its one side and three branches

"Three Dimensional Salvation" {Rom8:29}
* Intro
- Nature of Universe is triune (gas/liquid/solid, height/width/depth, past/present/future, etc)
- Nature of God is triune {Matt28:19-20}
- Any wonder that a triune God who made a triune universe would make a triune salvation?
* Salvation
- Three dimensions: justification, sanctification, glorification
- We need salvation from: penalty of sin {Rom3:23, Rom6:23}; power of sin {Gen6:5}; presence of sin {1Cor15:33}
* Salvation from penalty of sin -- Justification
- Justification "makes us sinless in the eyes of God"
- We are justified by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone {Eph2:8-9, John1:12, John3:16}
- Happens on instant of belief; born again
- CANNOT be lost {John10:27-29}
* Salvation from power of sin -- Sanctification
- Sanctification "gives us the power to not sin" {Rom8:8-9a}
- Happens from new birth to death {Phil2:12-13}
- By grace through faith {Col3:1-3, Ex17}
- Power to overcome sin is the life of Christ in us {Rom5:9-10, Gal2:20, John15:5}
- How work? Intake of His Word, prayer, fellowship, witness
- CAN be lost -- always a struggle between flesh & spirit {Rom7:15,19-20,24-25} -- but no effect on other dimensions of salvation
* Salvation from presence of sin -- Glorification
- Glorification "places us in His presence where there is no sin" {Rev21:1-2,27}
- Happens either at death or His second coming {1Thess4:13-17, 1Cor15:50-57}
- CANNOT be lost {Eph1:13-14}
* Application
- Get saved (justified)
- Continue being saved (sanctified)
- Look forward to your eternal home (glorified)