Thread: What is the Order of Salvation and why is it important?
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What is the Order of Salvation and why is it important?
Posted : 7 Aug, 2011 11:23 AM
What does �ordo salutis� mean, and why is it important?
�Ordo salutis� is a Latin term which means �the order of salvation�. It speaks of a way of organizing all the events and realities in the process of salvation, in the order that they show up in an individual's life. This order is sometimes temporal (e.g., we are justified a certain amount of time before we are glorified in the eternal state); but sometimes it is just logical, or causal (e.g., we exercise faith as soon as God gives us a new birth, but his regeneration is the cause of our faith). The �ordo salutis� is a very important concept because the doctrine of salvation is so rich and nuanced, and involves so many different realities, that we will not understand it the way that we should if we do not define all of its elements very carefully. We grow in sanctification and holiness as we grow in our understanding of the gospel, and realize all the spiritual blessings that we have in Christ; and so, if we are unclear on the many precious things that God's Word has to say about the order of events which his salvation brings about in our lives, we will remain immature in our faith and conduct.
A simple �ordo salutis� is as follows: the first event that had to take place for us to be saved is God's unconditional love and election of us in eternity past. Then, God sent us an outward call at some point in our lives, or in other words, he brought the message of the gospel across our paths, either through the reading or the hearing of the word. Next, he gave an inward call, through the prompting of the Holy Spirit, which regenerated, or brought to life our previously dead hearts. Because of this regeneration, we experienced conversion, that is, repentance from our sin and faith in Christ. Then, in consequence of our faith, we are justified, that is, God legally declares us righteous, by imputing or reckoning Jesus' perfect righteousness to our own account. At the same time, God adopts us, making us his children and the brothers and sisters of Christ; and he also unites us with Christ, so that henceforth we are in him. Beginning at that point, and on throughout our lifetime, God sanctifies us, or makes us holy, changing us into his likeness. Throughout this time, God is also preserving us, causing us to persevere in the faith, so that we do not finally fall away. Then, at death, we enter an intermediate state, where we are in the presence of the Lord, but without our physical bodies. And finally comes glorification, when our bodies will be resurrected and changed so that they will no longer decay, and we will inherit the new heavens and new earth, where we will live in the presence of our Immanuel for all eternity.
What is the Order of Salvation and why is it important?
Posted : 8 Aug, 2011 08:18 AM
PhillipJohn,
Thats great PhillipJohn. I see now you are even foregoing the use of adverbs. Here is a thought...... Just don't reply at all. None of your replies make sense or are ever supported by Scripture and reasoning. I will make you a deal, I won't ever talk about your teacher Charles Finney, and you quit your inane comments.
What is the Order of Salvation and why is it important?
Posted : 8 Aug, 2011 10:15 AM
Number one James my statement is clearly supported by scripture and a man's denial, never changes the truth.
Regeneration prior to faith is not of faith, but the opinion of man and their is no faith in that.
The tulip is not of faith, it is clearly again the opinion of man based upon some theory's, and faith does not come from theory, it comes from the word of God when one denies the word of God in context they are denying the father, the son and the holy spirit.
Abraham is our father of faith, our example as the bible teaches, a man not born again, but under the law of sin and death, that believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness, I have posted this several times and you have ignored it every time. My motive is never of contention, but that you would come into agreement with the word of God, and be free free from the law of sin and death.
I never said I followed Charles Finney, you say that and thus it becomes your sin, in that you bear FALSE WITNESS AGAINST ME. I posted a few articles on Charles Finney simply because he came out of a reformers church and was born again, when he accepted the word of God and acted upon it, and then that same church came together and started talking about what had happened to him, and ultimately inquired of him concerning the scriptures, they realized the error of the false doctrine, and almost every one of them came into faith and accepted the lord Jesus and where born again, because the error will not bring regeneration to men and then faith.
I have also brought out the parable of the sower many times every time you have ignored it, for it totally contradicts the tulip and all that it says. the kingdom operates on that which Jesus taught in the parable of the sower. the process of faith and it is not a gift as some try to proclaim.
James my and the lord's desire is that you would come into the faith of the word of God always.
