Prevenient Grace
Prevenient Grace
What is Prevenient Grace?
The activity of God in our lives prior to saving faith
What does Prevenient Grace do?
Creation points to a Creator (WHO?)
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (Romans 1:20)
Conscience alerts us to a standard (WHAT?)
Their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them. (Romans 2:15)
Control places us where we need to be (WHERE?)
He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him. (Acts 17:26-27)
Clemency takes away original guilt (WHEN?)
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." (Matthew 19:14)
Compassion motivates God’s activity (WHY?)
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
Age of Accountability
What does the Doctrine Declare?
The belief that children and the mentally incompetent are safely ‘in Christ’ due to prevenient grace and thus, upon death, will pass on to eternal life
What does the Bible say?
Children are generally ignorant of God’s standards
And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad—they will enter the land. (Deuteronomy 1:39)
Children are not held accountable for sins of ignorance
The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. (Ezekiel 18:20)
If you say, "But we knew nothing about this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done? (Prov. 24:12)
For apart from law, sin is dead. (Romans 7:8)
Children go the Lord upon death
I will go to him, but he will not return to me. (2 Samuel 12:23)
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." (Matthew 19:14)
When is the Age of Accountability?
1. Variable 2. 13 (culture) 3. 20 (Num. 14:29)
What is Prevenient Grace?
The activity of God in our lives prior to saving faith
What does Prevenient Grace do?
Creation points to a Creator (WHO?)
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (Romans 1:20)
Conscience alerts us to a standard (WHAT?)
Their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them. (Romans 2:15)
Control places us where we need to be (WHERE?)
He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him. (Acts 17:26-27)
Clemency takes away original guilt (WHEN?)
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." (Matthew 19:14)
Compassion motivates God’s activity (WHY?)
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
Age of Accountability
What does the Doctrine Declare?
The belief that children and the mentally incompetent are safely ‘in Christ’ due to prevenient grace and thus, upon death, will pass on to eternal life
What does the Bible say?
Children are generally ignorant of God’s standards
And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad—they will enter the land. (Deuteronomy 1:39)
Children are not held accountable for sins of ignorance
The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. (Ezekiel 18:20)
If you say, "But we knew nothing about this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done? (Prov. 24:12)
For apart from law, sin is dead. (Romans 7:8)
Children go the Lord upon death
I will go to him, but he will not return to me. (2 Samuel 12:23)
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." (Matthew 19:14)
When is the Age of Accountability?
1. Variable 2. 13 (culture) 3. 20 (Num. 14:29)
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