The Benefits of Salvation – A Kingdom Catechism

The Benefits of Salvation

A Kingdom Catechism

The benefits of salvation reach the lost through God’s Law.

Q 30: Does the obedience of civil governments to God’s Law result in salvation?

A 30: Salvation is not by obedience to the Law, but only through Jesus Christ; nevertheless, it is of great benefit to the governed when civil governments follow the counsel of God’s Law. (Rom. 3:19-23; Rom. 6:23; Acts 10:1-22; Luke 7:1-5)

“Salvation” is a term with many nuances. We tend to think of it as consisting of eternal life with God, and, of course, this is certainly true.

However, salvation also involves increasing in the righteousness of Jesus Christ and extending His grace and truth, and all the benefits of these, to others. Thus it is to be expected that the salvation which true believers know will touch the lives of others in positive ways, not unto redemption, but certainly so that they share in a measure of God’s common grace that they might not otherwise know. When civil governments “borrow” on the salvation of God by enacting and enforcing laws consistent with His Law, the benefits of that obedience, though they be only temporal and merely “feigned” (Ps. 81:15 NASB), reach to the people served by that government.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.