The Essential Truths of the Gospel:

1. The Sufficiency & Supremacy of Scripture
   1. We tremble at God’s Word (Isaiah 66:2)
   2. We study God’s Word to know it, to practice it, and to teach it (Ezra 7:10)
   3. It is breathed out by God and fully useful (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
2. The Total Corruption of Human Nature
   1. We were dead, and by nature, children of wrath. He regenerated us and granted us faith and repentance (Ephesians 2:1-5).
   2. Not by the will of the flesh or the will of man (John 1:12-13).
   3. Desiring God article reference: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-enticing-sin-of-empathy.
3. Christ’s Death on the Cross is the Only Sacrifice for Sin
   1. Faith is the only way (Romans 3).
   2. We believe in God alone by faith – His sacrificial death on the cross covers us.
   3. Christ is the perfect/undefiled sacrifice.
   4. Salvation is solely wrought by God with no admixture of human works.