THEOLOGY V: SALVATION WEEK ONE

THEOLOGY V: SALVATION WEEK ONE

INTRODUCTION This course offers a comprehensive study of salvation from election to glorification, including predestination, the decrees of God, regeneration, justification, sanctification, and the future consummation of salvation. The course links the study of salvation with Scripture s teaching on the church as a living and growing organism.

COURSE OBJECTIVES To explain and give the biblical basis for the doctrines of total depravity, imputation, election, regeneration, justification, sanctification, perseverance, and glorification. To explain from Scripture when the church was formed, the distinction between the local and universal church, and the various metaphors used to describe the church. To identify and discuss issues relevant to the organization, leadership, ministry, membership, discipline, ordinances, and worship of the local church. To grow in love and service of the church to the glory of God

MATERIALS

MATERIALS

MATERIALS

ASSIGNMENTS Read assigned sections of Systematic Theology and The Church 2 Reflection Papers- 500 words in length

SCHEDULE 4/20 Introduction to Soteriology; Predestination Nothing is Due 4/27 Salvation - Regeneration & Conversion Reading - Grudem ch. 32 (669-688); 34 (699-706); 35 (709-718) 5/4 Salvation - Sanctification & Glorification Reading - Grudem ch. 36 (722-733); 38 (746-759); 40 (788-807) Reflection Paper 1

SCHEDULE 5/11 Nature & Birth of the Church Reading - Dever, ch. 1-4; Grudem, ch. 47 (904-945); 48 (950-963) 5/18 Organization & Ordinances of the Church Reading - Dever, ch. 5-8 Reflection Paper 2 5/25 MEMORIAL DAY - No Class 6/1 Worship in the Church Reading - Grudem, ch. 49 (966-984); 50 (988-999); 51 (1003-1013)

OUR SALVATION REDEMPTION ACCOMPLISHED REDEMPTION APPLIED

THEOLOGICAL CATEGORIES Prolegomena (Introduction Material) Theology Proper (Triune God) Bibliology (The Bible) Christology (Jesus Christ) Pneumatology (Holy Spirit) Anthropology (Humanity) Hamartiology (Sin) Soteriology (Salvation) Ecclessiology (The Church) Eschatology (The Future)

HOW SOTERIOLOGY CONNECTS Who is God? What is sin? Why does sin need to be punished? Who needs to be saved? What kind of savior does there need to be? Who is Jesus? What did Jesus have to accomplish?

HOW SOTERIOLOGY CONNECTS Who is God? The Triune God What is sin? Personal disobedience Why does sin need to be punished? Holy God Who needs to be saved? Mankind What kind of savior does there need to be? Perfect and Righteous Who is Jesus? God-Man - hypostatic union What did Jesus have to accomplish? Atonement - penal substitution

SOTERIOLOGY: THE APPLICATION OF THE WORK THAT CHRIST ACCOMPLISHED ACCORDING TO GOD S PLAN FOR HIS OWN GLORY.

BEGINNING AT THE END Rom. 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! Rom. 11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? Rom. 11:35 Or who has given a gift to himthat he might be repaid? Rom. 11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF SALVATION Salvation is ALREADY NOT YET Salvation is PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL Salvation is PERSONAL AND COSMIC

SALVATION IS ALREADY NOT YET INAUGURATED ESCHATOLOGY Salvation that is ours in Christ now, yet there is more. Justified now, progressively sanctified. Now is = last days

SALVATION IS ALREADY NOT YET Rom. 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Rom. 5:9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. Rom. 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

SALVATION IS PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL EMBODIED SALVATION New bodies New Heavens and New Earth Eden but better Continuity and Improvement

SALVATION IS PERSONAL AND COSMIC EMBODIED SALVATION New bodies New Heavens and New Earth Eden but better Continuity and Improvement

SALVATION IS ALREADY NOT YET Rom. 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Rom. 8:19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. Rom. 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope Rom. 8:21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Rom. 8:22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. Rom. 8:23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

THE GOAL OF SALVATION IN AN ULTIMATE SENSE IS THE GLORY OF GOD.

SALVATION IS TO THE GLORY OF GOD Eph. 1:5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, Eph. 1:12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. Eph. 1:14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. Eph. 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, Eph. 1:18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

SALVATION IS TO THE GLORY OF GOD Phil. 2:9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, Phil. 2:10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, Phil. 2:11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

SALVATION IS TO THE GLORY OF GOD 1Cor. 15:20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 1Cor. 15:21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 1Cor. 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 1Cor. 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 1Cor. 15:24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 1Cor. 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 1Cor. 15:26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 1Cor. 15:27 For God has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when it says, all things are put in subjection, it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 1Cor. 15:28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

HOW DOES THE ATONEMENT OF JESUS APPLY TO US? HOW REDEMPTION IS APPLIED TO INDIVIDUALS

THE ORDO SALUTIS 1. ELECTION (God s choice of people to be saved) 2. THE EFFECTUAL CALL (proclaiming the message of the gospel) 3. REGENERATION (being born again) 4. CONVERSION (faith and repentance) 5. JUSTIFICATION (right legal standing) 6. ADOPTION (membership in God s family) 7. SANCTIFICATION (right conduct of life) 8. PERSEVERANCE (remaining a Christian) 9. GLORIFICATION (receiving a resurrection body) Grudem, Systematic Theology, 669.

EVENTS OF THE ORDO BEFORE TIME (ETERNITY PAST) 1. ELECTION AT ONE TIME, IN HISTORY -THE ATONEMENT EVERY BELIEVER S EXPERIENCE 2. THE EFFECTUAL CALL (proclaiming the message of the gospel) 3. REGENERATION (being born again) 9. GLORIFICATION (receiving a resurrection body) Frame, Salvation Belongs to the Lord, 176-77.

HOW TO ANSWER? QUESTION DID GOD HAVE TO SEND JESUS TO DIE FOR OUR SINS? Murray, Redemption Accomplished, ch. 1.

THE BIBLE TEACHES GOD IS LOVE JOHN 3:16 ROMANS 5:8 ROMANS 8:29 ROMANS 8:31, 32

THE BIBLE TEACHES GOD IS SOVEREIGN LOVE EPHESIANS 1:4-5

A BETTER QUESTION DID GOD HAVE TO SAVE? JOHN 3:14-18

A BETTER QUESTION WHY THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS? HEBREWS 1:1-3 HEBREWS 2:9-18 HEBREWS 9:9-14 HEBREWS 9:22-28

A BETTER QUESTION THE SUPREME COST SHOWS THE SUPREME LOVE 1 JOHN 4:10

A BETTER QUESTION THE SUPREME COST SHOWS GRAVITY OF SIN DEUTERONOMY 27:26 NAHUM 1:2 HABAKKUK 1:13 ROMANS 1:17; 3:21-26 GALATIONS 3:10, 13

THE ORDO SALUTIS 1. PREDESTINATION (God s choice of people to be saved) 2. THE GOSPEL CALL (proclaiming the message of the gospel) 3. REGENERATION (being born again) 4. CONVERSION (faith and repentance) 5. JUSTIFICATION (right legal standing) 6. ADOPTION (membership in God s family) 7. SANCTIFICATION (right conduct of life) 8. PERSEVERANCE (remaining a Christian) 9. DEATH (going to be with the Lord) 10. GLORIFICATION (receiving a resurrection body) Grudem, Systematic Theology, 669.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT - HOMEWORK Read Grudem ch. 32 (669-688); 34 (699-706); 35 (709-718). REFLECTION PAPER Reflection Paper ONE: - How does Humans Depravity Relate to Predestination - What is the doctrine of Predestination? - What is the best argument for and against Double Predestination?

THEOLOGY V: SALVATION WEEK ONE