1-The Doctrine of Salvation: Total Depravity

Описание: How desperately in need of salvation is mankind? Or asked differently, when all of mankind fell into sin through Adam in Genesis, how badly and how far did he fall? Paul's answer to the saints at Ephesus is, "And you were dead in your trespasses and sin" (Ephesians 2:1). And he answers the matter for the saints at Rome that their spiritual condition was not just deadness and incapable of meriting God's favor, but "You were slaves of sin" (Rom 6:20).
Of sinful man's rejection of God, D. Martin Lloyd-Jones writes, "Why is it that man ever chooses sin? The answer is that man has fallen away from God, and as a result, his whole nature has become perverted and sinful. Man's whole bias is away from God. By nature he hates God and feels that God is opposed to him, His god is himself, his own abilities and powers, his own desires. He objects to the whole idea of God and the demands which God makes upon him."
As we start up GBC's midweek Bible study at 6:00 through live-stream, we not only begin the "Doctrine of Salvation," but we'll commence with why salvation is so desperately needed in our lesson "Total Depravity or Total Inability." As usual, the handouts to be printed out can be found in the document download section titled "The Doctrine of Salvation" at www.biblicalexpositor.org