How Important is Salvation? 2/7/2021
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Introduction:
1. The Father does not need salvation because He can not be tempted with evil.
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.
A. The reason salvation is important to Father is because it is His gift to mankind.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
B. The reason salvation is important to the Father is because He cares about His people.
6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
C. The reason salvation is important to the Father is because He desires all to be saved.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
D. The reason salvation is important to the Father is because grace has appeared to all men.
11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
E. The reason salvation is important to the Father is because He gave His only begotten Son so that we may have everlasting life.
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
2. Jesus does not need salvation because He is perfect.
15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
A. The reason salvation is important to Jesus is because He desires His people to be with Him.
1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
B. The reason salvation is important to Jesus is because He desires His people to be one with Him as He is one with the Father.
11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
C. The reason salvation is important to Jesus is because He shed His blood so that we many have remission of sins.
28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
3. The writers of the Scriptures need salvation.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
A. The reason salvation is important to the writers of the Scriptures is because the wages of sin is death.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
B. The reason salvation is important to the writers of the Scriptures is because they realize they need it because of their sin.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
C. The reason salvation is important to the writers of the Scriptures is because they realize that there is no other name in which they can be saved other than Jesus.
12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
D. The reason salvation is important to the writers of the Scriptures is because they realize what God has done to provide salvation.
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
E. The reason salvation is important to the writers of the Scriptures is because they realize that Jesus whom was crucified by lawless hands is both Lord and Christ.
23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;
36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
F. The reason salvation is important to the writers of the Scriptures is because they realize that there is no escape for those whom neglect it.
1 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
G. The reason salvation is important to the writers of the Scriptures is because they knew on whom they had believed.
12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
Body:
1. How important is salvation to God?
A. God planned to offer His son for us from the foundation of the world.
8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
B. God made His plan known to man right after the first sin.
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
C. God set His plan in action.
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
D. God followed through with His plan.
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2. How important is salvation to Jesus?
A. He was willing to leave being with the Father.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
B. He was willing to become flesh.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
C. He was will to learn obedience.
8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
D. He was willing to give up His own will for the Father’s will.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
E. He was willing to die.
8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
3. How important is salvation to the writers of the Scriptures.
A. They would record the Scriptures so we would know how to live.
1. Moses set before the people blessings and a curse.
26 “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; 28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
2. Paul would write so we would know how to conduct ourselves in the house of God.
14 These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; 15 but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
B. They would risk their freedom to spread the gospel.
C. They would risk their lives to spread the gospel.
23 Now after many days were past, the Jews plotted to kill him. 24 But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night, to kill him. 25 Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a large basket.
D. They were willing to die for the gospel.
6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Conclusion:
1. How does knowing how important salvation was to them affect us?
A. Will we make salvation as important to us as it was to them?
B. For the ones we talked about today, salvation was not just about them but about everyone around them.
1. If we see salvation as important as the Father, Jesus and the writers of the Scriptures then all around us will know whom we serve.