: 3; 1 Tim. 2:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Which allow pleased God, according to his wise and holy counsel, having ordained for the purpose it was for his own glory: Rom. 11: 32-34; 2 Samuel 24: 1; 1 Cr . 21: 1; 1 Kings 22: 22,23; 2 Samuel 16:10; Acts.2:23; 4: 27,28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"> MAN CREATED THE IMAGE OF GOD<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="">In art, making images is an exercise in beauty. </span>Painting, sculpture, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">other arts tend to be imitative. By creating our objects we imitate real life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The main artist is God. When God designed the universe, he left his stamp on it so that the heavens declare His glory and the firmament shows his work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When God made the creatures that inhabit the earth and the sea, created a unique creature made in his own image. Genesis 1: 26-27 tells us: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, yen every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. And God created man in his image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the Bible says that we are created in the image and likeness of God, some (especially Catholics) have concluded that there is a difference between being in the image and likeness of God be. But the structure of biblical language indicates that the image and likeness refer to the same thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We are the icons of God, creatures made with the unique ability to reflect the character of God, as if we were a mirror.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Being made in the image of God is often understood as indicating the sense that we are like God.Although He is the Creator and we are His creatures, and although God transcends us essentially held yen glory, but in a sense we are like Him. There is some kind of analogy between God and us. God is a moral and intelligent being. We are also equipped with a mind, a heart and a will moral agents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These powers enable us to reflect God's holiness, holiness which was our original vocation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word man, when used in the passages of Scripture as "God created man in his own image" (Genesis 1:27), meaning "humanity". Both male and female of the human species have been created in the image of God. Part of this includes the call of humanity to rule the earth, to have dominion over it. We are called to cultivate, to fill, and save this land as the regents of God. We are called to reflect the character of the righteous rule of God over the universe. He never plundered or exploited what dominates, but reigns with justice and kindness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the occasion of the fall of mankind, something terrible happened. The image of God lost its luster. Our ability to reflect his holiness was so affected that this mirror is now opaque.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The fall, however, did not destroy our humanity. Although our ability to reflect God's holiness was lost in the fall, we are still human. We still have a mind, a heart and a will. Still we carry the mark of our Creator upon us. Christ who restores the fullness of the image of God in humans. He is, as the author of Hebrews declares, "the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person" (Hebrews 1: 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God created humans male and female- -at his image and likeness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> There is some analogy between God and human beings that enables communication between the two.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Human beings, like God, are moral agents with the powers of thought </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Humans have been called to exercise dominion over the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In the fall, the image of God in humans is overshadowed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Christ is the perfect image of God. He is restoring us to the fullness of the image of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis 9: 6, Romans 8:29, 1 Corinthians 15: 42-57, Colossians 1:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SATAN<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The figure of Satan is often conceived as a fugitive from a party of "Halloween", is portrayed wearing a ridiculous red suit. It has spurs, horns, a tail, and carries a trident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This figure is a cause for ridicule among those who deny biblical Christianity. In particular occasion I asked my class of thirty students, "How many believe in God?" Most of the students raised her hand. Then I asked, "How many believe in the devil?" Only one hand went up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A student blurted out , "How can an intelligent person believe in the devil in the days running? The devil belongs to superstition, along with ghosts, goblins </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">all the paraphernalia remainder of the night."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I said, "There is a lot more reliable to believe in Satan than to believe in leprechauns origin may be not convinced of the truth of the Bible, but certainly that is more reliable than fairy tales origin." .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Satan amassing along with witches and goblins involves violating the rules of a serious and grave thought. I continued my discussion with the student realizing you another question: "If we believe that God is an invisible being, and staff who have the ability to influence people towards good, why is so amazing and so hard to imagine that there is a being invisible and staff who have the ability to influence people to do wrong? "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is possible that our problem regarding Satan lies in the fact that we are reacting to a caricature and not the biblical view on it. In Scripture, the word Satan means "adversary." We know him as the devil. It is an angelic creature who, before the creation of the human race, rebelled against God and has since fought against the human race and against God. It is called the prince of darkness, the father of lies, the accuser,</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the serpent. This portrait has nothing to do with the comic adversary, with horns </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a pitchfork, to which we have become accustomed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">That image, at least in part, arose in the medieval church. This cartoon Satan was created intentionally in the church to mock him. The church was convinced that it was an effective ploy against Satan insult him. It was considered that the most vulnerable part was his pride. The attack his pride was seen as an effective way to repel their attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The biblical notion, however, is much more sophisticated. He appears as an "angel of light". This image highlights the intelligent ability of Satan to manifest under the guise of good. Satan is very subtle, seductive and cunning. He can speak eloquently; its appearance is dazzling. Prince of Darkness wears a garment of light. Scripture also speaks of Satan as a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ is also called a lion, the Lion of Judah. He is the redeemer, the anti-lion and devourer. Both images speak of force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">How you should react, then the believer against Satan? On the one hand, Satan is really scary. In 1 Peter 5: 8 tells us that "your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."The believer's response should not be, however, fear. Satan may be stronger than us, but Christ is stronger than Satan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible states that "greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4: 4). Satan is after all a creature. It is finite and limited. It is limited in time and space. You can not be in more than one place at one time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It should never be considered equal to God. Satan is a superior human order, is a fallen angel. But it is not divine. It has more power than the creatures of this world but its power is infinitely smaller than the power of Almighty God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Satan should not be compared to the mythological creatures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Satan is a fallen sophisticated to deceive, tempt and accuse people angel powers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Satan is a finite creature without powers and divine attributes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Job 1: 6-12, Matthew 4: 1-11, Luke 22:31, 2 Thessalonians 2: 5-10, 1 Peter 5: 8-11. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For this sin, our first parents fell from their original righteousness and righteousness and communion with God, and we in them, so death came to all Gn. 3: 22-24; Ro. 5: 12ff. 1 Cor. 15: 20-22; Psalm 51: 4,5;58: 3; Eph. 2: 1-3; Gn. 8:21; Pr. 22:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Coming be all dead men in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body: Gn.2:17; Eph. twenty-one; Tit. 1:15; Gn. 6: 5; Jer. 17: 9; Ro. 3: 10-18; 1:21; Eph. 4: 17-19; 5:40 June.; Ro. 8: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE SIN<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sin can be illustrated as an archer shoots an arrow misses the target. It is not, of course, to infer that it is a moral issue not to hit the target in competitive target shooting. What happens is that the simplest biblical definition for sin is "missing the mark". In biblical terms, the target is not achieved is not a white stuffed with straw; is the white or the "norm" of God's law. The law of God expresses his own righteousness and is the highest standard for our behavior. When we miss the target of this standard, we sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible speaks of the universality of sin in terms of not hitting </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">target of the glory of God. "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Saying that "nobody is perfect" or that "to err is human" is to recognize the universality of sin. We are all sinners and we all have need of redemption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sin can be defined as "not comply or violate any law of God, granted as the norm for rational creatures."There are three crucial dimensions in this definition. First, sin is the nonconformity or power not fully accomplish something. It constitutes non-compliance with the law of God. A sin of omission is the failure to do what God commands. If we are commanded to love our neighbor and we do not love, that is sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Second, sin is defined as a transgression of the law. Transgressing a law overlook their barriers across their boundaries. That is why we describe sin as "an invasion of property rights". We walked where we are not allowed to walk. In this case we speak of sins of commission, when we commit actions prohibited by God. When God's law is pronounced in negative terms, "Thou shalt not do this or that," and we do what is not allowed, we sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Third, sin is an action taken by creatures that they can remember. Being creatures created in the image of God, we are free moral agents. Because we have a mind and a will, we are able to make moral actions.We sin whenever we do something we know is wrong, and we choose to disobey God's law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Protestantism rejects the classic distinction made in Catholic theology between venial sins and mortal sins. The classic Catholic theology defines a mortal sin as a sin that "kills" the grace in the soul and renew requires justification through the sacrament of penance. A venial sin is a sin less serious. Does not destroy the saving grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John Calvin said that all sin against God is a mortal sin as deserving of death, but no sin is mortal in the sense that destroys our justification by faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Protestantism claims that any sin is serious. Even the smallest sin is an act of rebellion against God. All sins are an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in his sovereign authority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, the Bible regards some more heinous than other sins. There are degrees of evil in the same way that there will be degrees of punishment in the court of justice of God. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for failing to comply with the most important questions of law, and upbraided the cities of Bethsaida and Chorazin telling them that their sin was worse than Sodom and Gomorrah (Matthew 11: 20-24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible also warns us about the guilt incurred by sinning multiple times. Although James teaches us that sin against part of the law sin against the whole law (James 2: 10), each particular transgression adds more guilt. Paul warns us not to lay up wrath against the day of wrath (Romans 2: 1-11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Every time we commit a sin we are enlarging our guilt and our exposure to the wrath of God. However, God's grace is greater than all our fault seal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible takes sin seriously because it takes God seriously, and taken seriously humans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we sin against God, we are violating their sanctity. When we sin against our neighbor, we are violating their humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The biblical meaning of sin is missing the mark of God's justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All human beings are sinners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Sin includes the failure to conform to something (of default) and transgression (commission) of the law of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Only moral agents may be guilty of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . Protestantism rejects the difference between mortal and venial sins, but says that there are sins more serious than others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> With every sin committed incurred greater guilt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Sin violates God and people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Romans 2: 1-11, Romans 3: 10-26, Romans 5: 12-19, James </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1: </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">12-15, 1 John 1: 8-10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They being the root of the human race, and being by God 's design instead of all mankind, the guilt of sin was imputed and transmitted corrupt nature to all posterity descended from them by ordinary generation, being now conceived in sin, and by nature children of wrath, the servants of sin, subject to death and all other - spiritual, temporal and eternal - misery, unless the Lord Jesus set them free: Ro. 5: 12ff. 1 Corinthians 15: 20-22; Psalm 51: 4,5; 58: 3; Eph. 2: 1-3; Gn. 8:21; Pr 22:15.; Job 14: 4; 15:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ORIGINAL SIN<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is a fairly common place to hear the statement that "people are basically good." Although it is recognized that no one is perfect, human malice is minimized. However, if people are basically good, why sin is so universal?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is often said that everyone sins due to the negative influence of society. The problem is framed within the social environment and not within our own nature. But this explanation of the universality of sin does not answer this question: "How was that society became corrupt in the first place?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If people are good and innocent when they're born, we would expect at least a percentage of them they remained good and without sin. It should be possible to find not corrupt societies, where the environment has been conditioned by sinlessness rather than being conditioned by the sinfulness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And yet, even the most committed to justice communities have had to take provisions to deal with the guilt of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the fruit is universally corrupt, we seek the root of the problem in the tree. Jesus taught us that a good tree can not produce corrupt fruit. The Bible teaches very clearly that our original parents, Adam and Eve fell into sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">From then on, all human beings are born with a sinful and corrupt nature. If the Bible does not teach this explicitly, anyway we would have to deduce rationally because of the universality of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the fall is not merely a matter of rational deduction. It is a point in divine revelation. It refers to what we call original sin. Original sin does not refer primarily to the first sin or original sin committed by Adam and Eve. Original sin refers to the result of the first sin corruption of the human race. Original sin refers to the fallen condition in which we are when we are born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of Scripture it is clear that the fall took place. The fall was devastating. How was it that happened it is open to dispute even among the thinkers of the Reformation theme. The Westminster Confession, very similar to the explanation of the way Scripture explains this event simply:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned by eating the forbidden fruit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God, according to his wise and holy counsel, allowed this sin, having decided to order it to his own glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, the fall occurred. The results, however, achieved much more than Adam and Eve. They not only reached all mankind, but mankind decimated. We are sinners in Adam. Not applicable wonder: When a person becomes a sinner? Because the truth is that human beings are born in a state of sinfulness. They are seen by God as sinners, for their solidarity with Adam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Westminster Confession again elegantly expresses the results of the fall, particularly in their relationship with humans:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By this sin they fell from their original state of justice and communion with God, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">died to sin, completely corrupt in all parts and faculties of soul and body. As were the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin, and even death to sin, and corrupt nature was charged and all his descendants postrera was transmitted by ordinary generation. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and contrary to good, and wholly inclined to evil, they are coming all transgressions present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This last sentence is crucial. We are sinners not because we sin, but we sin because we are sinners.That's why David laments: "In truth, I'm bad since I was born, I am a sinner from my mother's womb" (Psalm 51: 5, the Bible, New International Version).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The universality of sin can not be explained by social or environmental factors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The universality of sin is explained by the fall of mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Original sin does not refer primarily to the first sin, but the result of that sin. .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All people are born with a sinful nature or "original sin".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We all sin because we are sinners by nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR </span></b><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis 3: 1-24, Jeremiah 17: 9, Romans 3: 10-26, Romans 5: 12-19, Titus 1:15. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled , and opposite to all good ,and wholly inclined to all evil: Matthew 7: 17,18; 12: 33-35; Lk. 6: 43-45; June 3. 3.5; 6: 37,39,40,44,45,65; Ro. 3: 10-12; 5: 6; 7:18; 8: 7.8; 1 Cor 2:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They come itself all transgressions: Matthew 7: 17-20; 12: 33-35; 15: 18-20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Human depravity<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As mentioned in the previous chapter, a common topic of discussion among theologians lies in the question of whether humans are basically good or basically evil. This issue revolves around the word basically. There is an almost universal consensus that nobody is perfect. We all accept the maxim that "to err is human".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible tells us that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Despite this verdict on the limitations of humans, our culture, dominated by humanism, persists in believing that sin is something peripheral or tangential to our nature. However, we are failures because of sin. Our moral records exhibit stains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But somehow we think that our evil lies in the periphery of our character, barely grazes, and can never penetrate our inner center. It is assumed basically that people are inherently good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Having been freed from captivity in Iraq </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">experiencing firsthand the corrupt methods </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of Saddam Hussein, one of the hostages said: "Despite </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">all that I suffered, I never lost my confidence in the goodness </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">basic of people". It is possible that this view rests </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">partly on a sliding scale relative goodness or badness </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of the people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is obvious that some people are more evil than </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">others. Next to Saddam Hussein or Adolf Hitler, any </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">sinner heap looks like a saint. But if we lift our </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">gaze to the ultimate standard of goodness- the holy character </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of God we realize that what is presented as a </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">good in an earthly level is corrupt to the head.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible teaches the total depravity of the human race. Total depravity means radical corruption. We must be careful to note the difference between total depravity and utter depravity. Being completely depraved is to be as bad as can be. Hitler was extremely depraved, but could have been worse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I am a sinner. But could he sin more often and my sins could be more serious than I actually sinned. I do not completely depraved things, but yes I am totally depraved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Total depravity means that I and everyone else are depraved or corrupt in all our being. There is no part of us that has not been achieved by sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our minds, our wills, and our bodies have been affected by evil. We speak sinful words, develop sinful actions, have impure thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our bodies suffer the ravages of sin. Possibly the corruption radical expression is happier than the term "total depravity" to describe our fallen condition. I use the word radical not so much as a synonym for "extreme" but in the sense of its original meaning. The word radical comes from the Latin word meaning "root".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our problem with sin is that it is based in the center of our being. Cala deep in our hearts. Because sin is in the depths of our being and not merely on the outside of our lives it is that the Bible says there is none righteous, not even one; no one understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned aside, they have become useless; there is none who does good, not even one (Romans 3: 10-12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Because of this condition the verdict of Scripture is heard: we are "dead in trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2: 1); We have been "sold under sin" (Romans 7:14); We have been taken "captive to the law of sin" (Romans 7:23) and are "by nature children of wrath" (Ephesians 2: 3). Only the quickening power of the Holy Spirit can lead us out of this state of spiritual death. It is God who brings us back to life as we become His workmanship (Ephesians 2: </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1-10).</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Humanism believes that sin is on the edge or periphery of human life. He believes that humans are basically good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Biblical Christianity teaches that sin Creek to the depths of our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Total depravity does not mean the complete depravity. We are not as bad as could be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Radical corruption stresses the sinfulness that reaches to the depths of our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jeremiah 17: 9, Romans 8: 1-11, Ephesians 2: 1-3, Ephesians </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4: 17-19 </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">, 1 John 1: 8-10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The corruption of nature remains in this life where they are regenerated: June 1 . 1: 8-10; 1 Kings 8:46;Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2; Pr . 20: 9; Ec 7:20.; Ro. 7: 14-25; Stg. 3: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and although that is pardoned and mortified through Christ, herself and her first impulses are truly and properly sin: Psalm 51: 4,5; Pr 22:15.; Eph. 2. 3; Ro. 7: 5, 7, 8, 17, 18,25; 8: 3-13; Gal. 5: 17-24; Pr 15:26.;21: 4; Gn. 8:21; Matthew 5: 27,28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Was Jimmy Cricket who said let your conscience is always your guide. "This is a </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">good tip </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">if our consciousness has been instructed by the Word of God and directed by it. No, however, if our conscience is ignorant of Scripture and been seared or hardened by repeated sins, Jimmy Cricket theology can be disastrous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Awareness plays an important role in the Christian life. It is vital, however, understand that correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Consciousness has been described as an inner voice of God that our mind uses to accuse or excuse of sins. It includes two basic elements:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A conscience or inner realization of good </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">evil, and:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A mental ability to apply laws, rules, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">provisions to specific situations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In Romans 2:15, Paul teaches us that God has written </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">no </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">law on the human heart. Human consciousness has been </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">instructed by the revelation of the law of God, that He has implanted </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in the human heart.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">People have a moral responsibility to his conscience dictates. Sin is acting against conscience of one.Luther at the Diet declared: "My conscience is captive to the Word of God </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">because they </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">do not reassure against conscience nor be </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">right , " </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Luther's answer demonstrates two important biblical principles. First, that consciousness must be educated or "taken captive" by the Word of God. Consciousness can be misused taught or cauterized, or off, for the sins repeated again and again. Habitual sin or acceptance of society of sin can harden us so much that we silence the voice of conscience and we sin without remorse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, if our conscience convinces us that something is illegal or sinful, but in reality it is not sinful, equally it would be wrong that we did. It does what we consider wrong, even if not actually wrong, is sin. Paul teaches us that anything that does not come from faith is sin (Romans 14:23). In that instance, act against conscience does not reassure us or would be fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Awareness is a good guide only when it has been instructed and directed by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Conscience is a moral voice within us which accuses us or excuse our actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It is an act against conscience sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Luke 11: 39-44, Romans 2: 12-16, Romans 14:23, Titus 1:15 </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-44429686887124472212016-04-03T13:17:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:17:56.764-07:00GOD'S COVENANT<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The distance between God and the creature is so great that even though rational creatures owe obedience unto him as their Creator, they could never have attained the reward of life unless by some voluntary condescension on God 's part, that he he has been pleased to express in the form of covenant:<b>Job 35: 7,8; 113: 5.6; Isa . 40: 13-16; Lk. 17: 5-10; Acts. 17: 24,25.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE COVENANT OF WORKS<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some have questioned whether it is appropriate to speak of the covenant of works God did with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Actually the word covenant does not appear in the narratives of Genesis.However, the essential parts of the covenant are present:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A clear definition of the parties involved, a number of legally binding provisions stipulating the conditions of relations, the promise of blessings for obedience and the condition for those blessings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, Hosea 6: 7, referring to the sins of Israel, says: "They are like Adam have transgressed the covenant"! This passage sees Adam lived in a covenant relationship that had broken in the Garden of Eden.Furthermore, in Romans 5: 12-21 Paul sees Adam and Christ as the heads of the people they represent, something that is entirely consistent with the idea that Adam was part of a pact before the Fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the garden of Eden, it seems that it is quite clear that a number of provisions that legally linked and define the relationship between God and man. The two sides appear clearly when God speaks with Adam and gives commands. The requirements of their relationships are well defined with the commandments God gives Adam and Eve (Genesis 1: 28-30; 2: 15) and Adam direct commandment: "You can eat from all the trees in the garden, but the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. The day you eat of it you shall surely die "(Genesis 2: 16-17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this statement to Adam about the tree of knowledge of good and evil there is a promise of punishment for disobedience: death, we must understand in a comprehensive manner in the sense of physical, spiritual and eternal separation from God death death. ' In this promise of punishment for disobedience is implied a promise of blessing for obedience. This blessing would be to not receive the death, and the implication is that the blessing would be the opposite of "death."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Involve endless physical life and spiritual life in terms of a relationship with God would continue forever. The presence of the "tree of life in the midst of the garden" (Gen. 2: 9) was also a promise of eternal life with God if Adam and Eve met the conditions of that covenant relationship through complete obedience to God until it is decided the test time was over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">After the Fall, God drove Adam and Eve from the garden, partly to avoid "stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" (Gn 3: 22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another evidence that covenant relationships with God included a promise of eternal life if Adam and Eve had obeyed perfectly is the fact that even in the New Testament Paul speaks as if perfect obedience, if possible, lead to life. He says that "the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death" (Romans 7: 10, literally "commandment that was for life") and. in order to demonstrate that the law is not based on faith, quote Leviticus 18: 5, which says the following about the provisions of the law: "Whoever does these things shall live by them" (Gal 3: 12; Romans 10: 5).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Other covenants in Scripture generally have a "signal" associated with them (such as circumcision, baptism and the Lord's Supper). No "sign" for the covenant of works in Genesis clearly designated as such, but if we were to mention one, would probably be the tree of life in the midst of the garden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If you participated in that tree, Adam and Eve would have participated in the promise of eternal life that God would. The fruit itself had no magical properties, but it would be a sign by which God externally guaranteed the internal reality would happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Why is it important to say that relations between God and man in the garden were covenant relationships? Doing so reminds us of the fact that these relations, including obedience commands and promises of blessing for obedience, was not something that happened automatically in the relations between the Creator and the creature ..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For example, God did not make any kind of pact with the animals that he created. ' Neither the nature of man as God created claiming that he had some kind of fellowship with man and God made a promise that had to do with their relationships with men or that gave the man some clear direction with regard to 10 he would.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All this was an expression of parental love of God for man and woman he had created. In addition, when specifying these relations as "covenant", we can see the clear parallel between this and the following relationships covenant that God had with his people. If all the elements of a covenant are present (clear stipulations of the parties involved, a statement of the conditions of the covenant and promise of blessings or punishment for disobedience), there seems no reason why we should not refer to these as a covenant because that was what they really were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the covenant that was before the Fall has been expressed by various terms (such as Adamic covenant or agreement of nature), the most useful designation seems to be "covenant of works", since participation in the blessings the covenant clearly depended on obedience or "works" from Adam and Eve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As with all covenants God made with man, no negotiations on arrangements here. God sovereignly imposes the covenant of Adam and Eve, and they have no possibility to change details. All they can do is accept or reject it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Are you still in force the covenant of works? In several important ways it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">First, Paul implies that perfect obedience to God's laws, if possible, lead to life (see Rom 7: 10; 10: 5; Gal 3: 12). We should also note that the punishment in this agreement is still in force, "For the wages of sin is death" (Rom 6: 23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This implies that the covenant of works is still in effect for every human being apart from Christ, although no sinful human being can comply with its provisions and get their blessings. Finally we should note that Christ perfectly obeyed the covenant of works for us because he committed no sin (1 Peter 2: 22), but obeyed God in everything for us (Rom 5: 18-19).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, in many ways, the covenant of works does not remain in force:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We no longer have to deal with the specific command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Since we all have a sinful nature (both Christians and non - Christians), we are unable to comply with the provisions of the covenant of works by ourselves and receive benefits, because when people apply directly only we receive punishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For Christians, Christ has satisfactorily complied with the provisions of this agreement once and forever, and we get no benefits through real obedience from us, but relying on the merits of the work of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In fact, for Christians today think that we are obliged to try to win God's favor by obedience would be away from the hope of salvation. "All who live by the works of the law are under curse is evident that by law no one is justified before God" (Gal 3: 10-11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christians have been freed from the covenant of works because of the work of Christ and have been included in the new covenant, the covenant of grace (see below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In addition, having the man brought the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace <b>: Gn. 3:15; Psalm 110: 4 (with He 7: 18-22; 10: 12-18); Eph. 2:12 (Ro 4: 13-17 and Gal . 3: 18-22 . ); I have 9:15.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In which freely offers to sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring faith in him so that they can be saved: <b>Jun. 3:16; Ro. 10: 6.9; Gal. 3:11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And promising to give his Holy Spirit to those who are ordained to eternal life, to give them willing and able to believe: <b>Ez. 36: 26,27; June 6. 44.45.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE COVENANT OF REDEMPTION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Theologians speak of another kind of covenant, a covenant which is not between God and man, but between the members of the Trinity. It is the covenant that call the "covenant of redemption." This is an agreement between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, through which the Son agrees to become a man, to be our representative, to obey the demands of the covenant of works on our behalf and pay the penalty for sin that we deserved .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Do the Scriptures teach their existence? Yes, because it speaks of a specific plan and purpose of God in which agreed the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in order to win our redemption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the Father, this "covenant of redemption" included an agreement to give the Son a people that he would redeem to be his Genesis 17: 2, 6), send the Son to be his representative Gn 3: 16; Romans 5: 18-19), prepare a body for the Son dwell in him as a man (Col 2: 9; Hebrews 10: 5), accept him as representative of the people who have redeemed (Heb 9: 24), and give him all authority in heaven and on earth (Mt 28: 18), including the authority to pour out the power of the Holy Spirit and applying redemption to his people (Acts 1: 4; 2: 23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">From the Son, he agreed to come to this world as a man and live as a man under the Mosaic Law (Galatians 4: 4; I 2: 14-18), and to be submitted in perfect obedience to all the commandments of father (Heb 10: 7-9), is humiliate himself and would obedient unto death on the cross (Phil 2: 8). The Son also agreed to train a people for himself so that none of the Father would give him lose Gn 17: 12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The role of the Holy Spirit in the covenant of redemption sometimes overlooked in discussions on the subject, but it certainly was unique and essential. He agreed to do the will of the Father and fill and empower Christ to carry out his ministry on earth (Mt 3:16; Luke 4: 1, 14, 18; Jn 3: 34), and apply benefits the redemptive work of Christ to believers after Christ returned to heaven Gen 14: 16,17,26; Acts 1: 8; 2: 17-18, 33).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Referring to the agreement between the members of the Trinity as a "covenant", reminds us that it was something undertaken voluntarily by God, not something I had to get because of their nature. However, this pact is also different from the covenants between God and man because the parties involved make it as equal, while in the covenants with man, God is the sovereign Creator imposed by the provisions of the covenant by own decree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, it is like the covenants God made with man in containing the elements (specifying the parties, conditions, and promised blessings) that make a pact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE COVENANT OF GRACE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"> ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the man did not get the blessing offered in the covenant of works, it was necessary that God established other means, one by which man could be saved. The rest of the Scriptures after the story of the Fall in Genesis 3 is the story of God's action in history to accomplish the wonderful plan of redemption so that sinful people could come into fellowship with him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Again, God clearly defines the provisions of the agreement that would specify the relationship between him and those who would be redeemed. In these specifications are some variations in detail throughout the Old and New Testaments, but the essential elements of a covenant are all there, and the nature of those essential elements remain the same throughout the Old and New Testaments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The parties to this covenant of grace are God and the people he redeem. But in this case Christ fulfills a special role as "mediator" (Heb 8: 6, 9: 15; 12: 24) which meets for us the conditions of the covenant and thus reconciles us with God. (There was no mediator between God and man in the covenant of works.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The condition (or requirement) from participation in the covenant is faith in the redemptive work of Christ (Rom 1: 17; et al.). This requirement of faith in the redemptive work of the Messiah was also the condition for the blessings of the covenant of the Old Testament, as Paul clearly demonstrated by the examples of Abraham and David (Rom 4: 1-15). They, like other Old Testament believers, reached salvation looking forward to the work of the Messiah was to come and put their faith in him:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But while the condition to start in the covenant of grace is always alone and faith in the work of Christ, the condition to continue in the covenant is understood to obedience to God's commandments. Although this obedience does not work in the Old Testament or the New Testament to gain merit with God, if our faith in Christ is genuine, will produce obedience (see James 2: 17), and obedience to Christ in the New Testament is considered a necessary evidence that we are true believers and members of the new covenant (see 1 John 2: 4-6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The promise of blessings in the covenant was a promise of eternal life with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">That promise appears frequently repeated throughout the Old and New Testaments. God promised that he would be their God and they would be his people. "I will establish my covenant with you and your descendants as an everlasting covenant for all generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants "(Genesis 17: 7). "I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (Jer 31: 33). "They will be my people, and I will be their God. I will make with them an everlasting covenant "(Jer 32: 38-40; Ezekiel 34: 30-31; 36: 28; 37: 26-27).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">That theme also appears in the New Testament: "I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (2 Cor 6: 16; d a similar theme in verses 17-18, also 1 Peter 2:.. 9-10) . Speaking of the new covenant, the author of Hebrews quotes Jeremiah 31: "I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (Heb 8: 10). This blessing finds fulfillment in the church, which is the people of God, but finds its best fulfillment in the new heaven and the new earth, as John sees in his vision of the coming age: "I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Here, among human beings, is the abode of God He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God" (Rev. 21: 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The sign of this covenant (the outer physical symbol of inclusion in the covenant) varies between the Old Testament and the New Testament. In the Old Testament the outward sign of the beginning of relations covenant was circumcision. The signal then covenantal relationships was the continued observance of all parties and ceremonial laws that God gave the people at various times in its history. In the new covenant the start signal of relations covenant is baptism, while the signal of continued relations is participation in the Lord's Supper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This pact is known as "covenant of grace" because it is completely based on the "grace" of God or unmerited favor to those who redeems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This covenant is revealed in the gospel; first, Adam in the promise of salvation through the seed of the woman, and then through additional steps to complete their full revelation in the New Testament:<b>Genesis. 3:15; Ro. 16: 25-27; Eph. 3: 5; Tit. 1: 2; I 1: 1.2.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And that is grounded in federal and eternal transaction that was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect: <b>Psalm 110: 4; Eph. 1: 3-11; 2 Tim. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And it is only through the grace of this covenant as all descendants of the fallen Adam who are saved obtain life and blessed immortality, man being now utterly incapable of being accepted by God under those conditions in which it was Adam in his state of innocence: <b>Jun. 8:56; Ro. 4: 1-25; Gal. 3: 18-22; I have 11: 6, 13, 39,40.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SEVERAL WAYS OF THE COVENANT.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the essential elements of the covenant of grace are the same throughout the history of God's people, the specific provisions of the covenant vary from time to time. At the time of Adam and Eve, there was only a brief hint of the possibility of having relationships with God that we find in the promise about the seed of the woman in Genesis 3: 15 and the previous and loving God's provision of clothes for Adam and Eve (Gen. 3: 21).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The covenant God made with Noah after the flood (Genesis 9: 8-17) was not a covenant that promised all the blessings of eternal life and communion with God, but only one in which God promised to all mankind and the animal kingdom that the earth would not be destroyed by a flood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this sense the covenant with Noah, though certainly depends on God's grace or unmerited favor, seems to be quite different in terms of the parties (God and all mankind, not only redeemed), the condition mentioned (not It requires neither faith nor obedience on the part of man), and the blessing that is promised (that the earth would not be destroyed again by the flood is certainly a different promise of eternal life). The sign of the covenant (the rainbow) is also different in that it does not require an active or voluntary participation on the part of man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But beginning with the covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15: 1-21; 17: 1-27), the essential elements of the covenant of grace are all present. In fact, Paul can say that "the Scripture ... preached before the gospel to Abraham" (Gal 3: 8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, Luke tells us that Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist prophesied the coming of John the Baptist to prepare the way of Christ was the beginning of God's activity to fulfill old promises to Abraham (to show mercy to . our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to Abraham our father), Luke 1: 72-73).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So that the promises of the Abrahamic covenant remained in effect even if you had been fulfilled in Christ (see Romans 4: 1-25; Gá.3: 6-18, 29; He 2:16; 6: 13-20).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What then is the "old covenant" in contrast to the "new covenant" in Christ? Not the whole of the Old Testament, because the covenant with Abraham and David are never called "old" in the New Testament.Rather, only the covenant under Moses, the covenant made at Mount Sinai (Ex 19-24) is called the "Old Covenant" (2 Ca 3: 14; cf. Heb 8: 6, 13), it would be replaced by the "cause it to rain pact" in Christ (Lk 22: 20; 1st Cor 11: 25; 2nd Corinthians 3: 6; Heb 8: 8,13; 9: 15; 12: 24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Mosaic covenant was the implementation of detailed written laws enforced for a while to restrict the sins of people and to be a guide to take us to Christ. Paul says, "So what was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the seed should come to whom the promise "(Gal 3: 19) was made," so that the law became our guide in charge to lead us to Christ "(Gal 3: 24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We should not assume that there was grace for people from Moses to Christ, because the promise of salvation by faith that God had made to Abraham remained in force: Now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Promises were made to Abraham and his descendants. The law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul the covenant God had ratified previously; Had it done so, it would lapse Promise. If the inheritance is based on law, not based on the promise; But God gave it to Abraham through a promise (Gal 3: 16-18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Furthermore, although the sacrificial system of the Mosaic covenant not actually removed sin (Heb 10: 1-4), it prefigured Christ, the perfect high priest who was also the perfect sacrifice, would bear our sins (Heb 9: 11 -28). However, the Mosaic covenant itself, with all its detailed laws, could not save people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Not that the laws were in themselves bad, because had a holy God, but were powerless to give people a new life, and people could not obey perfectly: "Will the law against the promises of God? No way! If a law had been able to give life, then that justice would be based on the law "(Gal 3: 21).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul realizes that the Holy Spirit working within us can be trained to obey God in a way that the Mosaic Law could never, because he says that God "has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life "(2 Corinthians 3: 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The new covenant in Christ, then, is much better because it fulfills the promises made in Jeremiah 31: 31-34, as quoted in Hebrews 8: But the priestly ministry Jesus has received is superior to theirs, and the covenant of which is mediator is superior to the old, since it is based on better promises. For if that first covenant had been perfect, there would be no place for a second covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But God, blaming his shortcomings, said, "The time will come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I left them, saith the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So this is the covenant after those days with the house of Israel, saith the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them in your heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">No longer teach his neighbor, Ni Nadie teach his brother and He will say: "Know the Lord!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For everyone from the least to the greatest, I will know. I Les forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins. " Call the "New" A Covenant That he has made the first old; And What it becomes obsolete and growing old Ya is about to disappear (Heb 8: 6-13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this new covenant there are blessings far superior, because Jesus the Messiah has come; he has lived, died and risen among us, and has atoned once and forever all our sins (Heb 9: 24-28); has revealed God to us a more complete Gen. 1:14; I 1: 1-3); <span class="goog-text-highlight" style="background-color: #c9d7f1; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 170) 2px 2px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">He poured the Holy Spirit upon his people with the power of the new covenant (Acts 1: 8; 1st Corinthians 12: 13; 2nd Corinthians 3: 4-18); </span>He has written his laws in our hearts (Heb 8: 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This new covenant is the "eternal covenant" (Heb 13:20) in Christ, through whom we have eternal communion with God, and he will be our God, and we shall be His people.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE MEANING OF THE DISPENSATIONS</span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the study of the Scriptures it is important to understand that scriptural revelation is divided into well - defined periods. These are clearly separated, and recognize these divisions and their divine purposes is one of the most important factors in the true interpretation of Scripture. These divisions are known as </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"dispensations" </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">and successive time periods can be observed different dispensations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A dispensation may be defined as a stage in the progressive revelation of God and is a different administration or rule of life. Although the concept of a dispensation and a time when the Bible is not exactly the same, it is obvious that every period has its dispensation. The times are often mentioned in the Bible (Ephesians 2: 7; 3: 5. 9; Hebrews 1: 2.). The Bible also makes no distinction of times (Jn 1:17; cf. Matt. 5: 21-22; 2 Corinthians 3:11; I 7: 11-12.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is likely that recognition of dispensations shed more light on the overall message of Scripture than any other aspect of Bible study. Very often it happens that the fact of having a clear understanding of, dispensations and the purposes that God has revealed in them has become the beginning of a valuable knowledge of Scripture and a personal interest in the Bible itself. Man's relationship with his Creator is not the same in all ages. It was necessary to submit to certain tests fallen man. This is partly the purpose of God through the ages, and the results of the trials faced by man has been in each case an unquestionable demonstration of both the sinfulness and absolute spiritual and moral failure of mankind. And on the final day every mouth may be closed, because through centuries of experience will have seen evil or folly of all thoughts of the human heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Each dispensation begins, therefore, with the man divinely established in a new position of privilege and responsibility, and ends with human failure that results in the revelation of the righteous judgment of God. While it is true that there are some facts, such as the holy character of God, which remain unchanged forever and consequently are the same in every age, have both different instructions and responsibilities are limited in their application to specific period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In connection with this the Bible student must recognize the difference between primary application and secondary application of the Word of God. Only those portions of Scripture which are intended directly for the son of God in this time of grace should be subject to a primary or personal application to the Christian. It is claimed that such instructions received detailed compliance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When it comes to secondary application it should be noted that, while it is true that can be drawn spiritual lessons of each Bible portion, this does not mean that the Christian is under obligation to God to fulfill those principles which were the expression of God's will for people other dispensations. The son of God in the present period of grace is not in the same situation as Adam or Abraham, or Israel in the time of the Law; neither it is nor called to follow the peculiar way of life according to the Scriptures be demanded of men when the King has returned to establish his earthly kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Being the son of God depends entirely on the instruction contained in the pages of the Bible to guide their steps in everyday life, and since the principles revealed in the various dispensations are so diverse and sometimes so contradictory, is of great importance for he recognize the biblical portions that apply directly to your own case, if you will live according to God's will and for the glory of God. In considering the full testimony of the Bible, it is almost as important for the believer who wishes to know what God's will is not concerned directly as that which has direct reference to it. It is obvious that, apart from the knowledge of dispensational truth, the believer can not intelligently adapt to the present purpose of God in the world. Only that knowledge will save you from falling into that subject to the law that characterized the last dispensation or want to carry out at present global transformation program belonging to the dispensation to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Due to the imperfection of translations, some important truths are hidden from the current reading only the text of the Bible. For example, the Greek word </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">aion, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">which means </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"age" </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">or </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">dispensation,</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">translated </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"world" </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: red; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">in about forty times. For example, when it says in Matthew 28:20 </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"to the end of the world", </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the reference is not the end of the material world, which in due course will take place (2 Peter 3: 7; Rev. 20:11. ; is 66:22), but rather the end of this age.. The end of the world is not close, but the end of this age. According to the Scriptures there in all seven major dispensations, and it is clear that we are living near the end of the sixth of them. The age of the millennial kingdom (Rev .20: 4, 6) is yet to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A dispensation is characterized more or less by the new responsibilities that God says to man at the beginning of her and the divine judgments that the same ends. The seven dispensations are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Innocence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> law,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> millennial kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">By studying the dispensations there are certain essential principles to understand this teaching.Dispensationalism is derived from a normal or literal interpretation of the Bible. It is impossible to interpret the Bible in its normal and literal sense without realizing that there are different ages and different dispensations. A second principle is that of progressive revelation, that is, the fact recognized by almost all students of Scripture that revelation is given in stages. Third, all exhibitors Bible need to recognize that later revelation to some extent replaces a primary revelation with a resultant change in rules of life in which they can be changed or modified and added new requirements. For example, while God commanded Moses to kill a man for cutting firewood on a Saturday (Num. 15: 32-36), none apply this commandment today because we live in a different dispensation. Although often distinguished seven dispensations in Scripture, three are more important than others; They are: the dispensation of law, ruling Israel in the Old Testament from the time of Moses; the dispensation of grace, the present era; and the future dispensation of the millennial kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. DISPENSATION OF INNOCENCE: AGE OF FREEDOM<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This dispensation began with the creation of man (Gn. 1: 26-27) and continues until Genesis 3: 6.Man in this dispensation was given human responsibility to be fruitful, subdue the earth, to have dominion over the animals, using vegetables to eat and take care of the garden of Eden (Genesis 1: 28-29; 2:15.). However, he was given a ban; man was instructed not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Gn. 2:17). Although the man was granted a blessed state, a body, mind and perfect nature, and everything you need to enjoy life, Eve succumbed to temptation and ate the forbidden fruit and Adam joined her in her act of disobedience ( Gen. 3: 1-6.). As a result came the divine judgment, spiritual death, the knowledge of sin, fear of God and loss of companionship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Even in these circumstances God introduced the principle of grace with a promise of the Redeemer (Gn. 3: 15) and provided coats of skins, typical provision of redemption (Gen. 3:21.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">They were driven out of the garden, but were allowed to live their lives naturally (Gen. 3: 23-24.) And the judgment of God upon them began a new dispensation. In the dispensation of innocence God revealed the failure of man, gave the promise of a Redeemer to come, revealed his sovereignty in judging His creatures and introduced the principle of grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This dispensation, which begins in Genesis 3: 7 and extends to Genesis 8: 19, brought new responsibilities on man, established in the so-called covenant with Adam and Eve. a curse on Satan (. Gen. 3: 14-15) was issued, but also down a curse upon Adam and Eve (Gn. 3: 16-19). Although a detailed moral given to man in this time code is not revealed, he was required to live according to their conscience and keeping the knowledge of God as it was given. However, low awareness, failing man continued much as it always had. Consciousness could convince, but would not bring victory (John 8: 9; Rom 2:15; 1 Cor 8:.. 7; 1 Tim 4: 2.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Adam's children had their sinful nature manifested in the fact refuse to bring a blood sacrifice (Gen. 4: 7.) And the murder of Abel by Cain (Gn. 4: 8). The resulting civilization was sinful Cain (Gn. 4: 16-24), and physical death became commonplace (Gn. 5: 5- 31). The wickedness of the human heart reached such a state that the trial was again necessary (Gn. 6: 5, 11-13). The trial was said about Cain (Gn. 4: 10-15), and humanity in general in death (Gn. 5). Finally God had to bring the flood on the earth (Gn. 7: 21-24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, in this period he was also manifested divine grace, since some were saved, as Enoch (Gn. 5:24), and Noah's family was saved by the Ark (Genesis 6: 8-10; Heb.. 11: 7). The dispensation ended with the flood in which only Noah's family was saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God's purpose in this dispensation was to demonstrate the fall of man under the new situation in which he was working on his conscience again. However, in this period God preserved the line of the future Redeemer, demonstrating its sovereignty judge the world by the flood and manifesting His grace to Noah and his family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This dispensation covers the period from Genesis 8:20 to 11: 9. God gave Noah an unconditional covenant (Gen. 8: 20- 9:17.), In which He promised that there would be more destruction by flood (Gen. 8:21; 9:11.). God promised that the seasons in the course of nature would not change (Gen. 8:22.) And again gave man the command to multiply (Gn. 9: 1) and continue their dominance over animals (Gn. 9: 2); eating meat was allowed now, but the blood was forbidden (Gn. 9: 4). Most important was the establishment of the essence of government, which was given to man the right to kill the murderers (Genesis 9: 5-6.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In this covenant, and on the other, there are human failure, as indicated by the drunkenness of Noah (Gn. 9: 1) and irreverence of Ham (Gen 9: 22.). It is a period of moral and religious decay (Gn. 11: 1-4). Human government, like consciousness, failed to suppress the sin of man, and the result was the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 4.). God's judgment was confused their language (Genesis 11: 5-7.), And human civilization was scattered (Genesis 11: 8-9.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In this period, however, grace was evident in how God's remnant was preserved and in the selection of Abraham (Genesis 11:10 - 12:. 3). He was also preserved the seed of the woman and God was manifest in a sovereign manner. The dispensation ended with the judgment of the Tower of Babel and preparations for the next dispensation. It is important to note that both -the conscience and human government continue in subsequent dispensations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Only Abraham and his seed come under the dispensation of promise. In general, the dispensation of human government revealed the failure of man under this new rule of life, selective judgment of God, and continued to manifest divine grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. Dispensation of Promise: PACT WITH ABRAHAM<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This pact, which begins in Genesis 11: 10, extends to Exodus 19: 2. In it human responsibility was given in the form of trust in the promises of God revealed to Abraham. The content of divine revelation included the promise to Abraham (Genesis 12: 1-2; 13:16; 15: 5.; 17: 6); the promise to Israel, the seed of Abraham, which would make a great nation and the channel for the fulfillment of God's promise (Genesis 12: 2-3; 13:16; 15:. 5,18- 21; 17 : 7-8; 28: 13-14; Jos 1: 2-4). and a promise of blessing to the whole earth through Abraham (Genesis 12: 3.), The principle was also established so God bless those who bless Abraham and curse those who cursed Abraham's seed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Abrahamic covenant is one of the important covenants of the Bible and includes the provision that Israel would be a nation forever, would have the title to their land forever be blessed in spiritual things would be under divine protection and would have the special sign of circumcision (Genesis 17: 13-14.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The pact was both gracious and unconditional principles, because they depended on human faithfulness, but in God's faithfulness. Only partially fulfilled in the time when Abraham lived, blessings and promises of the Abrahamic covenant remain in compliance by the end of human history. Some of the immediate blessings of the covenant for a particular generation were conditioned to obedience, but the covenant itself was declared as an everlasting covenant (Genesis 17: 7, 13, 19 1 Cr 16: 16-17; Psalm 105... : 10). The covenant with Abraham was first directed to Abraham and his descendants to where it was committed dispensational responsibility. The world as a whole remained under human government and conscience as their primary responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Under the Abrahamic covenant, however, there was a consistent pattern of failure, which was manifest in the delay of going to the Promised Land (Gen. 11:31.); Abraham to be the father of Ishmael (Gen . 16: 1-16); and go down into Egypt (Genesis 12:10 - 13: 1 . ). It is clear, however, that Abraham grew in faith and grace and finally had the willingness to sacrifice even his son Isaac in obedience to God (Gn. 22). Following Abraham, Isaac failed to live so close to Egypt as possible without violating the commandment of God. (Gen . 26: 6-16). Similarly, Jacob failed in not believing in the promise made to his mother when he was born (Gen. 25:23;. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">J </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">28: 13- 15, 20); he was guilty of lying, cheating and haggle (Gn . 27: 1-29), and eventually moved off the land to Egypt to avoid famine (Genesis 46: 1-4 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Egypt, Israel also failed God in their complaints and lack of faith (Ex 2:23; 4:. 1 to 10; 5:21; 14: 10-12; 15:24), in his desire to return Egypt (Ex 14: 11-12.) and its constant backbiting (Ex 15:24; 16: 2.; Nm 14: 2; 16:11, 41; Jos 9:18..). Its failure is evident in the time that was given the law and later in his failure as to trust the promises of God at Kadesh Barnea (Num. 14). Failure on the period when the Abrahamic promise was especially responsibility resulted in the temporary loss of land, slavery in Egypt and their wandering journey through the wilderness before entering the land. Their failure set the stage for the enactment of the Mosaic law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the dispensation of promise it had much divine grace shown in the constant care of God for his people, their deliverance from Egypt and the institution of the feast of the Passover. The dispensation of promise ends at the time that was given the law (Ex. 19), but ends only in the sense of being the first or main test of responsibility. The dispensation of promise continues to the end of history, and many of its promises are still in effect as an object of faith and hope. The promises made to Abraham are the basis for subsequent dispensations of grace and the kingdom. To some extent the promises never end and are fulfilled in an eternal state. The dispensation of promise clearly established the principle of divine sovereignty, it provided a channel of special divine revelation to the nation of Israel, continued provision of redemption and divine blessing, revealed the grace of God and promised a testimony to the world. Like the other dispensations, however, it ended in failure in regard to conformity with God's will and prepared the ground for the introduction of the law as a schoolmaster to bring believers to Christ (Gal. 3:24) .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The dispensation of the law begins in Exodus 19: 3 and extends throughout the period until the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, although the law ended in a sense on the cross. Certain portions as the Gospel of John and a few select passages in the other gospels anticipated, however, the present age of grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Mosaic law was aimed only at Israel, and the Gentiles were not judged by their standards. The law contains a detailed system works, including three main divisions: the commandments (the expressed will of God, Ex. 20: 1-26); judgments (social and civic life of Israel, Exodus 21: 1-24: 11.);and ordinances (the religious life of Israel, Exodus 24: 12-31: 18.). The sacrificial system and the priesthood that was included was both legal and grace. The government in this dispensation was a theocracy, a government by God through His prophets, priests and (later) kings. The Mosaic covenant was also temporary, in effect only until Christ came (Gal. 3: 24-25). The nature of the dispensation was conditional, that is, the blessing was conditional on obedience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">For the first time in the history of Scripture revealed a complete and detailed religious system under the law, it provided the ground for cleaning and forgiveness, worship, and prayer, and offered a future hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Under the law there was constant failure. This is evident especially in the period of the judges, but continued even after the death of Solomon and the division of the kingdom of Israel into two kingdoms. There were periods when the law was completely forgotten and ignored and idolatry reigned supreme. The New Testament continues the record of failures, culminating in the rejection and crucifixion of Christ, who in his life kept the law perfectly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">They were infringed upon many trials during the dispensation of law as described in Deuteronomy 28: 1 - 30:20. The greatest trials were in captivity under Assyria and Babylon, of whom returned in due time. The judgments of Israel also came after the end of the dispensation and included the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD and the global dispersion of Israel. The Great Tribulation, another time of Jacob's trouble, is still ahead (Jer 30: 1-11; Dan. 12: 1; Matthew 24:22.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Under the law, however, was also given divine grace in that sacrificial system that was provided as a way of restoration for sinful Israel, and patient God is manifested in the provision of prophets, judges and kings and preservation of the nation. Repeatedly Israel's repentance was accepted by God, and through this period was written the Old Testament. The crowning blessing was the coming of Christ as the Messiah of Israel, whom the whole nation rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In a sense the dispensation of law ended at the cross (Romans 10: 4; 2 Cor. 3: 11-14; Galatians 3:19, 25.). But in another sense it was not completed until the day of Pentecost, when the dispensation of grace began. Although the law ended as a specific rule of life, it continues to be a revelation of God's righteousness and can be studied with profit by Christians to determine the holy character of God.Moral principles that highlight the law continue, because God does not change; but believers today are not required to keep the details of the law, because the dispensation has changed and the rule of life given to Israel is not the rule of life for the church. However, they can take several applications of the law, although a strict interpretation relates only to the Mosaic law with Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Read the purpose of providing a fair rule of life and bring sin into condemnation. The experience of Israel under the law showed that the moral, civic and religious law can not save or sanctify. The law was never proposed to provide salvation for man, either while it was in force or later, and by its nature was weak, because he could not justify (Rom 3:20;. Galatians 2:16.); I could not sanctify or perfect (Heb. 7: 18-19); It was limited in its term and duration (Galatians 3:19.); I could not regenerate (Gal 3: 21-22.), and could only make manifest sin (Rom 7: 5-9; 8:. 3; 1 Cor 15:56). The law made it possible for God to demonstrate that they were all guilty and that every mouth shut (Romans 3:19.), And made clear the need for Christ (Romans 7: 7-25; Gá.3. 21-27).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">G. Dispensation of Grace<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The dispensation of grace begins precisely in Acts 2 and continues through the New Testament, culminating with the rapture of the church. Some teachings concerning the dispensation of grace were introduced before, as in John 13-17. Scripture that relate to this dispensation extend from Acts 1 to Revelation 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The dispensation of grace was addressed only to the church, since the world as a whole continues under conscience and human government. In it it is revealed that salvation is by faith alone, which was always true, but now becomes more evident (Rom 1:16; 3. 22-28; 4:16; 5: 15-19). High standards grace this dispensation rise above all previous rules of life (Jn 13: 34-35; Rom. 12: 1-2; Phil. 2: 5; Col. 1:. 10- 14; 3: 1; 1 Thessalonians 5:23)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, under grace failure it was also evident, since grace produced neither universal acceptance of Christ nor a triumphant church. In fact, Scripture predicted there would be apostasy within the professing church (1 Tim 4: 1-3; 2 Tim. 3: 1-13; 2 P. 2-3; Jud..). Although God is fulfilling his purpose in calling people for his name among Jews and Gentiles, the portion profess to you but does not save the church left behind at the Rapture will be judged in the period between the rapture and the coming of Christ to establish his kingdom (Matthew 24: 1-26; Rev. 6-19.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The true Church will be judged in heaven at the judgment seat of Christ (2 Cor 5: 10-11). In this age of divine grace is especially evident in the coming of Christ (John 1:17.) In the believer's salvation and our position before God (Rom 3:24; 5:. 1- 2: 15-21 ; Gal 1: 1 - 2:21; Eph. 2: 4-10), and the nature of grace as a rule of life (Gal 3: 1 - 5:26)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The dispensation of grace ends with the rapture of the church, which will be followed by the judgment of the professing church (Rev. 17:16). The age of grace is different in regard to cover Jewish and Gentile believers dispensation. By contrast, the law of Israel was only for Israel, human government was for the whole world, and consciousness extends to all people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the present dispensation the Mosaic law is completely canceled in their immediate implementation, but continues to testify to the holiness of God and provides many spiritual lessons to be applied. Although all dispensations contain an element of grace, the dispensation of grace is the supreme manifestation of both, all received salvation and as a rule of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">H. Dispensation of the Kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The dispensation of the kingdom begins with the Second Coming of Christ (Matthew 24; Ap. 19) and is preceded by a period in which the tribulation, which to some extent is a transitional period is included. The Scriptures that apply to this are all the passages of the future kingdom, either in the Old or New Testament (being the main Ps 72; Is. 2: 1-5; 9:. 6 to 7.11; Jer 33. : 14-17; Dn 2: 44-45; 7: 9-14., 18, 27; Hos 3: 4-5; 'Zech. 14: 9; Lk. 1: 31-33; Rev. 19-.. twenty). In the kingdom, human responsibility is to obey the king, who governed with an iron rod (Is 11: 3-5; Rev. 19:15..). The kingdom is theocratic, ie regulation from God, and there will be a renewed priesthood and sacrificial system (Is 66: 21-23; Ezek 40-48..). An outstanding feature of this period is that Satan will be bound and demons remain inactive (Revelation 20: 1-3. 7). The kingdom, however, also be a period of failure (Is 65:20; Zech 14:.. 16- 19), and there will be rebellion at the end (Revelation 20: 7-9.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Divine judgment that follows includes the destruction of the rebels by fire (Rev. 20: 9.) And the destruction of the old earth and heaven by fire (2 Peter 3: 7, 10-12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the millennial kingdom God's grace is also revealed in the fulfillment of the new covenant (Jer. 31: 31-34), as to salvation (Is. 12), in physical and temporal prosperity (Isa. 35), in abundance revelation (Jer 31: 33- 34.), in forgiveness of sin (Jeremiah 31:34.) and gathering of Israel (Isaiah 11: 11-12; Jer. 30: 1-11; Ez 39:25.. -29). The millennial reign ends with the destruction of the earth and sky by fire and is followed by the eternal state (Ap. 21- 22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The dispensation of the kingdom differs from all previous dispensations in which is the final form of the moral test. The advantages include dispensing a perfect government, immediate and glorious presence of Christ, the universal knowledge of God and the end of the time of salvation, and Satan remains inactive. In many places the dispensation of the kingdom is supreme and brings to completion God's dealings with man. In the dispensations God has shown every possible meaning of the dealings with man. In every dispensation man fails and God's grace is sufficient.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Dispensations in God's purpose to manifest his glory, in the natural world and human history is fulfilled. Through eternity no one can raise the question of whether God could have given man another chance for salvation or holiness through their own ability. A knowledge of the dispensations is, accordingly, the key to the understanding of God's purpose in history and deployment of Scripture, which records God's dealings with man and his divine revelation concerning himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How important is the doctrine of dispensations?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can define a dispensation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Contrasting a dispensation and a time in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What generally characterizes the beginning and end of each dispensation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can distinguish primary and secondary application of God's Word?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How dispensational interpretation provides an explanation of scriptural instructions that seem contradictory?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What seven dispensations are commonly recognized in Scripture?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is normal or literal interpretation relates dispensationalism?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How progressive dispensationalism disclosure relates?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How do you explain dispensationalism changes in the rules of life?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the most important dispensations?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What it was the requirement for man under the dispensation of innocence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the grace he showed in the dispensation of innocence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Explain the revelation of God in the dispensation of Innocence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent dispensation of consciousness reveals the human failure?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the grace he showed in the dispensation of consciousness?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What were some of the outstanding results of the dispensation of consciousness?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What it was the requirement for man under the dispensation of human government?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent man failed under human government?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How much grace she was shown in human government?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">21</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . What revealed the dispensation of human government?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">22.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense dispensations of conscience and human government continue today?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">23.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What was provided in the dispensation of promise, and what was required of man in relation to it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">24.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Explain how the dispensation of promise will not be ex tended to the whole race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">25.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe the human failure under the dispensation of promise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">26.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How divine grace he was in the dispensation of promise?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">27</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . Who they were placed under the dispensation of law?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">28</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . Name the major divisions of the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">29.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How complete was the law as a detailed religious system?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">30.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe, in general, the failure of Israel under the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">31.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent showed grace under the law?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">32.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> When did the law?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">33.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe the extent and limitation of the purpose of the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">34.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Who was addressed to the dispensation of grace?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">35.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Characterize standards grace as a rule of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">36.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent was the failure under the dispensation of grace?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">37.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What does complete the dispensation of grace?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">38.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Test the dispensation of grace with the dispensation of law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">39.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> When the dispensation of the kingdom begin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">40.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Name some of the important scriptures that relate to the kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">41.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the outstanding features of the dispensation of the kingdom?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">42.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Describe the failure and judgment at the end of the dispensation of the kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">43.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is revealed in the millennial kingdom concerning grace?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">44.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the dispensation of the kingdom differs from all previous dispensations?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">COVENANTS<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Bible reveals that God has been pleased to establish pacts with men. Eight of these agreements are mentioned in the sacred pages , and they incorporate the most vital facts in the relationship that man has with God throughout the history of the human race. Each covenant is a divine purpose and</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">most </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of them are an absolute prediction as much as an unalterable fulfillment of all that God has given promise. If we bring our consideration of the issue until the time when the agreements were made, we find that they always anticipate the future and were intended to be a message of certainty for those with whom the covenant was established. In addition to the biblical covenants, theologians have suggested three theological pacts s that have to do with the salvation of man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. Theological COVENANTS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">To define the eternal purpose of God, theologians have argued that the theory is the central purpose of God to save the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">elect </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">, those chosen to salvation from eternity past. Accordingly, they consider the story first as the outside work for God's plan in </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">regard </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">to salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Developing this doctrine, they have exposed three basic theological covenants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> It is said that Adam a covenant of works was established. The provision of the pact was such that if Adam obeyed God, he would be kept secure in his spiritual state and receive eternal life. It is claimed that this pact is supported by the warning concerning the tree of knowledge of good and evil, "because the day that you </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">eat thereof </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">you shall die" (Gn. 2:17). It follows that if he had not eaten of the tree, had not died and, as the holy angels, had been confirmed in his state </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">saint </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.This agreement is based almost entirely on the deduction and is not called a covenant in the Bible, and therefore is rejected by many scholars of Scripture have little </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">basis </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Another suggested covenant is the covenant of redemption, in which the teaching that was established a covenant between God the Father and God the Son concerning the salvation of men in eternity past insinuates. In this </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">covenant </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the Son of God committed to provide redemption for the salvation of those who believe, and God promised to accept their sacrifice. This pact has more support in the Scriptures that the covenant of works in which the Bible clearly states that God's plan for salvation is eternal, and that in that plan Christ had to die as a sacrifice for sin and God had to accept that sacrifice as sufficient to save those who believe in Christ base.According to Ephesians 1: 4: ". As we chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him" also in reference to our position in Christ, stated in Ephesians 1:11: "in him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to his purpose who works all things after the counsel of his will. From these and other scriptures it is clear that the purpose of God for salvation is eternal. It is suggested that a formal pact was </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">agreed </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">between God the Father and God the Son of the fact that God's purpose is also a promise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Yet another attempt is to contemplate the eternal purpose of God in salvation as a covenant of grace </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">At this point of Christ view is referred to as the Mediator of the covenant and the representative of those who put their trust in Him. Individuals found the conditions of this covenant when they place their faith in Jesus Christ as Savior. Although this agreement is also a deduction of eternal plan of salvation, it tends to </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">emphasize </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the character of grace of God's salvation. The covenant of redemption and the covenant of grace, therefore, have some scriptural bases and are more acceptable to most Bible scholars that the concept of covenant of works, which has no scriptural basis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, the problem has arisen that those who are adept at these theological covenants always make the plan of God for salvation its primary purpose in human history. Thus they tend to ignore particular about God's plan for Israel, God's plan for the Church and God's plan for the nation.While it is true that God's plan for salvation is an important aspect of his eternal purpose, is not the totality of God's plan. A point better view is that God's plan for history is to reveal His glory, and He does this only to save men, but also by fulfilling its purposes and revealing himself through his dealings with Israel, with the church and nations. Accordingly, it is preferable to see the story through eight biblical covenants, which reveal the essential purposes of God throughout the history of mankind and that includes God's plan for salvation. Those who emphasize the theological covenants are often called "theologians of the pacts', while, on the contrary, those who emphasize biblical covenants are called" dispensational "because biblical covenants reveal distinctions at various stages in history human, which are evident in the dispensations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE BIBLICAL COVENANTS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God's covenants contained in the Bible are classified into two classes, those who are conditional and which are unconditional. A conditional covenant is one in which God's action is in response to some action by </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">those </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">to whom it is addressed the pact. A conditional covenant guarantees that God will do his part with absolute certainty when human requirements are met, but if the man fails, God is not obligated to fulfill his covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">An unconditional covenant, while may include certain human contingencies, is a statement of true purpose of God, and the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">promises </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of an unconditional covenant will certainly be fulfilled in time and manner of God. Of the eight biblical covenants only Edenic and Mosaic were conditional.However, even under the unconditional covenants there is a conditional element as if it were applied to certain individuals. An unconditional covenant differs from one conditional by the fact that its essential compliance is promised by God and depends on the power and sovereignty of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> . </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE Edenic Covenant was the first covenant God made WITH MAN</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (Genesis 1: 26-31; 2: 16-17 . ), And was a conditional covenant with Adam in which life and death, blessing or the They depended on the fidelity curse of Adam. The Edenic covenant included giving Adam the responsibility of being the father of the human race subdue the earth, to </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">have </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">dominion over the animals, take care of the garden and eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Having failed Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, it was imposed the death penalty for disobedience. Adam and Eve died spiritually immediately born again and needed to be saved. Later also they died physically. His sin plunged the whole human race into a mold of sin and death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE COVENANT ADAMIC WAS MADE WITH MAN AFTER THE FALL</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(Gn . 3: 16-19). This is an unconditional covenant in which God </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">declares </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">to man what will be his lot in life because of their sin.There is no room for any appeal or implied liability whatsoever on the part of man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As a whole, the pact provides important features, which determine human life from this point forward. Included in this agreement is the fact that the serpent used by Satan is cursed (Gen. 3:14; Rom 16:20; 2 Cor. 11:. 3, 14; Revelation 12: 9.); the promise of the Redeemer (Gn. 3:15) is given, which is then fulfilled in Christ; the place of women is detailed as to be subject to multiple conception, pain and grief in motherhood, and as to the position of the male head (Gen. 1: 26-27; 1 Cor. 11: 7-9; Eph 5: 22-25; 1 Tim. 2: 11-14).. Man should, hereinafter winning the bread by the sweat of his brow (cf. Gn 2:15 3: 17-19.); man's life would be painful and death by the end (Gen. 3:19; Eph. 2: 5.). For a fairly long period, the man continues from that point on living under the Adamic covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE COVENANT WAS MADE WITH NOAH Noah and his sons</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (Gn . 9: 1-18). This pact, while repeating some of the features of the Adamic covenant, introduced a new principle of human government as a means to curb sin. As the Adamic covenant was </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">unconditional </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">and revealed God's purpose for the subsequent generation Noah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The provisions of the agreement included the establishment of the principle of human government, in which the death penalty for those who take the life of another man was instituted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It was reaffirmed the normal order of nature (Gen. 8:22; 9:. 2), and the man was allowed to eat fresh meat (Gen. 9: 3-4.) Instead of living </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">only </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">vegetable, as it seems I did before the flood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The covenant with Noah included the prophecy concerning the descendants of his three sons (Genesis 9: 25-27 . ) And appointed Shem as the one </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">whom would follow the divine line until the Messiah came. The rule of the gentile nations in the history of the world is involved in the prophecy concerning Japhet. As the Adamic covenant introduced the dispensation of conscience, and the covenant with Noah introduced the dispensation of human government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4 </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE Abrahamic covenant</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Genesis 12: 1-4; 13: 14-17 . ; 15: 1-7; 17: 1-8) </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">IS ONE OF THE GREAT REVELATIONS OF GOD CONCERNING FUTURE HISTORY, AND HE WENT DEEP pROMISES gIVEN ALONG three lines</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> . </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">First of all, were given </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">promises to Abraham that he would have many descendants (Genesis 17:16.), which would have </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">much personal blessing (Genesis 13: 14-15, 17; 15. : 6.18; . 24: 34-35; Jn 8:56), that his </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">name would be great (Genesis 12: 2). </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">that </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">he personally would be a blessing (Genesis 12: 2)..</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Second, through Abraham it was made the promise that would emerge a great nation (Genesis 12: 2 .). God's purpose in this is Referring first to Israel and the descendants of Jacob, who formed the twelve tribes of </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Israel </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">. A nation was given the promise of the land (Gen. 12: 7; 13:15; 15: 18-21 . ; 17: 7-8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A third main area of the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">covenant </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">was the promise that through Abraham would come blessing to the whole world (Genesis 12: 3 . ). This would be fulfilled in Israel would be the special channel of divine revelation from God, the source of the prophets who reveal God and Scripture would provide human writers. Supremely, blessing the nations would be provided through Jesus Christ, who would be a descendant of Abraham. Given Israel's special relationship with God, God pronounced a solemn curse on those who cursed Israel and a blessing on those who bless Israel (Genesis 12: 3 . ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The covenant with Abraham, as the Adamic and Noah, is unconditional. While any particular generation of Israel could enjoy their supplies with just being obedient, and could, for example, be led into captivity if they were disobedient, the essential purpose of God to bless Israel, to reveal himself through Israel, to provide redemption through Israel and bring you inside the Promised Land is absolutely true, because it depends on the sovereign power and will of God rather than man.Despite the many failures of Israel in the Old Testament, God revealed himself and guided the writing of sacred texts, and finally Christ was born, lived and died and rose resurrecting exactly as the Word of God had anticipated. In spite of human failure, God's purposes are true in its fulfillment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE MOSAIC COVENANT WAS GIVEN THROUGH MOSES FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHILE TRAVELING FROM EGYPT WERE TO THE PROMISED LAND</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (Ex. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20 </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">: 1 - 31:18). </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Exodus, and expanded in many other portions of Scripture God gave Moses </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the law was to govern its relationship with the people of Israel. The approximately </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">six hundred specific commands are classified into three main divisions: </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the commandments, containing the expressed will of God (Ex. </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20: 1-26); </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> judgments relating to social and civic life of Israel (Ex. 21: 1 - 24:11), and </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">c)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">ordinances (Ex. </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">24:12 - 31:18).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Mosaic Law was a conditional covenant and incorporated the principle that if Israel was obedient, God bless them, but if Israel was disobedient, God curse them and would discipline them.This is especially prominent in Deuteronomy 28. Although Israel had anticipated that fail, God promised that He will not </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">abandon </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">his people (Jer. 30:11). The Mosaic covenant was also temporary and end on the cross of Christ. Although containing elements of grace, it was basically a covenant of works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE PALESTINIAN COVENANT </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Dt . </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">30 </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">: 1-10) </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">WAS AN UNCONDITIONAL COVENANT IN CONNECTION WITH THE END OF LAND OWNERSHIP BY ISRAEL </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This pact is illustrated </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">as </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">an essentially unconditional and safe covenant compliance; however, it is conditional elements for any generation in </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">particular. The promise given to Abraham in Genesis 12: 7, and then reaffirmed through </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the Old Testament, it would be the seed of Abraham possess the land. No </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, because of disobedience and failure, Jacob and their descendants lived </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">in Egypt hundreds of years before the Exodus. So, keeping God's purpose, they </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">returned and possessed at least a portion of the land. Later, because of </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">disobedience and neglect God's law, they were subjected to captivity </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Assyrian and Babylonian. Again in the grace of God, was allowed to return after </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">seventy years of the Babylonian captivity and re-possess the land until Jerusalem was </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">destroyed in 70 AD</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, despite all failures, Israel promised to return to earth will live there in safety and blessing and never will be dispersed again (Ez 39: 25-29; Amos 9: 14-15..) .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This return to the land of Israel is, therefore, highly significant because it meets the first stage of the return of Israel, need to set the stage for the end of time. The return of Israel will be completed to the last man after Jesus Christ returns and establishes His kingdom (Ezek . 39: 25-29). While any generation could have been taken out of the earth for their disobedience, the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">purpose </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">end of God to bring His people into their Promised Land it is unconditional and true compliance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Palestinian covenant, accordingly, includes the dispersion of Israel through unbelief and disobedience (Gen. 15:13; Dt 28:.. 63-68), time of repentance and restoration (Dt. 30: 2), gathering Israel (Deuteronomy 30: 3; Jer. 23: 8; 30: 3.; 31: 8; Ez 39: 25-29; Am. 9: 9- 15; Acts. 15: 14-17.), the restoration of Israel to their land (Isaiah 11: 11-12; Jer. 23: 3-8; Ez. 31: 21-25; Am 9:.. 9-15), his spiritual conversion and national restoration (Hos 2. : 14-16; Romans 11: 26-27), security and prosperity as a nation late (Am 9: 11-15) and divine judgment for their oppressors (Isaiah 14: 1-2; Joel 3....: 1- 8; Matthew 25: 31-46).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE Davidic Covenant</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (2 Samuel 7: 4-16; 1 CR . 17: 3-15) </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">was an unconditional covenant in which God promised David ENDLESS royal lineage, A THRONE AND A KINGDOM, ALL OF THEM FOR ALWAYS</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> . </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the declaration of this covenant Lord reserves the right to terminate the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">current reign of the sons of David if punishment (2 Samuel 7: 14-15; Ps . 89: 20- was necessary </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">37); but the perpetuity of the covenant could not be broken.</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As the Abrahamic covenant guarantee to Israel an eternal identity as a nation (Jeremiah 31:36.) And eternal possession of the land (Genesis 13:15; 1 Chron. 16: 15-18; Ps. 105: 9-11.) and the Davidic covenant guarantee them an eternal throne and an eternal kingdom (Dan. 7:14). From the day that the covenant was established and confirmed by the oath of the Lord (Acts. 2:30), until the birth of Christ, David did not lack a son to sit on the throne (Jer. 33:21) ; and Christ the eternal Son of God and Son of David, being the rightful heir to that throne and the One who would sit on that throne (Lk. 1: 31-33), complete fulfillment of this promise to David that an son sit on this throne forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Davidic covenant is the most important in ensuring the millennial kingdom in which Christ willreign on earth. David, resurrected, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">reign </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">under Christ as a prince of the house of Israel (Jer 23: 5-6; Ez . 34: 23- 24; 37:24.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Davidic covenant is not fulfilled by Christ to reign on his throne in heaven, because David has never sat nor will sit on the throne of the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Father </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">. It is rather an earthly kingdom and an earthly throne (Matthew 25: 31). The Davidic covenant is, c </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">or </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">nsiguiente, the key to the prophetic program of God that is yet to be fulfilled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE NEW COVENANT, PROPHESIED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND HAVE YOUR IMMEDIATE ENFORCEMENT IN THE UNITED Millennial UNCONDITIONAL COVENANT IS ALSO A</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (Jer. </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">31: 31-33). As described by Jeremiah, it is a covenant "with the house of Israel and with the </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">house of Judah" (v. 31).It is a new covenant in contrast to the Mosaic covenant, which was </span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">broken by Israel (v. 32).</span><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the covenant God promises: </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people " </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(v. 33). Because of this intimate and personal revelation of God and his will </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">to his people, continues to declare in Jeremiah 31:34: "and no longer teach </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a man his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: because they </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, he saith the Lord: </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">for I willforgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. "</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This passage anticipates the ideal circumstances of the millennial kingdom where Christ will reign, and all know the facts about Jesus Christ. Accordingly, it is not necessary for a person to evangelize his neighbor, because the facts about the Lord be universally known. It will also be a period in which God will forgive the sin of Israel and bless them abundantly. It should be clear, given this description of the promise of the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">covenant </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">as given in Jeremiah, that this is not being fulfilled today, since the church has been instructed to go into all the world and preach the gospel because it is a almost universal ignorance of the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, since the New Testament also relates to the Church with a new covenant, some have taught that the church fulfills the covenant given to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Those who do not believe in a future millennial kingdom and a restoration of </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Israel </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">, therefore now find complete fulfillment in the church, spiritualizing the provisions of the covenant and making Israel and the Church the same thing. Others who recognize the future restoration of Israel and the millennial kingdom believe that the New Testament refers to the new covenant enough to be an application of the general truths of the future pact with Israel to church, or to distinguish two new agreements (one for Israel is given in Jeremiah, and the second, a new covenant given through Jesus Christ in this age of grace providing salvation for the church).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Currently the new covenant, either to Israel or to the church follows the death of Christ and His bloodshed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The new covenant guarantees all that </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">intends to do for men in the field of blood of his Son.This can be seen in two ways:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">A) </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">HE SAVED, PRESERVE AND PRESENT IN GLORY, conformed to the image the Only Begotten Son, TO ALL WHO BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">fact that it is necessary to believe in Christ to be saved, is not a condition in this covenant. The act of believing is not a part of the pact, but rather the basis upon which the believer is admitted to enjoy the eternal blessings that the pact offers. The covenant is not made with the unredeemed, but with those who believe, and promises that they will be in favor of God's faithfulness. "He who has begun in you a good work will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus" (Phil . 1: 6), and any other similar to this promise, related to the power of God manifested in the salvation and preservation of their own, it is part of this covenant of grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the present age is not given to man a salvation that does not guarantee a perfect preservation here in the world, and </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">one </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">final presentation there in the glory of all who are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. You may have in the daily life of the Son of God any impediment to communion with the Father; and as happened in the case of David, the sin of the Christian God can raise your hand to punish the disobedient child; but these issues are typical of everyday experience of the believer, never become decisive for the fulfillment of the promise of God in regard to eternal salvation of those He has received his grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Some emphasize the importance and power of the human will, and emphatically declare that salvation and preservation should be conditional free cooperation of the human will. This may be reasonable for the mind of man, but disagrees with the revelation that God has given us in the Scriptures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In each case God has unconditionally declared what He will do on behalf of all those who trust in Him (John 5:24;. 6:37; 10:28). This is really a huge undertaking that necessarily must include the stranglehold even the thoughts and intents of the human heart; but, so to speak, this is simply unreasonable that the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">fact </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of declaring Noah that his descendants would follow the path that God had decreed, or the promise to Abraham that he would be the progenitor of a great nation and that of his seed Christ would be born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In each of these cases we have the manifestation of authority and the sovereign power of the Creator. God is Seer has given way to the free exercise of human will. He helps the will of men, and already saved are aware that both his salvation and his service are in complete harmony with the choice that they have made in the depths of his being. We are told that God governs man's will (John 6:44; Phil 2:.. 13); but at the same time we see that He appeals to the human will and in a sense makes it dependent on the enjoyment of divine blessing (Jn 5:40; 7:17; Rom. 12: 1; 1 John 1: 9.. ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Scriptures speak emphatically unquestionable and sovereignty of God. He has perfectly predestined things to come, and his particular purpose will be done; it is impossible for Him to be surprised or suffer some disappointment. Similarly, the Scriptures emphasize that between these two aspects of divine sovereignty-the eternal purpose and the perfect realization of it- He has allowed enough room for some exercise of human will. And by acting in this way is not threatening in any way, the ends He has to achieve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Having only one of the two aspects of this truth can lead us either to fatalism, in which there is no place to pray for no reason to seek the love of God, no basis for the condemnation of sinners, nor foundation for the gospel invitation or meaning for much of the Scriptures, or the pretense of wanting to evict God from his throne. It is reasonable to believe that the human will is under the dominion of God; but it would be most unreasonable to believe that God's sovereignty is under the control of the human will. Those who believe are saved and safe forever, because it is so determined on the unconditional covenant of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">B) </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">SALVATION OF ISRAEL FUTURE IS PROMISED IN THE NEW COVENANT </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">UNCONDITIONAL </span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(IS 27: 9; EZ 37:23; RO 11:.... 26-27)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This salvation is made on the sole basis of the blood that Christ shed on the cross. Through the sacrifice of His Son, God is so free to save a nation as it is to save an individual.Israel is represented by Christ as a treasure hidden in the field. The field is the world. And we believe faithfully that it was Christ who sold everything he had, in order to buy the field and thus possess the treasure was hidden there (Mt. 13: 44).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In consideration of these </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">eight </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">major agreements it can never be said that is taking too much emphasis on God's sovereignty in relation to the unconditional covenants, or absolute human failure As to the conditional covenants. And we can be certain that everything God has promised to do</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">unconditionally </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He will do with all the perfection of his infinite Being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> According to the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">theological covenants, what it is the central purpose of God and how itaffects the story?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the covenant of works and what their scriptural basis?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the covenant of redemption and what their scriptural basis?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the covenant of grace and what their scriptural basis?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the problem caused by the theological covenants in relation to God 's plan for Israel, for the Church and for nations?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it preferable to have a view of history through the eight agreements, rather than from the point of view of theological covenants?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Distinguish the conditional covenants, stalwarts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What it was the Edenic covenant, and what was the result of failure under the same?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What it was the Adamic covenant, and to what extent life conditions today?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What were the important provisions of the covenant of Noah, and to what extent continues today?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What promises the world were in the Abrahamic covenant?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What promises were given concerning the nation of Israel in the Abrahamic covenant?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What promises were given </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">to the world in the Abrahamic covenant?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">covenant with Abraham was unconditional?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent the Mosaic covenant was conditional and temporary?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent the Palestinian covenant was unconditional?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How do you explain the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities and global dispersion of Israel in view of the unconditional nature of the Palestinian covenant?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How could summarize all provisions of the Palestinian covenant in relation to Israel's disobedience, collection, restoration and ultimate security in prosperity as a nation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What was promised unconditionally in the Davidic covenant?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the Davidic covenant relates to the future millennial kingdom?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">21.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> According to the Old Testament, what was provided in the new covenant for Israel?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">22.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> When will compliment the new covenant for Israel?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">23.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why some have taught that the new covenant has a present application, and how can this be explained?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="goog-text-highlight" style="background-color: #c9d7f1; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 170) 2px 2px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">24.</span></span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="goog-text-highlight" style="background-color: #c9d7f1; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 170) 2px 2px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> How is </span><span class="goog-text-highlight" style="background-color: #c9d7f1; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 170) 2px 2px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">the new covenant with the assurance of salvation of believers is related?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">25.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the new covenant is related to the sovereignty of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">26.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is related the new </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">covenant with the future salvation of Israel?</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-77284858080616200602016-04-03T13:12:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:12:53.040-07:00CHRIST THE MEDIATOR<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> pleased God: <b>Is. 42: 1; Jun. 3:16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In His eternal purpose: <b>1 Peter 1:19.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, His only begotten Son, according to the covenant made between them: <b>Psalm 110: 4; I have 7:21, 22.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To be the mediator between God and man; prophet, priest and king; head and Savior of the church, the heir of all things and judge of the world: <b>1 Tim. 2: 5; Acts. 3:22; I 5: 5, 6; Psalm 2: 6; Lk. 1:33; Eph.1:22, 23; 5:23; I 1: 2; Acts. 17:31.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Who gave, from all eternity, a people to be his seed and to his time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified , and glorified: <b>Ro. 8:30; June 17. 6; Isa. 53:10; Ps 22:30; 1 Tim. 2: 6; Isa . 55: 4, 5; 1 Cor 1:30.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JESUS AS MEDIATOR<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A mediator is an intermediary. He is someone who acts as an intermediary between two or more people or groups in dispute and try to reconcile them. In biblical terms, humans are considered at enmity against God. We have rebelled, and revolutionized refused to obey God's law. As a result, the wrath of God is upon us. To modify or redeem this catastrophic situation, we need to be reconciled to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To make our reconciliation, God the Father appointed </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">sent his Son as our Mediator. Christ brings us nothing more </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and nothing less than divine majesty of God Himself He is God </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">incarnate. However, it took upon itself a nature </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">human and voluntarily submitted to the demands of the law of </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ did not begin reconciliation in an attempt to persuade the Father to put aside his anger. By contrast, in the eternal counsel of Divinity was total agreement between the Father and the Son so that the Son came as our Mediator. No angel could come as God's representative; only God Himself could do that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the Incarnation, the Son took upon himself human nature for the redemption of fallen seed of Adam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By His perfect obedience, Christ satisfied the demands of God's law and obtained eternal life for us. For its submission to the atoning death on the cross, he satisfied the demands of God's wrath against us. Both from a positive outlook as negative, Christ satisfied the divine conditions for reconciliation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We made a new covenant with God through His blood and continues daily interceding for us as </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">our </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">High Priest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">An effective mediator is someone who is able to achieve two conflicting parties, or far apart, achieve peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is the role that Jesus served as our perfect Mediator. Paul declared that we have peace with God through Christ's work of reconciliation: "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 5: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The mediating work of Christ is superior to the work exerted by any other mediator. Moses was the mediator of the Old Covenant. It was the intermediary of God, by giving the Israelites the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">law. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But Jesus is superior to Moses. The author of the book of Hebrews declares: Because of more glory than Moses countedworthy this, hath greater honor than the house which did ... And Moses indeed was faithful in all God's house as servant ... but Christ (was true) as a son over his house, whose house are we (Hebrews 3: 3-6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A mediator works to achieve reconciliation between two remote parts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Christ as the God-man reconciles us with the Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Christ and the Father agreed from eternity that Christ should be our Mediator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The work of mediation of Christ is superior to that of the prophets, the angels, and Moses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Romans 8: 33-34, 1 Timothy 2: 5, Hebrews 7: 20-25, Hebrews 9: 11-22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TRIPLE THE OFFICE OF CHRIST<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">One of the great contributions to a Christian understanding of the work of Christ is the exhibition of John Calvin on the threefold mission of Christ as Prophet, Priest </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">King]. As the prophet of God par excellence, Jesus was the object and the subject of prophecy. His person and his work are the focal point of Old Testament prophecies, but he himself was also a prophet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The kingdom of God and the role that Jesus would play in that coming kingdom are major themes in the prophetic claims of Jesus. The main function of a prophet was to convey the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Word </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of God. Jesus communicated the Word of God, but also<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The same is the Word of God. Jesus was the supreme prophet of God, being the Word of God in the flesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Old Testament prophet was a kind of mediator between God and the people of Israel. He spoke to the people as God's representative. The priest spoke of God as representative of the people. Jesus also fulfilled the role of the High Priest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Old Testament priests offered sacrifices regularly, but Jesus offered a sacrifice of eternal value, once and forever. The offering of Jesus to the Father consisted in the sacrifice of himself. He was offering and that ofrendaba.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">While in the Old Testament mediators offices of prophet, priest and king were exercised by different individuals, these trades are exercised supremely in the person of Jesus. Jesus fulfilled the messianic prophecy of Psalm 110. He is a descendant of David and David's Lord. He is the priest who is also King. The Lamb that is sacrificed is also the Lion of Judah. To understand the work of Christ in its entirety, we should not consider it merely as a prophet, or a priest, or a king. All these three offices were perfectly fulfilled by Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus was </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies and he himself was a prophet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Jesus was the priest and sacrifice. As Priest, He offered himself as the perfect sacrifice for sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus is the anointed King of Kings and Lord of Lords.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Psalm 110, Isaiah 42: 1-4, Luke 1: 26-38, Acts 3: 17-26, Hebrews 5: 5-6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Son of God, the second person in the Holy Trinity, being very and eternal God, the brightness of the glory of the Father, consubstantial with him and like him, who made the world, and who upholds and governs all things he has done: <b>Jun. 8:58; Jl. 2:32 with Rom. 10:13; Psalm 102: 25 with He 1:10; 1 Peter 2: 3 with Psalm 34: 8; Is . 8: 12,13 with 3:15; June 1: 1 . ; 5:18; 20:28; Ro. 9: 5; Tit. 2:13; I 1: 8.9; Phil. 2: 5,6; 2 Peter 1: 1; 1 Jun. 5:20.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> : When the fullness of time came <b>Gal. 4: 4.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He took upon himself the nature of man, with all the essential properties: <b>I 10: 5; Mark 14: 8; Mt. 26: 12,26; Lk. 7: 44-46; 13:23 June.; Mt. 9: 10-13; 11:19; Lk. 22:44; I 2:10; 5: 8; 1 Peter 3:18; 4: 1; June 19. 32-35; Mt. 26: 36-44; Stg. 2:26; June 19:30.; Lk. 23:46; Mt. 26:39; 9:36; Mr. 3: 5; 10:14; 11:35 June.; Lk. 19: 41-44; 10:21; Matthew 4: 1-11; I 4:15 with James. 1:13; Lk. 5:16; 6:12; 9: 18.28; 2: 40.52; I have 5: 8, 9.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And with its attendant weaknesses: <b>Mt. 4: 2; Mr. 11:12; Mt. 21:18; June 4. 7; 19:28; 4: 6; Mt. 8:24; Ro.8: 3; I have 5: 8; 2: 10.18; Gal. 4: 4.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Though sinless: <b>Is. 53: 9; Lk. 1:35; 8:46 June.; 14:30; Ro. 8: 3; 2 Cor 5:21; I 4:15; 7:26; 9:14; 1 Peter 1:19; 2:22; 1 June 3: 5 . .</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, coming upon it the Holy Spirit and cover the Almighty with his shadow; and so it was made of a woman from the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham and David according to the Scriptures: <b>Rom. 1: 3.4; 9: 5.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> So, two whole, perfect and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition , or confusion. This person is truly God: <b>Tit. 2:13; I 1: 8.9; Phil. 2: 5,6; 2 Peter 1: 1; 1 Jun. 5:20.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And truly man: <b>Acts. 2:22; 13:38; 17:31; 1 Cor 15:21; 1 Tim. 2: 5.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although one Christ, the only mediator between God and man: <b>Rom. 1: 3.4; Gal. 4: 4,5; Phil. 2: 5-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE NAMES OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The most important names of Christ are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. JESUS</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> . </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This name is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew name Joshua. Joshua 1: 1; Zechariah 3: 1; or Jesus, Ezra 2: 2. It is derived from the Hebrew word meaning "save" and designates Christ as Savior, Matthew 1:21. Two types of Christ in the Old Testament took this name, namely, Joshua the son of Nun and Joshua the son of Jehozadak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Christ.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word Christ is the equivalent in the New Testament of the Hebrew "Messiah" which means "the anointed one". According to the Old Testament, the prophets, 1 Kings 19: 6, the priests Exodus 29: 7 and kings 1 Samuel 19: 1 were anointed with oil, symbolizing the Holy Spirit. This anointing noted that had been set aside for their respective tasks., And were qualified to exercise them. Jesus Christ was anointed by the Holy Spirit for the threefold office of prophet, priest and king. From a historical standpoint, this anointing took place when it was conceived by the Holy Spirit and when he was baptized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Son of Man.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This name, when applied to Christ, is derived from Daniel 7:13. Jesus is a name that is generally given to himself and others rarely use. Even when it contains an indication to the human nature of Christ, in the light of its historical origin it leads us to his superhuman character and his future coming in the clouds of heaven with glory and splendor, Daniel 7:13; Matthew 16:27, 28; 26:24 and Luke 21:27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. Son of God.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ was called "Son of God" in various ways. It was so named because it is the second person of the Trinity and so is God, Matthew 11:27, but also because it is the chosen Messiah, Matthew 24:36, and because his birth was due to the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit, Luke 1:35.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Lord.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus' contemporaries sometimes used this name for Jesus as a way of talking politely, as we use the word "sir." Shortly after the resurrection of Christ this name takes on a special meaning much deeper. In some passages it designates Christ as possessor and governor of the Church, Romans 1: 7, Ephesians 1:17 and other occupies the same place that should take the name of God, 1 Corinthians 7:34; Philippians 4: 4- 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NATURES OF CHRIST<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible presents Christ as a being endowed with two natures, divine and human. Great is the mystery of godliness that God has manifested in the flesh, 1 Timothy 3:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE TWO NATURES<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Since many today deny the divinity of Christ, it is necessary to emphasize the biblical evidence of it.Some passages of the Old Testament and direct us to this doctrine, Isaiah 9: 6, Jeremiah 23: 6, Micah 5: 2, Malachi. 3: 1. In the New Testament, the evidence is very abundant, Matthew 11:27; 16:16; 26: 63.64 John 1: 1,18; Romans 9: 5; 1 Corinthians 2: 8; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Philippians 2: 6; Colossians 2: 9; Hebrews 1: 1-3; Revelation 19:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">None of those who accept the existence of Christ denies his humanity. In fact, the only detail of divinity that many give is to possess a perfect humanity. Anyway there is abundant evidence of the humanity of Christ. Christ speaks of himself as a man, John 8:40, and others call it so, Acts 2:22; Romans 5:15; 1 Corinthians 15:21. Christ had the essential elements of human nature, namely, body and soul, Matthew 26: 26,38; Luke 24:39; Hebrews 2:14. In addition, he was subject to the ordinary laws of human development, Luke 2:40, 52, and the needs and human suffering, Matthew 4: 2; 8: 2; Luke 22:44; John 4: 6; 11:35; 12:27;Hebrews 2:10, 18; Hebrews 5: 7, 8. However, despite being a real man, Christ was without sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He did not sin, nor could sin, John 8; 46; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; 9:14; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 3: 5. It was necessary that Christ was both God and man. Just as a man could be our substitute, and as such suffer and die, and only as a man without sin could pay for the sins of others. But it was only as God could give His sacrifice infinite value, and take upon himself the wrath of God, in order to deliver others from it, Psalm 40: 7-10; 130: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Ttulo5Car"><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">UNITED IN ONE PERSON TWO NATURES</span></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"> .<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ had a human nature, but it was not human person. The Person of the Mediator is the Son of God immutable. In the incarnation, Christ was not changed in a human person, nor adopted for itself a human personality. Christ assumed, more than his divine nature, human nature. This human nature did not develop an independent personality, but personalized in the Person of the Son of God. By taking this human nature, the person of the Mediator was to divine and human, that is, God and man, possessing all the essential qualities of the divine and human natures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ is divine and human consciousness, at the same time a divine and human will. This is really a mystery that we can not conceive. The scriptures clearly teach this unit in the person of Christ. It is always the same person who speaks, whether express facts divine and human, John 10: 30; 17: 5 compared to Matthew 27: 46; John 19: 28. Sometimes even human actions and attributes are presented to us as the work of the Person of Christ in his divinity Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 2: 8; Colossians 1: 13-14. Sometimes divine attributes and actions are imputed to the person of Christ under a name designating his humanity, John 3:13; 6:62; Romans 9: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SOME IMPORTANT MISTAKES AGAINST THIS DOCTRINE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the early Church the Alogi-Ebionistas and they denied the divinity of Christ. In the days of the Reformation, also the Socinians denied this truth "and today the Unitarians and Modernists deny it too. Also in the early Church we find the case of Ario who denied the full divinity of Christ and spoke of him as a semi God. on the contrary, Apolinario did not recognize his full humanity and maintained that the divine Logos took the place of the human spirit in Christ. Nestorius and his followers denied the unity of the two natures in one person, and Eutique s and his disciples did not arrive to distinguish between the two natures in the proper form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TEXTS TO LEARN MEMORY<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">The divinity of Christ<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Isaiah 9: 6. "For a child is born , to us a son is given us; and upon His shoulder, and His name will becalled Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Jeremiah 23: 6. "In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell alone and this is his name call him , The Lord our righteousness."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 1: 1. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Romans 9: 5. "Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed forever."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Colossians 2: 9. "For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 8:40. "But now you seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Matthew 26:38. "Then Jesus said unto them, My soul is sorrowful even unto death; tarry ye here, and watch with me. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Luke 24:39. "Look at my hands and my feet, that I am, handle me and see; the spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see I have. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hebrews 2:14. "So, since the children have flesh and blood, he also partook of the same, that through death he that had the power of death, that is, the devil".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE UNITY OF THE PERSON OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 17: 5. "Now, Father glorify thou yourself with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . John 3: 13. "No one has ascended to heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man which is in heaven."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 Corinthians 2: 8. "Which none of the princes of this world knew; for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER BIBLE STUDY<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In what way were Joshua son of Nun (Zechariah 3: 8-9) and Joshua son of Jozadak (Hebrews, 4: 8), types of Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What do the following passages teach us, about the anointing of Christ? Psalm 2: 2; 45: 7; Proverbs 8:23; Isaiah 61: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What has Christ as divine attributes Isaiah 9: 6; Proverbs 8: 22-31; Micah 5: 2; John 5:26; 21: 17?What divine works? Mark 2: 5-7; John 1: 1-3; Colossians 1: 16-17; Hebrews 1: 1-3. What divine honors? Matthew 28:19; John 5: 19-29; 14: 1; 2 Corinthians 13:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord Jesus, in his thus united to the divine, in the person of the Son, was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit without measure, taking itself all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, in whom it pleased human nature to father that all fullness, so that being holy, innocent and undefiled, and full of grace and truth, was fully capable to execute the office of mediator and guarantor: <b>Psalm 45: 7; Col. 1:19; 2. 3; I 7:26; 1:14 June.; Acts. 10:38; I have 7:22.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Which she did not take for himself, but was called to it by his father, who also placed in his hands all power and judgment, and ordered him to fulfill: <b>I 5: 5; June 5th. 22.27; Mt. 28:18; Acts. 2:36.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord Jesus very willingly assumed this office: <b>Psalm 40: 7-8 with Hebrews 10: 5-10; 10:18 June.;Phil. 2: 8.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and to discharge, born under the law <b>: Gal. 4: 4.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The perfectly he fulfilled and suffered the punishment due us, which we should have taken and suffered:<b>Mt. 3:15; 5:17.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Being made sin and a curse for us: <b>Mt. 26: 37.38; Lk. 22:44; Mt. 27:46.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Enduring the most terrible afflictions in his soul and the most painful sufferings in his body: <b>Mt. 26-27.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> He was crucified and died, and remained in the state of the dead, but without seeing corruption: <b>Phil. 2: 8; Acts. 13:37.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> On the third day he rose from the dead with the same body in which he suffered: <b>Jun. 20:25, 27.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> With which he also ascended into heaven: <b>Acts. 1: 9-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And there sitteth at the right hand of the Father interceding: <b>Ro. 8:34; I have 9:24.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">J.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and return to judge men and angels at the end of the world: <b>Acts. 10:42 Ro. 14: 9, 10; Acts. 1:11; Mt. 13: 40-42; 2 Peter 2: 4; Jud. 6.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE SUFFERING OF CHRIST FOR US (sometimes called "PASSIVE OBEDIENCE").<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition to obey the law perfectly throughout their lives on our behalf, Christ also experienced the suffering required to pay the penalty for our sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">He SUFFERED THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE:<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In a broad sense the punishment that Christ suffered to pay for our sins was suffering both in body and soul throughout his life. Although Christ's suffering culminated in his death on the cross (see below), all his life in a fallen world suffering involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For example, Jesus endured tremendous suffering during his temptations in the wilderness (Matthew 4: 1-11), where for forty days he endured the attacks of Satan. 5 And he suffered to grow in maturity, "Although he was a Son, through suffering he learned obedience" (Heb 5: 8). He knew the suffering faced intense opposition from Jewish leaders throughout much of his earthly ministry (see Hebrews 12: 3-4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can also assume that experienced suffering and sadness at the death of his earthly father, and certainly also experienced because of the death of his close friend Lazarus Gn 11: 35). In predicting the coming of the Messiah, Isaiah said would be a "man of sorrows, acquainted with grief" (Isaiah 53: 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE PAIN OF THE CROSS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></h6>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The sufferings of Jesus intensified as you approach the cross. Les told his disciples something of the agony he was experiencing when he said: "It is anguish size that invades me, I feel like dying" (Mt 26: 38).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It was on the cross where Jesus' sufferings reached their climax, because it was there that he bore the punishment due to our sins and died in our place. The scriptures teach us that there were four different aspects of pain that Jesus experienced:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PHYSICAL PAIN AND DEATH.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We need not assert that physical pain Jesus suffered more than any human being has ever suffered, because the Bible nowhere makes that claim. But yet we must not forget that death by crucifixion was one of the most horrible forms of execution invented by man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many readers of the Gospels in the ancient world would have witnessed a crucifixion and that would create a vivid and painful mental image when reading the words "and crucified '(Mt 15: 24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A death row inmate who died crucified essentially saw himself forced to inflict a slow death by asphyxiation. When the arms of the convicted were extended and fastened by nails to the cross, he had to hold most of your body weight with your arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this position, the chest cavity had difficulty breathing and get renewed air. But when the need for air of the victim became unbearable, she had to do everything possible to push up on his feet, giving a more natural support for your body and relieving the arms of body weight, and thus could breathe a little better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Striving to raise the body leaning feet crucified could relieve choking, but resulted in painful for him to end because it meant putting all the pressure to hold the body on the nails that held her feet and bend your elbows and push up on the nails that held his wrists. The back of the crucified, who had been flogged repeatedly by the lashes inflicted, it would brush against the wood of the cross with every movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So Seneca (first century AD) spoke of the crucified as people who "snuffed up the vital air amid intense agony" (Ep 101, Lucio, section 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A doctor who wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1986 explained the pain I used to experience the condemned to death by crucifixion person:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Breathing a proper process requires lifting Body Pushing With Feet And Flexing Elbows ... However, this put everything Movement The weight on the shanks and produced a sharp pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, bending elbows It caused Rotation Around Dolls Iron Nails Fiero pain and caused nerve damage. Muscle Cramps and paresthesia in the arms extended and Raised was added to the discomfort. As a result, every effort to breathe It was agonizing and exhausting AND WEARING Final asphyxiation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In some cases, the crucified men survived several days, almost asphyxiated but without dying. That was the reason why the implementers sometimes broke the legs of the crucified, so that death befalling quickly, as we see in John 19: 31-33:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It was the day of preparation for Easter. The Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross on Saturday, as this is a very solemn day. So they asked Pilate to order that the legs broken Les crucified and the bodies taken down. So were the soldiers and broke the legs of the first man who was crucified with Jesus, and then the other. But when Jesus came and saw that he was already dead, did not break legs.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CARRY THE PAIN OF SIN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">More awful pain Jesus endured physical suffering was the psychological pain of being burdened with the guilt of our sins. In our experience as Christians we know something of the anguish we feel when we have sinned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The burden of guilt is tremendous on our hearts, and there is a bitter sense of separation from all that is right in the universe, an awareness of something that in a very deep sense should not be. In fact, the more we grow in holiness as God's children, the more we feel this instinctive revulsion against evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now, Jesus was perfectly holy. He hated sin with his whole being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The concept of evil, sin, contradicted everything in his character. Much more than we do, Jesus instinctively rebelled against evil. Yet, in obedience to the Father, and for our sakes, Jesus took upon himself all the sins of all who would one day be saved. It upon himself all the evil against which his soul rebelled created a deep disgust at the center of his being. All that abhorred deeper was being poured over it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Scriptures say often that Christ bore our sins: "The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53: 6), and "bore the sin of many (Is 53: 12). John the Baptist pointed to Jesus as "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" Gn 1:29). Paul declares that God "treated him as a sinner" (2 Cor 5: 21) and that Christ "curse for us" (Gal 3: 13) was made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The author of Hebrews says that Christ "was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many" (Heb 9: 28).And Peter says, "himself, in his body, led to the tree our sins" (1 P 2:24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The passage of 2 Corinthians quoted above, along with the verses of Isaiah, indicate that it was God the Father who bore our sins upon Christ. How was that possible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the same way that Adam's sins were imputed to us or God imputed our sins to Christ; ie the declared belonging to Christ, and since God is the supreme judge and definer of what really is in the universe, when God thought that our sins belonged to Christ, really belonged to Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This does not mean that God concluded that Christ indeed had committed those sins, and that Christ himself had really a sinful nature, but rather means that God declared that the guilt of our sins (ie, the responsibility to pay the punishment) was Christ and not us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some have objected that it was not fair that God did this to transfer the guilt of sin from us an innocent person, Christ. But we must remember that Christ willingly took upon himself the guilt of our sins, so that this objection loses much of its force. Moreover, God Himself (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) are the supreme law of what is just and right in e! universe, and he decreed that atonement would take place in this way, and that really meet their demands of righteousness and justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ABANDONMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The physical pain of crucifixion ye! pain upon himself and! absolute evil of our sins worsened by e! that Jesus faced this pain alone. In the Garden of Gethsemane, when he took Peter, John and James, he expressed them something of the agony he felt: "It is anguish size that invades me I feel like dying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Stay here and keep watch "(Mark 14: 34). This is the kind of confidence that one expresses a close friend, and involves a plea for support in times of great trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, as soon as arrested Jesus "all the disciples forsook him and fled" (Mt 26: 56).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here we also have a certain analogy of our experience, because we can not live long without proving the internal pain! rejection, whether the rejection of a close friend, a parent or child, or a spouse. However, in those cases hayal least the feeling that we could have done something differently, that at least some part of us are guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> That was not the situation with Jesus and his disciples, for "having loved his own who was in e! world, he loved them to the end "Genesis 13: 1). He had done nothing but love them; but they abandoned him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But far worse than the defection of his closest human friends was the fact that Jesus was deprived of closeness with e! Father had been her deepest joy throughout his earthly life. When Jesus said, "EH, EH, lama sabachthani? (Which means "My God, my God, why hast desamparador '" (Mt 27: 46), he showed that he was completely separated from the sweet fellowship with his heavenly Father had been the constant source of inner strength . and the element of their greatest joy in a life full of pain When charging Jesus with our sins on the cross, was abandoned by his heavenly Father because "are so pure your eyes that can not see the evil" (Hab 1: 13 ). Jesus stood alone the burden of guilt of millions of sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CARRY THE WRATH OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, more difficult than these previous aspects of pain Jesus was e! pain take upon himself the wrath of God. When Jesus take only the guilt of our sins, God the Father, and! Almighty Creator, and! Lord of the universe, poured it on Jesus the fury of his wrath: Jesus became e! object of intense hatred for sin and vengeance against sin that God had patiently accumulated since the beginning of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Romans 3:25 tells us that God gave Christ as "propitiation" (atoning sacrifice), word meaning "sacrifice bears the wrath of God until the end and that the changes made for the wrath of God against us." Paul tells us that "God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood, to demonstrate His righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Earlier in his forbearance he had passed over the sins; but this time it has offered to Jesus Christ to demonstrate His righteousness. Thus God is just and, at the same time, e! who justifies those who have faith in Jesus "(Romans 3: 25-26). God had not only forgiven and forgotten sin punishment in past generations. He had forgiven the sins and had accumulated anger against those sins. But on the cross the fury of all the accumulated anger against sin was unleashed against the Son of God himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many theologians outside the evangelical world have strongly objected to the idea that Jesus suffered the wrath of God against sin. Its basic assumption is that since God is a God of love, would be inconsistent with his character vent their anger against human beings he has created and who is a loving Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But evangelical scholars have convincingly argued that the idea of the wrath of God is deeply rooted in the Old and New Testaments: "The whole argument of the first part of Romans has to do with men, Jews and Gentiles, that they are sinners, and who have fallen under the wrath and condemnation of God. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Three other key passages in the New Testament refer to the death of Jesus as a "propitiation" Hebrews 2: 17; 1 John 2: 2 and 4: 1O. The Greek terms (the hilaskomai verb, "to make a propitiation" and hilasmos name, "a propitiation ') used in these passages denote" a sacrifice that turns away the wrath of God, and thus makes God suitable (or favorable) to us. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is the consistent meaning of these words outside the Bible where they were well understood in reference to the Greek pagan religions. These verses simply mean that Jesus bore the wrath of God against sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is important to stress this fact because it is centrally located in the doctrine of the atonement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It means that there is an eternal and unalterable holiness and justice of God to be paid for sin requirement. In addition, before the atonement could have an effect on our subjective consciousness, he first had to affect their relationships with God and sinners he planned to redeem. Apart from this central truth, the death of Christ can not be understood properly (see below explore other perspectives on atonement).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although we should be cautious in suggesting analogies of the experiences that Christ passed (because their experience was and always will be unprecedented or comparison), however, all our understanding of Jesus' suffering is in some sense by way of similar experiences life, because that is the way God teaches us in Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Once again our human experience provides us with some weak analogy that helps us understand what it means to bear the wrath of God. Perhaps as children we have faced the wrath of a human father when we have done something wrong, or maybe as adults we have known the anger of a boss for a mistake we made. Inside we feel crushed, disturbed by the force of the other personality, full of dissatisfaction in the depths of our being, and tremble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It costs us imagine personal disintegration that threaten us if this storm of anger not from a finite human being but of Almighty God. If even the very presence of God as manifested no anger, it causes fear in people (Heb 12: 21, 28-29), how terrible it must be to face the wrath of God (Heb 10: 31).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With this in mind, we are now in a better position to understand the cry of desolation of Jesus: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mt 27: 46).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The question does not mean, "Why did you leave me forever?" Because Jesus knew he was going to leave the world and return to the Father Gn 14: 28; 16: 10, 17). He knew that he would rise Gn 2:19; Lk 18:33;Mr 9:31; et al.). "For the joy set before him he endured the cross, despising the shame she meant, and now sits at the right hand of the throne of God" (Heb 12: 2) .Jesus knew he could still invoke God and call him "my God". This cry of desolation is not a cry of utter despair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, "why have you forsaken me?" Does not imply that Jesus be wondering why I was dying. He had said, "Not even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many" (Mk 10: 45).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus knew he was dying for our sins. The cry of Jesus is a quotation from Psalm 22: 1, Psalm in which the psalmist asks why God does not come to their aid, why God is delay in rescue: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Far deliverance are Away From My Words sorry. My God, I cry day and do not answer me; I cry at night and have no rest. (Ps 22: 1-2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, God ultimately rescued the Psalmist, and their cry of desolation changed to a hymn of praise (vv. 22-31), Jesus, who knew the words of Scripture as its own, knew the context of Psalm 22. cite this psalm, he is citing a cry of desolation that is also implicit in context unwavering faith in God that in the end will free. However, it remains a genuine cry of anguish because suffering was spreading far and did not seem to be close release.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this context the appointment understand much better the question "Why hast thou forsaken me?" As if to say, "Why have you left me for so long? '. This is the meaning in Psalm 22. Jesus, in his human nature, he knew he had to bear our sins, suffer and die. But in his human knowledge probably he would not know how long this suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, take upon himself the guilt of millions of sins, if only for a moment, would cause great anguish of soul. Facing deep and terrible wrath of an infinite God, even for a moment, it would cause the deepest fear. But Jesus' suffering would not end in one minute, not two, not ten. When will it end?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Could there even more weight of sin, God's wrath? The hours passed, the dark weight of sin and deep wrath of God fell upon Jesus in waves upon waves. Jesus end shouting: "Why hast thou forsaken me" Why must this suffering last that long? My God, my God, can you do this is over already?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then finally Jesus knew that his suffering was nearing completion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He knew he had consciously loaded with all the Father's wrath against our sins because God's anger had subsided and the terrible weight of sin was relieved. He knew that all 10 missing was delivering his spirit into the Father's hands and die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With a cry of victory, he said, "It is finished" (Jn 19: 30). Then he exclaimed loudly: "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" (Lk 23: 46). And then he willingly gave his life that no one could take away (Jn 10: 17-18), and died. As Isaiah had predicted, "he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors" (Is 53: 12). God the Father was the "fruit of the travail of his soul" and was satisfied (Is 53: 11, RVR 1960).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Lord Jesus, by His perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, <b>Rom. 5:19; Eph. 5: 2.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> They offered God once through the eternal Spirit: <b>I have 9:14, 16; 10:10, 14.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It has fully satisfied the justice of God: <b>Rom. 3:25, 26; I 2:17; 1 June 2: 2;. 4:10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">has earned reconciliation: <b>2 Corinthians 5:18, 19; Col. 1: 20-23.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and purchased an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven: <b>I 9:15; P . 5: 9, 10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> for all those whom the Father has given him: <b>Jun. 17: 2.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Even though the price of redemption was not actually paid by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy , and benefits thereof were communicated to the elect in all ages from the beginning of the world: <b>Gal . 4: 4, 5; </b><b>Rom. 4: 1-9.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the promises, types and sacrifices and through them, in which was revealed and identified as the seed that would bruise the head of the serpent , <b>Gn. 3:15; 1 Peter 1:10, 11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world: <b>Ap. 13: 8.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Being the same yesterday, today and forever: <b>Hebrews 13: 8.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PUNISHMENT IMPOSED AS GOD THE FATHER<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we ask, "Who he demanded that Christ paid the penalty for our sins?" The answer that the Scriptures give us is that the punishment was imposed by God the Father to represent the interests of the Trinity in redemption. It was the righteousness of God demanding that it pay for sin, and among the members of the Trinity, was the role of the Father require that payment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God the Son willingly took upon himself the task of carrying the penalty of sin. Referring to God the Father, Paul says: "Whoever no sin [Christ], for us God made him a sinner, that in it the righteousness of God" (2 Co 5:21). Isaiah says: "The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53: 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He goes on to describe the sufferings of Christ: "Lord to crush him and make him suffer, and how he gave his life in atonement" (Is 53: 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here we see some of the amazing love of God the Father and God the Son in redemption. Jesus not only knew who suffer incredible pain of the cross, but God knew he had to impose the pain on his own beloved Son. "God shows his love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5: 8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ETERNAL SUFFERING BUT NOT FULL PAYMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we had to pay the penalty of our sins, we would have to suffer eternal separation from God. However, Jesus did not suffer eternally. There are two reasons for this difference:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(A)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> If we suffer for our sins, we could never attain a right standing with God. There would be no hope because there is no way to live again and get perfect righteousness before God, and would not have way to correct our sinful nature and make it straight before God. In addition, we would continue toexist as sinners who do not suffer with pure hearts of righteousness before God, but would suffer with resentment and bitterness against God, and thus aggravating our sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(B)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Jesus could bear the wrath of God against our sin and make it to the end. No human being could do this ever, but under the union of the divine and human natures in himself, Jesus could suffer the wrath of God against sin and make it to the end. Isaiah foretold: "You will see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied" (Is 53: 11, RVR 1960). When Jesus knew he had paid the full penalty for our sins, he said: "It is finished" Jn 19: 30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If Christ had not paid the full penalty, there would still doom for us. But since it has fully paid the punishment we deserved, as the Scriptures say that "there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Rom 8: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It will help us at this time realize that nothing in the eternal nature of God and nothing in the laws that God has given mankind required that there be eternally suffer the punishment of the sins of man. In fact, if there were eternal suffering, punishment would not be paid in full, and whoever does evil continue to be a sinner by nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But when the sufferings of Christ at last came to an end on the cross, he showed that he had taken upon himself the full measure of God's wrath against sin and that there was more punishment than would be paid. It also showed that he was just before God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this sense, the fact that Christ suffered for a limited time instead of eternally shows that their suffering was a sufficient payment for sin. The author of Hebrews repeats the theme again and again to emphasize that the redemptive work of Christ was completely finished:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Neither he entered heaven to offer himself again and again, as the high priest in the holy place every year with blood of others. If so, Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world.On the contrary, now, at the end of time, he has appeared once and for all to end sin by the sacrifice of himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And as it is appointed for men to die once, and then come Judgment, also Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; And already not to bear any sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting will appear a second time. (Heb 9: 25-28)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This emphasis of the New Testament in the final and completeness of the sacrificial death of Christ contrasts with the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church that in the Mass there is a repetition of Christ's sacrifice. Because of this official teaching of the Roman Catholic, many Protestants since the Reformation, Church and still today, they are convinced that they can not participate in good conscience at the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church, because that could be seen as a approval of the Catholic idea that the sacrifice of Christ is repeated every time the Mass is celebrated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The purpose of sacrifice is e! himself in the sacrifice of the Mass as in e! sacrifice of the cross; first the glorification of God, and secondly atonement, thanksgiving and appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The emphasis of the New Testament in the final and complete character of the sacrifice and death of Christ has many practical implications, because it assures us that there is no punishment for sin that is left to pay. The punishment was fully paid by Christ, and we ought not to live in any fear of condemnation or punishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE MEANING OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The New Testament often related to the blood of Christ with our redemption. For example, Peter says, "As you know, you were rescued from the empty way of life inherited from their ancestors. The price of the ransom was not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish or defect "(1 Peter 1: 18-19).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The blood of Christ is the clear external evidence that shed his blood when he died in sacrifice to pay our redemption, "the blood of Christ" means his death in his saviors aspects. Although we may think that the blood of Christ (as evidence that gave his life) would have exclusive reference to the elimination of our judicial guilt before God because that is their primary-reference the New Testament authors also attributed other various effects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our consciences are purified by the blood of Christ (Heb 9: 14), we have free access to God in worship and prayer (Acts 10: 19), we are purified progressively from sin is (1 John 1: 7; Rev. 1: 5b ), we can conquer the accuser of the brethren (Rev. 12: 10-11), and we are rescued from a sinful way of life (1st Peter 1: 18-19).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Scriptures speak much about the blood of Christ because the spill was clear evidence that his life was given in a judicial execution (ie, was sentenced to death and died to pay the penalty imposed both by a human judge by God Himself in the sky).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The emphasis of Scripture in the blood of Christ we see it also in the clear relationship between the death of Christ and the many sacrifices in the Old Testament that involve the shedding of blood of the slaughtered animal alive. All these sacrifices pointed forward and foreshadowed the death of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CHRIST'S DEATH AS "REPLACING CRIMINAL"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The prospect of Christ's death presented here has often been called theory of "penal substitution".Christ's death was "criminal" that he carried a punishment when he died. His death was also a "replacement" in the sense that he took our place when he died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This has been the Orthodox understanding of atonement sustained by evangelical theologians, in contrast to other perspectives that attempt to explain the atonement apart from the idea of God's wrath or payment for the penalty of sin (see below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This view of the atonement is sometimes called the theory of vicarious atonement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A "vicar" is someone who represents another or is instead. The death of Christ was therefore "vicarious" because he took our place and represented us. As our representative, he suffered the punishment we deserved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NEW TESTAMENT TERMS DESCRIBED DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ATONEMENT:<o:p></o:p></span></b></h6>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The atoning work of Christ is a complex event that has several effects on us. It can be seen therefore from several different aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The New Testament uses different words to describe them; we will examine four of the most important terms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These four terms show how the death of Christ satisfied the four requirements we have as sinners:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We deserve to die as punishment for sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We deserve to suffer the wrath of God against sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We are separated from God because of our sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We are enslaved to sin and Satan 's kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These four requirements are satisfied by Christ's death as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">(1) SACRIFICE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ died for us in sacrifice to pay the death penalty that we deserved for our sins. "At the end of the times, has appeared once and for all to end sin by the sacrifice of himself" (Heb 9: 26).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">(2) PROPITIATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To turn away from the wrath of God that we deserved, Christ died in expiation for our sins. "In this is love: not that we have to God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be offered as a sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins" (1 Jn 4: 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">(3) RECONCILIATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To overcome our separation from God, we needed someone that would provide us reconciliation and thereby brought back into fellowship with God. Paul says that "In Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their sins" (2 Cor 5: 18-19).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">(4) REDEMPTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Because as sinners we are enslaved to sin and Satan, we need someone to give us redemption and thus we "redeem" from that bondage. When we speak of redemption, the idea of "rescue" comes to mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A ransom is the price paid to redeem someone from slavery or captivity. Jesus said of himself: "The Son of man [not] come to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many" (Mk 10: 45). If asked who paid the ransom, we realize that human analogy ransom does not fit well with the atonement of Christ in every detail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although we were subjected to slavery of sin and Satan, no "ransom" was not paid or the "sin" or Satan because they had no power to demand that payment, nor Satan, whose sanctity was marred by sin and he had to pay a penalty for it. As we saw earlier, the punishment of sin was paid and received Christ and God the Father accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But we hesitate to discuss pay a "ransom" to God the Father, because it was not he who had enslaved us, but Satan and our own sins. Therefore, in this regard the idea of a ransom payment can not be used in every detail. It is sufficient that we note that a price (the death of Christ) was paid and the result was that we were "redeemed" from slavery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We were redeemed from slavery to Satan because "the whole world is under the control of the evil one" (1 Jn 5: 19), and when Christ came died to "deliver them who through fear of death were subject to slavery all life "(Heb 2: 15). In fact, God the Father "delivered us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of his beloved Son" (Col 1:13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As for the liberation from the bondage of sin, Paul says: "count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. For sin shall not have dominion over you, because they are not under law but under grace "(Rom 6:11, 14). We have been freed from the bondage of sin's guilt and slavery of its dominant power in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Christ, in the work of mediation, acts according to both natures, by each nature through what is proper to it; although, because of the unity of the person, which is proper to one nature is sometimes in Scripture attributed to the person denominated by the other nature: <b>Jun. 3:13; Acts. 20:28.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(8)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To all those for whom Christ has obtained eternal redemption, certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same: <b>John 6: 37,39; 10: 15,16; 17: 9.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Making intercession for them: <b>1 June 2: 1,2;. Ro. 8:34.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> uniting them to himself by his Spirit: <b>Rom. 8: 1.2.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> revealing in the Word and through it the mystery of salvation: <b>Jun. 15: 13,15; 17: 6; Eph. 1: 7-9.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> persuading them to believe and obey: <b>June 1 5:20..<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> governing their hearts by His Word and Spirit: Jun . <b>14:16; I have 12: 2; Ro. 8: 9.14; 2 Cor 4:13; Ro. 15: 18,19; Jun. 17:17.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom: <b>Ps 110: 1; 1 Cor 15: 25,26; Col 2:15.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So and in ways that best match his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation: <b>Eph. 1: 9-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And all for the free and absolute grace, without any condition foreseen in them to granjearla: <b>June 1 . 3: 8; Eph. 1: 8.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(9)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This office of mediator between God and man is proper only to Christ, who is the Prophet, Priest and King of the church of God; and can not, whole or in part, be transferred from him to any other: <b>1 Tim. 2: 5.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(10)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This number and order of trades are necessary; So our ignorance, we need his prophetic office: <b>Jun.1:18.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And our separation from God and the imperfection of the best of our services, we need his priestly office to reconcile us to God and accepted introduce to him: <b>Col. 1:21; Gal. 5:17; I 10: 19-21.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And our unwillingness and inability to complete return to God and to redeem ourselves and protect usfrom our spiritual adversaries, we need his kingly office to convince, subdue, draw us , sustain, deliver and preserve us for his heavenly kingdom: May . <b>16: 8; Psalm 110: 3; Lk. 1: 74.75.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">STATES OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We often use the words "state" and "condition" interchangeably. Speaking of the states of Christ, we use the word "state" in a more precise sense, denoting the relationship that remained and still remains with respect to the law. In the days of His humiliation, Christ was a servant under the law; in his exaltation Lord is above the law. It is therefore natural that these two states carry with them different living conditions, and we will study in the different phases of these states.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE STATE OF HUMILIATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In it, Christ emptied himself of divine glory which was his as Sovereign of the universe and assumed a human nature, taking the form of a servant. The Supreme Lawgiver was subject to the requirements and curse of the law. Matthew 3:15; Galatians 3:13; 4: 4; Philippians 2: 6-8. This state of humiliation is presented under various phases:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">INCARNATION AND BIRTH OF CHRIST<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the incarnation the Son of God became flesh and took a human nature, John 1:14; 1 John 4: 2. a real member of the human race to be born of the Virgin Mary was made. If, as the Anabaptists claimed Christ had brought from heaven human nature, it would not have become a member of the human race. The Bible teaches the virgin birth in several passages, Isaiah 7: 14; Matthew 1:20 and Luke 1: 34-35. This wonderful birth was due to the supernatural influence of the Holy Spirit, who at the same time preserved human nature of Christ from the pollution of sin and from its very conception, Luke 1:35.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">The sufferings of Christ<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We often speak of the sufferings of Christ as limited to their final agony, but this is false. His whole life was a life of suffering. It was the life of a servant who was Lord of lords, and a life in the midst of sin who knew no sin itself. Satan tempted him, his people hated him and his enemies pursued him. The sufferings of his soul were even more intense than your body. He was tempted by the devil, oppressed by a world of wickedness around him, and afflicted by the burden of sin that rested upon Him, was "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." Isaiah 53: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CHRIST'S DEATH<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we talk about the death of Christ we mean physical death. Christ did not die as a result of an accident, not under the hand of a murderer, but under a court ruling and was numbered with the transgressors (Isaiah 53:12). To suffer death under Roman punishment of crucifixion, he died a bloody death, taking upon Himself our curse, Deuteronomy 21:23; Galatians 3:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CHRIST'S BURIAL<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It seems as if death on the cross was the final phase of their suffering. Did not Jesus say "It is finished"?These words refer to its active suffering, but Christ continued still suffering. His burial was also part of his humiliation, and that the Son of God became fully aware. Man's return to earth was part of the punishment for sin, Genesis 3:19. That the Savior had to go down to the grave it is also part of his humiliation as Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27, 31; 13:34, 35. Such humiliation knocked us the terror of the grave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">His descent into Hades<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The words of the Apostles' Creed "descended into hell (or hades), they have had different interpretations. The Roman Catholic declined to say where the Limbus Patrum Old Testament saints were to give them freedom; Lutherans teach that between his death and resurrection, Christ came down to. hell to preach and celebrate their victory over the powers of darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Possibly we have a figurative expression denoting: 1) who suffered the agonies of hell in the garden and on the cross, and 2) Christ entered its deepest agony and humiliation by his death, Psalm 16: 8-10;Ephesians 4: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE STATE OF PRAISING<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In his state of exaltation, Christ passed his state of submission to the law as a covenant obligation, since it had paid the penalty of the law and deserved justice and eternal life for the sinner. He was also crowned with honor and glory due to him. There are four different stages in this aggrandizement:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE RESURRECTION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The resurrection of Christ consisted of a mere assemblage of body and soul, but a special that his human nature, both body and soul were restored to their original beauty and strength, and raised to a much higher still level mode. Contrary to all who had risen before Him, Christ rose with a spiritual body, 1 Corinthians 15: 44-45. For this reason it has been called "the first fruits of them that slept" 1 Corinthians 15:20, and "the firstborn from the dead" Colossians 1:18; Revelation 1: 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The resurrection of Christ has a triple meaning:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It was a statement by Father that Christ had fulfilled the demands of the law, Philippians 2: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> he symbolized the justification, regeneration and final resurrection of believers, Romans 6: 4, 5, 9; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 15: 20-22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It was the cause of our justification, regeneration and resurrection, Romans 4:25; 5:10; Ephesians 1:20; Philippians 3:10; 1 Peter 1: 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ASCENSION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The ascent was in a sense the necessary complement to the resurrection, but also had a special meaning.We have a double narrative of it, namely, Luke 24: 50-53 and Acts 1: 6-11. The apostle Paul in Ephesians 1:20; 4: 8-10; 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Epistle to the Hebrews emphasizes its meaning in 1: 3; 4:14; 6:20;9:24. It was a visible ascension of the Mediator, according to human nature, going from earth to heaven, and from one place to another. It included a new glorification of the human nature of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Lutherans have otherwise. For them it was a change in physical condition in which the human nature of Jesus came to fully enjoy certain divine attributes, and became permanently omnipresent. In ascension, Christ our High Priest entered the innermost sanctuary place to present his sacrifice to the Father and begin His intercessory work on the throne, Romans 8:34; Hebrews 4:14; 6:20; 9:24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ ascended to heaven to prepare a place, John 14: 1-3. With we are already seated in heavenly places and ascension assures us that we have a place reserved in heaven, Ephesians 2: 6; John 17:24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">YOUR POSITION AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">After the ascension, Christ is seated at the right hand of God, Ephesians 1:20, Hebrews 10:12 1 Peter 3:22. The phrase "right hand of God" can not be taken in its literal sense, but that is a figure indicating the place which Christ occupies in their glory and power. During this period at the right hand of God, Christ governs and protects His Church, directs the course of the universe for the good of His Church, and intercedes for his people on the basis of his sacrifice completed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">YOUR PHYSICAL RETURN<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The exaltation of Christ reaches its climax when he returns to judge the living and the dead. His second coming will be visible body and Acts 1:11; Revelation 1: 7. That Jesus Christ will return as Judge is evident from passages like these, John 5:22, 27; Acts 10:42; Romans 2:16; 2 Corinthians 5: 10; 2 Timothy 4: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We do not know the time of his second coming. Christ will return to judge the world and complete the salvation of his people. This will be the final victory of his redemptive work. 1 Corinthians 4: 5; Philippians 3:20; Colossians 3: 4; 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-17; 2 Thessalonians 1: 7- 10; 2: 1-12; Titus 2:13; Revelation 1: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TEXTS TO LEARN MEMORY<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE STATE OF HUMILIATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Galatians 3:13. "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (for it is written: Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Gá1atas 4: 4, 5. But the time had come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Philippians 2: 6-8. Who, being in very nature God had not robbery to be equal with God; however, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, made in human likeness; and being found in human form , he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">INCARNATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 1:14. "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among men and saw his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rom. 8: 3. "For what was impossible by the law, because I was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">The virgin birth<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Isaiah 7:14. "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and call his name Emmanuel."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Luke 1:35. "And the angel answered and said unto him , The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore also that holy born will be called the Son of God. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE DESCENT TO HADES<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 16:10. "Thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol (Hades in Acts 2:27); nor let your Holy One see corruption. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ephesians 4: 9. " Now that he ascended, what is it that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE RESURRECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rom. 4:25. "Who it was delivered for our offenses and raised for our justification."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 Corinthians 15.20. "But now Christ is risen from the dead; firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ASCENSION<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Luke 24:51. "And he blessed them left; and he was carried up into heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Acts 1:11. "Which also said , Galileans Va rums why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven shall so come, as you have seen him go into heaven. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">YOUR POSITION<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ephesians 1:20. "Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated at his right hand in Heaven."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hebrews 10:12. "But he, having offered one sacrifice sins forever, is sitting at the right hand of God."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">HIS SECOND COMING<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Acts 1:11. (See the text quoted above.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Revelation. 1: 7. "Behold coming in the clouds, and every eye will see, and those who pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth mourn because of Him. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER STUDY BÍBLlCO<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What does the Old Testament about Christ's humiliation in the following passages? Psalm 22: 6-20;69: 7-9; 20:21; Isaiah 52:14, 15; 53: 1-10; Zech. 11: 12-13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What is the special value of the temptations of Christ in what we are concerned? Hebrews 2:18; 4:15;5: 7-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> How do the following passages that Heaven is a place rather than a condition? Deut. 30:12; Joshua 2:11; Psalm 139: 8; Ec1es. 5: 2; Isaiah 66: 1; Rom. 10: 6, 7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MINISTRIES OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible tells us that Christ has a threefold ministry and speaks of Him as Prophet, Priest and King.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PROPHETIC MINISTRY<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Old Testament predicted that Christ would come as a prophet, Deuteronomy 18:15 (see Acts 3:23).Jesus himself speaks of himself as a prophet in Luke 18:33, and alleges that brings a message of the Father, John 8: 26-28; 12: 49-50; 14:10, 24, predicts the future, Matthew 24: 3-35; Luke 19: 41-44, and speaks with unique authority, Matthew 7:29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is therefore not surprising that the people recognize him as a prophet, Matthew 21:11, 46; Luke 7:16;24:19, John 6: 14; 9:40; 9:17. A prophet is a person who receives divine revelations in dreams, visions and verbal messages and transmits them to people in word or by prophetic actions visible, Exodus 7:11;Deuteronomy 18:18; Numbers 12: 6-8; Isaiah 6; Jeremiah 1: 4-10; Ezekiel 3: 1-4, 17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">His work belongs to the past, present and future. One of his most important tasks was to interpret the people's moral and spiritual aspects of the law. Christ was a prophet in the Old Testament, 1 Peter 1:11; 3: 18-20. He was also a prophet when he was on earth, and continued such work, the operation of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles after the ascension, John 14: 26; 16: 12-14; Acts 1: 1. Even now his prophetic ministry continued through the preaching of the Word and spiritual enlightenment imparted to believers.This is the only function that recognizes the modernist theory in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">His priestly ministry<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Old Testament also predicted that the Redeemer would be a priest, Psalm 110: 4; Zechariah 6:13;Isaiah 53. In the New Testament there is only one book in which Christ is called the priest, the letter to the Hebrews, but there are times this repeated name, 3: 1; 4:14; 5: 5; 6:20; 8: 1. However, there are other books that refer to his priestly work, Mark 10:45; John 1:29; Romans 3: 24-25; 1 Corinthians 5: 7; 1 John 2: 2; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18. While a prophet represents God before the people, the priest represented the people before God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Both also were teachers, but while the former taught the moral law, the other taught the people the ceremonial law. In addition, the priests had the special privilege of approaching God, and to speak and act on behalf of the people, Hebrews 5: 1, teaches us that the priest was chosen from humans to be his representative, who was chosen by God and acted before him for the benefit of men, and offered gifts and sacrifices for sins. At the same time he interceded for the people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The priestly work of Christ was in a special way, to offer a sacrifice for sin. The Old Testament sacrifices were types pointing the way to the great sacrifice of Christ, Hebrews 9: 23-24; 10: 1; 13:11 12. Hence Christ is called "the Lamb of God," John 1:29 and << our Passover "1 Corinthians 5: 7. The New Testament clearly speaks of the priestly work of Christ in many passages: Mark 10:45; John 1:29; Romans 3: 24-25; 5: 6-8; 1 Corinthians 5: 7; 15: 3; Galatians 1: 4; Ephesians 5: 2; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18; 1 John 2: 2; 4:10 Revelation 5: 12. References are even more frequent in the Letter to the Hebrews 5: 1-10; 7: 1-28; 9: 11-15, 24-28; 10: 11-14, 19-22; 12:24; 13:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Besides offering the great sacrifice for sins, Christ as priest, also he is interceding for His people. It is called our Paraclete by deduction from John 14:16 and explicitly in 1 John 2: 2. This word means "one who is called to help an attorney who defends the cause of another." In the New Testament, Christ is called our intercessor in Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25; 9:24; 1 John 2: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">His intercessory work is based on his sacrifice, and is not limited, as some have thought, to intercessory prayer. Christ presents his sacrifice to God, and on that basis asks spiritual blessings for his people, defends accusations of Satan, the law and conscience, obtains forgiveness for all those charges that are fair, and sanctifies their worship and service mediation of the Holy Spirit. His intercessory work is limited in its nature, as it refers only to the elect of God, but includes all elected, whether they are already believers as if they are still in a state of disbelief, John 17: 9, 20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MINISTRY REAL<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the Son of God, Jesus Christ has by nature the universal dominion of God. In distinction to this universal rule, we speak now of the majesty that was conferred him in his ministry of Mediator. This majesty is of two kinds: His spiritual dominion over the Church, and his mastery of the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">HIS MAJESTY SPIRITUAL<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible speaks of it in many places, Psalm 2: 6; 132: 11; Isaiah 9: 6-7; Micah 5: 2; Zechariah 6:13; Luke 1:33; 19:38; John 18: 36-37; Acts 2: 30-36. The majesty of Christ in its real sovereignty over its people. We call it spiritual because it has to do with a spiritual kingdom established in the hearts and lives of believers, has spiritual aims pursued, that is the salvation of sinners; and its administration is also spiritual through the Holy Word and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">His practice covers the meeting, government, protection and improvement of the Church. Both this government and its limits in the New Testament are the names of "kingdom of God" and "kingdom of heaven". In the strict sense, only believers, members of the invisible Church, are citizens of this kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the term "kingdom of God" is sometimes used in a broader sense, including all those who live where the Gospel is proclaimed, even those who have a place in the visible Church, Matthew 13: 24¬30, 47- fifty.The kingdom of God on the one hand, is a spiritual and present reality in the hearts and lives of men, Matthew 12:28; Luke 17:21; Colossians 1: 18, but the other is also a future hope, will not take place until the second coming of Christ, Matthew 7:21; Luke 22:29; 1 Corinthians 15:20; 2 Timothy 4: 18; 2 Peter 1: 11. This future kingdom is in essence the same realm as the present, that is, the government of God established and recognized in the hearts of men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But it will also be different because it will be a visible and perfect kingdom. Some believe that the kingdom of Christ shall cease His second coming, but the Bible tells us very clearly that the kingdom of Christ is eternal, Psalm 45: 6; 72:17; 89: 36-37; Daniel 2:44; 2 Samuel 7:13, 16; Luke 1:33; 2 Peter 1:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">UNIVERSAL YOUR DOMAIN<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">After His resurrection Christ told his disciples, "All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth" Matthew 28:18. This same truth is repeated in 1 Corinthians 15:27 Ephesians 1: 20-22. This power should not be confused with the original majesty of Christ as the Son of God, even if it has to do with the same domain. This power given to Christ has to do with that majesty granted to Christ in his capacity as Mediator of the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christ as Mediator is now guides the destiny of individuals and nations, it controls the life of the world and makes it subject to His redemptive purposes. Also protects the Church of the dangers to which it is exposed in the world. This majesty of Christ will continue until Christ has obtained complete victory over all enemies of the kingdom of God. When such work has been carried out, Christ will return this glory to the Father, 1 Corinthians 15: 24-28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TEXTS TO LEARN MEMORY<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MINISTRY OF CHRIST IN HIS PROPHET<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Deuteronomy 18: 18. "raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like you; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Luke 7:16. "And all were afraid, and glorified God, saying , A great prophet has arisen among us; and God has visited his people. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CHRIST AS PRIEST IN HIS MINISTRY<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 110: 4. " The Lord has sworn and will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . Hebrews 3: 1. "Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hebrews 4:14. "Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ITS FEATURES AS PRIEST / YOUR SACRIFICE<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hebrews 5: 1, 5. "For every high priest taken from among men, it is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins ... So Christ not he glorified himself made a high priest, but he that said , you are my son, today I have begotten you. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Isaiah 53: 5. "But he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; And with his stripes we are healed. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Mark 10:45. "For the Son of Man he came not to be served but to serve and give his life a ransom for many."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 1:29. "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 Peter 2:24. "He himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 John 2: 2. "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only but also for the whole world."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">YOUR intercessory work<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Romans 8:34. " It is Christ that died; further, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Hebrews 7:25. "Therefore you can also eternally save those that come unto God he, always lives to intercede for them."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 John 2: 1b. "And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CHRIST AS KING OF ZION<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 2: 6. "Yet I have set my king upon Zion, my holy mountain."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . Isaiah 9: 7. " Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and with justice from henceforth even for ever."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Luke 1: 32-23. "This will be great and will be called Son of the Highest: and the Lord God will give the throne of David his father. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there will be no end. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CHRIST AS KING OF THE UNIVERSE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Matthew 28:18. "And coming Jesus spoke to them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ephesians 1:22. "And He put all things under his feet and gave him head over all things to the Church".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 Corinthians 15:25. "For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER BIBLE STUDY<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What do the following passages teach us about the nature of Christ's work as a prophet? Exodus 7: 1;Deuteronomy 18:18; Ezekiel 3:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What types of Christ in the Old Testament are given to us in the following passages: John 1: 29; 1 Corinthians 5: 7; Hebrews 3: 1; 4:14; 8: 3-5; 9: 13¬14; 10: 1-14; 13: 11-12?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span class=""> What lessons about the kingdom of God we </span><span class="">find in these passages? </span>1 John 3: 3, 5; 18: 36-37. Romans 14:17; 1 Corinthians 4:20.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-72921082774056329092016-04-03T13:09:00.000-07:002016-04-03T13:09:14.540-07:00THE FREE WILL<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God has endowed man's will a natural freedom and power to act by choice, that is not forced or determined to do good or bad by any necessity of nature: <b>Mt. 17:12; Stg. 1:14; Dt. 30:19.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The man, in his state of innocence, had freedom and power to will and to do what was good and pleasing to God: <b>Ec. 7:29.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">but it was unstable and could fall from that state: <b>Gn. 3: 6<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has completely lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; therefore, as a natural man who is entirely opposite to that good , and dead in sin, can by its own forces not convert himself or to prepare for it: <b>Ro. 6: 16,20; June 8. 31-34; Eph.twenty-one; 2 Cor 3:14; 4: 3.4; June 3. 3; Ro. 7:18; 8: 7; 1 Cor 2:14; Mt. 7: 17,18; 12: 33-37; Lk. 6: 43-45; 6:44 June.; Jer. 13:23; June 3. 3, 5; 5:40; 6: 37, 39, 40,44, 45, 65; Acts. 7:51; Ro. 3: 10-12;Stg. 1:18; Ro. 9: 16-18; June 1. 12.13; Acts. 11:18; Phil. 1:29; Eph. 2: 8.9.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> When God converts a sinner and move to a state of grace, frees him from his natural bondage to sin and by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and do what is spiritually good: <b>Col. 1:13; 8:36 June.; Phil.2:13.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, because of the corruption that still does not want, neither perfect nor just, what is good, but also wants what is wrong: <b>Ro. 7: 14-25; Gal. 5:17.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to want only good, only in the state of glory: <b>Eph.4:13; I 12:23.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE FREE WILL<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">At this very moment you are reading these words because he has chosen for his own free will you read.You may protest: "No! I chose not to read I was forced to read really would not read them..." It is possible that that was the case. However, you are reading. There may be other things you'd rather be doing right now, but has chosen to read this study despite it. He has decided not read it rather than read it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I can not know why you are reading. But I know that must have their reasons to read it. If it had no reason to read it simply would not have decided to read it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Every choice we make in life, we do it for some reason. Our decisions are based on what at any given time, and considering all the factors, we are fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some things we do because we have a very intense desire to perform them. Other things we do without even the consciousness of desire them. However, the desire is there present; otherwise we would not have chosen to perform. Herein lies the very essence of free will, or free -the will choose according to our wishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jonathan Edwards, in his book The Freedom ofthe Will ( "Freedom of the Will"), defines the will, or will, as "that with what the mind chooses." There is no doubt that humans actually make choices. I chose to write, you chose to read. It is my will to write, and writing is put into action. When I add the idea of freedom, however, the issue becomes terribly complicated. We must ask ourselves: Freedom to do what?Even the most ardent Calvinist would not deny that the will is free to choose anything you want. Even the most ardent Arminian would agree that the will is not free to choose what they do not want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With respect to salvation, the question then becomes: What is that humans want? Arminians believe that some people would repent and be saved. Others want to run away from God and then reap eternal damnation. Arminians never make clear why different people have different desires. Calvinists argue that all human beings desire to run away from God when the Holy Spirit makes a work of regeneration. Said regeneration changes our desires to freely repent and be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is important to note that even the unregenerate are never forced to go against their will. Their will change without your permission, but are always free to choose according to his will. we are really free to act according to our will then. we are not free, however, to choose or select our nature. One can not declare: "From now on I will wish only good" just as Christ could not have said: "From now on I will wish only evil". Here ends our freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Reformation theology says that the fall left intact human will as we still have the power to choose.Our minds have been obscured by sin and our desires have been bound by evil impulses. But we can still think, choose, and act. But something terrible has happened to us. We have lost any hope that we might have God. The thoughts and desires of our heart are continually toward evil. Our free will is a curse. As we can still choose according to our wishes, we choose sin and were subject to God's judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Augustine said that although we still have a free will, we have lost our freedom. Real freedom of which the Bible speaks is the freedom or power to choose Christ as our own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But until the Holy Spirit does not transform our hearts, we will have no desire for Christ. Without that desire we never choose to Him. God must awaken our souls and give us the desire for Christ before we feel inclined to choose it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Edwards said that as fallen human beings we retain our natural freedom (the power to act according to our desires) but lose the moral freedom '' Moral freedom includes the disposition, inclination and desire of the soul to justice. This trend toward justice was what was lost in the fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All the decisions I make are determined by something. There is a reason for them, a desire behind them.This may sound determinism. No way! Determinism teaches us that our actions are completely controlled by something that is external to us, that makes us do what we do not want to do. This is coercion and is the opposite of freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">How is it possible that our decisions are determined but which have not been coerced? Because they have been determined by something </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">from </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">inside so we are and what we want. They have been determined by ourselves. This is self - determination, which is the very essence of freedom. To be more precise, that we choose Christ, God must </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">change </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">our hearts. And that is precisely what it does. Change our hearts. It gives us a desire for Him, I wish we did not have otherwise. Then </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">what </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">we choose to root of </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">desire </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">that is within us. We chose it because we want Him freely choose Him. In this is the wonder of his grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Any choice we make, we make it for some reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We always choose according to our strongest inclination at the time of the decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Will is the elective faculty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Fallen human beings have free will but lack freedom. We have natural freedom but we have no moral freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Freedom is self - determination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In regeneration, God changes the disposition of our hearts and sown in us a desire to </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Him.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Deuteronomy 30: 19-20, John 6:44, 65, John 8: 34-36, John 15: 5; Romans 8: 5-8, James 1: 13-15. </span><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-43852851172580245932016-04-03T13:07:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:07:41.496-07:00MAN: HIS CREATION, FALL AND SIN<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. MAN BEING CREATED AS A</span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Having discovered in the middle of a wonderful universe and being the highest order of physical creatures, man naturally seek ways to understand its origin as well as the origin of all existing things. Since nature does not reveal the creation of man and tradition would not be a reliable source of information, it is reasonable to expect God to reveal the essential facts about the creation of man in the Bible. In the early chapters of Genesis, and where they want in the Bible, the creation of man is clearly taught in Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Because the origin of man is a natural subject for research and speculation, those who have tried to answer the question apart from Scripture have made numerous attempts to explain the origin of man. These conflicting facts show that man has certain information about its origin unless that the Bible can give, and only in Scripture one can expect to find a complete and accurate account.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">One of the most common points of view that have been raised in contradiction with the doctrine of the creation of man revealed in the Bible is the theory of evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This theory is that somehow came into existence and being a living cell living cell this man evolved through a process of natural selection. The evolution attempts to explain all the complicated forms of life in this world by this natural process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to the theory of evolution, all plants, animals and man were formed by a process of small changes made by mutations, which are believed explain all species. However, mutations are almost invariably harmful rather than beneficial, and have never been observed series of mutations that are beneficial or have produced a new species. Accordingly, while the biblical record recognizes that there may be variations within species, declares that God created the animals "after their kind" (Gn. 1:21, 24, 25)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In contrast to animals, man was made in the image and likeness of God (1: 26-27). Although many followers of the evolution admit that it is only a theory and fossils show that there has been no systematic evolution of the lowest life to the highest forms forms, evolution is the only explanation that the natural man has been able offering in contradiction to the biblical doctrine of creation; It is clearly based on a naturalistic concept, rather than the supernatural origin of man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Similarly, the theory of the so-called theistic evolution which God used evolution as a method-to be sustained depends on a denial of the literal meaning of the story of creation in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The doctrine of man's creation is clearly taught in Scripture (Genesis 1: 1 - 2:25; Jn . 1: 3; Col. 1:16; Heb 11: 3..). The first chapter of Genesis refers to God as the Creator about seventeen times, and can be found about fifty more references in the Bible. Some teach directly about creation, and other passages imply that God is the Creator of Adam and Eve (Ex 20: 11; Ps . 8: 3-6; Matt . 9: 4- </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5; Mark 10: 6-7 ; Luke 3:38; Rom . 5: 12-21; 1 Cor " . 11: 9; 15:22, 45; 1 Tim . 2: 13-14 . ) </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the true concept of creation is that God created the world out of nothing, as in Genesis 1: 1 is not mention of any prior existence ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As shown in Genesis, man is the greatest work of God in creation, and declares that all creation took place in six days. Among those who accept the "Bible as the inspired work of God have given different explanations for these days of creation. Some see the story of Genesis 1 as a re-creation following a first creation, which was judged and destroyed in connection with the fall of Satan and the fallen angels. This would give us the evidence that the inorganic world existed long before the creation of the six days described in Genesis 1-2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Some look at the six days as time periods, shorter or longer than twenty four hours, because the word "day" is sometimes used for longer periods, as well as in the expression "the Lord's day."Others insist, however, that since the numbers with the word "day" is used, it should apply to a twenty-four hours. In this case it is assumed that God created the world with apparent age, as did, for example, in the creation of man himself and in the case of animals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Others, however, point to the suggestion that the time involved was longer than twenty-four hours due to expressions such as Genesis 1: 11, where the fruit tree is shown growing land. While God could have created a fully grown tree that grows is said that implies a longer period twenty four hours. While evangelicals have differed on the precise interpretation of the process of creation, most interpreters say the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible attribute the present existence of animals and man to the immediate creation of God, and the Scripture there is no evidence of evolutionary development of species by natural laws.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. NATURE OF MAN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to the testimony of Scripture, man, present in human form, was created by God as the conclusion and </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">consummation </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of all creation. It is said that man was made in the image and likeness of God (Gen. 1:26.) And God breathed into him the breath of life (Genesis 2: 7 . ). These distinctions qualify man above all other forms </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">v </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">i </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">da that are upon the earth and indicate that man is a moral creature with intellect, ability to feel and will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Broadly speaking, the creation of man included what was the material "(dust") and immaterial "(the breath of life"). This double distinction has reference to the "outward man" and the "inner man" (2 Cor 4: 16); "But the earthen vessel" and "his treasure" (2 Cor 4: 7). While the soul and spirit of man are shown to exist forever, the body returns to the dust from which it was formed, and the spirit goes to God who gave it (Eccl. 12: 7). Accordingly, people kill the body but can not kill the soul (mt.10: 28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When Scripture considers the immaterial part of man, sometimes using several interchangeable terms (cf. Gn 41: 8 Ps 42:... 6; Mt. 20:28 to 27:50; Jn 12:27 to 13:21 ; I 12:23 with Rev. 6: 9), even applying these terms to God (Isaiah 42: 1; Jer 9:..... 9; I 10:38) and animals (Ec 3:21; Rev. . 16: 3).Sometimes the spirit, the soul of man (.; I 4:12. 1 Thessalonians 5:23) is distinguished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">.., 12:30; Lk 1:46 36-37 Heb 6: Despite the important functions of the immaterial part of man, sometimes the spirit and sometimes the soul (Mark 8 attributed 18-19; James 1:21).; the spirit is usually mentioned in the Scriptures as that part of man which is able to contemplate God, and the soul is that part of man which is related to self and the various functions of the intellect, sensibilities and will of man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">. 4; Romans 9:. 2; 10:.. Ps 37; however, other terms of the immaterial nature of man such as the heart (Ex 7:23 are also used 9-10; Eph 3:17; I . 4: 7). Another term used is that as to the mind of man, whether in reference to the sinfulness of man's mind not saved (Romans 1:28; 2 Cor . 4: 4; Eph 4: 17-18; Tit. . 1:15), or the renewed mind that has a Christian (Matthew 22:37; Romans 12: 2; 1 Cor 14:15; Eph 5:17)... Other expressions such as "will" and "conscience" refi also </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">differ to </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the immaterial part of man.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Given the variety of terms that sometimes </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">are used in a similar sense and sometimes in contrast with each other, many have considered the division of man in material and immaterial as the basic division; but even here expressions like "soul" and "spirit" are sometimes used for the whole man ,including his body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Some pagan religions argue that the origin of the immaterial nature of man is pre - existent; this means that has </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">existed </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">forever and only embodied in the principle of human existence; This is not supported by Scripture. Another view offered by some evangelical theologians is that the soul is created by God in the principle of individual human existence; this theory has difficulties regarding the sinfulness of man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Probably the best view, </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">known </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">as the Traducianism, is that the soul and spirit were propagated by natural generation, and for this reason man receives a soul and spirit sinful, because their parents are sinners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The body of man is the room of the soul and spirit of man until he dies. Although ends with death, is subject to resurrection. This is true in terms of the saved and the unsaved, although resurrections are different. Sometimes the body is referred to as the "flesh" (Col. 2: 1, 5), and is used for the body of Christ) (1 Ti 3: 16; 1 Pet. 3: 18). Sometimes it refers to the sinful nature, which includes the soul and spirit, as in Paul's statement that he had "crucified the flesh" (Gá.5: 24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Accordingly, the meat should not be </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">considered </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">synonymous with the body in all passages, since it can involve the whole unregenerate man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The bodies of the saved people are declared as "temples" (Jn 2:21; 1 Cor. 6: 19; Phil. 1: 20), but at the same time their bodies are considered as "earthen vessels" (2 Co . 4: 7), bodies "vile" (Phil 3:21), to be mortified bodies (Ro 8:13; Col. 3:.. 5) and bodies which have to be kept in subjection (1 Cor 9 : 27).The bodies of the saved will be transformed, sanctified, saved and redeemed and finally glorified forever in the coming of Christ for His Church (Ro 8: 11,17- 18,23; 1 Cor. 6: 13-20; Phil. 3: 20-21).Jesus had a perfect human body before his death, and after his resurrection had a body of flesh and bone that is the example of the resurrection body of the believer. The term "body" is also used as a figure of the church as the body of Christ and which Christ is the head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Apart from </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the Bible, man has some knowledge regarding its origin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How explains the theory of evolution , the origin of man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What theistic evolution holds?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what way man differs from the animals, and what does this relate to the problem of the origin of sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence is there in Scripture of the creation of man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are a number of explanations that seek the scriptural account of man as created in six days?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why do you think the biblical account of the origin of man as a created being is superior to evolutionary theory?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What does the statement that man is made in the image and likeness of God means?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the meaning "spirit" and "soul" when used in relation to man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What other terms are used to describe the immaterial part of man besides soul and spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Exposing other views on the origin of the nature of man as a pre - existing or to be created at the birth of each individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the Traducianism (theory explaining the origin of the soul and spirit of man) and why is probably higher than any other point of view?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What does the term "flesh" in the Bible. and in what sense is it used?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense is a temple of the body of a person saved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is founded </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">hope for a saved person to be transformed and glorified?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MAN: YOUR FALL<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The problem of how sin entered the universe is a matter in which each system encounters obstacles.However, only the Bible provides a reasonable explanation. As seen in the previous study of angels, sin first entered the universe in the rebellion of some of the holy angels led by Satan, which occurred well before man was created. The first chapters of Genesis record the fall into sin by Adam and Eve. The various interpretations of this fact lead us to consider a literal event that explains the sinfulness of the human race or to attempt to explain it as something historical or as a myth. The orthodox interpretation, however, is that the event took place exactly as recorded in Scripture, and this is the way it is told in the rest of the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fall of man into sin can be considered from three aspects:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Adam before the fall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Adam after the fall, and:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the effect of the fall of Adam on the human race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. Adam before the fall.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the words of unusual simplicity, the Bible introduces the story of the first man and the woman who was given by partner. These two beings were united as "one flesh" and according to the divine concept this is what constitutes the real unity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although both men and women sinned and fell, the Bible refers to this mutual failure and the fall of man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">You can not make calculations regarding the extension of the period during which Adam and Eve remained in their original condition; however, it is clear that it was long enough for them to get used to the situation that had been placed to observe carefully and give a name to living creatures and experience communion with God. Like all the works of God, man was created "very good" (Gn. 1:31), which means that he was pleasing the Creator. This involves more than Adam was innocent, the latter term negative and simply suggesting that the first man had not sinned. Holiness, which is the main attribute of God, is a positive term and indicates that he is incapable of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The man, as was made in the image of God, had a complete personality and ability to make moral decisions. In contrast to God who can not sin, both men and angels could sin. As seen in the previous study about angels, Satan sinned (Is. 14: 12-14.; Ez 28:15), and behind him were other angels, who wrote that "did not keep their original state (Jud . 6, VM).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Due to the fact that Satan and the fallen angels sinned first, the man did not originate sin, but became a sinner because of the satanic influence (Gn. 3: 4-7).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The story of how Adam and Eve sinned is revealed in Genesis 3: 1-6. According to this, Satan appeared in the form of a snake, a creature which at that time was a very beautiful and attractive animal. As recorded in the Bible, God gave Adam and Eve a ban: they should not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. According to Genesis 2: 17, God said, "But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat; because the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This relatively simple prohibition was a test to see if Adam and Eve obey God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In his conversation with Eve, Satan introduced this prohibition telling Eve, "Did God really said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden" (Gen. 3: 1.). What he meant to imply was that God was hiding something that was good and that he was being unnecessarily severe in its ban. Eve answered the serpent, "the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest you die "(Gen. 3: 2-3.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In his reply Eve fell into Satan's trap by leaving out the word "free" in God's permission to eat from the trees of the garden, and she left out the word "probably" in God's warning. The natural tendency of man to minimize the goodness of God and to magnify its severity are, since then, family traits of human experience. Satan immediately grabbed the omission of the word "probably" in terms of punishment and told the woman: "You will not surely die: For God knows that in the day ye eat thereof, will open your eyes and be like God, knowing good and evil "(Genesis 3: 4-5.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In his conversation with the woman, Satan is revealed as the deceiver. The safety of punishment is challenged directly and thus expressly denies the Word of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact that eating the fruit their eyes would be opened to the knowledge of good and evil was true, but what Satan did not reveal was that they would have the power to know good and evil without the power to do good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to Genesis 3: 6, the fall of Adam and Eve into sin is recorded as follows: "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom; and she took of its fruit and ate; She also gave to her husband, he ate it. "If Satan suggested this to the woman or if she came to these conclusions by itself is not what Scripture says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, we note here the familiar pattern of temptation in three lines indicated in 1 John 2:16 that the fruit was good for food appealed to the "lust of the flesh"; the fact that it was "pleasing to the eyes" appealed to the "lust of the eyes"; and the power of the tree to make them wise appealed to the "pride of life". A similar example of temptation was followed by Satan in the temptation of Christ (Matthew 4: 1-11; Mark 1: 12-13; Luke 4: 1-13.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Eve was deceived in taking the fruit, and Adam followed suit although he was not deceived (1 Tim. 2:14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ADAM B. AFTER THE FALL.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When Adam and Eve sinned they </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">lost </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">their blessed state in which both had been created and came to be the subject of several major changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The man fell under </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">domain of spiritual and physical death. God had said: "For the day that you eat of it you shall surely die" (Gen 2:17.); and this divine sentence was carried out . Adam and Eve immediately suffered spiritual death, which means separation from God. And in due course also they suffered physical punishment of death, which means the act by which the soul separates from the body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God's judgment also fell on Satan and the serpent was condemned to crawl on the floor (Gn. 3:14) The struggle </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">between </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God and Satan described in Genesis 3:15 as it relates to the human race and God says, "and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">n heel. "This refers to the conflict between Christ and Satan, in which Christ died on the cross, but could not be held by death, as anticipated in the expression "you shall bruise his heel." However, the ultimate defeat of Satan is indicated by the fact that the seed of the woman "shall bruise thy head , " that is, inflicting a deadly and permanent injury. The seed of the woman refers to Jesus Christ, who in his death and resurrection conquered and defeated Satan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A special trial also fell on Eva, which would experience pain in childbirth and their children should submit to her husband (Gn. 3:16). The fact that death would occur necessary to produce</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">multiple </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">births.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A special curse fell upon Adam, which was assigned the hard work of working the land, now cursed with thorns and thistles, to get the food necessary for their continued existence.Accordingly, the creation itself would be changed by man's sin (Rom. 8:22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Later Scripture indicates how the effects of sin would be partially alleviated through salvation in the case of man and for a partial lifting of the curse in the future millennial kingdom. Adam and Eve, however, after the fall were driven out of the garden and began to experience pain and struggle that have characterized the human race since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. THE EFFECT OF THE FALL OF ADAM ESPECIALLY THE MANKIND.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The immediate effect of sin on Adam and Eve was that they died spiritually and came to be subject to spiritual death. His nature is depraved and therefore, the human race would experience the slavery of sin. In addition to changing the fate of man and his environment, the Bible also reveals a profound doctrine of imputation, which highlights the truth that God is now accused Adam with sin and as a result, accused his descendants the responsibility of the first Adam's sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Scripture mentions three main allegations:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The sin of Adam is imputed to his posterity (Rom . 5: 12- 14)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> man's sin is imputed to Christ (2 Cor 5: 21); Y:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God's righteousness imputed to those who believe in Christ (Gen. 15: 6; Ps . 32: 2; Ro 3:22; 4:.. 3, 8, 21-25; 2 Cor 5:21; Philemon . 17-18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is obvious that a transfer of a judicial nature of man's sin to Christ, who took over his body on the tree sin of mankind was made. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Is 53: 5; John 1:29; 1 Peter 2:.. 24; 3: 18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Similarly there is a transfer of a judicial nature of God's righteousness to the believer (2 Cor 5:21), since there could be no other ground of justification or acceptance before God. This imputation belongs to the new spiritual relationship with God the believer enjoys in the sphere of the new creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">They are joined to the Lord for the baptism of the Spirit (1 Cor 6:17; 12:13; 2 Cor 5:17;. Gal 3:27), and vitally related to Christ as a member of his body (Eph 5:. : 30), it follows that every virtue of Christ is communicated to those who have become an organic part of the believer is "in Christ" and therefore part of all that Christ is..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Thus, also the facts of the old creation are transferred real to those who by natural generation are "in Adam" way. They have the same nature of Adam, and also that they have sinned he says. This is as much a fact that becomes in itself a sufficient basis of divine judgment decreed against sin; like the imputation of the righteousness of God in Christ is the basis for satisfying justification. And the result is God's judgment upon all men, whether they have sin or not as the transgression of Adam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although men hold, and often do, that they are not responsible for the sin of Adam, divine revelation states that, due to the far-reaching effects of representative relationship that all human beings have with Adam, original sin the first man is immediately and directly imputed to all members of the race, with the invariable death sentence resting upon them all (Rom. 5: 12-14).Similarly, the original sin of Adam is transmitted in the form of sinful nature indirectly, that is, by inheritance, from father to son, through all generations. The effect of the fall is universal; so it is also the offer of divine grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fall of men is not made when they commit their first sin; they have been born in sin, as fallen creatures, from Adam. Men do not become sinners through the practice of sin, but they sin because they are sinners by nature. No child needs to be taught to sin, but each child must be encouraged to do good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It should be noted that, despite the fall of Adam weighs upon all mankind, it is clear that there is a divine provision for infants and for all those who have no moral responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The holy judgments of God must fall on all sinners redeemed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> because of imputed sin;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> because of the sinful nature we all have inherited;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> because they are all under sin; Y:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> because of their own sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While it is true that these divine judgments can not be mitigated, the sinner can escape them through Christ. This is the good news of the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The penalty resting on the old creation is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> physical death, by which the soul separates from the body;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> spiritual death, which, like that of Adam, is the present state of the lost and the separation between the soul and God (Eph 2: 1; 4: 18-19 . ); Y:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the second death, that is, the eternal separation of the soul and God and the expulsion of missing the presence of Him forever (Rev. 2:11; 20:. 6:14; 21: 8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the Bible explain the origin of sin in the universe and mankind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What it was the state of man before he sinned?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How did Satan tempted Eve?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Eva falsely told God's prohibition?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Satan lied to Eve and expressly denied the Word of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does Satan disguised himself so appealing power of knowledge of good and evil?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does 1 John 2:16 indicates the three lines of temptation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What was the effect on Adam and Eve after they had sinned?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What was the effect on Satan and the serpent after Adam and Eve sinned?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What was the effect on the descendants of Adam and Eve from Adam's sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Mention the three complaints filed in Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it not true that man becomes a sinner sinning?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why the holy judgments of God are about men who are outside of Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the penalty that is on the old creation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is salvation in Christ the only hope for man in his fallen state?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SIN: his character and Universality<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A.- SPECULATION ON HUMAN SIN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Since sin is a dominant factor in human experience while the main theme of the Bible, has been the subject of endless discussions. Those who reject the scriptural revelation often have inadequate concepts about sin. A familiar feature of unbiblical way of approaching the question is to consider sin to some extent an illusion, that is, that sin is just a bad concept based on the false theory that there is good and evil in the world. Of course, this theory fails to face the facts of life and the evil of sin and denies the existence of God and moral principles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Another ancient approach to the problem of sin is looking at it as an inherent principle, the opposite of what God is, and relate to the physical world. This is found in Eastern philosophy and also in the Greek Gnosticism and is the background for both asceticism, denial of bodily desires, as Epicureanism, which calls for the indulgence of the body. The fact, however, is denying that man really small and is accountable to God. A common, though inadequate, concept is that sin is nothing more than selfishness. While it is true that sin is selfishness often, this concept is not applicable to all cases, because sometimes man sins against himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">All these theories do not meet the biblical standard and are a denial of the biblical revelation of the character and the universality of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF SIN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Recognizing that there are several sins defined in the Word of God, we, based on Scripture, to the conclusion that sin is any lack of conformity to the character of God, whether in work, provision or condition. In the Word of God many sins are defined, as illustrated, for example, in the Ten Commandments that God gave to Israel (Ex. 20: 3-17). Sin is such because it is different from what God is, and God is eternally Santo. Sin is always against God (Psalm 51:.. 4; Luke 15:18), even though it may be directed against human beings. A person who sins is, accordingly, no likeness to God and subject to the judgment of God. The doctrine of sin is presented in four aspects in the Bible:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Personal sin (Rom. 3:23) is the form of sin that includes everything in everyday life is against or fails in accordance with the character of God. Men are often aware of their personal sin and personal sins can take a variety of forms. Generally speaking, personal sin is related to a particular commandment of God in the Bible. It includes the aspect of rebellion or disobedience.At least eight important words used for sin in the Old Testament and a dozen in the New Testament; the basic idea is the lack of conformity to God 's character and work through either acts of omission or commission. The essential idea is that man does not reach the standard and fails to reach the level of the character of God 's holiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The sinful nature of man (Rom 5:19; Eph 2:.. 3) is another important aspect of such sin as revealed in the Bible. The original sin of Adam led to the fall, and in the fall he became a completely different, depraved and degenerate and only capable of generating fallen beings like himself. Therefore, every child of Adam is born with the Adamic nature, he is always prone to sin, and though his nature was judged by Christ on the cross (Rom. 6:10), a vital and active force remains in each life Christian. It never said to be removed or eradicated in this life, but for Christian victor no power provided through the indwelling Spirit (Rom 8: 4; Gal . 5: 16-17.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Many biblical passages allude to this important issue. According to Ephesians 2: 3, all men "were by nature children of wrath," and the whole nature of man is depraved. The concept of total depravity is not that every man is as bad as possible that he can be, but rather that man, by nature, is corrupted by sin (Rom. 1: 18 March 20). According to it, the man, in his will (Romans 1:28.), His conscience (1 Tim 4: 2.) And intellect (Rom 1:28; 2 Cor. 4: 4), is corrupt and depraved, and her heart and understanding are blinded (Eph. 4:18). As seen in a previous study, the reason why men have a sinful nature is because it was transmitted by their parents. No child born in the world has been free from this sin nature except in the unique case of the birth of Christ. Not that men sin and become sinners; rather it is that men sin because they have a sinful nature. The remedy for this, as well as personal sin is, of course, redemption, which is provided in salvation in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Also presented in the Bible as imputed sin or computed in our account (Rom . 5: 12-18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As seen in connection with the fall of man in the previous chapter, there are three main allegations presented in Scripture:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the imputation of Adam's sin to his descendants, in which fact the doctrine of original sin is based;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the attribution of human sin to Christ, in which fact is based the doctrine of salvation; Y:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">C)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the imputation of the righteousness of God in those who believe in Christ, in which fact the doctrine of justification is based.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The complaint may be either a) current, or b) court. The current allocation is to someone's account originally something that already belonged to the debtor. Although God can do this in your justice, for Christ reconciling work of God he is not now imputing man sin, which is yours from the beginning (2 Cor 5:19).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The court complaint is charged to the account of someone something that does not belong to the debtor (Phm. 18). Although there has been disagreement as to whether the imputation of Adam's sin to each member of the race is current or judicial, Romans 5:12 clearly states that the complaint is present, in view of the representative head; the posterity of Adam sinned when he sinned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The next two verses (Rom. 5: 13-14) have been written to prove that it is not a reference to personal sin (cf. I. 7: 9-10). However, Romans 5: 17-18 implies that its complaint is legal, since it is established that the sin of one man came judgment on all men. Only the original sin of Adam is in question. Its effect is death for both Adam and Adam to members of humanity. Divine healing provided for imputed sin is the gift of God, which is eternal life through Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The judicial state resulting from sin for the entire human race is also presented in Scripture. By divine consideration the world, including Jews and Gentiles, is now "under sin" (Romans 3: 9; 11:32; Galatians 3:22..). Being under sin is to be counted from the divine point of view without any merit that can contribute to salvation. Since salvation is by grace and grace excludes all human merit, God has decreed, regarding the salvation of men, which is "under sin" or without merit. This state under sin is remedied only when the individual, through the riches of grace, is counted to remain on the merits of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Taken as a whole, the Bible clearly shows the devastating effects of sin on man and the total absence of hope for man as to solve their own problem of sin. The correct understanding of the doctrine of sin is essential to understanding God's remedy for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some inadequate over sin concepts presented sometimes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the Bible define sin in general?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What sins are specifically mentioned in the Ten Commandments?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why it is always sin against God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What four aspects of sin are presented in the Bible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is meant by personal sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What the Bible teaches about the sinful nature of man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent man is depraved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How do you explain the fact that all children are born sinners?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the three main charges?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is meant by current complaint?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is meant by court complaint?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . Is there scriptural evidence that everyone is in a legal state of sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it important to a proper understanding of the doctrine of sin to understand the doctrine of salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SALVATION OF SIN PENA<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE MEANING OF SALVATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Divine revelation concerning salvation should be mastered by every child of God:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> as personal salvation depends on it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> it is the message that God has commissioned the believer to proclaim to the world, and:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> discover the full measure of God's love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">According to its broad meaning as used in Scripture, the word "salvation" represents the total work of God by which He rescues man from eternal ruin and the sentence of sin and gives the riches of His grace , including eternal now and in the eternal glory in heaven life. "Salvation is of the Lord" (Jonah 2: 9.). Therefore, in every aspect is a work of God for man, and not in any sense a work of man for God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Certain details of this divine company have varied from age to age. We are confident that, beginning with Adam and continuing with Christ, those individuals who put their trust in God have been born again spiritually and become heirs of glory in heaven. Similarly, the nation of Israel spiritually reborn once "at the time of the coming of the Lord (Isa. 66: 8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is also said that the multitudes of both Jews and Gentiles who live on the earth during the coming kingdom will know the Lord from the smallest to the largest (Jer. 31:34). However, the salvation offered to men in the present age is not only revealed more fully in the Bible in their details, but also greatly exceeds any other work save-dora God in the wonders performed since that salvation is offered in the present age it includes each of the phases of the work of grace of God as the indwelling, sealing and baptism of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. SALVATION OF GOD AS THE REMEDY FOR THE SIN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although certain distinctions are made in the biblical doctrine of sin, there are two universal facts that should be </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">considered </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">first:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Sin is </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">always </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">condemnable, whether you make the savage or civilized, the unregenerate or regenerate. While there may be different degrees of punishment for the sinner (Lk . 12: 47-48), all sin is invariably "sinful" itself, because it constitutes an offense against the holiness of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The only remedy for sin is in the blood of the Son of God. This is so true when it comes to those who through animal sacrifices anticipated the death of Christ on the cross, as it is those who by faith look now in retrospect to the sacrifice of the Lamb of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">If the punishment can be remitted is because there was another substitute in character met all the demands that divine justice had against the sinner. In the old order, the sinner was not forgiven until the priest had presented the bloody sacrifice for sin, which anticipated the death of Christ on the Cross (Leviticus 4:20, 26, 31, 35;. 5:10 13, 16, 18,. 6: 7; 19:22; Nm 15: 25-26, 28). And after the sacrifice of the Son of God has accomplished prevails same truth concerning his blood shed on Calvary is the basis of forgiveness for every sinner. This is the testimony of the Word of God: "In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace" (Col. 1:14; Eph 1: 7.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The vicarious death of Christ is infinitely perfect in its redemptive efficacy, and therefore, the sinner who trusts in Him is not only forgiven but also justified forever (Rom. 3:24). God has never treated leniently sin. The sinner will it imposes no burden for forgiveness; but if it is forgiven is due only to the divine punishment for sin in all its rigor fell upon the Lamb of God (1 P.2: 24; 3:18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. SIN BEFORE AND AFTER THE CROSS THE CROSS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> It is said that the divine method of dealing with sin before the cross was the atonement.According to its Biblical use, the word "atonement" simply means "cover". "The blood of bulls and goats to take away sins" (Heb . 10: 4). Sacrificial blood indicated that part of offered its</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">recognition </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of the just death sentence upon the sinner (Lev . 1: 4); from God and was an anticipation of the effective blood that Christ shed on the cross. In fact symbolize the blood of Christ, the blood of atonement served to cover sin as a covenant of promise until the day when Christ came to deal definitively with the sin of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">There in the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">New </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Testament two passages that shed light on the meaning of the ancient word testamentary atonement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In Romans 3:25 the word "transfer" has the meaning of "overlooked" and it is on this </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">meaning</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">declaring that Christ showed in his death that God was just overlook the sins committed before the cross and by which the sacrificial blood had been shed. God had promised to send the Lamb who would be able to take away the sin of the world, and on the basis of this great promise had forgiven sin before the cross. Therefore, through the death of Christ it was fully demonstrated that God has been fair in all that He has promised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In Acts 17:30 states that God "passed high torque" the times of this ignorance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In Romans 3:26 declares what has been the divine method of dealing with sin after the cross.Christ has died. The value of your sacrilege is no longer a matter of expectation to be taken toeat a covenant promise and pair symbolized the blood of the animals offered on the altar; the blood of Christ shed AIDS, and now all that is required of every person, regardless what your stand guilty, is that believes in the infinite grace has accomplished salvation of the sinner. The verse before us reveals that judgments hanging over every sinner Christ fully took on the cross, so that God could remain just, to be unchangeable in his holiness. Apart from all punishment, He will justify the sinner who only believes in Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As noted above, the word atonement, which appears only in the Old Testament, means "passing over", "glossing pair" and (<cover "sin pear when Christ dealt with sin on the cross, He it not only ignored or covered it with his infinitely efficacious sacrifice has said, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (June 1:29; Cal 2:14; Heb 10.... ... 4; 1 John 3: 5) "Who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree" (1 Q.2: 24) Christ did not temporized with sin or partially treated on the cross. great problem between God and man was there solved in such a way that even the holiness of God was fully satisfied, and the only question that still stands is whether man is satisfied with what pleases God. Accept the work Christ </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">accomplished at Calvary for us is to believe in Him for salvation of the soul.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. THE THREE TIMES OF SALVATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The time </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">past </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of salvation is revealed in certain passages which, when they speak of salvation refer to it being completely in the past, or completed for which he believed (Lk 7:50;. 1 Cor 1 : 18; 2 Corinthians 2:15; Ephesians 2: 5, 8).. So perfect is this divine work that bran is said to be saved forever (Jn 5:24; 10:28, 29; Rom . 8: 1.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> This time of salvation, which will be the subject of the next chapter, has to do with the present salvation </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">power of sin (Rom 6:14; 8:. 2; 2 Cor 3:18; Gal 2. : 19-20; Philippians 1:19; 2: 12-13 . ; 2 Thessalonians 2:13)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The future tense of salvation contemplated that the believer is still safe within full conformity with Christ (Rom 8:29; 13:11; 1 P.1. 5; 1 John 3: 2.). The fact that some aspects of salvation are yet to be fulfilled for those who believe not imply that no ground of doubt as to its ultimate fulfillment; for nowhere it teaches that no trace of salvation depends upon the faithfulness of man. God is faithful and, having begun a good work, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ (Phil . 1: 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. AS THE SALVATION OF CHRIST FINISHED</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When the work of God for lost men contemplated, it is important to distinguish between the finished work of Christ for all, which is full of an infinite perfection, and the saving work of God, which is applied for and the individual the moment he believes in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"It is finished" is the last recorded word of Christ before his death (Jn. 19:30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Clearly he was not referring to his own life, your service or your suffering; but rather a special work which his Father had given him to do, which was not even begun until he was on the cross and was completed when he died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This was definitely a work for everyone (Jn 3: 1 or; Hebrews 2:.. 9), and provided redemption (1 Tim 2: 6.), Reconciliation (2 Cor 5:19) and </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">propitiation </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">(1 Jn. 2: 2) for each man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact that Christ died </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">not </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">save men, but provides a sufficient basis upon which God, in complete harmony with his holiness, he is free to save even the worst of sinners. These are the good news which the Christian is commissioned to proclaim to everyone. The blood of the Only Begotten and Beloved Son of God was the most precious in his sight; however, it was the payment for redemption of the sinner. The offense of sin had separated the sinner from God, but God provided His own Lamb to take away sin forever. The holy judgments of God were against the sinner because of his sin; However, Christ was the propitiation for the sins of everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The fact that all this is finished is a message which asks the sinner who believes as the testimony of God. One can hardly believe that someone who has heard this message has not experienced a sense of relief </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">that </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the sin problem has been solved in this way, and has responded in a sense of gratitude to God for this priceless blessing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">F. WORK AS SALVATION SALVATION OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The saving work of God which is fulfilled in the moment one believes includes various phases of the work of God in grace: redemption, reconciliation, propitiation, forgiveness, regeneration, imputation, justification, sanctification, perfection, glorification. Through it we are made able to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints (Col. 1:12), made accepted in the Beloved (Eph. 1: 6), children of God (John 1:12.) Facts citizens of heaven (Phil 3:20.) made a new creation (2 Cor 5:17), made members of the family of God (Eph 2:19;. 3:15), the righteousness of God (2 Co. 5:21), brought near to God (Eph. 2:13) and made whole in Christ (Col. 2:10). The son of God has been released from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of the beloved Son of God (Col. 1:13), and now owns all spiritual blessings (Eph. 1: 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Among the wonderful works of God recently mentioned, guilt and the penalty of sin have been removed; since it is said of it unless it is forgiven all their sins and justified forever. God could not</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">forgive </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">and justify apart from the cross of Christ, but since Christ has died, God is able to save to the uttermost all who come to Him through Christ Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">G. SALVATION IN RELATION TO THE SIN OF SALVO<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Forgiveness of sins is true for the sinner when he believes in Christ and is a part of his salvation.Many things that constitute salvation are wrought by God at the moment one believes; but forgiveness is never received by the not saved apart from the complete work of saving grace on the basis of believing in Christ as Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the divine dealings with cough sins of Christians, is only the question of sin what you have in view, and the sin of the Christian is forgiven, not on the basis of belief for salvation, but on the basis of the confession of sin (1 John 1: 9 . ). The effect of sin Christian, among other things, is the loss of communion with the Father and the Son and grieve the Spirit who dwells in. The child of God who has sinned will be restored to communion, joy, blessing and power when confess their sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">While the effect of sin on the believer is the loss of blessing, which may be renewed by the</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">confession </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">, the effect of sin on God believer is a matter much more within. But if not for the value of the shed blood of Christ and of the present law of Christ in heaven (.. Ro 8:34; He 9:24; 1 John 3: 1-2 . ), Sin would separate Christians from God forever. However, we are assured that blood is effective (1 Jn . 2: 2) and the cause of the Advocate is fair (1 Jn . 2: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The saint who sins is not lost by their sin, since even when you have been at the time of sin, he has an Advocate with the Father. This truth, which forms only the basis on which any Christian has always been kept safe, far from encouraging Christians to sin, is presented in Scripture so that "not small" 0 "Christian will not remain in sin "(1 Jn. 2: 1). Salvador gratitude to counsel for us in heaven must encauzarnos to seriously doubt before surrendering to temptation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">H. SALVATION IS SUBJECT ONLY BY FAITH<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In about 115 passages of the New Testament it states that the sinner's salvation depends only believe, and in about 35 passages is said that depends on faith, which is a synonym for believing.Believing, an individual exercises the desire to trust in Christ. It is an act of the whole man, not only his intellect or emotion. While intellectual assent not from real faith, and is merely a </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">motivation </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of emotions, therefore weak in faith, believing is a definite act in which the individual desires toreceive Christ by faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Scripture everywhere harmonizes with this overwhelming truth. Only God can save a soul, and God can only save through the sacrifice of His Son. Man can not hold any other relationship for salvation to believe in the message of God to the extent of becoming their own works to rely solely on the work of God through Christ. Believing is the opposite of doing anything; is, instead, rely on another.Therefore, Scripture and the whole doctrine of grace is violated confused when salvation is made to depend on anything other than believe. The divine message is not "believe and pray", "believe and confess sin," "believes and confesses Christ," "believe and be baptized," "believe and repent" or "create and make restitution."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">These six points added are mentioned in Scripture, and there are s </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">or </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">full meaning proposed; but if they were as essential to salvation as believing, they had never been omitted from any passage where the way to be saved (John 1:12 declares notice; 3:16, 36; 5:24; 6:29; 20.: 31; Acts 16:31; Rom .1: 1 or; 3:22; 4:. 5, 24; 5: 1; 10: 4; Gal 3:22).. Salvation is only through Christ and, therefore, men are saved when you receive as their Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why a child of God must master the doctrine of salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is included in salvation in its widest dimension?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what degree salvation is the same in every age, and to what degree is more complete in the present age?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What two universal facts are shown in Scripture concerning the relationship of salvation from sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How was God with sin in relation to salvation in the Old Testament?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the dealings of God with sin after the cross of the Old Testament method?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is shown in the passages dealing with salvation in the past?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How salvation is revealed as a present work of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is contemplated when salvation is seen as a future?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Distinguish between the finished work of Christ and the saving work of God when applied to individual thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it true that the fact that Christ died not save all men?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . What should be expected as a response from the believer when he is saved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Name some of the important phases of the work of God 's grace in saving men that are included in important doctrinal words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the aspects of the work of God fulfilled when an individual is saved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is salvation related to the forgiveness of sins?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In dealing with the sins of the Christian, what it is included in your forgiveness?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> If a Christian does not confess his sin, what do you lose?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is the doctrine that Christ is our advocate in heaven may lead the Christian to live a life of sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Discuss the scriptural basis showing that salvation is by faith alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why intellectual belief is not enough evidence of real faith?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">21</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . Why emotional response is insufficient for salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">22.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why faith is an act of man in his integrity, intellect, feelings and will?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">23.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it a mistake to attach certain works to the act of believing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">24</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . Explain the fact that the works are a result of believing in salvation and not a condition for salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">25</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . Explain what man must do to be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SALVATION OF POWER OF SIN<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Since salvation from the power of sin is a provision of God's grace for those who are already saved from the guilt and </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">penalty </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of sin, the doctrine that in this chapter we consider limited in its application only regenerated. Although they are already safe and secure in Christ, Christians still have the disposition to sin and commit sins. Of this we have abundant evidence in Scripture and human experience. Based on the fact that Christians sin, the New Testament goes on to explain what is the way divinely drawn to the Son of God is freed from the power of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">For suppose that the Christian should not sin nor have the inclination to sin, many believers who have not reached spiritual maturity alarmed and confused, and even doubt their salvation in their life when they discover the dominant power of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is a positive attitude worry of sin, because of the offense that it causes to the holiness of God; but instead to question their salvation or surrender to the practice of sin, should scrutinize what God in His grace has provided for his people to freedom from the dominion of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">With the exception of the plan of </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">salvation </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">there is no more important issue that requires a thorough understanding by the human mind the divine plan by which a Christian can live for the glory of God. Ignorance and error can result in a tragic spiritual error. In the gospel there is a great need for clarity in the exposition of the biblical doctrine of salvation from the power of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE PROBLEM OF SIN IN THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Having received the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">nature of </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God (2 Peter 1: 4), but still retaining the old nature, every child of God has two natures; one is incapable of sin, and the other is unable to practice holiness. The old nature, sometimes called "sin" (meaning the source of sin) and "old man" is a part of the meat; because, according to Scripture use the term flesh, when used in its' moral sense, it refers to the spirit and soul, as well as the body, especially in the case of unregenerate man. This is why the apostle declares: "I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing " (Romans 7:18.). Moreover, in view of the divine nature which is imparted to the believer, the apostle John says: "Whosoever is born of God remains in him; and he can not sin, because he is born of God "(1 Jn . 3: 9). This verse teaches that every Christian who is born of God practices sin (the verb. The present tense implies continuous action). However, it should be noted that this is the same epistle where every child of God who does not pretend not possess a sinful nature (1: 8) warns or who did not commit sin (1:10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">These two sources of activity that the Christian has itself are also considered in Galatians 5:17, where both the Spirit </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Santo </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">and meat are active in incessant mutual conflict: "For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to each other. "The apostle is not referring in these words the carnal Christian, but that is more spiritual, and even that is not satisfying the lust of the flesh (Gal. 5:16). This conflict certainly exists in the spiritual Christian, and if he free from the effects and lusts of the flesh is, is because you are walking in the direction of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. THE LAW AS A RULE OF LIFE.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">To understand God's program for deliverance from the power of sin, it is important to distinguish between law and grace as rules of life. The word "law" is used in Scripture in many different ways.Sometimes it used as a rule of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When used in this sense, the word has several meanings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on tablets of stone (Ex. 31:18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The whole system of government of Israel that included the commandments (Ex 20: 1-26.), Laws (Ex . 21: 1 - 24:11) and ordinances (Ex 24:12 - 31:18.) .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The principles governing the future kingdom of the Messiah still on earth, which are contained in the Law and the Prophets (MT 5: 1 - 7:29; cf. 5:17, 18; 7:12.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Some aspects of the revealed will of God to men (Romans 7:22, 25; 8:. 4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Some rules of conduct established by men for their own government (Mt. 20:15; Lk 20:22; 2 Tim .2: 5.). The word "law" is also sometimes used as a force in operation (Ro 7:21; 8:. 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In the Old Testament especially, the law is also presented as a covenant of works. Under this concept of law, its scope extends beyond the writings of the Mosaic system, and includes all human action attempted (in accordance with the teaching of Scripture or not) in order to obtain God's favor. The formula of the law is ". If you do good, I will bless" Thus, the supreme ideal of good behavior "if it is done in order to get God's favor rather than a manifestation of security Please through Christ "becomes purely legal in character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The law is also presented as a principle of dependence on meat. The law does not provide capacity for enforcement. It was not expected more than his commandments what the natural man could do. However, all that is undertaken in the flesh, is legal in nature: the commandments contained in the law, the exhortations of grace, or any spiritual activity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. GRACE LIFE AS A RULE.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">For the child of God under grace, every aspect of the law has been eliminated (Jn 1:16. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17; Rom 6:14; 7:. 1-6; 2 Corinthians 3: 1- 18; Gal 3. : 19-25; Eph 2: 15; Col. 2:. 14).</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The legal ordinances of the Mosaic system and instituted commandments for the government of the kingdom are not now the main guides the Christian. They have been replaced by a new rule of conduct and grace that includes in itself all that is vital in the law, although reaffirms under the order and character of grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The child of God under grace has been freed of the weight of a covenant of works. Now he does not fight to be accepted, but is free as one that is accepted in Christ (Eph . 1: 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The child of God is now called to live by the power of his own flesh. He has been released from this feature of the law and can live in the power of the Spirit. Since the written law was given to Israel, she was able to break free from the commandments of Moses written only by the death of Christ. However, both the Jew and Gentile were freed by the death of human merit principle desperate and futile effort of the flesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In contrast to the law, the word "grace" refers to the unmerited favor that represents the divine method of treatment with the man who was introduced with Adam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Under grace, God does not treat men as they deserve, but with infinite mercy and grace, without reference • to what you really deserve. This is free to do so on the basis that the just punishment for sin, which would otherwise his holiness could impose on sinners as a reward for their deeds, was satisfied by the Son of God. Although the people of Israel experienced grace in many ways, as a rule of life they passed a relationship of grace with God to a legal relationship with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When they accepted the law, as seen in Exodus 19: 3- 25, they foolishly bragged that could keep the law of God completely ignoring their need of grace as the only possible basis to be accepted before God. The experience of Israel under the law, therefore all men demonstrates the impossibility of being freed from the power of sin through the law as a principle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In contrast to the law, grace is revealed in three different ways:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> security through grace, and:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">c)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> grace as a rule of life for the bran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God saves sinners by grace, and there is no other way of salvation offered to men (Acts. 4:12).The saving grace is boundless love of God and free lost in accordance with exact and unchanging demands of his own justice through the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. Grace is more than love; It is love that liberates and makes triumphant Christian on the just judgment of God against the sinner. When He saves a sinner by grace, God must end with every sin, because otherwise they would demand a trial and thus hinder their grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This is what has done in the death of his Son. It is also necessary that each obligation is satisfied with this object salvation has been made as an absolute gift of God (Jn 10:28; Ro 6:23; Eph 2:... 8). In addition, it is necessary that all human merit is eliminated, so that anything that God made is based in any way on the merits of men and not only in his sovereign grace (Rom 3: 9; 11:32; Gal. 3. : 22). Since every human element is excluded, the gospel of grace is the proclamation of the mighty, redemptive and transforming grace of God which gives life and eternal glory to everyone who believes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The divine security program through grace shows that only by the grace of God keeps those who are saved. Having provided a way by which He can act freely of their own demands for justice against sin; having arranged the remuneration of each human action, and having put aside forever all human merit, God has to continue the exercise of his grace to the saved to give you the security of your eternal protection. This is what he does and the Son of God is said to be in grace (Rom 5: 2; 1 Peter 5:12.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">C)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God also provides a rule of life for the saved based solely on the principle of grace. God teaches those who are saved and safe way how to live in grace and how to live for his eternal glory. Just as the law has provided a full rule of conduct for Israel, God has provided a full rule of conduct for the Christian. Since all the rules of life that are presented in the Bible are complete in themselves, they do not need to be combined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Therefore, the Son of God is not under the law as a rule of life, but under the advice of grace. What he does not under grace aims to get the favor of God, but because he has already been accepted in the Beloved. He is not relying on the energy of the flesh, but in demonstration of the power of the Spirit. It is a life lived on the principle of faith: "The just shall live by faith."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">These principles are stated in the Gospels and the Epistles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">E. THE ONLY WAY OF VICTORIA.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Several lessons have been suggested to pretend point the way by which the Christian can free themselves from the power of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> It has been said that the Christian will be driven to live for the glory of God if you see enough rules of conduct. This legalistic principle is doomed to failure because it makes the victory depends on the same flesh which liberation (Rom. 6:14) is sought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> It has been stated many times that the Christian should seek the eradication of the old nature, so be permanently free from the power of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">But this theory has its objections:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> There is no biblical basis for teaching that the Adamic nature can be eradicated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The old nature is a part of the meat, and it is clear that it should be treated in the same way God treats the flesh. Meat is one of the three powerful enemies of the Christian: the world, the flesh and the Devil. God does not eradicate the world, or the flesh, or the Devil; but it provides victory over these enemies, by the Spirit (Gal 5:16; 1 John . 4: 4, 5: 4 . ). Similarly, He gives victory over the old nature through the Spirit (Rom 6:14; 8:. 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 14pt;">C)</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">No current human experience confirms the theory of eradication, and if this theory were true, parents beget children in this state unaffected by the fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">D)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> When the theory of eradication accepts no place or meaning for the ministry of the Spirit who dwells in every child of God. Quite the contrary, the most spiritual Christians are warned of the need to walk in the Spirit, surrendering to the will of God, preventing sin reign in your mortal bodies, mortifying the works of the flesh and abiding in the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Some Christians assume that, apart from the Spirit and simply by the fact that they are already saved, can live for the glory of God. In Romans 7:15 - 8: 4 the apostle testifies from his own experience with this theory. He claims he knew what was good, but he did not know how to carry out what he knew (7:18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Therefore, he reached the following conclusions:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> That even though he tried to do the best, it was always defeated by a law that was still present in its members rebelling against the law of his spirit (7:23);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> that his condition was spiritually wretched (7:24);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">C)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> that even when it was safe, which gave him freedom was the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, not his own works (8: 2);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 14pt;">D)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">full </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">will of God is fulfilled in the believer, but never for the believer (8: 4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Romans 7:25 it states that the freedom of the power of sin comes through Jesus Christ our Lord.Since it is a problem that concerns the holiness of God, the liberation of the power of sin can only come through Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit could not usurp authority over a fallen nature that were not yet judged; but in Romans 6: 1-10 states that the believer 's fallen nature was already judged to be crucified, dead and buried with Christ, which made it possible for </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Spirit to victory. Because of this provision of the grace of God, the believer can walk in the prune </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">r of a new principle of life is </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">to depend only on the Spirit, recognizing himself </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">himself dead indeed to sin (6: 4, 11). Therefore, release the power of sin is by the Spirit and through Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">F. VICTORIA BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"If you are walking by the Spirit ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (Gal. 5:16 lit.). Salvation from the power of sin, as salvation from the penalty of sin is from God and from a human point of view, depends on an attitude of faith and salvation from the penalty of sin it depends on an act of faith.Which it has been justified live by faith "faith that depends on the power of another" and justified person will not know a time in life when you need to rely less on Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Under the teachings of grace the believer is faced with a rule of life that is humanly impossible toachieve. Being a citizen of heaven (Philippians 3:20, a member of the body of Christ (Eph 5:30) and a member of the family of God (Eph 2:19;... 3:15), the Christian is called . to live according to their high heavenly position Since this way of life is superhuman (Jn 13:34; 2 Cor . 10: 5; Eph 4: 1-3, 30; 5:20; 1 Thes . 5. : 16-17; 1 Peter 2: 9), the son of God must depend completely on the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Spirit</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">who dwells in his heart (Rom 8: 4)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Christian confronts Satan, the prince of this world. Because of this, it should be strengthened "the Lord and in the power </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">of </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">His might" (Ephesians 6: 10-12; 1 John . 4: 4; Jud . 9.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Christian possesses the old nature, which he is unable to control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Scripture reveals that God not only saves us from the guilt of sin, but also frees us from the power of sin. Finally, when the Christian is in heaven, he will be freed from the presence of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why deliverance from sin is for Christians only?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent sin is a problem for Christians?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence is given in Scripture that the Christian has two natures?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How the Holy Spirit is related to the old nature?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are some of the ways in which the word "law" is used in Bible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent the law fails to provide capacity for enforcement?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why the Christian is not under the system of the Mosaic law?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why would a Christian does not struggle to be accepted by God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is a child of God should not try to live by the power of his own flesh?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Compare the relations of Israel with grace as a rule of life with the relationship of the church with grace and rule of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent grace is revealed in "salvation by grace" and what portion of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How grace is related to the security of a believer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the grace of a complete rule of life?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is the law initially doomed to failure?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What objections can be made to the theory that the old nature can be eradicated?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it wrong to approach that just because one is saved can lead an easy Christian life?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What by what means it is possible to release the power of sin and how it is related to Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the salvation of the power of sin depends on faith?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How unattainable standards of life for a believer a life of dependence on the Spirit who dwells in the believer make necessary?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">22.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Contrast the present scope of the liberation of sin that will exist in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Four aspects of justice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A vital difference between God and man that Scripture emphasizes that God is righteous (1 John 1: 5.), While, according to Romans 3:10, the basic charge made humans is that << no right , not even one >>. <span class="">Similarly, one of the glories of divine grace is the fact that a perfect, like the immaculate white robe of a bride, justice has been provided in Christ and is freely given to all who believe in Him ( Rom. 3:22).</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-45101700954256337552016-04-03T13:04:00.002-07:002016-04-03T13:04:43.519-07:00EFFECTUAL CALLING<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those whom God: <b>Rom. 8:28, 29.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> has predestined to life: <b>Ro. 8:29, 30; 9: 22-24; 1 Cor 1: 26-28; 2 Thes. 2:13, 14; 2 Tim. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It has a well in its appointed time and acceptable: <b>Jun. 3: 8; Eph. 1:11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Call effectively: <b>Mt. 22:14; 1 Cor 1:23, 24; Ro. 1: 6; 8:28; Jud. 1; Psalm 29; 5:25 June.; Rom.</b> 4:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By His Word <b>: 2 Thes. 2:14; 1 Peter 1: 23-25; Stg. 1: 17-25; June 1 5: 1-5;. Ro. 1:16, 17; 10:14; I have</b>4:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And Ghost: Jun. <b>3: 3, 5, 6, 8; 2 Corinthians 3: 3, 6.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> taking them out of the state of sin and death that are by nature and taking them to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ: <b>Rom. 8: 2; 1 Corinthians 1: 9; Eph. 2: 1-6; 2 Tim. 1: 9, 10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Illuminating of spiritual and saving way their minds, to understand the things of God: <b>Acts. 26:18; 1 Cor 2:10, 12; Eph. 1:17, 18.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By taking away the heart of stone and giving them a heart of flesh: <b>Ez. 36:26.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">J.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Renewing their wills and, by his omnipotent power, leading them to want to do good, and effectively bringing them to Jesus Christ: <b>Dt. 30: 6; Ez. 36:27; June 6. 44.45; Eph. 1:19;</b> Phil. 2:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">K.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But so come to him freely, having received by the grace of God's willingness to do: <b>Ps 110: 3; 6:37 June.; Ro. 6: 16-18.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE CALL OF THE GOSPEL AND EFFICIENT CALL<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">WHAT IS THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL? HOW becomes effective?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Paul talks about how God brings salvation to our lives, he says: "Those whom he predestined he also called; to which he called he also justified; and whom He justified, He also glorified "(Rom 8: 30). Here Paul tells us a definite order in which we are the blessings of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although long ago, before the creation of the world, God will "predestined" to be his children and to be transformed according to the image of His Son, Paul points out the fact that at the time of the realization of its purpose in our lives God would "call" (here in this context, is God the Father who is clearly in sight).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then Paul immediately mentions justification and glorification, showing that these come after the call.Paul tells us that there is a definite order in El Salvador purpose of God (although it is not mentioned here every aspect of our salvation). So we begin our study of the different parts of our salvation experience with the subject of appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Paul says, "Those whom he predestined he also called; to which he called he also justified "(Rom 8:30), is indicating that this appeal is an act of God. It is specifically an act of God the Father, because he is the one who predestines people to "be conformed to the image of His Son" (Rom 8: 29).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Other verses describe more fully what this call. When God calls people in this powerful form, he calls them "out of darkness into marvelous light" (1 Peter 2: 9); calls to "fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ" (1 Cor 1: 9; Acts 2: 39) and "his kingdom and glory" (1 Thessalonians 2: 12; 1st P 5:10; 2nd P 1: 3) .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The people God has called are "the called of Jesus Christ" (Rom 1: 6, KJV 1960). They have been "called to be saints" (Rom 1: 7; 1st Corinthians 1: 2) and have entered into a kingdom of peace (1st Cor 7: 15; Col 3: 15), freedom (Gal 5:13), hope (Eph 1:18; 4: 4.), holiness (1st Thessalonians 4: 7), patient suffering (1st Peter 2: 20-21; 3: 9), and eternal life (1st T. 6: 12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These verses indicate that this is not a simple human appeal powerless. This call is rather a kind of "call" from the King of the universe and has so much power that you can get the answer you are asking in the hearts of people. It is an act of God that guarantees an answer, because Paul in Romans 8:30 specifies that those who were "called" were also "justified".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This appeal has the ability to get us out of the kingdom of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of God so that we can be united in full communion with him: "God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord" (1 Ca 1: 9).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We often refer to this powerful act of God as effectual calling, to distinguish it from the general invitation of the gospel is for all people and that some people reject. This is not to say that human proclamation of the gospel does not participate. In fact, the effectual call of God comes through human preaching of the gospel, because Paul says, "For this reason God called you by our gospel, so that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Thes 2 : 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of course, there are many who hear the general call of the gospel message and do not respond. But in many cases the call of the gospel is so effectively through the work of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of people that these respond, and we can say they have received an "effectual calling":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can define the effectual call as follows: Effectual calling is an act of God the Father, through the human proclamation of the gospel, which invites people to come to him so that they respond in saving faith .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is important not to give the impression that people will be saved by the power of this call other than a voluntary response from them the gospel (see Chapter 35 on personal faith and repentance are necessary for conversion). While it is true that the effectual call wakes up and generates a response in us, we must always insist that this answer has to be a spontaneous, voluntary response in which the individual person puts his trust in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">That is why prayer is so important for effective evangelization. Unless God works in the hearts of people to make effective the proclamation of the gospel, there will be a genuine saving response. Jesus said, "No one can come to me unless the Father draws him who sent me, and I will raise him up at the last day" (Jn 6: 44).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">An example of effective gospel call we see in Paul's first visit to Philippi. While Lydia heard the gospel message "the Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message" (Acts 16: 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Unlike the effectual call, which is entirely an act of God, we can talk in general the call of the gospel which comes through human communication. This call of the gospel is offered to all people, even those who do not accept it. Sometimes we refer to this call of the gospel and the external call or the general call.On the contrary, the effectual call of God is the one that actually generates a spontaneous response in the person who hears it is sometimes called internal call.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The call of the gospel is general and external and often rejected, while the appeal is particularly effective internal and is always effective. However, this does not diminish the importance of the call of the gospel, because it is the means that God has established through which the effectual call will come. Without the call of the gospel, no one could respond and be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"How can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? "(Rom 10:14). It is therefore important that we understand exactly what is the call of the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ELEMENTS OF APPEAL OF THE GOSPEL<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In human preaching of the gospel three important elements must appear:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">AN EXPLANATION OF THE FACTS CONCERNING SALVATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Everyone who comes to Christ for salvation must have at least a basic understanding of who Christ is and how Salvation meets our needs. Therefore, an explanation of the facts concerning salvation must include at least the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> All human beings are sinners (Romans 3: 23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The wages of sin is death (Romans 6: 23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sins (Romans 5: 8)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But understanding these facts and even agree that they are true is not enough for the person to be saved.There must be an invitation for a response from the individual in order to repent of their sins and trust in Christ personally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">AN INVITATION TO RESPOND TO CHRIST personally in repentance and faith.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the New Testament speaks of people who attain salvation does in terms of a personal response to an invitation from Christ himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This invitation is beautifully expressed, for example, in the words of Jesus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is easy and my burden is light (Mt 11: 28-30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is important to make it clear that these are not just words spoken long ago by a religious leader of the past. It should encourage each listener who is not a Christian who hears these words to take those words as the words of Jesus Christ that he is speaking at that moment, and it is doing individually. Jesus Christ is a Savior who is now alive in heaven, and every person who is not Christian should think that Jesus is speaking, and saying, "Come to me, all of you and I will give you rest" (Mt 11: 28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is a genuine personal invitation seeks a personal response of each listener.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John also talks about the need for a personal response when he says: "He came to what was his own, but his own received him not. But as many as received Him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(John 1: 11-12). He emphasized the need to "receive" Christ, John also points to the need for an individual response. Those who are inside a lukewarm church that do not realize their spiritual blindness the Lord Jesus again extended his invitation that requires a personal response: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me "(Rev 3: 20).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, only five verses throughout the Bible where it ends, there is another invitation from the Holy Spirit and the church to come to Christ: "The Spirit and the bride say," Come! "; and who hears say, "Come!"Whoever is thirsty, let him come; And whosoever will, let him take the water of life "(Rev 22: 17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But what is involved in the response to come to Christ? Although this will be explained more fully in chapter 35, it is sufficient for us to note here that if we come to Christ and trust Him to save us from our sins, we can not continue to cling to sin, but we must be willing to renounce sin in sincere repentance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In some instances in Scripture mentioned together repentance and faith when they are referring to the initial conversion of an individual. (Paul said he spent his time "A Greek Jews and urging them have become God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ" Acts 20: 21). But sometimes just talking about repentance of sins and is assumed saving faith as accompanist factor (in his name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached to all nations [Lk 24: 47; Acts 2: 37 -38; 3: 19; 5: 31; 17: 30; Ro 2: 4; 2nd Co 7:10]).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore any genuine proclamation of the gospel must include an invitation to make the conscious decision to forgo personal sins and turn to Christ in faith for forgiveness for sins. If any of them neglected the need to repent of sins or the need to trust in Christ as to forgiveness, there is a true and complete proclamation of the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But what they are promised to those who come to Christ? This is the third element of the call of the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">NOTE: For a more complete study of the need to have both a genuine repentance and genuine faith. And a study of the question of whether anyone can be saved if "accept Jesus as Savior. But not as Lord?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A PROMISE OF FORGIVENESS AND ETERNAL LIFE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Though the words personal invitation that Christ spoke contain a promise of rest and power to become children of God, and participation in the water of life, it is good to make it clear what Jesus promises to those who come to him in repentance and faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first thing we found promised in the gospel message is the promise of forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life "Gn 3: 16). And in preaching the gospel Peter ago, he says: "Therefore, to be erased their sins, repent and turn to God" (Acts 3: 19; 2: 38).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Along with the promise of forgiveness and eternal life is the assurance that Christ will accept all who come to him in repentance and sincere faith seeking salvation: "He who comes to me will never drive away" Gen. 6: 37).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE IMPORTANCE OF CALLING THE GOSPEL<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of call of the gospel is important because if there was no call of the gospel that no one could be saved: "How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?" (Rom 10: 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The call of the gospel is also important because through him God speaks to us in the fullness of our humanity. He does not save us "automatically" without seeking a response of our whole being. Rather, it directs the call of the gospel to our intellect, our emotions and our will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Speak to our intellect explaining the facts of salvation in His Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Speaks to our emotions approaching a heartfelt personal invitation to respond. Speak to our will asking us to hear his invitation and voluntarily and spontaneously respond in repentance and faith, we decide us to turn from our sin and receive Christ as Savior and rest our hearts on it for salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This effectual call comes exclusively from free and special grace of God, not of anything foreseen in man, nor by power or instrumentality in the creature: <b>2 Tim. 1: 9; Tit. 3. 4. 5; Eph. 2: 4, 5, 8, 9; Ro. 9:11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Being altogether passive therein , being dead in trespasses and sins, until it is quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit; <b>1 Cor 2:14; Ro. 8: 7; Eph. 2: 5.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> is thus able to respond to this call and to receive the grace and transmits it offers, and this by no less power than that raised Christ from the dead <b>Eph. 1: 19,20; 6:37 June.; Ez. 36:27; Jun. 5:25.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The children chosen * who die in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who works when, where and how you want: <b>Jun. 3: 8</b> . Are chosen so also all persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">EFFICIENT CALL<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When I was a child my mother used to call me from the window to come to dinner. Usually was the first time he called me, but not always. If I delayed, I called again a second time, usually in a tone of voice higher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">His first call was not always effective; not achieved the desired effect. His second call used to be effective; He ran back inside the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is a call of God that is effective. When God ordered the creation of the world, the universe did not hesitate before complying with the order. The desired by God in creation effect true. In the same way, when God called Lazarus from his tomb, Lazarus said coming to life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is also an effective call of God in the believer's life. It is a call that produces the desired effect.Reformation theologians teach that the effectual call is related to the power of God to regenerate the sinner from spiritual death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Also often it is known as the "irresistible grace". The effectual call refers to a call of God that by his power and sovereign authority has the effect or the result sought or ordered. When Paul teaches us that those who predestined, called, and those whom he called, he justified, he is referring to the effectual call of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The effectual call of God is an inner call. It is the secret work of revival or regeneration accomplished in the souls of the elect by the immediate supernatural work of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Or work performed inside change in the disposition, inclination, and the desire of the soul. No one feels inclined to come to God before receiving the call of God and interior effective </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">all who are effectually called have a predisposition towards God and respond in faith. We see, then, that faith itself is a gift from God, having been delivered in </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">effectual call of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Preaching the gospel represents the outward call of God. This call is audible for both the elect and those who have not been chosen. Humans have the ability to resist and reject this call external. They will not respond in faith </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">outward call until the outward call comes accompanied by effective internal called the Holy Spirit. The effectual call is irresistible in the sense that God in His sovereignty will produce the desired effect. This sovereign work of grace is resistible in the sense that we can resist it because of our fallen nature, and in fact resist; but it is irresistible in the sense that God's grace prevails over our natural resistance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The effectual call refers to the creative power of God by which we are brought to spiritual life. The apostle Paul writes, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">he made alive, when you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all live in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others (Ephesians 2: 1-3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We who once were children of wrath, and were dead spiritually we have become "called" by virtue of the power and effectiveness of the inner call of God. In his grace, the Holy Spirit has given us eyes to see what we did not want to see and ears to hear what we did not want to hear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The so - called human can be effective or ineffective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God has the power to effectively call for the worlds exist, the dead rise again, and people pass from spiritual death to spiritual life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> People can hear the outward call of God in the gospel and reject it . But the inner call of God is always effective. Always produce the desired result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ezekiel 36: 26-27, Romans 8:30, Ephesians 1: 7-12, 2 Thessalonians 2: 13-14, 2 Timothy 1: 8-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Others, who are not chosen, although they are called by the ministry of the Word and have some common operations of the Spirit: <b>Mt. 22:14; Matthew 13:20, 21; I have 6: 4, 5; Mt. 7:22.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Because they are not effectively brought by the Father, do not want nor can truly come to Christ and, therefore, can not be saved: <b>Jun. 6:44, 45, 64-66; 8:24.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Much less can be saved who do not receive the Christian religion, no matter how diligent they are in shaping their lives in the light of the nature and the law of the religion they profess: <b>Acts. 4:12; 4:22 June.; 17: 3.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CALLING AND REGENERATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CALL<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The call can be defined generally as the act of grace of God which invites sinners to accept the salvation offered in Christ Jesus. Both can be internal or external.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">EXTERNAL CALL<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Bible speaks or refers to this in several passages. Matthew 28:19 and 24:14. Luke 14: 16-24 Acts 13:46. 2 Thessalonians 1: 8. John 5:10. Is the presentation and offer of salvation in Christ to sinners, together with a tender exhortation to accept Christ by faith to obtain forgiveness of sins and eternal life.According to this definition it contains three elements, namely:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A presentation of facts and ideas of the Gospel;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> An invitation to repent and believe in Christ Jesus;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A promise of forgiveness and salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The promise is always conditional: Compliance can only be expected through true faith and repentance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">UNIVERSAL APPEAL<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The external appeal is universal in the sense that it comes to all men who preached the Gospel. N or limited to any age or nation or any class of men, and is made to degenerate in the same way that the chosen Isaiah 45:22. 55: 1; Ezekiel 3:19; Joel 2:32; Matthew 22: 03.08.14; Revelation 2:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Naturally, this call coming from God, is of great significance. He calls sinners actually tenderly want to accept the invitation, and with all sincerity promises eternal life to those who repent and believe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">1. FORMAL CALL:<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Numbers 23:19; Psalms 81: 13-16; Proverbs 1:24; Isaiah 1: 18-20; Ezekiel 18:23 and 33:11; Matthew 23:33; 2. "Timothy 2:13. In the external call God maintains his claim to the sinner. If man does not accept the call, reject the demand of God and thus increases their fault.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is also the appointed means by which God gathers the elect from all nations of the earth. Rom. 10: 14-17 and should be judged as a blessing for sinners, even though it can become a curse. Isaiah 1: 18:20;Ezekiel 3: 18-19; Amos 8:11; Matthew 11: 20-24 and 23-37. Finally also it serves to justify the condemnation of sinners. If they despise 'offer of salvation guilt becomes clearer, John 5:39 and 40;Romans 3: 05.06.19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">2. INTERNAL APPEAL:<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although we distinguish two aspects of God's call, it is really one. The internal call is nothing, really, but the outward call made effective by the operation of the Holy Spirit. always it comes to the sinner through the Word of God, carefully applied by the operation of the Holy Spirit. 1. ". Corinthians 1: 23-24 In distinction from the external call is a powerful call that results in salvation, Acts 13:48; 1." Corinthians 1: 23-24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is also a call without repentance or change by God, and is never removed. Romans 11:29. The person called will be saved safely. The Spirit operates through the preaching of the Word of God coaxing in an effective way, so the person called answers the voice of God. He goes to his good understanding enlightened by the Holy Spirit so that the individual is aware of it. It is always directed to a certain end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is the call to communion with Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 1: 9. A blessing inherited, l "Peter 3: 9; freedom, Galatians 5:13; peace, 1 Cor. 7: 1 -; to holiness, 1st Thessalonians 4: 7; a hope, Ephesians 4: 4; to eternal life, 1 Timothy 6:12 and the kingdom and glory of God, 1st Thessalonians 2:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">REGENERATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The divine calling and regeneration are mutually in the closest relationship. With respect to regeneration several points worth considering:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">HIS, HER NATURE<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word "regeneration" is not always used in the same sense. Our Confession uses it in a very broad sense that includes up conversion. At this point in our study has a slightly more restricted meaning. In its strictest meaning denotes the divine act for which the principle of new life, which governs the disposition of the sanctified soul is implanted in man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In its broadest sense, in addition to the above, it designates the new birth, that is the first manifestation of the new life. It is a fundamental change in the life and government of the soul, therefore affects the whole man, 1 Corinthians 2:14; 2 Corinthians 4: 6; Philippians 2:13; 1. "Peter 1:.. 8, which runs at a time, and not a gradual process, and sanctification Through it we pass from death to life 1 John 3:14 is a secret and inscrutable work of God which it is never perceived directly by man but can be known only by its effects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE AUTHOR<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God is the author of regeneration. Scripture presents it as the work of the Holy, Spirit l "John 13; Acts 16:14; John. 3: 5-8. Against the Arminians we maintain that is an exclusive work of the Holy Spirit and not in part a work of man. there is no cooperation between man and God in the work of regeneration, as there is in the conversion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Regeneration, in the strictest sense of the word, is the implementation of new life in the soul, so it is a direct and immediate work of the Holy Spirit. It is a creative work, a miracle of God, which the Gospel can not be used as a tool in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is true that James 1: 18 and 1 Peter 1:23 seem to prove that preaching the Gospel is used as an instrument of regeneration, but these passages refer to regeneration in a broader sense, including the new birth and fruits. In this more inclusive sense regeneration it is performed certainly by the instrument of the Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PLACE AND NEED IN ORDER OF SALVATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Scripture leaves no doubt as to the absolute necessity of regeneration, before affirms in the clearest terms, John 3: 3, 5, 7; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Galatians 6: 15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This follows from the fact that we are by nature dead in our sins and sins and must be endowed with a new spiritual life to enjoy divine favor and communion with God. The question is sometimes raised is: Which of the two is first, the call or regeneration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It can be said that in the case of adults the external call precedes or coincides with regeneration in the strictest sense. Regeneration, as implementation of the new life precedes the internal appeal, but the inward call precedes regeneration in its broadest sense, that is in the new birth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We found this order indicated in the case of conversion of Lydia Acts 16: 4. "Then a woman named Lydia seller of purple in the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God, heard (external call); the heart of the Lord opened (regeneration in the strict sense); to heed to what Paul said (internal call). "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TEXTS TO LEARN MEMORY<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PASSAGES TASTING EXTERNAL CALL<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Mark 16: 15-16. "Go into all the world ... that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Matthew 22:14. "For many are called but few are chosen."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Acts 13:46. "Then Paul and Barnabas using freedom said: To you the truth it was necessary to be spoken the word of God: because you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life , behold we turn to the Gentiles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">CALL reprobates<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Proverbs 1: 24-26, "Because I called and you refused. I extended my hand and there were those who would listen. Before you ignored all my counsel and my reproof "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1 Peter 3: 19-20, "In whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison: which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing wherein few: that is to say 8 people were saved by water. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> See also the words of Matthew 22: -1-8-14; Luke 16-24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">RELIABILITY OF THIS CALL<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Proverbs 1: 24¬26 (see paragraph b)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Ezekiel 18: 23-32. Do I want the death of the wicked? says the Lord. You did not live if from his ways?"They do not want the death of anyone, says the Lord GOD : wherefore turn yourselves , and live;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Matthew 23:37, Jerusalem! Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone: those who are sent to you.How often I wanted to gather your children together , as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings and ye would "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE NEED FOR REGENERATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Jeremiah 13:23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? So may ye also do good who are accustomed to do evil?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John . 3: 3, 7, "Jesus answered and said unto him," Verily I say to you, the qua born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. " "Do not marvel that I said you must be born again."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE WORD OF GOD AND REGENERATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> James 1:18. "The will has his begetting us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1st Peter 1:23. "Having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which lives and abides forever."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER STUDY BÍBLlCO<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Is called the work of a person of the Trinity, or all three? 1. Corinthians 1: 9; 1 Thess. 2: 12; Mat. 11:28;Luke 5:32; Mat. 10:20 and Acts 5: 31, 32.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Does the word regeneration is used in the Bible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Titus 3: 5. What other terms are used to express this idea? John 3: 5, 7, 8; Corinthians 5: 17; Ephesians 2: 5; Colossians 2:13; James 1:18 and 1 Peter 1:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span class=""> Does the text Titus 3: 5, proves that we are regenerated by baptism? </span>If not so, how would you explain it ? </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-6260261866408372372016-04-03T13:01:00.001-07:002016-04-03T13:01:40.275-07:00JUSTIFICATION<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those whom God effectually calls, also justifies free: <b>Ro. 3:24; 8:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No infusing justice and righteousness but forgiving their sins, and considering and accepting their persons as righteous: <b>Rom. 4: 5-8; Eph. 1: 7.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> not for anything in them or done by them, but only for Christ 's sake: <b>1 Corinthians 1:30, 31; Ro. 5: 17-19.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No imputing faith itself, or the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience as justice; but imputing Christ's active obedience to the whole law and his passive obedience in his death for the complete and only justice from them by faith, which they have not themselves; it is the gift of God: <b>Phil.3: 9; Eph. 2: 7, 8; 2 Cor 5: 19-21; Tit. 3: 5, 7; Ro. 3: 22-28; Jer. 23: 6; Acts. 13:38, 39.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JUSTIFICATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">NATURE AND ELEMENTS OF JUSTIFICATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Justification can be defined as the legal act by which God declares the sinner righteous on the basis of the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. It is an act or process of renewal, such as regeneration, conversion and sanctification, and does not affect the condition, but the state of the sinner. Sanctification differs in several aspects: the justification takes place outside the sinner, before the tribunal of God, taking away the guilt of sin, and is a complete fact once and forever; while sanctification takes place in man, removing the filth of sin, and is an ongoing process throughout life. We distinguish two elements in justification, they are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FORGIVENESS OF SINS ON THE BASIS OF JUSTICE OF JESUS CHRIST<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The conceived forgiveness applies to all sins, past, present and future, and therefore can not be repeated.Psalm 103-12; Isa. 44-22; Rom. 5:21, 8-1, 32-34; Eph. 10: 14. This does not mean we do not need to pray more for forgiveness, because the consciousness of sin is more refined than ever, creating a feeling of separation and rejection of sin, and because of human weakness is necessary to search repeatedly, the comforting assurance forgiveness. Ps. 25: 7; 32: 5; 51: 1; Mat. 6:12; Santo 5:15; The John 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ADOPTION AS SONS OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></h6>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In justification God adopts believers as His children, puts them in the position of children and gives them all rights to such, including that of an eternal inheritance. Rom. 8: 17; 1st Ped. 1: 4. This legal adoption of believers should be distinguished from their moral adoption by regeneration and sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first aspect is defined in John 1:12, 13, and the second in Romans 8: 15, 16. Gal .. 4: 5, appears the first, both in Gal .. 4: 5, 6, by order correlative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE WHEN AND HOW OF JUSTIFICATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word justification is not always used in the same sense, some speak of four aspects of justification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Justification from Eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Justification in the resurrection of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Justification by faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Public Justification in the final judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As explanation for this fourfold aspect of Justification, it can be said that in an ideal sense, the righteousness of Christ is already applied to believers, on the advice of Redemption, and therefore from eternity; but it is not what the Bible means when he speaks of the justification of the sinner. We must distinguish between what was decreed in the eternal counsel of God and what is done in the course of history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is also some reason to speak of justification in Christ's resurrection. In a sense it can be said that the resurrection of Christ was the justification, the statement that his work was perfect, and accepted by God, and the whole body of believers was justified. But this is a general and purely objective transaction, which should not be confused by the personal justification of every sinner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the Bible speaks of the justification of the sinner, generally it refers to the subjective and personal application, ie the appropriation of justifying grace of God. Generally it said that we are justified by faith.This means that occurs at the time when we accept Christ by faith. Faith has been called the instrument or organ that justification decreed by God appropriates. By faith man appropriates, that is, taking for himself the righteousness of Christ, and on this basis is justified before God. Faith justifies him when he takes possession of Christ. Rom. Four. Five; .. Gal 2:16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We must guard against the error of Roman Catholic, and the Arminians, who say that a man is justified on the basis of its own inherent righteousness, or for their faith. Neither justice own man, or his own faith can be the basis of their justification. This is so only in the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. Rom. 3:24;10: 4; 2nd Cor. 5:21 and Phil. 3: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">OBJECTIONS TO THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There have been several objections to this doctrine. It is said that if a man is justified on the basis of the merits of Christ, is not saved by grace. But justification with everything included, is a generous work of God. The gift of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The fact that we apply God's righteousness, and his treatment sinners righteous, under this plan of salvation is all grace from beginning to end. It is also said that he is unworthy of God to declare sinners righteous, but God does not state that the justified are just for themselves, but are clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally it is argued that this doctrine is the way to make people indifferent as to their moral life. If justified, without regard to their works, why they should be careful in their moral life and piety? But justification lays the foundations for a life of communion with Christ, and is the surest guarantee for a truly holy life. The man who really lives in union with Christ, can not be indifferent to moral duties, Rom. 3: 5-8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TEXTS TO LEARN MEMORY<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JUSTIFICATION IN GENERAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rom. 3:24. "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2 Cor. 5:21. "He who knew no sin, became sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH, NOT BY WORKS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rom. 3:28. "So we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rom. Four. Five. "But to him that worketh not , but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Gal. 2:16. "Knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified for the faith of Christ and not by works of the law, because by the works of the law no flesh will be justified. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JUSTIFICATION AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Psalm 32: 1, 2. "Blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiven and. I erased your sins, blessed one whom the Lord imputes no iniquity , and in whose spirit there is no guile. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Acts 13: 38-39. "We Be it known to you , brethren, that this is announced to you remission of sins; and everything by the law of Moses could not be justified, it is justified in all that believe. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ADOPTION OF CHILDREN, HEIRS OF ETERNAL LIFE<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> John 1:12. "But to all who received him, he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in His name."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Galatians 4: 4-5. "But come the fullness of time God sent his son born of a woman, made under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE JUSTIFICATION BASED ON JUSTICE OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rom. 3: 21-22. "But now without the law the justice of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe in Him; because there is no difference. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Rom. 5:18. "So the way for a crime came upon all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness grace to all men to justification of life."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER BIBLE STUDY<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What fruits of justification mentioned in Romans 5: 1-5?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Do you teach Santiago that man is justified by works? Sant 21:25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> What objections against the doctrine of justification answers Paul in Rom. 3: 5-28?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">JUSTIFICATION (THE PROPER LEGAL SITUATION BEFORE GOD)<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">HOW AND WHEN WE GET A PROPER LEGAL SITUATION BEFORE GOD?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL EXPLANATION AND BASES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In previous chapters we talk about the call of the gospel (through which God calls us to trust in Christ for salvation), regeneration (by which God imparts new spiritual life), and conversion (by which we respond to the gospel with repentance of sin and faith in Christ for salvation).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But what of the blame for our sinful The Gospel invites us to trust in Christ as the forgiveness of our sins.Regeneration makes it possible to respond to this invitation. Converting we responded, trusting in Christ for forgiveness of sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The next step now in the process of application of redemption is that God must respond to our faith and do what he promised, that is, declare that our sins are forgiven. This should be a concerning our relationship with God's laws legal declaration, stating that we are completely forgiven and we are no longer subject to any punishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A correct understanding of justification is absolutely essential for the entire Christian faith. Martin Luther once he fully realized the truth of justification by faith alone, he became a Christian and was bursting with newfound joy of the gospel. The primary issue of the Protestant Reformation was the controversy with the Roman Catholic Church on justification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we are to safeguard the gospel truth for future generations, we must understand the truth of justification. Even today, a correct understanding of justification is the line that divides the biblical gospel of salvation by faith alone and all the false gospel of salvation based on good works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Paul gives an overview of the process by which God applies salvation to us, explicitly mentions the justification: "Those whom he predestined he also called; to which he called he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified "(Rom 8: 30). As explained in the previous chapter, the word called here refers to the effectual call of the gospel, including regeneration and produces from us the response of repentance and faith (or conversion).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">After the effectual call and response that starts from us, the next step in the application of redemption is the "justification". Paul mentions here that this is something that God Himself does: "Those whom he called, them he also justified."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, Paul teaches quite clearly that this justification comes after our faith and God's response to our faith. He says that God is "the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus" (Romans 3: 26), and that "all we are justified by faith, not by works that the law requires" (Rom 3:28). He says: << justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ "(Rom 5: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, "no man is justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ" (Gal 2: 16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What then is Justification? We can define the Way Next: Justification is a legal act Instant from God by which:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> declares that our sins are forgiven and the righteousness of Christ we belong, Y:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> declares us righteous in His sight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In explaining the elements of this definition, we shall first consider the second part of it, the aspect of justification by which God "declares us righteous in his sight." We treat these elements in reverse order because the emphasis of the New Testament use of the word justification and related terms is in the second part of the definition: the legal declaration of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But there are also passages that show that this statement is based on the fact that God first declares justice belongs to us. So that both aspects should be considered, even though the New Testament terms denoting justification focus on the legal declaration of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">LEGAL JUSTIFICATION INCLUDES A STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The use of the word justification in the Bible indicates that justification is a legal declaration of God. The verb justify in the New Testament (gr. Dikaioo) has a range of meanings, but the most common way is to "declare righteous." For example, we read, "and all the people and the tax collectors, when they heard, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John" (Lk 7: 29, RVR 1960).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of course, the people and the tax collectors did God righteous would be impossible for any of us could.Rather they declared that God was right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is also the meaning of the term in passages where the New Testament talks about that we have been declared righteous by God (Romans 3: 20, 26, 28; 5: 1; 8: 30; 10: 4; Galatians 2:16 ; 3: 24). This sense is particularly evident, for example, in Romans 4: 5: "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness (RVR 1960).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul can not be saying that God "makes the wicked are righteous" (to change them inside and make them morally perfect), because then they would own merits or works which depend. Rather, he means that God declares that the wicked are right in his eyes, not on the basis of their good works, but in response to their faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The idea that justification is a legal declaration is also quite evident when the justification is contrasted with condemnation. Paul says, "Who will accuse those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns "(Rom 8: 33-34)?. "Condemn" someone is to declare that person is guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The opposite of condemnation is justification, that in this context, must mean "to declare that someone is not guilty." This is also evident in the fact that the act of God to justify Paul is given to respond to the possibility that someone present accusations or charges against the people of God. Such a statement of guilt can not be sustained by the reality of God's declaration of righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some examples in the Old Testament of the word justify (gr. Dikaoo in the Septuagint, when tsadak results (justify) supports this understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For example, we read of judges who decide a case "absolving [justifying] the innocent and condemning the guilty" (Deuteronomy 25: 1). So in this case (justify) must mean "state that is fair or not guilty" just as "condemn" mean "convict".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It would not make sense to say that (justify) here means "make someone internally good" because the judges do, or can do, someone is good within your being. Neither the judge's action condemning the wicked makes that person is bad inside; It is simply stating that that person is guilty with respect to a particular crime that has been filed with the court (Exodus 23: 7; 1st R 8: 32; 2nd Cor 6: 23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, Job refuses to say his friends comforted him were right in what they said to him: "I can never admit that you are right" Job 27: 5, using the same terms in Hebrew and Greek which translates (justify) .The same idea is found in Proverbs: "absolve the guilty and condemning the innocent are two things that the Lord hates" (Prov 17: 15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here the idea of legal statement is especially strong. Of course it would not be an abomination to the Lord if (justify) meant "make someone good or right in your inner being". In that case, (justifying the ungodly) would be very good in the eyes of the Lord. But if (justify) meant "to declare righteous," it is perfectly clear why that justifies the ungodly << "is an abomination to the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, Isaiah condemns "those who justify the wicked for reward" (Is 5: 23); again, (justify) mean "declare that it is just" (used here in the context of a legal statement).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul often uses the word in this sense of "declare be fair" or "declare not guilty" when speaking of God justifies us, his declaration that we, although convicted sinners, we are, however, just before his eyes. It is important to emphasize that this legal statement itself does not change at all our inner nature or character.In this sense (justify)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God makes a legal declaration about us. This is the reason why theologians have said that justification is forensic, and this word denotes what "has to do with legal procedures".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John Murray makes an important distinction between regeneration and justification:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Regeneration is something God does in us; Justification is a judgment of God concerning us.That difference is like the difference between What Makes A Surgeon And what a judge does.When the surgeon removes a Cancer We Domestic ago Something within us. That's Not What Judge ago: The Da A Verdict Judicial Judge regarding our position. If we are innocent, so he declares.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The purity of the gospel is linked to the recognition of this difference. If the justification with regeneration or sanctification is confused, the door to the perversion of the gospel in its essence remains open. Justification is still the article on which it stands or falls church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">God declares us right in his sight<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the legal declaration by God of justification, specifically states that are righteous before his eyes. This declaration covers two aspects. First, it means that states do not have to pay a penalty for sin, including past, present and future sins. After a long reflection on justification by faith alone (Rom 4: 1-5: 21), and a parenthetical reflection on the permanence of sin in the Christian life, Paul returns to his main argument in the book of Romans and says 10 which is true of those who have been justified by faith:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Rom 8: 1). In this sense they are justified no longer have to pay any penalty for sin. This means that we are not subject to any accusation of guilt or condemnation, "Who will accuse those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.Who will condemn "(Rom 8: 33-34)?.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The idea of complete forgiveness of sins is prominent when Paul speaks of justification by faith alone in Romans 4. He quotes David when he pronounces a blessing on "the one whom God imputes righteousness apart from works." Then remember when David says, "Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sins are covered! Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account "(Rom 4: 6-8)!.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Such justification therefore clearly includes the forgiveness of sins. David speaks in the same way in Psalm 103: 12: "So far from us as far he removed our transgressions from the east is from the west" (cf. v. 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But if God only declare that we are forgiven of our sins, would not solve all our problems, because that would make us morally neutral just before God. We would be in the state in which Adam was before he had done anything good or evil in the sight of God was not guilty before God, but neither had a history of righteousness before God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This first aspect of justification, in which God declares that our sins are forgiven, we can represent by where the minus signs represent our own sins have been completely forgiven in justification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, this movement is not enough to obtain God's favor. We must move rather from a moral point of neutrality to another point where we have a positive righteousness before God, justice of a life of perfect obedience to him. We can represent our need, therefore, where the plus sign indicates a record of righteousness before God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif;">THE AWARD OF JUSTICE OF CHRIST TO OUR FAVOR IS THE OTHER PART OF JUSTIFICATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, the second aspect of justification is that God must declare that we are not only neutral before his eyes, but we are right in his eyes. In fact, he must declare that we have the merits of perfect justice before him. Sometimes the Old Testament presents God as giving justice to his people that even though this not won for himself: "I delight greatly in the Lord; I rejoice in my God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For he hath clothed me with garments of salvation and covered me with the robe of righteousness "(Is 61: 10). But Paul speaks specifically about this in the New Testament. As a solution to our need for justice, the apostle tells us that "now, without the mediation of the law, said the justice of God, which testify to the law and the prophets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe "(Romans 3: 21-22).He says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness" (Rom 4: 3, citing Gen 15: 6).This happened thanks to the obedience of Christ, because Paul says at the end of this broad reflection on justification by faith "by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous" (Rom 5: 19). Then, the second aspect of God's declaration on justification is that we have the merits of perfect righteousness before him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the question arises: How can God declare that we have no punishment to pay for sin, and that we have the merits of perfect justice, if we are actually guilty sinners? How can God declare that we are not guilty but fair when in reality we are unjust? These questions lead us to the next point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD CAN DECLARE THAT JUST BECAUSE WE ARE ATTRIBUTED JUSTICE OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we say that God imputes the righteousness of Christ we mean that God sees the righteousness of Christ as ours, or believe that it belongs to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He credited our account. He says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness" (Rom 4: 3, citing Genesis 15: 6). Paul explains: "When that does not work, but believes in who justifies the wicked, he considers faith as righteousness. David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works "(Rom 4: 5-6). Thus the righteousness of Christ becomes ours. Paul says we are "those who receive the abundance of grace and gift of righteousness" (Rom 5: 17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is the third time to study the doctrines of the scriptures we have encountered with the idea of attributing blame someone or justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">First,</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> when Adam sinned, his guilt was imputed to us; God the Father saw it as belonging to us and therefore, he did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Second,</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> when Christ suffered and died for our sins, our sin was imputed to him Christ; God saw him as he belonged, and Jesus paid the punishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now we see in the doctrine of justification something similar for the third time. Christ's righteousness is awarded to us, and therefore believes that God belongs to us. It is not our own righteousness but the righteousness of Christ that accredit us. So Paul can say that God made Christ was made "our wisdom, that is, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption" (1 Cor 1: 30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And Paul says his goal is to be found in Christ, not wanting their "own righteousness that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith" (Phil 3: 9). The apostle knows that justice is before God is not based on something that he has done; It is the righteousness of God that comes through faith in Christ Jesus (ef Ro. 3: 21-22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Is fundamental to the essence of the gospel insist that God declares us righteous not based on our actual condition of righteousness or holiness, but rather on the basis of the perfect righteousness of Christ, which he belongs to us. This was the essence of the difference between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism at the time of the Reformation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Protestantism since the time of Martin Luther insisted that justification does not change us from within and is not a statement in no way based on any goodness we have in us. If justification change us in our inner being and then declared us righteous based on how good we were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> we never could be declared perfectly righteous in this life, because sin is always in our life, and:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> There would be no provision for the forgiveness of past sins (which committed before being changed internally), and therefore could never be sure of being in right standing with God. Lose the security that Paul has when he says: "Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom 5: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we think that justification is based on what we are inside, we would never have the confidence to say with Paul: "there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Rom 8: 1). We would have no assurance of forgiveness with God, nor confidence to approach it "with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith" (Heb 10: 22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We could not mention the abundant "grace and gift of righteousness" (Rom 5:17), or say that "the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Roman Catholic traditional interpretation of justification is very different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Roman Catholic Church understands justification as something that changes us from within and makes us saints inside. "According to the teaching of the Council of Trent, justification is" sanctification and renewal of the inner man. "" In order that justification begins, one must begin by being baptized and then (as an adult) continue to have faith: "The cause instrumental in the first justification is the sacrament of baptism. "? But" adult justification is not possible without faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As for what to do with the content of the faith that justifies, the call fiduciary faith is not enough. What is claimed is a dogmatic or theological (religious faith) faith is the firm acceptance of the divine truths of revelation. '' So baptism is the means through which justification is first obtained, and then faith is necessary if the adult will receive justification or continue in the state of justification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ott explains that "the so-called fiduciary faith" is not enough, which means that the faith simply trusts Christ for the forgiveness of sins is not enough. It must be a faith that accepts the content of the teaching of the Catholic Church, "a dogmatic or theological faith."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can say that according to the Catholic concept of justification is not based on the awarded justice but Infused justice, that is, the righteousness that God actually puts in us and change us in our inner being and in terms of our real moral character . Then it gives us several measures justification according to the measure of justice that he has infused or placed in us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The result of this Roman Catholic understanding of justification is that people can not be sure whether they are in a "state of grace" where they experience the full acceptance and favor of God. The Catholic Church teaches that people can not be sure that they are in a "state of grace" unless they receive for this purpose a special revelation from God. The Council of Trent declared:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If one considers his own weakness and his faulty Disposal, Well you may be Fearful or Anxious Regarding his state of grace, as nobody knows safely Fe, which does not allow Error, who has reached the grace of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ott says regarding this statement:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This uncertainty from grace A This is, without a special revelation Nobody Can With certainty Fe Saber has complied If all conditions are necessary to achieve justification. The inability of the certainty of faith, however, does not exclude under any circumstances Moral Certainty high Backed by the testimony of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, since the Roman Catholic Church sees justification as including something God does in us, it follows that people can experience varying degrees of justification. We read: "The degree of justifying grace is not identical in all the righteous" and "grace can be increased through good works."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ott explains how this Catholic point of view differs from that of the Protestant reformers, "As reformers mistakenly considered justification as only the external award of the righteousness of Christ, they were also required to hold that justification is identical in all men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Council of Trent, however, stated that the measure of the grace of justification received varies the person is justified, according to the measure of the free distribution of God and the willingness and cooperation of the container itself. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, the logical consequence of this view of justification is that our eternal life with God is not based only on the grace of God, but also partly on our own merits, "For justified eternal life is both a gift of grace promised by God as a reward for his own good works and merits. Beneficial works are, at the same time gifts of God and meritorious deeds of man. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To support this view of justification with Scripture, Ott combines repeatedly New Testament passages that speak not only of justification, but also many other aspects of Christian life, as regeneration (which God works in us), the sanctification (which is a process in the Christian life and, of course, varies from one individual to another), possession and use of various spiritual gifts in the Christian life (which differs from individual to individual) and eternal reward ( which also varies according to each individual).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sort all these passages under the category of (justification) only makes blur the issue and at the end makes forgiveness of sins and our legal standing before God a matter of his own merit, not a gift from God.Therefore, this blurring of distinctions in the end destroys the core of the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is what Martin Luther saw so clearly and is what gave such great motivation Reformation. When the good news of the gospel became really good news in free and full salvation in Christ Jesus, it spreads like an unstoppable fire throughout the civilized world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But this was only a recovery of the original gospel, which states: "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord) (Ro 6:23), and insists:" You there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus "(Rom 8: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">WE ONLY COMES THE RATIONALE FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, NOT BASE THAT WE HAVE ANY MERIT<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">After Paul explains in Romans 1: 18-3: 20 that no one can ever be right in the sight of God (No one will be declared righteous in his sight by works required by law), Ro 3: 20), the apostle goes on to explain that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, by his grace they are justified freely through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus" (Romans 3: 23-24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"Grace" of God means "unmerited favor." As definitely can not win God's favor, the only way we can be declared righteous is that God freely provide us with salvation by grace, totally apart from our works. Paul explains: "For by grace you have been saved through faith; this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast "(Eph. 2: 8-9, Titus 3: 7).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Grace is clearly contrasted with the works or merits as the reason that God is willing to justify.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God was under no obligation to impute our sin to Christ or ascribe to us the righteousness of Christ; it was only by his undeserved grace that he did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Unlike the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church that we are justified by God's grace plus some merit our to do suitable to receive the grace of justification and grow us in this state of grace through our good works, Luther and the other reformers insisted that justification comes only by grace, not by grace and some other merit on our part.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The faith that receives Christ and trust him and his justice is the only instrument of justification: <b>Ro.1:17; 3: 27-31; Phil. 3: 9; Gal. 3: 5.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> however, is not alone in the person justified, but is always accompanied by all other saving virtues, and not a dead faith , but works by love: <b>Gal. 5: 6; Stg. 2:17, 22.26.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Christ, by his obedience and death, fully discharge the debt of all those that are justified; and by the sacrifice of himself in the blood of his cross, suffering in place of them the punishment they deserved, proper, real and completely to God's justice in favor of them met: <b>Ro. 5: 8-10, 19; 1 Tim. 2: 5, 6; I 10:10, 14; Is . 53: 4-6, 10-12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, since Christ was given by the Father for them: <b>Ro. 8:32.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And his obedience and satisfaction accepted in lieu of them: <b>2 Corinthians 5:21; Mt. 3:17; Eph. 5: 2.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And both freely, not for anything in them, their justification is only of free grace: <b>Rom. 3:24; Eph. 1: 7.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To ensure that both the precise justice as the rich grace of God will be glorified in the justification of sinners: <b>Rom. 3:26; Eph. 2: 7.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">We JUSTIFIED GOD THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we started this chapter we noted that justification comes after saving faith. Paul makes it clear this sequence when he says: "We have put our faith in Christ Jesus, to be justified by faith in him and not by the works of the law; because they no flesh be justified "(Gal 2: 16). Paul tells us here that faith comes first and that is for the purpose of being justified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It also says that Christ is "through faith" and that God is "the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus" (Romans 3:25, 26). The whole chapter 4 of Romans is a defense the fact that we are justified by faith, not by works, just as they were Abraham and David. Paul says we are <0ustificados through faith "(Rom 5: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Scriptures never say that we are justified by the inherent goodness of our faith, as if faith had merit before God. They never allow us to think that our faith itself we will win God's favor. Rather, Scripture says that we are justified "through faith" understood faith as the instrument by which we are given justification, but it is not at all an activity that earns us merits or the favor of God, but that we are justified only by the merits of the work of Christ (Rom 5: 17-19).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But we can ask why God chooses faith to be the attitude of the heart by which we obtain justification.Why God has not decided to give justification to all who show love? Or any that show joy? o contentment?o humility? o wisdom? Why God chose faith as the means of receiving justification?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is apparently because faith is the attitude of the heart that is the exact opposite to depend on ourselves. When we come to Christ in faith, we are essentially saying: "I give up! You will no longer depend on myself or my good works. I know that is not going to make things right with God by myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, Lord Jesus, I trust you and depend entirely on you so you give me a position in front of God. "Thus, faith is exactly the opposite of trust in ourselves, and therefore, is the attitude that leads to salvation it does not depend at all on their own merits but the gift of God's grace. Paul explains it well when he says: "Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that by grace and may be guaranteed to all the descendants of Abraham" (Rom 4: 16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So all reformers from Martin Luther onwards were so firm in their insistence that no justification comes through faith plus some merit or good works on our part, but only by faith. "For by grace you have been saved through faith; this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast "(EF 2: 8-9).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul says repeatedly that "no one will be justified in his sight by observing the law requires" (Romans 3: 20); We find the same idea repeated in Galatians 2: 16; 3: 11; 5: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But does this fit well with the epistle of James? What you can mean Santiago when he says: "You see then that a man is justified by works and not by faith only" (Stg2: 24, RVR 1960).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We must realize that James is here to justify using the word in a different sense than Paul uses it. In the beginning of this chapter we note that the word justification has several meanings, and one of them is "declaring someone is right," but we should also note that the Greek word I dikaioo can also mean "prove or show to be fair."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For example, Jesus said of the Pharisees: "You are those who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts "(Luke 16:15, KJV 1960). What is meant here is not that the Pharisees were out there making statements that they "were not guilty) before God, but rather that they were always trying to show others that were just for their external works. Jesus knew that the truth was different: "But God knows your hearts" (Lk 16: 15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, the lawyer who wanted to test Jesus by asking who would inherit eternal life, responded well to the first question of Jesus; but when the Lord told him, "Do this and life), he was not satisfied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Luke tells us: "But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, And who is my neighbor?" (Lk 10: 28-29). He was not looking forward to a legal statement about himself that he was not guilty in the eyes of God; but he was rather looking forward to show that "he was just" in front of others who were listening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Other examples justify the word meaning "to show that it is just" may be found in Matthew 11:19; Lk 7:35; Romans 3: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our interpretation of James 2 depends not only on the fact that "show being fair" is an acceptable sense of the word justified, but also that this sense fits well in the context of Santiago 2. When James says, "Was not justified by our ancestor Abraham when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? "(v. 21, RVR 1960) is referring to something that happened later in the life of Abraham, the story of the sacrifice of Isaac, who succeeded in Genesis 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This was long after the time recorded in Genesis 15: 6 where Abraham believed God "and it was counted for righteousness." However, this incident early at the beginning of the Abrahamic covenant relationship with God is what Paul quotes and refers to it repeatedly in Romans 4. Paul is speaking of the time when God justified Abraham once and forever, just consider him as a result of his faith in God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But James is talking about something that came much later, after Abraham waited many years the birth of Isaac, and even after Isaac had grown enough to carry wood for the sacrifice to the top of the mountain.At that time Abraham "showed that it was just" for his works, and in that sense James says that Abraham "was justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar" (Stg2: 21).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What you most want to Santiago in this section also fits with this understanding. Santiago is interested in showing that only intellectually agree with the gospel is a "faith" that actually is not. He is interested in arguing against those who say they have faith but do not show changes in their lives. He says, "Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show my faith by my works" (James 2: 18). "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead" (James 2: 26).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Santiago is simply saying here that the "faith" has no results or "works" is not true at all faith is a faith (dead). He is not denying the clear teaching of Paul that justification (in the sense of the declaration of a proper legal status before God) by faith alone apart from works of the law; he is simply stating a different truth: that the (justification) in the sense of an outward sign that one is just only happens when its evidences are in the life of the person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To paraphrase, James is saying that it is just with his works, and not just for their faith. This is something that certainly Paul agreed (2nd Corinthians 13: 5; Gal 5: 19-24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The practical implications of the doctrine of justification by faith alone are very important. First this doctrine allows us to offer genuine hope to unbelievers who know they can never make themselves righteous in the sight of God. Yes gift of salvation is received only through faith, everyone who hears the gospel can hope that eternal life is offered free of charge and can be obtained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Second. This doctrine gives us confidence that God will never do pay for the sins that have been forgiven on the basis of the merits of Christ. Of course, we can continue to suffer the ordinary consequences of sin (as an alcoholic who stop taking may still have physical weakness for the rest of his life, and a thief who is justified may still have to go to prison to pay for his crime ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, God can discipline ourselves if we act in ways that are of disobedience to Him (see Heb 12: 5-12), and does so for love and for our good. But God can not and never will, take revenge on us for past sins and make us pay the punishment due for them or punish us because of his anger, and in order to harm us.(Thus, there is now no condemnation for those who are united with Christ Jesus) (Rom 8: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This fact should give us a great sense of joy and confidence before God because He has accepted us and we are in his presence as (not guilty) and (fair) forever.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">From all eternity, God decreed to justify all the elect: <b>1 Peter 1: 2, 19,20; Gal. 3: 8; Ro. 8:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And in the fullness of time, Christ died for their sins, and rose again for their justification: <b>Ro. 4:25; Gal.4: 4; 1 Tim. 2: 6.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, they are not personally justified until, in due time Christ is actually applied to them by the Holy Spirit: <b>Col. 1: 21,22; Tit. 3: 4-7; Gal. 2:16; Eph. 2: 1-3.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God continues to forgive the sins of those who are justified: <b>Mt. 6:12; 1 June 1: 7-2:. 2; June 13. 3-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And although they can never fall from the state of justification. <b>Lc. 22:32; 10:28 June.; I 10:14.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However , they may, by their sins, fall into God's fatherly displeasure; and in that condition, often they do not receive the restoration of the light of his countenance, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon , and renew their faith and repentance: <b>Psalm 32: 5; 51: 7-12; Mt. 26:75; Lk.1:20.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The justification of believers under the Old Testament was, in all these respects, one and the same as the justification of believers under the New Testament: <b>Gal. 3: 9; Ro. 4: 22-24</b> . Chosen: not appear in some editions of Confession, but in the original.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PREDESTINATION<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are very few doctrines that arouse such controversy or cause much consternation as the doctrine of predestination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is a very difficult doctrine that needs to be treated with great care and dedication. However, it is a biblical doctrine </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">therefore it is necessary to consider it . We dare not ignore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Virtually all Christian churches have some doctrine of predestination. It is inevitable, because the concept appears clearly in Scripture. These churches however disagree, sometimes strongly disagree about its meaning. The point of view differs from Methodist Lutheran point of view, which differs from the point of view presbyterian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although all these views differ, each is trying to understand this difficult topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In its simplest form, predestination means that our final destination, heaven or hell, it has been decided by God not only before we get there, but even before he was born. It teaches us that our fate is in God's hands. To express this another way: from eternity past, before existiésemos, God decided to save some members of the human race and let the rest of the human race should perish. God made a choice chose some individuals that they might be saved and enjoy eternal blessing from heaven and chose others to suffer the consequences of their sins to eternal torment in hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This definition is common to many churches. But to reach the center of the contest corresponds ask: How does God choose? The view of churches that do not come from the Reformation, held by most Christians is that God makes this choice based on their prior knowledge. God chooses for eternal life to people he <b></b>knows have to choose to </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Him.</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is the notion of predestination eying because it rests on the foreknowledge of God on decisions or human acts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The view of Reformed Churches differs as it considers that the final decision for salvation depends on God and not from us. According to this notion, the choice of God is sovereign. No decisions or rests on the answers provided by God. Considers that these decisions emanating from the sovereign grace of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The view held by the Reformed churches is that, left to itself, no one would choose God. Fallen people still have a free will and are able to choose </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">what </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">they want. But the problem is that we have no desire for God and Christ will not make until we are not regenerated. Faith is the gift that comes from the new birth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Only the chosen ones can respond in faith to the gospel. The chosen are decided by Christ, but only because they were chosen by God first. As in the case of Jacob and Esau, the elect are chosen solely on thebasis of the sovereign will of God and not on the basis of anything they have done or to be done. Paul tells us, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">not only this, but when Rebecca also conceived by one, Isaac our father (they had not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not by works but by the caller), he said: the elder shall serve the younger. So not of him that wills, nor of himthat runneth, but of God's mercy. (Romans 9: 10 to 12.16)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A controversial regarding predestination problem is that God does not choose or choose save everyone.We reserve the right to have mercy on whom He chooses to have mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some of fallen humanity receive the grace and mercy of the election. The rest, God overlooked by leaving them in their sin. Those who have not been chosen receive justice. The chosen receive mercy. Nobody receives injustice. There is nothing that compels God to be merciful to some or to all alike. It is your decision to define how merciful want to be. However, it will never be guilty of not being fair to someone (see Romans 9: 14-15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Predestination is a difficult doctrine to be treated delicately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Bible teaches the doctrine of predestination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Many Christians define predestination according to the foreknowledge of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The view of the Reformation does not consider knowledge as an explanation of biblical predestination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Predestination is based on God's choice, not the choice of human beings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The unregenerate people have no desire to choose Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">7. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God does not choose </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">everyone. It <b></b>reserves </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">severed have mercy on anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God does not treat anyone unfairly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Proverbs 16: 4, John 13:18, Romans 8:30, Ephesians 1: 3-14, 2 Thessalonians 2: 13-15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PREDESTINATION </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">AND </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">DOOM</span><i><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Every coin has two sides. There is also another side to the doctrine of election. The choice refers only to one aspect of the broader doctrine of predestination. The other side of the coin is the question of condemnation. God declared that loved Jacob but hated Esau. How should we understand this divine allodium reference?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Predestination is twofold. The only way to avoid the doctrine of double predestination would be the claim that God predestined all to be chosen or not predestined anyone or be chosen or be condemned. As the Bible clearly teaches predestination regarding the election </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">denies universal salvation, we must conclude that predestination is twofold. It includes both election and condemnation. Double predestination is inevitable if we take Scripture seriously. The crucial point, however, is how should be understood double predestination?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some have understood the double predestination as a cause and effect, in which God is equally responsible for the evil does not create and create the elect. This position on predestination is known as the positive-positive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The positive-positive position on predestination teaches that God positively and actively involved in the lives of those chosen to work his grace in their hearts and to bring them to faith. Similarly, in the case of the wicked, evil work in the hearts of the wicked and actively prevents them come to faith. This position has often been called the "hyper-Calvinism" because it goes beyond the positions in this regard had Calvin, Luther and other thinkers of the Reformation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The position of the Reformed Church on double predestination follows a positive-negative pattern. In the case of the elect, God intervenes positively </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">actively work grace in their souls and bring them to saving faith. Unilaterally regenerates the elect and assures them their salvation. In the case of the wicked, evil does not work or prevents them come to faith. Instead of doing this, he overlooked, leaving them left to their own sins. According to this position divine action is not symmetrical. God's activity is asymmetric with respect to the elect </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the wicked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is , however, an equal. The evil that has been overlooked by God, is ultimately convicted, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">his curse is as real </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">certain as the final salvation of the elect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The problem is linked to the biblical statements as in the case of God hardening Pharaoh's heart. No one disputes that the Bible says that God hardened Pharaoh's heart. But the question remains: How did God harden Pharaoh's heart? Luther argued that it was a hardening passive </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">not active. In other words, God did not create any new evil in the heart of Pharaoh. There was already enough evil in </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">heart of Pharaoh so that it is inclined to resist the will of God whenever he could.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All God has to do to harden someone is checking out his grace that person </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">let left to their own impulses toward evil. This is precisely what God does to those who are damned in hell. He abandons his own wickedness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What sense "hated" Esau God? There are two explanations proposed for solving this problem. The first explains defining allodium not as a negative passion directed toward Esau but simply as the absence of redeeming love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God "loved" Jacob simply means that Jacob made the object of his undeserved grace. He gave Jacob a benefit that Jacob did not deserve. Esau did not receive the same benefit and in that sense was hated by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This first explanation sounds a bit contrived, it seems to want to avoid that one can say that God can hate someone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The second explanation gives more strength to the word hate. According to this second explanation God hated Esau effectively. Esau was hateful in the sight of God. There was nothing in Esau that God could love.Esau was one worthy vessel being destroyed and deserving of wrath </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">holy hatred of God. The reader decide with which explanation is left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Predestination is double; It has two facets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Some teach that God is equally responsible for the choice and doom. This is characteristic of hyper-Calvinism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The position taken by the Reformation is that double predestination reflects a positive-negative schema.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span class=""> God hardened Pharaoh's heart passively, not active.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God hated Esau in the sense that it gave the blessing of grace, or in the sense abhor it , considering itan object worthy of being destroyed. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-66582973116911852872016-04-03T12:59:00.000-07:002016-04-03T12:59:02.535-07:00SCRIPTURE FOUR DISTINCTIVE ASPECTS OF JUSTICE.<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. GOD IS JUST</span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This righteousness of God is unchanging and unchangeable (Rom. 3:25, 26). He is infinitely righteous in his own Being and infinitely righteous in all his ways. God is just in your Being. It is impossible for him to deviate from his own righteousness, even as a shadow of variation << >> (Jas. 1:17). He can not look upon sin with the least degree of tolerance. Therefore, since all men are sinners, both by nature and by practice, the divine judgment has come upon all to condemnation.The acceptance of this truth is vital to reach a correct understanding of the gospel of God's grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God is just in his ways. It should also be recognized that God is unable to consider lightly or surface mood sin or forgive him in an act of moral laxity or weakness. The triumph of the gospel is not that God has dealt with leniently or softness sin; but rather in the fact that all trials that infinite justice had necessarily to impose on the guilty, the Lamb of God suffered in our place, and that this plan comes from the mind of God Himself it is, according to . righteousness standards, sufficient for the salvation of everyone who believes in Him through this plan can satisfy your love God saving sinners without detracting from its immutable justice; and the sinner, which in itself is no hope, can be free from all condemnation (John 3:18; 5:24; Rom. 8: 1; 1 Cor 11:32.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is not uncommon for men conceptualize God as a righteous Being; but which often fail to recognize is that when he performs the salvation of sinful man, the righteousness of God is not and can be dimmed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE MAN self-righteousness<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In complete harmony with the revelation that God is just have the corresponding statement that in the eyes of God man's righteousness (Rom. 10: 3) is like filthy rags << >> (Is. 64: 6). Although the sinfulness of man is constantly revealed through Scripture, there is no complete and final description that found in Romans 3: 9-18; and it should be noted that, as in the case of other biblical assessments of sin, we have here a description of sin as God sees it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Men have set standards for the family, society and the state; but they are not part of the basis on which he is to be judged before God. In his relationship with God men are not wise comparing themselves among themselves (2 Cor 10:12). Because they are not only lost those condemning society, but those who are condemned by the unchanging righteousness of God (Rom. 3:23).Therefore, there is no hope outside of divine grace; because no one can enter into the glory of heaven if it is not accepted by God as Christ. For this need of man God has made abundant provision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. IMPUTED JUSTICE OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As emphasized in previous discussions regarding the doctrine of imputation, the important revelation of the imputation of the righteousness of God (Rom. 3:22) is essential that we understand as much about the principles on which God condemns sinner in the principles upon which the Christian God saves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the doctrine is difficult to understand, it is important to understand it as one of the major aspects of God's revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The fact of the complaint is underlined in the imputation of Adam's sin the human race with the effect that all men are considered sinners by God (Rom . 5: 12-21). This is further developed in the fact that man's sin was imputed to Christ when He offered eat sin offering world (2 Corinthians 5:14, 21; Hebrews 2: 9; 1 Jn . 2:. 2). So too God's righteousness is imputed to all who believe, so that they can stand before God in all the perfection of Christ. Because of this provision can be said of all who are saved in Christ they are the righteousness of God in Him (1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:21). Since this righteousness is of God and not of man and, as Scripture says, it exists apart from any work or compliance with any legal provisions (Rom. 3:21), it is obvious that this imputed righteousness is not something that man can make. Being the righteousness of God, it can not be increased by the mercy of the one whom he is accused, nor diminish because of their wickedness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The results of the complaint are that God's righteousness is imputed to the believer on the basis that the believer is in Christ by baptism of the Spirit. Through this vital union with Christ by the Spirit the believer is united to Christ as a member of his body (1 Cor 12:13), and as a branch of the True Vine (Jn . 15: 1, 5). Because of the reality of this union God sees the believer as a living part of his own Son. Therefore, He loves the believer as he loves his own Son (Eph 1: 6; 1 Peter 2: 5 . ), And believes that he is what his own Son is the righteousness of God (Rom . 3: 22; 1 Cor 1:30; 2 Cor 5:21). Christ is the righteousness of God; therefore, those who are saved are therighteousness of God by being in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). They are complete in Him (Col. 2:10) and perfected in Him forever (Heb. 10:10, 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The scriptures give us many illustrations of imputation. God provided coats of skins for Adam and Eve and it was necessary to obtain the shed blood (Gn. 3:21). Abraham was imputed justice for having believed God (Gen. 15: 6; Romans 4:... 9-22; James 2:23), and as the priests of ancient time dressed justice (Ps 132: 9. ), so the believer is covered with the robe of the righteousness of God and be with that garment that will be in glory (Rev. 19: 8 . ). The attitude of the apostle Paul to Philemon is an illustration of both the merit and demerit of the accused. Referring to the slave Onesimus, says the Apostle: << So if you consider me a partner, receive him as myself (imputation of merit). And if anything he has wronged you, or owes you, charge it to my account (the imputation of demerit) >> (Philemon 17, 18; also cf. Job 29:14; Is . 11: 5; 59:17; 61.: 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . The allocation affects the position and not the state. There is , therefore, a righteousness of God, that has nothing to do with human works, who is in and who believes (Rom. 3:22). This is the eternal position of all who are saved. In your daily life, or state, they are far from perfect, and itis in this aspect of their relationship with God that should << grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ >> (2 P. 3:18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Imputed righteousness is the basis of justification. According to its use in the New Testament, the words justice << >> >> and << justify come from the same root. God declares that justified forever He sees in Christ. This is a fair decree, since the justified person is clothed in the righteousness of God. Justification is not a fiction or an emotional state; but rather an immutable consideration in the mind of God. Like imputed righteousness, justification by faith (Rom . 5: 1), by means of grace (Tit . 3: 4-7), and is made possible through the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom . 3:24; 4:25). It is permanent and unchangeable, since it rests solely on the merits of the eternal Son of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Justification is more than forgiveness, because forgiveness is the cancellation of the debt of sin, while justification is the imputation of righteousness. Forgiveness is negative (suppression of doom), while justification is positive (granting of merit and position of Christ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">When writing a justification by works, Santiago was referring to the believer's position before men (Jas. 2: 14-26); Paul, writing of justification by faith (Rom. 5: 1), had in mind the believer's position before God. Abraham was justified before men demonstrating their faith by their works (James 2:21.); also, he was justified by faith before God for justice that was imputed to him (Jas. 2:23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. JUSTICE GIVEN BY THE SPIRIT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Filled with the Spirit, the Son of God produce works of righteousness (Rom. 8: 4) of the "fruit of the Spirit" (Gal. 5: 22-23) and manifest the gifts for service that have been given to put the Spirit (1 Cor 12: 7). Clearly it states that these results are due to the work of the Spirit in and through the believer. Reference is therefore a way of life that in a sense is produced by the believer; rather, it is a way of life produced through it by the Spirit. << For those who do not walk according to the flesh, but the Spirit >>, the justice of the law, which in this case means nothing less than the realization of all the will of God for the believer, is fulfilled in them .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This could never be fulfilled by them. When performed by the Spirit, she is nothing but life justice is imparted by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> With regard to justice, what is the difference between God and man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the four aspects of justice revealed in Scripture?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what ways God is completely fair?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How far reaches man in his self - righteousness and why it is insufficient?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why do the imputed righteousness of God is necessary for man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the results of the imputation of righteousness in man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Provide some biblical illustrations of imputation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How imputation affects the position and status before God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How imputed righteousness with the justification relates?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Contrast the justification and forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the difference between justification by works and justification by faith?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent justice taught by the Spirit extends?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SANCTIFICATION<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER INTERPRETATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The doctrine of sanctification suffers from misunderstanding despite the fact that the Bible provides an extensive disclosure on this important issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In light of the history of the doctrine it is important to note three laws of interpretation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The correct understanding of the doctrine of sanctification depends on everything that Scripture contains regarding this issue. The scriptural presentation of this doctrine is much more extensive than it appears only one who reads the Spanish text; for the same original Greek or Hebrew word translated "sanctify" in its different forms, it is also translated "holy", either as a noun or adjective. Therefore, if we see this doctrine of Scripture in its fullest extent, we must examine not only the passages where the word "sanctify" but also those where the word is used "holy" in its various forms. Leviticus 21: 8 illustrates the similarity of meaning between "holy" words and "sanctify" by use of the Bible. Speaking of priests, God says, "Thou shalt sanctify him therefore, for the bread of thy God; for you shall be holy, for I am holy Lord who sanctifies you "The same original word used four times in this text, results in three different ways." sanctify, "" holy "and" saint ".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The doctrine of sanctification can not be interpreted by experience. Only one of the three aspects of sanctification is related to the problems of human experience in the target life. Therefore, the teaching of the Word of God must not be replaced by an analysis of some personal experience.Even if sanctification were limited to the sphere of human experience, not have experience that could be presented as indisputable as the perfect, nor would a human explanation of that experience he was able to describe in its fullness the divine reality . Is the role of the Bible interpret experience before it intends to interpret the Bible. Every experience that comes from God 's work must be according to the Scriptures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The doctrine of sanctification should be framed in the context of biblical doctrine. Giving a disproportionate emphasis on certain doctrine, or the habit of looking the whole truth only following a line of biblical teaching, leads to serious errors. The doctrine of sanctification, like any other doctrine of Scripture, represents and defines an exact field within the purpose of God, and since it tends to well - defined purposes, suffers so much when it is exaggerated as when presented incompletely .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE MEANING OF WORDS THAT RELATE TO THE SANTICACIÓN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1. </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"Sanctify" in its various forms, is used 106 times in the Old Testament v 31 times in the New Testament and means "set apart" or separateness. It has to do with position and relationship. The basis of classification is that the person or thing has been set apart or separate from others in position and relationship before God, what is not holy. This is the general meaning of the word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2. </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"Holy" in its various forms, is used about 400 times in the Old Testament and 12 times in the New Testament regarding believers and intimating separateness or be set apart, or be separated that which is not holy. Christ was "holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners." Therefore, He was sanctified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">But there are some things that the words "holy" and "sanctify" in its biblical use, do not imply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">a) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">does not necessarily imply impeccability Ia, for we read of "holy people >>," holy priests >> '>> holy prophets, "Holy Apostles >>' >> holy men," women >> holy, holy brothers> >, "holy mountain" and <>> holy temple. None of them was without sin before God. They were saints according to some standard that forms the basis of its separation from others. Even Christians of Corinth, who were committing a foul, were called saints. Many inanimate things were sanctified, and they could not be related to the problem of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">b) </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The word "holy" does not necessarily imply purpose. All persons mentioned in the previous point were repeatedly called to higher levels of holiness. They were set aside again and again. People or things were becoming holy when they were apart for a holy purpose. So they were sanctified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3. </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">"Holy" is used in relation to Israel about fifty times and in relation to believers around sixty two times; It applies only to people and has to do with his standing before God. In this case, the word isnot associated with the kind of life of believers. They are saints because they have been particularly separated in the plan and purpose of God. They are saints because they have been sanctified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In several epistles (Rom 1: 7; 1 Cor. 1: 2) believers are identified as those who are "called to be saints." This is very misleading; the words "called to be" should be omitted. Christians are saints by the call of God. The above passages are not anticipating a time when God's children will become saints. They are already sanctified, set apart and therefore are already saints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Holiness is not something progressive. Every born again person is so holy in the moment of salvation as it will in the future time and eternity. The church, which is the body of Christ has been called away to form a separate people; they are the saints of this dispensation. According to the use of these words, they are sanctified. They are all saints. Because they ignore the position they have in Christ, many Christians do not believe they are saints. Among the titles that the Spirit gives to the children of God, there is only one that is used more than saints. Believers are called "brethren" 184 times, "saints" 62 times and "Christian" only 3 times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. Sanctification MEDIA<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1. Because of His infinite holiness God Himself Father, Son and Spirit-is eternally sanctified. He is set apart and separated from all sin. He is holy. The Spirit is called the Holy Spirit. He is holy (Leviticus 21: 8; Jn 17:19..).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God "Father, Son and Spirit" sanctifies others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Father sanctifies (1 Thes. 5:23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">B)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The sanctifies Son (Eph 5:26;. He 2:11;. 9:12, 14; 13:12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">C)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Spirit sanctifies (Rom 15:16;. 2 Thes 2:13)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">D)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God the Father sanctified the Son (Jn. 10:36).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">E)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> sanctifies the priests and people of Israel (Ex 29:44 God. 31:13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">F)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The will of God is our sanctification (1 Thes . 4: 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">G)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Our sanctification by God is made: through our union with Christ (1 Cor 1: 2, 30); by the Word of God (Jn 17:17; cf. 1 Tim . 4: 5 . ); by the blood of Christ (Heb 9:13;. 13:12); by the body of Christ (Heb 10:10.); by the Spirit (1 Peter 1: 2); by our own choice (Heb 12:14;. 2 Timothy 2:21, 22.); by faith (Acts. 26:18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> God sanctifies days, places and things (Genesis 2: 3; Ex 29:43..).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Man can sanctify God. This can be done by putting God apart in thought as a holy Being. Hallowed be thy name> (Matthew 6: 9). But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts (1 Peter 3:15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Man can sanctify himself. Many times God called the Israelites to sanctify themselves to themselves. He exhorts us: " Be holy because I am holy." Also: "So if anyone cleanses himselffrom these things [vessels of dishonor and lawlessness] shall be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful to the Lord" (2 Tim 2. :twenty-one). Self sanctification can be accomplished only by means divinely provided. Christians are encouraged to present their bodies as a living, holy and pleasing to God (Rom . 12: 1) sacrifice. They are exhorted to come out from among men and away from them (2 Cor 6:17). Having these promises, they should be cleaned "from all filthiness of theflesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God> (2 Cor 7: 1). "I say then, Walk in the Spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (Gal 5:16.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Man can sanctify persons and things. "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife the husband; for otherwise your children would be unclean, but now theyare holy (sanctified "(1 Cor 7:14). Moses sanctified the people (Ex. 19:14)." And sanctified the house of the Lord "(2 Chron. 29:17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> One thing can sanctify to another. "For What is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?" "What is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?" (Matthew 23:17, 19).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In this limited consideration of Scripture on the subject of sanctification and holiness it becomes clear that the meaning of the word is separated with a holy purpose. What is put aside is not always purified. Sometimes, which it is separated can participate in the character of holiness, and sometimes this is impossible, as when it comes to inanimate things. However, one thing that in itself can not be holy nor unholy, is so sanctified when God separates as it is a person whose moral character can be transformed. It is also clear that when these moral qualities exist, cleanliness and purification are required, but not provided (1 Co.7: 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. THE THREE HIGHLIGHTS OF SANCTIFICATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the Old Testament contains an extensive disclosure of the doctrine of sanctification, especially related to the law of Moses and Israel, the New Testament provides a clear view of the main aspects of sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The New Testament considers three divisions of the doctrine:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> positional sanctification,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> experimental sanctification,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> final sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Positional sanctification is a sanctification and holiness which is effected by God through the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Believers have been redeemed and cleansed in his precious blood; we have forgiven all our sins and have become righteous through our identification with Him; justified and purified. They are the children of God. All this indicates a deep and eternal separation and classification, through the saving grace of Christ. It is based on the facts of a position that is true for every Christian. Hence it is said that every Christian is positionally sanctified and holy before God. This position has no relation to the target life of the believer than to inspire you to live holy. According to Scripture, the position of the Christian in Christ is the most powerful incentive for a life of holiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The great doctrinal epistles observe this order. First declare the wonders of saving grace, and then conclude with an exhortation to believers to live according to the new position God has given them (cf. Romans 12: 1; Eph. 4: 1; Col. 3. :1). We have not been accepted in our own merits;we are accepted in the Beloved. We are not righteous in ourselves: He has been made our righteousness. We are not redeemed in ourselves, but Christ has become our redemption. No positionally we are sanctified by the kind of life we are daily living; but He has made us our sanctification. Positional sanctification is as perfect as He is perfect. Just as He has been put aside, we who are in Him, we have been set apart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Positional sanctification is so complete for the weakest to the strongest of the saints. It depends only on their marriage and position in Christ. All believers are considered "two saints". And also as "the sanctified" (note Acts 20:32; 1 Cor. 1: 2; 6:11; I 10:10, 14; Jud 1..). Proof that, despite its imperfections, believers are sanctified and are, therefore, holy, is found in 1 Corinthians.Christians in Corinth lived a holy life not (1 Cor 5: 1- 2; 6: 1-8), and yet, it is said twice that they had been sanctified (1 Co.1: 2, 6: eleven).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Due to its position, then, Christians are rightly called "the holy brethren" and "saints". They have been "sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Heb. 10:10), and are" new men "created" according to God in righteousness and true holiness "(Eph. 4:24) .Positional sanctification and holiness are positional sanctification and holiness "true". In his position in Christ, the Christian is right and acceptable before God forever. Compared to this, no other aspect of this truth can have equal importance. However, it should not be concluded that a person is holy or sanctified only because they say that you are a saint or sanctification position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although all believers are positionally sanctified, there are no references in Scripture to their daily lives. The aspect of sanctification and holiness of daily life in a very different set of portions of Scripture that may be associated with the theme of experimental sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The experimental sanctification is the second aspect of the doctrine in the New Testament and has to do with sanctification as an experience for the believer. And positional sanctification is absolutely detached from everyday life, and the experimental sanctification is absolutely detached from the position in Christ. The experimental sanctification can depend on : a) the degree of surrender of the believer to God, b) the degree of separation from sin, c) the degree of spiritual growth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 14pt;">A)</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The experimental sanctification is the result of surrender to God. The complete dedication of ourselves to God is our reasonable service, "So, brethren, we put beg the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship sacrifice" (Rom. 12: 1). Doing this, the Christian is set apart bread their own choice. This is a voluntary separation to God and is an important aspect of experimental sanctification. "But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness" (Rom. 6:22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">As in the case of justification and forgiveness, sanctification can not be experienced as a feeling or emotion. A person can enjoy peace and have fullness of joy for believing that he is set apart for God. Also, even the fact surrender to God, a new fullness of the Spirit, which produces blessings before unknown becomes possible. This can happen gradually suddenly.Peno in any case is not what is experienced sanctification; It is the blessing of the Spirit made through sanctification or separation to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 14pt;">B)</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Experimental sanctification is the result of deliverance from sin. The Bible takes into account the sins of Christians in a comprehensive manner. It teaches not only that those without sin are saved; Put the contrary, there is an exact account of them and an abundant supply corduroy sins of the saints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">This provision may be preventive and curative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">There are three divine provisions for the prevention of sin in the Christian:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Word of God with clear instructions (Ps . 119: 11);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the present ministry of intercession that Christ takes from heaven (Rom 8:34; He 7:25; cf. Lk 22:.. 31-32; Jn 17:.. 1-26); Y;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> the enabling power of the Spirit that bugged in the believer (Gal 5:16; Rom . 8: 4)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, if the Christian falls into sin, there is a remedy provided by God, and is the office of counsel that Christ made from the sky under his atoning death. Only in this way they can be stored safely imperfect believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is imperative that God prevent sin in the case of each of his sons, inasmuch as the believer is in the body, retain their fallen nature and will be vulnerable to sin (Rom 7:21; 2 Cor. 4: 7; 1 John . 1: 8). The Scriptures do not promise the eradication of this nature; however, he promises a permanent victory, moment by moment, by the power of the Spirit (Gal. 5: 16-23).This victory will be made when the claim by faith and the conditions for a Spirit-filled life are met.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">He never said that the sinful nature itself is dead. He was crucified, dead and buried with Christ; but since this happened two thousand years ago and still see it in action, the term refers to a divine judgment against sin nature that was executed in Christ when He "died to sin." There is no biblical teaching in the sense that some Christians have died to sin and not others. The passages include all those who are saved (Ga 5:24; Cal 3:.. 3). In the death of Christ all believers have died to sin; but not all believers have taken possession of the riches provided in that death. We are not asked to die experimentally, or to put into practice his death; we are asked to us "consider" dead to sin. This is human responsibility (Rom. 6: 1-14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Every victory over sin is itself a separation of God and, therefore, is a sanctification. That victory should be increasing as the believer is realizing his inability and begins to wonder in the divine power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">c)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The experience of sanctification is related to Christian growth. To Christians lack maturity in wisdom, knowledge, experience and grace. They are told they must grow in all these things, and that growth should be evident. They should grow </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ "(2 Peter 3:18). To contemplate the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, "we are transformed from glory to glory into the same image, coma couple the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18). This change will have the effect of putting them farther and farther away from sin. In that sense they will be more sanctified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Christian can be "above reproach" although we can not say that has no faults. The child who through hard work makes his first letters in a notebook is irreproachable in the work done, but your work is not perfect. We can walk in the full measure of our current understanding; however, we know we do not live up to the greater light and experience that we have tomorrow. There is perfection in imperfection. We still imperfect, so lacking in maturity, as given to pecada, we can "remain in Him"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> ultimately Sanctification is one aspect of our ultimate perfection, and possess in glory. By His grace and even its transformative power, He will transform us in such "spirit, soul and body2 so that we will eat it is, be" conformed to his image "Then he will bring us into" perfect "in the presence of His glory. His wife will be free from any "spot and wrinkle 'Par is therefore own that we" abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and mayyour spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ "(1 Thes . 5: 22-23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it necessary to have a correct understanding of the doctrine of sanctification?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the basic meaning of sanctification in Scripture and what words are used to express it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the dangers of interpreting the doctrine of sanctification by experience?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can adequately relate the doctrine of sanctification with other biblical doctrines?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent sanctification is mentioned in the Bible in its various forms?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Will the sanctification total perfection in relation to sin and a decision to reach holiness?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent is sanctification related with the quality of our daily lives?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why holiness is not subject to progress?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense it is said that God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit sanctifies people?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense God sanctifies the days, places and things?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense can a man sanctify God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense can a man sanctify itself?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> ¿.A a man sanctifies people and things?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can sanctify something else?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How sanctification purification of an object, in its various uses is related?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the three important aspects of sanctification?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How positional sanctification is done?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the relationship between positional sanctification and holy life in doctrinal epistles?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent is the complete positional sanctification immediately to every child of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the difference between experimental sanctification and positional sanctification?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">21.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What factors depends on the experimental sanctification?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">22.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What relationship have between surrender to God and experimental sanctification?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">23.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the relationship between experimental sanctification and emotions?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">24.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the relationship between experimental sanctification and deliverance from sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">25</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> . What are the three provisions of God that the Christian can prevent sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">26.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Make a contrast between the corduroy divine deliverance from sin method with the suggested eradication of the sinful nature of man method.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">27.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is it true say that some Christians have died to sin and not others?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">28.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What does the command that we "consider" dead to sin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">29.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the experimental sanctification is related to Christian growth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">30.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the difference between saying that a Christian is "blameless" and say that it is perfect?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">31.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Make a contrast between our current experience of sanctification and our ultimate sanctification in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">32.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Make a contrast between the current position and spiritual state of the believer and his position and status in the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THIS ASSURANCE OF SALVATION<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. THE IMPORTANCE OF SECURITY<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the Christian experience, the certainty that one is saved by faith in Christ is essential to the fulfillment of the entire program of growth in grace and knowledge of Christ. Safety is a matter of experience and is related to personal trust in salvation present. should not be confused with the doctrine of eternal security of the believer, which we will discuss in the next chapter. Eternal security is a matter of doctrine, while security this is a matter of what the person believes in a given about his personal salvation time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The present security depends on three important aspects of the experience:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #7d007d; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">understanding that salvation provided in Christ Jesus is complete;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #7d007d; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #7d007d; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">confirming testimony of Christian experience;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3)</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #7d007d; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">acceptance by faith of the </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #7d007d; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">biblical promises of salvation.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #7d007d; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF SALVATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">To have a real assurance of salvation is essential to have a clear understanding of what Christ accomplished through His death on the cross. Salvation is not a work of man to please God, but a work of God for man. It depends entirely on divine grace, without regard to any human merit. The person who understands that Christ died in his favor and provided a complete salvation is offered to anyone who sincerely believes in Christ can have the assurance of salvation as it meets the condition of trust Christ as Savior. In many cases the lack of security is due to an incomplete understanding of the nature of salvation. Once you have understood that salvation is a gift that can not be obtained by human efforts, which may not deserve and which is available as a gift of God to all who receive by faith has laid a good basis for the assurance of salvation, and the issue is resolved by itself in the answer to the question of whether one has really believed in Christ. This question can be answered by confirmations that are in the Christian experience of a person who has received salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Among the various divine interventions which together constitute the salvation of a soul, the Bible gives a supreme emphasis upon receipt of a new life from God. More than 85 New Testament passages confirm this feature of saving grace. Consideration of these passages reveals that this imparted life is God's gift to all who believe in Christ (John 10:28;. Rom. 6:23); It is Christ (Jn. 14: 6);Christ is indwelling in the sense that eternal life is inseparable from Him (Col. 1:27;. 1 John 5:11, 12) and, therefore, it is eternal as He is eternal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. TESTIMONY OF CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE CONFIRMATORY<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Based on the fact that Christ dwells in him, the believer must prove himself if in faith (2 Corinthians 13: 5); because it is reasonable to expect that the heart in which Christ dwells, under normal conditions, be aware of your wonderful presence. However, the Christian is not left at the mercy of their feelings and imaginations misunderstandings as to the precise way in which Christ will manifest in his inner life, and this is clearly defined in Scripture. This particular revelation has a dual purpose for the Christian who is subject to the Word of God protects him against the assumption that fleshly emotionalism is the belief that God has found many followers today-and establishes a standard of spiritual reality to achieve which must constantly strive Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">It is obvious that an unconverted person, even faithful in his religious practice outside accordance never manifest the life that is Christ. Similarly, the carnal Christian is abnormal in the sense that it has no way to prove by the experience that salvation. Although eternal life itself is unlimited, every normal Christian experience is limited by the carnal (1 Cor 3: 1-4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The carnal Christian is saved as well as the spiritual Christian, because no experience, merit or service are part of the basis of salvation. Although it is still a baby, it is in Christ (1 Cor 3: 1). Their obligation to God is not exercise saving faith, but to submit to the purpose and will of God. It is critical to understand that a normal Christian experience can only have it who are filled with the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The new life in Christ that comes as a result of being saved by faith produces certain important events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The knowledge that God is our Heavenly Father is one of the precious experiences that belong to who put their trust in Christ. In Matthew 11:27 states that no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son will reveal him. One thing to know something about God, may experience an unregenerate person, but it is quite another to know God, which can only be realized to the extent that the Son will reveal, and <this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent> (Jn . 17: 3). Communion with the Father and the Son is something known only by those who "walk in the light" (1 Jn . 1: 7). Therefore, a normal Christian experience includes a personal appreciation of the Fatherhood of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A new reality in prayer is another confirmatory experience that leads to security present. Prayer plays a very important role in the experience of Christian spiritual place. It gradually becomes its most vital resource. Through the inner working of the Spirit who dwells in him, the believer offers praise and thanksgiving (Eph . 5: 18-19), and torque of the Spirit is able to pray in accordance with the will of God (Rom. 8: 26-27; Jud 20).. Moreover, it is reasonable to believe that, since Christ's ministry on earth and in heaven has been and is largely a ministry of prayer, the person in whom dwells will be guided to prayer normally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A new ability to understand the scriptures is another important experience related to salvation.According to the promise of Christ, the Son of God will understand through the Spirit the things of Christ, the Father 's and things to come (Jn . 16: 12-15). On the road to Emmaus, Christ opened the Scriptures to those who heard him (Lk. 24:32) and opened their hearts to the Scriptures at thesame tiempo0 (Lk. 24:45). Such an experience, despite being so wonderful, is not only certain Christians who enjoy special favor of God; It is the normal experience of all those who are right with God (1 Jn. 2:27), since it is a natural manifestation of Christ who dwells in the believer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A new sense of the sinfulness of sin is a normal experience of the person who is saved. Horn and water removes everything that is alien and unclean (Ezekiel 36:25; Jn . 3: 5; Tit . 3: 5, 6; 1 Peter 3:21; 1 Jn . 5: 6-8 . ) God's Word travels all human conceptions and implements the ideals of God (Ps . 119: 11), and the action of the Word of God applied by the Spirit, the divine way of estimating human sin moves estimate. It is impossible that Christ, who had no sin and sweated blood to be offered as an offering for sin, does not produce a new perception of corrupt nature of sin in the person in whom dwells, when you have freedom to manifest their presence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> a new love for the unconverted is received. The fact that Christ died for all men (2 Cor 5: 14- 15, 19) is the foundation that allows Paul to say: "From henceforth know no one according to the flesh" (2 Corinthians 5:16 ). Leaving aside all earthly distinctions, he considered men, through their spiritual eyes, as souls for whom Christ died. For the same reason, Paul did not stop praying for the lost (Rom . 10: 1) and strive to achieve (. Ro 15:20), and for their sakes was willing to "accursed from Christ" (Rom . 9: 1-3). This divine compassion should be experienced by every believer filled with the Spirit, as a result of the divine presence in their hearts (Rom 5: 5; Gal 5:22..).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> a new love for the saved were also experienced. In 1 John 3:14 love it is presented by the brothers as absolute proof of personal salvation. This is reasonable, since the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit the believer is introduced to a new relationship with the house and family of God. It exists only in the true fatherhood of God and the true brotherhood among men. The fact that the same divine presence is within the related two individuals in a vital way and gives them a corresponding bond of devotion. Christian love for another is, thus, the badge of true discipleship (Jn . 13: 34-35), and this affection is the normal experience of all who are born of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A supreme basis for security of salvation is the manifestation of the character of Christ in the believer. The resulting subjective experiences due to the Divine Presence in the heart unhampered listed nine words: "Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Gal . 5: 22- 23), and each word represents a sea of reality in the plane of the unlimited nature of God. This is the life that Christ lived (Jn 13:34; 14:27; 15:11.), Is the life of Christ - likeness (Philippians 2: 5-7.) And is the life that is Christ (Phil 1. :twenty-one). Because these graces are produced even the Spirit who dwells in every believer, this experience has been provided for all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The combined experiences of Christian life produce a consciousness of salvation by faith in Christ. Saving faith in Christ is a very clear experience. The apostle Paul said about himself: "I know whom I have believed" (2 Tim 1:12.). Personal trust in the Savior is as defined act of will and such a clear attitude of mind which could hardly one fool about it . But God intends that the normal Christian is secure in his own heart that has been accepted by God. The spiritual Christian receives the Spirit 's witness that is a child of God (Rom. 8:16). Similarly, having accepted Christ, the believer will have no consciousness of condemnation because of sin (John 3:18; 5:24; Rom . 8: 1; Hebrews 10: 2 . .). This does not imply that the Christian will not be aware of the sin he commits; it is rather that is eternally conscious being accepted by God for half of the work of Christ (Eph . 1: 6; Col. 2:13), which is the portion of all who believe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In concluding the enumeration of the essential elements of a true Christian experience, we must make it clear that in all this is excluded purely carnal emotionalism, and that the believer's experience will be normal only when walking in the light (1 John 1: 7. ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. ACCEPTANCE OF THE ACCURACY OF THE PROMISES OF THE BIBLE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Confidence in the accuracy of the Bible and the true fulfillment of his promises of salvation is essential to have the assurance of salvation. Above all experience and apart from any experience that the Christian may have experience that is often very indefinite because of carnality, it has been given permanent evidence of the infallible Word of God. The apostle John addresses the believers as follows: "These things as I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life" (1 John 5:13.). Through this passage security it is given to every believer, carnal or spiritual alike, so they know that you have eternal life. This security is rested, not changing experiences, but about things that are written in the unchanging Word of God (Ps . 119: 89, 160; Matthew 5:18; 24:35; 1 Peter 1:23 25). Written promises of God as a title domain (Jn 3:16, 36; 5:24; 6:37; Acts 16:31; Rom 1:16; 3:22, 26, 10... 13) and thus require trust. These promises of salvation are God's unconditional covenant low grace, without requiring human merit, without human experiences that prove its truth. These powerful realities must be considered fulfilled on the sole basis of the truth of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Dudar if one has really put his faith in Christ and the promises of God is destructive of the Christian faith. There are multitudes who have no certainty of having made a personal transaction with Christ about his salvation. Although it is not essential that one knows the day and time of its decision, it is imperative that you know is now trusting in Christ without reference to the time when he began to trust. The apostle Paul says he is "sure that [God] is able to keep my deposit , " that is, what he had given to God to keep him (2 Tim. 1:12). Obviously, the cure for uncertainty about whether it has received Christ is to receive Christ now, given that no personal merit or religious work has value: only Christ can save. The person who is not sure God having given bread faith for salvation that only God can give, can remedy this lack giving a definite step of faith. This is an act of will, but may be accompanied by emotion and necessarily requires an understanding of the doctrine of salvation. Many helped saying in prayer: "Lord, if I've never put my trust in you before, now I do." You can not experience real assurance of salvation if there is no specific act of receiving Christ by faith as Savior .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Doubting God's faithfulness is also fatal to any real security experience. Some are not sure of their salvation because they are not sure that God has received and saved. This state of mind is usually caused couple seeking a change in feelings rather than lay eyes on Christ's faithfulness.Feelings and experiences have their place, but, coma noted above, the definitive evidence of personal salvation is God's truthfulness. Which he has said, will, and not pious and commendable that a person suspicious of his salvation after being delivered as defined Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The assurance of salvation, consistent-mind, depends on understanding the full nature of God 'ssalvation for those who put their trust in Christ with. In part, it can be a confirmation in Christian experience, and usually there is a change of life in the person who has trusted Christ eat their Savior. It is essential to understand that the security of salvation depends on the certainty of God's promises and the assurance that the individual has given to Christ put faith trusting that He will fulfill these promises. The person who has been delivered in this way can rely on the faithfulness of God, who can not lie, fulfill his promise to save the believer par divine power and grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 12pt;">QUESTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can you distinguish the present security doctrine of the doctrine of eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it important assurance of salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How is the assurance of salvation is related to the signified Christ's death?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does security is related to the knowledge that salvation is a given?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does security is related to the knowledge that salvation is by grace alone?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is it reasonable to assume that a Christian know it's safe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> To what extent is subject to the loss of his assurance of salvation a carnal Christian?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does security is related to the knowledge that God is our Heavenly Father?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense is a confirmatory experience of salvation reality of prayer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Relate the ability to understand the Scriptures with the assurance of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In what sense perception of the sinfulness of sin with the assurance of salvation is related?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does provide a basis for safety salvation loving couple lost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Relate the fruit of the Spirit with the assurance of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does security assistance salvation putting faith in Christ in a definite act?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the acceptance of the promises of salvation is related in the Bible with the assurance of salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is it necessary to know the exact moment when the believer trusted Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is it important to know that now you trust in Christ eat your Savior?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What should you do if a person does not have the assurance of salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ETERNAL SECURITY OF SALVATION<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> lthough most believers in Christ accepts the doctrine that may have the assurance of salvation at some point in their experience, often the question is asked: "? Can you miss a person who has been saved" Since the fear of losing salvation could seriously affect the peace of mind of a believer, and because their future is so vital, this question is an important aspect of the doctrine of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The claim that a saved person can lose again is based on certain biblical passages that seem to offer doubt about the continuity of salvation. In the history of the church has been opposed interpretation systems known as Calvinism, in support of eternal security, and Arminianism, in opposition to eternal security (each named after the name of his most famous apologist, John Calvin and Jacobus Arminius ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. Arminian view of safety.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Those who support the Arminian view give a list of about eighty-five passages that support conditional security. Among these the most important are: </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Mt. 5:13; 6:23; 7: 16-19; 13: 1-8; 18: 23-35; 24: 4-5, 11- 13, 23-26; 25: 1-13; Lk. 8: 11-15; </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11: 24-28; 12: 42-46; Jn. 6: 66-71; 8:31, 32, 51; 13: 8; 15: 1-6; Acts. 5:32; 11: 21-23; </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13:43; 14: 21-22; Ro. 6: 11-23; 8: 12-17; 11: 20-22; 14: 15-23; 1 Corinthians 9: 23-27; 10: 1-21; </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11: 29-32; 15: 1-2; 2 Cor 1:24; 11: 2-4; 12: 21-13: 5; Ga. 2: 12-16; 3: 4-4: 1; 5: 1-4; 6: 7-9; </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Col. 1: 21-23; 2: 4-8, 18-19; 1 Thes. 3: 5; 1 Tim. 1: 3-7, 18- 20; 2: 11-15; 4: 1-16; 5: 5-15; 6: 9- </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12, 17-21; 2 Tim. 2: 11-18, 22-26; 3: 13-15; I have. 2: 1-3; 3: 6-19; 4: 1-16; 5: 8-9; 6: 4-20;</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10: 19-39; 11: 13-16; 12: 1-17, 25-29; 13: 7-17; Stg. 1: 12-26; 2: 14-26; 4: 4-10; 5: 19-20; 1 </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">P. 5: 9, 13; 2 Peter 1: 5-11; 2: 1- 22; 3: 16-17; 1 John. 1: 5 - 3:11; 5: 4-16; 2 John. 6-9; Jud. 5-12, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20-21; Rev 2: 7, 10-11, 17-26,. 3: 4-5, 8-22; 12:11; 17:14; 21: 7-8; 22: 18-19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The study of these passages requires consideration of a certain number of questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Probably the most important issue facing the interpreter of the Bible regarding this issue is to beable to know who is a true believer. Many who oppose the doctrine of eternal security do so on the basis that it is possible for a person with an intellectual faith without actually come to salvation. Those who adhere to the doctrine of eternal security agree that a person can have a surface conversion, or undergo a change of only outward life, external steps as accepting Christ, joining the church or being baptized, and even get to experience some change in their standard of living, but you have reached salvation in Christ. Although it is impossible to establish rules on how to distinguish one saved from an unsaved person obviously no doubts in the mind of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The individual believer must ensure first that has really received Christ as their Savior. In this it is helpful to understand that receive Christ is an act of will that may need some knowledge of the way of salvation and could, to some extent, have an emotional expression, but the fundamental question is this: "Have I really received Jesus Christ as my personal Savior? "While there has been honestly faced this question can not be, of course, a basis for eternal security, nor real security present salvation. Many who deny eternal security only mean that the superficial faith is not enough to save. Those who hold eternal security agree on this point. The correct way of posing the problem is whether a person who is currently safe and has received eternal life can lose what God has done to save him from sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Many of the passages cited by those opposed to the eternal security concern human works or evidence of salvation. Which is truly saved should manifest his new life in Christ through his character and his works. However, it can be misleading to judge a person by works. There are those who are not Christians and can be formed relatively to the morality of the Christian life, while there are genuine Christians can fall sometimes in carnality and sin to such a degree that you can not distinguish them from the unconverted. All agree that the single moral reform in Luke 11: 24-26 is not a genuine salvation, and return to the previous state of life is not to lose salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Several passages present the important fact that the Christian profession is justified by their fruits. Under normal conditions, salvation is God's will be tested by the fruit it produces (Jn 8:31; 15: 6.; 1 Corinthians 15: 1-2; Heb 3: 6-14; Jas. 2:14. -26; 2 Peter 1:10; 1 John 3:10).. However, not all Christians at all times manifest the fruits of salvation. Consequently, the passages dealing works as evidence of salvation not necessarily affect the doctrine of eternal security of the believer, since the decisive question is whether God himself believes that a person is saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Many passages cited to support the insecurity of believers are warning against a superficial belief in Christ. In the New Testament to the Jews, because the sacrifices have ceased, should turn to Christ or lost (Heb. 10:26) he warns. Similarly, unsaved Jews, like Gentiles are warned not to "fall" of the enlightening and regenerating work of the Spirit (Heb . 6: 4-9). Spiritual non - Jews that they will not be received in the coming kingdom (: 1-13 Mt. 25) It warns. It warns gentiles, asopposed to Israel as a group, the danger of losing their unbelief place of blessing they have in the current era (Rom. 11:21) group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Some passages speak of rewards and not salvation. A person who is saved and who is secure in Christ can lose his reward (1 Cor 3:15; Col. 1: 21- 23) and receive a reproof in service to Christ (1 Co.9: 27).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A genuine Christian can also lose their communion with God because of sin (1 Jn . 1: 6) and be deprived of any of the benefits present the believer, such as having the fruit of the Spirit (Gal . 5: 22-23) and enjoy the satisfaction of an effective Christian service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Because of its waywardness, a true believer can be punished or disciplined as a child is disciplined by his father (John 15: 2; 1 Cor . 11: 29-32 . ; 1 John 5:16), and you could reach the point of taking his physical life. However, this punishment is not evidence of lack of salvation, on the contrary, it is evidence that a child of God who is being treated as such by his Heavenly Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> According to Scripture, it is also possible that a believer is "fallen from grace" (Gal . 5: 1-4).Properly interpreted, this does not refer to a Christian lose salvation, but the fall of a state of grace in life and the loss of true freedom in Christ for having returned to the bondage of legalism. This fall is a lifestyle, not the work of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Many of the difficulties are related passages taken out of context, especially in passages that relate to another dispensation. The Old Testament does not give a clear view of eternal security, although it can be assumed on the basis of the New Testament teaching that an Old Testament saint was truly born again was as safe as a believer in the current era. However, the passages referring to a past or future dispensation must be interpreted in context, as Ezekiel 33: 7-8, and passages of great importance as Deuteronomy 28, dealing with the blessings and curses that come to Israel by Ia obedience or disobedience of the law. Other passages refer to false teachers and unregenerate of the last days (1 Timothy 4: 1-2; 2 Peter 2:.. 1-22; Jud 17-19), although they are people who have made a profession of Christians never have come to have salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> A number of passages presented in support of insecurity have been simply misunderstood, as Matthew 24:13: ". He who endures to the end shall be saved" This refers not to the salvation of guilt and power of sin, but to liberation from enemies and persecution. This verse refers to those who survive the tribulation and are rescued by Jesus Christ in his second coming. Scripture clearly teaches that many true believers die as martyrs before the coming of Christ and not remain or survive until Christ returns (Rev. 7:14). This passage illustrates how wrong can begiven to a verse in relation to the issue of security and insecurity applications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The final answer to the question of security or insecurity of the believer is the answer to the question "Who does the work of salvation?". The concept that the believer once saved is always saved is based on the principle that salvation is God 's work and not rest on any merit of the believer and not retained by any effort of the believer. If man was the author of salvation, it would be unsafe. But being the work of God, it is safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The solid biblical basis to believe that a person is saved always saved is supported by at least twelve major arguments. Four relate to the work of the Father, the Son four and four to the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">B. THE WORK OF THE FATHER IN THE SALVATION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Scripture reveals the sovereign promise of God, which is unconditional and promises eternal salvation to all who believe in Christ (John 3:16;. 5:24; 6:37). Obviously God can deliver what it promises, and his immutable will is revealed in Rom. 8: 29- 30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The infinite power of God can save and save forever (Jn 10:29; Ro 4:21;.. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8:31, 38-39; 14: 4; Ephesians 1: 19- 21; 3:. 20; Fil . 3:21; 2 Tim 1: 12; I 7:.... 25; Jud 24) it </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">is clear that God has not only fidelity to fulfill its promises, but the power to do everything he intends to do. The Scriptures reveal that He desires the salvation of those who believe in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The infinite love of God not only explains the eternal purpose of God, but says its purpose will (John 3:16; Rom . 5: 7-10; Eph . 1: 4.). In Romans 5: 8-11 says that the love of God for the saved is greater than his love for the unsaved, and this ensures their eternal security. The argument is simple: If you loved men so much that He gave His Son and gave himself for them when they were "sinners" and "enemies" will love them more when his redeeming grace are justified before their eyes and be reconciled with God's superabundant love of God who has redeemed at infinite cost is sufficient guarantee that will never allow them to be snatched from his hand without all the resources of infinite power are exhausted (John 10..: 28-29); and, of course, the infinite power of God can never be exhausted. The promise of the Father, the infinite power of the Father and the infinite love of God make it impossible for a person who has been surrendered to God the Father through faith in Jesus Christ lose the salvation that God worked in his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The justice of God also guarantees the eternal security of those who have relied in Christ because with the demands of divine justice have been completely satisfied by the death of Christ, because He died for the sins of the world (1 Jn. 2 :2). By forgiving sin and promise eternal salvation, God is acting on a perfectly fair basis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">To save the sinner, God made on the basis of lenity and is perfectly fair to forgive not only the Old Testament who lived before the cross of Christ, but to all those who live after the cross of Christ ( Rom. 3: 25-26). Consequently, you can not doubt the eternal security of the believer without putting into question the righteousness of God. Thus we have their faithfulness to his promises, his infinite power, infinite love and infinite justice combine to give the believer the absolute assurance of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. THE WORK OF THE SON<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The vicarious death of Jesus Christ on the cross is an absolute guarantee of the security of the believer. Christ's death is sufficient response to damning power of sin (Rom 8:34). Where it is alleged that bran may be lost again, usually it has done on the basis of any possible sin. This assumption necessarily proceeds from the assumption that Christ did not take all the sins that the believer commits, and that God, having saved a soul, may be surprised and disappointed by an unexpected sin committed after salvation. On the contrary, the omniscience of God is perfect.He knows in advance all sin or thought secret that can obscure the life of his child, and atoning and enough blood of Christ was shed for those sins and God has been propitiated by blood (1 Jn . 2: 2). Thanks to the blood, reaching for the sins of the saved and unsaved, God is free to continue his saving grace to those who have no merit. He keeps them forever, not for their sake only, but to satisfy their self - esteem and express their own grace (Romans 5: 8; Eph . 2: 7-10.).All condemnation is removed forever by the fact that salvation and preservation depend only onthe sacrifice and the merits of the Son of God (John 3: 18; 5:24; Romans 8: 1; 1 Cor 11:31. -32).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The resurrection of Christ, cone seal of God upon the death of Christ, guarantees the resurrection and the life of believers (Jn 3:16; 10:28; Eph . 2: 6.). Two vital facts connected with the resurrection of Christ make the eternal security is true. The gift of God is eternal life (Rom .6:23), and this life is the life of the risen Christ (Col. 2:12; 3: 1). This life is eternal as Christ is eternal and can not dissolve and thus destroy as Christ can not be dissolved or destroyed. The Son of God also is made part of the new creation in the resurrection of Christ by baptism of the Spirit and receive eternal life. As a sovereign subject of the creative work of God, the creature can not make the creation process go back, and because in Christ as the last Adam, can not fall, because Christ can not fall. Although there are obvious failures in life and Christian experience, they do not affect the position of the believer in Christ is holy thanks to the grace of God and the death and resurrection of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The work of Christ as our advocate in heaven also guarantees our eternal security (Ro 8:34; He 9:24; 1 John 2:.. . 1). In his work as a lawyer or legal representative of the believer, Christ invokes the sufficiency of His work on the cross as the basis for propitiation, or satisfaction of all claims of God to the sinner, and thus effect the reconciliation of the sinner with God through Jesus Christ. Since the work of Christ is perfect, the true believer can rest in the assurance of the perfection of Christ's work by himself as a representative of the believer in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The work of Christ as our intercessor supplements and confirms his work as our advocate (Jn 17: 1-26; Rom 8:34; I . 7: 23-25 . .). The present ministry of Christ in glory has to do with the eternal on earth are saved security. Christ, at the same time and it is our advocate intercedes. As intercessor, takes into account the weakness, ignorance and immaturity of the believer, things about which there is no fault. In this ministry Christ not only prays for his people who are in the world and for all your needs (Luke 22: 31- 32; Jn 17:... 9, 15, 20; Romans 8:34), but above the basis of its self - sufficiency in his priesthood, guarantees that will be kept saved forever (Jn 14:19;. Ro 5:10;. I 7:25.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Taken as a whole, the work of Christ in His death, resurrection, and intercession law provides absolute security for those who are thus represented by Christ on the cross and in heaven. If salvation is a work of God for man and not a work of man to God, the result is true and safe and the promise of John 5:24 that the believer does not come into judgment << 'will be fulfilled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">D. WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The work of regeneration or new birth the believer is made partaker of the divine nature is an irreversible process and work of God (Jn 1:13; 3:. 3-6; Titus 3: 4-6; 1. P. 1:23; 2 Peter 1: 4; 1 John 3: 9).. Just as no reversion to the creative process, there can be no reversion to the process of the new birth. Because it is a work of God and not man, and is done entirely on the principle of grace, there is a fair basis or reason why I should not go on forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The indwelling presence of the Spirit in the believer is a permanent possession of believers during this present age (John 7: 37-39; Rom . 5: 5; 8:. 9; 1 Cor 2:12; 6:19; 1 John. 2:27). In times before Pentecost not all believers possessed the Spirit inside even if they were sure of their salvation;however, in today 's era that the believer 's body, even sinful and corrupt, is the temple of God, it constitutes another confirmatory evidence of the immutable purpose of God to finish what began to save the believer. Although the Spirit may be grieved by unconfessed sins (Eph. 4:30) and can be turned off in the sense of being resisted (1 Thes. 5:19), I never hinted that these acts cause loss of salvation in the believer. Rather, it happens that the very fact of salvation and the continued presence of the Holy Spirit in the heart constitutes the basis for the call to return to walk in fellowship and conformity with the will of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The work of the Spirit in baptism by which the believer is united to Christ and the body of Christ forever, is another evidence of safety. By the baptismal ministry of the Spirit, the believer is attached to the body of which Christ is the Head (1 Cor 6:17; 12:13; Ga . 3:27) and, therefore, is said to be in Christ. To be in Christ is a union that is both vital and permanent time. In this union the old "position and relationships that were the basis of Doom" passed, and all positions and relations have made new and are of God (2 Corinthians 5:17, 18). Being accepted in the beloved forever, the Son of God is as safe as the one in whom it is, and who remains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The presence of the Holy Spirit in the believer is said to be the seal of God that will last until the day of redemption, the day of the translation or resurrection of the believer (2 Cor 1:22; Eph 1: 13-. 14; 4:30). The seal of the Holy Spirit is God's work and represents salvation and security of the person and sealed until God complete his purpose to present the perfect believer in heaven;therefore, it is another evidence that once saved the believer is always saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Taken as a whole, eternal security of the believer rests on the nature of salvation. It is the work of God, no. the work of men. Lies in the power and faithfulness of God, not in the strength and loyalty of man. If salvation were by works, or if salvation was a reward for faith as a good deed, it would be understandable that put in doubt the safety of man. But since resting on grace and promises of God, the believer can be confident in their safety and, with Paul, being "confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ "(Phil. 1: 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Then you can conclude from this great body of truth that God's eternal purpose, which is to preserve his people, there can never be defeated. To this end he planned any possible obstacle. Sin, which could result in separation, has been led by a substitute, so that the believer is saved, he invokes the effectiveness of his death before the throne of God. The will of the believer is under divine control (Phil. 2:13), and all test or temptation is tempered by the infinite grace and wisdom of God (1 Cor 10:13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">One can not emphasize strongly enough that, although in this chapter have sought salvation and preservation divine salvation as separate companies, as an adaptation to the usual way of speaking, the Bible makes no such distinction. According to Scripture, there is no salvation proposal offered to lower undertaken grace, infinitely perfect than and stay forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it important for the believer the question of eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the opposite positions of Calvinism and Arminianism on the question of eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> About how many passages present the Arminians saying that teach the doctrine of conditional security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> By studying these passages, what is the most important question?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What agree all parties to the issue of security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is there any doubt in the mind of God about who are saved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is it true that the superficial faith is not enough to save himself?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How do you rate the various passages cited in opposition to eternal security and human works presenting evidence of salvation eat?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Should warnings against a superficial faith considered as warnings against the possibility of losing salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is it possible for a Christian to lose your reward in heaven and still be saved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is it possible that a genuine Christian lose communion with God and still be saved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is it possible for a true believer to be punished disciplined and still be saved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How do you explain the term "fall from grace" in relation to Christian salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is no difficulty in Old Testament passages on the question of eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How do you explain Matthew 24:13?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why security to insecurity depends on the question "Who does the work of salvation?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the four works of the Father who support eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">18.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is the work of God the Father in salvation alone guarantee eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">19.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the four works of God the Son who support the doctrine of eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Christ's death is related to the eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">21.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Christ's resurrection to eternal security concerns?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">22.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How Christ's works relate eat intercessor and lawyer eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">23.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the four works of the Holy Spirit in relation to the eternal security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">24.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is the new birth a reversible process?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">25.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is there a case of someone who has been born again more than once in the Scriptures?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">26.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How permanent indwelling presence of the Spirit with the eternal security is related?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">27.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Can a believer lose the Spirit of the current era?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">28.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is achieved by the Spirit in baptism in relation to security?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">29.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does a promise of security is the promise of the Spirit as a seal until the day of redemption?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">30.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> can we sum up the reasons for that eternal security rests on the nature of salvation eat God 's work?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">31.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does include the aspect of the security of the believer nature of salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">DIVINE ELECTION<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. DEFINITION OF CHOICE<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Scriptures reveal God as an absolute ruler who by his own will wanted to create the universe and direct history according to a preordained plan. The concept of an infinite and omnipotent God agrees with the fact that is sovereign and has the power to implement its program in the way He wanted to determine. However, the understanding of that plan by the man presents many problems and, in particular, how can man act freely and responsibly on a set universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Human systems of thought have had the tendency to go to extremes, one in which the sovereign purpose of God is presented as an absolute, or the other in that man's freedom is magnified to the point that God no longer has control about things. In trying to solve this difficulty, the only solution is to turn to divine revelation and try to interpret human experience based on what the Bible teaches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In Scripture, the sovereign purpose of God extends to nations and individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Reference is made to Israel as a chosen nation (Isaiah 45: 4; 65: 9 . 22). The word "elect" is often applied to individuals who are elected for salvation (Matthew </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">24:22, 24, 31; Mr 13:20, 22, 27; Luke 18: 7; Romans 8:33; Col.. . 3:12; 1 Tim 5:21; 2 Timothy 2:10;.. </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Titus 1: 1; 1 Pet . 1: 2; 5:13; 2 John 1, 13).. The same expression is used to refer to Christ (Isaiah 42: 1; 1 Peter 2: 6 . ). In addition to the word chosen, the fact of the election (.;: 5, 7, 28; 1 Thessalonians 1: 4; 2 Peter 1:10. 11 Ro 9:11) is mentioned. The thought of the election is that the person or group mentioned have been chosen for a divine purpose usually related to salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The word chosen <<> is synonymous with the word chosen << >>. It applies to Israel (Is 44: 1.), the church (Eph 1: 4; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Pet. 2: 9.), and the apostles (Jn 6:70, 13. : 18; Acts 1: 2)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A number of expressions are related to the concept of choice or be chosen, such as <destined >> (1 Peter 1:20) and <Predestination >> (Ro 8:29, 30; Eph. 1: 5, 11. ). The thought is to determine in advance, as in Acts 4:28, or presort and Judas 4 and Ephesians 2:10. In addition, there is frequent reference to this concept in the Bible, where the word <decreed> (2 Chron. 25:16) is used, <agreed> (Isa. 19:17), <set> (Lk. 22:22 ), <default> (Acts. 17:26). Thinking of all these expressions is that God's choice precedes the act and is determined by its sovereign will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">The election, the pre-planning and predestination have been made according to the divine purpose of God (Eph . 1: 9; 3:11), and the scriptures are related to the foreknowledge of God (Acts 2:23; Rom. . 8:29; 11: 2; 1 Peter 1: 2). Another related word is the word <call>, as in Romans 8:30 and many other passages (1 Cor 1: 9, 7:18, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">20, 21, 22, 24; 15: 9; Ga-5: 13; Ephesians 4:... 1, 4; Col. 3:15; 1 Tim 6:12; Hebrews 5: 4; 9:15; 1 Peter </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2:21; 3: 9; 1 John 3: 1).. In Jn. 12:32 our Lord referred to the call as action to bring men to God (cf. Joh. 6:44). All these passages imply that a sovereign God is carrying out its purpose; in purpose certain men have been chosen for salvation, and certain nations, especially Israel, have been chosen to fulfill a divine purpose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the doctrine of election beyond human understanding, it is clearly taught in Scripture. By virtue of divine election, God has chosen certain individuals for salvation and predestined for them to be shaped according eh character of His Son Jesus Christ (Rom 16:13; Eph. 1: 4-5; 2 Thessalonians 2:13.. ; 1 Peter 1: 2). It is clear that the choice has its origin in God and that this election is part of God's eternal plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">God's choice is not an act of God in time, but a part of his eternal purpose. This appears in numerous passages such as Ephesians 1: 4, which says: "He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love." According to 2 Timothy 1: 9, our choice is "according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ before the world began."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Because the plan of God is eternal election, as an essential part of the plan, it must be eternal. A difficult problem in the doctrine of election is the relationship between the election and the foreknowledge. One way of interpretation that tends to soften the concept of choice is built on the idea that God knew who would receive Christ, and on the basis of that knowledge chose them to salvation. However, this concept has inherent problems because God makes is subject to a plan in which He is not sovereign. Although the choice and prescience are co-extensive, the foreknowledge itself would not be determinative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although theologians have struggled with these problems and have not reached satisfactory conclusions, a possible solution is to start by recognizing that God is omniscient, that is, that he was aware of all possible plans for the universe. Of all the possible plans with its infinite variations God chose a plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Having chosen a plan and knowing in detail, God could know in advance who would be saved or elected and all the details about salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">However, the immediate problem that the interpreter presented is that of human freedom. By experience and according to the Scriptures, it seems evident that man has decisions to make. How can you avoid the arrival to that everything is predetermined and there are no moral choices that make fatalistic system? Is a mockery of human responsibility, or is it real? These are the problems facing the interpreter of Scripture on this difficult doctrine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although theologians have failed to completely solve the problem of divine election in relation to human decisions and the moral responsibility of man, the answer seems to be that, when choosing a God plan, chose the plan as a whole, not piece by piece . He knew beforehand, prior to the election plan, who would be saved and who is not Serla except in such plan. By faith we must assume that God chose the best possible plan, and that had there been a better plan, this would have been put into operation because God would have chosen. The plan included many things that God himself would do, such as the creation and establishment of natural law included what God sovereignly chose to do for itself, such as revealed through prophets and influence men in their choices even when they remain responsible for the choices they make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In other words, the plan included giving the man some freedom of choice, and it would be responsible. The fact that God knew what he would do under each plan every man does not mean that God would force men to do something against their will and then punish him for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">In the notable example of the crucifixion of Christ, around which revolved around the plan of God, Dilato freely chose to crucify Christ and was made responsible for it. Judas Iscariot betrayed Christ freely decided and was held responsible for it. However, decisions of Pilate and Judas were an essential part of God's program and were certain thing before they do the execution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Consequently, although there are problems of human understanding, the best solution is to accept what the Bible teaches, whether we understand it or not. Sometimes the best translations help, as in 1 Peter 1: 1-2, which says that Christians are << according to the foreknowledge of God the Father>, which makes the choice be subject to the foreknowledge of God. However, the word chosen >> qualifies the word << >> expatriates verse 1, and is not teaching the logical order of the election in relation to the foreknowledge, but the fact that they are co-extensive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Some help can be found in the fact that the whole process of divine purpose, choice and prescience are eternal. All that man can do is try to establish a logical relationship, but all these things have been true in the mind of God, and God did not reach its decisions after long considering the difficulties of each plan. In other words, there was never another plan, and so all aspects of the eternal purpose of God are equally eternal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Then we must conclude that the election and related terms are clearly taught in the Bible, and that means that some were chosen to salvation and others, not being elected, were overlooked. The choice is eternal and is not an act of God performed in time. In choosing God does not conform to the foreknowledge, although the choice comes from the divine omniscience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although there are serious problems in human understanding of this doctrine, we must submit to divine revelation even when we can not fully understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">C. DEFENSE OF THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although some theologians, to solve the problem, have tried to explain that suppress the doctrine of election, in fact, to deny what Scripture teaches, the arguments against divine election come from misunderstandings. It is sometimes claimed to hold the election is to affirm that God is arbitrary. Of course, this comes disbelief. God is sovereign, but its sovereignty is always wise, holy, good and full of love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Another objection frequently occurs is that this doctrine makes unfair to not include everyone in his purpose of salvation God. At this point, we see that God is not obligated to save any and only saves those who want to believe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the work of God in the salvation of an individual is inscrutable -since there is obviously an act of grace when one person believes in Christ and salvation, the Bible clearly commands the man who creates Acts. 16:31). No one is saved against his will, and no one stops believing against their will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">A common objection to this doctrine is that it discourages missionary effort to bring the gospel to the lost and discourages those who wish to be saved. The answer is that God has included in its plan that the gospel is preached to every creature and God desires the salvation of all (2 Peter 3: 9).However, by establishing a moral universe in which men choose between believing or not believing, it is inevitable that some loss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Another objection is that if some are elected for salvation and others are not chosen to be saved, they have no hope in their state of perdition. Scripture clearly emphasize that some are elected for salvation and unbelievers are destined to their fate, not because the men who wanted to be saved could not attain salvation, but always on the basis that those who are not saved chose not to be saved. God's mercy is shown in his patience, as in Romans 9: 21-22 and 2 Peter 3: 9. Nobody can ever stand before God and say, "I wanted to be safe, but I could not because I was not chosen."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Although the great sages and students of the Bible in general continue to struggle with this difficult doctrine, the fact of divine election is clearly presented in the Scriptures, and those who are saved, but were not aware of the doctrine when they accepted Christ, they can boast the fact that they were in God's plan from eternity past and that their salvation is a supreme illustration of the grace of God. A God who is sovereign and eternal logically must have a planned program. On the basis of biblical revelation, the believer in Christ can only conclude that the plan of God is holy, wise and good, that God is a patient God who is concerned about the lost state of those who reject salvation, to prepare which Christ died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why is it reasonable to assume that God has a sovereign plan for the universe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What are the two extremes to which human thought has tended regarding the sovereign purpose of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can you prove that the sovereign purpose of God extends to individuals and nations as well as other groups?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> ¿Cuá1es are the various words used to express the idea of choice?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is the central idea of all expressions used in connection with the election?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What is carried out by divine choice?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">7.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> What evidence supports the idea that the divine choice was from eternity past?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">8.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How does the choice is related to the foreknowledge?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">9.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can you solve the problem of the relationship between human freedom and divine election?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">10.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Explain how is included in the divine plan of human freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">11.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Explain how Christ's crucifixion is an outstanding illustration of human freedom and God's plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">12.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why should an individual accept the doctrine of election even if you do not understand?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">13.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How can respond objections to the election alleging that arbitrary and unjust God made?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">14.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> How would you respond to objections that the doctrine of election opposes missionary efforts?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">15.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Why was necessary in God's plan that some were lost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">16.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Does it give the doctrine of election an excuse to not save the lost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;">17.</span></b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Is there evidence that the plan of God is holy, wise and good and God is patient and is really concerned about the state of destruction of those who refuse to receive salvation?</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-74755295637547360852016-04-03T12:56:00.002-07:002016-04-03T12:56:17.506-07:00ADOPTION<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To all those who are justified: <b>Gal. 3: 24-26.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. God deigned: 1 June 3: 1-3..<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> in his only Son Jesus Christ and love this: <b>Eph. fifteen; Gá.4: 4.5; Ro. 8: 17.29.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Make them participate in the grace of adoption, which are included in the number of the children of God and enjoy their liberties and privileges, have their names written on them: <b>Ro. 8:17; 1:12 June.; 2 Cor 6:18; Ap. 3:12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> receive the Spirit of adoption, have access to the throne of grace with confidence, trained to cry, "Abba, Father: <b>Rom. 8:15; Eph. 3:12; Ro. 5: 2; Gal. 4: 6; Eph. 2:18.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> receive compassion, protection, provision and correction as a parent, are never discarded, but are sealed unto the day of redemption: <b>Psalm 103: 13; Pr 14:26.; Matthew 6:30, 32; 1 Peter 5: 7; I have 12: 6; Is 54: 8, 9;. Lm. 3:31; Eph. 4:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And inherit the promises as heirs of eternal salvation: <b>Rom. 8:17; I 1:14; 9:15.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ADOPTION </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">(MEMBERSHIP IN THE FAMILY OF GOD)</span><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BEING A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY OF GOD?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL EXPLANATION AND BASES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In regeneration God gives us new spiritual life in our inner being. In justification God gives us proper legal standing before him. But in decision he makes us members of his family. Therefore, the biblical teaching on adoption focuses more on personal relationships that salvation gives us with God and with their children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL EVIDENCE OF ADOPTION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can define adoption as follows: Adoption is an act of God by which he makes us members of his family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John mentions the adoption at the beginning of his gospel, which says: "But as many as received Him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" Gn 1: 12). Consequently, those who do not believe in Christ are not God's children or adopted into his family, but they are "children of wrath" (Eph 2: 3, RVR 1960) and "children of disobedience" (Eph. 2: 2; 5: 6, RVR 1960).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the Jews who rejected Christ tried to claim that God was his Father Gn 8: 41), Jesus said, "If God were your Father Jesus answered them, you would love me ... You are of your father the devil ,'s desires "Gen. 8: 42-44).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The New Testament letters also testify repeatedly of the fact that we are children of God in a special sense, members of his family. Paul says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. And you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear, but the Spirit of adoption as sons, whereby we cry: "Abba Padre¡" The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God. And if we are children, we are heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, we will also have part with him in his glory. (Rom 8: 14-17)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But if we are children of God, we are then related to other members of your family about? Undoubtedly yes. In fact, this adoption within the family of God makes us all participants of a family even with believing Jews of the Old Testament, for Paul tells us that we too are children of Abraham, "Neither for being descendants of Abraham are all his children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the contrary: "Your offspring will be through Isaac." In other words, God's children are not the natural descendants; rather, it is considered descendants of Abraham to the children of the promise "(Rom 9: 7-8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He explained in Galatians: "You, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise ... Therefore, brethren, we are not children of the slave but of the free" (Gal 4: 28, 31, 1st P 3: 6, where Peter sees the believing women as daughters of Sara in the new covenant).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul explains that this adoption as children of God was not carried out completely in the old covenant.He says that "before this faith came, the law held us prisoners. So the law became our guide in charge of conduct to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to the guide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus "(Gal 3: 23-26). This does not mean that the Old Testament omitted by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I completely speak of God as our Father, because God called himself the father of the children of Israel and called them children on several occasions (Ps 103: 13; Isaiah 43: 6-7; Mal 1: 6; 2:10). But although there was an awareness of God as Father of the people of Israel, benefits and full privileges of membership in the family of God, and the full realization of that membership, did not take place until Christ came and the Spirit of the Son of God He spilled in our hearts, and bore witness with our spirit that we are children of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What evidence do we see in our lives that we are children of God? Paul sees clear evidence of this in the fact that the Holy Spirit witnesses in our hearts that we are children of God: "But when the time was fulfilled, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. You are children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son who cries, "Abba, Father!" So you are no longer a slave but a son; and if a son, God has made you also an heir "(Gal 4: 4-7).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The First Epistle of John also places great emphasis on our status as children of God: "How great is the love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God! And we are !. Dear friends, now we are children of God) (1 John 3: 1-2; John often calls his readers' children) or (little children).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although Jesus speaks of us as "my brothers)) (Heb 2:12) and he is therefore a greater sense our brother in the family of God (Heb 2: 1-14), and can be recognized as "the firstborn among many brethren), it is, however, careful to make a clear distinction between the way in which God is our heavenly Father and the way he relates to God the Father. He told Mary Magdalene: "I return to my Father, and your Father; my God, which is your God) (Gn 20: 17), thereby making a clear distinction between the much larger sense and eternal in God is his Father, and the sense that God is our Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the New Testament says that we are now children of God (1 Jn 3: 2), we should also note that there is another sense in which our adoption is still future because we will not receive all the benefits and privileges of adoption until Christ returns and have resurrected bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul speaks of that complete and future sense of adoption when he says: "And not only [creation], but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, that is, the redemption of our body "(Rom 8: 23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul sees here the reception of the new resurrection bodies as the fulfillment of our privileged adoption, to the point that refers to it as "wait eagerly for our adoption as sons."<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FOLLOW THE ADOPTION CONVERSION AND IS A RESULT OF SAVING FAITH<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We might initially think that we become children of God by regeneration, since the image of "born again" in the regeneration leads us to think of children born within a human family. But the New Testament never connects the adoption regeneration. Actually, the idea of adoption is the opposite of the idea of being born in a family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rather, the New Testament relates adoption with saving faith, and says that in response to put our trust in Christ, God has adopted us into his family. Paul says: "You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3: 23-26).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And John writes: "But as many as received Him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" (In 1:12). These two verses make it clear that adoption follows conversion and that is God's answer to our faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">You can file an objection arising from the declaration of Paul: "You are sons. God has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son who cries, "Abba, Father" (Gal 4: 6)!.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Someone could understand this verse to mean that God adopts us as children first and then gives us the Holy Spirit to produce regeneration in our hearts. But a few verses earlier Paul had said that we become "sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3: 26).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, Paul's statement in Galatians 4: 6 is best understood not as a reference to give the Holy Spirit in regeneration, but rather as an additional activity of the Holy Spirit in which he begins to witness with our spirit and ensure that we are members of God's family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This work of the Holy Spirit gives us security of our adoption, and it is in this sense that Paul says that, after being our children, God makes his Holy Spirit within us leads us to exclaim: "Abba! Father "(Rom 8: 15-16)!.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ADOPTION AND GROUNDS ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although adoption is a privilege that comes at the time when we become Christians (Jn 1:12; Gal 3:26; 1st Jn3: 1-2), however, is a privilege that is different and distinct justification of regeneration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In regeneration we are made alive spiritually, able to relate to God through prayer and worship and able to hear His Word with receptive hearts. But it is possible that God could have creatures that are alive and yet not be members of their family and not participating in the special privileges of the members of the family; for example, angels apparently fall into this category.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, it would have been possible for God to decide to give feedback without the great privileges of adoption in his family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Furthermore, God could have given us justification without the privileges of adoption in his family, because he could have forgiven our sins and give us a correct legal position before him without having made his children. It is important that we realize this because it helps us recognize how great are our privileges in adoption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Regeneration has to do with our inner spiritual life. The justification has to do with our standing before God's law. But adoption has to do with our relationship with God as our Father, and the adoption receive many of the great blessings we know for eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we begin to realize the excellence of these blessings, and we appreciate that God is under no obligation to give them to us, then we will be able to exclaim with the apostle John: "How great love has given the Father, that we should be called children of God "(1 Jn 3: 1)!.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE PRIVILEGES OF THE ADOPTION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The benefits or privileges that accompany the adoption can see, first, how God relates to us, and then also in the way we relate to others as brothers in one family of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">One of the greatest privileges of our adoption is being able to talk to God and relate to him as a good and loving Father. It invites us to pray: "Our Father who art in heaven" (Mt 6: 9), and we have to realize that "are no longer a slave but a son" (Gal 4: 7).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, we have now to relate to God as a slave was related to his master, but as a son is related to his Father. Actually, God gives us an inner testimony of the Holy Spirit who leads us instinctively to call God Father. "And you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear, but the Spirit of adoption as sons and we cry," Abba, Father! " The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God "(Rom 8: 15-16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This relationship with God as our Father is the foundation of many other blessings of the Christian life, and becomes the primary way in which we relate to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is true that God is our Creator, our judge, our Lord, our Master, our Provider, Sustainer and Protector, and his providential care that sustains our existence. But the role that is more intimate, and transmits the highest privileges of fellowship with God for eternity, is its role as our good heavenly Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The fact that God relates to us as Father shows us clearly that he loves us (1a Jn 3: 1)., He understands us (so compassionate is the Lord with those who fear him as a father with his sons knows our frame; knows we are mud "[Psalm 103: 13-14]), and he takes care of our needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them "Mt 6:32). Moreover, in his role as our Father, God gives us many gifts: "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him "(Mt 7: 11). We especially given the gift of the Holy Spirit to take comfort and to train for the ministry and to live the Christian life (Lk 11: 13): In fact, not only are the gifts that God gives us in this life, but also gives us a large inheritance in heaven, because we have become joint heirs with Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul says, "So you are no longer a slave but a son; and if a son, God has made you also an heir "(Gal 4: 7);we really are "heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ" (Rom 8: 17). As his heirs have the right to "an indestructible, never perish heritage. Such inheritance is reserved in heaven for you "(1 <sup>to</sup> P 1: 4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All the great privileges and blessings of heaven are prepared for us and available to us because we are children of the King, members of the royal family, princes and princesses who reign with Christ over the new heavens and new earth (Rev. 2: 26-27 ; 3:21). As a foretaste of this great privilege, the angels are even now sent to minister and serve (Heb 1: 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is in this context of relationships with God as our heavenly Father that we understand the prayer Jesus told his disciples to do daily: "Our Father who art in heaven. Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors "(Matthew 6: 9-12). In this daily prayer for the forgiveness of our sins is not a prayer that God give us the justification again and again throughout our lives, because justification is an event that occurs once, and occurs immediately after that we have put our trust in Christ with saving faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rather, the daily prayer for forgiveness of sins is a prayer in which we ask that parental relationships of God with us, who have been interrupted by some sin, are restored, and he relates again with us as a Father who delights in the children he loves. The prayer "forgive us our debts" it is therefore a prayer that does not relate to God as the eternal judge of the universe, but with God our Father. In a prayer in which we seek to restore our fellowship with our Father who had been interrupted because of sin (see 1 <sup>A</sup> John 1: 9; 3: 19-22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another benefit of adoption is also the privilege of being led by the Holy Spirit. Paul indicates that this is a moral benefit because that way the Holy Spirit puts in us the desire to obey God and live according to his will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God" (Rom 8: 14), and gives this as a reason why Christians should give "death the misdeeds of the body" through the work of the Holy Spirit working within them (v. 13; note the "because" at the beginning of v. 14). He sees the Holy Spirit as directing and leading the children of God in the ways of obedience to God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another privilege of adoption within the family of God, although we do not always recognize 10 as a privilege, is the fact that God disciplines us as his children. "And have already forgotten the words of encouragement as children are directed:" My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and chastises anyone who accepts as a son "(Heb 12: 5-6, quoting Proverbs 3: 11-12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The author of Hebrews explains: "God is treating you as sons. What child is not disciplined by his father?But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness "(Heb 12: 7, 10). Just as earthly children grow in obedience and righteousness when you are disciplined appropriately for their earthly parents, we also grow in righteousness and holiness when we are disciplined by our heavenly Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Related to the paternal discipline of God is the fact that, as children of God and joint heirs with Christ, we are privileged to participate in both their suffering and subsequent glory. As Luke tells us "? Did he not Christ suffer these things before entering his glory" (Lk 24:26), so God gives us the privilege of walking the same path that Christ walked, supporting the suffering in this life so that we may receive great glory in the afterlife, "and if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, we will also have part with him in his glory (Rom 8: 17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition to these great privileges that have to do with our relationship with God and our communion with him, we also have privileges adoption that affect how we interact with each other and affect our own personal behavior. Because we are children of God, our relationship with each other is much deeper and more intimate relations with the angels, for example, because we are all members of a family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The New Testament often refers to Christians as "brothers and (sisters) in Christ (Rom 1:13; 8:12; 1 Ca 1:10; 6: 8; James 1: 2; Mt 12: 50; Ro 16: 1; 1 <sup>to</sup> Co 7:15; Philemon 1: 2; Stg2. 15). Besides this, in many verses in which he speaks of the whole church as (siblings) should not be understood as referring only to men in the congregation, but are general references to the whole church, and, except where the context explicitly stated otherwise, they should be taken as meaning "brothers and sisters in the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The designation "brethren is so common in the epistles which is the predominant form in which the New Testament writers refer to other Christians who are writing. This indicates the strong awareness they had of the nature of the church as God's family. In fact, Paul tells Timothy that relates to the church at Ephesus, and individuals within the church, as if it was related to members of an extended family. "Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Treat younger men as brothers; older women as mothers; young women, as sisters, with all purity "(1 <sup>to</sup>Ti 5: 1-2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This concept of the church as God's family should give a new perspective on the work of the church; It is a "family work" and various family members should never compete with one another or hindered each other in their efforts, but should encourage each other and be grateful for any good or progress that has any member the family, because all contribute to the good of the family and the honor of God our Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In fact, as well as members of an earthly family often have moments of joy and companionship when they work together on a project, just as our moments to work together in building up the church should be opportunities for great joy and companionship with a others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, as members of an earthly family honor their parents and serve the purpose of a family, especially when they welcome new brothers or sisters recently adopted within the family, we also ought to welcome the new members of the family of Christ with joy and love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another aspect of our membership in the family of God is that we, as children of God, we must imitate our Father in heaven in all our behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul says, "Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children" (Eph 5: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Peter echoes the same subject is when he says: "As obedient children, to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance do not conform. Rather, you are holy in everything you do, as is holy who called; for it is written: "Be holy because I am holy" (1 <sup>to</sup> P 1: 14-16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Both Peter and Paul realize that it is natural for children to imitate their earthly parents. They appeal to this natural sense they have children in order to remember that we imitate our heavenly Father, and indeed this should be something we like to do and delight in it. If God our Father in heaven is holy, we ought to be holy as obedient children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we walk in the paths of right conduct our heavenly Father honor and glorify him. When we act in ways that are pleasing to God, we must do in order that others "may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven" (Mt 5: 16). Paul encourages the Philippians to maintain pure conduct before unbelievers "to be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In which you shine like stars in the sky "(Phil 2:15). Indeed, a coherent model of moral behavior is also an evidence that we are truly children of God. <span class="">John says, "So we know who </span><span class="">the children of God and the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God; </span>nor is he who does not love his brother "(1 <sup>to</sup> Jn 3:10). </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-8291548207435345382016-04-03T12:54:00.001-07:002016-04-03T12:54:27.094-07:00SANTIFICATION<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who are in Christ, are effectually called and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them by virtue of the death and resurrection of Christ: June 3. 3-8; June 1 2:29.; 3: 9,10; Ro. 1: 7; 2 Cor 1: 1; Eph. eleven; Phil. eleven; Col. 3:12; Acts. 20:32; 26:18; Ro. 15:16; 1 Cor 1: 2; 6:11; Ro. 6: 1-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Even more sanctified of a real and personal way: 1 Thes. 5:23; Ro. 6:19, 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By the same virtue: 1 Co. 6:11; Acts. 20:32; Phil. 3:10; Ro. 6: 5, 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By His Word and Spirit dwelling in them: Jul 17:17;. Eph. 5:26; 3: 16-19; Ro. 8:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The domain of the whole body of sin is destroyed, and the several lusts thereof are weakening and mortifying more and more, and go quickening and strengthening more and more in all the saving virtues, for the practice of all true holiness: ro. 6:14; Gal. 5:24; Ro. 8:13; Col. 1:11; Eph. 3: 16-19; 2 Cor 7: 1; Ro. 6:13; Eph. 4: 22-25; Gal. 5:17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No one will see the Lord: I 12:14.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This sanctification is carried out in the whole man, but is incomplete in this life; there are still some remnants of corruption in every part: 1 Thes. 5:23; June 1 . 1: 8.10; Ro. 7: 18.23; Phil. 3:12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Where a continual and irreconcilable war arises: 1 Corinthians 9: 24-27; 1 Tim. 1:18; 6:12; 2 Tim. 4: 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: Gal. 5:17; 1 Peter 2:11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In that war, although the remaining corruption prevails much for some time: Ro. 7:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The part regenerated triumphs through the continued provision of forces by the sanctifying Spirit of Christ: Rom. 6:14; June 1 5: 4;. Eph. 4: 15,16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And so the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, pursuing a heavenly life, in evangelical obedience to all the commands which Christ as Head and King, has prescribed in his Word: 2 P. 3:18; 2 Cor 7: 1; 3:18; Mt. 28:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Sanctification (GROWTH Christlike)<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif;">HOW YOU GROW IN MATURITY CHRISTIAN? WHAT ARE THE BLESSINGS OF CHRISTIAN GROWTH?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL EXPLANATION AND BASES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In previous chapters we have examined the various actions of God that take place at the beginning of our Christian life: The call of the gospel (God does to us), regeneration (by which God imparts new life), justification ( by which God does not give a correct legal position before him), and the adoption (by which God makes us members of his family).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We have also studied the conversion (in which we repent of our sins and trust in Christ for salvation).All these events take place at the beginning of our Christian life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But now we come to a part of the application of redemption is a progressive work that continues throughout our lives on earth. It is also a work in which God and man cooperate, each in a different role.This part of the application of redemption and sanctification know: Sanctification is a progressive work of God and man that leads us to be increasingly free from sin and to be more Christlike in our real life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">A. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The following table explains many of the differences between justification and sanctification:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As this table shows, sanctification is something that continues throughout our lives as Christians. The ordinary course of a Christian life will involve continued growth in sanctification, and is something that the New Testament encourages us to our attention and we strive to achieve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THREE STAGES OF SANCTIFICATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A moral definite change takes place in our life at the time of regeneration, because<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul talks about: "He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3: 5). Once we are born again we can not continue to sin as a habit or lifestyle (1 <sup>A</sup> John 3: 9), because the power of the new spiritual life within us keeps us from giving in to the life of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">MORAL CHANGE THE INITIAL STAGE IS IN SANCTIFICATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this sense there is some overlap between regeneration and sanctification, because this moral change is actually a part of regeneration. But when we see it from the point of view of moral change within us, we can also see how the first stage of sanctification. Paul looks back to an event completed when he says to the Corinthians: "But have already been washed, sanctified, have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (1 <sup>to</sup> Co 6: 11 ). Similarly, in Acts 20: 32 Paul may refer to Christians as those who have "inheritance among all the sanctified".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This initial step in sanctification involves a defined with the dominant power and love of sin break, so that the believer is no longer controlled or dominated by sin and it does not like sin. Paul says: "In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. For sin shall not have dominion over you, because they are not under law but under grace "(Rom 6: 11, 14). Paul says that Christians have been "freed from sin" (Rom 6: 18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this context, being dead to sin or be freed from sin involves the power to overcome sinful actions or behavior patterns in our lives. Paul tells the Romans, "Do not you sin reign in your mortal body, that you obey its evil desires allow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Do not offer the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God "(Rom 6: 12-13). Be dead to the dominant power of sin it means that we as Christians by the power of the Holy Spirit and the life of resurrection of Christ working within us, we have the power to overcome temptation and seduction of sin. Sin is no longer our master as it was before Christians do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In practical terms, this means that we AFFIRM TWO THINGS AS CERTAIN.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the one hand, we will never be able to say: "I am completely free of sin" because our sanctification never be fully completed (see below). But on the other hand, a Christian should never say (for example) "This sin has defeated me, I give up. I had a bad temper thirty-seven years and I will until the day I die, and the people I will have to put up as I am. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Sanctification VA INCREASING ALONG LIFE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although the New Testament speaks of a definite beginning of sanctification, also sees it as a process that continues throughout our Christian life. Overall this is the primary sense in which used today sanctification in systematic theology and Christian conversation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although Paul tells his readers that have been freed from sin (Rom 6: 18), and are "dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus" (Rom 6: 11), he nevertheless recognizes that sin remains in their lives, so that urged not allow reign in them and give in to sin (Rom 6: 12-13). His task, therefore as Christians is growing more and more in sanctification, in the same way as before had grown increasingly in sin. "I speak in human terms, because of the limitations of human nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Before offering you the members of your body to serve impurity, leading more and more evil; so now offer them to righteousness leading to holiness "(Rom 6: 19, the terms" before "and" now "[g Hosper houtos.] indicate that Paul wants them to do that in the same way: if" before "increasingly indulged sin," now "increasingly offer yourselves to justice for sanctification).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul says that throughout the Christian life "all of us are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory from the Lord" (2 <sup>to</sup> Co 3: 18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We become increasingly Christlike to move forward in the Christian life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, he says: "Brothers, I do not think myself to have apprehended. Rather, one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus "(Phil 3: 13-14). With this the apostle is not saying that either perfect, but goes forward to achieve those purposes for which Christ had saved him (vv. 9-12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul tells the Colossians: "Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of his creator "(Col 3:10), thus showing that sanctification involves a growing likeness to God in our thoughts and in our words and actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The author of Hebrews tells his readers: "throw off everything that hinders us, especially the besetting sin" (Heb 12: 1), and "seek holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord" (Heb 12: 14). James encourages his readers: "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Take her to practice '(James 1: 22), and Peter tells his readers: "Rather, you are holy in everything you do, as is holy who called them " (1 <sup>to</sup> P 1: 15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is not necessary to accumulate many more quotes, because much of the New Testament is composed of instructions to believers in various churches on how they should grow in Christ-likeness. All moral exhortations and commandments in the New Testament epistles apply here, because they all exhort believers to cultivate one aspect or another of greater sanctification in their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The expectation of all the authors of the New Testament is that our sanctification increase throughout our Christian life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Sanctification BE COMPLETED IN DEATH (FOR OUR SOULS) And when the Lord returns (FOR OUR BODIES).<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Because sin still remains in our hearts even though we have we become Christians (Rom 6: 12-13; 1 <sup>to</sup> Jn 1: 8), our sanctification never completed in this life (see below). But once we die and we will be with the Lord, then our sanctification will be completed in a sense, because our souls shall be released from sin and be perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The author of Hebrews says that when we enter the Lord's presence to worship arrived as "the spirits of the righteous who have reached perfection" (Heb 12: 23). This is appropriate because it is an anticipation of the fact that "never enter into it anything unclean" refers to enter the presence of God in the heavenly city (Rev. 21: 27).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, when we appreciate that sanctification involves the whole person, including our bodies (see 2<sup>to</sup> Co 7: 1; 1 <sup>to</sup> s 5: 23), then we realize that sanctification will not be fully completed until the Lord return and receive new bodies resurrected. We hope the coming of our Lord<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus Christ from heaven and "he will transform our lowly to be like his glorious body" (Phil 3: 21). It is "when he comes" (1 <sup>to</sup> Co 15: 23) to receive a resurrection body and then "also bear the image of [man] heavenly" (1 <sup>to</sup> Co 15: 49).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> That there is a definite beginning of sanctification at the time of conversion:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> That sanctification is expected to increase throughout the Christian life, and.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> That sanctification. It is perfected in death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(For the sake of simplicity we omit this box completion of sanctification when we receive our resurrected bodies.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I have shown in the table progress of sanctification as an irregular line, indicating that growth in sanctification is not always a straight and upline in this life, but the progress of sanctification happens at times, while in others sometimes we realize that we are taking something back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In an extreme case, a believer who makes little use of the means of sanctification, and rather have poor education, no walks with Christians and pays little attention to the Word of God and prayer can take many years and have very little progress in the process of sanctification, but this is certainly not normal and what is expected in the Christian life. It is actually very abnormal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Sanctification NEVER FILL IN THIS LIFE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There have been some in the history of the church that have taken commands such as Matthew 5: 48 (therefore be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect ") or 2 <sup>to</sup> Corinthians 7: 1" cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the body and spirit, perfecting the fear of God's work our sanctification ") and have reasoned that since God gives us these commands, he must also give the ability to obey perfectly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore they have concluded, it is possible for us to get a state of sinless perfection in this life.Moreover, point to Paul's prayer for the Thessalonians: "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify youwholly" (1 <sup>to</sup> Thes 5: 23), and infer that it may well be that Paul's prayer be fulfilled in some of the Thessalonian Christians. In fact, John even says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"Everyone who practices sin has not seen him or known him" (1 <sup>to</sup> Jn 3: 6). Are these verses speaking of the possibility of sinless perfection in the life of some Christians? In this study, perfectionism I'll use the word to refer to this view that sinless perfection is possible in this life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we look carefully we will see that these passages do not support the perfectionist position. First, simply it is not taught in the Scriptures that when God gives a command, he also gives us the ability to obey him in each case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God commands all people everywhere to obey all moral laws and is to blame for failing to obey, even when people unredeemed are sinners and, as such, are dead in trespasses and sins, and that incapacitates them for obey the commandments of God. When Jesus commands us to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect (Mt 5: 48), we are simply saying that absolute moral purity of God is the goal toward which we should aim and the standard by which God will ask accounts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The fact that we may not be able to live up to that ideal does not mean to be lowered; rather, it means we need grace and forgiveness of God to overcome what remains of sin in us. Similarly, when Paul commands the Corinthians to complete the work of sanctification in the fear of the Lord (2 <sup>to</sup> Co 7: 1), or ask in prayer that God will sanctify fully to the Thessalonians (1 <sup>to</sup> Thes 5: 23) , it is pointing to the goal he wants them to reach. He is not saying that some they will get, but that is the moral ideal that God wants all believers aspire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John's statement: "Whoever abides in Him does not sin" (1 <sup>to</sup> Jn 3: 6, RVR 1960) is not teaching that some of us are going to reach perfection, because the present tense of verbs in Greek better translated as indicating a continued action or normal activity: "Whoever remains in him does not sin. Everyone who practices sin has not seen him or known him "(1 <sup>to</sup> Jn 3: 6, NIV).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This statement is similar to that made Juan a few verses later: "No one who is born of God practices sin, because God's seed remains in him; You can not sin, because he is born of God "(1 <sup>to </sup>Jn 3: 9). If we take these verses to prove sinless perfection, they would have to prove it to all Christians, because they are talking about what is true of all who are born of God, and everyone who has seen Christ and known him. '<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, there seems to be no verse in Scripture that is convincing in teaching is possible for any human being to be completely free of sin in this life. On the other hand, there are passages in both the Old and New Testaments clearly they teach that we can not be morally perfect in this life. In Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, he says, "Since there is no human being who does not sin, if your people sin against you" (1 <sup>to</sup> R 8: 46).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, we read a rhetorical question with an implied negative response in Proverbs 20: 9: "Who can say?" Puro My heart, I am pure from sin "" And we also read an explicit statement in Ecclesiastes 7: 20: "No one on earth so righteous that does good and never sins."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the New Testament, we find Jesus sending his disciples to pray: "Give us today our daily bread.Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors "(Matthew 6: 11-12). Just as the prayer for our daily bread provides us with a model of prayer that we should repeat every day, so the request for forgiveness of sins is included in the kind of prayer we should do every day of our lives as believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As noted above, when Paul speaks of the new power over sin receiving the Christian, is not saying that there will be no sin in the Christian life, but only that the believer no longer let that "reign" in his body nor " offers "its members to sin (Rom 6: 12-13). He is not saying that not sin, but sin not "have dominion" over them (Rom 6: 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The very fact shows that giving these instructions he realized that sin would continue in the lives of believers throughout their lives on earth. Even James the Lord's brother could say, "We all stumble much" (James 3: 2), and if James himself can say that, then we too should be willing to say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, in the same letter in which John stated many times that a child of God will not continue in a pattern of sinful behavior, he also says clearly: "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and we have the truth "(1 <sup>to</sup> Jn 1: 8). Here John is explicitly excluding the possibility of being completely free of sin in our lives. In fact, he says that anyone who claims to be free of sin is simply fooling himself, and the truth is not in him. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But once we have concluded that sanctification never completed in this life, we must exercise wisdom and pastoral caution in the way we use this truth. Some may take this and use it as an excuse not to strive for holiness or sanctification growth, which is the opposite of dozens of other commandments in the New Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Others may think about the fact that we can not be perfect in this life and lose hope of progress in the Christian life, an attitude that is contrary to the clear teaching of Romans 6 and other passages about the power of the resurrection of Christ to train to overcome sin. Therefore, although the sanctification never completed in this life, we must also emphasize that we must never stop at increase it in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, as Christians grow in maturity, the kinds of sins that remain in their lives are often not so much sins of words and actions that are externally visible to others, but internal sins of attitudes and motives of the heart, desires such as pride and selfishness, lack of courage or faith, lack of zeal and love God with all our heart and our neighbor as ourselves, and not fully trust God about everything he has promised for every circumstance. Those real sins! They show how we were short of moral perfection of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, recognizing the nature of these sins that persist even in the most mature Christians also helps keep against misunderstandings when we say that no one will be free from sin in this life. It is certainly possible that many Christians are free at many times throughout the day conscious acts of disobedience to God in their words and actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In fact, if Christian leaders will be an "example to follow in the way of speaking, behavior, and love, faith and purity" (1 <sup>to</sup> Ti 4: 12), then it is often true that their lives will be free from words and actions that others deemed objectionable. But that is far from having obtained complete freedom from sin in our motives, thoughts and intents of the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John Murray notes that when the prophet Isaiah was in the presence of God, his reaction was: "Then I said, Woe is me, I'm lost! I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, And yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty "(Isaiah 6: 5).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And when Job, whose rectitude was initially praised in the history of his life, when he appeared before the Almighty God, he could only say, "hearsay had heard of you but now I see with my own eyes. Therefore, I take back what I said, and repent in dust and ashes "(Job 42: 5-6). Murray concluded based on these examples and many other saints throughout church history:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In fact, the more Hallowed Is A Believer, More Comprised will be the Image of His Savior, the more Should Against All Of Conformity Lack With Divine Holiness. The deeper your perception of the majesty of God, the more intense love for God, the more persistent His longing for the prize of his high calling of God in Christ Jesus, the more aware will GRAVITY sin Stay in it and the greater his abhorrence of it. It was not this the effect of all God's servants being ever closer to the revelation of God's holiness? '<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD AND MAN COOPERATE IN SANCTIFICATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some (such as John Murray) objecting to say that God and man "cooperate" in sanctification, because they want to insist that this is the primary work of God and that our part in sanctification is only secondary (see fil 2: 12-13). However, if we explain clearly the nature of the role of God and our role in sanctification, it is not inappropriate to say that God and man cooperate in sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God works in our sanctification, and we, and we work for the same purpose. We are not saying that we have equal stakes in the sanctification or both work in the same way, but only say that we cooperate with God in ways that are appropriate to our condition as creatures of God, and the fact that the Scriptures emphasize the role we have in sanctification (with all the moral commandments of the New Testament), it makes it appropriate to teach that God calls us to cooperate with him in this activity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">GOD'S PART IN SANCTIFICATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Since sanctification is primarily the work of God, it is appropriate that Paul prayed saying, "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you wholly" (1 <sup>to</sup> Thes 5: 23). One of the specific functions of God the Father in the sanctification is the process of disciplining their children (see Heb 2: 5-11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul tells the Philippians: "For it is God who works in you both to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Phil 2: 13), indicating something about the way God sanctified them, making They wished both his will and empowering them to fulfill it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The author of Hebrews speaks of the roles of the Father and the Son in the family blessing: "May the God who gives peace. He equip you with everything good to do his will. And, through Jesus Christ, God fulfilled in us what pleases him. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen "(Heb 13: 20-21).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The role of God the Son, Jesus Christ, in sanctification is, first, that he won our sanctification. Therefore, Paul could say that God made Christ "tell us wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption" (1 <sup>to</sup> Co 1:30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Furthermore, in the process of sanctification Jesus is our example, because we run the race of life "[setting] eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith" (Heb 12: 2). Peter tells his readers: "Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow his steps" (1 <sup>to</sup> P 2:21). And John says: "Whoever says he abides in him must live as he lived" (1 <sup>to</sup> Jn 2: 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But it is God the Holy Spirit who works specifically within us to change and sanctify, giving us greater holiness of life. Peter speaks of "sanctifying work of the Spirit" (1 <sup>to</sup> P 1: 2), and Paul also speaks of the "sanctification of the Spirit" (2 Thes 2:13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is the Holy Spirit who works in us "the fruit of the Spirit" (Gal 5: 22-23), those characteristics that are part of a larger daily sanctification. If we grow in sanctification "walk in the Spirit" and are "led by the Spirit" (Gal 5: 16-18; Romans 8: 14), ie, we are increasingly sensitive to the wishes and encouragement of the Spirit Santo in our life and character. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of holiness, and generates holiness within us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">OUR PART IN SANCTIFICATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The part that we fulfill in sanctification is both passive on which we depend on God to sanctify us as active in which we strive to obey God and take steps that will increase our sanctification. Let us now consider both aspects of our role in sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">First, what we call the "passive" role that we have in sanctification we see in the texts that encourage us to trust God and pray asking him to sanctify us. Paul tells his readers, "but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have returned from death to life" (Rom. 6: 13; v 19), and says every Christian in Rome: "Offer your bodies as living sacrifices , holy and pleasing to God "(Romans 12: 1). Paul realizes that we depend on the Holy Spirit to grow in sanctification, because he says: "If by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, will live" (Rom 8: 13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Unfortunately, this "passive" role in sanctification, this idea of offering ourselves to God and trust him to produce in us "both to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Phil 2: 13) emphasizes both today that's all people hear about the path of sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sometimes the popular phrase "leave and leave him to God" is presented as a summary of how to live the Christian life. But that is a tragic distortion of the doctrine of sanctification, for only speaking half of the part that we must make and, by itself, lead Christians to be lazy and neglect the active role that Scripture commands us we have our own sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The apostle Paul tells us in Romans 8:13 the active role we should have, when he says: "If by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live." Paul acknowledges here that it is by "the Spirit" that are able to do. But it also tells us that we must do! Do not you sent the Holy Spirit to put to death the misdeeds of the body, but Christian!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, Paul tells the Philippians: "So, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed-not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence-carry out their own salvation with fear and trembling, for God is who works in you both to will and to act according to his good purpose "(Phil 2: 12-13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul exhorts them to obey even when he was present with them. He tells them that obedience is the way in which they "[carry] out their salvation" meaning that they should continue with the realization of the benefits of salvation in their Christian life. The Philippians had to ensure that growth in sanctification, and do it with solemnity and reverence (with fear and trembling) because they are doing in the very presence of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But there's more: The reason why they should work and expect your work result is that "God is working in you," the former and fundamental work of God in sanctification means that their work is strengthened by God; therefore it will be worthwhile and positive results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are many aspects of this active role we have to play in sanctification. We must "[search] holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord (Heb 12: 14). We have to turn away "sexual immorality" because "the will of God that are sanctified" (1 <sup>to</sup> Ts 4: 3) .Juan says that those who hope to be like Christ when he appears actively work in the purification of his life: "Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself well, even as he is pure" (1 <sup>to</sup> 3: 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul tells the Corinthians to "flee from sexual immorality" (1 <sup>to</sup> Co 6:18), and do not join "yoked with unbelievers" (2 <sup>to</sup> Co 6:14, KJV 1960).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then he tells them: <cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting the fear of God's work our sanctification "(2 <sup>to</sup> Co 7: 1). This kind of struggle for obedience and holiness can involve great effort on our part, because Peter tells his readers that "strive" to grow in the features that are according to godliness (2 <sup>to </sup>P 1: 5) .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many specific passages of the New Testament encourage us to us to pay close attention to various aspects of holiness and piety in life (see Rom 12: 1-13: 14; Ephesians 4: 17-6: 20; Philippians 4: 4-9; Col 3: 5-4: 6; 1 <sup>to</sup> P 2: 1 1-5: 11). We must continually build patterns and habits of holiness, because a measure of maturity is that mature Christians "have the ability to distinguish between good and bad, for they have used its power of spiritual perception" (Heb 5: 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The New Testament does not suggest any shortcut by which we grow in sanctification, but only encourages us repeatedly to give ourselves to old media and recognized the Bible reading and meditation (Ps 1: 2; Mt 4: 4; Jn 17: 17), prayer (Eph 6: 18; Philippians 4: 6), worship (Eph 5: 18-20), the testimony (Mt 28: 19-20), the Christian fellowship (Heb 10 : 24-25), to self-discipline and self-control (Gal 5: 23; Titus 1: 8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is important that we continue to grow in both passive trust in God for our sanctification and our active striving for holiness and greater obedience in our lives. If we neglect the active effort to obey God, we become passive and lazy Christians. If we neglect the passive trust in God and surrender to Him paper, we become proud and overconfident in ourselves. In any case, our sanctification will be poor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We must keep the faith and diligence in obeying the same time. The old hymn says, "Obey, and trust Jesus, is the rule marked to walk in the light."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We must add one more point in our study of our role in sanctification:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sanctification is usually a corporate process in the New Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is something that happens in community. We are admonished: "Let us consider one another in order to encourage love and good deeds. Let us not gather, as some people do, but encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching "(Heb 10: 24-25).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christians together "are like living stones, which are being built into a spiritual house. Thus become a holy priesthood "(1 <sup>to</sup> P 2: 5); together are a "holy nation" (1 <sup>to</sup> P 2: 9), together are urged to "encourage one another and build each other up , just as they have done" (1 <sup>to </sup>Thes 5: 11). Paul prays to the brothers in Ephesus to "live a life worthy of the calling you have received" (Ephesians 4: 1) and live that way in community: "Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace "(Eph . 4: 2-3). When that happens, the body of Christ functions as a unified whole, each part working properly, so that corporate sanctification happens while " the whole body grows and builds itself up in love" (Eph 4:16; 1 <sup>to</sup> Cor 12 : 12-26; Galatians 6: 1-2)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is significant that the fruit of the Spirit includes many things that serve to build community (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control "Gal 5: 22-23), while" works of the sinful nature "destroy the community (sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and things like these" Gal.5 : 19-21).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Sanctification AFFECTS ALL THE PERSON<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We see that sanctification affects our intellect and intelligence when Paul says that we must put on the new nature "which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator" (Col 3: 10). He prays that the Philippians to see that their love "may abound more and more in knowledge and good judgment" (FIL1: 9). E urges Christians of Rome to 'be transformed by the renewing of your mind "(Romans 12: 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although our knowledge of God is more than intellectual knowledge, there is certainly an intellectual component to it, and Paul says that this knowledge of God should increase throughout our life "to live worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing" ( Col 1: 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sanctification of our intellects will involve growth in wisdom and knowledge to progressively go "[bringing] captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 <sup>to</sup> Ca 10: 5) and find that our thoughts are becoming the thoughts that same God we He imparts through his Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, growth in sanctification affect our emotions. We will see increasingly in our life emotions such as "love, joy, peace , patience" (Gal 5: 22). We will be increasingly able to obey the command of Pedro de move away from the "sinful desires , which war against your soul" (1 <sup>to</sup> P 2: 11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Find increasingly that "there [love] the world or anything in it" (1 <sup>to</sup> Jn 2: 15), but that we, as our Savior, we rejoice in God's will. In an increasingly growing as we "[ will submit heart to teaching that was transmitted to them" (Rom 6: 17), and abandon negative emotions of "bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice "(Eph 4: 31).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, sanctification affect our will, the power of decision-making, because God is working in us, "it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Phil 2: 13 ). As we grow in sanctification, our will conform increasingly to the good will of our heavenly Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sanctification also affect our spirit, not physical part of our beings. We must "[purified] from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting the fear of God's work our sanctification" (2 <sup>to</sup> Co 7: 1), and Paul tells us that concern for "the things the Lord "leads to" devote himself to the Lord in both body and spirit "(1 <sup>to</sup> Co 7: 34).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, sanctification affects our physical bodies. Paul says: "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you completely, and keep your whole being - spirit, soul and body blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 <sup>to</sup> Thes 5: 23). In addition, Paul encourages the Corinthians to purify "everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting the fear of God's work our sanctification" (2 <sup>to</sup> Co 7: 1; d 1. <sup>To</sup> Co 7: 3. 4). By going being more sanctified in our bodies, they are becoming more useful servants of God, more receptive to God's will and the wishes of the Holy Spirit (1 <sup>to</sup> Cor 9: 27).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We will not let sin reign in our bodies (Rom 6: 12) nor participate in any form of immorality (1 <sup>to</sup> Co 6:13), but treat our bodies with care and recognize that are means through which the Holy Spirit works in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, they will not be abused or maltreated negligently, but we will try to be useful and responsive to the will of God: "Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you and you have received from God? You are not your own; They were bought for a price. Therefore honor God with your body "(1 <sup>to</sup> Co 6: 19-20).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">REASONS TO OBEY GOD IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christians sometimes do not recognize the wide variety of reasons to obey God we find in the New Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It is true that the desire to please God and express our love for him is a very important reason to obey him. Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments" Jn 14:15), and "Who is who loves me?Which he endorses my commands and obeys "Jn 14:21; 1 <sup>A</sup> John 5: 3). But they also give us many other reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The need to maintain a clear conscience before God (Rom 13: 5; 1 Timothy 1: 5; 19: 2, 2 <sup>A</sup> Ti 1: 3; 1 <sup>A</sup>P 3:16):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The desire to be vessels "for noble purposes" and have increased efficiency to the work of the kingdom of God (2 Tim 2: 20-21);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The desire to see that unbelievers come to Christ through the witness of our lives (1 <sup>A</sup> P 3: 1-2, 15-16);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The desire to receive blessings of God present in our lives and ministry (1 <sup>A</sup> P 3: 9-12);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(6)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The desire to avoid discomfort or discipline of God in our lives (sometimes called "the fear of God") (Acts 5: 11; 9: 31, 2 <sup>to</sup> Co 5:11; 7: 1; Eph . 4: 30; Philippians 2: 12; the 1st Ti 5: 20; I 12: 3-11; 1 <sup>to</sup> P 1:17; 2:17; the state of unbelievers in Romans 3: 18);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(7)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The desire to seek a heavenly reward superior (Mt 6: 19-21; Luke 19: 17-19; 1 <sup>to</sup> Co 3: 12-15, 2 <sup>A</sup> Co 5: 9-10);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(8)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The desire to walk in a more intimate way with God (Mt 5: 8; Jn 14:21; 1 <sup>to</sup> Jn 1: 6; 3: 21-22; and in the Old Testament, Psalm 66: 18; Is 59: 2);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(9)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The desire that angels glorify God for our obedience (1 <sup>to</sup> Ti 5: 21; 1 <sup>A</sup> P 1: 12);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(10)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The desire for peace (Philippians 4: 9) and joy (Heb 12: 1-2) in our life; Y<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(11)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The desire to do what God commands us simply because his commandments are right, and we delight in doing what is right (Phil 4: 8; Psalm 40: 8)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">BEAUTY AND THE JOY OF SANCTIFICATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It would be wrong to end this study without noticing that sanctification brings us great joy. The more we grow into the likeness of Christ, the more we experience personally the "joy" and "peace" that are part of the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5: 22), and the more we will come closer to the kind of life we will have in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul says that as we grow in obedience to God, we reap "the holiness that leads to eternal life" (Rom 6: 22). He realizes that this is the source of true joy. "For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" (Rom 14: 17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As we grow in holiness we grow in conformity to the image of Christ, and each time it is seeing more of his character in our lives. This is the goal of perfect sanctification which we hope and long, and it will be ours when Christ returns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="">"Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure" (1 </span><sup><span class="">to</span></sup><span class=""> Jn 3: 3). </span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-154708653109703572016-04-03T12:51:00.002-07:002016-04-03T12:51:55.331-07:00SAVING FAITH<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The grace of faith, whereby the elect are to believe capacity for the salvation of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts, and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the Word: Jun . 6: 37, 44;Acts. 11:21, 24; 13:48; 14:27; 15: 9; 2 Cor 4:13; Eph. 2: 8; Phil. 1:29; 2 Thes. 2:13; 1 Peter 1: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Whereby, and the administration of baptism and the Lord's Supper, prayer and other means appointed by God, that faith increased and strengthened: Ro. 10: 14.17; Lk. 17: 5; Acts. 20:32; Ro. 4:11; 1 Peter 2: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> By this faith, a Christian believes to be reliable all revealed in the Word for the authority of God himself, and it perceives excellence superior to all other writings and all things in the world, it shows the glory God in his attributes, the excellence of Christ in his nature and offices, and the power and fullness of the Holy Spirit in his works and operations; and thus, the Christian receives ability to trust your soul to the truth and believed. Acts. 24:14; 1 Thes. 2:13; Psalm 19: 7-10; 119: 72.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And also acts differently depending on whether the content of each particular passage: yielding obedience to the commands. 15:14 June.; Ro. 16:26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Shuddering to threats: Is . 66: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And embracing the promises of God for this life and the next. 1 Tim. 4: 8; I 11:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But the main actions of saving faith have to do directly with Christ: accept, receive and rest in him alone for justification, sanctification , and eternal life, under the covenant of grace: Jun . 1:12; Acts. 15:11;16:31; Gal. 2:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This faith, albeit in a different level and may be weak or strong: Mt. 6:30; 8:10, 26; 14:31; 16: 8; Mt. 17.20; I have 5:13, 14; Ro. 4:19 20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It is, however, still at its lowest level, different in kind and nature (as is all other saving grace) from the faith and common grace of those believers who are only for a time: Stg. 2:14; 2 Peter 1: 1; June 1 5: 4..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And as a result, though often attacked and weakened, it is , however, victorious: Lc. 22:31, 32; Eph. 6:16;1 June 5. 4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> growing in many until complete safety: Psalm 119: 114; I have 6:11, 12; 10:22, 23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Through Christ, who is both the author and finisher of our faith: Hebrews 12: 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FAITH salvific<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus once said that if we have the faith of a child can not enter the kingdom of heaven. Faith like a child is a prerequisite for membership of the kingdom of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is a difference, however, between faith like a child and childlike faith. The Bible calls us to be babes in evil, but mature in our understanding. Saving faith is simple, but not simplistic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the Bible teaches that justification is by faith alone, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">that faith is a necessary condition for salvation, it is imperative that we understand what this saving faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Santiago explains clearly what it is not this faith: "My brethren, what shall it profit if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds can faith save him?" (James 2:14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Santiago is distinguishing between the profession of faith and the reality of faith. Anyone can say they have faith. While we are called to profess our faith, profession alone will not save anyone. The Bible makes it clear that people are able to honor Christ of lips while their hearts are far from Him. The faith of lip service to, without any manifestation of the fruit of faith is not saving faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">James continues: "So, if it has no works, is dead, being alone" (James 2: 17). James describes the dead faith itself as a faith no avail. It is futile and vain and does not justify anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Luther and other Reformation declared justification by faith alone, they realized that it was necessary to give a detailed definition of saving faith. They defined saving faith based on certain constituent elements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Saving faith is composed of information, intellectual consent, and personal confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Saving faith involves the content. We are not justified by believing in anything. Some have said, "No matter what one believes, if </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">when it is sincere." This feeling is radically opposed to the teaching of the Bible. The Bible teaches us that what we believe is very important. Sincerity alone is not sufficient for justification. We can be sincerely wrong. Sound doctrine, at least with respect to the fundamental truths of the gospel, is a necessary ingredient of saving faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We believe in the Gospel, in the person and work of Christ. This is an integral part of saving faith. If our doctrine is heretical in the fundamentals, we will not be saved. If, for example, we say we believe in Christ but deny His deity, not possess justifying faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although it is necessary to have a correct understanding of the fundamental truths of the gospel to be saved, a correct understanding of them is not enough to be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A student can get top marks in a test of Christian theology, understanding all the truths of Christianity, without personally say are true. Saving faith includes the affirmation of the mind to the truth of the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But even if people understand the gospel and affirm or confirm their truth, still can not reach reach the salvific faith. The devil knows that the gospel is true, but hate with every fiber of his being. There is an element of trust in the salvific faith. It implies a confidence and personal dependence on the gospel. We can believe that a chair will support our weight, but did not display a personal trust in the chair until the time we sat on it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The trust will also understands the mind. Have saving faith requires us to love the gospel truth and we want to live it. We trust in the sweetness of heart and love of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Considered technically, personal trust could be a corollary or a projection of intellectual consent. The devil can accept the truth of certain facts related to Jesus but do not accept them at all. Does not accept the love of Christ, nor craves. But whether we differentiate or combine the intellectual acceptance and self-confidence, the fact still stands that saving faith requires what Luther called a vital living faith and personal trust in Christ as Savior and Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Saving faith is like a child but not childish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The mere profession of faith is not enough to justify a person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Saving faith requires intellectual acceptance of the truth of the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Saving faith involves a personal trust in Christ and love for Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Matthew 18: 3, Romans 10: 5-13, Ephesians 2: 4-10, 1 Thessalonians 2: 13, James 2: 14-26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TRUE SAVING FAITH includes knowledge, APPROVAL AND PERSONAL CONFIDENCE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">KNOWLEDGE ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Saving personal faith in how they understand the Scriptures, it involves more than mere knowledge. Of course, we must have some knowledge of who Christ is and what he has done, because "how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?" (Rom 10: 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But knowledge about the facts of life, death and resurrection of Christ for us is not enough, because people can know the facts, but rebel against them or not like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For example, Paul tells us that many people know the laws of God, but do not want them, "You know well that righteous decree of God who do such things deserve death; However, not only they continue to practice them but also approve of those who practice them "(Rom 1: 32).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even the demons know who God is and know the facts about the life of Jesus and his saving work, because James says, "Do you think that there is one God? Magnificent! Even the demons believe and tremble "(James 2: 19). But certainly that knowledge does not mean that the demons are going to save.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">KNOWLEDGE AND APPROVAL IS NOT ENOUGH.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, simply knowing the facts and approve or agree that they are true is not enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nicodemus knew that Jesus had come from God, because he said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, because no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him" (Jn 3: 2 ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nicodemus had assessed the situation, including the teachings of Jesus and his extraordinary miracles, and had drawn a correct conclusion from these facts: Jesus was a teacher who had come from God. But that alone did not mean that Nicodemus had saving faith, because we still had to put his trust in Christ as Savior; still he had to "believe in him". King Agrippa is another example of knowledge and approval without saving faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul realized that Agrippa knew and apparently approvingly saw the Jewish Scriptures (what we now know as the Old Testament). When Paul was appearing in court before him, he said to Agrippa: "King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I am aware yes "(Acts 26: 27)!. But he had no saving faith, because he responded to Paul: "A little more and convince me to become a Christian" (Acts 26: 28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">I must decide AND RELY ON JESUS TO SAVE PERSONALLY.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition to knowledge of the facts of the gospel and the approval of those facts, in order to be saved, I decide to rely on Jesus to save me. In doing so he went from being an interested observer of the events of salvation and the teachings of the Bible to be someone who comes into a new relationship with Jesus Christ as a living person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can therefore define the saving grace as follows: Saving faith is trust in Jesus Christ as a living person for the forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This definition emphasizes that saving faith is not only a belief in some data, but personal trust in Jesus as savior. As will be explained in the following chapters, salvation is much more than just the forgiveness of sins and eternal life, but when someone comes to rare Christ initially once he realizes the extent of the blessings of salvation to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, we could correctly summarize the two main concerns of the person who trusts in Christ as the "forgiveness of sins" and "eternal life with God."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of course, eternal life with God includes issues such as the declaration of righteousness before God (part of the justification, as explained in the next chapter), adoption, sanctification and glorification, but these things can be understood in detail later. What most worries an unbeliever who comes to Christ is the fact that sin has separated him from communion with God for which we were created. The unbeliever comes to Christ for that sin and guilt are eliminated and enter a genuine relationship with God that will last forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The definition emphasizes personal trust in Christ, not just believing the facts about Christ. Because saving faith in the Scriptures involves this personal confidence, the word "trust" is better for use in contemporary culture term that the word "faith" or "belief".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The reason is that we can "believe" that something is true without any personal commitment or dependence involved in it. I can believe that Canberra is the capital of Australia, or 7 multiplied by 6 gives 42, but without any personal commitment or reliance on anyone for the mere fact believe it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word faith, on the other hand, is sometimes used today to refer to an almost irrational commitment to something despite the strong evidence that exists against a kind of irrational to believe something we're pretty sure that's not true decision. (If your favorite soccer team continues to lose games, someone may try to encourage you to "have faith" even though all the facts point in the opposite direction). In these two popular ways, the words "believe" and "faith" have an opposite direction to biblical sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word trust is closer to the biblical concept, since we are familiar with trusting people every day. The more we get to know a person, and we see in that person a lifestyle which justifies confidence, the more we feel encouraged to put our trust in that person fulfill what it promises, or act in ways that we can trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The full sense of personal confidence is found in several passages of Scripture in which the initial saving faith is expressed in very personal terms, often using analogies drawn from personal relationships. John says: "But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" Jn 1: 12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John speaks of receiving Christ in the same way we receive a guest in our home. John 3: 16 says, "or that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John uses here a striking phrase when not simply says: "Everyone who believes him" (that is, to believe that what he says is true and trustworthy), but rather says, "whoever believes in him" . The Greek phrase eis auton pisteuo could be translated as "believe in him" with the sense of confidence going in and rests on Jesus as a person. Leon Morris can say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"Faith, for John, is an activity that brings men out of themselves and makes them one with Christ." He understands the pisteuo Greek phrase eis as a significant indication that the faith of the New Testament is not only an intellectual assent but includes a "moral element of personal trust": An expression that was rare or perhaps nonexistent in the Greek secular world outside new Testament, but it was very appropriate to express personal trust in Christ that is involved in saving faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus speaks of "go to it" in several places. He says, "All that the Father gives me will come to me; and whoever comes to me, I do not reject him "Jn 6: 37).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He also says: "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink" Jn 7: 37). In like manner, he says: "Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and find rest for your soul. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light "(Mt 11: 28-30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In these passages we have the idea of going to Christ for acceptance, living water to drink, and rest and training. All this gives us an intensely personal image of what is in saving faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The author of Hebrews asks us to remember that Jesus is alive in heaven and ready for us: "Therefore is able to save completely those who through him closer to God, because he always lives to intercede for them" ( I 7:25). Jesus appears here (as many times in the New Testament) as someone who is alive in heaven, always able to help those who come to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reformed theologian J. 1. Packer cites the following paragraphs of British Puritan John Owen written describing Christ's invitation to respond in personal faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is something the word he speaks to you to you: Why die? Why perish? Why do not you have mercy on your own soul? Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the day of wrath to come?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Come to Me and be saved; Come to me and I will sweeten from all your sins, sorrows, fears, burdens and give rest to your soul. Come, I beg you, Let All The Indecision, All The delay; Do not miss More For Another Day; Eternity is at your doorstep. Do not hate me To The Point Of You Want Perish rather than accept my release.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These things and others like are what the Lord Jesus Christ continually declares, proclaims, pray and urges the souls of sinners. It does so by preaching the word, as if present Contigo, as if between us, and speaks personally to each.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He has appointed ministers of the Gospel to appear before you and interact with You In His Name, And You Extend the invitation They Dan In His Name. (2nd Corinthians 5: 19-20) '<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With this concept of the true faith of the New Testament in mind, we can now see that when a person comes to Christ trusting him, all three elements must be present. There must be some basic knowledge or understanding of the truths of the gospel. There must also be approved of those truths, or agree with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This agreement includes the conviction that what the gospel is true, especially the fact that I am a sinner in need of salvation and that Christ is the only one who has paid the penalty for my sin and gives me salvation. It also includes the awareness that I need to trust in Christ for salvation and that he is the only way to God and the only means provided for my salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This approval of the truths of the gospel will also involve the desire to be saved through Christ. But all this still does not come to saving faith. That comes only when one takes the decision itself will depend on Christ and put their trust in him as Savior. This personal decision to trust in Christ is something you do with the heart, the central authority of all being that makes the commitments of one person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FAITH SHOULD INCREASE INCREASES AS OUR KNOWLEDGE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Contrary to the current secular concept of "faith", the true faith of the New Testament is not something that gets stronger by ignorance or by believing against the evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rather, Saving Faith is consistent with the knowledge and true understanding of the facts. Paul says, "So faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ" (Rom 10: 17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When people have true information about Christ, they are better able to put their trust in him. In addition, the more we know about him and about the character of God as revealed in Christ, we are more able to put our trust in him. So faith is not weakened with knowledge, but should increase with true knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the case of saving faith in Christ, our knowledge of it comes by believing in a reliable testimony about it. Here, the reliable testimony that we believe are the words of Scripture. Since they are formed with the same words of God, they are completely reliable, and obtain a true knowledge of Christ through them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is why what "faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ" (Rom 10:17). <span class="">In our daily life we come to believe many things when we heard the testimony of a reliable and trustworthy person. </span>This kind of decision is even more justified here, when God's words give us that testimony and we believe it.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-76332228502645667962016-04-03T12:49:00.003-07:002016-04-03T12:49:58.619-07:00REPENTANCE AND SALVATION FOR LIFE<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those of the elect who become when full grown, having lived for some time in the natural state: Tit. 3: 2-5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And having served in the same to various passions and pleasures, God, to call them effectively, give them repentance unto life 2 Cr . 33: 10-20; Acts. 9: 1-19; 16: 29,30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . While there is no one who does good and does not sin: Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2; Pr.20: 9; Ec. 7:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and the best men, through the power and deception of corruption dwelling in them, along with the predominance of temptation, may fall into great sins and provocations: 2 Samuel 11: 1-27; Lk. 22: 54-62.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers who sin and fall thus be renewed through repentance unto salvation: Jer. 32:40; Lk. 22: 31.32; 1 June 1: 9 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This repentance for salvation is an evangelical grace: Acts. 5:31; 11:18; 2 Tim. 2:25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Whereby a person whom the Spirit made aware of the many evils of his sin: Psalm 51: 1-6; 130: 1-3; Lk.15: 17-20; Acts. 2:37 38.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Through faith in Christ: Psalm 130: 4; Mt. 27: 3-5; Mark 1:15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It humiliates by him with a sorrow according to God, he loathes and abhors himself, prays for forgiveness and forces from the grace: Ez. 16: 60-63; 36:31, 32; Zc. 12:10; Mt. 21:19; Acts. 15:19; 20:21;26:20; 2 Corinthians 7:10, 11; 1 Thes. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For the purpose and commitment by providing the Spirit, to walk before God to please Him in all: Pr . 28: 13; Ez. 36:25; 18: 30.31; Psalm 119: 59, 104.128; Matthew 3: 8; Lk. 3: 8; Acts. 26:20; 1 Thes. 1: 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Since repentance must continue throughout our lives, because of the body of death and inclinations: Ez.16:60; Matthew 5: 4; 1 June 1: 9 . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is therefore the duty of every man to repent specifically of the specific sins who knows: Lc. 19: 8; 1 Tim. 1: 13,15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Such is the provision God has done through Christ in the covenant of grace for the preservation of believers to salvation, although there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation: Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2;Ro. 6:23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> There is, however, so great sin which causes condemnation to those who repent, which requires the constant preaching of repentance: Isa . 1: 16-18; 55: 7; Acts. 2: 36-38.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">REPENTANCE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The main message of John the Baptist, who was the herald of Jesus, was "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This call to repentance was an urgent appeal to sinners. Anyone who refuses to repent can enter the kingdom of God. Repentance is a prerequisite, a necessary condition for salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In Scripture, repentance means "undergo a change of mentality." This change of mentality is not just a minor change opinions, but a complete change in the direction of our lives. It implies a radical turn from sin to Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Repentance is not the cause of a new birth or regeneration; It is the result of the fruit of regeneration.Although repentance begins with regeneration, it is an attitude and an action that should be repeated throughout the Christian life. As we continue in sin, we are called to repent to be convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Theologians distinguish two kinds of repentance. The first is called attrition. Attrition is a false or spurious repentance. It comprises remorse caused by a fear of punishment or loss of a blessing. Any parent has checked attrition in a child when he discovers hands in the dough. The boy, fearing the beating, shouting: "I'm sorry, please do not hit me!" These prayers along with some crocodile tears are not usually signs of a genuine remorse for wrongdoing. It was the kind of repentance that exhibited Esau (Genesis 27: 30-46). He lamented not having sinned but because he lost his birthright. Attrition, then, it is motivated by an attempt to get a ticket to get us out of hell or to avoid punishment repentance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Contrition, however, is the true and godly repentance. It is genuine. It comprises a deep remorse for having offended God. The contrite person openly confesses his sin and completely, without trying to make excuses or justify it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This recognition of sin is accompanied by a willingness to make restitution whenever possible and a decision to forsake sin. This is the spirit exhibited by David in Psalm 51. "Create in me, O God, a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me ... The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a contrite heart wilt not despise you, O God "(Psalm 51: 10, 17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we offer God our repentance in a spirit of true contrition, He promises us forgive and restore us to communion with Him. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1: 9).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Repentance is a necessary condition for salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Repentance is the fruit of regeneration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Attrition is a false repentance motivated by fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Contrition is true repentance motivated by godly remorse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> True repentance implies full confession, restitution, and the resolution of forsaking sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> God promises forgiveness and restoration to all who truly repent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ezekiel 18: 30-32, Luke 24: 46-47, Acts 20: 17-21, Romans 2: 4, 2 Corinthians 7: 8-12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">FAITH AND REPENTANCE TO APPEAR TOGETHER<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can define repentance as follows: Repentance is a heart-felt sorrow for sin, a renunciation of sin and a sincere purpose to forget it and walk in obedience to Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This definition indicates that repentance is something that happens at a specific moment in time, and is not equivalent to a demonstration of change in the lifestyle of the person, Repentance, like faith, is an intellectual understanding ( that sin is bad), an emotional approval of the teaching of Scripture about sin (one sorrow for sin and an abomination of sin), and a personal decision away from him (a renunciation of sin and the decision that forget about it and instead take a life of obedience to Christ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can not say that one has to live that life changing for a while before they can be genuine repentance because otherwise repentance would become a kind of obedience that could grow to merit salvation for ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of course, genuine repentance will result in a changed life. A person really remorseful begin once to live a changed life, and we can call this change of life the fruit of repentance. But we should never try to require that you have a period of time in which a person lives a changed before we can assure forgiveness life.Repentance is something that happens in the heart that involves the whole person in a decision to turn away from sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is important to realize that the simple sadness for our actions, or even deep remorse for our actions, not a genuine repentance unless accompanied by a sincere decision to forget the sin that has been committed against God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul tells us: "Jews and Greeks have urged them to turn to God and believe in our Lord Jesus" (Acts 20:21). He says exulted by the experience of the Corinthians "not because they were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The sadness that comes from God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, which leaves no regret, whereas worldly sorrow brings death "(2 Cor 7: 9-10). A worldly sadness can involve great pain for the actions committed and probably fear of punishment, but not a genuine renunciation of sin and a firm purpose of forget it in life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hebrews 12: 17 says that Esau wept as a result of his actions, but did not regret truth of the fact.Moreover, as 2 Corinthians 7: 9-10, even the real sadness is only one factor that leads to genuine repentance, but that sadness is not itself a decision sincere heart in the presence of God speaking out of genuine repentance .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Scriptures put repentance and faith together as different aspects of the act of coming to Christ for salvation. Not that a person first becomes sin, and then trust in Christ, nor to trust Christ first and then moves away from sin, but both happen at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we come to Christ for salvation from our sins, we are simultaneously moving away from those sins of which we are asking Christ to save us. If not so, turn to Christ for salvation from our sins is unlikely to be sincere to go to him or trust him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The fact that repentance and faith are two different sides of the same coin, or two different aspects of the same event of conversion, the person who genuinely come to Christ for salvation must both be released from sin which has state holding and stay away from that sin to come to Christ. So neither repentance nor faith come first; They have to appear together. John Murray speaks of the "penitent faith" and "believer repentance":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, it is clearly contrary to the evidence of the New Testament talk about the possibility of having true saving faith without having any repentance from sin. It is also contrary to the New Testament speak of the possibility that someone accepts Christ as "Savior", but not "as Lord" if that means simply rely on him for salvation but not proposed turning away from sin and be obedient to Christ from of that time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some prominent voices within the evangelical Christianity differ from this view, arguing that a presentation of the gospel that requires repentance and faith is actually a preaching salvation by works.They argue that the perspective we defend in this chapter, that repentance and faith must go together, is a false gospel of "lordship salvation."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He says that saving faith only demand trust Christ as Savior and submit to it.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Jesus says to sinners: "Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" immediately adds: "Take my yoke upon you and learn from me" (Mt 11: 28-29). Go to him includes taking his yoke upon us, we submit to his leadership, learn from it and obedient headquarters. If we are not willing to make that kind of commitment, we have not really put our trust in him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the Scriptures speak of trust in God or Christ, frequently they relate that confidence with genuine repentance. For example, Isaiah gives eloquent testimony that message is typical of many of the prophets of the Old Testament:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Seek the Lord while he may be found, call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. That the Lord, our God, who is generous in forgiving, And He will have mercy turns. (Is 55: 6-7)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here we are mentioned both repentance of sin as turning to God for forgiveness. In the New Testament, Paul sums up his ministry of proclaiming the Gospel: "Jews and Greeks have urged them to turn to God and believe in our Lord Jesus" (Acts 20: 21). The author of Hebrews included as the first two items on a list of basic doctrine "repentance from acts that lead to death, faith in God" (Heb 6: 1).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of course, sometimes mentioned only faith as it is necessary to go to Christ for salvation (cf. Jn 3: 16; Acts 16: 31; Romans 10: 9; Eph. 2: 8-9 et al .). These are known passages and emphasize them often when we explain the gospel to others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But what we do not realize is often the fact that there are many passages where it is mentioned only regret, because it is assumed that true repentance also involves faith for the forgiveness of sins. The New Testament authors understood so well that repentance and genuine faith must go together often mentioned only regret knowing that faith is also included, because away from sin in a genuine way is impossible without becoming genuinely God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, shortly before Jesus ascended to heaven, He told His disciples, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise the third day, and in his name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached to all nations "(Lk 24: 46-47). Saving faith is implicit in "the forgiveness of sins" though not mentioned explicitly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Preaching that are contained in the book of Acts shows this same pattern. After Peter's sermon at Pentecost, they asked listeners "Peter and the other apostles," Brothers, what shall we do? " [To which Peter replied:] "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of their sins '" (Hch2: 37-38).'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In his second sermon Peter told his listeners in a similar way: "To be erased their sins, repent and turn to God, so that rest periods come from the Lord" (Acts 3: 19). Later when the apostles were on trial before the Sanhedrin, Peter spoke of Christ, saying, "By his power, God exalted him as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins" (Acts 5: 31).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And when Paul was preaching in the Areopagus in Athens to an assembly of Greek mósofos, said, "God overlooked the times of such ignorance, but now commands all people everywhere to repent" (Acts 17: 30 ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It also says in his letters: "Do not you show contempt for the riches of God's goodness, his tolerance and patience, not recognizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?" (Rom 2: 4), and speaks of "repentance that leads to salvation" (2 Cor 7: 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We also see that when Jesus interviewing men and women are required to turn from their sins before following him. Whether you talk to a rich young man and ask him to leave his possessions (Luke 18: 18-30), or enter the house of Zacchaeus and speaks of salvation had come to his house on that day because Zacchaeus had decided to give half of his possessions to the poor and give back everything he had stolen (Luke 19: 1-10), or talk to the woman at the well of Jacob and asking her to call her husband Gen 4 : 16), or with Nicodemus and reprimanded by his rabbinical disbelief and pride in their own knowledge Gen. 3: 1-21), Jesus always puts his finger on the issue of sin that is most noticeable in the life of that person. In fact, we can ask if anyone in the Gospels ever came to the sincere faith in Christ without repenting of their sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we realize that genuine saving faith must be accompanied by sincere repentance of sin, that helps us understand why some preachers of the gospel are so inadequate results today. If the need to repent of sins is not mentioned, sometimes the gospel message boils down to "believe in Jesus Christ and be saved" without any mention of repentance for nothing. ' But this watered down version of the gospel does not demand a firm and sincere commitment to Christ; and a commitment to Christ, if genuine, must include the decision to renounce sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Preach the necessity of faith without repentance is only half preach the gospel. It may be that many people remain confused and deceived, thinking they have heard the Christian gospel and have tried, but nothing happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They may even say something like: "I have accepted Christ as Savior many times, but has not done me any good." However, they never received true Christ as their Savior, for he comes to us in majesty and invites us to receive him as he is, who deserves to be, and demand also recognize as the absolute Lord of our life .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, what shall we say about the common practice of asking people to pray to receive Christ as their personal Savior and Lord? Since faith in Christ a person must include a genuine decision of the will, it is often very helpful to express this decision aloud, and it can take quite naturally the form of a prayer to Christ by which you we talk about our sorrow for sin, our purpose to renounce sin and our determination to put our trust in him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A sentence of that kind expressed aloud has no power to save itself, but the attitude of the heart that represents is a true conversion, and the decision to express that prayer can often be the time when the person reaches the experience of faith in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although we have been considering the initial faith and repentance as two aspects of the conversion that appear at the beginning of the Christian life, it is important to realize that faith and repentance are not limited to the beginning of the Christian life. They are rather heart attitudes that continue throughout our lives as Christians. Jesus told his disciples to pray daily saying: "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" (Mt 6: 12), a sentence which, if sincere, will involve daily sorrow for sin and genuine repentance .And the risen Christ tells the church in La odicea: "I rebuke and chasten those I love. So be earnest, and repent "(Revelation 3: 19, 2nd Cor 7:10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Regarding faith, Paul tells us: "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love "(1 Cor 13: 13). No doubt he is referring to these three remain wing throughout this life, and probably also means that continue for all eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If faith is to trust God for all our needs, this attitude will never cease, even in the afterlife. But anyway, it is clearly indicated that faith continues throughout life. Paul also says, "I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (Gal 2: 20).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, although it is true that the initial saving faith and initial repentance once in our life happen, and when they occur are the true conversion, attitudes heart of repentance and faith only begins at conversion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These same attitudes should continue throughout the course of our Christian life. <span class="">Every day should be a sincere repentance for all the sins we have committed, and faith in Christ that He will supply our needs and strengthen us to live the Christian life. </span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-87338369521294001242016-04-03T12:48:00.000-07:002016-04-03T12:48:04.389-07:00GOOD WORKS<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . Good works are only those that God has commanded in His Holy Word: <b>Mi 6: 8; Ro. 12: 2; I 13:21; Col. 2: 3; 2 Tim. 3: 16,17.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And not, without the authority of this, men have invented by a blind fervor or the pretext that they have good intentions: <b>Mt. 15: 9 Is 29:13;. 1 Peter 1:18; Ro. 10: 2; June 16:. 2; 1 Samuel 15: 21-23; 1 Cor 7:23; Gal. 5: 1; Col 2: 8.16 to 23.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> These good works, done in obedience to God's commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and living faith: <b>Jas. 2:18, 22; Gal. 5: 6; 1 Tim. fifteen.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And by them believers express their gratitude: <b>Psalm 116: 12-14; 1 Peter 2: 9, 12; Lk. 7: 36-50 with Matthew 26: 1-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Strengthen security: <b>June 1 . 2: 3, 5; 3:18, 19; 2 Peter 1: 5-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> edify their brethren. <b>2 Corinthians 9: 2; Mt. 5:16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> adorn the profession of the Gospel: <b>Mt. 5:16; Tit. 2: 5, 9-12; 1 Tim. 6: 1; 1 Peter 2:12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Tapan mouth of the adversaries: <b>1 Peter 2:12, 15; Tit. 2: 5; 1 Tim. 6: 1.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . And glorify God, whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus for this: <b>Eph. 2:10; Phil. 1:11; 1 Tim. 6: 1; 1 Peter 2:12; Mt. 5:16.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">H.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> To that having their fruit unto holiness, have the end eternal life: <b>Rom. 6:22; Mt. 7:13, 14.21 to 23.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The ability of believers to do good works is not themselves in any way, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ. And so they can have this capability, in addition to the virtues they have received, they need a real influence of the same Holy Spirit to work in them to will and to do of his good pleasure: <b>Ez. 36: 26,27; June 15:. 4-6; 2 Corinthians 3: 5; Phil. 2: 12,13; Eph. 2:10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, they should not become careless for it, as if they were not bound by any duty other than a special motion of the Spirit, but must be diligent in stirring up the grace of God in them: <b>Ro. 8:14; June 3. 8; Phil. 2: 12,13; 2 Peter 1:10; I 6:12; 2 Tim. 1: 6; Jud. 20.21.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who achieve the highest possible obedience in this life are so far reaching supererogate, and do more of what God requires, they lack much of what of duty are required to do: <b>R. 8:46; 6:36 2 Kr.;Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2; Pr . 20: 9; Ec 7:20.; Ro. 3: 9,23; 7:14 ff .; Gal. 5:17; June 1 . 1: 6-10; Lk. 17:10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We can not, even by our best works, merit pardon of sin or eternal life in God's hand, because of the great disproportion between our work and the glory that is to come. <b>Rom. 8:18.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And by the infinite distance between us and God, who can not benefit from these works, nor satisfy the debt of our former sins; even when we have done all we can, but we have not done our duty , and are unprofitable servants. <b>Job 22: 3; 35: 7; Lk. 17:10; Ro. 4: 3; 11: 3.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And both are good as coming from the Spirit: <b>Gal. 5:22, 23.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And as they are made by us, they are impure and are mixed with so much weakness and imperfection that can not withstand the severity of the punishment of God: <b>1 Kings 8:46; 6:36 2 Kr.; Psalm 130: 3;143: 2; Pr . 20: 9; Ec 7:20.; Ro. 3: 9,23; 7: 14ss.Gá. 5:17; June 1 . 1: 6-10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him: <b>Ex. 28:38;Eph. 1: 6.7; 1 Peter 2: 5.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Not as if they were in this life wholly blameless and irreproachable in the eyes of God life: <b>1 Kings 8:46;6:36 2 Kr.; Psalm 130: 3; 143: 2; Pr . 20: 9; Ec 7:20.; Ro. 3: 9,23; 7; 14ff .; Gal. 5:17; June 1 . 1: 6-10.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere ,although it is accompanied by many weaknesses and imperfections: <b>I 6:10; Mt. 25: 21,23.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Works done by unregenerate men, although in themselves be things which God commands, and of gooduse both to themselves and others: <b>1 Kings 21: 27-29; 2 Kings 10: 30,31; Ro. 2:14; Phil. 1: 15-18.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, not come from a heart purified by faith: <b>Gn. 4: 5 with Hebrews 11: 4-6; 1 Tim. fifteen; Ro.14:23; Gal. 5: 6.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And not be done in a right manner according to the Word: <b>1 Corinthians 13: 3; Is. 1:12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> nor to a right end (glory of God): <b>Mt. 6: 2, 5, 6; 1 Cor 10:31.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">are therefore sinful, and can not please God or make someone worthy to receive grace from God: <b>Rom.9:16; Tit. 1:15; 3: 5.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And despite this, the neglect of good works is more sinful and displeasing to God: <b>1 Kings 21: 27-29; 2 Kings 10: 30,31; Psalm 14: 4; 36: 3.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SANCTIFICATION AND GOOD WORKS<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sanctification leads naturally to a life of good works. These can be called the fruits of sanctification. The such works are not perfect themselves or come from a perfect sanctification, but spring from the principle of love and faith in God that exists in the soul, according to a conscious conformity with the will of God as has been revealed, Deut. 6: 2; Matthew 7: 17 and 18; 12:33, 35 and Heb. 11: 6, and are made 1st Sam. 15: 22; Santo 2: 8, with the ultimate goal the glory of God, 1 Cor ... 10:31; Col. 3:17, 23. Only those who are regenerated by the Spirit of God can perform such good works. This does not mean, however, that the unregenerate can not do good in any sense of the word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">See 2 Kings 10:29, 30; 12: 2; 14: 3; Luke 6:33 and Rom. 2:14. Under the common grace of God the unregenerate can perform works that are externally accordance with the law and serve their laudable purposes; but these works are always fundamentally flawed because they are separated from the spiritual root of love for God and do not mean an effective internal obedience to divine law nor have as their main purpose the glory of God. In opposition to the Roman Catholic we must hold that good works are not meritorious believer, Luke 17: 9-10; Ephesians 2: 8-10 and Titus 3: 5; even though God promises to reward you with abundant and generous rewards, 1 Corinthians 3:14; Hebrews 11:26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In opposition to the anti-nominianos, we must emphasize the need for good works, Colossians 1:10; 2. Timothy 2:21; Titus 2:14 and Hebrews 10:24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE WORKS<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many people assume that if they try to lead a good life, have done all that is necessary to enter heaven.They place their trust to meet the demands of God's justice on the good works they have done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is a futile hope. The law of God requires perfection. As we are not perfect, lack of good necessary to enter heaven. That is why it is impossible to achieve good living a life of good. The only way been attained good is trusting in the righteousness of Christ. Its merit is perfect and is available to us by faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Believe that we are justified by our good works regardless of faith is to accept the heresy of legalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Believe that we are justified by a kind of faith that produces no works is to accept the heresy of antinomianism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The relationship between faith and good works implies that they should be distinct but not separate.Although our good works do not add any merit to our faith before God, and while the sole condition for our justification is our faith in Christ; if our profession of faith is not followed by good works, this is a clear indication that we do not possess justifying faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The formula of the Reformation is that "we are justified by faith alone, but not by faith alone." True justification always results in the sanctification process. If no justification, sanctification inevitably happen.If the justification is not succeeded by sanctification, is certainly justification was never really present. This does not mean that justification depends or rests in sanctification. The justification depends on the true faith, which in turn will inevitably lead to works of obedience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When James says that faith without works is dead, is saying that "faith" can not justify anyone because it is not a living faith. Living faith produces good works, but these good works are not the basis for our justification. Only the merit achieved by Jesus Christ can justify the sinner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is a very serious mistake, a modern form of the heresy of antinomianism, to suggest that a person can be justified by accepting Jesus as Savior but not as Lord. True faith accepts Christ as Savior and Lord.Depend only on Christ for salvation is to recognize the most complete dependence on our person in Him and repent of our sins. Repent of sins is to submit to the authority of Christ. Denying his lordship is to seek justification with an unrepentant faith, which does not represent any faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although our good works do not make us worthy of salvation, they are the basis on which God promises us distribute rewards in heaven. Our entrance into the kingdom of God is by faith alone. Our reward in the kingdom will be according to our good works, representing a case of free coronation of God on their own gifts, as noted by Augustine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> No one can be justified by good works. We can only be justified by faith in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Faith and good works must be distinguished but never separated. True faith will always produce works of obedience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Justification is by faith alone, but not by faith alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The faith that is dead can not justify.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Faith in Christ means trusting in Him as the Savior and submit to Him as Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We will be rewarded in heaven by our good works, but this reward is by grace.</span><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Romans 3: 9-4: 8, James 2: 18-24, 1 John 2: 3-6, Philippians 2: 12-13, 2 Peter 1: 5-11, 1 John 4: 7-11. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-67222766569912391802016-04-03T12:45:00.003-07:002016-04-03T12:45:58.328-07:00PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
<b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1)</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those whom God has accepted in the Beloved, and effectually called and sanctified by His Spirit, and who has given the precious faith of his elect can not fall from grace in whole or definitely, but certainly persevere it to the end and be saved for eternity, since the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable, so he continues engendering and nurturing in them faith, repentance, love, joy, hope and all the virtues of the Spirit for immortality: Jun. <b>10: 28,29; Phil. 1: 6; 2 Tim. 2:19; 2 P.1: 5-10; 1 Jun. 2:19.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And even arise and flogged them many storms and floods can never wrest the foundation and rock which by faith are clinging; even though, through unbelief and the temptations of Satan, the perceptible vision of light and love of God can ensombrecérseles and oscurecérseles for a while: <b>Psalm 89: 31,32; 1 Cor 11:32; 2 Tim. 4: 7.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He, however, remains the same, and they will be saved, no doubt, by the power of God for salvation, where they shall enjoy their purchased possession, being them carved into the palms of his hands and names written in the book of life from all eternity: <b>Psalm 102: 27; Mal . 3: 6; Eph. 1:14; 1 Peter 1: 5;Revelation 13: 8 . .<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but one of the immutability of the decree of election: <b>Phil. 2: 12,13; Ro. 9:16; June 6. 37.44.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Difluye free and unchangeable love of God the Father, on the basis of the effectiveness of the merits and intercession of Jesus Christ and union with him: <b>Mt. 24:22, 24:31; Ro. 8:30; 9: 11.16; 11: 2.29; Eph. 1: 5-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The oath of God: <b>Eph. 1: 4; Ro. 5: 9, 10; 8: 31-34; 2 Cor 5:14; Ro. 8: 35-38; 1 Corinthians 1: 8, 9;14:19 June.; 10:28 29.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> From the dwelling place of his Spirit, of the seed of God in the saints: <b>Heb 6: 16-20.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And the nature of the covenant of grace: <b>June 1 2:19, 20, 27,. 3: 9; 5: 4, 18; Eph. 1:13; 4:30; 2 Cor 1:22; 5: 5; Eph. 1:14.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> : From all which the certainty and infallibility of perseverance also arise <b>Jer. 31:33, 34; 32:40; I 10: 11-18; 13: 20,21.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And though the saints (through the temptation of Satan and the world, the prevalence of corruption remaining in them and neglect the means for preservation) may fall into serious sins and for some time remain in them: <b>Mt. 26:70, 72, 74.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (As incur God's displeasure and grieve his Holy Spirit: <b>Psalm 38: 1-8; Isaiah 64: 5-9; Eph 4:30; 1 Thessalonians 5:14....<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> They damage their virtues and consolations: <b>Psalm 51: 10-12.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> They hardens the heart and conscience hurts them: <b>Psalm 32: 3, 4; 73:21, 22.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They hurt and scandalize others: <b>2 Samuel 12:14; 1 Corinthians 8: 9-13; Ro. 14: 13-18; 1 Tim. 6: 1, 2; Tit. 2: 5.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">F.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and temporal judgments are trucked): <b>2 Samuel 12: 14ff. Gn. 19: 30-38; 1 Corinthians 11: 27-32.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">G.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> renew their repentance and be preserved until the end through faith in Christ Jesus <b>Lk. 22:32, 61.62; 1 Cor 11:32; June 1 . 3: 9; 5:18.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The expression "perseverance of the saints" naturally suggests a continuous activity of believers why they persevere on the path of salvation. Evidently, however, perseverance refers to is less an activity of believers that a work of God in which believers should participate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Strictly speaking, the safety of the salvation of man is, or is based on the fact that God abideth.Perseverance can be defined as the continuous operation of the Holy Spirit in the believer through which the work of divine grace once begun in the heart is made continuous and complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This doctrine is clearly taught in Scripture, John 12:28, 29; Romans 11:29; Philippians 1: 6; 2nd Thessalonians 3: 3; 2 Timothy 1:12; 4:18, and it is only when we believe in the perseverance of God that our lives can reach safety of salvation, Hebrews 3:14; 6:10 and 2 Peter 1:10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Outside the circles reformed doctrine not find acceptance. It is said that is contrary to the scriptures which warn us about apostasy. Heb. twenty-one; 10:26 exhorts believers to continue on the path of salvation. Mat. 24:13; Heb. 3:14, and we still have cases of apostasy: 1st Tim. 1: 19-20; 2nd Tim. 2:17, 18 and 4:10. Such exhortations and warnings seem to assume the possibility of a fall, and in some cases appear to fully prove it. But these warnings prove only that God works through means and wants man to cooperate in the work of perseverance. There is no evidence that the apostates mentioned in Scripture were really believers. Rom. 9: 6; 1 John 2:19; Rev. 3: 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE PERSEVERANCE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Most of us know people who have made a profession of faith in Christ and to possibly have made a powerful display of faith, actively involved in the life and ministry of the church, then repudiate that faith and abandon it. This kind of experience always raises the question: Can he a person who experienced salvation to lose? Does the apostasy a clear and present danger to the believer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Roman Catholic Church teaches that people can and do lose their salvation. If a person commits a mortal sin, that sin kills the grace of justification that inhabits his soul. If he dies before being restored to a state of grace through the sacrament of penance, he will go to hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many Protestants also believe it is possible to lose salvation. Chapter 6 warnings of Hebrews and Paul's concern about being "eliminated" (1 Corinthians 9:27), and the examples of King Saul and others, have led many people to conclude that people can fall and irreparably full of grace. On the other hand, the Reformation theology teaches the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints. This doctrine is also known as "eternal security".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In essence this doctrine teaches that if you have saving faith can never lose, and if you lose it you never had. As John writes, "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out that it might be shown that not all of us (1 John 2: 19).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We know that it is possible for some people fall in love with certain elements of Christianity without accepting Christ himself. It is possible that a young man attracted to fun and encouragement of a youth group that has an interesting program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The person can "become" the program without becoming Christ. This person can be as illustrated in the parable of the sower sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside and was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and it grew, it withered, because it lacked moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked. And other fell on good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold (Luke 8: 5-8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This parable may refer to those initially believed, but then turned away, or it may mean that those who "believed" had a false or spurious faith, as claimed by the theology of the Reformation. Only the seed that falls on good ground can bear the fruit of obedience. Jesus tells us that these people who listen to his word "are those of honest and good heart" (Luke 8: 15). His faith comes from a truly regenerate heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The doctrine of perseverance is not based on our ability to persevere, not even if they are regenerated, but relies on the promise that God has made preserve. Paul, writing to the Philippians, says: "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1: 6). It is by grace and grace alone that Christians persevere. God will finish the work he began. It will ensure that if the election purposes are not frustrated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The golden chain of Romans 8 gives further testimony on this hope: "And whom He predestined, these He also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified" (Romans 8:30). And then goes on to declare that "neither height nor depth, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:39).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We have this assurance because salvation is of the Lord and are His workmanship. He gives them the Holy Spirit to all believers as a promise that has to complete what he started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It has also sealed every believer with the Holy Spirit. We marked with an indelible mark and has given us his person as first deposit, ensuring that comply with the transaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The main basis for this confidence is found in the work of Christ as High Priest, who intercedes for us. Of Perseverance of the saints in the same way that Jesus prayed for the restoration of Pedro (but not by Judas) and prays for our restoration when we stumble and fall. We can fall for a period, but never fall completely and irreparably. Jesus prayed in the upper room: "When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture is fulfilled "(John 17:12). Judas was lost only because he was the son of perdition from the beginning, and their profession of faith was spurious. Those who are truly believers can not be snatched from God's hand (John 10: 27-30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Many people make a profession of faith in Christ and then they disown him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The perseverance of the saints is based on God's promises to preserve the saints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> . God will complete the salvation of the elect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Reformation theology teaches that people who depart from the faith were never really believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We have confidence in our salvation because we have been sealed with the Holy Spirit. God has given us his word in the Holy Spirit for our salvation is complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The intercession of Christ is for our preservation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John 6: 35-40, Romans 8: 31-39, Philippians 1: 6, 2 Timothy 2: 14-19, Hebrews 9: 11-15. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS (HOW TO REMAIN AS A BELIEVER)<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">TRUE BELIEVERS CAN LOSE HIS SALVATION? HOW CAN WE KNOW IF WE REALLY BORN AGAIN?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL EXPLANATION AND BASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our previous consideration has tried many aspects of the complete salvation Christ won for us and the Holy Spirit now apply to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But how do we know that we will remain faithful throughout our lives? Is there anything that will prevent us from falling turning away from Christ, which ensure that we will remain faithful until we die and actually live with God in heaven forever? 0, could it be that we draw them from Christ and lose the blessings of our salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE THEME OF PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS CONSIDER THESE QUESTIONS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The perseverance of the saints means that all who are truly born again will be kept by the power of God and persevere as believers until the end of their lives, and that only those who endure to the end are truly born again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This definition has two parts. It indicates that there is safety first given to those who are truly born again, because it reminds them that God's power will keep as believers until they die, and they certainly live with Christ in heaven forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, the second half of the definition clearly indicates that Continue In The Christian Life Is One Of Evidence that a person truly Born Again. Present also is important to keep this aspect of the Doctrine, to not fake security A Who Have Never Getting Started Sido Believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It should be noted that this case is one in which the believers Evangelicals have long Significant Had Disagreement. Many within the Wesleyan tradition have argued that Arminian And could someone who truly born again lose his salvation, while the Reformed believers have argued that it is not possible for someone who has truly born again. ' Most Baptists have followed the Reformed tradition at this point;however, they have frequently used the term (eternal security) or (eternal security of the believer "before the term (perseverance of the saints).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">ALL THAT ACTUALLY BEEN BORN AGAIN persevere to the end<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are many passages that teach that those who are truly born again believers who are genuinely continue in the Christian life to death and then go to be with Christ in heaven. Jesus says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Because I came down from heaven not to do my will but from him who sent me. And this is the will of him that sent me: that I lose nothing of what he has given me, but raise it up on the final day. Because the will of My Father, that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day Jn 6: 38-40).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here Jesus says that whoever believes in him will have eternal life. He says he will raise that person at the last day; that, in the context of believing in the Son and have eternal life, clearly means that Jesus will raise that person to eternal life with him (not just resurrect to be judged and condemned).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that anyone who truly believes in Christ will remain believer until the same resurrection at the last day a blessing of life in the presence of God. Moreover, this passage emphasizes that Jesus does the will of the Father, he (Do not lose nothing of all that he has given me "Jn 6: 39). Again, the Father has given the Son will not be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another passage that emphasizes this truth is John 10: 27-29, in which Jesus says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">My Sheep Hear My Voice; I know them and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; And Father's Hand no one can snatch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here Jesus says that all who follow him are his sheep, is given them eternal life. Also he says that "no one can snatch them out of hand" (v. 28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some have objected to this that even if no one can draw from the hand of Christ to believers, we ourselves can we get out of the hand of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But that seems to be pedantic debate about words; Does "no" does not also include the person who is in the hand of Christ? Moreover, we know that our hearts are far from reliable. Therefore, if there is a possibility that we could we leave ourselves in the hands of Christ, the passage hardly give the assurance that Christ wanted to give.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But more importantly, the strongest sentence of this passage is "never perish" (v. 28). Greek construction ou plus the aorist subjunctive mé) is especially emphatic and can be translated more explicitly, "and certainly never perish." This emphasizes that those who are "sheep" of Jesus and follow him, and whom he has given them eternal life, they will never lose their salvation and be separated from Christ, "they will never perish."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are several other passages that say that those who believe have "eternal life". An example is John 3:36: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life" (also John 5: 24; 6: 47; 10: 28; 1 John 5: 13) But if it is truly what eternal life who are believers, then it is life that lasts forever with God. It is a gift from God that comes with salvation (puts him in contrast to the condemnation and eternal judgment in John 3: 16 to 17.36; 10:28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Arminians have objected that "eternal life" is simply a quality of life, a way of life in relationship with God, one has for a while and then lose it. But this objection does not seem to be convincing in view of the clear hue of endless time included in the eternal adjective (gr aionios, "eternal, without end.") Surely there is a special quality in this life, but the emphasis on eternal adjective is in the fact that death is the opposite;It is the opposite of judgment and separation from God; It is life that continues forever in God's presence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">And who believes in the Son has this "eternal life" (Jn 3: 36) Evidence of the writings of Paul and other New Testament Epistles also they indicate that L6S who are truly born again will persevere to the end."Since there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Rom 8: 1); therefore it would be unfair for God to give some kind of eternal punishment for those who are believers; no longer any condemnation for them, for all their sins penalty has been paid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then in Romans 8:30 Paul stresses the clear connection between the eternal purposes of God in predestination and realization of these purposes in life, along with its final realization of these purposes to "glorify" or give final resurrection bodies that he has it brought into union with Christ: "those whom he predestined he also called; to which he called he also justified; and whom He justified, He also glorified. "<b></b>Here Paul sees the future success of glorification as the firm certainty that God 's purpose that can speak of it as if he were already realized (glorified). This is true of all who are called and justified; that is, all who have truly become believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">More evidence that God keeps safe for eternity those who are born again is the "seal" that God gives us.This "seal" is the Holy Spirit in us, who also acts as the "guarantee" of God that we will receive the inheritance that has been promised us: "In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel they brought salvation, and believed, you were marked with the seal, the promised Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This guarantees our inheritance until the redemption of God's own people, to the praise of his glory "(Eph 1: 13-14). The Greek word "arras, RVR" is translated in this passage (arrabon) is a legal and commercial term that means "first payment, deposit, entry fee, promise" and represents "a payment which requires the contracting party make additional payments. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When God put in us the Holy Spirit, he promised to give all additional blessings of eternal life and a great reward in heaven with him. So Paul can say that the Holy Spirit (guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of God's own people "(Eph 1: 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All who have the Holy Spirit in them, all who have truly been born again, have the immutable promise of God and guarantee that the inheritance of eternal life in heaven certainly be his.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The very faithfulness of God is committed to doing so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another example of security that believers persevere to the end is in Paul's statement to the Philippians: "I am convinced of this: he who began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Christ Jesus" (Phil 1: : 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is true that the word "you" here is plural (gr. Jumas), and thus refers to believers in the church of Philippi in general, but yet is speaking of specific believers to whom he writes and he says that the good work God began in them will continue and complete the day when Christ returns. Peter tells his readers that they are 'to whom the power of God through faith until salvation ready to be revealed in the last time "(1 P 1: 5).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word saved, RVR (gr.froureo) can mean either "prevent escape" and "protect from attacks," and perhaps save both classes is what is meant here: God is preserving believers not to escape from his kingdom, and is protecting them from external attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The present participle Peter uses gives the sense of "you are continually saved" 8 stresses that this is the power of God. However, the power of God does not work apart from the personal faith of those who are saved, but through their faith. (Fe, pistis) is regularly a personal activity of the individual believer in the epistles of Peter (see 1 Peter 1: 7, 9, 21; 5: 9; 2nd P 1: 1.5, and commonly in the New Testament).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Parallel examples of God working "for" someone or something in the writings of Peter (1st Peter 1: 3, 23, 2nd P 1: 4, and probably also 1 P 1: 12; 2:14; 3: 1) suggest that faith or confidence of the believer in God is the means God uses to save his people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So we can give the meaning of the verse saying that (God is continually using his power to save his people through their faith) statement seems to imply that the power of God energizes made and continually supports the individual and personal faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This store is not for a temporary goal but for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. "Salvation" is used here not to refer to the last justification or sanctification this (speaking in theological categories) but future full possession of all the blessings of our redemption; in the final and complete fulfillment of our salvation (Rom 13: 11; 1st Peter 2: 2). Although it is ready or "list" God not "reveal" to mankind in general until the "end time", that is the time of final judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This last sentence makes it difficult, if not impossible, to see any end to the activity of God keepeth. If the guardian of God is meant the preservation of believers until they receive their full and heavenly salvation, then it is safe to conclude that God will fulfill that purpose and indeed achieve that final salvation.Ultimately they reach their final salvation depends on the power of God. However, the power of God continually work "for" their faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Do they want to know if God is keeping them? If they continue trusting in God through Christ, God is working and saving, and should be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This emphasis on God saves in combination with our faith provides a natural transition to the second half of the doctrine of perseverance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">Only those who endure to the end HAVE TRULY BORN AGAIN<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">While the Scriptures repeatedly emphasize that those who are truly born again will persevere to the end and certainly have eternal life in heaven with God, there are other passages that speak of the need to continue in the faith life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We do realize that what Peter says in 1 Peter 1: 5 is true, ie, that God does not save us apart from our faith, but only working "through" our faith so that allows us to continue to believe in him. Thus, those who continue to rely on Christ obtained the assurance that God is working in them and keeping them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">An example of this kind of passages is John 8: 31-32 Then Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, and said, 'If faithful to my teachings are kept, you are really my disciples; Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus here is giving the warning that evidence of genuine faith is to continue in his word, that is, continue to believe what he says and living a life of obedience to His commandments. Similarly, Jesus says: "He who stands firm to the end will be saved" (Mt 10: 22) as a means of warning people not to fall in times of persecution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul tells believers Calosas Christ has reconciled with God, "in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him, has reconciled the mortal body of Christ through his death, as long as they remain firm in faith, established and firm, without abandoning the hope offered by the gospel that you heard "(Col 1: 22-23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is only natural that Paul and the other New Testament writers speak in this way, because they target groups of people who profess to be believers, without being able to know the actual state of the heart of every person. There may have been some in Colossae who had joined the church fellowship and even perhaps they had had professed faith in Christ and were baptized in the membership of the church, who had never had true faith that saves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> How can Paul distinguish such people and true believers? How can you avoid giving false security, security that will be saved eternally when in fact they will not be, unless they come to true repentance and faith? Paul knows that those whose faith is not real in the long stop participating in the communion of the church. Therefore, he tells his readers that ultimately will be saved, "as long as they remain firm in the faith" (Col 1: 23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Those who continue to show why they are true believers; but those who do not continue in faith show that never was in their hearts genuine faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A similar emphasis is in Hebrews 3: 14: "We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This verse provides an excellent overview of the doctrine of perseverance. How do we know if "we have come to share in Christ"? How do we know this to be united to Christ has happened sometime in the past?One way we know that we have come to genuine faith in Christ is if we continue in the faith until the end of our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Attention to context Hebrews 3:14 prevent us from using this and similar passages in a pastorally inappropriately. We must remember that there is other evidence in other parts of the Bible that give believers assurance of salvation so we should not think that the security of belonging to Christ is impossible until we die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, continue in the faith is one of the means security mentioned here the author of Hebrews mentions this to warn his readers that should not be away from Christ, because he writes to a situation where a warning so is necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The beginning of that section, just two verses earlier, says: "Beware, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God" (Heb 3: 12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Indeed, in all the passages where it is mentioned continue to believe in Christ to the end of our lives as an indication of genuine faith, the purpose is to never make it to this trust Christ worry that at some point in the future may depart (and we should never use these passages that way either, because that would give a wrong cause for concern in a way that the Bible is proposed).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rather, the purpose is always warn those who are considering or have strayed away if they do, that's a strong indication that were never saved. Thus, the need to continue in the faith should be used simply as a warning against departing, warning that those who deviate give evidence that their faith was never real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John clearly indicates that those who deviate from the fellowship of the church and belief in Christ, for it to start showing that their faith was not real, and that were never part of the true body of Christ. Speaking of those who have left the fellowship of believers, John says, "They went out from us, they were not really of us; if they had been, they would have remained with us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Their going showed that none of them were of us "(1 John 2: 19). John says that those who have departed shown by their actions that "were not of us"; I never truly born again.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">WHICH MAY FINALLY GIVE MANY depart EXTERNAL SIGNALS CONVERSION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Is it always clear what people in the church have genuine saving faith and which simply have an intellectual persuasion of the truth of the gospel but do not have genuine faith in their hearts?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is not always easy to say, and the Bible mentions in several places that nonbelievers into fellowship with the visible church may indeed give some external signs or indications which makes them look or sound like genuine believers. For example, Judas, who betrayed Christ, must have acted almost exactly like the other disciples during the three years he was with Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So convincing was his conformity to the pattern of conduct of the other disciples that the end of the three years of Jesus' ministry, when he said that one of them would betray him, they did not turn and suspected of Judas, but rather " one by one began to ask: -do I, Lord "(Mt 26: 22; Mark 14: 19; Lk 22: 23; Jn 13: 22)?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, Jesus himself knew there was no genuine faith in the heart of Judas, because at some point said, "Did not I chosen you twelve? However, one of you is a devil "(Jn 6: 70). John wrote later in his Gospel that "Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray him" (June 6. 64). But the disciples themselves did not know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul also speaks of "some false brothers had infiltrated" (Gal 2: 4), and says that in his travels had been in "danger from false brethren" (2 Cor 11: 26). It also says that the servants of Satan "masquerade as servants of righteousness" (2 Cor 11: 15).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This does not mean that all non-believers in the church who nonetheless give some signs of true conversion are servants of Satan secretly undermining the work of the church, because some may be in the process of considering the claims of the gospel and move towards Real faith, others may have heard only an inadequate explanation of the gospel message, and others may not have come under a genuine conviction of the Holy Spirit yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But Paul's statements do mean that some believers in the church are false brothers and sisters sent to disrupt the fellowship, while others simply will not believe that eventually will come to genuine faith that saves. In both cases, however, they give several external signals that makes them look like genuine believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We can see this also in Jesus' statement about what will happen in the final judgment:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will declare to them (I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. "(Mt 7: 21-23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Although these people prophesied and cast out demons and did "many miracles" in the name of Jesus, the ability to make such works did not guarantee they are believers. Jesus says, "I never knew." He does not say: "I met them at a time but I do not know" nor "I met him in a while but you turned away from me," but rather, "I never knew." Never were genuine believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A similar teaching is found in the parable of the sower in Mark 4. Jesus says, "Some fell on rocky ground without much land. It sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep; but when the sun came up, the plants withered and had no root, dried "(Mark 4: 5-6). Jesus explains that the seed sown on rocky ground represents those who "when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy, but as they have no root, they last a short time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they depart from it "(Mark 4: 16-17). The fact that "no root" indicates that no source of life in these plants; similarly, people represented by them have no genuine faith inside. They look conversion and seem to have become believers because they received the word "with joy" but when it comes the difficulty will not be found anywhere; his apparent conversion was not genuine and in their hearts no real faith that saves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The importance of continuing faith is also stated in the parable of Jesus as the vine, in which believers as branches (John 15: 1-7) shown .Jesus says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I am the True Vine, and My Father is the gardener. Every branch in me that bears no fruit, Cuts;But every branch that does bear fruit he prunes to give more fruitful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Que not remain in me is thrown away and withers, as the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned (John 15: 1-2, 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Arminians have argued that the branches do not bear fruit still on the vine branches; Jesus refers to "every branch in me that bears no fruit" (v. 2). Therefore, the branches are collected and thrown into the fire and burned should refer to the true believers who were once part of the vine but parted and became subject to eternal judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But that is not a necessary implication of Jesus' teaching on this point. Illustration of a vine which is used in the parable is limited to how much detail can teach. Moreover, if Jesus had wanted to teach that there were false believers and true partners with him, and if he wanted to use the analogy of a vine and branches, then the only way they would have referred to people who have a genuine life itself same would talk about branches that do not bear fruit (in a manner similar to the analogy of the seed that fell on rocky ground and that "they had no root" in Mark 4 way: 17).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here in John 15 branches that bear no fruit, but somehow are connected to Jesus and give an outward appearance of being genuine branches, yet give an indication of their true situation by the fact that no fruit.This is indicated similarly by the fact that the person "no remains" in Christ (John 15: 6) and is thrown as branches and dried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we try to push the analogy even further, saying, for example, that all branches of a vine are really alive, or to start would not be there, then we're just trying to push illustration beyond what can be taught; and in this case there would be nothing in the analogy could represent false believers in any case. The point of the illustration is simply that those who bear fruit so give evidence that they are abiding in Christ; those who do not, are not staying in it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, there are two passages in Hebrews that also claim that deviate mind that the end can give many external signals conversion and in many ways may seem believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first of these, Hebrews 6: 4-6, Arminians have often used as proof that believers can lose their salvation. But on closer inspection this interpretation is not convincing. The author writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is impossible to renew their repentance those who have been once enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, which part have had in the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age, and after all this They have departed. It is impossible because recrucify So, For Your Own Evil, to God's Son and subjecting him to public shame (Heb 6: 4-6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The author continues with an example of agriculture:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the earth drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a good crop for those who cultivate, receives blessing from God. Instead, when produces thorns and thistles is worthless; It is close to being cursed, and it will eventually be burned (Heb 6: 7-8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this agricultural metaphor to receiving the final judgment they are compared to land that does not bear fruit plants or useful, but rather thorns and thistles. When we recall the other metaphors of the Bible where the good fruit is a sign of true spiritual life and fruitlessness is a sign of false believers (eg Mt 3: 8-10; 7: 15-20; 12: 33 -35), we have an indication that the author is talking about people whose most reliable evidence of their spiritual condition (the fruit they bear) is negative, suggesting that the author is talking about people who are not genuine believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some have objected that this long description of things that have happened to these people who turn away means they must be genuinely born again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But that is not a convincing objection when we look at the individual terms used. The author says that they "have been once enlightened" (Heb 6: 4). But this illumination simply means they came to understand the truths of the gospel, and not responding to these truths with genuine faith that saves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Similarly, the term once used to speak of those who "have been once enlightened" is the Greek term apax used, for example, in Philippians 4: 16 to mention the fact that the Philippians sent him Paul helps "again and again" and in Hebrews 9: 7 the entrance to the Holy of Holies once a year. " Therefore, this term does not necessarily mean that something happened (once) and never be repeated, but only happened once, without specifying whether or not repeated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The passage also says that these people "have tasted the heavenly gift" and that "have experienced the good word of God and the powers of the world to come" (Heb 6: 4-5). Inherent in the idea of taste is the fact that testing is temporary and you can decide to accept or not what you are testing. For example, the same Greek word (geuomai) is used in Matthew 27: 34 to say that those who crucified Jesus "Jesus gave him wine mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word is also used in a figurative sense meaning "get to know something." If we understand this in its figurative sense, as it should be understood here as the passage is not talking about trying literal food, then it means that these people had come to understand the heavenly gift (which probably means here that they had experienced some power the Holy Spirit working) and know something about the word of God and the powers of the coming age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It not necessarily means that they have (or had) genuine faith that saves, but perhaps simply means that they had come to understand it and had some experience of spiritual power. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The text also says that these people "have shared in the Holy Spirit" (I 6: 4). The question here is the exact meaning of the métokos word here translated "take part". It is not always clear to readers who speak Spanish this term has a variety of meanings and may involve very intimate involvement and attachment, or may simply involve a loose association with the other person or persons mentioned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For example, the context shows that in Hebrews 3:14 getting to "take part" with Christ means to have an intimate involvement with him in a relationship that saves. Furthermore, métokos can also be used in a much looser sense, simply to refer to known or peers. We read that when the disciples picked up a lot of fish and their nets were breaking, "called signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help" (Lk 5: 7). This simply refers to the partners or associates of Peter and the other disciples at work fishing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ephesians 5: 7 uses a word closely related (summétokos, composed of métokos and the preposition sun [ 'with']) when Paul warns believers regarding acts of sins of unbelievers, and says, "are not made complicit in them "(Eph. 5: 7). His concern is not that the whole nature of them will be transformed by unbelievers, but simply to be joined with them and see their own testimony in commitment and their own lives to some degree influenced by them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By analogy Hebrews 6: 4-6 speaks of some who had been "associated with" the Holy Spirit, and therefore he had influenced their lives, but that does not necessarily mean they had in their lives redemptive work of the Holy Spirit, or they had been regenerated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By similar analogy with the example of fellow fishing in Luke 5: 7, Peter and the disciples they could be associated with them and even to some extent be influenced by them, without having a thorough change of life caused by that association. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The same word métokos allows a breadth of influence from the relatively weak to strong enough, because it only means "one who has a part, or involved with, or attached in some activity." This was evidently what had happened to the people from whom it is spoken in Hebrews 6, who had been associated with the church, and as such associated with the work of the Holy Spirit, and certainly had received some influence from him somehow in their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, the text says that it is impossible to "renew their repentance" those who have experienced these things and have committed apostasy. Some have argued that if this is a repentance that need to be restored again, then it must be genuine repentance. But this is not necessarily the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">First, we must realize that "repentance" (gr. Metanoia) does not necessarily refer to the inner heart repentance for salvation. For example, Hebrews 12: 17 uses this word to talk about the change of heart that Esau felt about selling his birthright, and refers to it as "repentance" (metanoia). This would not be repentance to salvation, but simply change of mind and the desire to roll back the transaction regarding your birthright. (Note also the example of repentance of Judas in Matthew 27: 3, albeit with a different Greek word).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The cognate verb "repent" (gr metanoeo.) Sometimes used to refer not to repentance that saves, but simply to regret individual offenses in Luke 17: 3-4: "If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if you repent, I forgive him. Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you, 'I repent,' forgive him. " We conclude that "repentance" simply means a regret for the actions that have been made or for the sins that have been committed. If genuine repentance that saves or is not, a "repentance to salvation" may not always be immediately apparent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The author of Hebrews is not worried specify whether or not a genuine repentance. It is simply saying that if someone regrets sin and comes to understand the gospel and experience these different blessings of the Holy Spirit (certainly in fellowship with the church), and then departs will not be possible to restore such a person again to a place of mourning for sin. But this does not necessarily mean that their repentance was genuine repentance that saves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">At this point we can ask what kind of people are described in these terms. No doubt they are individuals who have been closely affiliated with the fellowship of the church. They have a sense sorrow for sin (repentance).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They have clearly understood the gospel (have been illuminated). They have come to appreciate the appeal of the Christian life and the next changes in the lives of people because they become believers and have probably had answers to prayer in his own life and felt the power of the Holy Spirit working, perhaps they have even used some spiritual gifts in the manner of unbelievers in Matthew 7:22 (they had been "associated with" the Holy Spirit or had come to "take part" with the Holy Spirit and had tested the gift celestial and the powers of the coming age).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They had been exposed to the true preaching of the word and had appreciated much of his teachings (they had tasted the goodness of the word of God).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But despite all this, if "commit apostasy" and "well recrucify for their own evil, the Son of God, and exposed to public shame" (Heb 6: 6), voluntarily are rejecting all these blessings and turning decidedly against them. Perhaps all we have known in our own churches some who (some self profession) have long been affiliated with the church fellowship but are not really born again believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They have thought of the gospel for years and have continued to resist the call of the Holy Spirit in their lives, perhaps by a reluctance to give Jesus the lordship of their lives preferring to keep aferradamente for themselves that lordship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now the author tells us that if these people voluntarily turn away from all these temporal blessings then it will be impossible to restore back to some kind of remorse or regret for sin. It hardens their hearts and their consciences too. What else can be done to bring them to salvation? If we say that the Bible is true they will say that they know but have decided to reject it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we say that God answers prayer changes lives and respond that they know that too, but do not want to know anything about it. If we say the Holy Spirit is able to work in the lives of people and the gift of eternal life is good beyond description, they say they understand, but they do not want to have anything to do with it. Repeated familiarity with the things of God and his experience with the many influences of the Holy Spirit has simply served to harden them against conversion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now, the writer of Hebrews knows that there are some in the community that writes that are in danger of departing in this way (see Heb 2: 3; 3: 8, 12, 14-15; 4: 1.7, 11; 10: 26, 29, 35-36, 38-39; 12: 3, 15-17). He wants to warn them that, although they have participated in the communion of the church and experienced some of the blessings of God in their lives, but if they turn away after all that, there is no salvation for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This does not mean that he thinks that true believers can depart; Hebrews 3: 14 10 involves precisely the opposite. But wants them to have the assurance of salvation through its continuation in faith, and this means that if they turn away would show that never were people of Christ to start (see Heb 3: 6: "And we are his house, so that we maintain our confidence and hope that we are proud ").<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, the author wants to give a stern warning to those who are in danger of departing from their Christian profession. He wants to use the strongest language possible to say, "At this point you can reach a person experiencing temporary blessings and yet not really be saved." Warned to watch, because relying on temporal blessings and experiences is not enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To do this speaks not of any real change of heart or a good fruit produced, but merely temporal blessings and experiences that have come to these people and given them some understanding of Christianity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By this immediately passes this description of those who commit apostasy to an additional analogy that shows that these people have never had any genuine stray fruit in their lives. As he explained above, verses 7-8 speak of those people in terms of "thorns and thistles" the kind of plants that produce a land that has decent life itself but receives repeated blessings of God (in terms of analogy, even when rain falls on it frequently).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We should note here that people who commit apostasy is not compared with a field that once was good fruit and not now, but are like land that never gave good fruit but only thorns and thistles. The terrain may look good before the plants begin to sprout, but the fruit gives genuine evidence, and it's bad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Strong support for this interpretation of Hebrews 6: 4-8 is in the following verse immediately. Although the author has been talking very seriously in terms of the ability to pull away, then returns to discuss the situation of the vast majority of listeners who think they are genuine believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He says: As for you, dear brothers, although we express ourselves well, we are confident that awaits them best, that is, as regards salvation "(Heb 6: 9). But better than what? The plural (better things "(RVR) is an appropriate contrast to the" good things "that have been mentioned in verses 4-6: The author is convinced that most of his readers have experienced better things just partial influences and time of the Holy Spirit and the church mentioned verses 4-6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In fact, the author speaks of these things saying (literally) that are "the best, that is, as regards salvation" (gr kai ekomena soterias.). These are not the temporal blessings mentioned in verses 4 -6, but are better things, things that have not only temporal influence, but also "regarding salvation." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Thus the Greek word kai (also) shows that salvation is something that is not part of the things mentioned in verses 4-6 above. Therefore, this word kai, which are not explicitly translated in the NIV (but RVR approaches) provides an essential key to understanding the passage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If the author had meant that the persons mentioned in verses 4-6 were truly saved, then it is very difficult to understand why he would say in verse 9 he is convinced of better things for them, things that belong to salvation, or with salvation in addition to the things mentioned above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore it shows that you can use a short sentence to say that people "have salvation" if to say (need not stack more sentences), and shows, even more, that people who speak verses 4-6 are not saved "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What exactly it is "the best"? In addition to salvation mentioned in verse 9, there are things that give real evidence of salvation: genuine fruit in their lives (v. 10), full assurance of hope (v. 11) and faith that saves, of the type exhibited by those who inherit the promises (v. 12). In this way he reassures those who are true believers, that is, those who show fruit in their lives and show love for other believers, showing hope and genuine faith that continues at the present time, and they are not about to away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">You want to reassure these readers (who are certainly the vast majority of those who write) while at the same time gives a strong warning to those among them who may be in danger of departing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A similar teaching is found in Hebrews 10: 26-31. Here the author says: "If after receiving the knowledge of the truth we sin willfully, and no sacrifice for sins" (v. 26). He who rejects Christ's salvation and "has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified" (v. 29) deserves eternal punishment. This is again a strong warning against away, but should not be taken as proof that someone who has truly born again can lose his salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the author speaks of the blood of the covenant "by which he was sanctified" the word holy is used simply to refer to "external sanctification, as the ancient Israelites, the external connection with the people of God." The passage does not speak of someone who is genuinely saved, but someone who has had some beneficial moral influence through contact with the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is another passage in the writings of John who has been mentioned as taught by the possibility of loss of salvation. In Revelation 3: 5 Jesus says, "He who overcomes will be dressed in white. I will never erase his name from the book of life. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some have argued that when Jesus says this implies that he may erase the Book of Life the names of some people who have already had their names written there and therefore were saved. But the fact that Jesus stated emphatically that he will not do something should not be taken as teaching that he will do the same in other cases! The same kind of construction in the Greek is used to give an emphatic denial in John 10: 28, where Jesus says: (I give them eternal life and they shall never perish).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This does not mean that there are some sheep Jesus not hear his voice and will not follow and perish;simply he states that his sheep certainly not perish. Similarly, when God says, "I will never leave; I will never leave you "(Heb 13: 5), does not mean that he will leave or abandon others; simply she states emphatically that he will not leave nor forsake his. 0, even in the close parallel in Matthew 12: 32, Jesus says, "Whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this world or the next).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This does not imply that some sins will be forgiven in the coming age (as Roman Catholics claim in support of its doctrine of purgatory, which is simply an error in reasoning, to say that something will happen in the next life do not mean that you can happen in the coming age the same way, Revelation 3: 5 is simply a strong statement that the names of those white dresses and who have remained faithful to Christ will never be erased from the book of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, sometimes a passage from the Old Testament used to argue that people can lose their salvation: the story of the Holy Spirit out of King Saul. But it should not take Saul as an example of someone who loses his salvation, because when (The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul) (1st S 16: 14), was immediately after Samuel had anointed King David and "the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day was with him "(1 S 16: 13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Indeed, the coming of the Spirit of the Lord upon David in immediately prior to that in which we read that the Spirit left Saul reportedly prayer. This close connection means that the Bible is not here talking about a total loss of all the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of Saul, but simply the removal of the role of the Holy Spirit to empower Saul as king.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But that does not mean that Saul was eternally damned. It's just very difficult to tell from the pages of the Old Testament if Saul, in his life, was:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(A)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> an unregenerate man who had leadership abilities and God used as a demonstration of the fact that someone worthy to be king in the eyes of the world was not so suited to be king over the Lord 'speople, or.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(B)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> a man regenerated with bad understanding and a life that increasingly turned away from the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"> WHAT CAN GIVE THE BELIEVER GENUINE SECURITY?<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If this is true, as explained in the previous section, that of unbelievers and finally can give away many external signals conversion, then what can serve as evidence of genuine conversion? What can give real security to the real believer? We can mention three categories of questions that a person can make herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">I HAVE A PRESENT TRUST IN CHRIST FOR SALVATION?<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Paul tells the Colossians to be saved at the last day, "as long as they remain firm in the faith, established and firm, without abandoning the hope offered by the Gospel" (Col 1: 23). The author of Hebrews says, "We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first" (Heb 3: 14) and encourages its readers to be imitators of those who "by his faith and patience inherit the promises "(Heb 6: 12).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, the most famous verse of the whole Bible uses the present tense verb can be translated: "Everyone who continues to believe in him" may have eternal life (cf. Jn 3: 16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, the person must ask herself: "Today I have confidence in Christ to forgive my sins and take me to heaven guiltless forever?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Do I have confidence in my heart that he saved me? If I were to die tonight and appear before the tribunal of God, and he asked me why would you allow me into heaven, I start thinking about my good works and depend on them, or without any hesitation say that depend on the merits of Christ and hoped that he is a Savior enough? "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This emphasis on the present faith in Christ is in contrast to the practice of some "testimonies" of church where some repeated again and again details of a conversion experience that may have occurred 20 or 30 years ago. If a witness of faith that saves is genuine, it must be a witness of faith that is active today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">IS THERE EVIDENCE OF A WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT REGENERATION IN MY HEART?<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The evidence of the Holy Spirit in our hearts comes in many different forms. While we should not put confidence in demonstrating miraculous works (Matthew 7: 22), or long hours and years of work in a local church (which may simply be build with "wood, hay and straw) [in terms of 1st Co 3: 12] to promote one's own ego or gain power over others, or attempt to gain merit before God), there are many other evidences of a real work of the Holy Spirit in one's heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">First, there is a subjective testimony of the Holy Spirit in our hearts bearing witness that we are children of God (Rom 8: 15-16; 1 John 4: 13). This testimony usually be accompanied by a sense of being guided by the Holy Spirit in paths of obedience to the will of God (Rom 8: 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If the Holy Spirit is truly working in our lives, he will produce the character traits that Paul calls "the fruit of the Spirit" (Gal 5: 22). He mentions several attitudes and character traits produced by the Holy Spirit: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control" (Gal 5: 22-23).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of course, the question is not: "I perfectly I exemplify all these features in my life?" But rather, "Are all these things a general feature in my life? I perceive these attitudes in my heart? Do others see (especially those who know me more intimately) that my life exhibits these traits? Have I been growing in them with over the years? "There is no suggestion in the New Testament that a nonbeliever, an unregenerate person, can convincingly falsify these character traits, especially to those who know more intimately to the person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On this kind of fruit is another kind of fruit: the results in one life and ministry as they have influenced others and in the church. There are some who profess to be believers but whose influence on others is discouraging, collapse them, hurt their faith, and cause disputes and divisions. The results of his life and ministry is not edify others or edify the church, but destroy them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, there are those who seem to build others in every conversation, every prayer and every work of ministry to which they apply their hands. Jesus said, about false prophets: "By their fruits ye shall know .... every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit .... So by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matthew 7:16 -twenty).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another evidence of the Holy Spirit is to continue believing and accepting the healthy teaching of the church. Those who begin to deny key doctrines of the faith give serious negative indications regarding their salvation: "Everyone who denies the Son has the Father. Stay on what you have heard from the beginning, and you also will remain in the Son and in the Father "(1 Jn 2: 23-24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John also says: "Whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us "(1 John 4: 6). Since the New Testament writings are the current replacement for the apostles as John, we could also say that anyone who knows God continue to read and reveling in the word of God, and continue to believe in it completely. Those who do not believe and delight in the word of God give evidence that they are not "of God".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another evidence of genuine salvation is a present relationship and continues with Jesus Christ. Jesus says, "Abide in Me" and "If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and will be granted" Jn 15: 4-7). This abiding in Christ will include not only confidence in him day after day in various situations, but certainly regulate communion with him in prayer and worship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, a major aspect of evidence that we are genuine believers is in a life of obedience to God's commandments. John says: "He who says:" I know him "but does not obey his commandments, is a liar and does not have the truth. Instead, God's love is fully manifested in the life of obeying his word. Thus we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as he lived "(1 Jn 2: 4-6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Not a perfect life, of course is necessary. John is rather saying that in general our lives should be imitation of Christ and likeness to him in everything we say and do. If we have genuine saving faith, there will be clear results in obedience in our lives (see also 1 John 3: 9-10, 24; 5: 18). This is why James can say So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead "and" I will show you faith by my works "(James 2: 17-18). An important aspect of obedience to God includes loving other believers. "He who loves his brother abides in the light" (1 Jn 2: 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. He who does not love remains in death "(1 Jn 3: 14, 3: 17; 4: 7). One evidence of this love is continuaren Christian fellowship (1 John 2: 19). And another is to give needy brother (1 John 3: 17; Mt 25: 35-46).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">I SEE A PATTERN OF LONG-TERM GROWTH IN MY LIFE CHRISTIAN?<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first two aspects of security have to do with this faith and present evidence of the Holy Spirit working in our lives. But Peter gives another kind of test you can use to ask whether we are genuine believers. It tells us that there are some character traits that if we continue to grow in them, ensure that "never fall" (2 Peter 1: 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He tells his readers that add to their faith "virtue, understanding, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness love" (2 Peter 1: 5-7). He adds that these things should belong to their readers and continually "dwell" in their lives (2nd Peter 1: 8). He adds: "make every effort to secure even more of God's call, who first chose" and then said, "If they do these things (referring to the character traits mentioned in vv. 5-7) never fall" (2 P 1: 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The way we confirm our call and election, then, is to continue growing in "these things". This means that our assurance of salvation can be something that grows over time in our lives. Every year we add to these character traits in our lives, we get greater and greater security of our salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Thus, although young believers can have a fairly strong confidence in their salvation, that security can grow to an even deeper certainty with the years grow to cristiana.27 maturity If they continue adding these things will confirm your calling and choice " they never fall. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The result of these three questions we can do ourselves must give a strong assurance to those who are genuine believers. Thus, the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints is an enormously comforting doctrine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">No one who has such security will ask: 'Will I be able to endure to the end of my life and therefore be saved? "Everyone who gets certainty, 1st Ti 3: 13, which says that" exercise good "as deacons' acquire greater confidence to speak of their faith in Christ Jesus "(NIV).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By such self-examination should rather think, "Truly I am born again; therefore I certainly persevere to the end, because it keeps me "the power of God working through my faith (1st P 1: 5), and therefore never lose me. Jesus will raise me on the last day and I will enter his kingdom forever "Gen. 6: 40).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, this doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, if understood properly, should produce genuine anxiety and even fear in the heart of anyone who has "regressed" or has strayed from Christ. Such people should clearly hear the warning that only those who endure to the end truly born again. If they depart from their profession of faith in Christ and the life of obedience to him, perhaps they were not really saved; indeed, the evidence they are giving is that they are not saved and were never actually saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Once you stop trusting in Christ and obey him (I'm talking in terms of external evidence) have no genuine assurance of salvation, and should be considered not saved and come to Christ in repentance and ask forgiveness of their sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">At this point, in terms of pastoral care to those who have departed from their Christian profession, we must realize that both Calvinists and armiñamos (those who believe in the perseverance of the saints and those who think that believers can lose their salvation ) advise the "erring" in the same way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">According to the Arminian the person was a believer at one time but no longer is. According to the Calvinist, that person really was never start believing, and it is not the present. But in both cases the biblical advice given is the same: "It seems that you are not a believer now; You must repent of your sin and trust in Christ for your salvation! "Although the Calvinist and the Arminian differ in their interpretation of the previous history, will agree on what to do in the present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But here we see why the phrase eternal security can be very misleading. In some evangelical churches, instead of teaching the complete and balanced presentation of the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, pastors sometimes have taught a diluted version, which in effect tells people that all who once made a profession of faith and were baptized are "eternally secure."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The result is that some who have not become genuinely can "come forward" at the end of a sermon of evangelization to profess faith in Christ and be baptized soon after, but then leave the fellowship of the church and lead a life that no difference in anything they lived before they get this "eternal security".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this way people are given a false sense of security and is cruelly cheated into thinking that they are going to heaven, when in fact they are not.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577510335831517257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958728886972168322.post-4771084592985028732016-04-03T12:43:00.003-07:002016-04-03T12:43:36.555-07:00THE SAFETY OF GRACE AND SALVATION<h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 2pt 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Although believers who are so for a while and others unregenerate vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions that they have God's favor and are in a state of salvation (but hope they perish ): <b>Jer. 17: 9; Matthew 7: 21-23; Lk. 18: 10-14; 8:41 June.; Eph. 5: 6,7; Gal. 6: 3,7-9.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who truly believe in the Lord Jesus and love him in sincerity, endeavoring to walk in all sincerity before him in this life can be absolutely certain of being in the state of grace, and may rejoice in the hope of glory of God; and such hope never embarrass them, <b>Ro. 5: 2.5; 8:16; June 1 2: 3;. 3:14, 18, 19,24;5:13; 2 Peter 1:10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This certainly is not a mere conjectural and probable conviction, based on a fallible hope, but an infallible assurance of faith: <b>Rom. 5: 2.5; I have 6:11, 19,20; 1 June 3: 2,14;. 4:16; 5:13, 19,20.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Based on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed in the Gospel: <b>I 6:17 18; 7:22; 10:14 19.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And also in the internal evidence of those graces of the Spirit to which this makes them promises: <b>Mt. 3: 7-10; Mark 1:15; 2 Peter 1: 4-11; June 1 2: 3;. 3:14, 18, 19, 24; 5:13.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And in the testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing with our spirit that we are children of God:<b>Rom. 8: 15,16; 1 Cor 2:12; Gal. 4: 6,7.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> And, as a result of his, keeps the humble and holy heart: <b>1 June 3: 1-3 . .<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> This infallible assurance does not belong to the essence of faith to the point that a true believer can not wait long , and conflict with many difficulties before he be part of such security: <b>Acts. 16: 30-34; 1 Jun. 5:13.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, being empowered by the Spirit to know the things that are freely given by God, you can reach:<b>Ro. 8: 15,16; 1 Cor 2:12; Gal. 4: 4-6 with 3: 2; June 1 4:13.; Eph. 3: 17-19; I have 6: 11.12; 2 Peter 1: 5-11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Without an extraordinary revelation, by the proper use of the media; and therefore it is the duty of everyone to be diligent to make your calling and election; so that his heart was enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience, which are the proper fruits of this assurance: so is of safety distance is to lead men to debauchery: <b>2 Peter 1:10; Psalm 119: 32; Ro. 15:13; Neh. 8:10; 1 June 4: 19,16;. Ro. 6: 1, 2,11-13;14:17; Tit. 2: 11-14; Eph. 5:18.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The safety of the salvation of the true believers can be shaken, diminished and interrupted in various ways by negligence in preserving: <b>I 6:11, 12; 2 Peter 1: 5-11. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By falling into some special sin which wounds the conscience and grieves the Spirit: <b>Psalm 51: 8, 12, 14; Eph. 4:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">C.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> by some sudden or strong temptation: <b>Psalm 30: 7; 31:22; 77: 7, 8; 116: 11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">D. </span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By withdraw the light from his face, allowing even those who fear him to walk in darkness and have no light: <b>Is. 50:10.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">E.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> However, never fall short of the seed of God and life of faith, that love of Christ and the brethren, that sincerity of heart and conscience of duty, by which, through the operation of the Spirit, this security can be relived over time; and which, in the meantime, true believers are preserved from falling into utter hopelessness: <b>June 1 . 3: 9; Lk. 22:32; Ro. 8:15, 16; Gal. Four. Five; Psalm 42: 5, 11.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">MERIT AND GRACE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The issue of merit and grace is in the heart of the historic debate between Roman Catholic and Protestant theology. The main statement of the Reformation was one -the gratia salvation is only by the grace of God. Believers do not bring any own merit before God's judgment, but rest solely on the mercy and grace of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The merit is defined as that which is earned or deserved. Justice requires that credit is given where it is deserved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Merit is something that a person deserves for his performance. If the credit due is not received, an injustice is committed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Roman Catholic theology speaks of merit in three ways. It refers to the deserved merit, something that is so meritorious that imposes the obligation to be rewarded. He also talks about a congruent merit, which although not as high as the deserved merit God's reward would be "consistent or appropriate". The consistent merit is achieved by performing good works in conjunction with the sacrament of penance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A third type of merit is supererogatory merit, which is the merit that transcends the call of duty. It is the excess merit achieved by saints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This merit is deposited in the treasury of merit from which the church can remove it to replace the accounts of those who lack sufficient merit to progress from purgatory to heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Protestant theology denies and "protest" against these types of merit, declaring that the only merit that we have at our disposal is the merit of Christ. The merit of Christ comes to us by grace through faith. Grace is the unmerited favor of God. It is an action or disposition of God towards us. Grace is not a substance that can dwell in our souls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We grow in grace, not by a quantitative measure of a substance within us but by the merciful help of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, acting in his grace for us and in us. The means of God's grace to help us in the Christian life include Scripture, the sacraments, prayer, fellowship, and the teachings of the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Our salvation is one </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">gratia, </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">by grace alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> We have no own merit that compels God to save us .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The Roman Catholic theology distinguishes between the deserved merit, consistent and supererogatory. These three types of merit are rejected by Protestantism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Grace is the unmerited favor or mercy of God towards us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">John 15: 1-8, Romans 4: 1-8, Romans 5: 1-5, 2 Corinthians 5: 17-19, Ephesians 2: 8-9, Titus 3: 4-7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">SECURITY OF SALVATION<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Can anyone know with full certainty if it is safe? Declare that someone is sure of his salvation appears to be an act of extreme arrogance. Yet the Bible calls us to make our salvation a matter of certainty. Peter commands us: "Wherefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your calling and election sure" (2 Peter 1:10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is our duty to diligently seek the certainty of our salvation. We should not look for idle curiosity to know what is the state of our soul, but to improve our growth in sanctification. Christians who remain uncertain about the status of your salvation are subject to all sorts of questions that paralyze their walk with Christ. Faced with doubts and are vulnerable to Satan's attacks. That's why we seek to have the certainty of our salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are four possible positions on the certainty of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">FIRST POSITION</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> : </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are people who are not saved and they know they are not saved. These people know of enmity towards God they have in their heart and want nothing to do with Christ as their Savior.They are bold in proclaiming that they have no need of Christ. These people are usually publicly hostile to the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SECOND POSITION:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are people who are saved but they do not know they are saved. These people are actually in a state of grace but have no assurance of salvation. They may be struggling with sin in their lives and doubt their own salvation because they guilty conscience. In this group are those who do not yet have the certainty that they are among the chosen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">THIRD POSITION:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are people who are saved and know they are saved. This is the group consisting of those who are certain of their choice and calling. They have a clear and certain understanding of what is what salvation requires and have met the requirements. They believed the testimony of the Holy Spirit when He bore witness to their spirits that were the sons of God (Romans 8:16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">FOURTH POSITION:</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are people who are not saved but think they are saved. These people have the certainty of salvation but have no salvation. His certainty is a false certainty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As you may have a false assurance of salvation, how can we know if we are in the third position or the fourth position? To answer this question we must analyze in more detail this fourth group and ask how it is possible to have a false sense of certainty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The easiest way to have a false assurance of salvation is to have a false doctrine of salvation. For example, if a person holds a universalist viewpoint on salvation can follow the following reasoning: All people are saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I am a person. Therefore, I am saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As this doctrine is in error, their certainty has no firm basis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another way people can have a false assurance of salvation is to believe they can reach heaven if they live a life of good. Those who think they are living a good life enough to meet the demands of a holy God delude themselves into thinking they are saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But what happens if a person has a certain doctrine of salvation? Is it still possible to have a false certainty? We must answer yes. A person may believe that you have saving faith when in fact it does not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The real test for certainty is twofold. On the one hand, we must examine our own hearts and see if we have a true faith in Christ. We must see whether or not we have a genuine love for the biblical Christ.Because we know that this love would be impossible without regeneration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Secondly, we must examine the fruit of our faith. We do not need the fruit to be perfect to have this certainty, but there must be some kind of evidence of the fruit of obedience to our profession of faith is credible. If no fruit present, then there is no present faith. Where saving faith are, there the fruit of that faith will also find.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, we must seek our belief in the Word of God, through which the Holy Spirit testifies with our spirit that we are his children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It is our duty to diligently seek the certainty of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The certainty of salvation improve our sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> There are four groups or possible positions with respect to certainty:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(A)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who are unsaved and know they are not saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(B)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who are saved but do not have the certainty that they are saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(C)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who are saved and know they are saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(D)</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Those who are unsaved but believe they are saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The false certainty is primarily based on a false doctrine of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For a real certainty we must analyze our own hearts and examine the fruit of </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">our </span><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.</span></b><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The absolute certainty comes from the Word of God united to the testimony of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BIBLICAL PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Matthew 7: 21-23, John 3: 1-21, Romans 8: 15-17, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 1 John 2: 3-6, 1 John 5:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE COMMON GRACE GRACE AND SPECIAL influence each other.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Common grace, of course, influence and enriches the church, since apart from the common grace of God given to masons, carpenters and other craftsmen have not temples; apart from the common grace given to printers and bookbinders (and even those who work in companies that manufacture paper and woodcutters who cut the trees in the forest to make paper), we would not have Bibles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The church benefits of common grace in many ways in daily activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the other hand, the special grace that God gives to those who are saved brings more blessings of common grace to unbelievers who live in the sphere of influence of the church. Unbelievers benefit from the examples of Christian life they see in society, from the prayers and mercy that Christians do for the community, from the knowledge of the teachings of Scripture and wisdom in which they find moral benefits and intellectuals, and the influence of the laws, customs and beliefs of a society that come through the policies of Christian social activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Historically the powerful presence of those whose lives were changed by the gospel has been frequently which has resulted in the freeing of slaves (in the British colonies and the United States), rights of women, the spread of education public, scientific and technological progress, increased productivity in the economy, the high value of the work, thrift and honesty, and other things like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE COMMON GRACE SAVES PEOPLE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Despite all this, we must understand that common grace is different from saving grace. Common grace does not change the human heart and leads people to genuine repentance and faith, and therefore can not save people (although the intellectual and moral sphere can provide some preparation to make people are more willing to accept the gospel).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Common grace restrains sin, but does not change the fundamental provision of anyone to sin, nor to any significant extent purifies the fallen human nature: We must also recognize that the actions of unbelievers carried out under common grace have themselves no merit to get approval or favor of God. These actions are not the result of faith (and all that is not of faith is sin "Romans 14: 23, RVR 1960), nor are they motivated by love for God (Mt 22: 37), but rather by love itself in some form or another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, although we have the inclination to say that the works of unbelievers externally conform to the laws of God are "good" in some sense, they, however, are not good in terms of having merits to gain approval God or make God toward the sinner is bound in some way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, we should recognize that unbelievers are often more common grace that believers, because they may be more skilled, more diligent, more intelligent, more creative and have more than the material benefits that life can provide. This does not indicate at all that God favors or they will gain some share in eternal salvation, but only God distributes blessings of common grace in various ways, and often gives very important blessings to unbelievers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In all this, they should, of course, recognize goodness of God (Acts 14: 17), and should recognize that the revealed will of God is that the "goodness" of God leads to repentance (Romans 2: 4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">WHY THE COMMON GRACE<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Why common grace God gives to sinners who do not deserve and will never seek salvation? We can suggest at least four reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TO REDEEM that will be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Peter says that the day of judgment and the final execution of punishment is being delayed because there are still people who will be saved: "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Rather, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but that all should repent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the day the Lord will come like a thief "(2 Peter 3: 9-10). Indeed, this reason is true from the beginning of human history, because if God wanted to rescue some people from all sinful humanity, could not destroy all sinners immediately (because it had not then been human race). It therefore decided to allow live for a while and sinful humans to have children, to allow subsequent generations to live and could hear the gospel and repent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TO DEMONSTRATE THE KINDNESS AND MERCY OF GOD.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The goodness and mercy of God not only seen in the salvation of believers, but also in the blessings he gives to sinners that they do not deserve. When God "is kind to the ungrateful and wicked" (Luke 6: 35), his goodness is revealed in the universe, for his glory. David says: "The Lord is good to all; he sympathizes with all creation "(Ps 145: 9). In the story of Jesus' conversation with the rich young man, we read: (Jesus looked at him with love) (Mark 10:21), even though the man was an unbeliever And at a time would give back because of their great possessions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Berkhof says that "God pours countless blessings upon all men and also clearly indicates that they are expressions of the favorable disposition of God, which, however, does not reach the positive volition of personar their sins, lifting his sentence and grant salvation '"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">God is not unjust delay the execution of punishment over sin and temporal blessings spill on humans, because not forget the punishment, but so what postponed. By delaying the punishment, God clearly shows that no pleasure in executing the final punishment, but rather delights in the salvation of men and women."As surely as I live, says the Lord God, [it is] that I'm not happy with the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live" (Ez 33: 11); "Because he wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth" (1 Tim 2: 4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In all this the delay of punishment gives us clear evidence of mercy, love and goodness of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TO DEMONSTRATE THE JUSTICE OF GOD.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When God repeatedly invites sinners to come with faith and when they continually reject his invitation, is most clearly seen God's justice to condemn them. Paul warns those who persist in disbelief that what they are doing is storing up wrath against them: "By your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment "(Rom 2: 5).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the day of judgment everyone shut up and be held accountable to God (Rom 3:19) and no one is entitled to object that God has been unfair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">TO DEMONSTRATE THE GLORY.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, the glory of God appears in many ways through the activities of human beings in all areas where common grace is manifested. To develop and exercise dominion over the earth, men and women demonstrate and reflect the wisdom of their Creator, demonstrate similar qualities to God and virtue and moral authority over the universe, and stuff like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">While all these activities are marred by sinful motives, reflect, however, the excellence of our Creator and therefore glorify God, not a complete and perfect, but significantly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;"> OUR RESPONSE TO THE DOCTRINE OF COMMON GRACE<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When thinking about the various kinds of goodness we see in the lives of unbelievers because of the abundant common grace of God, we should bear in mind three things:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE COMMON GRACE DOES NOT MEAN THAT RECEIVE THE BE SAVED.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even exceptionally large amounts of common grace implies that those who receive it will be saved. Even the smartest, wealthiest and most influential people in the world need the gospel of Jesus Christ or be damned for all eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even the most kind and decent neighbors need the gospel of Jesus Christ or be damned for all eternity. It may seem at them from outside who have needs, but the Scriptures tell us that unbelievers are "enemies of God" (Rom 5: 10; Col 1: 21; James 4: 4) and are "against" Christ (Mt 1230). "They behave as enemies of the cross of Christ", "only mind earthly things" (Phil 3: 18-19) and are "by nature objects of wrath" (Eph. 2: 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">We must be careful NOT DECLINE AS TOTALLY BAD THINGS THAT MAKE UNBELIEVERS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">By common grace, unbelievers do some good, and we should see the hand of God in it and be grateful for the common grace to see it work in every friendship, every kindness, every way to provide blessings to others. All this while the unbeliever does not know, ultimately comes from God and he deserves the honor and glory for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-CO" style="color: #0f243e; font-size: 12pt;">THE DOCTRINE OF THE COMMON GRACE SHOULD BE MUCH MORE spur GRATEFUL TO GOD.<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we walk down a street and see houses, gardens and families living safely, or when we negotiate in the market and see the abundant results of technological progress, or when caminamos.por-l9s-forests and grasslands and contemplate the beauty of nature, or when we live protected by the government ,? or when we are educated with extensive human knowledge, we should realize not only that God in his sovereignty is ultimately granted all these blessings, but also that God gives to sinners who do not deserve them at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CO" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="">These blessings we see in the world are not only evidence of the power and wisdom of God, but also a continuous manifestation of His abundant grace. </span>We realize this reality should fill our hearts with gratitude to God in every activity of life. </span></div>
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