Salvation

To those who see my posts but do not really believe in GOD or His Son, Jesus Christ or His Spirit, Holy Spirit. Many if not all of you know something about GOD, maybe you believe but you’re not sure about the whole Heaven and hell thing. Or how Jesus could take your sins away or even that you have sins. There may be a few who get my posts that just do not believe in GOD, so this post is for y’all.

All I can tell you is that there is a GOD, He is the GOD of the Bible. He created everything that exists and there is good and evil.

 Good and evil are not things so they were not created, they are knowledge and knowledge can be used for good or evil. Hitler was evil but evil was not Hitler, evil can never be something but the knowledge of evil can make people behave badly. Mahatma Gandhi was good but good was not Gandhi, good can never be something but the knowledge of good can make people behave correctly. Evil will lead to eternal destruction but good will not lead to eternal life. This is the key concept that lets us make since of sin and salvation. Good people go to hell when they die because they reject GOD’s gift of salvation. If you want to know more about creation and good and evil study the first 4 chapters of Genesis.

Here are a few scriptures that show what I am saying.

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of GOD is eternal live in Christ Jesus our LORD.” Romans 6:23

“For GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. GOD did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of GOD.” John 3:16-18

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” John 14:6

“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true GOD, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” John 17:3

 “Therefore He [Jesus] is also able to save to the uttermost (completely) those who come to GOD through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25 Yes, Jesus is praying for you!

“What then shall we say to these things? If GOD is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against GOD’s elect? It is GOD who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of GOD, who makes intersession for us.” Romans 8:31-34

So here is a big thing, what is sin? The word sin in old English, which is what the first English Bibles were written in, is an archery term that means ‘to miss the mark’. So sin is missing GOD’s mark or purpose for us. Today we understand that sin is behavior that does not please GOD. Here is the tricky part many good people do not believe that they should live by GOD’s standard. Evil people are easy for almost anybody to see haters, murders, rapists, drug dealers, sex traffickers almost everyone in every society would agree that these are evil people. But what about people who tell lies, have sexual relations outside of marriage, steal, gossip many of us would say they are bad people but not evil. The problem is that it is not our standard by which each of us will be judged. It is GOD’s standard and He is the Judge.

Most of us know some of the 10 Commandments, they are GOD’s standard by which we should live.

“And GOD spoke all these words, saying: ‘I am the Lord your GOD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. You shall have no other gods before Me.

2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your GOD, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your GOD in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your GOD. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your GOD is giving you.

6. You shall not murder.

7. You shall not commit adultery.

8. You shall not steal.

9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.’” Exodus 20:1-17

Here is what Jesus said about the law, “Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, ‘Which is the first commandment of all?’ Jesus answered him, ‘The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our GOD, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your GOD with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.’ So the scribe said to Him, ‘Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one GOD, and there is no other but He. And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.’ Now when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, ‘You are not far from the Kingdom of GOD.’ But after that no one dared question Him.” Mark 12:28-34

So this is starting to get long and I want you to read to the end.

All you need to know is that by GOD’s standard you are a sinner, as are all people who were or will ever be born. GOD loves you He does not want you to go to hell, which was created for the devil and the fallen angels. GOD sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to take our sin upon Himself as a onetime sacrifice for everyone so that our sins would be forgive. He took our place in death and went to hell in our place, being separated from His Heavenly Father for the only time ever. He as the Son of GOD defeated death and hell and rose from the dead to live eternally and by all that He did we can be forgiven for our sins and live our life for Him on the earth and be with Him in eternity when our body dies.

All that you have to do is by faith believe that Jesus is the Son of GOD, that He died in your place and rose from the grave to be seated at the right hand of GOD in there eternal Kingdom. To ask GOD to forgive you your sins by the blood of Jesus and to fill you with His Holy Spirit. Let me end this with a couple more scriptures to make my point.

“But what does it say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’ (that is the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus and believe in your heart that GOD has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:8-10

“But GOD demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:3-4

“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:1-2