14.2 Salvation (including adoption, sanctification, perseverance of the saints)

Question 1

Justification?

Answer 1

1. Reckon our sins to Christ (2 Cor. 5:21)
2. Reckon Christ’s righteousness to us (Heb. 10:14)

Question 2

Adoption

Answer 2

1. God adopting believers into his family as his children (John 1:12).
2. become joint heirs with Christ (Rom 8:14-17).

Question 3

Sanctification?

Answer 3

1. gradually growing into the image of Christ (Rom. 8:29; Heb. 10:14)
2. Good works are the fruit of a new creation not the precondition for it (Eph. 2:10)

Question 4

Perseverance of the Saints?

Answer 4

All who have been chosen in Christ and converted will persevere in their faith as to never permanently fall away (Rom. 8:29-30; Eph. 1:13; 1 Peter 1:5; John 10; Col. 1:23)