When people are looking to find what it is that saves them they often here vague statements like, "you just need to surrender to Jesus" OR "just give your life to Jesus" OR "Invite Jesus into your heart". All of those are cliches made up by man to describe their feeling about what it is to be a Christian. But we must go to the Word of God to find out what it takes to be saved and what it means to be saved. This will lead you to see the difference between justification and sanctification which are two topics most Christians are utterly confused about.
The problem we have is that we have a sin debt as by one man all have fallen and need to be reconciled back to God. God setup a plan for us to be saved before the foundation of the world. His plan was to send the Word which was in the beginning and was Gad. All things were made by the Word and without Him was not anything made that was made.
The Word was made flesh by the power of the Holy Spirit and he was carried by Mary who was a virgin at that time. So Jesus was born and then He ultimately gave His life for the sins of the world. In the old testament we read that God says that there is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood. And God established through the Jewish people that they would have their sins forgiven yearly on Passover by the sacrifice of an lamb without spot or blemish.
The day Jesus died was actually Passover. He died at the time when the Levitical priest was sacrificing the lamb sacrifice for the covering of sin for the Jewish people for that past year. And when Jesus died there was an earthquake and the sky went dark. Also, the veil at the temple in Jerusalem tore from top to bottom. That was the end of the Old Covenant and the beginning of the New Covenant.
Jesus rose from the dead a short while after that. And 40 days later Jesus ascended into Heaven and the bible says He sitteth down at the right hand of the Throne of God. Jesus will return.
The work Jesus did to pay for the sins of the world is finished. Our work is not finished but to understand that Jesus shed his blood to pay for the sins of the world and anyone that believes in Him is sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise and becomes right then a born again believer in Jesus Christ.
Repenting unto salvation happens when we have this truth that we are sinners and need to be forgiven in order to enter into God's plan of salvation.Our work is to believe God. And like Abraham was found righteous because he believed God so too are we found justified and therefore righteous in God's site eternally. We are reconciled back to God through Jesus Christ. We belong to Jesus Christ. We are new creations, ministers of reconciliation, ambassadors for Jesus Christ for the remaining time we have on this earth.
The faith is built upon trusting in the finished work of Jesus Christ for our justification.
ROMANS 4:4-5 KJV
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Surrendering to Jesus is great, but it is not what saves our soul from the Lake of Fire.
There are some helpful bible resources below. Be a Berean as the bible says in Acts those were found more honorable because they checked the words Paul spoke against the scriptures to see if they were true. If we do not then we are either lazy or we are trusting man and not God.
Getting back to man's problem with God and that is all are under sin:
ROMANS 5:16 KJV
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
SO above we see in Romans it states that it is the free gift from God that pays for the many offenses unto justification. Justification is what we need so that we can be saved.
The problem we have is that we have a sin debt as by one man all have fallen and need to be reconciled back to God. God setup a plan for us to be saved before the foundation of the world. His plan was to send the Word which was in the beginning and was Gad. All things were made by the Word and without Him was not anything made that was made.
The Word was made flesh by the power of the Holy Spirit and he was carried by Mary who was a virgin at that time. So Jesus was born and then He ultimately gave His life for the sins of the world. In the old testament we read that God says that there is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood. And God established through the Jewish people that they would have their sins forgiven yearly on Passover by the sacrifice of an lamb without spot or blemish.
The day Jesus died was actually Passover. He died at the time when the Levitical priest was sacrificing the lamb sacrifice for the covering of sin for the Jewish people for that past year. And when Jesus died there was an earthquake and the sky went dark. Also, the veil at the temple in Jerusalem tore from top to bottom. That was the end of the Old Covenant and the beginning of the New Covenant.
Jesus rose from the dead a short while after that. And 40 days later Jesus ascended into Heaven and the bible says He sitteth down at the right hand of the Throne of God. Jesus will return.
The work Jesus did to pay for the sins of the world is finished. Our work is not finished but to understand that Jesus shed his blood to pay for the sins of the world and anyone that believes in Him is sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise and becomes right then a born again believer in Jesus Christ.
Repenting unto salvation happens when we have this truth that we are sinners and need to be forgiven in order to enter into God's plan of salvation.Our work is to believe God. And like Abraham was found righteous because he believed God so too are we found justified and therefore righteous in God's site eternally. We are reconciled back to God through Jesus Christ. We belong to Jesus Christ. We are new creations, ministers of reconciliation, ambassadors for Jesus Christ for the remaining time we have on this earth.
The faith is built upon trusting in the finished work of Jesus Christ for our justification.
ROMANS 4:4-5 KJV
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Surrendering to Jesus is great, but it is not what saves our soul from the Lake of Fire.
There are some helpful bible resources below. Be a Berean as the bible says in Acts those were found more honorable because they checked the words Paul spoke against the scriptures to see if they were true. If we do not then we are either lazy or we are trusting man and not God.
Getting back to man's problem with God and that is all are under sin:
ROMANS 5:16 KJV
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
SO above we see in Romans it states that it is the free gift from God that pays for the many offenses unto justification. Justification is what we need so that we can be saved.
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