AA2 Two Plans of Salvation

- Man has two faces.

- One side of man shows his capacity to create, to be kind, and tohonour truth.

- Yet we also see him doing these same things in a malicious way.

- He carries out kind acts in a shrewd manner to forward a private desire.

- We seeing enjoying a sunset, yet at the same time working in a jobthat fills the atmosphere with waste products that nearly obsurethe sunset.

- Man is both dignified and degraded.

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- Man is fallen and lost/ Alienated from God.

- From the beginning he's made an attempt to recover this loss.

- Resulted in two ways.

GEN 4

1. Cain's way and 2. Abel's way.

- Cain was the self-sufficent humanist.

- Cains way was how he could find favour with God his own way

- So he brought to the altar an expression of his own labours.

- However...

- Abel brought that which God required.

- Which was blood.

- Abel had faith in God's provision and was obedient cf. Heb 11:4

- Cain became the prototype of all who dare approach God without

the shedding of blood.

- Heb 9:22 "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness"

- Jesus is the salvation, God had planned for us.

- Rev 1:5 says that Jesus has "Washed us from our sins in His own

blood."

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- We have hope because God has taken care of our salvation.

- Our salvation is not based upon our attending church, doing good

deeds etc.

- Athough!!!

- A "true" believer will want to do these things.

- But our eternal security rests in the accomplished work of the

Lord Jesus Christ.

- On the cross Jesus said "It is Finished."

- Read Ps. 62

THE LORD'S SUPPER - reminder of the immense sacrifice of Jesus.