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SALVATION: deliverance from the power and effects of sin, the agent or means that effects salvation, liberation from ignorance or illusion, preservation from destruction or failure, deliverance from danger or difficulty
NLT | Eph 2:8God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
The purpose for this blog is so anyone can comprehend the opportunity God gives to every person to be forgiven of their sins, adopted into His family and be eternally secure in their relationship with Christ Jesus.
The words “saved” and “born again” are Christian terms used to describe what happens to a person when they first believe in their heart the Gospel message and, as a result of believing personally, asks Jesus to come into their life and take over as Lord. Forgiveness is free to everyone, no matter his or her state, because of the grace of God. Being a church member, being baptized as an infant, or living a good life, does not qualify anyone for heaven. You must be born again!
GRACE: unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification, a virtue coming from God, a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine grace, special favor: PRIVILEGE
The normal understanding of grace is, “the unmerited favor of God.” God’s love is unconditional, eternal, and undeserved by any human standards. Grace is an attribute of God, which allows Him to purpose and provide both love and reward for mankind, even when they reject Him.
The Message | Ro 5:8 But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.
FORGIVENESS: allowing room for error or weakness
It is grace that enables God to forgive mankind. “...Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness”
The Message | Heb 9:22 Moses said to the people,“This is the blood of the covenant God has established with you.” Practically everything in a will hinges on a death. That’s why blood, the evidence of death, is used so much in our tradition, especially regarding forgiveness of sins.
By grace as full and final payment for all of the sins of mankind. Only His blood can cleanse away the stain of sin. Although the grace of God makes forgiveness available for everyone, each person must individually apply through prayer to God to have his or her sins covered by Christ’s blood.
NLT | 1 Jn 1:9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
SALVATION: A blanket of forgiveness for all sins past, and a promise for the future that no sin shall separate you from God and His love comes automatically to every person when they are saved.
The Message | Ro 8:35 Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture: 36 They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one. 37 None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. 38 I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, 39 high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us
The Message | Ro 10:13 “Everyone who calls,‘Help, God!’ gets help.”
NLT | Ro 10:9If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
WORKS: something produced or accomplished by effort, exertion, or exercise of skill
The Message | Ga 2:21 I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
The Message | Ac 4:12 Salvation comes no other way; no other name has been or will be given to us by which we can be saved, only this one.”
Some extremists teach and live a “greasy grace” or“sloppy agape” approach to salvation, completely discounting the works message of James. Other extremists teach salvation by works, constantly putting the keeping power of the blood of Christ, and thus the New Testament message of salvation by grace alone, in doubt
SALVATION
- What does being born again mean to you?
- What qualifies a person to spend eternity in heaven?
- What, in your understanding, does it take to be saved?
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