FREEDOM FROM SIN

SATURDAY, 1ST OCTOBER, 2022.

Topic: FREEDOM FROM SIN 

MEMORIZE: “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”  John 8:36 (NKJV)

SCRIPTURE READING: John 3:16-19.

“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. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ¹⁸ He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."

EXPOSITION:

SPIRITUAL DEATH

Spiritual death is the state of the natural or unregenerate man as still in his sins. (Eph. 2:1) alienated from the life of God (Eph4:18-19) and destitute of the Spirit. Prolonged beyond the death of the body, spiritual death is a state of eternal separation from God in conscious suffering. This is called "the second death." (Rev. 2:11; Rev. 20:6, 14; Rev. 21:8).

SAVED, SALVATION – Rom. 1:16.

The Hebrew, and Greek, "sōtēria", meaning "safety", "preservation", "healing", and "soundness". Salvation is the great inclusive word of the Gospel, gathering into itself all the redemptive acts and processes: as justification, redemption, grace, propitiation, imputation, forgiveness, sanctification, and glorification. 

Salvation is in three tenses:

(1) The believer has been saved from the guilt and penalty of sin (Luke 7:50; 1 Cor. 1:18; 2 Cor. 2:15; Eph. 2:5; Eph. 2:8; 2Tim. 1:9) and is safe.

(2) the believer is being saved from the habit and dominion of sin (Rom. 6:14; Phil. 1:19; Phil. 2:12-13; 2 Thess. 2:13; Rom8:2; Gal. 2:19-20; 2 Cor. 3:18).

(3) The believer is to be saved in the sense of entire conformity to Christ. (Rom. 13:11; Heb. 10:36; 1 Peter 1:5; 1 John 3:2).

Salvation is by grace through faith, is a free gift, and wholly without works; (Rom. 3:27-28; Rom. 4:1-8; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 2:8).

The divine order is: first, salvation, then, works; (Eph. 2:9-10; Titus 3:5-8).

PRAYER POINT:  LORD, I receive grace and power to maintain my victory over sin and death in Jesus name. 

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DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Hosea 11-14.