Total Depravity
In this week's episode, John Snyder and Chuck Baggett discuss the nature of depravity and highlight a sermon preached by Gilbert Tennent entitled "The Wretched State of the Unconverted."
Few doctrines have been so misunderstood or abused as that of total depravity. However, it is an important truth we must wrestle with in order to understand biblical salvation.
Total depravity means that we are born sinful and everything we do is tainted with sin. We remain in this state until and unless the Lord makes us alive.
Gilbert Tennent was born in Ireland and came to the United States as a child. His father was a minister and trained many young men for the ministry. Tennent met George Whitefield and accompanied him on some of his preaching tours. Tennent’s preaching was both “terrible and searching.”
You can listen the sermon here. Or read along in your copy of Salvation in Full Color.
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