Penalty of Sin
The result and penalty of sin is death…separation from God. “For the wages of sin is death…” (Rom. 6:23). The payment for sin is death. Sin is not paid for by good works, penance, church membership, water baptism, etc. Sin is paid for by death. God does not hate the sinner, but He hates the sin. He hates sin because it separates us from Him (Isa. 59:2), and He doesn’t want us to be separated from Him. “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power” (II Thess. 1:8,9).
Repent
Mark 1:15b, “repent ye, and BELIEVE THE GOSPEL.” literally reads, “Think differently and BELIEVE the Good News.” Hence, repentance is unto the Gospel itself
We change our mind from what ever we are currently trusting in ourselves for salvation to believing that Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins, was buried and rose the third day. To believe and trust in the risen saviour and His substitutionary death on the cross, as our only means of salvation.
“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,” (Acts: 17:30)
Repentance means to change ones mind about how to reach God and accept GOD’S way of salvation. We must CHANGE OUR MIND from any idea of religion we may have to save ourselves, and trust Christ’s payment for everything we have done wrong.
Turning FROM something (whether it be lifestyle, good works, idols, sport, religion,). to Christ to be saved, that is what you must change your mind about!
The Bible also calls for “faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Acts 20:21b) Faith is putting complete trust in Jesus Christ and His work on the cross as your only means of clearing your guilt and delivering your soul from the punishment of hell.
Adoption
This is the means by which the christian becomes a son of God, and therefore an heir with Christ. (Rom 8:15, Gal 4:6)
Advocate
An advocate is a person who comes to our aid or pleads our case to a judge. Advocates offer support, strength, and counsel and intercede for us when necessary. The Bible says that Jesus is an Advocate for those who’ve put their trust in Him: “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). In other verses, Jesus calls the Holy Spirit our Advocate (John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7). The English word advocate has been translated from the Greek word parakleton, which means “helper, adviser, or counselor.” https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Advocate.html
Salvation
Salvation if NOT dependent upon
- walking the aisle
- joining a church
- joining a denomination
- being baptized in water (for salvation)
- speaking in tongues
- turning over a new leaf
- getting rid of bad habits or vices
IT IS dependant on putting your faith in Christ’s finished work on the cross on your behalf (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
Grace
“Grace” God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense. It means God’s undeserved favour. In other words it means getting something that you do not deserve. It is similar to the concept of “mercy”, which means not getting what you do deserve.
Mediator
1 Timothy 2:3-6 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (verse 21).
Only the sacrifice of the sinless, spotless Lamb of God could fully pay the ransom required to set people free from sin and eternal death. Jesus took our punishment on Himself, making it possible for us to experience forgiveness of sin and freedom from its destructive control.
There is one mediator between God and man means that Christ is the only way to God the Father. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). If we want to experience peace with God and a restored relationship of joy in His presence, we must come “by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body” (Hebrews 10:19–20).
Jesus Christ is the one mediator—the one and only Savior of the world (John 1:29; 1 Timothy 1:15). There is no other go-between. We come to God through faith in His Son, who is the only means of salvation. Religion cannot save us. Good works won’t make us right with God. Nothing but faith in Jesus Christ is sufficient to bridge the gap between sinful humanity and a Holy God.
Jesus, God’s incarnate Son, is the perfect intermediary, better than Moses because He alone is appropriately qualified to be the one mediator between God and man
As the one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ now rules in the hearts of believers and “is at the right hand of God . . . interceding for us” (Romans 8:34 gotquestions.org
Sanctification
Is an ongoing work to make the justified man a more perfect man in acts of righteousness before God and man.
Propititation
Propitiation is the act of appeasing the wrath of God and being reconciled to Him. Propitiation carries the basic idea of appeasement or satisfaction Whereby God accepts the blood of Christ as the complete and satisfying sacrifice for all human sin, thus establishing a means of reconciliation between God and man.
“And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.” (1 John 2:2)
“Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.” (Hebrews 2:17)
Glorification
It is at the rapture when the saved receive a new glorified and eternal body which will be in the image of the Lord’s glorified body.
Justification
The act of God whereby our legal standing in heaven is changed and we are declared righteous.
Imputation
It is the designation of accountably. Before being born-again we were imputed with sin, as a fleshly descendent of Adam’s family. In accepting the Lord Jesus Christ our sin is imputed to Jesus’ account and Jesus’ righteousness is imputed to our account.
Reconciled
Reconciliation is the work of God through Christ by which He restores mankind to a favorable relationship with Himself. Reconciliation is the restoration of a relationship to a harmonious state after a dispute;
The means God used to reconcile us to Himself was His own Son, Jesus Christ:
“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” ” (2 Corinthians 5:18–19). In fact, it was “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by” (Romans 5:10). Jesus’ death makes all the difference. When Christ died, He was “ And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” (Colossians 1:20).
Redemption
The word redeem means “to buy out.” The term was used specifically in reference to the purchase of a slave’s freedom.
God has purchased our freedom, and we are no longer in bondage to sin or to the Old Testament law.
Jesus paid the price for our release from sin and its punishment (Matthew 20:28; 1 Timothy 2:6 “Who gave himself a ransom for all…”). His death was in exchange for our life. In fact, Scripture is quite clear that redemption is only possible “through His blood,” that is, by His death “In whom we have redemption (bought back with a price) through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:” (Colossians 1:14).The benefits of redemption include
eternal life (Revelation 5:9-10),
forgiveness of sins (Ephesians 1:7),
righteousness (Romans 5:17),
freedom from the law’s curse (Galatians 3:13),
adoption into God’s family (Galatians 4:5),
deliverance from sin’s bondage (Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 1:14-18),
peace with God (Colossians 1:18-20), and
the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Christ’s redemption has freed us from guilt, being “justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24).
Adoption
God transforms us into the image of His Son and places us into His family.
Remission
Only in Jesus can we get remission of sins (Acts 10:43), putting them away, under the blood so that we can be forgiven of them in God’s sight.
Substitutionary Death
Jesus Christ died in our place when He was crucified on the cross. We deserved to be the ones placed on that cross to die because we are the ones who live sinful lives. But Christ took the punishment on Himself, in our place. He substituted Himself for us and took what we rightly deserved so God could pronounce us innocent. Jesus, because he was sinless, gives us His righteousness in return.
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:” (1 Peter 3:18)
““But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5)
We can only pay the price of sin ourselves by being punished with eternity in hell, but God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to earth to pay the price of our sins. Jesus died, was buried, and rose again, proving that God accepted His payment for our sin.
“For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1st Corinthians 15:3-4).
Jesus was punished for our sins so that we could be forgiven and avoid sin’s punishment. Because He did this for us, we now have the opportunity to not only have our sins forgiven, but to spend eternity with Him. This is the true concept of salvation.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. – Isaiah 53:5
Remission
Cancellation of a debt, charge or penalty
Atonement
The atonement of Christ is a vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice that satisfied the demands of God’s justice upon sin. With His sacrifice, Christ paid the penalty of man’s sin, bringing forgiveness, imputing righteousness, and reconciling man to God.
Leviticus 17:11 – “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.”
Hebrews 9:12 – “He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.”
Hebrews 9:22 – “Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.”
Sin
Sin is the transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God. God told Adam if he disobeyed he would die (spiritually and physically). The result and penalty of sin is death…separation from God. “For the wages of sin is death…” (Rom. 6:23). The payment for sin is death. Sin is not paid for by good works, penance, church membership, water baptism, etc. Sin is paid for by death. God does not hate the sinner, but He hates the sin. He hates sin because it separates us from Him (Isa. 59:2),
Inherited Sin
Sin has been passed down through all the generations of mankind and we, Adam’s descendants, have inherited sin from him. “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12) and human beings became sinners by nature. Through Adam, the inherent inclination to sin entered the human race, and human beings became sinners by nature. When Adam sinned, his inner nature was transformed by his sin of rebellion, bringing to him spiritual death and depravity which would be passed on to all who came after him. We are sinners not because we sin; rather, we sin because we are sinners. Because of Adams sin, all humanity has been plunged along with him into guilt and condemnation. When he fell, we fell with him; when his spirit died to God, our spirit died to God (no longer in spiritual connection/ relationship with God), when he was condemned, we were condemned with him.
Imputed Sin
After the Law was given, sins committed in violation of the Law were imputed (accounted) to them “To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.” (Romans 5:13)
Personal sin
That which is committed every day by every human being. Because we have inherited a sin nature from Adam, we commit individual, personal sins, everything from seemingly innocent untruths to murder. Those who have not placed their faith in Jesus Christ must pay the penalty for these personal sins, as well as inherited and imputed sin. God records all sins and if you have not been saved you will have to give account to God for all the sins you’ve committed.
Summary
Original / Inherited Sin describes the moral state of man: man has a sinful nature.
Imputed Sin describes man’s legal standing before God: guilty of sin because of Adam’s Original Sin.
Personal Sin describes the actual manifestation of an individual’s sinful nature: disobedience of God’s will.
Faith
“..A man is justified by faith” (Romans 3:28)
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Biblical faith is trust and commitment
Incarnate
The Latin verb incarnare meant “to make flesh.” When we say that Jesus Christ is God “Incarnate,” we mean that the Son of God took on a fleshly, bodily form (John 1:14).
Law vs Grace
God’s LAW shows man that he is a sinner against a Holy God. Then, and then brings us to Christ to be saved by GRACE “So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” (Galatians 3:24-26).
Receive Christ
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” (John 1:12) A readiness in our hands to receive.
To receive Jesus is to call out to Him in faith, trusting that only His blood can cleanse us from sin and restore us to a right relationship with God (Ephesians 2:4–10; 1 John 1:7; Hebrews 10:19–22).
To take hold of or take possession of, the free gift of salvation and eternal life that God is offering.
“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” (John 10:9)
Christianity is God trying to reach man by the sacrifice of His Son on the cross. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ’s best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. The moment you believe, you will be saved.