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Subject: Blessings of Salvation! (1)
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seastarr 30.07.08 - 02:38pm
The Meaning and Blessings of Salvation. The doctrine of salvation is both simple and complex. *
seastarr 30.07.08 - 02:46pm
On the one hand, most of us can quote at least part of John 3:16 or of Paul's response to the Phillippian jailor's question about How to be saved. Acts 16:31. On the other hand, who can explain How a holy God-man could become sin and die for the sake of sinful and rebellous men? *
seastarr 30.07.08 - 02:55pm
Salvation is extremely important to understand correctly. An anathema 
is placed on anyone (including angels or preachers) who presumes to teach a different gospel of salvation from what is taught in Scripture Gal. 1:8. *
seastarr 30.07.08 - 02:58pm
What then is true salvation? How is it provided? How is it gained? What are it's Benefits and Blessings? *
seastarr 30.07.08 - 03:06pm
True salvation is that which is provided by God Himself through the sacrificial death of His Son Jesus Christ. There is no other way that a man can be saved from eternal condemnation and to eternal life. Acts 4:12 *
seastarr 30.07.08 - 03:15pm
Some Accomplishments of Christ's Death. *
seastarr 2.08.08 - 11:05am
1) Was a Substitution for Sin: there are many facets to the meaning of Christ's death, but the central one---without which the others have no eternal meaning---is substitution. This simply means that Christ died in place of sinners. The death of Christ was both in our place and for our benefit 2 Cor. 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteous of God in Him. And 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ suffered once for sins, the just of the unjust, that He might *
seastarr 2.08.08 - 11:09am
bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit. 
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seastarr 2.08.08 - 11:24am
2) Provided Redemption from Sin: the doctrine of redemption is built on 3 words in the New Testament. The first is a simple word that means to buy or purchase or pay a price for something. It is used, for instance, with this ordinary, everyday meaning in the parable of the treasure 
hid in a field which motivated a man to buy (redeem)the field (Matt 13:44). In relation to our salvation, the word means to pay the price which our sin demanded so that we could be redeemed. *
seastarr 2.08.08 - 11:38am
The second word is the same basic word indicated above, prefixed with a preposition which has force of intensifying the meaning.. This can be easily expressed in English because the preposition means out of, thus making the second word mean to purchase out of the market. Thus the idea in this 2nd word is that Christ's death not only paid the price for sin but also removed us from the marketplace of sin in order to give us full assurance that we will never be returned to the bondage and *
seastarr 2.08.08 - 11:53am
penalities of sin. The third word for redemption is an entirely different one. Its basic meaning is to loose and thus it signifies that the purchased person is also released and set free in the fullest sense. The means of this release is through the substitution Christ made (see 2 Tim. 2:6 where the prepositional prefix to this 3rd word is anti); the basis is the blood of Christ (Heb. 9:12); and the intended result is to purify a people zealous of good works (Titus 2:14) *
seastarr 2.08.08 - 12:00pm
Thus the doctrine of redemption means that because of the shedding of the blood of Christ, believers have been purchased, removed from bondage, and liberated. (From a Survey of Bible Doctrine, by Charles C. Ryrie) *
seastarr 2.08.08 - 12:03pm
3) It Effected Reconciliation: To reconcile means to change. *
seastarr 11.08.08 - 09:10pm
Reconciliation by the death of Christ means that man's state of alienation from God is changed so that he is now able to be saved (2 Cor. 5:19). When a man believes, then his former state of alienation from God is changed into one of being a member of His family. *
seastarr 11.08.08 - 09:28pm
4) It Provides Propitiation: To propitiate means to appease or to satisfy a god. This naturally brings to mind the question, Why does the deity need to be appeased? The biblical answer to that question is simply that the true God is angry with mankind because of their sin. The theme of the wrath of God appears throughout the Bible, including the teachings of Christ(Mark 3:29; 1:21).Wrath is not merely the impersonal and inevitable working out of the law of cause and effect, but it is a personal intervention *
seastarr 11.08.08 - 09:39pm
of God in the affairs of mankind (Rom. 1:18; Eph. 5:6). The death of Christ propitiated God, averting His wrath and enabling Him to receive into His family those who place their faith in the one who satisfied Him. The extent of the propitiatory work of Christ is to be the whole world (1 John 2:2), and the basis of propitiation is His shed blood (Rom. 3:25). *
seastarr 11.08.08 - 09:59pm
Because Christ died, God is satisfied. Therefore we should not ask anyone to try to do anything to satisfy Him. This would mean trying to appease someone who is already appeased, which would be totally unnecessary. Before the cross a person could not be certain that God was satisfied with whatever he brought to Him. That is why the publican prayed (literally)God be propritiated toward me a sinner(Luke 18:13).Today such a prayer would be a waste of breath, for God is propitiated by the death of Christ *
seastarr 11.08.08 - 10:05pm
Therefore, our message to men today should not suggest in any way that they can please God by doing something, but only that they be satisfied with the sacrifice of Christ which completely satisfied the wrath of God. *
seastarr 11.08.08 - 10:08pm
5) It Judged The Sin Nature. The death of Christ had an important benefit for us in making inoperative the reigning power of our sin nature (Rom. 6:1-10). Though this is not an easy concept to understand, Paul says that our union with Christ by baptism involves sharing His death so that we are dead to sin. The baptism must be that the Holy Spirit, for no water, in whatever amount could accomplish what is said in this passage. The idea of death, so prominent in this passage, does not mean either extinction *
seastarr 12.08.08 - 01:21pm
or cessation, but, as always, separation. The crucifixion of Christian with Christ means separation from the domination of sin over his life. The question, Shall we continue in sin? Is answered by an emphatic no on the basis of our dying with Christ(Rom. 6:1).This destroyed the body of sin. That word destroy does not mean to annihilate, for if it did, then the sin nature would be eradicated, a fact which our experience scarcely confirms!
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seastarr 12.08.08 - 01:29pm
It means to make the nature of sin ineffective. The believer is therefore now free to live a life pleasing to God. Although it is still possible to listen to and follow the promptings of sin, it will never be possible for sin to regain the domination and control it had before conversion. *
seastarr 12.08.08 - 01:36pm
6) It Brought The End of The Law. The fact that the death of Christ brought an end to the Mosaic law is quite clearly stated in the New Testament (Rom. 10:4; Col 2;14). *
seastarr 18.08.08 - 06:01pm
The importance of this fact is related to (a) justification and (b) sanctification, the former being much easier to see than the later. The reason is simply that the law could not justify a sinner (Acts 13:39); therefore, if men are to be justified, another way must be provided. The law can show man his need but it cannot provide the answer to that need (Gal. 3:23-25). Thus the death of Christ provided the way for justification by faith in Him alone. *
seastarr 18.08.08 - 06:15pm
But the relation of the end of the law to sanctification is more difficult to comprehend simply because portions of the Mosaic law are repeated in the New Testament in relation to the believer's sanctification. Furthermore, those specifics which are repeated are not just from one section of the law (like the Ten Commandments). As a matter of fact, nine of the Ten Commandments are repeated, and other parts of the law are too (Rom. 13:9). *
seastarr 18.08.08 - 06:18pm
This makes it impossible to say the law is done away with except for the Ten Commandments. *
seastarr 18.08.08 - 06:26pm
Furthermore, 2 Cor. 3:7-11 states quite clearly that the Ten Commandments (that which was written and engraven in stones) were done away with. How do you put all these facts together? Is todays Christain under Mosaic law in relation to sanctification or not? *
seastarr 19.08.08 - 01:35am
The only realistic solution is that which distinguishes a code and the commandments contained in that code. The Mosaic law was one of several codes which God has given throughout history, and as a code it is finished. The code under which the believer lives today is called the law of Christ (Gal. 6:2) or the law of the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2) *
seastarr 19.08.08 - 01:43am
As one code ends and another is instituted, not all of the commands in the new one will themselves be new and different. The permission to eat meat in the law of Christ (1 Tim. 4:3) was also part of the code under which Noah lived after the Flood (Gen. 9:3). Likewise, some of the specifics which were part of Mosaic code have been incorporated into the law of Christ and some have not. But the entire code, as a code, has been done away with. *
seastarr 19.08.08 - 01:48am
7) It Is The Ground For The Believers Cleansing From Sin: The blood [death] of Christ is the basis of our constant cleansing from sin (1 John 1:7). *
seastarr 19.08.08 - 01:56am
This does not mean that there isa recrucifixion or a dipping into the blood with which to touch the erring Christain, but that the once-for-all death of our Lord provides constant cleansing when we sin as believers. Our family relationship is kept right by His death; our family fellowship is restored by our confession. 
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seastarr 19.08.08 - 02:01am
As you read this topic, please be sure to read all the scriptures that help clarify this large subject. *
seastarr 19.08.08 - 02:08am
Some Benefits of Christ's Death: Among the almost innumeral blessings of salvation are many which are obvious to beleivers because they can be experienced, for example prayer. But there are also many benefits which in themselves are not experienced (though their results are) and which are not so well understood. And yet there are the vital bases for a normal Christain life. *
seastarr 24.08.08 - 11:36pm
1) Justification: That Christ's death makes us acceptable before God is expressed in such doctrines as redemption (Rom. 3:24),reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:19-21), forgiveness (Rom. 3:25), deliverance (Col. 1:13), acceptance in the Beloved (Eph. 1:6), assured future glorification (Rom. 8:30) and justification (Rom 3:24 *
seastarr 8.09.08 - 08:47pm
See next topic in this series. Justification through Christ *
