Module 5 - Soteriology: The Doctrine of Salvation

The lectures in this fifth module on the Doctrine of Salvation are, like the others, introductory, not exhaustive, and they’re intended to furnish you with a foundation that you can build upon in your further studies. As you’ll recall from the first module, theology, broadly defined, has to do with the study of the knowledge of God, and all that he has revealed for us to believe and do. We noted that it is the doctrine of living unto God through Christ, thus addressing both our thinking and our living. The Doctrine of Salvation, therefore, is an indispensible component to Systematic Theology.

Ezekiel 16 provides us with a very graphic picture. It describes God’s people as an infant abandoned in an open field, lying in its blood. In this deplorable condition, God came. He rescued, he healed, he raised, and nurtured, and ultimately beautified her. But even more, he, as the King of Glory, married her. So in Ezekiel 16, verse 8, we read, “Behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.” This is a picture of a destitute orphan, who ends up marrying a wealthy prince. The true believer is not like a beggar, who finds himself separated from Christ, and calling out from a distance for some benefit. No, he’s like a hopeless person, who has been married to a prince with limitless resources. In being united to Christ, all that belongs to Christ becomes the Christian’s. Our debts are cancelled, and Christ provides every benefit and blessing that we will ever need. The crucial point is union with Christ.

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Rev. Robert McCurley is the minister of the Gospel at Greenville Presbyterian Church in Taylors, SC, a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing). https://www.greenvillepresbyterian.com