Lewis Sperry Chafer's Systematic Theology Review #26: Soteriology Part 7, Page 1

The Consummating Scripture; Deliverance from Sin's Power; The Believer Presented Faultless; The Terms of Salvation; Epilogue

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THE CONSUMMATING SCRIPTURE

  1. What are the general divisions of the book of Romans? p. 340
  2. What amazing, unqualified, divine assertion in Romans is the basis for seven proofs later in the epistle and also was modified at some point in history by those who could not suffer to stand a statement so clear and assuring? pp. 340-341
  3. What statement of Scripture seems too good to be true? p. 341
  4. What is the first proof of Romans 8:1 and what verses does it entail? pp. 342-343
  5. What two systems are compared, one requiring far less of believers and yet failed, and one presenting heaven-high requirements and yet realized? p. 343
  6. How is it we are in this grace relationship, yet we or other believers don't walk according to the Spirit and obtain that heavenly ideal? pp. 343-344
  7. As we have the will of God fulfilled by us in the grace relationship, what contrast is set up regarding the Spirit and the merit system? p. 345
  8. What is the second proof of Romans 8:1 and what verses does it entail? p. 345
  9. What is in the Christian? p. 345
  10. What is the third proof of Romans 8:1 and what verses does it entail? p. 346
  11. As a son cannot ever become an un-son, what two things are often confused as Christians losing salvation, or their sonship? p. 346
  12. What is the fourth proof of Romans 8:1 and what verses does it entail? p. 347
  13. What passage is comparable to Romans 8:28-29 with many more decisive statements of God's divine purpose? p. 347
  14. From Romans 8:28-29 and Ephesians 1:4-12, what can we concluded about our self-centered prejudice? p. 347
  15. When we read Romans 8:28, we apply this to the minute details of our lives in Christ, but what is a higher interpretation of “all things”? p. 348
  16. If men were to lose their salvation, this would be a comparatively small matter on the human side compared to what? p. 348
  17. Romans 8:30 says what about God's purpose and whom He calls? pp. 349-350
  18. Our justification from God is not a human disagreement where one believer is charging another with evil, but what? p. 350
  19. What four aspects of Christ's undertaking are listed in what one verse that make it difficult to accept an Arminian view? p. 351
  20. What is different about the nature of Romans 8:35-39 than the rest of the chapter? p. 352
  21. How do we overcome the two categories of forces in Romans 8:35-39? p. 352
  22. What phrase does Paul use in Romans 8:38-39 that he also uses elsewhere to indicate indisputable eternal security of his salvation? p. 352
  23. Of all the forces against us listed in Romans 8;35-39 and possibly taking away our salvation, why is the human will not mentioned? p. 353

DELIVERANCE FROM THE REIGNING POWER OF SIN AND HUMAN LIMITATIONS

  1. What are the seven aspects of salvation, of which this is the fifth? pp. 210, 225, 267, 340, 355, 364, 371
  2. The deliverance from the reigning power of sin is a topic that has been covered somewhat, but will be more fully covered under what sections? p. 355
  3. With what do some (Arminians) confuse loss of salvation for the believer? p. 356
  4. What are the Christian's three opposing forces and how do they affect the unregenerate? p. 357
  5. What characteristics does the cosmos world have that constitute a most complex, subtle, and formidable foe of the child of God? p. 358
  6. What is the twofold relation of the child of God to the cosmos world which he maintains only by supernatural power? p. 358
  7. John 16:33 certainly gives the believer hope regarding the cosmos world, but does 1John 5:4-5 tell us to overcome the cosmos? p. 358
  8. Since we are positionally in Christ, and Christ cannot be in the cosmos, what logically follows? p. 358
  9. Dependence upon the Spirit enables us to not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Gal. 5:16), but the flesh has not been put to death but what? p. 359
  10. Because we have previously studied the conflict believer's conflict with Satan, what twofold fact is restated here? p. 359
  11. The unsaved are saved by believing and the saved are forgiven and cleansed by confessing. Why, in neither case, is there any penal judgment laid on the one who has sinned? pp. 360-361
  12. Not only are we delivered from evil by God's salvation for us, but what is added to such deliverance? p. 361
  13. What are the characteristics of the cosmos world's scheme of “character building”? p. 361
  14. What is the character of the Christian and how do we get it? pp. 361-362
  15. Besides the fruit of the Spirit, what the other major work of the Spirit in the Christian? p. 362
  16. Besides the fruit of the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit, what other realities do we get from the Spirit because of salvation? p. 362
  17. In concluding the doctrine of the deliverance from sin's power we obtain from salvation, what is the logical reason God gives us all of these realities in order to preserve His holiness and honor? p. 363

THE BELIEVER PRESENTED FAULTLESS

  1. What will be the result of the incomprehensible changes we'll go through to be presented faultless before the presence of God's glory? p. 364
  2. What change have we already received by right and title, but remains unoccupied? p. 365
  3. What ties do we gain from salvation? p. 365
  4. We will be perfected forever, but what is the logical reason we must be perfected? pp. 365-366
  5. What are the differences between our present experience in a death-doomed body and the renewed body that corresponds to Christ's resurrection body? p. 366
  6. Why can't we imagine what the future existence will be like without a sin nature? p. 366
  7. All the heavenly realities listed are really included in what one heavenly reality testified by Scripture to be ours in salvation? p. 367
  8. With what are the New Testament writers exceedingly bold in declaring? p. 368
  9. What measures the grace of God? p. 369
  10. It is enough that God discloses the fact that He intends to bring many sons into glory, but what more does He do? p. 370

THE TERMS OF SALVATION

  1. Salvation in all its limitless magnitude is secured by what human responsibilities? p. 371
  2. Even when the supernatural character of salvation is recognized, what possibly encumbers the truth of salvation? p. 372
  3. What is almost universally added to believing as a requirement on the human side for salvation? p. 372
  4. What is often confused with or combined with repentance? p. 372
  5. Why can't anguish of soul be demanded as a requirement for salvation? p. 373
  6. What is underlying all the supposition that tears and anguish are necessary for salvation? p. 373
  7. Since believing on Christ is one act, regardless of the manifold results which it secures, it is not turning from something to something, but what? p. 374
  8. Often the confusion of repentance as a separate act comes from looking at what small portion of the whole issue of salvation? p. 375
  9. When is repentance especially used but not related to salvation? pp. 375-376
  10. How many Scriptures condition salvation on believing or faith alone, without regard to repentance? p. 376
  11. What is the nature of the various passages often mistaken as requiring repentance for salvation? p. 377
  12. On what do people base the idea that salvation is believing and confessing Christ? pp. 378-379
  13. With the concept of baptism as it relates to salvation, the contemplation of what facts is essential to a right understanding? p. 381
  14. Mark 16:15-16 seems to say that baptism is a part of salvation. What is the evidence that this is not ritual water baptism? pp. 381-383
  15. Like baptism, what other important words have two levels of meaning in the New Testament? p. 382
  16. What most important truth is slighted when ritual baptism is elevated to be necessary for salvation? p. 384
  17. What logical contradiction is established when dedication to do God's will is required for salvation? pp. 384-385
  18. When can people respond to the authority of Christ and even then find self-dedication taxing? p. 385
  19. When promoting the surrender to God for salvation, what is substituted for conversion, faith, and believing? p. 385
  20. Why might darkened minds see some possible advantage in surrendering to Christ and what error does it produce? p. 386
  21. What two responsibilities does the preacher have? pp. 386-387
  22. Why might all gospel preaching avoid every reference to the life to be lived beyond regeneration as far as possible? pp. 387-388
  23. Why isn't confessing our sins a part of salvation? p. 388
  24. What is one reason people fall easily into the confession and restitution for salvation trap? p. 388
  25. Which error of adding to salvation is the most reasonable and yet the most deadly blow at the foundation of divine grace? p. 389
  26. Who among the unsaved seeks after God? p. 389 or Romans 3:11
  27. The sinner's plight is serious indeed and the benefits he receives in saving grace cannot be estimated; but all this together is secondary to what? p. 390
  28. What, again, are the two obstacles that can hinder the satisfaction of divine love? p. 390
  29. What holds a large share in the divine undertaking of bringing men to salvation? p. 390
  30. How do we explain the prayer of the publican in Luke 18:13, who asks God for mercy? pp. 390-391
  31. Why would the publican's prayer, though appropriate before Christ died on the cross and with the proper translation of “mercy” as “propitious”, be most unfitting on this side of the cross of Christ? p. 391
  32. Men are not saved by asking God to be good or merciful or propitious, nor are they saved because they prevail on God to withhold judgment, but what? p. 392
  33. What word is appropriate to describe our reaction to the truth that every feature of man's salvation from the divine election in the ages past and on through successive steps—the sacrifice of the Savior, the enlightenment by the Spirit, the immediate saving work of God in its manifold achievements, the keeping work of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, the delivering work of the Spirit, the empowering work of the Spirit, and the final perfecting and presenting in glory—is all a work so supernatural that God alone can effect it? p. 392

EPILOGUE

  1. What is the most familiar text of the Bible and universally recognized as transcendent, and has every major feature of Soteriology present in it? p. 394

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