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<lesson xmlns="http://edvance360.com/v1"><name><![CDATA[Personal Evangelism Lesson 6]]></name><description><![CDATA[<p class="w2wENNormal">In the previous lesson we saw how God, who cannot lie, still somehow made His already sure word more sure by swearing an oath (Heb 6:13-20).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>In John 10:28, He does something similar, saying, &ldquo;I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.&rdquo; He uses the strongest possible language in the original to say that they will <b>never</b> perish.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="w2wENNormal">In the English using a double negative cancels out the negative and it in effect becomes a positive statement again. But in the Greek using a double negative makes the negative even stronger.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>So one possible translation of the never perish part of this verse is &ldquo;they will never perish, no not ever.&rdquo; God more than anyone wants us to be eternally secure in His salvation and He has made every effort to communicate how fully secure, how completely saved, believers in Christ are!<o:p></o:p></p>
]]></description><lessonItem><name><![CDATA[Personal Evangelism Lesson 6 Topic 1]]></name><lessonInstructions><![CDATA[<p class="w2wENNormal">One of Jesus&rsquo; sayings on the cross helps teach us about eternal security.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>John 19:30 says, &ldquo;... Jesus said, &lsquo;It is finished!&rsquo; Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.&rdquo; The Greek word for finished is the same word that is used by accountants to mark across a bill that&rsquo;s been fully paid.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>In English He may have said &ldquo;Paid in full!&rdquo;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="w2wENNormal">This is also the same root word that is used in John 13:1, which says, &ldquo;Jesus knew that His time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He now loved them to the very end.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>Loving them to the end in John 13:1 includes the fact that Jesus died for them in John 19:30.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>He is our savior and He will love us to the end also.<o:p></o:p></p>
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]]></lessonInstructions><type><![CDATA[Test]]></type><itemReference><![CDATA[I_20_A]]></itemReference></lessonItem><lessonItem><name><![CDATA[Personal Evangelism Lesson 6 Topic 2]]></name><lessonInstructions><![CDATA[<p>We&rsquo;ve already seen that our salvation is complete and finished as Christ fully paid for our sin by a substitutionary atonement.&nbsp; God was fully satisfied with Christ&rsquo;s payment; therefore He raised Christ from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in heaven.&nbsp; Therefore, in Him, we are positionally seated with Him in the heavenly places right now! (Ephesians 2:6).&nbsp; So, in our position we are perfectly sanctified; but in our practice, in our daily walk, we are not.&nbsp; Therefore the challenge is to bring the level of our practice up to the level of our position.&nbsp; The Bible teaches that we will not be fully sanctified in practice until we die.&nbsp; We will always fall short as long as we live in this body of sin ({i-Anchor{1 Jn 1:9}i}).</p>

<p>The contrasting view, of Lordship salvation, tends to put every Christian&rsquo;s position in question.&nbsp; It is the belief that if you&rsquo;re not living worthy you had better check to make sure you&rsquo;re saved.&nbsp; Christians may feel this pressure to live worthy leads to a more godly life.&nbsp; You see, if you don&rsquo;t live the way someone thinks a Christian should, they can put pressure on you by making you doubt your salvation.&nbsp; These people take away your assurance of salvation in attempts to get you to live a godly life.&nbsp;</p>

<p>But there are questions you should ask of this view: (1) Is this the approach the Bible takes to get you to live worthy? (2) Is this being trained by the grace of God? ({i-Anchor{Tit 2:11-13}i})&nbsp; (3) Is this living in light of God&rsquo;s promises of eternal security?</p>
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]]></lessonInstructions><type><![CDATA[Test]]></type><itemReference><![CDATA[I_21_A]]></itemReference></lessonItem><lessonItem><name><![CDATA[Personal Evangelism Lesson 6 Topic 3]]></name><lessonInstructions><![CDATA[<p>When people make promises we don&rsquo;t know if they&rsquo;re going to keep them.&nbsp; But with God we don&rsquo;t have this problem.&nbsp; The Apostle John makes a strong point of pointing out God&rsquo;s promise to us of eternal life.&nbsp; In {i-Anchor{1 John 2:25}i} he says, &ldquo;Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.&rdquo; In the next verse he tells why he wrote about God&rsquo;s promise: &ldquo;These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.&rdquo;</p>

<p>Apparently there were also those in John&rsquo;s time that were falsely teaching that you could lose your salvation.&nbsp; Notice he calls those false teachers <strong>{i-Italic{</strong><em>deceivers}i}</em>.&nbsp; Eternal security isn&rsquo;t just a doctrine.&nbsp; It is an important key to living a life pleasing to God.</p>
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]]></lessonInstructions><type><![CDATA[Test]]></type><itemReference><![CDATA[I_22_A]]></itemReference></lessonItem><lessonItem><name><![CDATA[Personal Evangelism Lesson 6 Topic 4]]></name><lessonInstructions><![CDATA[<p><em>The following is an adaptation of a story by Dr. Scudder regarding eternal security.</em></p>

<p>One day while Dr. Scudder was driving, he saw a man hitchhiking on the side of the road. Dr. Scudder decided to give the man a ride. The man introduced himself as Gary. He was very open and willing to discuss spiritual things. As he rode with Dr. Scudder in the car, Dr. Scudder led him to Christ</p>

<p>As Dr. Scudder was dropping him off, Gary told Dr. Scudder that he was a fugitive from the law. Shocked, Dr. Scudder said, &ldquo;What do you mean?&rdquo; Gary confessed he murdered a man. Still worse, the man he murdered was his dad. Also at this time, he was AWOL from the army.</p>

<p>This was shocking news to Dr. Scudder. However, since Gary had just accepted Christ as his Savior, Dr. Scudder wanted to know how Gary felt regarding his eternal security. Dr. Scudder asked him, &ldquo;Gary, do you still know that you&rsquo;re going to heaven?&rdquo;&nbsp; With conviction, he said, &ldquo;Yes, I know I am going to heaven&rdquo;.&nbsp; Dr. Scudder said, &ldquo;Are you sure?&rdquo;&nbsp; He said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m positive, the Word of God says that and I believe it!&rdquo;</p>

<p>Dr. Scudder continued talking with him and tried to convince him to turn himself in to the police. At first Gary wouldn&rsquo;t hear of it.&nbsp; But as Dr. Scudder explained to him about the conviction of the Holy Spirit and waited a few days, Gary decided to turn himself into the authorities. Gary was put in a mental institution because the authorities thought he was crazy. What the authorities believed to be &ldquo;crazy&rdquo; behavior was actually Gary&rsquo;s zeal for bringing others to Christ. Through Gary, God saved many people in that institution and Dr. Scudder was given the chance to give the gospel to the entire Miami police department!</p>
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