IMPUTATION
- Three Imputations:
- 1) Adam’s sin TO humanity;
- 2) Our sins TO Christ;
- 3) Christ’s righteousness TO humanity
RECONCILIATION
- What? … restoration of a friendship/relationship
- Why? … Because the relationship had been severed
- Who? … ALL, objectively, at the death of Christ … Some, subjectively, at time of believing
- When? … At the death of Christ … AND also time of believing
JUSTIFICATION
- In a right relationship
- declared righteous
- What? … a state of right-ness or righteousness
- When? … at time of Christ’s death …
- Who? … ALL people
SANCTIFICATION
- What? … state of separateness … of being apart, having been set apart
- Who? … applies only to believers … the called out ones … the Church
- When? … at moment of belief and putting trust in Christ
- Why? … to marry Christ
GLORIFICATION
- What? … a state of glory … of having a glorious body
- Who? … believers now … ALL eventually
- When? … at Christ’s return … upon receipt of immortal bodies
- Why? … so that we can live forever
FORGIVENESS
- What? … removal of sins …
- How? … made possible by Christ’s sacrifice
- When? … at Christ’s death …
- Why? … so that salvation by God could be possible
REGENERATION
- Titus 3:5 … This is the only verse in the Bible that uses “regeneration” in its soteriological meaning and connects it with the Holy Spirit.
- What? … renewal … new birth (being born again) …
- the act of God by which the principle of the new life is implanted in a man and the governing disposition of the soul is made holy … the act of God that imparts (spiritual) life … birth from above … spiritual birth
- “born anew” or “born again” (John 3:3, 7; 1 Peter 1:3, 23)
- “begotten of God” (John 1:13; 1 John 2:29, 3:9, 4:7, 5:1, 4, 18) … implanted with eternal life, the life of God …
- How? … by receipt of the Holy Spirit
- When? … immediately before belief
- Why? … so that person can be alive to believe
FAITH
- What? … Belief … Trust
- How? … as a gift from God
- When? … at moment of trusting in Christ
- Why? … to be able to do the work of God … by having Christ living in us and the Holy Spirit working through us
REPENTANCE
- What? … metanoia … change of mind and thinking … the flip side of belief
- How? … by believing … moving from unbelief to belief
- When? … the moment person starts believing
- Who? … anyone to whom God gives the Holy Spirit
- To “repent and believe” –> better understood as “repent by believing”
CONVERSION
- What? … change of behaviour … move from one state to another …
- How? … by a change of mind … (change in behaviour results from a change of mind)
- Why? … so that God could do His work on earth
- When? … at receipt of the Holy Spirit
CONFESSION
- What? … a profession … utterance of words, usually confirming or admitting something that may be wrong
- Why? … to stay in a right relationship but it must be a sincere profession, based on sincere belief
- more that just a mouthing of words
ADOPTION
- brought into the family of God
SECURITY
- surety of salvation
- depends on God, not on Man