Message 7: God’s Complete Salvation Having Two Aspects—
The Judicial Aspect and the Organic Aspect
IV. The organic aspect of God’s salvation
D. For the believers to be:
1. Regenerated—John 3:6b; 1 Pet. 1:23
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
1 Peter 1:23 Having been regenerated not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding word of God.
2. Shepherded—John 10:10b–11, 14, 16
John 10:10–11 The thief does not come except to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and may have it abundantly. 11 I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
John 10:14 I am the good Shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me.
John 10:16 And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must lead them also, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.
3. Sanctified dispositionally—Rom. 15:16; 6:22; 1 Thes. 5:23
4. Renewed—Eph. 4:23
Ephesians 4:23 And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
5. Transformed—Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18
Romans 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.
6. Built up—Eph. 4:16; 1 Pet. 2:5
Ephesians 4:16 Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.
1 Peter 2:5 You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
7. Conformed—Rom. 8:29
Romans 8:29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.
8. Glorified—Rom. 8:30
Romans 8:30 And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Read over the outline points and verses above and use a few of these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.
Later, watch the following short video podcast sometime during the day.