To understand what it means to be saved, we must know what it is to be lost.

Salvation answers the alphabet of sin: A= Alienation = B= Bondage = C= Condemnation D= Depravity = E= Eternal death Reconciliation (Rom. 5:10) Redemption (Rom. 8:2) = Justification (Rom. 5:18) Regeneration (Rom. 6:4-6) = Eternal life (Rom. 6:23)

Three tenses of Salvation/phases/stages (Outlined by Scofield) Who delivered us from so great a death (Past), and does deliver (Present): in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us (Future). I. THE PAST TENSE OF SALVATION We have been saved from the PENALTY of sin. Eph. 2:8 Luke 7:50 2 Tim. 1:9 Titus 3:5 It is under this tense of salvation that we are to classify the passages that speak of the believer as possessing eternal life now. See John 5:24; John 6:47; 17:2, 3; 1 John 3:13; 5:11, 13. This means simply, as expressed in John 5:24, that the believer has passed from under all danger of condemnation and the power of the second death. II. THE PRESENT TENSE OF SALVATION We are being saved from the POWER of sin. 1 Cor. 1:18 Being Saved... Phil. 2:12 - "Work out.. There are other passages in which salvation is not mentioned, which, nevertheless, refer to the present process of salvation; such as Rom. 6:14; Gal. 2:19,20; 2 Cor. 3:18. III. THE FUTURE TENSE OF SALVATION We shall be saved from the PRESENCE of sin. In the following passages salvation is spoken of as something yet future. Rom. 5:9, 10; 8:24; 13:11; 1 Cor. 5:5; Eph. 1:13, 14; 1 Thess. 5:8; Heb. 10:36; 1 Pet. 1.5; 1 John 3:2, 3. Paul tells us in Rom. 8:23 what this future salvation is in the main. It is "the redemption of our body," by which he means the application of redemption to the believers body. This will take place in the resurrection of those who sleep in Christ (1 Cor. 15:52-56; 1 Thess. 4.16) and in the rapture of those who are alive at Christs coming in the air (1 Thess. 4:17). It is only then that the regenerated spirit will enter into the full fruition of salvation. Thus we read that the spirit is to be saved "in the day of the Lord Jesus" (1 Cor. 5:5). This tense of salvation has to do mainly with the body and the presence of sin in the body. It is under this head that we are to classify all the passages that speak of eternal life as something the believer will receive in the future. See Matt. 25:46; Mark 10:30; Titus 1:2; 3: Paul gives us Gods method of work in salvation from beginning to end in Phil 1:6 and 2:13.