02/28/23 GOD PROVIDES REAL SALVATION, REDEMPTION, ATONEMENT

02/28/23 GOD PROVIDES REAL SALVATION, REDEMPTION, ATONEMENT

If your preacher tells you that you have a...
1. "Standing with God," which is the way God "sees" you, through Christ,
AND you have a...
2. "State with God," which is the way you actually are, that is, the way you are actually living your life,

THEN YOU NEED TO FIND A BIBLE PREACHER, who preaches a God Who actually saves believers from sin; Who actually cleanses believers from all sin; Who actually transforms a sinner into a holy one; Who actually enables believers to fully trust, fully obey God; Who actually delivers from all temptation; Who actually sees us as new creations and actually sees our moral condition, and our faith status; Who actually empowers us to keep His commandments and do that which is pleasing in His sight; Who actually enables us to walk in the light, even as He is in the light.

Salvation is not some spiritual slight of hand or some heavenly misdirection or some divine hypnosis, whereby God is blind to the reality of our condition and pretends to see in us what is not real and pretends to not see in us what is real.

AND NO, I am not talking about legalistic, works salvation. I am talking about Divine, miraculous, Blood bought, Spirit wrought, Bible taught salvation, through which we can love God with our whole heart and mind and soul and strength and love our neighbor as we love ourselves; which not only gives us life but holiness of heart and life.

Jesus said that we must be born again (born of the Spirit), which is a spiritual transformation, not simply a wardrobe change. Being born of God enables and equips the believer to obey God.

God also tells us that we must be holy, even as He is holy and pure, even as He is pure and righteous, even as He is righteous; that we must follow holiness of heart and life ("The Sanctification"), without which no man shall see the Lord.

If we must be born again to be saved and go to heaven, we must also follow holiness of heart and life to be saved and go to heaven, because the same God says both truths in His word.

Salvation (regeneration, justification and sanctification) is the Divine, miraculous, transforming work of God that sets us free from sins penalty, pollution and power; that moves us from death to life, from the domain of Satan to the rule of God; that gives us victory over the world the flesh and the devil in this present evil world. 

1 John 2:1-6
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.