Who God Says I Am
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God speaks to me through His word. The preaching of the cross is the power of God to us who are being saved!
God Speaks Through Preaching: Acts 26:18
God Says That I Have Been Redeemed.
God Says That I Have Been Redeemed.
The Lord, Jesus, Ransoms us from sin through the payment of His sinless life on the cross.
We are delivered from the domain of Satan unto the Kingdom and domain of God.
We receive forgiveness of our sins. God says I am His child. God says I am a citizen of Heaven. God says that I have been “Accepted in the Beloved,” (Christ, His Son).
God Says That I Am Righteous
God Says That I Am Righteous
The death of Jesus propitiated (appeased) the judgment of God.
· The sufficiency of Jesus as the lamb of God. (Hebrews 10:1-4;11-14) (Matthew 1:21) (1 John 3:8).
Justification Defined: the act of acquitting or vindicating someone; “to declare (or make) righteous.”
Justification / to be justified is directly linked to the status of our relationship with God – our relationship with Him changes from one of enmity to one of reconciliation.
We are made righteous by the fact that the sinful man, our old man, has been crucified with Christ. We receive a new life through a new birth from above. The new man is in Christ, not in Adam.
God Says That I Am A New Person
God Says That I Am A New Person
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
“New things have come, and all these things are from God.” God says that I am His workmanship, created in His Son Christ Jesus, and that He has prepared good works for me (us) to do.
If all that God says is true, how can I do anything less than to love Him with all my heart, with all my soul, and with all my mind.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary