3. “God wants His children to enjoy
the assurance of their salvation!”
4. “I write these things to you who believe in the name of
the Son of God, so that you may know that you have
eternal life.” John 5:13
5. Both/And
• God wants His children to enjoy the
assurance of their salvation!
• God wants lost people to realize their true
condition and their desperate need for a
Savior!
6. Sanctification is a progressive work of both God and
man that makes the Christian more and more free
from sin and more and more like Jesus in their actual
day-to-day lives. Christian Beliefs pg. 99
7. Sanctification:
Begins at the very moment God declares me totally
JUSTIFIED in His sight, because of my faith in Christ!
The Holy Spirit initiates & empowers my sanctification,
and I must choose each day to surrender & cooperate
with the Holy Spirit’s work.
8. SANCTIFICATION:
Will continue progressing in my life, but not reach
perfection until Christ returns.
JUSTIFICATION: “I’m already postitionally righteous before
the Father because I’m in the Son!
SANCTIFICATION: “I’m increasingly growing in practical
righteousness day-to-day by the Spirit.”
9. Although we will never be completely free from sin in
this life, we should still expect to see a steady increase
in our sanctification. Christian Beliefs pg. 100
10. “We must remember it’s a Spiritual walk…
not a Spiritual long-jump!”
11. “As we grow in sanctification, we “walk by the Spirit”
and are “led by the Spirit” (Gal. 5:16-18), and renew our
mind with God’s Word, we are more and more responsive
to the desires and promptings of the Holy Spirit in our
life and character.” Christian Beliefs pg 101
12. “We have a PASSIVE and ACTIVE role in
our sanctification.” Christian Beliefs pg. 101
“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed,
so now, not only as in my presence but much more in
my absence, work out your own salvation with fear
and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both
to will and to work for his good pleasure.”
Philippians 2:12-13
13. “How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit,
why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human
effort?” Galatians 3:3 (Baptism Charge)
Our Christians growth cannot be empowered by human effort!”
14. CALLED TO TAKE ACTION! (empowered by the Holy Spirit)
“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.”
Romans 8:13
“Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is
outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his
own body. 1 Cor 6:18
“Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are
on earth.” Colossians 3:2
15. “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith.”
2 Corinthians 13:5a
“A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit,
nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit
is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Thus you will recognize them by their
fruits.”
Matthew 7:18-20
20. The 1st Proclamation of the Gospel!
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall
bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15
21. The 1st Proclamation of the Gospel!
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall
bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15
The 1st Demonstration of the Gospel!
“And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins
and clothed them.” Genesis 3:21
22. “Although Christ defeated death when He
arose from the dead, death will be the
last result of sin to be removed from this
fallen world: Christ “must reign until He
has put all His enemies under His feet.
The last enemy to be destroyed is death
(1 Cor 15:25). Christian Beliefs pg 108
23. “Grieving yet rejoicing” 2 Cor 6:10
“Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your
victory? O death, where is your sting?...But thanks be to
God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 15:54,55,57
“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about
those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do
who have no hope.” 1 Thessalonians 4:13
24. “If you are a believer in Jesus
Christ, the Bible encourages you
NOT to view your own death with
fear.” Christian Beliefs pg 109
25. “If you are a believer in Jesus
Christ, the Bible encourages you
NOT to view your own death with
fear.” Christian Beliefs pg 109
“I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart
and be with Christ, for that is far better.” Philippians 1:23
26. “If you are a believer in Jesus
Christ, the Bible encourages you
NOT to view your own death with
fear.” Christian Beliefs pg 109
“I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart
and be with Christ, for that is far better.” Philippians 1:23
“And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into
your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you,
today you will be with me in paradise.” Luke 23:42-43
28. When the Unsaved Die:
“When people who have rejected the claims of Christ die, their souls
go immediately to eternal punishment. But their bodies remain in
the ground until Christ’s return, when they will join their souls for the
final day of judgment.” Christian Beliefs pg. 110-111 (Rev 20:12, Hebrews 9:27)
29. When the Unsaved Die:
“When people who have rejected the claims of Christ die, their souls
go immediately to eternal punishment. But their bodies remain in
the ground until Christ’s return, when they will join their souls for the
final day of judgment.” Christian Beliefs pg. 110-111 (Rev 20:12, Hebrews 9:27)
30.
31. Jesus taught that the “coming back from the dead”
phenomenon doesn’t save people…
32. Jesus’ Parable of “The Rich Man and Lazarus”
“And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house—
for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come
into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the
Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if
someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him,
‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be
convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”
Luke 16:27-31
35. “Be encouraged, saints!”
• Your Father has every one of your days written in
His book! Ps 139:16
• Your Father considers the physical death of children
as “precious in His eyes!” Ps 116:115
36. “Be encouraged, saints!”
• Your Father has every one of your days written in
His book! Ps 139:16
• Your Father considers the physical death of children
as “precious in His eyes!” Ps 116:115
• Your Father dispatches His angels to deliver you
safely home! Luke 16:22
