‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life’. - (John 3:16)
LIGHT FOR THE NOW: Salvation is the unconditional love of God to man.
Summarily, salvation is the unconditional love of God given to man. John 3:16. It is the unearned love of God. Salvation is God’s redemptive plan for man. He worked it out all by Himself. Paul speaking in Romans 5:6-8saya‘For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Foe scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.But God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us’. God extended His love for us even when we were sinners. He did so by sending His only begotten Son, Christ to die for us. This is called salvation. To this end, a song writer wrote, I was once lost, but now I am found. Man was deserving of death, but Christ took the initiative and became a substitute for man. Man did not have what it takes to bail himself, Christ voluntarily bailed man out from his death sentence. It takes a freeman to bail a bond man. Salvation is Christ’s death on behalf of man. What is salvation? It is Christ becoming sin in the stead of man. Christ was made sin, so that man was made righteous by Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Every man was subject to death by reason of sin ‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God’. Man was deserving of death, because the penalty of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life(Romans 6:23). By the mercy of God, salvation showed up!Romans 5: 21 says ‘That as sin hath reigned unto death; even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord’. The reign of sin ushered in death but at the emergence of grace, eternal life was accessible to man through Christ Jesus. This is what salvation is all about!
INSTRUCTION: Be grateful to God
for His unconditional love for man.
PRAYER: Lord I thank you for your love for me, in
Jesus name.
QUOTE:Love is the basis for salvation.
DAILY BIBLE READING:
MORNING: 1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 4; EVENING: ISAIAH CHAPTER 52
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