Week 2

Judicial Redemption & Organic Salvation

Hymn enjoyment this week: #1, #2

And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; (Genesis 1:26)
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name. (John 1:12)

Monday key point: God's complete salvation has two aspects - judicial aspect and organic aspect. Further reading.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving-kindness and truth go before Your face. (Psalms 89:14)
For Christ also has suffered once for sins, the Righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, (1 Peter 3:18)

Tuesday key point: God's righteousness is God's way of doing things. His salvation has to be righteous.Further reading.

…much more we will be saved in His life, having been reconciled, (Romans 5:11)
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. (Romans 12:2)

Wednesday key point: The judicial aspect of God's salvation is based on God's righteousness; the organic aspect is through God's life.Further reading.

who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:13)
He who believes into the Son has eternal life; (John 3:36)
Not out of works in righteousness which we did but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. (Titus 3:5)

Thursday key point: Regeneration is the center of God's complete salvation; regeneration is also the beginning of the organic salvation.Further reading.

But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:18)
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. (2 Corinthians 4:16)

Friday key point: Transformation is the metabolism through God's life within believers. Though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.Further reading.

I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you because of His name. (1 John 2:12)
I have written these things to you that you may know that you have eternal life, to you who believe into the name of the Son of God (1 John 5:13)
We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brothers. (1 John 3:14)

Saturday key point: Evidences of our salvation include the word of God, Spirit's witness within our spirit, and our love for one another. Further reading.