Lesson 4 THREE ASPECTS OF SALVATION
Lesson 4 THREE ASPECTS OF SALVATION
Lesson 4 THREE ASPECTS OF SALVATION
( PRE-ENCOUNTER LESSON 4)
I. JUSTIFICATION
“Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be
saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on
knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish
their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. Christ is the end of the law so that there may be
righteousness for everyone who believes.
Romans 10:1-4
God’s justification of us is through our faith in Jesus Christ, not through efforts to do good.
Righteousness is God’s gift that can be received only through His Son.
This aspect of salvation is instantaneous. Once we accept Christ, immediately we are forgiven,
saved, received eternal life, justified and united with God. We are saved 100 percent through
faith.
“This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who
believe;”
Romans 3:22
“Therefore since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ,”
Romans 5:1
2. Sanctification
This is a process of change that starts from within. Sanctification is not instantaneous
but gradual. We are indeed saved from sin, the devil and hell but we still need to be transformed from
our wrong deeds, thoughts and motives.
“Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will
and to act according to his good purpose”.
Philippians 2:12-13
To be born again is instantaneous. To grow and mature is a process and would take time.
III. GLORIFICATION
“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord
Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform
our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.”
Philippians 3:20-21
“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the
voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After
that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever”.
I Thessalonians 4:16-17
Those who are justified by Christ must remain pure in order to go with Christ when He
returns (Titus 2:11-13). For without holiness, no one will see the Lord (Hebrews 14:12).
“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made
known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.”
I John 3:2-3