BY HIS TOTAL OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER AND BY HIS SUFFERING, death, and resurrection, our Lord Jesus Christ earned for us salvation from sin and from all its results. But this saving work of Christ will avail us nothing until it has been applied to our hearts and lives by the Holy Spirit. The study of the application of the work of redemption to the people of God is called soteriology, from two Greek words, sōtēria and logos, meaning “the doctrine of salvation.” Soteriology has