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Seven (7) Provisions for Salvation
God Provides
Adoption Jesus made me a part of God’s Family Romans 8:22-23
Forgiveness Jesus paid for my Sins (Took my place) Col. 1:14
Justification Jesus made me ‘Right with God’ Romans 5:1
Propitiation Jesus satisfied God’s justice 1John 4:10
Reconciliation Jesus made ‘peace with God’ possible Romans 5:11
Redemption Jesus purchased my Salvation w/his blood Galatians 3:13
Substitution Jesus died in my place (Took my place) Romans 5:8
The crossover point from the old covenant to the new covenant is Jesus.
Did you notice; Jesus takes care of Gods Provisions.
Romans 8:22-23 . 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 23 And not only that, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves (our spirit), waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, the redemption of our body.
Colossians 1:14 . 13 For God rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Ephesians 1:7 . In Jesus we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of His grace.. (His shed blood provides redemption from sin.)
Romans 5:1-2 . Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we also have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; (Justified = just as though I have never sinned; we have a clean slate.)
1John 4:10 . 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. (My justice for sin was given to Jesus; HE took my sins to the cross.)
1John 2:1-2 .My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2 and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Romans 5:11 . 11 And not only this, but we also celebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Galatians 3:13 . Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a TREE”—
Romans 5:8 . But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Jesus, God the Son, became our substitute; HE took our place.)
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God takes care of the PROVISIONS; what do we have to do?
Once convicted, with remorse, that we need to be SAVED.
(My sin was the cause of Jesus’s suffering on the cross.)
- We must put our trust in Jesus; believe; then accept him as Savior. Romans 10:9-10.
- We must repent. [Make a U-turn in the way we live our lives.] Mark 1:14-15.
- We must confess with our own mouth that Christ is our Lord; publicly. 10:32.
Romans 10:9-10. – 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Mark 1:14-15. – 14 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Matthew 10:32-33. – 32 “Therefore, everyone who confesses ME before people, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies ME before people, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven. (There are two roads and two gates into eternity. The narrow road leads to the pearly gate [Heaven]; the wide road leads to the fiery gate [Hell]. Math 7:13-14. Which road are you on?)
GOD gives Provisions for SALVATION; we, the people, make the choices.
SELAH.
DG