BAEsics of your Salvation
This week, the BAEs have been discussing the basics of your relationship with God. Today, I want to take it back-back to the basics of salvation.
Salvation is what we call a “Christian-ese”. For those who have grown up in church, we hear it all the time and regard it as this pass that gets you to Heaven. For those of you that have never heard this word, here’s what your salvation is:
Salvation is the saving of us humans from death and separation of God. Yes, heavy stuff.
Back in the day, like the very first days of the creation of the universe, we were created to worship God in the beautiful garden of Eden. But then, Adam and Eve sinned my disobeying God and created this separation from us and Him.
So now to access God’s presence, there’s a hundred different laws (look at Leviticus to see the extent of what it took to be in His presence) that needed to be followed in order to make ourselves clean from our sin.
Fast forward a few hundred years later, and God sends His Only Son down.
Pause – why did He have to send down His Son?
The thing is, God could have done it a lot of different ways. If I was the Creator of the universe and had my throne in Heaven with all my angel homies and all the powers ever, I wouldn’t even think to send down my most precious son to save a bunch of whiny people that don’t even think they need me. But why?
Because of love.
Jesus came down because of His love for you. To be with you once again. He couldn’t handle looking down at His children and seeing that their sin was getting in the way of one of the things He wanted most - you.
So He sent his son, Jesus, as the ultimate sacrifice for all of our sin. His son came down to experience everything that we have, are, and will experience, and lived through each trial and temptation blamelessly. He died on the cross to take on all of our sin, past, present, future. He died because of love, for love, and that, love, is because of you, for you.
On the cross, he paid the ultimate sacrifice. On the cross he defeated death, and showed that our destiny is life. On the cross he gave us hope.
So now, we stand here saved from sin, reconciled from a relationship that couldn’t’ve existed, and rest our hope in everlasting, unchanging, perfect love.
If today, you find that you want to accept the gift of salvation and join the family and all the benefits of being a Christian, it’s in three easy steps:
Acknowledge that you are a sinner
Believe in Jesus
Confess that He is the Lord of your life
If you pray that simple prayer, in any awkward or eloquent form, God sees your heart. Welcome to the family.