JESUS CHRIST AND SALVATION SUMMARY, PART 4.

According to Erickson “ the completion of salvation is found in the two doctrines of perseverance and glorification.” As for perseverance, I have come to the conclusion that a sincere believer who has had a real ‘new-birth’ will ‘once saved will always be saved’. Only a person who has never had a sincere conversion and regeneration, and says that he has, will lose out. I believe that maybe the ones who trample over the Lord’s salvation are those who never had a sincere conversion and thus no justification or regeneration! So in this life believers sometimes groan and suffer, because they sense their incompleteness. But if they continually are yielding to the will of God and even when they falter, they should not fear about losing the salvation they possess. And glorification promises that something better lies ahead. Most believers look to that day when they are present before the Lord and when their bodies will be resurrected at His Second coming!

So salvation comes only through God Himself, Jesus Christ, who was born of a Virgin, who died at the cross at His own chooding, to atone our sins which entered the world when the Fall occurred! I see the following steps in the completion of salvation taught in this class: gift of grace where we get the gift of faith, conversion, justification, regeneration, sanctification, perseverance and glorification. And even though grace and faith are gifts, still it is a person’s free-will to say ‘yes’ to God and then turn to God by turning from sin and self!