What is True salvation?
Romans 5:12-21 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
We have all violated the law of God all 613 of them. That’s
right, not just the “Ten Commandments” written in Exodus chapter twenty. In
God’s eyes we are all convicted criminals and have fallen short, come short, of
His glory (Romans 3:23) because
of the fall in the garden of Eden when the first commandment was given to
mankind concerning eating from the knowledge of good and evil which brought
death into this world and the redemption in the tree of life. God is a just and
righteous judge, as in a court of law a judge cannot let a convicted murderer
or a thief walk free on the grounds that they were ignorant of the crime
because they would be a danger to society. God is a just judge. A price has to
be paid for the crime just as in a secular court of law today. Ignorance of the
law is no cause for defence. The Lord Jesus Christ paid the fine/price (1
Corinthians 7:23) for all of mankind that we can be free from the law which
means that those who trust in Jesus Christ alone for salvation (John 3:16)
then God can legally dismiss their case because the fine was paid two thousand
years ago by the suffering death and the shed blood of the cross of Calvary and the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is our lawyer advocate in heaven right
now. What mankind has to do is repent
(to think differently or afterwards, that is, reconsider (morally to feel
compunction): - repent), and trust in Christ alone for salvation in accordance
with the wisdom and instruction contained within God’s word from Genesis to
Revelation, the beginning and the end. Not to trust in our good works
because salvation cannot be bought, it is a free gift of grace. Our good
works are as filthy rags before God (Isaiah 64:6), because of our natural rebellion against what
is of the Spirit (Romans 8:7) and what is of the truth as Jesus said
that His words written in scripture are spirit and life: It is the spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak
unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (John 6:63). But we are all
as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all
do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.. Works come through faith not for salvation but as
evidence of faith in our lives (James