SALVATION

In His great love, God provided salvation through the death of Jesus to all those who believe. Salvation has different facets ... directed toward God, sin, and man. An understanding of salvation is rooted in these different aspects of His great gift. Six of these are described below.

1. SUBSTITUTION ... JESUS TOOK MY PLACE. He died on the cross as our substitute. All of salvation is based on this one fact. It is more than His dying for our benefit. He died in our place.

"For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly."  Romans 5:6

"For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God." 1 Peter 3:18

2. REDEMPTION ... MY SIN WAS PAID FOR. This is directed toward sin. Redemption is buying or delivering by payment of a price. Redemption is a payment for sin ... made to God. The payment was the blood of Christ.  The life, or soul, of the flesh is in the blood, Leviticus 17:11. The payment was His life. Jesus Christ gave His life for our sins.

"Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us." Galatians 3:13

"Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ." 1 Peter 1:18-19

"For Thou wast slain, and didst purchase for God with Thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation." Revelation 5:9-10

3. PROPITIATION ... GOD WAS SATISFIED. This is directed toward God. Propitiation means satisfaction. The Bible states that Christ Himself is the sacrifice that satisfies God ... that appeases or placates God's wrath. The justice of God has to be satisfied.

"Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people." Hebrews 2:17

"And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world." 1 John 2:2

"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:10

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