Sanctification & Self Denial

I.                  The Process of Sanctification
Sanctification is the process of putting off the old creation and putting on the new one. It is a process. You have been sanctified, you are being sanctified, you will be sanctified. You have been sanctified for the purpose of continuing on in your sanctification, so that you may ultimately be [...]

9 Realities of Salvation: #9 – Reconciliation

  Reconciliation

Romans 5.10 – For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
 
Romans 5.1-3 – Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also [...]

9 Realities of Salvation: #8 – The New Creation

    Birth of a New Creation 
 
Galatians 2.19-20 – For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live [...]

9 Realities of Salvation: #7 – Crucified with Christ

 Positional Crucification of Old Creation: Crucified with Christ

Romans 6.11 – Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 
Romans 6.1-4 – What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died [...]

9 Realities of Salvation: #6 Translation

   Translation of Kingdoms

Philippians 3.20 – For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ

                                                              i.      Identity
1.       Who are we?
2.      Are we pilgrims?

                                                            ii.      Citizenship
1.       Our citizenship is in heaven.
2.      …from which we wait for the Savior
a.      It is from the place of [...]

9 Realities of Salvation: #5 – Adoption

  Adoption

Romans 8.12-16 – Therefore, brethren, we are debtors–not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by [...]

9 Realities of Salvation: #4 Justification

   Justification by Faith (Looking at Romans 3.24)

To gather an understanding of the doctrine of Justification by Faith we will look at one of the main sections of Scripture that lead to the Protestant Reformation in the 1500’s. These few verses in Romans are arguably some of the most important verses in all of the [...]

9 Realities of Salvation: #3 Faith

 
Faith
 

Faith does not save us. Jesus saves us. We must never rely on our faith to save us, but only Jesus Christ. Faith is a work that we are saved through, but not by. Faith results from us receiving the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit’s conviction. God shows us who and what we are and [...]

9 Realities of Salvation: #2 Union with Christ

A.    Quickening of the spirit: Spiritual Union with Christ

                                                              i.      The life of regeneration can be totally defined in one term; spiritual union with Christ. When a man has been regenerated there has been a life-from-the-death experience. This experience is the union of two Spirits; our dead spirit and God’s Holy Spirit. Regenerated man has [...]

9 Realities of Salvation: #1 Regeneration

What must happen at the point of salvation? This is the most important topic about our faith that you could understand. A correct understanding of salvation will saves us years of unnecessary pain, confusion, and backsliding. It will also allow us to properly determine whether or not we, ourselves, and others have attained to this. [...]