BIBLE STUDY-10

Peace Methodist Church

BIBLE STUDY-10

 

Salvation(4) - Key Words

 

◎ Trinity

The knowledge of the Three-One God is interwoven with all true Christian faith, with all vital religion.

 

◎ Grace

To retain the grace of God is much more than to gain it hardly one in three does this.

 

◎ Sin

No man sins because he has not grace, but because he does not use the grace which he has.

 

◎ Faith

Christian faith is not only an assent to the whole gospel of Christ, but also a full reliance on the blood of Christ, a trust in the merits of his life, death, and resurrection; a recumbency on him as our atonement and our life, as given for us, and living in us.

 

◎ Repentance

Repentance frequently means an inward change, a change of mind from sin to holiness. But we now speak of it in a quite difference sense, as it is one kind of self-knowledge, the knowing ourselves sinners, guilty, helpless sinners, even though we know we are children of God.

 

◎ Justification

God justifies not the godly, but the ungodly; not those that are holy already, but the unholy.

 

◎ New Birth

The new birth is about an inward thing; a change from inward wickedness to inward goodness; an entire change of our inmost nature from the image of devil to the image of God.

 

◎ Sanctification

Sanctification is in some degree the immediate fruit of justification. It implies what God works in us by the Holy Spirit.

 

◎ Perfection

Christian perfection is that loving God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. This implies that no wrong temper, non contrary to love, remains in the soul; and that all the thoughts, words, and actions are governed by pure love.

 

◎ Salvation

Salvation is the entire work of Triune God, from the first dawning of grace in the soul till it is consummated in glory.

 

◎ Methodist Identity

Methodism is the religion of the Bible, the religion of the primitive Church. The essence of it is holiness of heart and life.

 

[All quotations from the Works of John Wesley]

 

◁Amazing Grace▷

Amazing grace,

How sweet the sound!

That saved a wretch like me.

I once was lost,

but now I am found!

Was blind, but now I see.