Romans
10:9-10
Because
if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with
the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Acts
4:13
Salvation is found in no one
else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
What
is salvation? What does it mean to be saved?
Salvation
is forgiveness of sin and cleansing from the stain of sin.
1
John 1:9
If
we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and
purify us from all unrighteousness.
Being
saved means that when we admit our sin, God forgives us from the penalty of our
sin and takes away the stain or guilt of sin. It means that we don’t have to
live in fear or discouragement or guilt.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is experiencing God’s forgiveness.
Salvation
is having eternal life.
John
3:16
For
God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes
in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.
Believing
that Jesus is the Son of God and the only source of salvation leads to receiving,
by God’s grace, a life that does not end at physical death. It continues
forever in the presence of God in heaven and then our eternal home in the New
Jerusalem.
We
as humans with our finite perspective cannot wrap our minds around eternal.
Everything we know has a beginning and an ending. Something that never has an
ending goes beyond our ability to comprehend. But just because it goes beyond our
ability to fully understand does not mean it is not true.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is knowing that we will live forever.
Salvation
is being justified in God’s sight.
Romans
3:24
And
are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ
Jesus.
Justification
is being declared by God that, through Jesus’ death on the cross, we have been
made right in our relationship with Him. It means we are innocent.
We
cannot earn that justification. It comes only by God’s grace.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is being in right relationship with God.
Salvation
is your lifestyle changing.
Acts
3:19-20
Repent,
then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of
refreshing may come from the Lord, and that He may send the Christ, who has
been appointed for you – even Jesus.
Repent
means to have a change of mind that leads to a change in behavior.
Salvation
is allowing God to change our lives so we live the way God wants us to live.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is having our lives transformed by God’s grace.
That
is the standard way of looking at salvation. But there is more!
Salvation
is being made new.
2
Corinthians 5:17
Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has
come!
We
become brand new people when we surrender our lives to Jesus.
The
old desires, the old way of living, the old goals as well as the old sin and
guilt are gone and the new desires, the new way of living, the new goals, and
new peace and freedom are here to stay.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is being made new in Jesus.
Salvation
is being righteous.
2
Corinthians 5:21
God
made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the
righteousness of God.
We
are righteous just like Jesus because He became our sin.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is being righteous.
Salvation
is Jesus living His life in and through us.
Galatians
2:20
I
have been crucified with Christ and no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The
life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave Himself for me.
When
we surrender our lives to the authority of Jesus, He then lives His life
through us.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is having Jesus live His life through us.
Salvation
is becoming like Jesus.
2
Corinthians 3:18
And
we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed
into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is
the Spirit.
When
we surrender our lives to Jesus, the Holy Spirit begins to form us into the
image of Jesus. We start to take on the character of Jesus.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is becoming like Jesus.
By
the Power of Jesus’ Salvation Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls
Joe
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