Salvation

 

You are not here by accident. You are here by the will of God.

 

All have sinned. Without Christ as your Lord, you’re guilty of sin and deserving of eternal death because you are spiritually dead in sin (a person that is dead cannot live in heaven. He is dead). You must have life to enter heaven and the only way to have life is through Jesus Christ. No one can enter heaven apart from Jesus Christ. Having sinned, as all have, you must start over. You must be born again. The only way to be born again is to accept Jesus Christ as Lord.

 

You cannot satisfy God’s Holiness with sin on your account. So, you must have that sin removed from your life. God made a provision for the problem of sin which is the propitiation (atoning/reconciling sacrifice of Jesus Christ). Jesus is the Lamb of God, without blemish, that takes away the sin of the world. In Him, God’s Holiness is satisfied. Once born again, the problem of sin is removed from you because Jesus took your sins upon Himself and you are now without blemish because you receive Christ’s righteousness.

 

After being saved, when you do sin, you have an Advocate before the Father: Jesus Christ who intercedes for you and prays for you. By His finished work on the cross, you are reconciled to God. You no longer live in sin, but you do make mistakes. From your heart you repent of your sins (turn from them to Jesus) and ask for forgiveness and you are forgiven, always.

 

By God’s sovereign will, He will see to it that situations are brought into your life that mold you and make you after His will. This includes suffering and sorrow. It includes trails (but not temptations because God does not tempt, so you should always pray that you not enter into temptation). Different people will have different problems but they are all common to man. God has a plan for your life that only He knows and you have to find that road by faith. Now, your life also does include joy that comes from God. You also have all things given to you. When you begin your walk, it’s hard to life by faith. Over time, trusting God in all things, you begin to see that He gives you every little thing you need (not all you may want). It’s beyond words. The perfection and intricacy of His gifts and how they come at just the right time; many times at the last moment, so you know ahead of time, because God wants to see your faith up to that time and also so your faith will increase.

 

You have to humble yourself and yield to His will. You must quit fighting God by always struggling for what you want in life and yield to Him. YOU MUST OPEN HIS WORD AND GET DIERCTION FROM HIM. He made you and He knows what you want more than you do, so trust Him to finish what He started in you because He will finish His work in you. I know that if we could see our lives as God does we would be so ashamed of our some of our actions and our doubts and agree with His work in our lives.

 

It’s time to put away childish things and press on to the upward call of Jesus Christ.

 

 

The PROBLEM, the PROVISION and the PURPOSE

 

The PROBLEM is SIN

 

Sin:

1. Separates us from God: Isaiah 57:17  "Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him; I hid My face and was angry, And he went on turning away, in the way of his heart.

2. Hurts us: Proverbs 8:36 "But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death."

3. Is deceitful: Hebrews 3:13  But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

4. Leads to traps: Ecclesiastes 7:26  And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

5. Ends in death: Proverbs 2:18  For her house sinks down to death And her tracks lead to the dead;

James 1:15  Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death (King James).

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

6. Began with Adam and death spread to all: Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Romans 5:12  Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

 

Romans 11:32 For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all.

The PROVISION for this problem is the Propitiation (atoning/reconciling sacrifice) of CHRIST:

 

Romans 3:25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;

 

Hebrews 2:17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

 

1 John 2:2 and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

 

1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

 

The PURPOSE was and is LOVE:

 

Jeremiah 31:3  The LORD appeared to him from afar, saying, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.

 

The greatest love of all was shown by God in Christ's sacrifice for us. 

 

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

 

That's His love for us. We are to Love God completely and others as our self,

 

Luke 10:27 And he answered, "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

 

because He first loved us.

 

1 John 4:19 We love, because He first loved us.

 

1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

 

Having been set free from sin and death,

 

Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

 

we can now live without sin's chains

 

Romans 8:15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"

 

and be productive for the Kingdom of God.

 

If you’re not sure that you are saved see Biblical Truths.

 

 

Come to Jesus!