Ordo Salutis

Above is a handout I just finished for the Women of Legacy. If you click on the picture above, it will make it much bigger. This chart goes with my teaching on Ephesians 1:3-6. I will be bringing up the ordo salutis or the order of salvation in the teaching.

Salvation is instantaneous, but there is a causal order .Though the benefits of our salvation cannot really be separated, it is helpful to distinguish what they are. This is not a chronological order per say, but the quote-unquote "order of salvation" happens simultaneously like heat and fire. (see Monergism.com)

• · The result of our election (or God's choosing of all who would be saved apart from our faith) is first regeneration (regeneration is the work of the Holy Spirit which brings us into a living union with Christ opening our spiritual eyes and renewing our affections… this is the effectual call of a believer unto salvation. This is not a general call in the proclamation of the Gospel, but a specific calling that literally raises us from the spiritually dead to spiritually alive. Apart from this call, we have no ability, just like Lazarus, to raise ourselves from the dead. "Regeneration is a temporal [in time] manifestation of the eternal election.... Regeneration applies in time what God has ordained in eternity... [and] is the 'hinge' of God's redemptive purpose."-Jeremy Clark, Elder of Legacy Baptist Church)
• · The result of our regeneration is faith/repentance (Faith is Belief and trust in the message of the Gospel (Ephesians 2:8-9) and is an effect of election rather than the cause of it, while repentance is Changing one's mind from rejection of Christ to faith in Christ (Acts 26:20). This repentance is far more than remorse. It is a complete change of thought and action towards sin)
• · The result of faith is justification (God's freeing of one from the penalty of sin - the pronouncement of "not guilty" on a sinner (Romans 5:9) "To the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness" -Rom. 4:5).
• · The result of justification is adoption (adoption gives us the privileges of being a child of God and makes us joint heirs with Christ. It is, then, our faith that brings us into the realization that we are adopted and set free from the bondage of the law.
• · The result of adoption is sanctification (this once for all time sanctification is God's separation of the true beleiver from the lure of sin (2 Timothy 2:21)
• · The complexion of sanctification is perseverance; (This complexion of Sanctification includes both the initial once and for all sanctification or separation from the lure of sin and the ongoing process of being sanctified where we fight, and watch and pray and strive and labor toward holiness for God’s glory knowing that this labor is not in vain as it is God’s work within us that causes us to grow in His grace and knowledge as we strive knowing that while on earth this process prepares us to enjoy heaven where this work will be perfected. Yep, run-on sentence big time)
• · and the reward of perseverance is glorification God's final removal of all sin from the life and presence of one (in the eternal state) (Romans 8:18; 2 Corinthians 4:17).

Please take the time to look up the Scriptures I have provided on the handout that will help you in further understanding this beautiful work of salvation. Seeking to understand this will help you give God the glory for His election, because it resulted in your faith. Otherwise, you will take credit for your faith and will have reason to glory in yourself and become prideful....

You can find the mp3 teaching for Lesson 2 that this post goes with at my pastor's blog here: Titus 1:9 Blog