[God] has saved us and
called us to a holy life.
—2 Timothy 1:9
2 Timothy 1:9–10 tells us that God saved us, called us to a holy life, and through Jesus destroyed death and insured life and immortality.
From those words, you see that his procedure isn’t a one-and-done transaction. It is an all-inclusive-grace-of-God-plan by which he justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies us.
He justifies us at baptism, forgiving us (Acts 2:38), and accepting us as righteous: “God made [Jesus] who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor 5:21).
Then he sanctifies us, progressively transforming us into the image of Jesus—“from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor 3:18).
And, finally, he will glorify us, taking us to heaven, where “we will be with the Lord forever” (1 Thes 4:17).
God takes us on a journey
from forgiveness to glory.