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Soteriology by Thomas Bridges (Eternal security (we can never lose our…
Soteriology by Thomas Bridges
What is the gospel
What are the issues in soteriology
What is the Gospel?
What does a person need to do to be saved?
Can a person lose their salvation
Biblical terms explaining our salvation
How does a believer live in God’s grace?
What must I do to be saved
Why is this important
Teaching the wrong gospel has terrible consequences
An incorrect Gospel will give people a false hope of salvation
A correct understanding of the Gospel is a crucial foundation for our walk with the lord
It is important to distinguish two important aspects : the Gospel and foundational information
The gospel message
Jesus died for our sins
Jesus was buried
Jesus arose from the dead 3 days later
He appeared to over 500 eyewitnesses
The Gospel message is about a person!-Jesus
Foundational Knowledge
This is needed to understand the Gospel
For example what sin is
For example, that jesus is divine and human
This information is not technically part of the Gospel, but is needed to make sense of it
Eternal security
We are sealed by the holy spirit
we can never lose our salvation
why people think they could lose their salvation
they don't go to church
they forgot about christ
whe are not secured by works
why people would think that
compaired to others they are better
they do good deeds all the time
The salvation diamond
What is true of a person when they are saved
Just like a diamond there are many faces to a saved person
The NT uses many words to describe salvation
Justification
Adoption
Redemption
Sanctification
Union with christ
Justification
The word “justification” means to be declared righteous
It is note made righteous
It is made righteous by God
Illustrations the court room
The prosecutor is God law
The attorney reads our transgression
The defendant is us
we leave the court justified
The defense attorney is Jesus
Our defence attorney steps in but he does not attempt to defend us
He offers to take the punishment we deserve upon himself.
God is the judge
adoption
the act of God where he places believers into his family
Benefits of being adopted by God
As children we can call God our father
As children we have unhindered access to God
we are always able to call upon him for help
As his children, we are in a community with many other siblings
As his children, God disciplines /trains us; we are not abandoned
concept of “discipline” is closely related to the concept of “training
God’s discipline/training is for out good
Our parents do the best they can and we respect them
God actually disciplines us for what is truly our good
Redemption
to purchase sinners out of the slave market of sin.
Slavery in the ancient world was very common
A person could become a slave by being born a slave, a captive in war, self-sale into slavery
The classic Ot illustration of redemption is Israel crossing the red Sea after Moses leads them out of slavery in Egypt
The scripture says that we are slaves of sin
sanctification
a process where we work with God to live according to the Spirit and to have our behavior become more Christ-like
Sanctification comes from a Greek word meaning “to be holy or set apart
The idea is to be set apart from sin and set apart to God.
Sanctification is viewed from three different phases
Past- We are viewed as sanctified.
To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy
Present – We are viewed as in process of being sanctified
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through
Future- We hope for a future complete sanctification.
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is