0:00 Opening Remarks…Prayer
1:48 THE DISTINCTIVES OF THE REFORMED FAITH…Doesn’t Cater To The Whims, Desires, & The Thinking Of Man…It Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That We’d Imagine On Our Own…The Reformed Faith (TRF) Is Christianity Thought Of Aright
4:13 GOD’s WORD Isn’t Play-Doh Or A Wax Nose…GOD’s WORD Has A System Of Truth & It’s Our Obligation To Find It & Proclaim It…The Distinctives Of TRF Best Expresses This System
5:43 FOUR AREAS THAT SUMMARIZE THE DISTINCTIVES OF TRF: #1 THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD #2 GOD’s COVENANT WITH MAN #3 AFFIRMATION OF THIS WORLD #4 THE CHURCH GOVERNMENT OF CHRIST
7:12 Five Schools Of Thought Regarding “Christian Professing Faiths/Theologies”: Eastern Orthodox; Roman Catholic; Lutheran; REFORMED; Anabaptist
11:01 #1 THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD (TSOG)
11:06 – In Contrast To TRF Many Churches Today Are Man-Centered Instead Of GOD-Centered
13:51 – FIVE PARTICULAR ASPECTS Of TSOG:
14:01 1) GOD All-Powerfully Created From Nothing, All Things & Owns All Things [Heb11:3; Col1:16; Ps24]
17:04 2) GOD Wisely Foreordained & Providentially Controls All Things In HIS World [Eph1:11; Matt10;30; Isa45:7]
20:26 Potentially Troublesome View GOD’s Sovereignty (Isa45:7)…[Are We Puppets Without Freedom & Therefore No Culpability?] …GLB Expands On GOD’s Sovereignty & Man’s Freewill (Josh24:15) & How It’s A Major Watershed Moment In Terms Of Reformed Theological Thinking
24:33 GLB Expands On GOD’s Sovereignty & Man’s Freewill & Culpability—Acts2:23…RECAP
26:20 3) Salvation & The Grace Of GOD
26:26 – Why Are Some Men Saved & Others Aren’t?
27:11 – Calvinism (John Calvin) Vs. Arminianism (Jacobus Arminius)…THE FIVE POINTS OF CALVINISM – The Synod of Dort (The Synod of Dort was an international Synod—Council—held in Dordrecht in 1618—1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a divisive controversy caused by the rise of Arminianism.)
29:11 – THE FIVE POINTS OF CALVINISM:
29:14 1-TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF THE NATURAL MAN [Jn8:34; Eph2; Jer17; Mk7; Rom8;7,8; 1Cor2:14]…Van Til Quote (Serum That Would Bring Dead People To Life) …[Eph2]
33:49 2-GOD’S ELECTION [Eph1:4,5,11; Rom9:11-13,18,22] …Vessels Out Of The Lump Of Clay…(Vases & Toilets)…[Gal3:13; 1Jn4:10; Heb9:12; Jn17]…Unity In THE TRINITY
40:47 3-SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT
42:31 4-IRRESISTIBLE GRACE [1Cor1:23; Rom1:6; Rom8:28; Jn6:44; 1Cor2; 1Thes1:5]
45:30 5-PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS [2Peter1:10-11; 1Peter1]
47:25 RECAP
49:00 4) GOD Will Establish HIS Dominion In History Over All Opposition [Isa40:9] 17″…All The Nations Are As Nothing Before HIM; They Are Accounted By HIM As Less Than Nothing And Vanity.”
53:25 5) GOD Has The Last Word…All Men Will Be Subject To GOD & HIS Judgments [Rev20:11-15]
55:06 Closing Remarks…Preview Of The Next Lecture
What does it mean to be theologically “Reformed”? It is not easy to offer a concise, full and clear summary. This is one of Dr. Bahnsen’s most frequently requested series and a great teaching tool in doctrine. Explains how the Reformed outlook differs from others.
