SALVATION - part 2

Why did Jesus come?

Jesus was not just a good teacher. He was the living word of God to come down from Heaven to be born as a human being.

John 14:6

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

He didn’t say “I know the way” (to Heaven) he said “I am the way”.

He did not say “I know the truth” he said “I am the truth itself”.

He did not say “I know the source of life” he said “I am the source of life”.

Sin is not a strange concept

We need salvation because we have sinned. To sin means to miss the mark. If God simply overlooked then He wouldn’t be who He said.

God is

     (a) good

     (b) holy

     (c) just

1 John 1:8-10 MSG

If we claim that we're free of sin, we're only fooling ourselves. A claim like that is errant nonsense. On the other hand, if we admit our sins---make a clean breast of them---he won't let us down; he'll be true to himself. He'll forgive our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing. If we claim that we've never sinned, we out-and-out contradict God---make a liar out of him. A claim like that only shows off our ignorance of God.

Everybody on earth actually knows this, as there have always been courts of justice (to some degree or another) and laws. If there was no perceived sin there would be no judiciary and punishment or correction.

All sin leads to death

What most people are wrong about is that they think that Hell is for different degrees of sin. In essence, some of us are good enough. That is not the truth, for all have fallen short and all are in need of the mercy of God.

Romans 3:23-24

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, [24] and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

All of us one day will stand before God and if we do not have Jesus as our intercessory we will perish.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.

The wages of sin is death and this is very literal. Death actually entered the world through sin. This is why, if we are covered in Jesus blood now, we actually have some authority now to rebuke physical illness attacking us now!

Romans 6:22-23 MSG

But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.

Judgement

Psalm 115:17 AMP

The dead praise not the Lord, neither any who go down into silence.

 

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

The old question of the world “if God is good what does he send people to hell?”. This is build on a false premise that God actively sends people to hell and it implies that God is inconstant, having more than one personality.

Analogy from the movie “Courageous”

God is the judge: imagine the most loved person by you is murdered. The murderer goes before the judge and tells the judge that he has done a lot of good things more than the bad things. The judge let him go. Would you say that that is a good judge? You would say no it's a bad judge. Well God is a good judge and no matter what to be a good judge must judge us by the wrongs we have done. The good news is that he sent his son to pay for everything. She will still judge always but he found a way around it.

Andy De Campos

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