Chapter 9: Of Free Will - The Westminster Confession Series | Rev Joseph Poon

Chapter 9: Of Free Will Speaker: Reverend Joseph Poon Website: http://www.bpcwa.org.au/ DOWNLOAD WCF Chapter 9: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IH6mEAeqRYvfMMYFeBQARE2k5SfaWgxc/view INTRODUCTION – (00:00) QUESTIONS WCF 9.1 – (7:05) Q1. a) God did not make man as _______________ but have can naturally make choices. – (7:37) WCF 9.2 – (12:17) Q2. a) Before the fall (innocency), man have both ___________ and ___________ to obey and please God perfectly. – (17:02) Q2. b) Man has ____________ ____________ to choose both good and evil. – (17:41) WCF 9.3 – (18:56) Q3. a) After the fall, man lost his ________________ to do spiritual good and obey God for salvation. – (25:37) Q3. b) Man lost his ___________________ and is under the bondage of sin. – (26:04) Q3. c) Man has become Totally ____________________. – (26:16) Q3. d) Man lost freedom of will to do spiritual good but is still not a robot. He is a "free agent". What is a free agent. – (1:02:56) Q3. e) Why is fallen man who does not have free will yet is held accountable for his sin? – (1:06:28) Q3. f) Describe: i. Pelagianism and – (39:15) ii. Semi-Pelagianism – (40:15) Q3. g) Quote verses that proves b), thus proving Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism to be false. – (45:50) WCF 9.4 – (1:00:16) Q4. a) At salvation, what does God do for the fallen man? – (1:09:14) Q4. b) After salvation, _________________ and _________________ is restored. – (1:11:27) Q4. c) After salvation, what are the differences to before the fall? i. After salvation, man have ______________________ and ________________ to obey and please – (1:13:30) ii. Before fall, man is _______________ but ________________; – (1:14:38) iii. After salvation man is _________________ and ________________ – (1:16:09) Q4. d) Why do we still sin if we now have free will and ability? – (1:17:23) WCF 9.5 – (1:24:25) Q5. a) In state of glory, man has the freedom to do good ____________ and do it ______________ – (1:24:47) Q5. b) Man is both ______________ and ________________ – (1:24:59) ==== CHAPTER IX OF FREE WILL 1. GOD hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined, to good or evil.1 1. Matt. 17:12; James 1:14; Deut 30:19. 2. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well pleasing to God:2 but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.3 2. Eccl. 7:29; Gen. 1:26. 3. Gen. 2:16-17; Gen. 3:6. 3. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation;4 so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good,5 and dead in sin,6 is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.7 4. Rom. 5:6; Rom. 8:7; John 15:5. 5. Rom. 3:10,12. 6. Eph. 2:1,5; Col. 2:13. 7. John 6:44,65; Eph. 2:2-5; I Cor. 2:14; Tit. 3:3-5. 4. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin,8 and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good:9 yet so as that, by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly nor only will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.10 ==== Westminster Confession of Faith Series Bible Presbyterian Church of WA Friday 20th May 2016 To watch this video on YouTube, use this link: https://youtu.be/ImkfineL59I If you were helped by this recording, please share this with someone who would benefit from this.