Spurgeon on Salvation–God’s Sovereignty
Spurgeon says, “If any man is saved, it is not because he willed to be saved. If any man be brought to Christ, it is not of any effort of his, but the root, the cause, the motive of the salvation of any one human being, and of all the chosen in heaven, is to be found in the predestinating purpose and sovereign distinguishing will of the Lord our God.” [vol 9, year 1863, 355], “The Minister’s Stock-Taking”
Quoted in Murray, Iain. The Forgotten Spurgeon. p. 84
Xem chi tiết: “Đức Chúa Trời và Sự Cứu Rỗi: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền Năng” (“God and Salvation: The Doctrines of Sovereign Grace”)
Before the foundation of the world đã bị giết từ buổi sáng thế
Revelation 13:8 “and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.”
Khải-huyền 13:8 Hết thảy những dân sự trên đất đều thờ lạy nó, là những kẻ không có tên ghi trong sách sự sống của Chiên Con đã bị giết từ buổi sáng thế.
Xem chi tiết: “Đức Chúa Trời và Sự Cứu Rỗi: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền Năng” (“God and Salvation: The Doctrines of Sovereign Grace”)
From the foundation of the world
Revelation 17:7–8 “But the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.”
Khải-huyền 17:7-8 Thiên sứ bảo tôi rằng: sao người lấy làm lạ? Ta sẽ cắt nghĩa cho ngươi sự mầu nhiệm của người đàn bà cùng của con thú chở nó, là con thú có bảy đầu và mười sừng. Con thú ngươi đã thấy, trước có, mà bây giờ không còn nữa; nó sẽ từ dưới vực lên và đi đến, chốn hư mất; những dân sự trên đất, là những kẻ không có tên ghi trong sách sự sống từ khi sáng thế, thấy con thú thì đều lấy làm lạ, vì nó trước có, nay không có nữa, mà sau sẽ hiện đến.
Xem chi tiết: “Đức Chúa Trời và Sự Cứu Rỗi: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền Năng” (“God and Salvation: The Doctrines of Sovereign Grace”)
God has put it into their hearts Đức Chúa Trời đã để cho
Revelation 17:17 “for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.”
Khải-huyền 17:17 Bởi Đức Chúa Trời đã để cho chúng có lòng vâng làm theo ý muốn Ngài cùng khiến chúng có chung một ý, và ban nước mình cho con thú, đến khi những lời Đức Chúa Trời phán được ứng nghiệm.
Xem chi tiết: “Đức Chúa Trời và Sự Cứu Rỗi: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền Năng” (“God and Salvation: The Doctrines of Sovereign Grace”)
Baptists & Calvinistic Heritage
- GSiV, “God and Salvation: The Doctrines of Sovereign Grace” (Đức Chúa Trời Và Sự Cứu Rỗi: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền Năng)
- Ernest Reisinger, A Southern Baptist Looks at the Biblical Doctrine of Election
- T. Kendall, The Rise and Demise of Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention
- Bob Selph, Southern Baptists and the Doctrine of Election
Bad Protestant Theology: Weak God, Strong Man (part 2)
Fortunately the following views on election or Lordship are not what Baptists have historically believed nor what all believe today.
“Thus election is to both salvation and evangelism. In both the free will of man determines the final result. By free will men can elect to be saved but elect to be barren Christians. God forbid! Men can also elect to be both saved and fruitful Christians. In such lives the sovereign will of God and the free will of man find their divinely intended relationship (John 15:16).”
-Herschel H. Hobbs, What Baptists Believe, 1964
Bad Protestant Theology: Weak God, Strong Man (part 1)
“As sovereign, God reigns over all things. As lover, he seeks to restore a relationship with humans whom he created in his own image, but he cannot predetermine their response. Love is a spontaneous, mutual relationship between persons. We can show unconditional love to another person, but we cannot force a spontaneous response on his or her part. In his unconditional love, God foreknows those who will love him, but he does not predetermine that response.”
-Paul Hiebert, Transforming Worldview, pp 269-270
Evangelism and Calvinism
- GSiV, “God and Salvation: The Doctrines of Sovereign Grace” (Đức Chúa Trời Và Sự Cứu Rỗi: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền Năng)
- I. Packer, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
- Ernest Reisinger, Will Calvinism Kill Evangelism?
- Michael Haykin. “A Sacrifice Well Pleasing To God: John Calvin And The Missionary Endeavor Of The Church.” Founders Journal. 75/Winter 2009.
- Ken Stewart. “Calvinism and Missions: The Contested Relationship Revisited.” Themelios 34, no. 1 (2009): 63-78.
- Ray Van Neste, “John Calvin on Evangelism and Missions,” Founders Journal. 33/Summer 1998.
- Jim Renihan. “Church Planting and the London Baptist Confessions of Faith.” Founders Journal. 37/Summer 1999.
A SERMON ON ELECTION BY BAPTIST CHARLES SPURGEON
Protestants in general, and Baptists specifically, have embraced the doctrine of election. Listen in English to a sermon originally preached by Charles Spurgeon:
His sovereign hand in your fears and trails
“He [God] knows just how he will use what makes you afraid in order to build your faith. He is not surprised by the troubles you face, and he surely has no intention of leaving you to face those things on your own. He stands with you in power, glory, goodness, wisdom, and grace. He can defeat what you can’t, and he intends these troubles to be not enemies that finish you but tools of grace that transform you.”
-Paul D. Tripp, New Morning Mercies, June 25
God has chosen you Ngài đã chọn ngươi trong bạn
Deuteronomy 7:6–8 “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”
Deuteronomy 9:6 “Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.”
7:6-8 Vì ngươi là một dân thánh cho Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời ngươi; Ngài đã chọn ngươi trong muôn dân trên mặt đất, đặng làm một dân thuộc riêng về Ngài. Ðức Giê-hô-va tríu mến và chọn lấy các ngươi, chẳng phải vì các ngươi đông hơn mọi dân khác đâu; thật số các ngươi là ít hơn những dân khác. Nhưng ấy vì Ðức Giê-hô-va thương yêu các ngươi, và giữ lời thề mà Ngài đã lập cùng tổ phụ các ngươi, nên Ðức Giê-hô-va nhờ tay mạnh rút các ngươi ra, chuộc khỏi nhà nô lệ, và cứu khỏi tay Pha-ra-ôn, vua xứ Ê-díp-tô.
9:6 Vậy, khá biết rằng chẳng phải vì cớ sự công bình ngươi mà Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời ngươi cho ngươi nhận lấy xứ tốt tươi nầy đâu; bởi ngươi vẫn là một dân cứng cổ.
TYNDALE AND BONDAGE OF THE WILL, THE WILL OF THE FIEND
“Our will is locked and knit faster under the will of the devil than could an hundred thousand chains bind a man unto a post.
“Because . . . [by] nature we are evil, therefore we both think and do evil, and are under vengeance under the law, convict to eternal damnation by the law, and are contrary to the will of God in all our will and in all things consent to the will of the fiend.”
-Tyndale, Selected Writings, p. 37, 39
(John Piper sermon about William Tyndale, “Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible“)









