Romans 5.9-11
A. WE HAVE BEEN SAVED [9]
- The death of Christ
Rom 3.21-25a; 5.1
- Justification
An act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins,
and accepts us as righteous in his sight,
only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us,
and received by faith alone.
B. WE ARE BEING SAVED [10]
- The life of Christ
Rom 1.17; 6.4, 8, 11-13, 22-23
- Sanctification
The work of God’s free grace, whereby
we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God,
and are enabled more and more to die unto sin,
and live unto righteousness.
C. WE WILL BE SAVED [9-10]
An incomplete work here and now
Glorification
The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness,
and do immediately pass into glory;
and their bodies, being still united in Christ,
do rest in their graves, till the resurrection.
At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory,
shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment,
and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.
OUR RESPONSE? Joyful assurance! [11]
John Olson