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Did You Know
(2016)

Week 13

Did you know:

  • The word “blessing” means “deliverance from the curse/judgment/wrath against us (because of Adam’s disobedience).”
  • We are blessed (experience God’s blessings) when we connect to his resources
  • in Creation (soil and atmosphere), Community (leadership in the home and church) and especially Christ (his Blood/death and Resurrected Life)
  • in order to receive his Provisions of Grace.
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Week 12

Did you know:

In the Scripture, the doctrine of salvation (soteriology) is presented conceptually - not systematically in the way seminaries present it. This may help explain the difference in

1.     Preaching and teaching:

  • Preaching presents Truth conceptually.
  • Teaching organizes Truth systematically into an easy-to-understand outline. 
2.     Bible study and Bible reading:

  • We study the Bible aggressively (at home or in class) in the way we would dissect a textbook – in order to learn what the Bible says (the facts).
  • We read the Bible submissively (during our quiet time) in the way we would listen to God speak to us over the phone - in order to learn what the Scripture means. 
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 Week 11

Did you know:

God makes possible the means and the way (our response to the means) of our salvation by

1. the gift of Christ’s Blood/death on the cross (the means) and

2. enabling/supporting our response (the way) to the means by producing in us (through the Scripture)
  • conviction (faith) concerning the means and way of salvation,
  • change of mind (repentance) concerning the means and way of salvation,
  • confession (agreement) concerning the means and way of salvation, and
  • conversion (expressed by acceptance/trust) concerning the means and way of salvation. 
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Week 10

Did you know:

The Glory of God is the Promised manifestation of God’s Power, Purpose, and Plan Produced in us through his Provisions (primarily Christ’s Presence).

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Week 9

Did You Know:

We are justified (saved from the judgment against us because of Adam’s disobedience) by
  1. God’s Provision of the Blood/death of Christ on the cross for us (Romans 5:9) but also by
  2. faith (conviction of Truth imparted to us by the Holy Spirit through the Scripture) which enables us to trust/receive God’s Provision of Christ (Romans 5:1). 
“For by grace (God’s Provision of Christ’s Blood/death) are you saved THROUGH faith.” – Ephesians 2:8)

DonLoy Whisnant/The Grace Perspective/Did You Know 16C03

Week 8

Did you know:

Faith in God means more than
  • believing he exists or even
  • trusting in him; and even more than
  • receiving him. Most fully, faith means
  • receiving God’s Provisions of Grace, beginning with Christ (his death and resurrected Life).
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Week 7

Did you know:

The meaning of “As you help us with your prayers” (2 Corinthians 1:11) is not the Corinthians’ prayer specifically for Paul, but for themselves in behalf of those they are burdened for - which they could word as follows: “Father, we open our hearts to you to be filled with your Provisions of Grace so that we are made competent in our ministry (2 Corinthians 9:8) to others through Paul.”

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Week 6

Did you know:

1. In the behavioral sense, no one is a sinner or condemned to Hell because he or she rejects Christ, but more correctly in the theological sense, because of Adam’s “one disobedience” in the Garden of Eden (Romans 5:12-19).

2. We are born “condemned already” (John 3:18) because of what Adam did. We are saved from that condemnation because we trust/receive what Christ accomplished by his death and resurrection.

3.  For illustration: In the behavioral sense, we are not thirsty because we do not drink water, but more so because we were born subject to needing water (“the frustration” of Romans 8:20).

4.Trusting Christ for salvation or drinking water would not have been necessary if Adam had not sinned.

5. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve did not thirst or hunger or need exercise but drank and ate and exercised in order to increase health – the same as in Heaven, we will not thirst or hunger or need exercise but will drink and eat and exercise only in order to increase our health. (Remember, we will not arrive in Heaven knowing and being all that Christ is, but will forever be increasing in his likeness throughout eternity as we open our hearts to him (the same as we have already begun to do in our Christian journey on earth during our quiet-time worship).

6. God subjected fallen man to thirst and hunger and atrophy because, in our broken, sinful condition, we would not have otherwise been motivated to make wise choices.

DonLoy Whisnant/The Grace Perspective/Did You Know 16B11

Week 5

Did you know:
  • The Word (The Living Seed) identifies who the Son of God was/is in eternity (past, present, and future).
  • Jesus is the incarnate/birth name of the Son of God for his identify to the world (to family and friends, etc.).
  • Christ (the Messiah) identifies the Son of God in our relationship to him as our Savior (Redeemer) in whom we trust for our justification. (If Jesus had not been the Christ, his death would have meant nothing for our salvation.)
  • Lord identifies the Son of God in our experience of him as our Spiritual Husband, Fountainhead, Support Vine, Shepherd, and Great Physician for our sanctification.
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Week 4

Did you know:

The Holy Spirit calls us to
  • come more than go,
  • receive more than give,
  • prepare more than perform,
  • worship more than work,
  • surrender more than strive, and
  • trust more in what he can do than try what we can do.
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Week 3

Did you know:
  • More than follow Christ, we trust him;
  •  More than know about him, we experience him;
  • More than give to him, we receive from him; 
  • More than commit to him, we surrender to him;
  • More than serve him, we give him opportunity for his service to us.
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Week 2

Did you know:

Wisdom is God’s Provision of the Mind of Christ (imparted to us at our new birth and renewed in us during quiet-time worship) to support us for making wise choices.

“If anyone lacks wisdom, he can receive it from God” (James 1:5).

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Week 1

Did you know:

We TRUST in the Blood/death of Christ for us for justification and regeneration so that we can
  1. go to Heaven when we die, and
  2. EXPERIENCE his Resurrected Life in us for holiness (sanctification), also for health and happiness, while we live.
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