1 Tim 2:5-6
The salvation of every human being is in God alone through faith in
Christ alone.
God created the world and all things in it for His glory and pleasure. It
is with that purpose He created mankind I His own image. Man was
created in God’s image so that he will have a personal and intimate
relationship with God. As a bearer of God’s image he can relate to God
in a way that no other creature can. His duty was to love God and
serve Him doing everything for God’s pleasure alone and in that he
would have been fulfilled.
Man turned from God, rejecting Him, His love and His life. Rather than
fulfilling his duty of accomplishing God’s pleasure by loving and serving
Him exclusively, he decided to do everything for his own pleasure. In
doing this he sinned against God and as a result brought God’s
punishment upon himself rather than God’s blessings.
By separating himself from God he can no longer share in God’s true
identity, in fact, he has become dead to it. In addition, he dies
physically and will die eternally, remaining eternally separated from
God. Those are the penalties God had placed on disobedience to Him.
God decided to provide a remedy for the predicament that man placed
himself in and also to make His original purpose for creating man a
reality. He decided to deliver man Himself.
There is salvation in God alone through faith in Jesus Christ alone.
God Used Jesus Christ to pay the penalty demanded by Him for man’s
disobedience. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Jesus
Christ paid the penalty for sin with His Live. He sacrificed Himself to
God. This was done on behalf of all those who will come to God. God
accepted the sacrifice and He accepts all those who come to Him on
the basis of that sacrifice.
God issues a call to all mankind to come to Him through, Jesus Christ.
Anyone who will get back to God must exercise faith in the sacrificial
work that was done by Jesus Christ. That is, they must believe that
the price was paid for them personally by Jesus Christ and that they
must throw themselves into Jesus Christ and go to God in Him.
God brings no one to Himself by force, and getting to Him is not
automatic because Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself. It only happens by
a personal act of faith and trust in Jesus Christ. It only happens by a
personal act of deliberately turning from serving oneself to turning to
God in Jesus Christ, from living for one’s own pleasure to living for
God’s.
Every human being must do this if he is to receive God’s forgiveness
and get back to Him. There is no other way as the scripture says, all
have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
God has dome more than provide salvation from the consequences of
in Jesus Christ. He has made it so the after a person turns back to
Him, He enables that person to continue to live on earth in a way that
pleases Him. In this he has also made provisions for when that person
sins again, that sin will not result in him being separated from God
again, ever. He can go directly to God and confess his sin and he will
be forgiven. In addition, God will continue to make him more and more
like Himself and the new relationship will never change.
You will still die physically but not even that will separate you from
God. In fact, that death will take you into His immediate presence
where you will continue to live with Him in a way very similar to how
the first two persons that were created lived with Him, before they
rebelled against Him.
There is nothing better that you can do for yourself right now than to
turn to God through exercising faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring
us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit[
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1 Peter 3:18 (NASB)
But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being
witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in
Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; 23 for all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God,
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Romans 3:21-23 (NASB)
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away;
behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us
to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God
was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them
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2 Cor 5:17-19 (NASB)
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
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who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.
1 Tim 2:5-6 (NASB)