Saturday, June 03, 2006

So Great Our Salvation

This is going to be a short introduction that I plan on adding to in the up coming weeks. How often have we spoken of, or have been spoken to concerning our salvation. A few questions are in order to gain some in sight into the subject before we start.

In what have we based our salvation?

In whom do we trust our salvation?

How on earth will we endure to the end?

To start us out I want to make it very clear that I do not intend this to be my opinion, but truly God’s opinion; since it will be to God, through Jesus Christ, that we will give our ultimate
answer.

Gal 1:8 Whoever tells you good news that is different from the Good News we gave you should be condemned to hell, even if he is one of us or an angel from heaven.
Gal 1:9 I'm now telling you again what we've told you in the past: If anyone tells you good news that is different from the Good News you received, that person should be condemned to hell.

This is very strong language from Paul warning us of not teaching a different Good News, only the Good News already delivered to God’s family.

Jud 1:3 Dear friends, I had intended to write to you about the salvation we share. But something has come up. It demands that I write to you and encourage you to continue your fight for the Christian faith that was entrusted to God's holy people once for all time.

Jude exhorts us to continue our fight for the Good News, we are God’s sacred people set aside to be a light in this world of darkness.

For this week we will deal with question number one. The answer is the Bible it is from the Bible we get our witness to the truth of Jesus Christ and His work on the cross.

1Co 15:1 Brothers and sisters, I'm making known to you the Good News which I already told you, which you received, and on which your faith is based.
1Co 15:2 In addition, you are saved by this Good News if you hold on to the doctrine I taught you, unless you believed it without thinking it over.
1Co 15:3 I passed on to you the most important points of doctrine that I had received: Christ died to take away our sins as the Scriptures predicted.
1Co 15:4 He was placed in a tomb. He was brought back to life on the third day as the Scriptures predicted.

Without the Bible we would not know the truth of Jesus Christ, His death to pay the price His resurrection to give us a new life. If Christ is not alive today how can we be alive in Christ?

1Co 15:14 If Christ hasn't come back to life, our message has no meaning and your faith also has no meaning.

So in closing believing the witness of the Bible and knowing the Bible is the authoritative Word of God we have our answer to question number one.

May God richly bless you all.

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