Salvation
1. the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
2. the state of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.
3. a source, cause, or means of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.
4.Theology. deliverance from the power and penalty of sin; redemption.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:3, 7
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
1. Why do we need to be saved?
2. How does God provide salvation for us?
3. How can we receive this salvation individually?
Sin is the disobedience to any commandment or law from God.
1. How does the Bible describe sin?
1 John 3:4
"Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness."
2. What is the result of sin?
Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
James 1:15
"Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death."
A way of understanding sin in a better way the consequences of sin, think about the word death as separation.
A. Spiritual death: our sins separate us from God.
B. Physical death: our spirits and our souls are separated from our body.
C. Eternal death: if we choose to remain lost in our sins, they will separate us from God's mercy forever - and that's the biggest punishment... eternal life spent in hell.
Being just means doing what is right, or in other words, being completely innocent before God when it comes to the obedience of his commandments.
3. How many of us can be called or described as just people?
Romans 3:10
"as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;"
4. How many of us have sinned and fallen short of God's glory?
Romans 3:23
"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"
5. How was justification found for us?
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."
6. Does God love us as sinners or do we have to become good somehow so then He can actually love us?
Romans 5:8
"but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
7. Can we reach salvation just through Jesus or is there any other way through which we can obtain salvation?
1 Timothy 2:5
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"
Acts 4:12
"And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 14:6
"Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
The Word of God states that sin causes death. Jesus died to bring us salvation.
8. How did Jesus pay the penalty of our sins?
1 Corinthians 15:3
"For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,"
9. What should we do to have Jesus as our Savior?
Romans 10:9
"because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
Acts 16:30-31
"Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Believing means union and trust.
Confessing means admitting our guilty and acknowledging that we are sinners.
10. The Word describes the difference between works and faith. So how are we saved when it comes to those two concepts?
Ephesians 2:8
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,"
Titus 3:5
"He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,"
11. Why aren't we saved through our own efforts?
Ephesians 2:9
"not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
Justice is receiving what we actually deserve.
If God was only just, we would die.
Mercy is not receiving what we truly deserve.
It's by God's mercy that we are forgiven.
Grace is receiving something without actually deserving it.
By God's grace - and not through our own efforts - He sent His Son to die for our sins.
Faith is accepting as real things that are not seen. It's fully trusting God.
12. What's the result of God's goodness/kindness and God's love?
Romans 2:4
"Or do you presume on the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?"
Repentance means change of thought. It's through the change of heart that men walks away from sin and comes closer to God. Repentance includes:
A. True, genuine repentance from our sins.
B. Constant purification, santification from our sins.
C. The desire of submiting ourselves to God's will.
13. What does happen in heaven when a sinner comes to repentance?
Luke 15:10
"Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Saudades, Helen.
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Muito bom poder partilhar as suas reflexoes onde quer que você esteja.
Bjos,
Bruno.
Ribi Yehoshua ha-Mashiakh (the Messiah) from Nazareth’s authentic teachings reads:
ReplyDelete[Torah, Oral Law & Hebrew Matityahu: Ribi Yehoshua Commanded Non-Selective Observance
The Netzarim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matityahu (NHM) 5:17-20 (later Hellenized to “the gospel of Matthew” (which is anti-Torah))]
[Glossaries found in the website below.]:
"I didn't come to subtract from the Torâh (“books of Moses”) of Moshëh or the Neviim (“prophets”), nor to add onto the Torah of Moshëh did I come. Because, rather, I came to [bring about the] complete [i.e., non-selective] observance of them in truth.
Should the heavens and ha-Aretz [the land (referring to Israel)] exchange places, still, not even one י or one of the Halâkhâh of the Torah of Mosheh shall so much as exchange places; toward the time when it becomes that they are all being performed -- i.e., non- selectively -- in full.
For whoever deletes one [point of] the Halâkhâh [mishpatim; referring to the decision of a beit din [Judaic court] of how the mitzwot (directives) should be applied. The authority is given by the Creator in Devarim (“Devarim”) 17:8-13]] of these mitzwot (directives or military-style orders) from Torah, or shall teach others such, [by those in] the Realm of the heavens he shall be called 'deleted.' And whoever ratifies and teaches them shall be called ' Ribi' in the Realm of the heavens.
For I tell you that unless your tzedaqah [righteousness (as it is defnied by Torah)] is over and above that of the [Hellenist-Roman Pseudo- Tzedoqim] Codifiers of halakhah, and of the Rabbinic- Perushim (Pharisees) sect of Judaism, no way will you enter into the Realm of the heavens." (see NHM)
Quote from www.netzarim.co.il ; “History Museum”
The reconstruction is made using a scientific and logic methodology. One of the premises is that the historical Ribi Yehoshua was a Torah-observant Pharisee (why that premise is true is found in the above website, in which you also will find more information about why a reconstruction is needed).
Ribi Yehoshua ha-Mashiakh lived and kept Torah with the sincerest of his heart, died innocently and became a sacrifice. Because of this the Creator can give His foregiveness for the short comings (in keeping Torah) to everyone doing his/her sincerest to keep His instructions found in Torah, and to everyone turning away from their Torah-breaches to instead starting to do their sincerest to keep the instructions in Torah.
According to the above verses Ribi Yehoshua taught that the only way to eternal life is to do ones best to keep Torah non-selectively to ones utmost. Then, while doing this (according to Yekhezeqeil (“Hezekiel”) 18, Hebrew Scriptures) the perfect Creator in His loving kindness provides His forgiveness for ones mistakes.
According to Yekhezeqeil a person who deviates from the path of non-selective Torah-observance, and the implications of Ribi Yehoshua ha-Mashiakhs words above, that person will not be forgiven.
The above text further implies that the “way of salvation” outlined in John 3:16 contradicts Ribi Yehoshua ha-Mashiakhs Torah-teachings.
The historical Ribi Yehoshua and his followers Netzarim observed Torah non-selectively. The above website proofs that the person who want to follow the historical Ribi Yehoshua must do likewise.
The only way to follow Ribi Yehoshua is through become one of his Netzarim-followers – www.netzarim.co.il
To observe the directives in Torah, which is the way that all of the followers of Ribi Yehoshua walks, is highly meaningful and I recommend it to you all!
Anders Branderud