Great Doctrines of Salvation
Mike Doyle · Aug 15, 2010
Great Doctrines of Salvation, No. 33
Holly Hills Bible Church
https://hollyhillsbiblechurch.org/teaching/messages/4926212391255

Transcribed from the recording by SermonAudio, so expect the occasional misheard word.

In the last couple of questions on salvation, do all believers share the same salvation? Do all believers share the same salvation? Yes. Really? There's no Republican or Democratic say to people? Yeah, we do. And not only that, if you have been saved 15 minutes and the person sitting next to you has been saved 50 years, there's no difference. There's no difference in terms of your salvation. Now, and this is the crux of what we'll talk about and I'll talk about this morning. The Bible talks about three phases of salvation.

What are they? Nice try, but that's wrong. You should read Marshbank's book and give it a basis. You missed something, didn't you? No. Anybody. Nobody read the book. Yeah, past, present and future. Your salvation is in three tenses. I see if I had said what are the three tenses of salvation, you would have got it, right? But I tricked you and said phases. So past, present and future, you could say we have been saved, we are being saved and we will be saved, right? That doesn't sound right. I thought I was saved. Your salvation. Everything. You think? But you're continually interceded for and guided and... Well that would be a present thing, right? Wouldn't that be a present thing? What about the past thing? What have you all been saved from already, done, finished?

The penalty of sin. Yeah, the penalty of sin. You're not going to have to pay the penalty, although you all deserve it. You're not going to have to pay the penalty. You have been saved from the wrath to come. Okay? Now, there's a present tense to salvation. We're being saved. What are we being saved from? The world?

The power of sin. Yeah, it's the power of sin. In 25 words or less, describe to me what the power of sin is. Notice the words just changed, by the way, from sins to sin. We're being saved presently from the power of the sin nature, the source of sin in you.

And as we move on in the weeks ahead, we're going to talk about What we know affectionately around here is identification truths, but the identification truths have to do with what God did about your sin nature and my sin nature, which is a power within you that is way stronger than your ability to overcome it. So we're in the process as we live here, before the Lord takes us home, of being freed from the power of sin. How's it going? Sometimes good, sometimes bad.

So, and then what will we be saved from in the future? You won't have to come to Sunday school class anymore. What will you be saved from in the future? The very presence. This sin nature that we all have? When you leave the planet and go to be with the Lord, guess what? No sin nature. How cool is that? Is that possible, probable, going to happen or what do you think? Absolutely. Have you ever entertained, maybe it's just my nutty mind, have you ever entertained the thought that for five minutes I would actually stand here and not be influenced or tempted by my sin nature?

That sin would not be an issue at all. There would be no propensity, there would be no temptation, there would be no environment in where sin exists at all. That's hard to fathom, isn't it? Well, maybe some of you haven't thought about it, so it isn't a big deal. So, the three tenses, past, present and future.

Marchbank says, looking at the past aspect of our salvation, he says, let us notice that we are said to be already saved in possession of eternal salvation, 2 Timothy 1.9, Titus 3.5-7. We who have been saved also have a present salvation from the snares of Satan, the allurements of the world, and the lusts of the flesh. What's interesting about the snares of Satan, the allurements of the world, and the lusts of the flesh, None of that would matter if you didn't have a sin nature that liked it. Does that make sense to you? If you don't have a sin nature, when we come back to rule and reign with the Lord in the Millennial Kingdom, there will still be sin natures in those people that live here.

But we won't ever be affected by any thought of sinning. Because we won't have a nature that wants it. And we won't be like Adam who was innocent and didn't really understand it. We will be holy. One of the definitions of holiness is to love the good and hate the evil. We will love good. We won't ever be tempted or tricked or anything like that. Okay? But we won't hate. What's that? But we won't hate. We will hate sin. We will hate sin with a divine...

With not the presence of it anymore? No, it'll be here. In the millennial kingdom it'll be here. Oh, yeah. But we won't think about it because it's not even in our head. Well, I don't know if they have a head. But we won't, you know what I'm saying, we won't be... You're still going to be a redhead later on. But it's not there, right?

Well, you'll have a glorified body. So then sin won't even be heading into our view. Say that again. Wait, gosh, I can't say it. You know, it won't be there. We won't even think about it. Oh, that's true. Because we are now separated from it. That's right. We won't at all.

We're eternal beings and we won't think the same. We won't act the same. Everything will be different. We won't be restricted because we're sons of God. We won't be restricted by materialism. So, it's going to be kind of cool. So, if we have a salvation, we must have a savior. Right? Who's he? the Lord Jesus Christ, right? So, why is he the only one who could be our Savior? Why is he the only one? Why couldn't it have been Vern? Because he died for our sins. So, Vern could have died for our sins too. Vern is not God.

Really? I hope he's listening. He will be probably. Why him? Why only him? He's God's only son. He's God's only son. Fully God, fully man. He's fully God and he's fully man. Why does it take a man to pay the penalty for our sin? Because it was man who sinned. Because it was man who did the sinning. God gave dominion over the creation to a man.

And when he falls, the whole creation falls with him. And Romans 5 law says that we all send an Adam. So God has these principles which we'll study over the next month or so. God has this principle in play that if he creates a man like Adam and makes him the head of the race, the federal head of the race, then what's true of him is going to be true of the whole race. So when Adam falls, ever come from him falls because they sin within him. Gee, that's not fair. How could God hold me responsible for what that idiot Adam did?

How could he? Well, first of all, he tells us that we sinned in him. I don't remember doing that. Do you? Here's the principle. Whatever Whatever the representative man does, you do. Haven't you ever entertained the thought, now if I was Adam, they wouldn't have gotten me. They wouldn't, you know, I would have told them to take a hike. I wouldn't, no way. You would have. Right, because it's not a sinful nature. No, it didn't have a sinful nature. Oh, okay, and the temptation? Yeah, why would you do it just like Adam did it? different than Adam. You'd have done exactly the same thing. Right? Adam didn't have the Schofield Bible. But it's also because of Eve tempting him and she said, come on along, I'll take that. It doesn't, it just says that she gave it to him and he ate it. It doesn't give you any more language than that. And then God blamed who for his fault? He didn't blame the woman. Who did he blame? He blamed God. You know that woman you gave me? Whose fault is that? It's your fault.

Now, the reason that's so important is because when Christ shows up on the scene, he is a new representative, federal head, unique man. He did not come from Adam's line. See that? Adam was not his father, so he does not have any of Adam's characteristics. He is his own new created man. Okay? He's the son of God, but he is the God-man. New kind of man. So he comes to the earth, he comes to the earth, and he is not from the Adamic line. He's a brand new kind of human being, never been on the planet before. Okay?

But he is a man, which is really important. So he goes through his life, he goes through his ministry, and then he goes to the cross. And when he's on the cross, here's what God does. He puts all of the sin of the first man on him. And he dies, because he was made sin for us. But he rises from the dead, which no other man had ever done, to a new kind of life, a brand new kind of life, newness of life, kainos, never been that kind of life around before. And here's this new resurrected federal head man. He satisfied God because he was a perfect sacrifice. He satisfied God because he was, or is, the son of God. And everything he did totally satisfied God about the sin issue. So God raises him from the dead.

The other cool thing he did was he took everybody in this room who believes in him and took your identification away from Adam and identified you with Christ. So you could say before you were saved, hey, my history goes back to the Garden of Eden. Because that's when humanity started. But once you're saved, how far back does your history go? Eternity.

Because you are no longer connected with Adam. You're no longer from his line. That's why it took this one unique man, Jesus Christ, to be the Savior. He's the only one who was qualified. And he's the only one you would ever want to be identified with going forward. unless you'd like to have a cleaned up pre-fall Adam doesn't sound like too safe a position to be in since he fell but in Christ there's no lack of security you can't change, go against what you are.

Everybody understand that? Okay. Okay, Hassan you're up. Okay, we have great acceptance and I guess that immediately because We have finished that first part of it. I'm grateful to stand before you this morning by the grace of the Lord to share together.

Our text is coming from the book of Romans, chapter 5, verses 1 to 11. And this text talks about the results of our salvation. The book of Romans, as we are aware, it is written by Apostle Paul, the servant of God. And the theme that runs through the whole book is the righteousness of God.

But to put this text into context, we have to know something. about the text. This book was written in 1857, and it is written to the Romans, to the people who were in Rome by then, and these people had not met Paul, and Paul had not visited them, but he writes this letter to them by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and he had heard about the believers who are in Rome so he's writing to them spiritual facts about them but when you read the book it will tell you not only to the Romans but this gospel, this epistle fits even to every believer who believes in Jesus Christ up to today. Why? Because in this book we have the identification truth for everybody who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are identified with Christ. In this book also, we know, we get to know who our God is through what is written in the book.

The epistle has, in each chapter, you find that it reveals from right chapter one to chapter 16, It develops, there is a theme that runs through that is the theme of God is righteousness. From chapter one, we are introduced to sin, how man is sinful before God, and out of that, man is helpless, he cannot get himself out of sin.

In chapter two and three, we are given, Paul brings unto us the propitiation for sin, what is fitting for the redemption of man. And then in chapter four, Christ was raised, and for our justification. Chapter five, where our text is coming from, we have peace with God through Christ, standing in grace and hope of the coming glory. In this chapter, Paul gives unto us, In this chapter, Paul gives unto us what, after being saved, after we have been justified, he gives unto us a package. And this package he gives unto us are the consequences of our justification. What he gives us in this chapter, in this chapter there are two parts. Part A, he gives us the consequences or the results of our justification.

Then Part B, he gives unto us the representatives of men. That is Adam and Jesus Christ. These are the representatives of men. And to both of them, he contrasts them from verses 12 to 19. But for our today's focus, we are going to focus on just the first part of the chapter, that is chapter 5, verse 1 to 11, the glorious results of justification.

We are going to discuss together. This morning, as it has been, it is a class whereby each one of us will be participating. But before that, let me give you just a view of those results. Let me just read through the results which are already in the text where we're going to read, just to get a prior view of what we are going to discuss.

One, in this chapter, Paul gives us and to us the first result, or the first consequence out of justification. Paul says that we have peace with God. Secondly, he also says that because of that, because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross, secondly, he says that we have a standing in grace before God. Then thirdly, he says that we have hope of the glorious glory of God which is coming.

The fourth one is we as children of God who have believed in Jesus Christ, we Presently, in the package, we have peace. This peace gives us patience. We are patient to go through all circumstances that may come in our lives. Why? Because we have hope before of the coming glory of our Lord. Then lastly, he says that in this text, he says that we have joy having received Jesus Christ as our Savior. Having had the justification of God, we have joy within us because of what the Lord dead on the cross. Those are the five benefits, the five results of our justification.

Now you allow me to proceed now to the question. Having had that prior introduction, I'll ask somebody to read for us. We'll take two translations. We'll read from verse one to verse Somebody read for us from verse 1 to verse 3. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance. Amen. Thank you.

A different version? Anybody with a different... Which version is that? That's the New American Standard. New American Standard. I have a totally different version because I have a Bible for dummies. I'm just going to read mine and see if it agrees. By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us, set us right with Him, make us fit for Him, We have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that's not all. We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that He has already thrown open His door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand, out in the wide open spaces of God's grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.

Thank you. Very different. What translation is it? It's called The Message. Okay. In the text we have just read, there are very, very important facts about us and about the package which I say that the Lord having justified us, we have it with us already.

One of the items in the package is he's talking about peace. Remember he is talking about peace, before bringing forth this item of peace, he has already said that we have been justified. Having been justified, that means that we all who believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior, there and then, once you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, before God, you are declared righteous. And when you are declared righteous before God, just by the fact that you have faith in what the Lord Jesus Christ did on the cross, the sacrifice which He offered because of our sins, because of your sins, He declares you righteous before Him by that fact. And the first item in our package is peace. What is peace with God, if we are to ask ourselves? The text is talking about peace. What is to have peace? What is peace with God?

Yes, Laura? Not having guilt or feeling guilty anymore. If you don't feel guilty anymore, then you're at peace with Him. Yes, not having guilt, you have peace with Him. Thank you. In verse 11, we've been reconciled. and that reconciled by God. So that's a change. And that we now see him as our father rather than judge, I think. Now we see him as a father that we can associate with. That's a big change from judge and fearful of God to one who loves us and we have this intimate relationship with.

That gives us peace. that we have been reconciled. By being reconciled, it means that reconciliation means that two parties were at first together, but because of something, they did what? They separated. Reconciled means that to bring back which was at first what? Together. So we have been reconciled. Thank you. Another view, another view.

What is peace with God? I think mine is, and I didn't read it, but mine is knowing that I'm not in control and I don't have to try to be, and God's going to take care of everything, and that's very peaceful for me. The sin issue's been resolved. The sin issue has been resolved. Thank you. All your contributions are good, but allow me just to get the point of one. Let us get to understand what is word mean in this context? This word, peace. What is peace in this context?

We have two kinds of peace when you get, let me say, you research on this term according to the context, you find that there is just the same word in Greek, the same word, eirene, it means peace. having peace with God, but you'll find that the same very word, it will mean the peace of God. In this context, this part of the scripture we have read, this peace, it is the peace we have, the peace, the peace of God, the peace, excuse me, Peace with God in this context is the peace we have as a result of what Christ Jesus did on the cross for us. Let somebody read for us the book of Romans 15, verses 13. 15, verse 13. Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Yes, you get the point there. The Lord God himself, by reconciling us to Jesus Christ, he himself gives us that peace. The peace we have as Christians is as a result of what God did for us on the cross through Jesus Christ.

It is not by any man's effort to have this peace, this reconciliation. It is not by any man's wisdom, but it's just God. It is the grace of God that he has given unto us this peace. Many people in the world, they are The peace with God, having peace with God. Many people have invented many, many, many, many things to try to cover up this peace, to cover up the gap which they have for this peace. This kind of peace, it is only God given. You cannot get it in education if you try to study more that you can get PhDs and whichever kind of education. You cannot get this kind of education It is only given by God.

Metaphorically, it is a peace of mind, the tranquility arising from the reconciliation with God, a sense of divine favor. This peace with God means that God has nothing against us, having been that he has put us into who? In this text, does it mean that when you do something wrong, you lose this peace? No. This peace is permanent. The peace between us who believe in Jesus Christ and God, it is permanent. It is not going to change. No matter what comes our way, when we fall sick, the peace will still remain there. When you sin, maybe you can lose the peace. The peace with God He has done it complete and it is already sealed that before God, all those who believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior, they have peace with God. What was the barrier that was hindering us? What was the enmity between us and God? Sin, as the elder was saying, the sin which we had from our, our ancestor Adam. That sin put us very far away from God. In fact, the Bible says in Romans chapter 3 verses 23 that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Before you know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you have nothing. You have nothing to know about the glory of God.

But by His grace, He has reconciled us to Himself. He has given unto us this peace that now we enjoy. This peace came just only because of what Christ did on the cross. It is not any man's effort. This peace comes just because God totally, God is sovereignty. God on his throne is fully satisfied by what Jesus Christ did on the cross. He is totally satisfied and that's why we have this peace. How did we get this peace? How did we get this peace? Faith. Faith? Faith. Faith. Yes. We get this peace by having faith in what? We can pray a lot. We can have a lot of sacraments. We can have this peace by maybe having technology. No? How? Yes, we have peace. We have faith.

In what do we have this faith? What is the subject of your faith? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. That is the subject of our faith. Once Jesus Christ is the center of your faith, once you embrace Him as You are only sacrifice. You are only atonement for your sin. There and then, before God, you have this faith. Jesus is the subject. He is the object of our faith.

Once you have faith in Jesus Christ as your Savior, by believing that He came, He died on the cross for my sins, for your sins. He died and He was buried. Three days, he rose again and he went, he's now alive, he's in heaven. And one day he will come back. When you believe that, you have this peace with God. This peace in this passage, it is, it is, it is only to those who are declared righteous before God.

When you read in verse, in In the book of Ephesians, chapter 2, verses 8 and 9. Please, let us read. Ephesians 2, 8 and 9. Yes, Bruce? I'm going to read it. Ephesians 2. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works. Least anyone should boast. Thank you. It is by the grace of God, through faith, that we have this peace with God. It is the grace of God. He's talking about grace in this text, in this verse.

It means that when you have faith, the faith, by the way, what is faith? We can talk about having faith, having faith. What is faith? Belief. Faith is belief? No, you have faith, you believe. Okay, thank you. Is there anybody with a different view? What is faith? Yes, Monique says that faith is belief.

Okay, unmerited, wait. That's grace. Oh, that's grace. Okay, forget it. Okay, faith. You told that you believe. What more can you say? Yes, faith is you believe. Trusting in what God said. Trust in what God is saying. You're right. And what he's done. And what he has done.

Just to trust in what God has done. So in Ephesians 2, he's saying that it is through faith, when you have faith in Jesus Christ, then his face is restored unto you. How did we get, of course now, when you go in the when you were reading you see that we have in the package one he has said that we have peace with God what is the second item according to the verse our text what is the second item in our package? patience patience? access okay he says that because we have peace with God, the second item in our package is that we have access into the grace of God. This is by grace, through faith that you have been what?

Accepted. Okay, then how did we get this access into His grace? The Bible. The Bible. The Bible. Yes, thank you, Alan. Through Christ himself. Through Christ himself that we can get access into the grace of who? Of God. By faith. By faith, we have access into the grace of God. The grace, grace, grace, grace. What is grace?

It's unmerited. Unmerited. Unlimited blessings from God. Unmerited. Based on the work of the cross. Thank you for pointing it out. Oh good. Two heads are better than one. I can see both of you. Stop it. You scare me up there. Yes. Oh, thank you. Grace. The unmerited. Unmerited. Unmerited. Unlimited. Unlimited blessings of God through the completed work of Christ on the cross. How did we get access into this grace?

It is just based on what Christ did on the cross. Once we have faith in what God provided, in what God offered for the redemption of mankind. Once you have faith, once I have faith, even those many people who are outside there who are seeking for peace, once they have faith, belief, trust in what God offered on the cross, they have peace with God. Let me ask, it is not on the paper, do you think this grace of God It is only for those who believe, or it is for the entire world, according to the text we have read. Is God gracious to the whole world, or is He only gracious to only those who have believed in what God did on the cross?

He extended blessings to all, but we have to accept it. Blessings to all, but we have to accept it. Yes? The grace that we have is very different than generic blessing. You know, the rain on the just and the unjust, for instance. What we have is not in the same league as that kind of blessing. So let me get you correct.

Are you meaning that the blessings or the grace we have, it is only for us who have believed? The one where we're reconciled forever and part of God's family, et cetera, et cetera, is for believers. For believers. So God's grace is only for believers, not for the entire world. Okay. Thank you. Is that okay?

The grace of God is for the believers, those who have believed in the work of God through Jesus Christ on the cross. That is what she has said, that it is only limited, the grace of God is limited to those who have believed. And Bruce said it is for the whole world. The grace of God is for the whole world, but only those who believe, okay? that only the ones that accept the word will believe it.

I mean he gives it to you, you don't have to take it. If you don't believe it you can say poof I don't want it. Let us get a view from our elder. I would say that you have to look at grace I think as an environment or a system that we live in and it isn't that we believe in if we don't believe, God doesn't extend his grace to us, because he does, he offers the grace. But you don't enter into the living environment of grace unless you believe. God is always acting in a gracious manner because of the cross, and he extends his grace by offering us salvation. By virtue of the fact that he just offers it, is gracious. But I don't, unless I appropriate it by faith, I don't get to live in it.

I hope that clarifies. Yes. Our time is up. Thank you. If you do not believe, then it will not be appropriate to you. But God has been merciful to the entire world. Through what Jesus Christ did, he is satisfied for the sin nature of man. And as he looks to those who have believed in Jesus Christ, we are all, by his grace, we are standing before him without any guilt, without anything to hinder the fellowship.

So now, for today, we have covered only three items. three items from our package. Remember, our package is from verse one to verse six. What are the benefits of justification of our salvation? Today we have covered one, we have said that we have peace with God. Two, we have said that we have access into the glory of, what was the second one? we get? How did we get this peace? How did we get this peace? By faith in Christ. Then the third one, we have said that it is by the grace of the Lord.

Okay. Hopefully next week, if I have that opportunity, we'll finish the whole packet. Thank you. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you this morning. Thank you for your Holy Spirit who has enabled us to know that it is only through Jesus that we are justified and we are given peace immediately as we believe in what he did on the cross. Thank you for these good words that you have enabled us to know today. We pray that your Holy Spirit remind us of who we are in thee. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.