God’s Love & Glorious Salvation
BY: Deborah Ross
Open - PRAYER
GOD
IS LOVE! It’s His Character.
It’s His Nature.
Greatest discovery for a soul = Realize that they are loved by God!
Most important decision anyone will ever make = Accept God’s love
for themselves in a personal way.
God’s love comes to us by GRACE:
Ephesians
2:8
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God:”
GOD’S GRACE
brings: Undeserved
Mercy; Forgiveness, Acceptance, Favor, Care, Help, Compassion, Tenderness,
Patience, Comfort, Protection, and Provision.
John
3:16
“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.”
Romans
5:8
But God
commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us.
God’s love is
called GRACE.
Grace is getting
what you don’t deserve… right standing with God and a pardon for sin!
Genesis
1:26-31 –
*Humans
were created out of God’s love.
*God’s
love gave human beings dominion over all the earth.
Did you know
that the 10 commandments were given to us out of God’s love? (Exodus 20:1-17)
Why does God
hate sin?
…Because sin
hurts people.
The bondage of
SIN is the opposite of God’s love.
· transgression of
divine law
· any
reprehensible or regrettable action, behavior, lapse, great fault or offense
· any offence
against a principle or standard
· to
do wrong or think evil: Both in the
inward state and habit of the soul, as well as in the outward conduct of the
life, whether by omission or commission.
The soul that
sins is always conscious that his sin is:
v vile and polluting
v that it justly
deserves punishment, and calls down the righteous wrath of God.
Sin leaves us
with two stains that cannot be removed except by the blood of Jesus:
1.
guilt
2.
pollution
For the wages
of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
The wages of SIN
(death) requires blood to be spilt because the life is in the blood.
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of
the flesh is in the blood: and I have
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it
is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
GOD SAW THAT
MANKIND CONSTANTLY SINNED.
Romans
8:7 – “Because the carnal mind is enmity against
God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
OLD TESTAMENT - Blood of Bulls and Goats…
v could not fully
satisfy God’s righteous judgment against sin.
v could not
adequately purge man’s conscious from
the guilt of sin.
Isaiah
53:6 – “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all.”
Isaiah
53 (entire) – Prophecy of God sending Jesus to be the final
sacrifice for sin.
GOD KNEW THAT
MANKIND WOULD NEED A STRONGER SACRIFICE to banish their guilty conscious – once and for all!
Guilty Conscious = one that has no faith to overcome the wages of sin
1 John 4:10
“Herein is love,
not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation
for our sins.”
Propitiation =
to appease or make well disposed; also: atoning sacrifice
Appease =
to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify;
soothe:Disposed = to make fit or ready; prepare:
The Message
Bible Translation of 1 John 4:7-10
“My beloved
friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone
who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person
who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is
love—so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love
for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This
is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved
God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage
they've done to our relationship with God.”
A guilty
conscious cannot believe God for forgiveness.
By
putting our trust in Jesus Christ (who loved us enough to die for us), we free
ourselves of our guilty conscious.
2
Corinthians 7:10 – “For
godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but
the sorrow of the world (guilty conscious) worketh death.”
John
3:1-7 and 35-36 –
Glorious Salvation!
GRACE has now
given all who are born-again the power to stop sinning!
SALVATION
*Did you know that
salvation is just a "saving cry" away?
*Did you know that the
word SALVATION means: welfare;
deliverance; victory; safety; prosperity; preservation; deliverance from the
molestation of enemies; health; healing; save; saving; to make safe from;
rescue; liberation; defend?
*Did you know that our
eternal salvation starts on this earth and continues forever?
Jesus,
Yeshua, "is" Salvation.
He is God in the flesh who
came to earth and dwelt among men living a sinless life. Although He did no wrong, the enemies of God
brutally beat Him, then publicly crucified Him by way of the cross on a hill
called Golgotha. Jesus was buried in a
borrowed tomb, but three days later His body was not there, because God had
raised Him from the dead. Jesus
conquered death, hell and the grave - once and for all. The shed blood of Jesus satisfied all of
God's requirements for the payment of humanity's sin.
John
16:27
Jesus
said:
“For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me (Jesus), and
have believed that I (Jesus) came out from God.”
Romans
8:31-39 –
Nothing can ever separate us from God’s love!
Prayer.
Call
to Salvation.
If you want to
be BORN-AGAIN…
If you want
God’s…
Undeserved
Mercy
ForgivenessAcceptance
Favor
Care
Help
Compassion
Comfort
Protection
Provision
Salvation
ü Pray the prayer above
If you know that
you have repented of your sins already and that you are blood bought child of
the King, but the devil has been tormenting you with lies saying…
v God is mad at
you
v God can’t use
you
the answer!
