Why Share the Gospel with Dead People?
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Leighton Flowers responds to a recent broadcast by Dr. John Piper of Desiring God Ministries on Ephesians 2 regarding the purpose of preaching the gospel if all people are born dead and thus unable to believe it unless first made alive, as Calvinism asserts.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101. |
| 0:13.4 | Today we're going to be talking about John Piper from Desiring God Ministries. |
| 0:16.8 | We recently put out a broadcast going over Ephesians chapter two talking about being dead in our sins and trespasses. |
| 0:25.6 | And because we're dead, we cannot respond positively to the very words of God unless we've been unilaterally picked before we ever born. |
| 0:34.5 | They call this election. |
| 0:35.9 | And we were effectually called, |
| 0:38.3 | called irresistible grace. |
| 0:40.0 | And so if God has elected you, |
| 0:41.3 | unilaterally picked you before you were ever born, |
| 0:43.6 | and he gives you this miracle of faith, |
| 0:45.4 | he gives you this irresistible work of grace, |
| 0:48.1 | causing you to believe the gospel, |
| 0:49.9 | thus bringing you from death to life, |
| 0:52.1 | and therefore opening your eyes to see |
| 0:54.0 | and understand the gospel |
| 0:55.0 | and accept it, then the natural question from that worldview is, why preach? You know, why |
| 1:00.0 | spread the gospel to dead people? Now, this is a question unique to Calvinism. We don't ask this |
| 1:04.7 | question among provisionists because we know why we need to preach the gospel. People are dead |
| 1:09.2 | in their sins and trespasses, and what |
| 1:11.2 | better thing to bring them than the life-giving truth of the gospel? Why? Because the life-giving |
| 1:15.2 | truth of the gospel is sufficient for someone to believe it so as to be given new life. As the |
| 1:19.6 | Bible says in John 2031, as we've mentioned here thousands of times before, these things were written, |
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