LBCF – Chapter 9 – paragraph 3 “Man by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man being altogether averse from good, and dead in sin, is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.”
II. Misconceptions Concerning Total Depravity
A. Total Depravity does not mean that men are unable to do good things. B. Total Depravity does not mean Absolute Depravity. Romans 3:10, 3:19, 3:23
III. Common (but wrong) Objections to Total Depravity
A. Thinking Faith comes first, and then Regeneration. John 6:44, 6:65, 3:27; 1 Cor. 2:14 B. Attempts to Reconcile Free Will and Total Depravity.
C. Since God Commands Faith and Repentance, Man Must be Capable of exercising Faith and Repentance.
D. Men Co-operate with God in Justification.
E. The Only Sin that Damns a Soul is Unbelief.
IV. Total Depravity in John’s Gospel John 5:37-47, 8:19-24, 40-47, 54-59; 10:26-31
V. Illustrations from John’s Gospel Concerning Total Depravity
A. Impotent Man in John 5 – no power B. Blind Man in John 9 – no sight C. The Dead Man in John 11 – no life – absolutely and positively dead.
VI. Practical Lessons from the Doctrine of Total Depravity
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Pastor Steve came to Christ at the age of 11. He graduated from Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College in 1979 with a B.A. in theology as the Valedictorian of his class. He joined our church in 1978, came on staff, full-time in 1980, was ordained as an Elder in 1982, and became...