This is the final stage of the overall salvation process. As with justification, this also happens in an instant. It occurs after we have died (for most of us). However, those of us who are alive on the earth at the point of the rapture, …
Read MoreStage two of salvation – “sanctification”
Sanctification means the long, slow process of us actually being made more holy and less sinful in practice. It begins at the point when we are justified and forgiven. It then continues until we die. Sanctification is very different from justification. Sanctification means the gradual and …
Read MoreStage one of salvation – “justification”
Justification takes place in an instant at the very beginning of our Christian life. That is at the point at which we are forgiven and born again. At that moment we are reclassified and viewed differently by God. We are suddenly deemed, or considered, to …
Read MoreThe three stages or tenses of salvation: Justification, then sanctification, then glorification
The three stages of salvation – indicating that salvation is more a process than an event. We have just spent a lengthy chapter seeking to reconcile what the Bible says about assurance of salvation with the warnings given about the danger of losing our salvation. That would all …
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