Celebrating the Glories of Sovereign Grace (1)

Rotten to the Core: Exploring Total Depravity

These notes were produced for use with Dave Gobbett's sermon of 9th August 2009.

• Introducing the Doctrines of Grace

1. Bible definitions of sin (Exodus 34:7)

• 'sin'
• 'wickedness'
• 'rebellion'

2. The effect of sin: what sin does to us

• Sin's extent: total depravity
  Titus 1:15, Ps 14:1, Matt 12:34-35, Rom 3:10-18, Ps 51:5, Rom 5:12, Rom 7:18
• Sin's enslavement: total inability
  Jer 17:19, John 3:5, 6:44, 8:33-34

3. The consequence of sin: God's wrath

Ps 45:7, 51:4, Eph 2:3

• God's wrath in the present
  John 3:36, Rom 1:18, 24, 26, 28
• God's wrath in the future
  Rom 2:5-9, 2 Thess 1:8-9

4. Applications

• Sin in non-Christians
• Sin in ourselves
• Sin in other Christians

The text of J. I. Packer's introduction to a 1958 reprint of John Owen's "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ" may be found
here.