Salvation - Bible Study

Salvation

Great Truths of the bible, Dr. Alan B. Stringfellow

Key Statements

The only way to become a Christian is to become born again.

Salvation is a free gift of a Holy God to a sinful world.

It is an act of faith and not of works.

Church membership is not salvation but the result of salvation.

Salvation is the work of God by which He saves man from the eternal doom of sin.

A. Salvation: The external purpose of God

Ephesians 1:4 NRSV

just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.

Ephesians 4:31–32 NRSV

31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32 and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

1 Peter 1:20 NRSV

20 He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.

Titus 1:2 NRSV

in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began—

2 Timothy 1:9 NRSV

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

Titus 2:11 NRSV

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,

Romans 5:8 NRSV

But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.

1 John 4:9 NRSV

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

B. Salvation before and after the cross

Romans 3:25 NRSV

whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to show his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;

Genesis 3:15 NRSV

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Genesis 22:8 NRSV

Abraham said, “God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.

Acts 17:30 NRSV

While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Hebrews 10:12–14 NRSV

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the right hand of God,” and since then has been waiting “until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.” For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

John 1:29 NRSV

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

C. The price paid for salvation

Romans 8:11 NRSV

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

John 3:16 NRSV

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

1 Peter 3:18 NRSV

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

Matthew 26:28 NRSV

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

D. Salvation from the penalty of sin

2 Corinthians 5:21 NRSV

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Ephesians 4:31–32 NRSV

Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

2 Peter 3:9 NRSV

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

E. Salvation from the power of sin

Romans 6:14 NRSV

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Hebrews 9:25 NRSV

Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Holy Place year after year with blood that is not his own;

1 John 2:1 NRSV

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

Romans 8:1 NRSV

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:2–3 NRSV

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Romans 8:26–27 NRSV

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

1 John 5:20 NRSV

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

F. Salvation from the presence of sin

Hebrews 9:28 NRSV

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

1 Peter 1:4–5 NRSV

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 John 3:2 NRSV

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.

Ephesians 2:8–9 NRSV

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast.

Romans 6:23 NRSV

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 1:12 NRSV

But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,

1 John 1:9 NRSV

If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

G. Questions/Further Thoughts