- Experience
- John 3:3 says you are "born again"
- 2 Corinithans 5:17 calls you a "new creation"
- Romans 5:1 says you are justifiedno longer under sin
- John 1:12 identifies you as a "Child of God"
- Justification - Saved from the Penalty of Sin
- John 3:16-18 assures us that the saved will not perish and we will not be judged
- Romans 8:1 tells us that we who are in Christ Jesus are not condemned
- John 5:24 affirms that we who believe have eternal life!
- Romans 5:1 adds that we who have been justified by faith have peace
- Sanctification - Being Saved from the Power of Sin
- 2 Corinthians 1:6 offers assurance that even suffering can't affect our sanctification
- Philippians 1:6 says that we will continue to be perfected until Jesus returns for us
- Philippians 2:12,13 confides that God is at work in us to bring about this end
- 2 Peter 1:5-11 explains that our sanctification is an ongoing, continual process
- Glorification - Saved from the Presence of Sin
- Romans 13:11 offers the hope of the glorious culminiation of deliverance (from this world into the next)!
- 1 John 3:2 explains that when Jesus appears for us, we'll be like Him--delivered out of the presence of sin!
- Ephesians 5:25-27 promises that we will be "... without spot or wrinkle ..."
- Revelation 21:3,4 provides our description of heaven: there will be no sadness, no death, no mourning, crying or pain!
|