It's time for the Soteriology 101 podcast, where God is most glorified by his love and provision

for all people. Welcome your host. The director of apologetics for Texas Baptists, an adjunct professor

of theology, and a local teaching pastor, Dr. Leighton Flowers.

Welcome to Sociology 101.

We're going to continue in our discourse with Dr. Sean Cole, who I've already said is a great

brother who really is striving to represent traditionalism well in a very cordial way.

He, in my last broadcast, if you haven't seen it,

I encourage you to go back and hear it because I really make a biblical case from the traditional

perspective of the fact that faith precedes regeneration or that we believe unto new life.

We're not made alive in order to believe. And I went over a good dozen texts or so to support

that perspective. And to be fair, I think I needed to go over some of the texts that Sean Cole

uses to support his perspective, one of which he even refers to as probably the strongest text

with regard to Lydia.

And so I want you to hear what he says about Lydia first,

and then we're going to look at the text directly ourselves and answer him from that point.

So let's listen at.

Do we see an example of this actually happening in real time

when the gospel's preached in the Bible.

Probably the best example you can go to is Acts 1614, where you see Lydia, who was the

seller of purple goods from the city of Thiatira, Acts 1614.

One who heard us was a woman named Lydia from the city of Thiatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God.

The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.

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