INTRO TO PENTECOSTAL

DOCTRINE

THE 114 BEREAN –GLOBAL

UNIVERSITY

CHAPTERS 4 & UNIT 3’S CHAPTER 5

DECLARING AND REMEMBERING OUR SALVATION:

TWO ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH: WATER BAPTISM &

COMMUNION

1. WATER BAPTISM

•WATER BAPTISM AFTER CONVERSION (ACTS 2:36–41; 16:31–34;

22:11–16).

•WATER BAPTISM IS BY IMMERSION (ACTS 8:35–39; ROMANS 6:1–

4).

•WATER BAPTISM IS IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND

THE HOLY

•WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JOHN’S, THE

BAPTIZER, PRACTICE OF WATER BAPTISM AND WHAT WE

PRACTICE TODAY?

•WHY DID JESUS ‘HAVE TO BE’ BAPTIZED?

•MATT 3: 13 – 17, “JESUS TOLD JOHN ...IT IS PROPER FOR

US TO DO THIS TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

•RIGHTEOUSNESS IS MORE THAN AVOIDING SIN; IT IS AN

ACTIVE CONFORMITY TO EVERY DIVINE PURPOSE

•PERHAPS A PREVIEW OF SUBSTITUTION: ONE WHO IS

SINLESS, BECAME SIN FOR US (II COR 5:21)

COMMUNION (THE LORD’S SUPPER)

PROCLAIMS THE LORD’S DEATH UNTIL HE COMES (1 COR 11:26)

TWO-PART FOCUS: MEMORIAL OF HIS SACRIFICE AND PROCLAMATION

OF HIS RETURN

WE PREPARE FOR COMMUNION BY SELF-EXAMINATION (1 COR 11:26–

31)

FULFILLED AND REPLACED THE OLD TESTAMENT PASSOVER

(MATTHEW 26:17–29; 1 COR 5:7–8)

TULIP:

CALVINISTS’

THEOLOGICAL

PERSPECTIVE –

POPULAR BUT

DANGEROUS!

•CALVINISM DENIES GOD CREATING MANKIND WITH THE ABILITY TO

CHOOSE TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.

•THE TEXTBOOK POINTS OUT THAT THE SCRIPTURES STRESSED IN

BOTH CALVINISM AND ARMINIANISM ARE TRUE REGARDING

SALVATION.

•BELIEVERS NEED ASSURANCE OF THEIR SALVATION AND NEED TO

KNOW THAT THEY ARE SECURE IN GOD’S LOVE. JESUS TOLD HIS

FOLLOWERS THAT NO ONE WOULD BE ABLE TO SNATCH THEM OUT

OF HIS HAND OR HIS FATHER’S HAND (JOHN 10:28–29).

•BUT THE BIBLE ALSO WARNS BELIEVERS AGAINST TREATING THIS

SALVATION LIGHTLY OR TURNING AWAY FROM GOD IN APOSTASY.

APOSTASY IS A DELIBERATE DENIAL OR ABANDONMENT OF AN

INDIVIDUAL’S FAITH. IT IS TURNING ONE’S BACK ON CHRIST AFTER

TASTING THE HEAVENLY GIFT (HEBREWS 6:4–6).

•ARMINIANISM:

•Conditional Election: God chooses people for salvation based on His

foreknowledge of their faith and obedience, not arbitrarily.

•Unlimited Atonement: Jesus Christ died for every person, not just a

specific elect group, offering the opportunity for salvation to everyone.

•Prevenient Grace (Need for Grace): While humans are sinful and

cannot initiate salvation alone, God provides enabling grace (prevenient

grace) that allows them to respond to the gospel.

•Resistible Grace: God's grace, while necessary for salvation, is not

irresistible. Humans have the free will to accept or reject God's invitation.

•Possibility of Falling from Grace: Believers can forfeit their salvation if

they stop believing and fail to remain in Christ through obedience.

A/G DOC –ASSURANCE OF SALVATION

•GOD MAKES PROVISION OF SALVATION FOR EVERY PERSON

•SALVATION IS RECEIVED AND ASSURED BY FAITH

•SALVATION IS AN ONGOING CONFLICT WITH TEMPTATION

AND SIN

•SALVATION MAYBE FORFEITED OR ABANDONED BY REJECTING

CHRIST

The apostle Peter warned, “If they [new believers] have escaped the

corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and

are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end

than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not

to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then

to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them”

(2 Peter 2:20–21).

The Bible surely warns against the possibility of forfeiting, or abandoning,

salvation, but it never ceases to offer hope for anyone who will respond

to the appeal of the Holy Spirit. We cannot be ‘backslidden Christians’ –

you are either backslidden or a Christian...Carnal = weak and struggling

believers/Christians.

From the A/G Position Papers: (ag.org)

Jesus stated, “Come to me, all you who are weary and

burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). The

apostle Paul, with great assurance, declared, “Everyone who

calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Romans 10:13).

So Christians should never prematurely conclude that a

struggling brother or sister is irredeemable. If the father did

not give up on the lost son (Luke 15:11–31), neither should

the Body of Jesus Christ.

UNIT 3

CHAPTER 5

THE PROMISE OF

THE HOLY SPIRIT

A LOOK AT THE ‘ONENESS/JESUS ONLY’

THEOLOGY:

•THE TRIUNE NATURE OF GOD IS THOROUGHLY IMBEDDED IN

SCRIPTURE: GOD IS FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT—THREE

DISTINCT PERSONS, YET ONE GOD. ANY OTHER

INTERPRETATION CHANGES THE NATURE OF GOD.

•A NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES CLEARLY SUPPORT

THE CONCEPT OF THE TRINITY. SOME EXAMPLES INCLUDE

MATTHEW 28:18–20; JOHN 14:16–17, 25–26; 1 CORINTHIANS

12:4–6; AND 2 CORINTHIANS 13:14.

•IN ADDITION, JOHN 8:17–18 CLEARLY ESTABLISHES JESUS

AND THE FATHER AS TWO DISTINCT WITNESSES,

DEMONSTRATING THAT THEY ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON.

NEXT WEEK: UNIT 3

THE HOLY SPIRIT: GOD’S AGENT (HOW HE

ACTIVELY WORKS AND ‘MOVES’) IN TODAY’S

WORLD

•THE HOLY SPIRIT’S ROLE IN THE TRINITY

•HIS DISTINCTIVE FUNCTIONS (ROLE IN

SANCTIFICATION)

•HIS CHARACTERISTICS AND NAMES

•THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD WILL BE EXAMINED