Officer Training

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church

Soteriology

The Doctrine of Salvation

What is Salvation?Being rescued from a dangerous or threatening situation.

There is a sense in which we were saved (from the foundation of the world); were being saved (by the work of God in history); are saved (by being justified); are being saved (by being sanctified); & will be saved (experiencing the consummation of our redemption in heaven). - RC Sproul

Redemptive-Historical Timeline

Election New Heaven & Earth

Creation

Adam’s Fall Atonement Ordo Salutis

The Ordo Salutis “Order of Salvation”

Election, Calling, Regeneration, Faith, Repentance, Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, Perseverance, Glorification

Eph. 1:3-14; Rom 8:29-30

Election = God’s choice

Historical Election - 1Sam 9:17, Jer. 1:5, Luke 6:13-16

Eternal Election - Eph. 1:4

Reprobation = the flip side of the Coin

Exod. 7:2-5

Rom. 9:9-24

Positive - Positive

Positive - Negative

Effectual CallingGod summoning his people into his fellowship, out of the darkness of sin.

Calling in General - 1Cor. 7:17

External Call - Matt. 20:16; 22:14

Internal Call - Rom. 1:6-7; 8:30; 11:29; 1 Cor. 1:2, 9, 24, 26; 7:18; Gal. 5:13; Eph. 1:18; 2 Thess. 2:13-14

Regenerationthe work of the Holy Spirit giving us new life out of spiritual death.

New Life - Eph. 2:1-10

New Birth - John 3:1-8

New Creation - 2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15

From Hearing the Word - 1Pet. 1:23

ReadingFrame, chs. 8, 13-17

Sproul, Sec. VI-VII

See Handouts.

Murray, John. Redemption Accomplished and Applied. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., © 2015

Sproul, R. C. Chosen By God. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., © 1994.