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Salvation is made necessary because of the unrighteous, sinful condition of
all men. Nobody is excluded in their need for redemption from this sinful
condition (Romans 3:10). |
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Salvation is not accomplished by anything we do (Titus 3:5, Eph 2:9),
but rather is a gift of God given to the individual believer according
to His grace (Eph 2:8) if the believers faith is placed in the death,
burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ as
complete payment for sin (1Cor 15:1-4).
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Christ, fully God and fully man (Col 2:9), who lived a perfect, sinless life
while in this world, was made to take the punishment of our sins upon
Himself (2Cor 5:21) when He was crucified on the cross at Calvary.
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By trusting in His finished work, instead of anything that we can do, the
believer is baptized by the Holy Spirit into the One Body of Christ, which
is the Church (Eph 4:4-5, 1 Cor 12:13). |
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By the one faith of (Eph 4:5), we then share in Christ's baptism into death,
and are judicially placed on the cross, buried, and raised again a new
creature, into newness of life (Romans 6:3-5, 2Cor 5:17), by which means we
receive the imputed righteousness of Christ (Romans 4:24), and our salvation
is forever sealed and secure (Eph 4:30). |
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