We believe that when an unregenerate person exercises that faith in Christ which is illustrated in and described as such in the New Testament, he passes forthwith out of spiritual death into spiritual life, and from the old creation into the new; being justified from all things, accepted before the Father according to Christ His Son is accepted, loves as Christ loves, having His place and portion as linked to Him and one with Him for ever. And though the saved one may have occasion to grow in the realization of his blessings and to know a fuller measure of divine power through yielding of his life more fully to God, he is, as soon as he is saved, in possession of every spiritual blessing and absolutely complete in Christ, and is therefore, in no way required by God to seek a so-called "second blessing," or a "second work of grace."
Supporting Verses
John 5:24,
John 17:23,
Acts 13:39,
Romans 5:1,
I Corinthians 3:21,
Ephesians 1:3,
Colossians 2:10,
I John 4:17,
I John 5:11, 12
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