One Foundation (Elbing)

1. Creation (who God is) (wk 1)
2. Fall (who we are) (wk 2)
3. Redemption (how we are saved)
   1. Divine Provision (wk 2)
   2. Human Response
      • Faith in Christ (wk 3)
      • Life and Conduct (wk 4)
   3. Consummation (wk 5)

Week 3: Faith in Christ

1. Saving Faith
   1. New Birth and Godly Life
2. Being Made Holy
   1. Justification
   2. Sanctification
3. The Sacraments
   1. The Church of God
   2. Baptism
   3. The Lord’s Supper

These have been written
so that you may believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God;

and that believing
you may have life in His name.

Q.125: What does true faith imply?

A: Real repentance and sorrow for sin:
that we become convinced of our sinfulness,
and repent thereof.

Cast away from you all the transgressions
that you have committed,
and make yourselves a new heart
and a new spirit!

Why will you die, O house of Israel?
For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone,
declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.

He saved us, not because of works
done by us in righteousness,

but according to his own mercy,
by the washing of regeneration
and renewal of the Holy Spirit

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.

By faith Abel, … Enoch, … Noah, …

Week 3: Faith in Christ

1. Saving Faith
   1. New Birth and Godly Life
2. Being Made Holy
   1. Justification
   2. Sanctification
3. The Sacraments
   1. The Church of God
   2. Baptism
   3. The Lord’s Supper

We beg you on behalf of Christ,
be reconciled to God.

He made Him who knew no sin
to be sin on our behalf,

so that we might become
the righteousness of God in Him.

But now that you have been set free from sin
and have become slaves of God,

the fruit you get leads to sanctification
and its end, eternal life.

As obedient children, do not be conformed
to the passions of your former ignorance,

but as he who called you is holy,
you also be holy in all your conduct

For by a single offering
he has perfected for all time
those who are being sanctified.

Week 3: Faith in Christ

1. Saving Faith
   1. New Birth and Godly Life
2. Being Made Holy
   1. Justification
   2. Sanctification
3. The Sacraments
   1. The Church of God
   2. Baptism
   3. The Lord’s Supper

To the church of God that is in Corinth,
to those sanctified in Christ Jesus,
called to be saints together

with all those who in every place
call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
both their Lord and ours

And let us consider how to stir up
one another to love and good works,

not neglecting to meet together,
as is the habit of some,
but encouraging one another,
and all the more as
you see the Day drawing near.

Week 3: Faith in Christ

1. Saving Faith
   1. New Birth and Godly Life
2. Being Made Holy
   1. Justification
   2. Sanctification
3. The Sacraments
   1. The Church of God
   2. Baptism
   3. The Lord’s Supper

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to observe
all that I have commanded you.

Q.146: What is the purpose of baptism?

A: It identifies the believer with his Lord.

• It is also an ordinance of Christ
  serving as a sign
  • of being spiritually born of God,
  • of putting on Christ,
  • and of being united with the Church.
• It is the evidence of a covenant with Christ.

We were buried therefore with him
by baptism into death, in order that,

just as Christ was raised from the dead
by the glory of the Father,
we too might walk in newness of life.

Week 3: Faith in Christ

1. Saving Faith
   1. New Birth and Godly Life
2. Being Made Holy
   1. Justification
   2. Sanctification
3. The Sacraments
   1. The Church of God
   2. Baptism
   3. The Lord’s Supper

When He had given thanks, He broke it and said,
“This is My body, which is for you;
do this in remembrance of Me.” …

“This cup is the new covenant in My blood;
do this, as often as you drink it,
in remembrance of Me.”

Let a person examine himself, then, and so
eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

For anyone who eats and drinks
without discerning the body
eats and drinks judgment on himself

For by grace you have been saved
through faith.

And this is not your own doing;
it is the gift of God,
not a result of works, so that no one may boast

For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works,

which God prepared beforehand,
that we should walk in them.