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Salvation - What is it?
Saved from what and by whom?
God
is a Holy God, meaning God is without sin and is totally
righteous. However, we are NOT righteous1.
Ever since Adam and Eve’s
sin of rebellion and disobedience to God2,
we also find
ourselves , being their offspring3, separated from any
real relationship with God.
The inherited “sin
nature”, which is thoroughly ingrained and active
in our spiritual DNA, continuously steers us away from
coming under God’s authority and reconciling with
Him.
According
to Romans 6:234, the payment for sin is death.
However, it is not God’s
will for any to perish, but that all would be saved5.
Yes, God in His faithfulness and love towards us provided
a means by which we can once
again come into complete and eternal communion with Him
-- Jesus Christ!6 Jesus Christ is God’s
remedy for both the power of sin in our lives, and the
payment for our wrong
doing. Christ Jesus’ sinless and sacrificial life,
lived out as God’s spotless and appointed sacrificial
lamb7, has provided a perfect atonement
(payment) for your sin
and
mine. We
can
now be
eternally
reconciled
to
God
through the receiving of the gift of His own son, Jesus,
who carried our sin upon Himself, nailing it to His cross.
How
can I become "saved"?
What
Next?
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References |
1 |
Romans
3:10 -
As it is written: "There
is none righteous, no, not one; |
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Romans
3:23 -for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God, |
2 |
Genesis 3:1-19 |
3 |
Romans
5:12 - Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the
world, and death through sin,
and thus death spread to
all men, because all sinned— |
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Romans
6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift
of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
5 |
I
Timothy 2:3-4 - For this is good and acceptable in the
sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
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II
Corinthians 5:21 - For He made Him who
knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness
of God in Him. |
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John
3:16 - For God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should
not perish but have everlasting life. |
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Ephesians
2:4-5 - But God, who is rich in
mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
even when we were
dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ
(by grace you have been saved), |
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Exodus
12:21 -Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel
and said to them, "Pick out and
take lambs for yourselves according to your families,
and kill the
Passover lamb.
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Leviticus
4:35 -
He shall remove all its fat, as the fat of the lamb is
removed from the
sacrifice of the peace offering. Then the priest shall burn it on the altar,
according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD. So the priest shall
make atonement for his sin that he has committed, and it shall be forgiven
him.
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1
Peter 1:19 - but with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
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