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Gospel & Doctrine · Course one

Beyond Belief

The promise, the power, and the reality of the everlasting gospel

A chapter-by-chapter companion to Jack Sequeira’s exposition of the cross, the two Adams, and the third angel’s message. Read the chapter, listen to the study, write your answers, and close with the quiz.

Studies
15
Questions
180
Quiz questions
180
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Suggested rhythm. Read the matching chapter, listen to the overview, answer each question in your own words, then take the quiz and review every answer.

Study sessions

  1. 01The Everlasting GospelThe gospel is objective good news about what God has already done, not advice about what we must become.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  2. 02God's Agape LoveAgape is unconditional, self-emptying, other-centred love — the very nature of God and the engine of the plan of salvation.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  3. 03The Bad News: Sin as Condition, Not Merely ConductSin is first a state of being inherited in Adam, and only secondarily the acts that flow from it.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  4. 04In Adam, In Christ: The Two Corporate HeadsAll humanity is legally and spiritually bound to one of two representative men — Adam or Christ.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  5. 05The Humanity of ChristChrist assumed our fallen, corporate humanity, yet lived it sinlessly by total dependence on the Father.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  6. 06The Cross: God's Solution to the Sin ProblemAt the cross the corporate race was legally condemned, executed, and raised in Christ.12 questions · 6 key passages · audio
  7. 07Justification by FaithJustification is a completed legal verdict pronounced on humanity in Christ, received — not earned — by faith.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  8. 08Sanctification by FaithSanctification is Christ's life reproduced in the believer by the Spirit — the fruit of salvation, never its root.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  9. 09Faith and Works: Resolving Paul and JamesFaith alone saves, but the faith that saves is never alone.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  10. 10The Law and the GospelThe law reveals sin and drives us to Christ; the gospel establishes the law by writing it on the heart.12 questions · 6 key passages · audio
  11. 11The Two CovenantsThe covenants are not two eras but two ways of relating to God — human promise versus divine promise.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  12. 12The Gospel and the Great ControversyThe cross vindicates God's character and settles the cosmic charges Satan has raised against His government.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  13. 13The Third Angel's Message in VerityThe three angels' messages are the everlasting gospel in its final, judgment-hour setting.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  14. 14The Judgment and the Believer's AssuranceThe judgment is good news for those in Christ, because the verdict was rendered at the cross.12 questions · 5 key passages · audio
  15. 15The Church, the Spirit, and the MissionThe church exists to proclaim and display the gospel until Christ returns, empowered by the latter rain.12 questions · 6 key passages · audio