The richness of our salvation

To better understand just what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross, we need to examine the different terms that express the ramifications of Christ's substitutionary death.

Several key words describe the richness of our salvation in Christ

In redemption the sinner stands before God as a slave but is granted freedom Rom.6:8-22

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

In forgiveness, the sinners stands before God as a debtor but dept. is paid and forgotten Eph. 1:7

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

In justification the sinner, standing before God guilty and condemned, is declared Righteous.

Rom 8:33

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

In reconciliation, the sinner stands before God as an enemy but becomes His friend

2 Cor 5:18-20

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

"John MacArthur - remember and return"

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