In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherits a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. In the beginning, man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God’s creation. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. At the moment of regeneration, He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He calls men to the Savior, and effects regeneration. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. Through illumination, He enables men to understand the truth. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever present Lord. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
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