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If you missed the service…(Ah!)
Na lie, notin; you’re still in Christ and loved by Him.

Okay, lemme share my summarized note with you all so you may know and be reminded of the hope we have in HIM.

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Brother Yomi 4/7/10

Topic: So Great Salvation
Hebrews 2
Praise is meaningless if you don’t understand salvation…anything can praise God.

Heb 2:1-4… The importance of paying attention to the word of salvation… it says to attach a lot of weight to the message that the Messiah Himself delivered to us, compared to what was delivered through angels.

Salvation – Being saved from the judgment of his maker – from God’s wrath is Salvation. Now we are like a caterpillar being transformed into a butterfly.

The only way to be saved is to trust in Christ for the remission of your sins. Prayer, good-deeds, pray after me, kindness, giving, etc do not count.

Simply believe in the Lord Jesus. Faith in Jesus for the remission of our sins is all. You don’t do anything to be saved. You don’t even first change your ways. God doesn’t ask for your permission. He just does it. Its not that you stop sinning and then get saved. It is salvation that takes away your sinful attitude.

Don’t rehabilitate people, get them saved!

John 14:6
Jesus is the way… its only by him you get to God

Acts 4:10-12
There’s no other name/way for salvation. It is Jesus ALONE (not Jesus plus works, or Jesus plus the holy spirit) that leads men to salvation.

When someone says, “I gave my life to Christ”, what exactly does that mean? Nothing. It is not a Biblical concept. Not once are we commanded to do that. We are commanded to trust in the Saviour. To believe that He took our place and bore our sins.

Jesus plus anything else = false gospel.

Jesus forgives ALL the sins of the man He saves. Forgiven upfront; He paid it on the cross 2000 years ago.

John 10 v28-30
A person who has been saved by God shall never perish. And its not because of any good character he has. It is by His own arm that he has redeemed us. Good works are a fruit of salvation; they do not add to or remove from what He’s done to/in me.

I BELIEVE CHRIST HAS SAVED ME TO THE UTTERMOST.

Shall we then continue in sin?
Romans 6:1-3… No! But we don’t do ANYTHING to be saved, and we do not do anything to stay saved. It is all by Grace (Ephesians 2:8). Other than believing, you don’t do jack to be saved.

Since you did not get your salvation from what you did, you don’t keep it with what you do. The instructions in God’s word are His means of keeping his own.

God keeps His own
No man will go through all that Job went through and still stay in faith, unless he was kept by God. God kept Job, and God kept Joseph, as he kept others.

Is repentance necessary for salvation or is repentance a fruit of salvation?
Answer: its a fruit. How do you expect a dog to stop barking. 2 Tim 2:25 tells us that God grants repentance…as he wills. That’s why you see the “peradventure” in that verse. The heart of man will always go in direction of his nature, unless God changes that heart by granting it repentance.

Look what God did with Paul on his way to Damascus.

1 John 19
A christian will always repent whenever he is shown an error in his ways.

Heb 13 – God will not give up on me. He will help me with that struggle. He is faithful. God is committed to making sure I make it through to paradise. He’s given me a guarantee (Eph 1:13 – 14).

The big question: What/Who have you believed in?
The difference between the saved person and the condemned man is in what exactly they have believed. Doctrine is important. If you have believed wrongly, you are not saved.

1 Peter 1:3-5… I am kept by the power of God…the assurance of salvation. God is the author (starter) and finisher (keeper) of my faith (Heb 4:14- , Heb 10:12-36)

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Good job, Osas. The Gospel is so vital, yet so misunderstood. We need to remind ourselves regularly lest we let it slip.

How can anyone who understands this subject not be full of praise daily?

And how can anyone who is saved live for himself? He died for us that we should no longer live for ourselves, by our standards, by our own rules, but that we should live for Him (2 Cor. 5:15)

No striving to obtain His favour. No giving to get from Him. Just trusting in His ability to do what He said He would do. What peace! What rest! What joy!

Oh, the wondrous nature of this calling to which we have been called!