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Monthly Archives: October 2021
With salvation comes the remission and forgiveness of sin. God is able to forgive each of us our past, present, and future sin because Jesus paid the price for your sin as the ultimate one sacrifice for all sin.
Jesus Christ, God the Son, took the form of a human so that He could pay the price for our sin and save us from hell. Romans 5:8–9 tells us that “God commends (reveals) his love toward us, in that, while we were yet…..
Salvation is necessary because the rebellion and sin of Adam and Eve separated us from God and a penalty must be paid in order to tear down that separation. God’s righteousness and perfection preclude His fellowship with anything less righteous and perfect than Himself. In God’s perfect justice and righteousness, partiality towards or pardon of any sin or sinner would violate the need for a penalty as prescribed by His own Law. Nor could He judge all sinners with the…..
Our relationship with God is not one-sided. He created us for companionship with Him. In the Garden of Eden, He was in the habit of walking and talking to Adam. When sin entered, that fellowship was broken. When Jesus died on the cross and rose again, the chasm between us and God was bridged. As Christians we have that fellowship again, in prayer. In Matthew 7:7, Jesus tells us to “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye…..
“…I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received and wherein ye stand, by which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the…..
In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul exhorts Christians, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?” There is no spiritual common ground between the saved and the unsaved. When we find ourselves in some way bound to unbelievers, whether in marriage or in business, it is the believer’s principles that are compromised.
As early as Abraham in Genesis 24:37, the necessity for the equal spiritual yoke was…..