God wants you to be saved and know it. True Assurance a growing awareness of and confidence in my salvation. The Lord wants you to know that if you have put your trust in Jesus, if you a have turned from sin to Jesus, trusting in Him alone for your salvation, then you are saved. […]
Jesus Saves: Sanctification
The shift we are making this morning is from Jesus has saved me to Jesus is saving me, the ongoing work of salvation in my life that will continue until my death, or until Jesus returns, whichever comes first. Jesus has saved me and now Jesus is saving me. This study it’s all about Sanctification. […]
Jesus Saves: Adoption
Adoption is that part of our salvation that is an act of God in which he makes us a part of his family. The Bible is clear that adoption is part of Jesus saving us. If Jesus saves me, I am adopted. Our adoption means we are sons, both men and women, loved by God […]
Jesus Saves: Justification
Justification, it is at the heart of the gospel, the Christian message of salvation. The Bible’s teaching of justification distinguishes the salvation Jesus offers from all other offers of salvation apart from Jesus. Justification is an act of God in which he declares us to be righteous in his sight, so he thinks of our […]
Jesus Saves: Conversion
That’s our topic for this morning, the part of our salvation that is referred to as Conversion. It’s part of what happens when we first become a Christian, and it involves a famous theological pairing . . . The essential pairing of repentance and faith. Together repentance and faith, faith and repentance, it doesn’t matter […]
Jesus Saves: Regeneration
It’s to the Pharisee, Nicodemus, that Jesus will say, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. But before Jesus will explain to Nicodemus, what Nicodemus will need to do, to believe in Jesus, Jesus explains to Nicodemus what God […]
Jesus Saves: Calling
We use the words call and calling in many different ways, and we will use them in this study Jesus Saves, talking about that part of our Christian Salvation that the Bible identifies as The Call. Actually, we will identify two different kinds of call, and both are necessary for the salvation of a follower […]
Jesus Saves: Election
God saving us started before we ever existed. God was at work in the past, in eternity past, working out our salvation, acting graciously toward followers of Jesus, before we were ever born, even before the earth ever existed. It’s the doctrine of salvation we call Election. Did you know this, that God held an election […]