The Culture of Hope Founded on Faith
Monthly Archives: November 2021
When we accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior by faith, we were “sanctified”. It means “set apart”. We are set-apart-ones to God from the moment of belief.
We spend the rest of our lives learning what that means, in pursuit of the Christ-like character, to follow Christ in the consecration of one’s self to God, and to apply the principles of God’s Word, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the goal of separation from sin. This is…..
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Reconciliation is the restoration of our broken relationship with God. When he sinned in the Garden of Eden, Adam broke the relationship of fellowship with God, not only for himself, but also for every human to be born afterwards. God gave Israel the Tabernacle, the priests, the rituals, and the sacrifices for temporary remission of sins. Until the cross of Christ, however, only a few people under the Old Covenant (the Old Testament) had the privilege of actual fellowship and…..
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Regeneration is God’s response to our faith in Jesus Christ. When God created the world and everything in it, He created us in His image. But because we are naturally born spiritually dead in sin, His image in us is marred. When we accept His Son as our Savior, we are born again, our human spirit recreated back into the image of God.
Ephesians 2:1-4 explains regeneration in terms of a complete about-face from the bondage of sin: “You hath he…..
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Justification is another attribute of salvation. It is the principle that, not only are we forgiven, but also our sin is completely forgotten, never to be brought up by God again: “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12). You are declared not guilty and all evidence of your sin is expunged, “just as if I had never sinned”.
The sin of the first man, Adam, caused sin…..