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SALVATION: Finding the Right Path

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Do you feel that your life has no real meaning and purpose? As if you are inside a tunnel, moving in a breakneck speed but you do not know where you are heading, and you can’t see a way out? There’s a deep longing in your heart but the things and excitement the world can offer cannot satisfy you in the long run?


SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD

The cause of eternal separation between God and man is sin. Sin is disobedience to God with or without your knowledge.




Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our lord.

My friend, you are not longing for someone or something from this world. You are really longing for your God. Only by returning to Him and reestablishing relationship with Him will you feel complete again.


THE JUSTICE OF GOD DEMANDS A SACRIFICE FOR MAN’S SIN

Since God is holy, righteous and just, He could not allow sin to go unpunished.

Being sinners we cannot go directly to God who is holy not because God doesn’t want us to go to Him but because it’s the consequence of sin.

In the Old Testament, the Jews offered the blood of birds, goats, lamb, etc. as sacrifices in their worship to God.


The blood acted as a substitute for their own blood because as sinners they are not worthy of God. This was their way of purifying themselves before God.


JESUS PAID THE PENALTY FOR OUR SINS

Since He is loving and compassionate, He did not want all of mankind to be eternally separated from Him. The divine solution to this problem was for Jesus, God’s only son, to become the sacrificial lamb for our sin.

Romans 3:25
God offered Him (Jesus), so that by His blood He should become the means by by which people’s sin are forgiven through their faith in Him (Jesus).




What happened on the cross? Jesus took our place and our punishment. He exchanged his righteousness for our sin. He took our curse and gave us His blessing. Because of His sinless life, He was the only one qualified to pay the penalty for man’s sin and bridge the gap between God and man.


SALVATION IS A GIFT FROM GOD

How can I attain salvation?

First and foremost, salvation is not the result of our good works but it is a gift from God. We don’t deserve to be saved but God saved us anyway.

Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.

By the death of Jesus in the cross, we are given a way to reconcile with God. What was not possible before becomes possible through Jesus.

Roman 10:9-10
If you confess (with your mouth) that “Jesus is lord” and believe that God raised Him from the death, you will be saved. For it is by our faith that we are put right before God; it is by our confession that we are saved.



The starting point of finding meaning and purpose is life starts with our reconciliation with God. The death of Jesus did not automatically saved us but instead it establishes a path for us to be reconciled with God and hence be saved. The door is open and Jesus is at the entrance always inviting us to enter and journey with Him.

From this point on, what will happen to your life and that of your love ones will depend on your response to His invitation today.

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