Understanding Christianity Sean Cole

In this second sermon in the Spiritual Warfare series, Dr. Sean Cole preaches Ephesians 6:10-20. The choice is not whether you will engage in the battle as a Christian. You will be attacked, and you will face spiritual warfare as a reality. The question is, will you be EQUIPPED and PREPARED for the battle?

What does it mean to STAND? How do each piece of armor help you in this spiritual warfare?

Listen and find out.

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What exactly is free will? How is natural liberty different than libertarian free will? Dr. Sean Cole explores Chapter 9 of the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession which teaches how the will operates in the four states of mankind.

First, how did free will operate for Adam before he fell in the Garden?

Second, how does free will operate for sinners who have not been regenerated by the Holy Spirit but are still dead in their sins?

Third, how does free will operate for a saved person who has the Holy Spirit living inside of them but still struggles with sin?

Fourth, how does free will operate when we get to heaven and will live eternally in our glorified and perfect bodies?

The rest of these paragraphs answer those questions, and they come from Augustine, who first articulated these four areas:

State One: Adam Pre-Fall: He had the power NOT to sin and the power to sin.

State Two: Unregenerate Man: Man lost the power NOT to sin and can only SIN and continue to sin.

State Three: Regenerate Man: Saved by grace, man now has the power NOT to sin through the Spirit’s work but will sin until he gets to heaven.

State Four: Glorified Man: IN heaven, we have the power NEVER to sin and live perfectly.

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Dr. Sean Cole begins a new sermon series on Spiritual Warfare. What exactly is spiritual warfare? What role does Satan play in my life? Does he have unlimited power? How do I fight the good fight? Do I have to engage in weird things like exorcisms or things I see in horror movies to fight Satan? In this first sermon, he answers some basic questions about this ongoing battle with the forces of evil. The battle began in Genesis 3 and will continue until Satan is thrown into the lake of fire. Ultimately, the devil wants to do two things to the church: (1) DISTORT the truth of the gospel, and (2) DISRUPT the unity of the Body.

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Dr. Sean Cole continues Chapter 8 of the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession on Christ the Mediator. He focuses on the WORK of Christ by addressing SIX truths including Limited Atonement:

(1) As fully God and fully man, he was thoroughly qualified to be our one Mediator.

(2) He perfectly fulfilled the demands of the Law and lived the life we could never live. (Active Obedience of Christ)

(3) He exhaustively endured God’s righteous judgment on the cross, bearing our sins.

(4) He victoriously rose from the dead, ascended to heaven and is now seated at God’s right hand, interceding for us as our King.

(5) He will literally return to earth in power and glory.

(6) Jesus actually, not potentially, paid for our sins on the cross, securing our eternal redemption, not just making us savable--DEFINITE ATONEMENT or particular redemption.

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Dr. Sean Cole interacts with a tweet on X from Leighton Flowers at Sotierology 101 concerning regeneration.

He mischaracterized what the Reformed view is by asserting that we believe sinners undergo an ONTOLOGICAL change in nature.

Since Provisionism denies total inability, they logically deny any need for an internal, sovereign, and efficacious work of grace in the mind, heart, and soul of a dead sinner to bring about new life.

What actually happens in regeneration?

Sean also plays a short clip from the John 6:44 debate with James White where Leighton answers a question bout the miraculous nature of conversion.

There are stark differences between Provisionism and Reformed theology on the nature of the fall, the spiritual condition of man, and what happens when God regenerates a sinner.

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Dr. Sean Cole preaches from Acts 3:1-21 for Resurrection Sunday.

What does this miracle say about Jesus?

What is the significance of the resurrection?

What are the wonderful blessings of repentance?

They killed the Author of Life. How ironic that the Jewish leaders, the Roman soldiers, thought that by killing Jesus, they were doing the world a favor when, in reality, they were killing the very AUTHOR of life—if that was even possible.

They did kill the Author of Life, but since Jesus is the Holy and Righteous One who is King of kings and Lord of lords, they could not keep Him in the grave!

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