{"id":242,"date":"2005-04-01T01:10:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T01:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2007-03-01T00:40:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T00:40:49","slug":"salvation-belongs-to-our-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Salvation belongs to our God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?<br \/>\nA: They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What is justification?<br \/>\nA: Justification is an act of God&#8217;s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What is adoption?<br \/>\nA: Adoption is an act of God&#8217;s free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What is sanctification?<br \/>\nA: Sanctification is the work of God&#8217;s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.<\/p>\n<p>(Questions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortercatechism.com\/resources\/wsc\/wsc_032.html\">XXXII<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortercatechism.com\/resources\/wsc\/wsc_033.html\">XXXIII<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortercatechism.com\/resources\/wsc\/wsc_034.html\">XXXIV<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortercatechism.com\/resources\/wsc\/wsc_035.html\">XXXV<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortercatechism.com\/\">Westminster Shorter Catechism<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? A: They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them. Q: What is justification? A: Justification is an act of&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=242\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}