SALVATION-WHAT? WHY? HOW WE GET IT?

SALVATION.

      It is Not for Sale, nor can we earn it, by ourselves, and we can't ask for it until....... we do..WHAT?

      How do we get it?   It is a free gift from God, through Jesus Christ, who purchased us all by His life and His life's blood.

How do we know we "Got it"?

1 John 4:8-9.  "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him."

      Please don't misunderstand this, each one of us can love, material things, friends and family, most of the time that's easy, right? But this goes deeper, this is the agape [Gr] love, that will allow you to lay down your your life for another, you do not even know!. Even those who hate you!  Christ laid Down His life, for us all, each and every one of us, because HE does know each of us, from the moment of conception to our ends* ! [soon Eternal Life, is it Yours?}

      How many, I wonder, have asked, of the why Jesus allowed Himself to be hideously scourged, mocked, spat upon, slapped, and, forced after all that to carry the "Tree", and then be nailed to it, sans any clothing?
      Answer: "Agape LOVE", because He knew, that with our sinful natures, we would need to die and shed our blood for our sins, and in this He saved us from death eternal.Either chose Christ fully, or chose death eternal as in "Blotted Out" as if one never ever existed! We in Christ, give Him our sins, which have already been paid in full by Him. If this is refused we shall die while clinging to our sins.

 Romans 6:23."For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

 1 John 3:4. "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."

NOTE: What does this verse say to those who teach and believe, "the Laws were nailed to His Cross, we are now under grace?"  This turns God's Grace into DISGRACE!

 Isaiah 64:6. "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness's are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."

     These verses show the need, our need for a Savior, in WHOM, we must place our loving obedience and trust in, for reasons that soon shall become apparent.

Genesis 1:26-27. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."


     This means that God created us in His own image, but also with the capacity, with help from the Holy Spirit, to all those so willing, to humble self, that we begin to take on His character, which is fully shown to all by "His Royal Law, the Law of Liberty, the Ten Commandments", this a process over our lifespan, so that we shall be prepared to meet Jesus Christ upon His return!

 WHEN?  When do we receive this gift? As soon as we honestly accept His Son Christ Jesus, salvation is then our received gift, as also the Holy Spirit resides within our hearts. to begin our "cleansing" in the which we must co-operate! For God does NOT use force, only limits Himself to Love and Trust, allowing the Adversary to use every thing else! Up to and including the first recorded lie!

Genesis 3:4. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:"

     Here Satan using a proxy, a serpent, to speak to Eve, even though He used God's own words, but adding only one word . . .NOT.....  ! Now you know why so many think "Die and go to heaven,"of human teachings.

 Romans 3:23-24. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:"

      Our Father, which art in heaven, sees those in Jesus, as His Sons and Daughters, His family, as JUSTIFIED by God's Grace, through the Redemption that Christ purchased by His life & blood! This is our ATONEMENT, OR AT ONE WITH CHRIST!.

Romans 5:18-19 . "Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19.  For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."

   Vs 19's "as by one man's disobedience.... this was Adam's rebellion, and the "obedience of one" that One is Christ Jesus, Who paid the price for all sins for all times, for all people.

Galatians 3:13-14. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham* might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." {*future Spiritual ISRAEL}

 Deuteronomy 21:23. "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance".

    Can you begin to see the Cost of Calvary to heaven's Deities? Remember, the whole Godhead knew this from the beginning, over 4,000 years living with the fact that Jesus would die a horrid death.

 Hebrews 2:8-9. "Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man."

    Can you not appreciate the gift of Salvation given by God's Grace, that is available to each one of us that willingly chose Christ, as their personal Savior? Do you also see, that using mostly God's Word, we can still convey a coherent message, with the hot air of men? These I call "One Verse, Charlies" one verse from God, and the rest of the sermon is some man's hot air!

1 John 1:9-10. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."

    Does this passage not pointedly show, that we each need a Savior, our ideas of thinking we are good, live by the "Golden Rule" and all, yet we all fall short of the glory that is God's!

 2 Corinthians 5:21. "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."

    Please know this, there's none, in these clay vessels, [dust to dust remember?] that can save themselves, nor can any church, nor any other person, no matter the title, this belongs only to Christ, who has paid in full for all sin!

 Acts 3:16. "And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all."

     Redemption, Salvation, Justification, and the Gifts from the Holy Spirit, are available only by and through Jesus Christ. Thus, ALL who reject Him, rejects everything heaven offers!  We'll end this as it began.....

 1 John 1:9. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

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