SALVATION SERIES: Part 20 - The Order of Salvation

OUTLINE:

A Little Walk, a Little Encouragement (blog 6/10/22)
God designed the Body of Christ to be knit together in the sphere of love. The Word of God is the object of our fellowship. “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105). “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly” (Colossians 3:16a).

Heb 4:12 [Amplified Classic]
For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the [a]breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.

2Ti 3:16-17 [Amplified Classic]
Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action), So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Rev 3:18 [Amplified Classic]
Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.

Ro 10:17 [Amplified
Classic] So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).

Is 32:17 [Amplified Classic]
And the effect of righteousness will be peace [internal and external], and the result of righteousness will be quietness and confident trust forever.

Unrighteousness = Sin = Discord
What we've learned is that peace is the result of our Lord's promise to give it ("My peace I leave with you" - Jn 14:27). However, we've also learned that such promises are conditioned, experientially, upon our obedience (Ps 112:1; Pr 16:7; Jn 13:17; Jas 1:25; 2Jn 1:6).

“the peaceful fruit of righteousness”
Peace is a function of righteousness. Righteousness is a function of obedience of faith (both at salvation, when it is imputed, and experientially, when it is imparted). Peace reigns in the heart and soul of God.

Finding Peace
If you want more peace in your life, then be a better listener!

“implanted”
from emphutos – means properly, implant, bring into living union like with a successfully engrafted shoot

An obedient person is a blessed person.

Joh 3:5
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water [ref: washing of the Word] and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”

Tit 3:5
he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,


The Golden Chain of Salvation – Sproule
“Augustine of Hippo comments on today’s passage that ‘God elected believers in order that they might believe, not because they already believed.’ God's choice of us precedes in every sense our choice of Him.”

The Golden Chain of Salvation – Sproule
“If the Lord had not chosen us, we never would have chosen to believe in Him, and because He chose His people without any view to their own merits or choices, His people will certainly believe. His predestination of us means we are His forever.”

Jn 3:18
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Is 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Man ought NEVER, EVER suppose he can tell God about God’s business.