The Hebrew and Greek words for salvation imply the ideas of deliverance, safety, preservation, healing, and soundness. Salvation is the great inclusive word of the Gospel gathering into itself all the redemptive acts and processes:
- 1. Justification – Declaration of righteousness.
- 2. Redemption – To buy back by paying a price.
- 3. Grace – God’s favor to mankind without merit.
- 4. Propitiation – To actually care for sin and appease God’s wrath
against sin.
- 5. Imputation – To reckon or put to the account of. Given or
imparted to.
- 6. Forgiveness – To absolve from sin and forget.
- 7. Sanctification – To set apart positionally and progressively in
behaviors.
- 8. Glorification – To perfectly conform the believer to God’s moral
attributes in the future.
Salvation is in three tenses:
- 1. The believer has been saved from the guilt and the penalty…
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