The Gift of Salvation – 8. Perseverance, death and Glorification

The Gift of Salvation – 8. Perseverance, death and Glorification

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In this blog we will be briefly looking at the last three stages in the Order of Salvation.

i) Perseverance

If you are a Christian, you will persevere. A Christian is someone that remains faithful to Jesus throughout his or her life. This does not preclude moments of doubt and sin on the journey, but they always come back to Jesus.

‘The perseverance of the saints means that all those who are truly born again will be kept by God's power and will persevere as Christians until the end of their lives, and that only those who persevere until the end have been truly born again.’ (Wayne Grudem)

As Charles Spurgeon has said,

‘We believe in the perseverance of the saints, but many are not saints, and therefore do not persevere’. 

ii) Death

Death is an experience that we will all go through. Death for humans is the result of the Fall of Adam. As Christians we look forward to a day when death will be destroyed forever. As Paul says,

‘The last enemy to be destroyed is death.’ (1 Cor. 15:26)

We have great hope: death is the passing through of a doorway into the presence of God; it is to hold no fear for those who have received Jesus as Lord and Saviour. As the writer to the Hebrews said,

'Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death – that is, the devil –  and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.' (Heb. 2:14-15)

iii) Glory

Glory is the last stage in the Order of Salvation. Christians are looking forward to the glory of God: they will see His glory, and they will experience His glory as they themselves are perfected.

This glorification will only be complete when Jesus returns and gives every Christian a renewed heavenly body in which they will serve Him, eternally, in a new heavens and new earth.

As we began these blogs, let’s end with a quote from Paul and a comment by John Piper,

Romans 8:30 ‘those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.’

John Piper wrote about this, ‘What’s the point of a chain of statements like this? The point is certainty and confidence and assurance and security. The point is that God is the one who saves his people, really saves them. He does not just offer salvation, he saves them. From beginning to end he is the One who decisively and infallibly acts so that not one of his own is lost. The point is that the chain cannot be broken: all the foreknown are predestined; all the predestined are called; all the called are justified; and all the justified are glorified. The point is to guarantee that everyone in the chain will reach the goal of glory!’

I hope that you are enjoying The Gift of Salvation. I hope you see God’s grace in you in the past and present and are believing His grace for the future. Be encouraged, be comforted, be inspired to press on to ever deeper joy and fruitfulness for our great God and Saviour.

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