God initiates salvation by choosing believers and drawing them to himself. He continues salvation by sustaining believers through all difficulties and keeping them holy until Christ's return. God will complete salvation by presenting believers as faultless before him with great joy when Christ returns.

1. Until it is Finally Finished
Philippians 1:6

2. Philippians 1:3-5 - Every time I think
of you, I give thanks to my God.
4Whenever I pray, I make my
requests for all of you with joy, 5for
you have been my partners in
spreading the Good News about
Christ from the time you first heard
it until now.

3. Philippians 1:6 - And I am certain
that God, who began the good work
within you, will continue his work
until it is finally finished on the day
when Christ Jesus returns. NLT

4. Certain

5. Salvation
Made Alive, Born Again
(Regeneration)

6. Philippians 2:12-13 - Dear friends, you
always followed my instructions when
I was with you. And now that I am
away, it is even more important. Work
hard to show the results of your
salvation, obeying God with deep
reverence and fear. 13For God is
working in you, giving you the desire
and the power to do what pleases him.
NLT

7. God Initiated
Your Salvation

8. John 6:44 – For no one can come to
me unless the Father who sent me
draws them to me, and at the last
day I will raise them up. NLT

9. Eph 1:4–6 - Even before he made the
world, God loved us and chose us in
Christ to be holy and without fault in his
eyes. 5God decided in advance to adopt
us into his own family by bringing us to
himself through Jesus Christ. This is what
he wanted to do, and it gave him great
pleasure. 6So we praise God for the
glorious grace he has poured out on us
who belong to his dear Son. NLT

10. Romans 8:29-30 - For God knew his
people in advance, and he chose them
to become like his Son, so that his Son
would be the firstborn among many
brothers and sisters. 30And having
chosen them, he called them to come
to him. And having called them, he gave
them right standing with himself. And
having given them right standing, he
gave them his glory. NLT

11. Acts 13:48 - When the Gentiles heard
this, they were very glad and thanked
the Lord for his message; and all who
were chosen for eternal life became
believers. NLT

12. God Continues
Your Salvation

13. Rom. 8:38–39 - And I am convinced that
nothing can ever separate us from God’s
love. Neither death nor life, neither
angels nor demons, neither our fears for
today nor our worries about tomorrow—
not even the powers of hell can separate
us from God’s love. 39No power in the sky
above or in the earth below—indeed,
nothing in all creation will ever be able
to separate us from the love of God that
is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. NLT

14. 1 Thess. 5:23-24 - Now may the God of
peace make you holy in every way, and
may your whole spirit and soul and body
be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus
Christ comes again. 24God will make this
happen, for he who calls you is faithful. NLT

15. 1 Peter 1:3-4 - All praise to God, the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great
mercy that we have been born again,
because God raised Jesus Christ from the
dead. Now we live with great expectation,
4and we have a priceless inheritance—an
inheritance that is kept in heaven for you,
pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of
change and decay. NLT

16. Ephesians 1:14 - The Spirit is God’s
guarantee that he will give us the
inheritance he promised and that he has
purchased us to be his own people. He
did this so we would praise and glorify
him. NLT

17. God Will Complete
Your Salvation

18. Jude 24 - Now all glory to God, who
is able to keep you from falling away
and will bring you with great joy
into his glorious presence without a
single fault. NLT

19. Romans 5:8-10 – But God showed his
great love for us by sending Christ to die
for us while we were still sinners. 9And
since we have been made right in God’s
sight by the blood of Christ, he will
certainly save us from God’s
condemnation. 10For since our friendship
with God was restored by the death of
his Son while we were still his enemies,
we will certainly be saved through the
life of his Son. NLT

20. 1 Corinthians 1:7-9 – Now you have every
spiritual gift you need as you eagerly wait
for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8He
will keep you strong to the end so that you
will be free from all blame on the day
when our Lord Jesus Christ returns. 9God
will do this, for he is faithful to do what
he says, and he has invited you into
partnership with his Son, Jesus Christ our
Lord. NLT

21. Romans 8:22-24 –For we know that all
creation has been groaning as in the pains
of childbirth right up to the present time.
23And we believers also groan, even
though we have the Holy Spirit within us
as a foretaste of future glory, for we long
for our bodies to be released from sin and
suffering.

22. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day
when God will give us our full rights as his
adopted children, including the new
bodies he has promised us. 24We were
given this hope when we were saved. NLT

23. John 6:37-39 - However, those the Father
has given me will come to me, and I will
never reject them. 38For I have come
down from heaven to do the will of God
who sent me, not to do my own will.
39And this is the will of God, that I
should not lose even one of all those he
has given me, but that I should raise
them up at the last day. NLT

24. when Christ Jesus returns

25. 1 Thess 4:13-18 - And now, dear
brothers and sisters, we want you to
know what will happen to the
believers who have died so you will
not grieve like people who have no
hope. 14For since we believe that Jesus
died and was raised to life again, we
also believe that when Jesus returns,

26. God will bring back with him the
believers who have died. 15We tell you
this directly from the Lord: We who
are still living when the Lord returns
will not meet him ahead of those who
have died. 16For the Lord himself will
come down from heaven with a
commanding shout, with the voice of
the archangel, and with the trumpet

27. call of God. First, the Christians who
have died will rise from their graves.
17Then, together with them, we who
are still alive and remain on the earth
will be caught up in the clouds to meet
the Lord in the air. Then we will be
with the Lord forever. 18So encourage
each other with these words. NLT

28. God initiated your salvation
God continues your salvation
God will complete your salvation

29. Meditation & Application
John 5:24 - I tell you the truth, those
who listen to my message and
believe in God who sent me have
eternal life. They will never be
condemned for their sins, but they
have already passed from death into
life. NLT