Salvation is what God did for us through
the finished works of Jesus Christ. It is the free gift of God, pure and
simple; it cannot be earned, deserved or merited by one's efforts or works
(Romans 4:4-5). Salvation implies a Savior; Jesus the Christ is the exclusive
savior of mankind. Jesus is the Christ because He was designated by the Father
from the foundation of the world to occupy the office of savior and the reason
why He is called the Anointed of God. Salvation is a gift God offers Himself
exclusively to humanity and must be received without works on our part. Jesus
Christ as our savior means we trust Him for our salvation i.e. by virtue of His
person, His work is all sufficient. “The mystery of our salvation lies in the
inseparable union of God and man in Jesus Christ. This is known as the doctrine
of the hypostatic union whereby in Jesus the true nature of God and the true
nature of man are indivisibly united in His one person. Al of God and all of
man thus joined together in His one person, Jesus Christ mediates the things of
God to humanity and the things of humanity to God" Dr. Shawn Smith in his
book Delivered? An Exegetical Investigation. pg. 30
" Christ on the one hand is one
being with God the Father, in the communion of the Holy Spirit so that what He
did, God did for He was none other than God Himself acting thus in our
humanity. On the other hand, He is so one with us through His incarnation that
when He was crucified and died we died with Him; for He did not die for Himself
but for us, and He did not die alone but we died in Him as those whom He had
bound to Himself, inseparable from him by virtue of His incarnation (1Timothy
2:5, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 19, Roman 6:6-7). When Jesus Christ rose again, we
were equally raised in Him, and when He presented us also before God so that we
are accepted of God and unconditionally received in him once and for all (
Ephesians 2:5-6, Colossians 1:22, Colossians 2:13). In effecting
reconciliation, God acted from the side of humanity as man. The whole work of our
salvation depends upon the fact that on person acts both from the side of God
and from the side of man. Therefore our salvation is internally connected to
the person of Christ. That is, we are saved through our placement in Him and by
His Life in us (Romans 5:10). What Jesus did for us is efficacious because of
who salvation in Christ comes into focus with multiple facets including justification,
redemption, adoption, sanctification and glorification." Dr. Shawn Smith; Delivered?
An Exegetical Investigation. pg. 32-33.
Brethren
in Christ, in trusting Jesus Christ as our Savior, we trust that He has made us
irreversibly righteous, that He has removed you from the effect and the
influence of the curse of the Law and has blessed us with the blessing of Abraham,
making us heirs of this cosmos. We trust that it's His nature that is in us,
His genetic implant, that produces the fruit of His communion with His Father.
We trust that He is the one who keeps us in eternal security, irrespective of
our weaknesses and failures. God is satisfied in us based on the perfect works
of Jesus Christ. We are free in the Son of God Jesus Christ and in Him we're
free indeed. The more we know who Jesus Christ is for us, in us and as us, as our
Mediator, only then will we become accurately acquainted with His saving work
in our place, on our behalf and in our benefit.Blessed with all blessings in Christ Jesus!
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