Pastor Bordwine

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 10 Of Effectual Calling (Part  1) This chapter marks the beginning of the Confession’s presentation of an ordo salutis, an order of salvation. In the next few chapters, the writers explain the conversion experience in terms of its various elements and their logical relation to each other. The first item in the ordo salutis is the effectual call. This term refers to the initial operation of God in the heart of a ...

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 9 Of Free Will (Part  2) III. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation: so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. The third paragraph deals with the effect of the fall on man’s will. ...

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 9 Of Free Will (Part  1) Many have a knowledge of Reformed theology that is based on hearsay. One of the issues that is raised routinely by non-Reformed Christians when speaking with a Reformed Christian is the matter of the freedom of the human will. Non-Reformed Christians have “heard” that Reformed theology has no place for man’s free will; they have “heard” that Reformed theology denies freedom of choice to man and ...

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 8 Of Christ the Mediator (Part  3) VI. Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after His incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefits thereof were communicated unto the elect, in all ages successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types, and sacrifices, wherein He was revealed, and signified to be the seed of the woman which should bruise the serpent’s head; ...

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 8 Of Christ the Mediator (Part  2) III. The Lord Jesus, in His human nature thus united to the divine, was sanctified, and anointed with the Holy Spirit, above measure, having in Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; in whom it pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell; to the end that, being holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of grace and truth, He might be thoroughly furnished to execute ...