In this lesson we are discussing what happens when a person believes on Jesus Christ. The content of these remarks will be a theological, doctrinal content. I say that because the Scriptures were not written to get you to “share” your experience with anybody, nor were the Scriptures primarily written just to tell a man how to get saved, and certainly the Scriptures were not written primarily to teach you to love people and “get along.” These are the humanistic goals of the International Socialists in religious education, and these goals have nothing to do with the purpose of the word of God itself, which says, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine” (2 Tim. 3:16).
The main purpose of the Bible was to teach THE TRUTH, the whole truth, and nothing but THE TRUTH about what is true and what is not true. This is the main purpose of the Scripture: to set itself up as the final authority in all matters of faith and practice, defining what a man should believe and shouldn’t believe, what he should say and what he shouldn’t say, how he should act and how he shouldn’t act, and what is true about life and history and death and judgment and what is not true. The modern Christian that avoids these purposes for which the Bible was written—the doctrinal purposes—falls under the peculiar classification mentioned by the apostle Paul, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine” (2 Tim. 4:3).
In this study, we are discussing what happens when one believes on the Lord Jesus Christ. When we talk about these things, we are not going to confine our remarks to the fact that a man is a “new creature” in Christ or that when a man believes on Jesus Christ as Saviour he has a “faith” to support a ministry and all that modern nonsense we hear preached today. We approach the subject from the standpoint of what the Bible actually says about conversion.
The moment a sinner accepts Christ as Saviour, thirty-eight things happen, but a modern Christian is not aware of more than five of these things. (Though he may not be conscious of more than just that his sins are forgiven or he has peace or happiness or any of these frothy-topped, shallow, skim-milk type of things you hear preached about today; thirty-eight things happen.)
IN RELATION TO GOD THE FATHER:
1. The saved sinner has access to God’s grace, “For through him [Christ] we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father” (Eph. 2:8, 18).
2. We are adopted into the family of God as God’s sons, “To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ,” (Gal. 4:5; Eph. 1:5).
3. We have an inheritance. Paul in preaching says that the Gentiles “may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified” (Acts 26:18).
4. The child of God is elected. Once a man receives Christ as his Saviour, he is elected. “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father” (1 Pet. 1:2). “Chosen us in him [Christ] before the foundation of the world” (Eph. 1:4). No man is chosen before the foundation of the world outside of Christ. God doesn’t choose anybody but the people who are in Christ, and nobody was in Christ BEFORE the foundation of the world. As a matter of fact, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were NEVER in Christ EVER. So, the man is not elected until AFTER he is saved. When a man receives Christ as his Saviour, then he is elected because he is in Christ.
5. He becomes a child of God. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God” (1 John 3:1).
6. He gets heavenly citizenship. “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil. 3:20).
7. He becomes an heir of God and a joint-heir with Christ. “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Gal. 3:29; Rom. 8:17).
8. He becomes a new creature, not “creation” as in the new, corrupt Bibles. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17). We were born with the old nature—the fallen, Adamic nature—which is called a “creature” in Romans 8:20. Now we have God’s nature, and you are a “creature” that has been born again.
9. The saved sinner becomes a servant of God. “But now being made free from sin, and become servants of God” (Rom. 6:22).
10. The saved sinner becomes a priest of God. 1 Peter 2:9 says every saved child of God is “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood.” Simon Peter says, “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God,” not literal sacrifices.
11. The saved sinner is reconciled to God. “Ye were without Christ, being aliens...and strangers...having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye...are made nigh by the blood of Christ” (Eph. 2:12; Rom. 5:10); that is, reconciled.
12. When a sinner trusts Jesus Christ as his Saviour, he is sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus (1 Cor. 6:11). Acts 26:18 lists sanctification as a direct result of conversion.
IN RELATION TO GOD THE SON:
13. The sinner is “accepted in the beloved” (Eph. 1:6), which you will find changed in all the new Bibles. All the new “Bibles,” accepted by all the little Campfire Girls and little Brownies in the kiddie camps today that talk about the Holy Ghost, have changed “accepted in the beloved” and gotten rid of it. (I suppose the reason why is because they HAVEN’T been accepted.)
14. The believer is baptized into Christ’s body by the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Ghost that puts him into Christ is no more connected with Acts chapter 2 than your Aunt Harriet’s software. “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body” (1 Cor. 12:13); not just the people that brag about gifts that they don’t have, not just the people who pretend they are apostles when they are not, not just the people that counterfeit the apostolic signs that don’t really have them, not just the people that have “another spirit” after they receive Christ and pretend it is the Holy Spirit. Every child of God, every sinner who trusts Christ, is put into Christ’s body by the baptism of the Holy Spirit, so Paul says, “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ” (Gal. 3:27). And, of course, water baptism is not mentioned within TEN CHAPTERS of either one of those verses.
15. Romans 6:4 says, “we are buried with him by baptism,” and Paul says, “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God” (Col. 3:3). When the sinner who trusts Christ is “accepted in the beloved” and is baptized into Christ’s body by the Holy Spirit, he is buried with Christ by spiritual baptism, and it has no more to do with Acts 2:38
Anybody who reads the Bible knows perfectly well that Acts 2:38 could not save a dead horse in this dispensation, because no Gentile received the Holy Spirit by being baptized in the name of Jesus. He received the Holy Spirit by faith (Gal. 3:14).
Our baptism into Christ (Gal. 3 :27) does not have water mentioned in Galatians chapters 1–6. Nor is water baptism mentioned in the epistle before it (2 Cor. 1–13), nor is water baptism mentioned ANYWHERE within ten chapters after it (Phil. 1–4; Eph. 1–6). There is no water baptism mentioned in connection with your baptism into Christ (Gal. 3:27) within ten chapters in either direction.
16. The believer becomes a love gift to the Son from the Father. The Lord Jesus said, “I pray for them...which thou hast given me; for they are thine” (John 17:9). Every saved sinner is a special love gift from the Father to His Son, Jesus Christ.
17. The moment you trust Christ as Saviour, you are indwelt by Christ, and you are saved by Jesus Christ. The Bible says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31). “For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). You are indwelt by Christ. Jesus Christ in speaking of these matters said, “We [referring to Himself and the Holy Spirit] will come unto him [the believer], and make our abode with him” (John 14 :23).
18. When the sinner trusts Jesus Christ, he possesses eternal life. “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish” (John 10:28). “That ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe” (1 John 5:13).
19. When the sinner trusts Jesus Christ, he has peace with God. “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:7).
20. He becomes a friend of God. “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends” (John 15:15).
21. His name is recorded in Heaven (Luke 10:20).
22. He becomes a fellow laborer whose name is written in the book of life (Phil. 4:3).
23. He becomes seated with Christ in Heavenly places. “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:6). In a sense, the Christian has already gone home to glory. His body is still down here, and he’s in his body, “absent from the Lord and present in the body.” However, his spirit has been “born again” and “regenerated” by the Holy Spirit and joined to Christ’s Spirit. “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” (1 Cor. 6:17). In this sense, he is at present seated with Jesus Christ “in heavenly places.”
24. He receives a blessed hope. “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). Notice, he does not hope he’s saved. He received the blessed hope, and the blessed hope is that Christ is coming to get us. “He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Rev.
22:20).
25. He comes into fellowship with the Trinity. John wrote “that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ” (1 John 1:3).
26. A mansion in glory becomes his. “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2).
Here are twenty-six things that happen to the sinner when he trusts Jesus Christ as Saviour. Whether he knows it or not or is conscious of it or not (according to the word of God), the doctrinal truth of the matter is that all those things have happened to this man when he trusts Jesus Christ as his Saviour.
IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT:
27. He is born again (John 3:3–7), and water baptism is never connected with the new birth ANYWHERE in either Testament.
28. He is anointed by the Holy Spirit. “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you” (1 John 2:27)—in you, not on you.
29. The Holy Spirit comes into his body to dwell forever (John 14:26, 16:13).
30. The believer is sealed by the Holy Spirit to the day of redemption. “In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise” (Eph. 1:13).
31. His body becomes the temple of the Holy Ghost. The people who use Acts chapter 2 to talk you out of that, to these ignorant people Paul said, “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you” (1 Cor. 6:19).
32. The saved sinner is given a spiritual gift by the Holy Spirit, and these gifts listed in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 still abide in the body of Christ, with the exception of the signs given to Israel. When God ceased dealing with Israel at the end of Acts chapter 28 and the apostolic signs ceased, these signs were counterfeited by Satan (2 Thess. 2:9). The people who counterfeited these apostolic signs were called “liars” (Rev. 2:2).
Never forgetting that “all Scripture is given by inspiration of God” and is profitable first of all for DOCTRINE,” you cannot reject what the Scriptures say without taking your spiritual life in your own hands. The Scriptures say the “gifts” that are signs are for Israel (1 Cor. 1:22). Tongues are for a sign to the unbelieving Israelite (1 Cor. 14:22), but they can be counterfeited by another spirit that is not the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 11:3–4).
IN RELATION TO HIS SINS:
33. The saved sinner is forgiven (Luke 7:48).
34. He is justified (Rom. 5:1, 4:5).
35. He is redeemed. “Hast redeemed us to God by thy blood” (Rev. 5:9). Or as Simon Peter said, “ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold...But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Pet. 1:18–19).
36. When the sinner comes to Jesus Christ and trusts Him as Saviour, he has an Advocate, an attorney for the defense. “We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1).
37. He has the possibility of getting victory over sin, and sin should not have dominion over him. “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof” (Rom. 6:12). You have exceeding great and precious promises that give you the victory over sin, if you claim them.
IN RELATION TO OTHERS:
38. We become ambassadors for Christ. “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ” (2 Cor. 5:20). We receive “all spiritual blessings in heavenly places” (Eph. 1:3).
Here we have thirty-eight things that happen to every sinner who trusts Jesus Christ as Saviour. And it is job of two heretical groups in America (that profess to preach and teach the Bible because they quote it) to talk you out of those thirty-eight things. That is THEIR job. The job of the Campbellite and Charismatic is to mangle the Scriptures and convince you that you do not have these things when you trust Christ. But these things do happen to the man who trusts Jesus Christ.
Source: Theological Studies Vol. II - What Happens When a Person Believes on Jesus Christ by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman
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