Jesus Christ is the all-sufficient Incarnate bodily Risen Savior and Lord. Once you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, you will abhor sin, turn from it in true and faithful repentance and cling to Christ over your sins. After regeneration (being born again) and justification (being declared righteous) comes sanctification (the pursuit of holiness). There is a sense in which a believer has already been sanctified in Christ in a past tense. Believers also go through sanctification in the present tense. After all of this, in heaven we are glorified. This is a wonderful reality for God’s people. God will finish what He started. God loses none that are His property. The gospel is not a message of gloom or sadness. Rather, it is a message of unspeakable love that Christ has for His people. It is surely and truly the good news of my Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ: “…except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3 KJV). If someone dies in their present condition of unrepentant life, he is lost forever. If you are brought to a time in your life, which indicates that sin is your tremendous plague, in which you are offending God, which is your tremendous grief, and your heart is to please Him and honor Him, then God has given you hope. This hope is in His Son, Jesus Christ. “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10 KJV).
If you haven’t already done so, may you surrender to His Lordship, Saviorhood, and surrender to His control in your life. Jesus blood can wash the foulest human person clean. The grace of God can securely uphold the weakest person. Jesus actually saves sinners. When is the right time to be saved? “…Behold now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:2 KJV). May you, yield your life to Christ. May you give Him your all this day. It’s upon Christ’s life; upon His death, that Christians trust in Him, for eternal life all their lives. Trust in Christ’s life, His unified righteousness alone and His atoning death, Who rose triumphantly and victoriously from the grave in the same body He was crucified in yet His body that He died in, was a resurrected glorified body; therefore Jesus bodily from the grave, which demonstrated that He is Incarnate Divinity, and His bodily resurrection verified the work that He accomplished for His people on the cross in His selfless sacrificial atonement. Jesus was ascended into heaven and He is enthroned in the heavens; and ladies and gentlemen, He is the Sovereign King! Yes, He rules and reigns, and all government is subject to Him!
Let's turn to this following example. Suppose there is a person and his name is F. His entire life is an F. He has tried it his own way all his life and he has failed miserably. God looks down upon the earth and sees person F. He gives him a failing grade; He gives him an F. But because God Who is abundant and rich in the depths of His mercy (Eph. 1, 2); He choose to save person F, He will preserve that person unto the very end of life. Since God choose to save person F, He will never ever leave nor abandon nor forsake person F. Because, you see, person F, is now His property. Now that person F is God's possession, God molds the believer (election unto holiness) in conforming the believer to the image of Christ. Since person F is now saved by God all because of Him for God’s glory alone, He is given a passing grade to enter heaven on the basis of Christ's merits alone. The believer is given an A+ not because of something the believer has done or will do, but because of the basis and grounds of Christ’s atonement alone; it’s Christ’s righteousness alone that avails to the Father, in order that His people may stand before God, clothed in the very unified righteousness of Christ Himself. The Father, in accord with His beloved and holy will, accepts the sinner, through the work of Christ, which was made actual by the operational work of the Holy Ghost. God loves His people that much, as to save them from their own sinful, selfish ways. The author of Hebrews says: “...how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation…” (Heb. 2:3 KJV). Christians know that true Christians truly believe because God truly worked in us and truly loved us and truly gave His Son for His true people that everyone that truly believes in Him should not perish but truly have or truly obtain real everlasting life (see John 3:16). So, as Christians understand the true gospel of Christ, we are not to be ashamed of the gospel because “...it is the power of God unto everyone who believeth...” (Romans 1:16). As the apostle Paul said to the Philippian jailor, so I say to you, “…Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved....” (Acts 16:31 KJV).
