Salvation and God's Forgiveness
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INTRODUCTION
Thesis statement: Understanding the connection between God and salvation is crucial for our spiritual journey.
Thesis statement: Understanding the connection between God and salvation is crucial for our spiritual journey.
The Problem of Sin
God’s Provision for Sin
Our Response to God’s Forgiveness
1. The Problem of Sin
1. The Problem of Sin
It began in the beginning in the Garden
Man had one prohibition
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Satan’s enticement
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
What sin does
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Several questions arise about sin
Wasn’t it a small sin?
Knowing what his view of sin, why would God create man knowing he would sin?
Why not create man so he would not sin?
LOVE REQUIRES CHOICE
LOVE REQUIRES CHOICE
2. God’s Provision for Sin
2. God’s Provision for Sin
Jesus is the only answer to the problem of sin
Jesus is the only answer to the problem of sin
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
How other religions see Jesus
3. Our Response to God’s Forgiveness
3. Our Response to God’s Forgiveness
Acknowledge we have a sin problem
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.