Your Daily Bread – Salvation Is By Love Into Life

Love is His motive, He’s rich in love, so He’s rich in grace, so He’s rich in mercy, and He reaches out to love those of us who are dead in sin. We are the vilest, sinful, godless, ungrateful, unworthy, unholy, destitute, degraded, depraved humans walking around, engulfed in sins and trespasses, serving the prince of the power of a system of ideology that drowns us, and we are targets for God’s wrath, and it is to us that He comes and pours out His love. That’s God. That’s God. And it’s amazing, you know, when we have sinned, because we’ve even sinned against His love.

He has loved us all along. Man doesn’t just break his laws, he sins against his love. Imagine if I were driving in the neighbourhood where I live, and a little child was in the street, and I was driving too fast or something, and foolishly killed that little child. Well, first of all, I would be charged with a crime, and I would be tried and perhaps found guilty, and then I would either pay a fine or be in prison for a period of time on manslaughter or something. And after I had paid my fine or filled out my term in prison, I as far as the law was concerned would be a closed case.

Nothing else matters. The law is satisfied. It has no more interest in me, has absolutely no more concern, it’s over. But that’s a sin against the law. What about the little boy’s mother? That’s ever make up to her for the loss of that little life by paying a fine, serving a sentence? No. You see, there’s only one way I could ever have a relationship with her. I’ve sinned against her love, not against the law. There’s only one way I could ever have a relationship with her, and that would be if she offered me unconditional and free what? Forgiveness.

Forgiveness. That’s the only way. And that is precisely what God has done. We have not only sinned against his law, we have killed his son. We have killed his son and continue to do so in rejection and open defiance and not believing in him. And yet God reaches out and says, I know you did that, but I offer you unconditional and complete forgiveness. And so it is that God, in his great love, not only sees his law satisfied, but he sees his love satisfied. Salvation is from sin by love. Thirdly, salvation is from sin by love into life, into life.

What’s the one thing a dead man needs most? Not a coffin. Even more than that. Life. Life. And you see, this is what Paul is trying to say here. He’s going to make you alive. And he says it in verse five. Even when we were dead in sins, he hath made us alive together with Christ, by grace ye are saved. Now here’s his whole point here. The point is, if you’re doubting the power of God in your life, it is the power that raised Christ. It is the power that raised you. See that? So when somebody comes along and says, well, I’m sorry if you haven’t had the second work.

If you haven’t had the special baptism, if you haven’t had this little special thing, you don’t have the power. I say to them, garbage. The power of God that raised Jesus from the dead has already acted in my life, in raising me out of the deadness of sin. You see? That’s his point. And he’s saying, look, if you’re worried about whether God can get you off this globe and onto that pearly city, whether he can get you out of here and into there, whether he can handle you going in the grave and coming out again at the resurrection, remember he already raised you once spiritually.

The physical part is easier. You see, he’s trying to show you that you can have confidence in God’s power. Man, Christian, get a grip on who you are, what you’ve got and what God’s already done in your life. Salvation is into life. He made us alive. When you became a Christian, you were no longer alienated from the life of God. You came alive. You all of a sudden were sensitive to God. You opened the Bible and it said, oh, yeah, that’s what it says. The Spirit of God was in your life and things made sense and you saw the meaning of history and you had a real reason to live.

And you felt God at work and you knew Christ and there was an immediate brotherhood with other Christians. You became the possessor of the common eternal life. That’s living. That’s living. And he did it when he made Christ alive. He made us alive together with him. We were there when he rose from the dead. We were there when he came out of the grave. We were raised with him and God’s power has already been displayed on our behalf. So salvation is from sin by love into life. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of salvation is by love into life.

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