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• The five points of Calvinism all depend on each other. They stand or fall together.
• Irresistible grace: the belief that when God chooses someone to be saved, they cannot help but to come to Christ.
• It is not a question of whether the Holy Spirit leads man to salvation, but how He does it.
  • He effects:
    • The new birth by the Word (I Peter 1:22; John 3:5)
    • Cleansing (John 17:17) and sanctification by the Word (I Corinthians 6:11)
    • Convicts man of sin by the Word (Titus 1:9)
    • Salvation by the Word (Titus 3:5)
      • John 8:32; 17:17
    • Indwells the Christian by the Word (Ephesians 3:17; Romans 10:17; Colossians 3:16)
      • II Timothy 1:14
      • Revelation 2:13; II John 2:2
    • Romans 1:16 – The gospel is God’s power to save.
    • The doctrine of irresistible grace falls because it is built on a faulty foundation and because it undermines the power of the gospel for salvation.
    • Acts 7:51; Hebrews 10:29-31 – Both these verses show the doctrine to be false.