Full Salvation In Christ

Full salvation is from God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The triune God is full salvation. One eternal God is experienced in our salvation. Consider how our salvation is the work of the Holy Trinity.

Full salvation is from the Father, through the Son and by the Holy Spirit. You come to know God as your Father, through faith in God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. The only way to God the Father is through God the Son (John 14:1-6). Salvation is applied to you by God the Holy Spirit. The Godhead is revealed to you in salvation.

God the Holy Spirit enables you to come by faith to God the Son. "No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:3). God the Holy Spirit leads you to believe the gospel. You believe Christ died for your sins. You believe Christ is risen from the dead. You believe and confess Jesus is Lord.

God the Holy Spirit gives the assurance of full salvation, as you confess Jesus is Lord. "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). This is your assurance: "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9).

Whom Christ Died to Save

"He was led as a lamb to the slaughter" (Isaiah 53:7). Here, the prophet of God declared by the foreknowledge of God, Jesus crucified centuries before it was fulfilled. In the mind and plan of God, Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8). How Christ died is of eternal importance.

God's plan to save sinners was foreordained before creation. God has one sacrifice for the sin of the world. It was foreshadowed in the Old Testament through animal sacrifices. It is remembered according to the New Testament through the Lord's Supper.

Christ died for the sin of the world. John the Baptist pointed to Jesus as the fulfillment of that prophecy. He said,"Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). Believers may say, at the cross of Jesus, my sin is taken away.

Christ died in the place of others. He is every believer's sacrifice for sin. He took our sin and our judgment. He shed his blood and poured out his life on our behalf. He died that we may have life eternal. Our sin debt was paid by Christ crucified. Every believer may testify, "Christ died to take away my sin."

Christ died on the cross in every believer's place. The testimony of faith is made sure by the Holy Spirit working grace in your heart. Has it happened in your heart? If so, you see Christ died to take away all your sin (1 John 1:7). Jesus Christ died to save every believer.