Nature of Salvation
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Salvation as a change in status before God
Salvation as a change in status before God
Access to God
Access to God
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
See also Eph 2:13; Heb 4:16
Adoption into the family of God
Adoption into the family of God
Term to Know: Adoption - The giving by God of the status and privileges of being his children. God adopts those who believe in him and grants them the benefits of his salvation.
Term to Know: Adoption - The giving by God of the status and privileges of being his children. God adopts those who believe in him and grants them the benefits of his salvation.
Martin H. Manser, Dictionary of Bible Themes: The Accessible and Comprehensive Tool for Topical Studies (London: Martin Manser, 2009).
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
Ro 8:22–24
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.
23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?
Ga 4:4–7
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Adoption is by Grace
Adoption is by Grace
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Adoption is the result of Predestination
Adoption is the result of Predestination
5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Adoption is the result of Redemption
Adoption is the result of Redemption
5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Adoption is the result of Justification
Adoption is the result of Justification
24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Forgiveness of sin
Forgiveness of sin
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.
31 Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
See also Ps 32:1–2; Mt 26:28; Ac 10:43; Ac 13:38; Eph 1:7; Col 2:13
Heavenly citizenship
Heavenly citizenship
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
See also Eph 2:19; Col 3:1–2; Heb 12:22–24
Inheritance from God
Inheritance from God
17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
See also Col 1:12; Re 21:7
Peace with God
Peace with God
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.
See also Is 53:5; Jn 16:33; Ro 5:1–2; Col 3:15
Righteousness in the sight of God
Righteousness in the sight of God
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
See also Is 61:10; Ro 3:22; Ro 4:3–13; Ro 4:25–5:1 The idea of being righteous in the sight of God lies at the heart of Paul’s doctrine of justification by faith; 1 Co 1:30; 2 Co 5:21; Php 3:8–9; 2 Ti 4:8; Heb 11:7
Salvation as a change in a person’s nature
Salvation as a change in a person’s nature
Becoming a new creation
Becoming a new creation
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
See also Ro 6:4; Ga 6:14–15; Eph 2:15
Deliverance from God’s righteous condemnation
Deliverance from God’s righteous condemnation
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
See also Is 50:8; Ro 5:15–17; Ro 8:33–39; Col 1:22
Deliverance from the power of sin and evil
Deliverance from the power of sin and evil
3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
See also Ro 6:14; Ro 7:21–25; Ro 8:2–4; 1 Pe 2:24; Re 1:5
Inner personal renewal
Inner personal renewal
7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
See also Ps 51:1–2; Ps 51:7; Heb 1:3; Heb 10:19–22
New birth
New birth
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
See also Jas 1:18; 1 Pe 1:23; 1 Jn 3:9
The presence of the Holy Spirit
The presence of the Holy Spirit
10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
See also Ga 5:2–25