Category: Soteriology,
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Perseverance in Good Works
DIVINE JUDGMENT By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God, who will repay everyone according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honour, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath and fury…
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Put On the Lord Jesus Christ
SALVATION Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the…
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Put On the New Self
JUSTIFICATION & SANCTIFICATION Create a clean heart in me, O God:and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me not away from thy face;and take not thy holy spirit from me.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation,and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.Psalm 50, 12-14 You should put away the old self of your former…
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Set Your Mind on Things Above
JUSTIFICATION & SANCTIFICATION If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above,where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above,not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.When Christ who is our life appears, then…
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That We Might Be Justified by His Grace
SANCTIFICATION & JUSTIFICATION But when the kindness and generous love of God our savior appeared,not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy,he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,whom he richly poured out on us through Jesus Christ our savior, so thatwe might…
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The Word Is Near You
FAITH But what does Scripture say? “The word is near, in your mouth and in your heart.” This is the word of faith, which we are preaching.Romans 10:8 In Romans 10:8, the phrase “The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart” conveys a profound message about the accessibility of faith in…
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There Is No Partiality with God
JUSTIFICATION … There is no partiality with God. Judgment by the Interior Law. All who sin outside the law will also perish without reference to it, and all who sin under the law will be judged in accordance with it. For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight…
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We Are the Aroma of Christ
SALVATION “For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.2 Corinthians 2, 15 In the Catholic context, 2 Corinthians 2:15, which states, “for we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved,” can be understood as deeply connected…
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You Are Sanctified, You Are Justified
JUSTIFICATION & SANCTIFICATION And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified,but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,and the Spirit of our God.1 Corinthians 6, 11 The passage from 1 Corinthians 6:11 highlights a transformative journey for believers, emphasizing the concepts of being washed, sanctified,…
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You Have Been Saved through Faith
Salvation For by grace, you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God.It is not from works so that no one may boast, for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesusfor the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in…
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