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Understanding Salvation's Significance

This document summarizes R.C. Sproul's teaching "Saved from What?". It includes scripture passages about God's wrath and judgment. Sproul explains that people are saved from God's wrath, as described in passages like Zephaniah 1:14-18. He discusses different aspects of salvation, including past, present and future. Sproul also addresses what constitutes saving faith and the elements of knowing God's holiness and wrath. The document emphasizes that people need to be saved from God's judgment and appreciate the great salvation provided by Jesus dying in their place.

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Understanding Salvation's Significance

This document summarizes R.C. Sproul's teaching "Saved from What?". It includes scripture passages about God's wrath and judgment. Sproul explains that people are saved from God's wrath, as described in passages like Zephaniah 1:14-18. He discusses different aspects of salvation, including past, present and future. Sproul also addresses what constitutes saving faith and the elements of knowing God's holiness and wrath. The document emphasizes that people need to be saved from God's judgment and appreciate the great salvation provided by Jesus dying in their place.

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Saved from What? R.C.

Sproul
Chapter 1
January 29, 2006
Scripture assignments…
 Zephaniah 1:14-18
 Zephaniah 3:14 - 20
 Acts 16:30 - 31
 Luke 7:50
 1 Timothy 2:15
 1 Corinthians 7:14
 Ephesians 1:4
 Romans 10:13
 1 Corinthians 1:18
 Romans 5:10
 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
Coram Deo
 We have always been talking about the
Holiness of God?

 If we live “coram deo” (before the face of


God) we like Isaiah, Job, Habakkuk, Paul
etc. will among other things serve
Well…?
Do Evangelicals Understand the Gospel?

 Christians United for Reformation (CURE)


survey
1% of “Christians” could give an adequate
description of the Gospel
 Is the Gospel…
A personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
Asking Jesus into your heart?
Just know Jesus is God?
What is saving faith?

 Fides viva - the elements of…


Notitia - the facts or content of our faith
Apologetics
Assensus - the propositions

Fiducia - the relationship Holy Spirit


Zephaniah and the Gospel?

 Read Zephaniah 1:14-18

This is what you’re saved from…


14The great day of the LORD is near, near and hastening
fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty
man cries aloud there.

15Aday of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a


day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a
day of clouds and thick darkness,

16a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified
cities and against the lofty battlements.

17Iwill bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like


the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their
blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver


them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his
jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and
sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
What are you saved from?

 Zephaniah 3:14 - 20 (at last some good


news!)
Salvation and salvation
 Acts 16:30 - 31
 Luke 7:50
 1 Timothy 2:15
 1 Corinthians 7:14

 The Bible doesn’t always use the word


“salvation” or the verb “to save” to mean the
doctrine of salvation
 The common thread is at its root “salvation”
means to be rescued from calamity
Salvation: Past, Present, Future

 Several senses, several tenses


 Ephesians 1:4 - The tense used would
imply from all eternity we were saved
(agrees with Matthew 25:34)
 Romans 10:13 (this was on the button)
 1 Corinthians 1:18
 Romans 5:10
Saved from the Wrath to Come

 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
What is the “wrath” to come?
Do you believe there is a “wrath” to come?
Knowledge of God’s Holiness leads to an
appreciation of such a “wrath”
Remember Isaiah, Job, etc.
“But I don’t need Jesus!?”

 A lack of Notitia? A failure of Christian


apologetics

 To know God (to know His Holiness) leads


to knowing why one needs Jesus

 What is God’s plan for the unsaved?

Judgment
Are you saved? That question is the most important
issue any person will ever face.

When we consider even for a moment the frightening


dimension of the unbridled outpouring of God’s wrath, we
tremble in our souls. When we consider that we deserve
to be consumed by His fury and realize that His fury has
instead consumed Jesus in our place, when we
recognize the greatness of the peril, we then are able to
see the greatness of the salvation that He has bestowed
upon us. How shall we escape if we neglect so great a
salvation?

R. C. Sproul, Saved from what?


Next week…

 Saved from what


Chapter 2 - The Shattered Self-image
Sound familiar?

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