The Baptist Faith and Message
IV. Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption or the whole man, and
is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and
Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption
for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes
regeneration, sanctification, and glorification.
A. Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God's
grace whereby believers become new creatures in Christ
Jesus. It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit
through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in
repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Repentance and faith are inseparable experiences of
grace.
Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God.
Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of
the entire personality to Him as Lord and Saviour.
Justification is God's gracious and full acquittal upon
principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent
and believe in Christ. Justification brings the believer
into a relationship of peace and favor with God.
B. Sanctification is the experience, beginning in
regeneration, by which the believer is set apart to God's
purposes, and is enabled to progress toward moral and
spiritual perfection through the presence and power of the
Holy Spirit dwelling in him. Growth in grace should
continue throughout the regenerate person's life.
C. Glorification is the culmination of salvation and is
the final blessed and abiding state of the redeemed.
Gen. 3:15; Ex.
3:14-17; 6:2-8; Matt.
1:21; 4:17; 16:21-
26; 27:22 to 28:6;
Luke 1:68-69; 2:28-32;
John 1:11-14, 29;
3:3-21, 36;
5:24; 10:9,
28-29; 15:1-16;
17:17; Acts
2:21; 4:12; 15:11;
16:30-31; 17:30-31;
20:32; Rom.
1:16-18; 2:4; 3:23-25;
4:3 ff.; 5:8-10;
6:1-23; 8:1-18,
29-39; 10:9-10,
13; 13:11-14;
1 Cor. 1:18, 30;
6:19-20; 15:10;
2 Cor. 5:17- 20;
Gal. 2:20; 3:13;
5:22-25; 6:15;
Eph. 1:7; 2:8-22;
4:11- 16; Phil.
2:12-13; Col. 1:9-22;
3:1 ff.; 1
Thess. 5:23-24; 2 Tim.
1:12; Titus 2:11-14;
Heb. 2:1-3; 5:8-9;
9:24-28; 11:1
to 12:8; 14; James
2:14-26; 1 Peter
1:2-23; 1 John
1:6 to 2:11; Rev. 3:20;
21:1 to 22:5.
Reprinted from the Baptist Faith and Message Tract (Stock
Number 11-051). Published by the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention, Nashville, Tennessee:
Tract Editor
Baptist Sunday School Board
127 Ninth Avenue, North
Nashville, Tennessee 37203