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March 6, 2020
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#Order_of_salvation
Romans 8
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he
also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified,
them he also glorified.
The Scriptures speaks of THE Order of
Salvation. Below are two different orders: which do you believe, the first or
the second, or a mixture of the two?
Take a look. How are you saved? Tell us the
order which you believe is taught in the Scripture about your salvation.
Order 1:
You were dead in trespasses and sins:
The gospel call came to you - bringing the
free offer of eternal salvation to you.
a. Effectual call: gospel call made effectual
by God, to enable you to respond to the gospel call. (This is call prevenient
grace.)
- Conversion: your response of faith in
Christ through the gospel ministry.
- Born again: you believe in order to receive
eternal life. (You didn't have eternal life; now you do because your of your
believing!)
- Justification: you believe in order to be
justified, i.e. declared righteous by God. (You were not justified before, i.e.
under the just condemnation because of sin; but through your act of believing,
God has justified you!)
- Adoption – you believe in order to be
received as son by God. (You were alienated but by faith God has adopted you
into His family.)
- Sanctification – you become progressively
more holy in life.
- Perseverance – you persevere in a life
faith and holiness. (if you don't, it means that you were not even a child of
God; i.e. you are a fake)
- Glorification - your future glorification
based on your perseverance. (I pray and hope that you persevere well enough to
qualify a place in heaven!)
Order 2:
You were dead in trespasses and sins (the
same starting place as Order 1)
a. God effectually called you when you were
dead in trespasses and sins, in active enmity against God.
- God freely, by His sovereign grace alone,
called you out of your native state of sin and death to that of grace and
eternal salvation in Christ Jesus.
b. This effectual call out of the state of
sin and death to that of grace and salvation requires these FREE and sovereign
acts of God:
- Justification: God removed your
condemnation by declaring you righteous, through the application of the
righteousness of Christ to your personally; yes, freely by His grace, Rom 3:24.
Not by your faith.
- Regeneration: You are born of God, and
receive eternal life. You were quickened from spiritual deadness to eternal
life.
- Adoption: God received you as son, and gave
His Holy Spirit to dwell in you, who works saving graces, including faith.
- All of the above in the effectual call to
grace and salvation is entirely by God's free grace alone. You did nothing.
Why? Because it was when you were in a condemned, dead and alienated state that
God acted freely to save you by His grace. (EVERY elect of God are effectually
called to eternal life, by God's free grace alone, at God's own appointed time.).
- Eph 2:5 " Even when we were dead in
sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved."
Yes, EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD... BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED."
- YES, even when we were dead, incapable of
faith, are we saved. Have you understood?
c. Gospel ministry is blessed for your
further sanctification (temporal salvation)
- Faith in Jesus Christ through the gospel
ministry. Your faith evidences your
justified state by God's free grace.
- God works in you to will and to do His good
pleasure, and you working out your own salvation, through the gospel ministry,
with fear and trembling, here and now in this present life.
- Perseverance: you as a child of God
immutably remain and continue in the state of grace and salvation in Christ
Jesus. (Some of God's children do not experience
this further sanctification. Of those who do, they experience it to vastly
different degrees.)
- Glorification - based on God’s perseverance
alone in keeping His children in the STATE of grace and eternal salvation.
Which order have you been taught?
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Dhong
I have been taught the first order but later
came across the second order. I believe that the second order is the biblical
one for it brings all the glory to God for the salvation He has freely bestowed
upon His people. It further explains why people are negative to spiritual
things prior to being made spiritually alive by the sovereign act of God.
Doug Messer
Will agree with Dhong. The Glory must...and
will be His alone. He chooses whom He wills, for His purpose and Glory.
Khaw Eng Sun
Many of us were taught Order 1, believing
this Order 1 without blinking of our eyes till the opportune time our Lord
Jesus Christ kindly pointed to us our erroneous understanding. My best half and
I had many questions unanswered then till that opportune moment where scales
dropped from our eyes, wax melted flowing out of our ears (we suddenly hear
loud and clear), our hearts melted and felt the love & free grace of our
Elder Brother. Yes, yes and yes...Order 2 is all found in the Bible. Praise Him,
the Captain of our Salvation.
Matt Jordan
Order 2 is biblical. Not only that, it gives
all the glory to God, and it brings the most comfort to a sinner saved by
grace. Thank you for sharing!
Reggie Lee
When I read that word (Prevenient) before
Grace, I knew order 1 wasn’t for this guy.
