The Scripture teaches that because of the problem of sin man is in need of salvation.[1] Because the justice of God must be satisfied and because man is unable to satisfy that justice, it was necessary for God to act for man to provide for that salvation.[2] All three persons of the Godhead are active in providing and securing our salvation. The Father chose, foreknew, predestined, and called those to be saved.[3] The Son became incarnate, lived sinlessly in complete obedience to the Father, and died and rose again; thus, he provided for propitiation, reconciliation, and redemption.[4] The Spirit convinces the unsaved so they will believe and be saved.[5] Man must believe what God requires, trusting him, in order to be saved.[6] Nevertheless, in no way is salvation synergistic, for salvation is wholly by the grace of God through faith.[7]

At the time of salvation the believer gets certain things that mark him as saved. Thus, the believer (in this dispensation) is justified, forgiven, removed from condemnation, regenerated, redeemed, reconciled, glorified, sanctified, indwelt by the three persons of the Godhead, sealed, baptized into Christ, given a spiritual gift, made alive spiritually, given eternal life, made a child of God, and placed as a son.[8] In addition to these things, certain benefits are made available to the believer. Thus, the believer (in this dispensation) is able to address the Father, to be filled by the Spirit, to produce the fruit of the Spirit, to walk by the Spirit, to abide in Christ, to serve God, and to do many other things because of his new standing.[9] After death, the believer (in this dispensation) departs to be with Christ, awaits the resurrection, and then together, with raptured believers and ultimately with all the members of God’s family, begins to experience those things God has planned as part of the future aspect of salvation.[10]

[1]	Rom 5:12; Col 2:13
[2]	Rom 3:24; 5:16,18
[3]	Eph 1:14; Rom 8:29,30
[4]	John 1:1,14; Rom 5:6-8; 4:25; 1Jn 2:2
[5]	John 16:8-11
[6]	1Cor 15:1,2; Rom 4:3
[7]	Rom 4:5; Eph 2:8,9
[8]	Rom 5:1; Eph 1:7; Rom 8:1; Tit 3:5; Rom 3:24; Col 1:21,22; Rom 8:30; 1Cor 1:2; Eph 4:6; John 14:20; Rom 8:9; Eph 1:13; 1Cor 12:13; Rom 12:4,5; Eph 1:5; John 3:36; Rom 8:16,17; Eph 1:5
[9]	Eph 2:18; 5:18; Gal 5:22,23; 5:16; John 15:7; Rom 12:1, 1Th 1:9
[10]	2Cor 5:8; 1Th 4:13-17; Eph 2:7; Phil 3:20,21

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