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3rd step of salvation

                           Recognize what God did for us 

 

What did Jesus really do for us?  He destroyed him who had the power of death; that is, the devil.  "Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood.  He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death; that is, the devil; and release those who through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage"  (Hebrew 2:14-15) 


First of all, He destroyed the devil, who had the power of death, and He released us from the fear of death. He died in our place as a substitue.  He appeased the wrath of God.


Secondly, the holy Son of God who hates sin was willing to become sin for us, who knew no sin.  In I Peter 2:24 the Word of God says that "He bore our sins in His own body..." likewise,  "He has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."  (2 Corinthians 5:21).  He was willing to experience the awful agony of being separated from His Father for the first time from all eternity.  His Father could not neither look upon Him nor have fellowship with Him because the sins of the world were laid upon Him.


Thirdly, He gave His All as He allowed His blood to be poured out and drained from Him and He died. "Much more then being justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him."  (Romans 5:9).  We are saved from the wrath of God because Jesus appeased the wrath of God by being our substitute and God the Father was satisfied.  The price was paid in full!  The Word of God declares:  "How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purified our conscience from dead works that we might be able to serve the true and Living God."  (Hebrews 9:14)


Fourthly, thought He had the Sovereign power of God to come down from the Cross yet He remained there and suffered, bled, and died as a Substitute for our sins and paid the ultimate penalty for sin which was death.  In Hebrew 12 it says that... He despised the shame of the cross....the shame of all our sins....the shame of being treated like a criminal even though He was completed innocent....innocent before the world...naked and experiencing public humiliation and scorn, who was guilty of what....guilty of loving every person in the world  in such an unlimited degree….unconditional and sacrificial love of God?


I think that it is mind-boggling that while He was dying He was being ridicule, scorn, and challenged to come down the cross:  He had the Power to call for ten thousand angels, who could have put the entire mob upon individual crosses and let them all suffer the  agony of the cross.  Unrestrained power that He had to stop all His sufferings yet He chooses not to use it!  That is absolutely amazing!  Breathing taking that He didn't use that power to unleashed  the full fury of the wrath of God upon that mob, who were enjoying the way that He was dying.

 

In His final hours on the cross, He asked His Father to forgive such a mob that really deserved the full wrath of God.  He even made sure that His earthly mother would be taken care of and He promised to a thief,  who believed in Him that "....today shall you be in paradise with me!"


That is the kind of value that we all have in His sight....Somebody Special....dearly loved! 


Be absolutely sure that God the Father will unleashed the full fury of His wrath upon those who reject His only begotten Son!!!

 

 

 

Development of Sanctication-First Step

Questions with Answers found in this section of Scripture: 

      1.  What is the most important quality that we need to add FIRST to our faith?


      2.   What is the will of God according to this section of Scripture

      3.    What is virtue?

      3.    What is the gravest sin in the Church

      4.     What two qualities will sexual immorality destroy inside of us?

       5.     What relationships will sexual immorality destroy?

2 Peter 1: 5 “…giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue-which is moral excellence (2 Peter 1:5a).  It doesn’t say, add, church involvement, or soul winning, or separation. To our precious faith add moral excellence. Does that sound a little odd?  In I Thessalians 4: 3-the Word of God says; “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles, who don’t know God…For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 

Therefore, he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (I Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8). In I Corinthians 6:18-20 the Word of God declares:  Flee sexual immorality, as every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immortality sins against his own body.  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


Sex is sacred and marriage is a picture of the intimacy, oneness, and purity that the Lord wants in His relationship with a believer. “For this reason a man shall leave his    father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.  This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
  1. Sexual immorality is one of the gravest sin in the church.  It destroys relationships and families. Satan has used sexual immortality to destroy the ministry of pastors, who gnvolved in an illicit relationship.
  2. Many men in the church have an insatiable appetite for pornography that destroys their relationship with both their wife and the Lord.
  3. Too many women in the church love their soap operas and they often have romance thoughts about being involved in an affair.
  4. Adding moral excellence to our precious faith will create much stability and strength in our character in addition to gaining God’s favor and many blessings from the Lord.
  5. Sexual immorality is one of Satan’s favorite tool for enslaving those who are involved in it.Sexual immorality will destroy a person’s character and conscience.  Therefore, ADDmoral excellence to your precious faith
  6. To illustrate character I would use cement that is wet and mix with gravel, when it is first laid down on the ground.  When it is settle it will become hard and sturdy.  Moral excellence is the beginning of a foundation that will soon become hard and sturdy.

(Abstain from sexual immortality)


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