True Christians Are God's Elect | Pastor Patrick Hines CRPC Podcast #shorts #reformedtheology #Jesus
True Christians Are God's Elect | Pastor Patrick Hines CRPC Podcast #shorts #reformedtheology #Jesus
[Hebrews 6:4-6 KJV] 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
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CRPC Podcast - Westminster Confession of Faith - Ch17 - Perseverance of the Saints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVfUPNbSbIE&list=PLzOwqed_gET2vqbY_shSW0MfXtYGSoCnT&index=1&t=20s
Join Pastors Patrick Hines (Bridwell Heights Presbyterian Church, Kingsport, TN), Jim Thornton (Reformed Faith Presbyterian Church, Clarksville, TN), & Henry Johnson (Trinity Presbyterian Church, Tazwell, VA) as they discuss chapter 17 of the Westminster Confession of Faith, "Of the Perseverance of the Saints" - the entire text of which follows here:
CHAP. XVII.—Of the Perseverance of the Saints.
I. THEY, whom God hath accepted in His Beloved, effectually called, and sanctified by His Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved (Phil. 1:6; 2 Peter 1:10; John 10:28-29; 1 John 3:9; 1 Peter 1:5, 9).
II. This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father (2 Tim. 2:18-19; Jer. 31:3); upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ (Heb. 10:10, 14; 13:20-21; 9:12-15; Rom. 8:33-39; John 17:11, 24; Luke 22:32; Heb. 7:25), the abiding of the Spirit, and of the seed of God within them (John 14:16-17; 1 John 2:27; 3:9), and the nature of the covenant of grace (Jer. 32:40): from all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility
