We often look at salvation. Usually we look at what God has done and what we must do. We consider the necessity of it. Today I would like to spend a few minutes examining salvation as a timeline. Beginning with when we are born, and ending when, hopefully, we pass from this life having faithfully served the Lord.
Innocence
When we are born, we are sinless and pure. This state continues until, knowing sin, we choose to transgress.
Ecclesiastes 7:29 -Man is created upright
Ezekiel 18:17-20 -No inherited sin: the soul who sins shall die
Matthew 18:1-6 -You must be converted and be like little children
Matthew 19:13-15 -The kingdom belongs to those like children
Genesis 2:15-17 -Man not to eat of the tree in the center of the garden
Genesis 3:1-13 -Knowledge of good and evil, sin
Sin
We have all sinned. We have all chosen to turn against the Lord and follow our own wills at some point, and so separated ourselves from God.
Romans 3:23 -All have sinned and fallen short
I John 3:4-9 -Sin is transgression of the law
James 4:17 -Sin of omission
I John 2:15-17 -Love for the things of this world
Isaiah 59:1-2 -Your sins have separated you from God
Genesis 3:14-24 -Adam and Eve driven from paradise in punishment
Turning Back
We each have opportunity in our lives to return to God and have our sins washed away. We must choose to do so.
II Corinthians 7:8-11 -Godly sorrow produces repentance
Luke 15:3-10 -Rejoice over repentant sinners
James 2:14-26 -Not only faith, but obedient works are required
Colossians 2:9-14 -Buried in Christ through baptism
Have you taken this step of turning back to God? Or are you content to stop in the second stage of life, with the guilt of sin? Will you not repent? If you have done so, are you continuing in it?
Matthew 24:13 -The one who endures to the end shall be saved
II Timothy 4:6-8 -I have fought the good fight, finished the course
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