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Soteriology
The Vocabulary Of Salvation.
a) It is not a “blind leap into the dark.”
b) It is not supposition.
c) It is not speculation.
d) It is not opinion or hypothesis.
2) What it is. Saving faith is a voluntary and sincere decision to turn from believing in anything
else and simply and only believing in Jesus the Saviour. Everyone has “faith” in everything.
The believer must have faith only in Jesus Christ!
3) The sinner is saved by faith (Rom. 5:1; Eph. 2:8,9).
4) The saint is sanctified (grows in grace) by faith. Thus, by faith:
a) We live (Rom. 1:17).
b) We stand (2 Cor. 1:24).
c) We walk (2 Cor. 5:7).
d) We fight (1 Tim. 6:12).
e) We overcome (1 Jn. 5:4).
c. We have now seen both sides of the coin of conversion. Repentance is a turning from sin, and
faith is a turning to Christ. Paul includes both concepts during his farewell message to the
Ephesian elders. “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God,
and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21).
d. How conversion is produced.
C. Substitution.
1) “So, then, faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17).
2) Here Paul is saying that faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes
through preaching Christ.
3) Why conversion is so necessary. “But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him” (Heb. 11:6).
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to
God” (1 Pet. 3:18).
1. substitution. In Old Testament times, prior to Calvary, the died for the
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a. “And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the
Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And
he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that
thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham
lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son”
Gen. 22:10-13).
b. “Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall
take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house . . .
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole congregation
of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side
posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it” (Ex. 12:3-7).
c. “For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the
Lord. And the blood shall be to you a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the
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