Churchwork
05-13-2006, 02:00 AM
This eternal salvation is accomplished for us by the Lord Jesus. He is our Savior who came to die for us, who bore our sins in His body upon the tree (1 Peter 2.24) in order to redeem us from the curse of the law (Gal. 3.13), to deliver us from the wrath to come (1 Thess. 1.10), to bring to nought the devil who has the power of death (Heb. 2.14), to liberate us from the power of darkness (Col. 1.13), and to cause us to escape judgment and pass out of death into life (John 5.24). By the resurrection of the Lord Jesus from the dead we are born again and are given eternal life that we might be children of God (1 Peter 1.3; John 1.12). By His ascension we are brought to God the Father with whom we now have fellowship in the holiest place (Heb. 9.12; 10.19-22), far above all the powers of darkness (Eph. 1.21). All these are done wholly by the Lord; we only receive, that is, we believe in Him: "As many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name" (John 1.12). The gospel "is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth" (Rom. 1.16). "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house" (Acts 16.31).