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1. The Bible Christianity and How to be Saved 7.  Truths about Sanctification
2. The Provision for Salvation 8.  Biblical Sanctification and Erroneous Views
3. Repentance, Faith, and Adoption 9.  Suffering and Trials Acts 14:21,22
4. Justification by Faith   10.Spiritual Warfare Eph 6:10-18
5. Saved by Faith Alone 11.Salvation, and Eternal Security     
6. Regeneration - Born Again  12.What About Sin

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                                                        The Bible Christianity and Salvation

The Bible in Christianity depicts salvation in three ways. Justification, Regeneration, and Sanctification.

1. The key word in Justification is righteousness, we are not only forgiven, but also made right with Gods law. God sees you and I perfect in Christ. Justification in Christianity is just if you never sinned. Right with Him and His law and ourselves. It's more than just a judicial pardon. It's being in right relationship with the law we've broken. A judge in a criminal court can pardon a man for his crime, but not reinstate him into a position that declares him to have never committed a crime. You and I can never become more justified than when we first got saved though we can grow in grace. God has set us in right relationship with His law, now there is no condemnation, but also He makes us as a righteous person, and treats us as such.

Though the scripture says we wait for the hope of righteousness in the future God makes us a righteous person now. The word justify in the Gk means to be made just or righteous before God (Rom 5:18-19), to establish as right or to establish or put right.  

2. Regeneration - The Spirit of God changes us through faith, and repentance toward God. Its called a new birth depicting all things being new (2 Cor 5:17).

The old things have passed and all things are new. Only the power of God who created the heavens and the earth can create a whole new person. Not reformed or better but a whole new creature. The new birth depicts a household setting in that we have been accepted in the beloved. We are now sons and daughters of God, belonging to His household. He has put His Spirit in us that we now cry Abba Father for now He is our God and our father, and Jesus is our Lord, master and elder brother. We have been given new life, new senses, new affections, and appetites. We live as it were in a whole new world being made new in Christ by the Spirit of God.

3. Sanctification is first spoken of as a dedication and consecration or a setting apart for some specific and holy use. Also of cleansing and purging from moral defilement (2 Cor 6:17, and 1 John 1:7). We have been separated by the Blood of Christ, but there must be a continual cleansing by His Blood through the Word of God, and the Spirit of God (Tit 3:5, and Eph 5:26, 27). Sanctification is positional and progressive. We have been sanctified, and we are to sanctify ourselves. It will not be complete till we see Christ then we will be like Him.

Lev 20:26 Says that God had severed the Israelites to be His people that they might be a holy people. They had been separated by the Blood out of Egypt to be a holy people unto God. The desires that are contrary to holiness, and Gods will must be crucified, and dethroned (Gal: 516-17; James 1:14-18). (Rom 12:1-3) speaks of proving Gods will which is our reasonable service or worship, to offer ourselves up holy and acceptable unto God. The Israelites had been delivered out of Egypt which is a type of the world. Although they had been delivered out of Egypt, Egypt was still in there heart, and true worship comes from the heart. We have been cleansed and washed by the Blood and the Spirit,, but we must also apply the Blood of Christ personally in our lives and heart. In other words appropriate what's been done for us.

1 Cor 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. We can never be more right with God than when we first got saved, but we must grow in grace and work out our salvation with fear and trembling (Phil 2:12).

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.