They Will Know we Are Christians Because we know the Plan 2.4.2024

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Plan of Salvation

Saving Faith is a process of our will submitting in obedience to God through Jesus Christ.

John 3:16 ESV
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

We (as opposed to Calvinism) believe and teach that the human will, though fallen, can still respond to the convicting power of the Holy Spirit in Faith.

Our understanding of the Biblical Plan of Salvation is that there are several steps, culminating in the New Birth in Which God gives His Holy Spirit to the believer

The Steps

Hear

Romans 10:17 ESV
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Believe

Acts 16:31 ESV
31 And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Repent

Acts 2:38 ESV
38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 3:19 ESV
19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

Confess

Romans 10:9 ESV
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
1 John 1:9 ESV
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Baptism

Acts 2:38 ESV
38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 22:16 ESV
16 And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

Every other Conversion in the Book of Acts and assumed in every Epistle.

Living the Regenerate life.

1 John 1:7 ESV
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Thoughts about this Plan

Logical (synecdoche), synthetic, Christ focused.

It is not works based. Even Baptism is a submitted act of obedience and apart from the rest of the process, of no independent value.

It appeals to the whole person. Intellect, Emotion, and Will.

It is Biblical and “universal”.

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