IX.  The Benefits and Conditions of Salvation

We believe that some of the chief benefits of salvation are: (1) the forgiveness of sins (Acts 10:43); (2) justification (Rom 5:1), by which our sins are blotted out from God’s Book and Christ’s righteousness is put to our account; (3) propitiation (1 John 2:2), which means that God’s holiness has been satisfied by Christ’s death; (4) redemption (Gal. 3:13), which means we have been purchased by Christ’s death and set free from bondage; (5) reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18-20), which means that we who once were God’s enemies have now been made His friends (Rom. 5:10); and (6) regeneration or the new birth (John 3:3), which means we have been given eternal life (John 3:16)

We believe that all believers are positionally sanctified at their conversion (Heb. 10:10-14); that all believers can experience progressive sanctification through daily obedience to God’s Word (John 17:17; Heb. 12:10); and that all believers will be completely sanctified when Christ returns (I Thess. 3:13)

 We believe that faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ and in His bodily resurrection from the dead is the only condition of salvation and that no good work or religious observance has the power to bring or to help to bring salvation. (Acts 16:31; Titus 3:5; Eph 2:8-9)