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1. The Unregenerate are Spiritually Dead.
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2. The Unregenerate cannot understand or Receive Spiritual Truth.   1 Cor. 1:14
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3. The Unregenerate Cannot Please God.
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4. The Unregenerate Cannot Come to Christ.  John 6:44.  John 6:65.        
         A. They both begin with a universal negative ("no one").    
         B. The word "can" refers specifically to human ability.    
         C. The word "unless" signifies that before any person can come to Jesus something must occur first that will make that coming possible.            
         D. God is the only one who can give sinful depraved men the ability to come to Christ.  
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5. The Unregenerate Cannot Repent.

6. The Unregenerate are Under the Power of Satan.

7. The Unregenerate Dwell in Darkness.

8. The Unregenerate Do Not Seek God.

9. The Unregenerate are Helpless.

10. The Unregenerate have Uncircumcised Hearts of Stone.

The X in Christmas is used like the R in R.C. My given name at birth was Robert Charles, although before I was even taken home from the hospital my parents called me by my initials, R.C., and nobody seems to be too scandalized by that.

X can mean so many things. For example, when we want to denote an unknown quantity, we use the symbol X. It can refer to an obscene level of films, something that is X-rated. People seem to express chagrin about seeing Christ’s name dropped and replaced by this symbol for an unknown quantity X. Every year you see the signs and the bumper stickers saying, “Put Christ back into Christmas” as a response to this substitution of the letter X for the name of Christ.

There’s No X in Christmas

First of all, you have to understand that it is not the letter X that is put into Christmas. We see the English letter X there, but actually what it involves is the first letter of the Greek name for Christ. Christos is the New Testament Greek for Christ. The first letter of the Greek word Christos is transliterated into our alphabet as an X. That X has come through church history to be a shorthand symbol for the name of Christ.

We don’t see people protesting the use of the Greek letter theta, which is an O with a line across the middle. We use that as a shorthand abbreviation for God because it is the first letter of the word Theos, the Greek word for God.

X Has a Long and Sacred History

The idea of X as an abbreviation for the name of Christ came into use in our culture with no intent to show any disrespect for Jesus. The church has used the symbol of the fish historically because it is an acronym. Fish in Greek (ichthus) involved the use of the first letters for the Greek phrase “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.” So the early Christians would take the first letter of those words and put those letters together to spell the Greek word for fish. That’s how the symbol of the fish became the universal symbol of Christendom. There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

This excerpt is adapted from Now, That’s a Good Question! by R.C. Sproul.

 Eph. 2: 4-9. Were we dead and unable to believe so that life and faith has to be given to us?  

1Cor. 1:26-36. It is an individual election and we are in Christ because of God.  

1Cor. 1:31. What is God’s design for election or choosing us?  

Romans 11:3-7. Is election the effect or the cause of obtaining salvation?  

Acts 13: 48.Is election based on foreknown faith or does faith happen becauee of election?  

John 17:6-9. Do we belong to God because we come to Jesus, or do we come to Jesus because we belong to God?  

John 6:37-39. Who comes to Jesus?  

John 10:24-27. Are we Jesus sheep because we believe, or do we believe because we are his sheep?  

John 10:16. Is evangelism making sheep or gathering sheep?  

Romans 8:28-33. Is election based on foreknown faith or is faith the effect of election?  

Acts 13:45-48. Does election secures faith or does faith secure our election.