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Salvation
© John Stevenson, 2012
No one can know
with a certainty of
faith, which cannot
be subject to error,
that he has obtained
the grace of God
(Canons and
Decrees of the
Council of Trent,
Chapter 9).
If anyone says that a
man who is born again
and justified is bound
of faith to believe that
his is assuredly in the
number of the
predestined, let him
be anathema
(Canons and Decrees
of the Council of Trent,
Chapter 15).
1 John 5:12-13
He who has the Son has the life; he
who does not have the Son of God does
not have the life. 13 These things I have
written to you who believe in the name of
the Son of God, so that you may know
that you have eternal life.
John 6:37-39
All that the Father gives Me will
come to Me, and the one who comes to
Me I will certainly not cast out. 38 For I
have come down from heaven, not to do
My own will, but the will of Him who sent
Me. 39 This is the will of Him who sent
Me, that of all that He has given Me I
lose nothing, but raise it up on the last
day.
John 6:40
For this is the will of My Father, that
everyone who beholds the Son and
believes in Him will have eternal life, and
I Myself will raise him up on the last day.
John 10:27-30
My sheep hear My voice, and I
know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I
give eternal life to them, and they will
never perish; and no one will snatch
them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who
has given them to Me, is greater than all;
and no one is able to snatch them out of
the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are
one.
Hebrews 6:13-15
For when God made the promise to
Abraham, since He could swear by no
one greater, He swore by Himself, 14
saying, “I will surely bless you and I will
surely multiply you.” 15 And so, having
patiently waited, he obtained the
promise.
Hebrews 6:16
For men swear by one greater than
themselves, and with them an oath given
as confirmation is an end of every
dispute.
Hebrews 6:17-18
In the same way God, desiring
even more to show to the heirs of the
promise the unchangeableness of His
purpose, interposed with an oath, 18 so
that by two unchangeable things in
which it is impossible for God to lie, we
who have taken refuge would have
strong encouragement to take hold of
the hope set before us.
Hebrews 6:19-20
This hope we have as an anchor of
the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast
and one which enters within the veil, 20
where Jesus has entered as a
forerunner for us, having become a high
priest forever according to the order of
Melchizedek.
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Saved and
knows it
Saved and
does not
know it
Not Saved
and knows it
Not Saved
and does not
know it
Once saved,
always saved
Reformed
Theology
Once a person It is possible
comes to faith
for one to
in Jesus Christ, experience a
they will be
faith for a time
saved no
that is not
matter whether saving faith.
or not they
Such a one
continue to
often falls
believe.
away after a
time.
Loss of
Salvation
A person might
come to Christ
and be saved
and then,
because of sin
or unbelief,
might lose that
salvation and
be lost.
Once saved,
always saved
Reformed
Theology
Loss of
Salvation
Reads the
parable of the
sower and
believes that
only the first
one is lost
while the
others merely
suffer “loss of
rewards.”
The sower
pictures some
who initially
experience a
measure of
spiritual
growth, but
who ultimately
fall away and
are not saved.
The parable of
the sower tells
of some who
were initially
saved but who
lost their
salvation
because they
did not endure.
Once saved,
always saved
Once saved,
always saved;
no matter
what.
Reformed
Theology
Loss of
Salvation
The
Salvation is a
perseverance
matter of
of God’s elect enduring to the
is guaranteed
end.
by the work of
the Holy Spirit.
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1
John 2:18-19
Children, it is the last hour; and just
as you heard that antichrist is coming,
even now many antichrists have
appeared; from this we know that it is
the last hour. 19 They went out from us,
but they were not really of us; for if they
had been of us, they would have
remained with us; but they went out, so
that it would be shown that they all are
not of us.
nd
2
Peter 1:5-7
Now for this very reason also,
applying all diligence, in your faith supply
moral excellence, and in your moral
excellence, knowledge, 6 and in your
knowledge, self-control, and in your selfcontrol, perseverance, and in your
perseverance, godliness, 7 and in your
godliness, brotherly kindness, and in
your brotherly kindness, love.
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2
Peter 1:8-9
For if these qualities are yours and
are increasing, they render you neither
useless nor unfruitful in the true
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 For he who lacks these qualities is
blind or short-sighted, having forgotten
his purification from his former sins.
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2
Peter 1:10-11
Therefore, brethren, be all the more
diligent to make certain about His calling
and choosing you; for as long as you
practice these things, you will never
stumble; 11 for in this way the entrance
into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly
supplied to you.
Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace you have been saved
through faith; and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of
works, so that no one may boast. 10 For
we are His workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand so that we would
walk in them.
Romans 8:35-36
Who will separate us from the love
of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written, “
For your sake we are being put to death
all day long; we were considered as
sheep to be slaughtered.”
Romans 8:37-39
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who
loved us. 38 For I am convinced that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor powers, 39 nor
height, nor depth, nor any other created
thing, will be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
Share the following
with your group:
• What did you want to be when
you grew up?
• Did it take place?
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
But we should always give thanks to
God for you, brethren beloved by the
Lord, because God has chosen you from
the beginning for salvation through
sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the
truth. 14 It was for this He called you
through our gospel, that you may gain the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
English
Holy
Saint
Sanctify
Hebrew
Greek
Qadosh
Hagios
Qadash
Hagiazo
Genesis 2:3
Then God blessed the seventh day
and sanctified it, because in it He rested
from all His work which God had created
and made.
Exodus 29:43-44
“I will meet there with the sons of
Israel, and it shall be consecrated by My
glory. 44 I will consecrate the tent of
meeting and the altar; I will also
consecrate Aaron and his sons to minister
as priests to Me.”
Set apart
from the
world
Set apart
to Christ
• Past: Positional
• Present: Progressive
• Future: Ultimate
1 Corinthians 1:1-2
Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus
Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes
our brother, 2 To the church of God which
is at Corinth, to those who have been
sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by
calling, with all who in every place call on
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their
Lord and ours
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Therefore we do not lose heart, but
though our outer man is decaying, yet our
inner man is being renewed day by day.
17
For momentary, light affliction is
producing for us an eternal weight of glory
far beyond all comparison, 18 while we
look not at the things which are seen, but
at the things which are not seen; for the
things which are seen are temporal, but
the things which are not seen are eternal.
Hebrews 10:14
For by one offering He has perfected
for all time those who are sanctified.
Present tense
Sanctification is the
work of God’s free
grace, whereby we are
renewed in the whole
man after the image of
God, and are enabled
more and more to die
unto sin, and live unto
righteousness. (WCF
Shorter Catechism 35).
• Both come from the grace of God.
• Both are a part of the work of salvation
that God provides.
• Both are to be found in all the converted.
There is no such thing as a person who
has been justified who has not also been
sanctified.
• Both begin at the same time.
• Both are necessary to salvation.
To be declared
righteous
To be set apart and
thereby made holy or
consecrated.
Justification is the
reckoning and
counting of a man to
be righteous on the
basis of the imputed
righteousness of
Christ.
Sanctification is the
making of a man to be
inwardly righteous.
The righteousness of
justification is an
imputed
righteousness
received by faith and
is not our own.
The righteousness of
sanctification is an
imparted righteousness
brought about in us by
the Holy Spirit.
Justification is an
absolute.
Sanctification in the
progressive sense is
relative and in part.
Speaks of a work
done for you.
Speaks of a work done
in you.
You are declared
righteous on the
basis of the merits of
Jesus Christ.
You are set apart for
God’s special use by
the work of the Holy
Spirit.
…a man is not justified
by the works of the Law
but through faith in
Christ Jesus, even we
have believed in Christ
Jesus, so that we may
be justified by faith in
Christ and not by the
works of the Law; since
by the works of the Law
no flesh will be justified
(Galatians 2:16).
“…that they may receive
forgiveness of sins and an
inheritance among those
who have been sanctified
by faith in Me.” (Acts
26:18)
Much more then,
having now been
justified by His blood,
we shall be saved
from the wrath of
God through Him
(Romans 5:9).
Therefore Jesus also,
that He might sanctify
the people through His
own blood, suffered
outside the gate.
(Hebrews 13:12).
Justification
Delivers us
from the guilt
of sin
Regeneration
Sanctification
Delivers us
Delivers us
from the power
from the
of sin
presence of sin
It is done for us
It is done for us It is done in us
and in us
It is a legal
declaration
It is a creative
act
It is a growing
process
It brings about It brings about It brings about
a changed
a change in
a change in
standing
your nature
your life
Justification
Regeneration
Sanctification
Happens at the point of initial
salvation
Begins with
salvation and
progresses
To be declared
righteous
To be born
again
To be set apart
to God
Philippians 1:6
For I am confident of this very thing,
that He who began a good work in you
will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
My children, with whom I am again
in labor until Christ is formed in you
(Galatians 4:19).
Ephesians 4:14-15
As a result, we are no longer to be
children, tossed here and there by waves
and carried about by every wind of
doctrine, by the trickery of men, by
craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but
speaking the truth in love, we are to grow
up in all aspects into Him who is the head,
even Christ
1 John 3:2-3
Beloved, now we are children of
God, and it has not appeared as yet what
we will be. We know that when He
appears, we will be like Him, because we
will see Him just as He is. 3 And everyone
who has this hope fixed on Him purifies
himself, just as He is pure.