INTRODUCTION:
The story of salvation is the story of Jesus Christ, our Lord was was with God in the beginning of time, and who had to come down to the earth as a human being in order to redeem us from sin and darkness through the shedding of His holy and righteous blood.
Salvation is a gift of God and is received through personal faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice at the cross of Calvary. Salvation encompasses many profound concepts...like deliverance, healing and divine restoration. Salvation is deliverance from hell fire, it is an insurance to eternal life as well as deliverance from demonic oppression.
Most people reading this message are born again and on your way to heaven. Even though your life may not seem like you are going to heaven, but I want you to know that God, truely wants you to inherit eternal life, that is why He sent His only begotten Son to die for your sins. So, keep amending your ways, keep living holy and keep asking for the grace to please Him. It is a gradual but steady journey.
You may be reading this piece and you are not sure your sins are forgiven, you may have questions concerning God and who Jesus Christ is. I want everyone to pay careful attention, as I share briefly on the wonders of Salvation. The wonders of salvation is a story of how you got saved and translated from the kingdom of darkness unto light, the benefits of being born again and how to maintain your salvation till you meet the Lord.
Jesus Christ:
1. He existed before the world began, according scriptures. He was with God in the beginning according to John 1:1-2: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.Jesus Christ the Living Word, is the Eternal One. The Word (Jesus) was God! He was before creation – He did not become or was created – Jesus eternally existed before the beginning of creation.
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. Jesus said in John 8:58 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "Before Abraham was born, I am!". Before the world came into existence, Jesus existed in the glorious presence of the Father.
A common mistake made by men sometimes is to blame others for their misfortunes in life. Some blame their relations, others blame their husbands, wives and in-laws. But do you know that you can be your own worst enemy when you ignore spiritual things or refuse to grow in the things of the spirit.
You may be reading this piece and you are not sure your sins are forgiven, you may have questions concerning God and who Jesus Christ is. I want everyone to pay careful attention, as I share briefly on the wonders of Salvation. The wonders of salvation is a story of how you got saved and translated from the kingdom of darkness unto light, the benefits of being born again and how to maintain your salvation till you meet the Lord.
Jesus Christ:
1. He existed before the world began, according scriptures. He was with God in the beginning according to John 1:1-2: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.Jesus Christ the Living Word, is the Eternal One. The Word (Jesus) was God! He was before creation – He did not become or was created – Jesus eternally existed before the beginning of creation.
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. Jesus said in John 8:58 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "Before Abraham was born, I am!". Before the world came into existence, Jesus existed in the glorious presence of the Father.
A common mistake made by men sometimes is to blame others for their misfortunes in life. Some blame their relations, others blame their husbands, wives and in-laws. But do you know that you can be your own worst enemy when you ignore spiritual things or refuse to grow in the things of the spirit.
SALVATION - God's Promise:
God had created man to live for ever more, but due to sin, death came into existence, and man can no loner live indefinitely. The reason is because the Lord had made a decree that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of god is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jesus came to give us salvation and hope for eternity and receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and saviour, we are washed and cleansed with His blood and the spirit of iniquity and sin is washed off our lives. So no matter how long you have been enslaved by that sinful habit, no matter what evil the devil have used you to do on earth, the blood of Jesus is more powerful than sin and the motions of sin.
Jesus Christ, the son of God is called Saviour because of your sins and no man can deal with sin without the blood of Jesus and there is no salvation without Jesus, The bible speaking in Act 4:12, the bible said "Neither is there salvation is any other name, for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved"
In Mathew 1:21, The bible says "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shall his name JESUS for He shall save His people from their Sins.
Reconciliation
To reconcile means to change from enmity to friendship. Reconciliation by the death of Christ means that man’s state of alienation from God is changed so that he is now able to be saved (2 Corinthians 5:19-21). The basis for our reconciliation is the death of Christ (Romans 5:10-11). We must point out that only man is changed. God never changes.
What does this mean to us today? God is not our enemy. He is our Friend. He wants us to trust that friendship. He will never turn away from us who have put our faith in Jesus Christ.
Blessings
1. We have been chosen by the Father
2. We have been made holy by the Spirit
3. We are cleansed by the blood of the Son
His promises are sure:
1. They increase our joy in the Lord.
2. They also give us assurance of His protection and help.
3. They increase our faith in God.
4. They increase our love for God.
Propitiation
What does that mean to you and me today? We don’t have to think of making up for the bad things we have done. Our motive for doing good works or giving money or self-sacrifice will not be to appease God but because our hearts are filled with gratitude. God is completely satisfied with the atonement of Jesus Christ.
Blessings
1. We have been chosen by the Father
2. We have been made holy by the Spirit
3. We are cleansed by the blood of the Son
His promises are sure:
1. They increase our joy in the Lord.
2. They also give us assurance of His protection and help.
3. They increase our faith in God.
4. They increase our love for God.
Hindrance By Satanic Agents:
Sin is the beginning of the sufferings of man. It is not as though evil people do not hinder the progress of others...NO. They do, And they would most times begin at home before locating someone outside to hinder. When you do not study your bible and pray daily, you are far from the spiritual power to influence things in the realm of the spirit and so your relations who are in darkness can exercise demonic power and hinder you greatly.
How? The eyes of agents of the devil are opened in the spirit to see certain things by the devil their master and who ever can see in the spirit can influence and control what is happening in the physical....Your lethargy has therefore made you your own worse enemy.
How? The eyes of agents of the devil are opened in the spirit to see certain things by the devil their master and who ever can see in the spirit can influence and control what is happening in the physical....Your lethargy has therefore made you your own worse enemy.
Sin and Its Consequences:
Going back to the book of Genesis, we will discover another reason why yoiu may be your own worse enemy and not the witch that is troubling your life. In the bible, everything was going on well for Adam and Eve until they sinned. With sin came guilty conscience and hiding from God. When God visited them and realized they have sinned and began to ask them questions, It was Adam that started by blaming his wife for eating the fruit, instead of saying I and my wife have eaten the apply.
He blamed the wife and laid a bad precedent which many are still following till today. Sin is hindrance to success of any man connected to God. Sin scatters and disorganizes and infact disrupts God plan for man as can be seen from the bible. With sin Adam and Even were removed from their garden of comfort to go into the wilderness and suffer, till the ground before they will eat bread. It is the same thing today for all man, sin is another enemy of a man;s progress with the Lord.
Death:
Salvation was never an after thought as some people would think, No... No, the Scripture teaches us that God planned our salvation before the foundation of the world, because in His omniscience, He knew that mankind would desperately need it.
When man disobeyed God and obeyed Satan, man surrendered the crown of his dominion on earth to the devil, became sinners by nature and the consequences of sin is death. Remember, that God in warning Adam about the fruit told him that the day you shall eat of this food, you shall surely die. Though the devil deceived Eve that she shall not surely die after eating the fruit, we know today that they died in the spirit - which is to say, they were separated from God in the spirit, though they were yet living. So, in clear perspective, we have two kind of death as follows:-
1. Spiritual death-separation from God (They hid and were afraid.)
2. Physical death
This is why we have many people who are spiritually dead, while they are still living in the physical realm.
What to do
Until a man is born again, his life can hardly be straight and even if he serves in the house of God in any capacity, he is not yet a son of God. Many people are serving God in different areas when they are not born again, neither have they given their hearts to Jesus Christ, people like that are not sons, but dogs. But when a sinner repents and surrenders his heart to Jesus Christ, he becomes a son and all the blessings of God, he can begin to appropriate into his life.
In conclusion, only the help of God can you have victory over sin - whether it be lying, cheating, stealing etc. Give your heart to Him today and the grace to live right will be released unto your spirit and your life will never remain the same in Jesus name.
FIRE...
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