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Escuela Dominical | La doctrina de Cristo | Pastor Julian Tangarife | 26 Abril de 2026

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Educational

Main Ideas and Lessons (Doctrine of Christ → Rudiments → “Repentance from Dead Works”)

Context / Purpose

  • The speaker begins by reading Hebrews 5:11–14, emphasizing that believers need renewed instruction because they are “slow to learn.”
  • He frames Sunday school as a setting for foundational Christian teaching.
  • He explains that Hebrews outlines a sequence of seven foundational doctrines (“rudiments”/elementary teachings). Today’s session covers the second doctrine: “repentance from dead works.”

Overview of the “Seven Doctrines” (as Mentioned)

  • The speaker presents the view that the author of Hebrews is Paul.
  • He describes the series as doctrines that form the “pillar” of faith.
  • He recalls the first doctrine (“doctrine of Christ”), including:
    • Christ as the promised prophet in the Old Testament
    • Christ as the Angel of the Lord/Yahweh (with translation notes)
    • The teaching that no one has seen God, implying a Trinity understanding

Detailed Methodology: What “Repentance from Dead Works” Requires

The teaching stresses that true repentance and salvation cannot be achieved by human effort. The underlying method is essentially:

God’s grace → faith in Christ → new life producing fruit (not earning salvation)

1) Start with the Correct Diagnosis: Humanity Is “Dead” and Corrupt

Repentance from dead works requires recognizing:

  • All humans are born “dead in crimes and sins.”
  • Humans inherit a fallen nature, including:
    • Inherited (transmitted) fallen nature from Adam (also referencing Psalm 51: wickedness; “raised in evil”)
    • Judicial (imputed) condemnation: a legal record against the human race due to Adam’s sin
  • This is explained as federal representation: Adam represents the whole human race; therefore condemnation extends to all.
  • Humanity is described as “totally depraved”, affecting mind, will, emotions, and actions.

2) Understand Why Approaching God by Human Strength Is Impossible

Because of the fallen condition:

  • People do not truly want God
  • People cannot approach God on their own

The speaker contrasts:

  • Human “self-made” worship (illusions that people can reach God “whenever and however” they choose)
  • God’s revealed way of approach (God requires a specific approach)

3) Recognize the “Fruits” Produced by Dead Works

“Human fruits” may appear good or bad, but are still corrupt when they originate from the fallen self.

  • Negative fruits (“works of the flesh,” via Galatians 5), including:
    • adulteries, idolatry, sorcery
    • hatred, contentions, jealousies
    • outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy
    • murders, drunkenness, revelries
    • (and “the like”), with a warning that those who practice these things “will not inherit the kingdom of God”
  • The speaker also argues that even seemingly positive efforts can still be spiritually “bad” if done for self-saving or self-justification.
    • Salvation is by grace through faith, not works—therefore works cannot reconcile a person to God apart from Christ.

4) Apply the Core Salvation Principle: Not Saved by Works—Saved for Works

The “doctrinal engine” emphasized:

  • Salvation is by grace through faith
  • not by works (so no boasting is allowed)

Then:

  • Believers are saved “for” good works
  • After salvation, works become acceptable when they flow from faith and a renewed nature
  • God does not accept human works as pleasing unless they are done through faith in Christ

5) Define Repentance Correctly: More Than Changing Behavior

Repentance involves:

  • A change of course/direction (aiming at the right target)
  • A change of life, specifically a change of who you are, not merely what you do

Two key elements:

  • Great sorrow for sin
  • Change of course (not merely remorse)

Distinction made:

  • Remorse = pain without real change
  • Repentance = sorrow + actual redirection of life

6) Explain Why Repentance Must Be Tied to Christ’s Atonement

Repentance “demands a sacrifice” because:

  • God is judge and does not leave the guilty unpunished
  • Forgiveness requires sin to be punished

The speaker states:

  • The sin of God’s people is punished in Christ (the “only begotten Son”)
  • Repentance/forgiveness is impossible apart from Christ

He adds that extensive religious actions (e.g., prayers, pilgrimages, self-flagellation, almsgiving, vows) are insufficient unless grounded in wholehearted belief in Christ.

7) “How” a Person Is Born Again (Required Pathway)

The speaker teaches that reconciliation requires being born again, which cannot be done by flesh/natural ability.

Pathway described:

  • hearing the gospel
  • believing the gospel
  • applying the gospel

Gospel content described:

  • Christ as the Son of God
  • Christ’s incarnation and death on the cross
  • healing/atonement imagery, including the bronze serpent analogy (believing in the one lifted up brings healing)

8) Result of True Repentance: New Nature and Fruit

The Holy Spirit:

  • places new life within the believer
  • removes the old nature and gives a new one

While believers may still sin:

  • sin is no longer the believer’s “nature”
  • the believer becomes a “redeemed sinner”

Thus, repentance from dead works means:

  • rejecting the idea that any work (even charity, honoring parents, not committing adultery/lying) saves
  • instead placing faith on Christ

Good works that follow:

  • are produced by the new nature “for the glory of God”
  • were previously prepared by God

9) Do Not “Lay the Foundation Again”

The speaker insists the foundation must not be relaid repeatedly.

  • Sanctification is portrayed as growth
  • but the saving foundation is: repent and seek the Lord through Christ once for all

Scriptures and Doctrines Referenced

  • Hebrews 5:11–14 (milk vs solid food; moving to maturity)
  • “Series of seven doctrines” in Hebrews (as interpreted by the speaker)
  • Trinity implied via “no one has seen God”
  • Psalm 51 (born/wickedness; “raised in evil”)
  • Galatians 3 (record/decrees; legal condemnation removal in Christ)
  • Romans 1 (exchange truth for a lie; depraved mind; wickedness list)
  • Galatians 5 (works of the flesh list)
  • Ephesians 2:1–10 (dead in trespasses; saved by grace through faith; not from yourselves; gift of God; created for good works)
  • Romans 3:21+ (righteousness of God through faith; justified by grace; boasting excluded)
  • Hebrews 10 (without faith it’s impossible to please God—quoted/paraphrased)
  • Ezekiel 18 (future judgment timing after Messiah, as referenced)
  • John 3 (born of flesh vs born of Spirit)
  • Genesis / serpent imagery (bronze serpent; “lifted up” analogy)
  • Creed reference: Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed wording (Christ as “God of God”)
  • Additional mentions:
    • Isaiah / “prophet” references (general mention; no specific fixed citation noted)
    • “filthy rags” idea referenced as known from Scripture

Speakers / Sources Featured

  • Primary speaker: Pastor Julián Tangarife (teaching in the Sunday school session)

Biblical sources referenced throughout

  • Hebrews, Galatians, Ephesians, Romans, Psalm 51, Ezekiel 18
  • Genesis (bronze serpent narrative)
  • General mention of Isaiah-related “prophet” themes
  • Additional cited themes across Scripture (as noted above)

Historical/theological figures referenced

  • Pelagius
  • Arians (and earlier debate context)

Creed reference

  • Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed

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