The Words Of Our Salvation - Pt.1

[Music] today i am starting a series that will be a bit unusual because i will preach those series once a month uh and so every communion sunday i will do a subsequent of the series so this is part one of the series i have titled it the words of our salvation the words of our salvation and i will be preaching it throughout the year on comedian sundays uh so we probably would do part one to eleven or part one to twelve i'm not sure how december will uh whether i'll do it in december or do something else the last sunday of december but definitely we're going to do it throughout the year the words of our salvation many words are used to describe our salvation and each word refers to the same experience but the words are different words like born again new birth redemption saved sanctified justified new creation elect chosen saint all of these words are used differently but they refer to one and the same experience and what i'm going to do this year is take these words and explain what they mean to us as christians so that we will be strong in our salvation because there are many christians who know christ as lord but who are not firm in the foundation of their faith so i'm going to use the communion sundays to address this important subject of the words of our salvation i'll begin today with three scripture readings and i'll read them very quickly so you just have to note the verses and i'll read the matthew chapter 11 chapter 18 verse 11 matthew 18 11 jesus said for the son of man has come to save that which was lost then john chapter 10 verse 9. jesus said i am the door if anyone enters by me he will be saved and will go on will go in and out and find pasture then romans chapter 1 verse 16 for i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ for it is the power of god to salvation for everyone who believes for the jew fest and also for the greek so in these three passages we read the word saved twice in the word salvation uh once in romans but they all from the same root word and and since my series is going to be about the words of our salvation i'll just take a little time to explain what salvation is the greek word for salvation is suteria and it is a word that we find used many times either uh in the verb form or in the noun form throughout the new testament but the word was first introduced in the old testament and it was used to refer to all kinds of deliverance and in the new testament it is used to describe our deliverance from sin so what does salvation mean basically it means god's deliverance so when a person says i am saved or i have salvation it means that god has delivered me but god can deliver us in from many things he can deliver us from shame he can deliver us from disgrace he can deliver us from traps that have been set for us he can deliver us from our enemies but when we talk about salvation in this sense we are not just talking about physical salvation there are three things that we mean that god has delivered us from first is that god has delivered us from satan's control when a person says i am saved or i have salvation it means that they have been delivered from satan's control the power of satan to rule over their lives and their desires is broken a person who has salvation is not under satan's control a person who is saved is not under satan's control secondly it means deliverance from our sinfulness nature and this sinful nature it's not just that since you commit each day or once in a while i hope you don't commit it every day but i'm not talking about the frequencies but the nature of sin that was brought on all of us through the sin of adam and eve sometimes that nature of sin is called the adamic nature it is also called the old man in the new testament but god delivers us from the sinful nature that is what salvation is deliverance from satan's control deliverance from the sinful nature what adam and eve did in the garden of eden has no power over the person that is saved thirdly it is deliverance from eternal domination deliverance from eternal domination that means you're not going to go to hell or suffer the second death so when a christian says i am saved or i have salvation in christ this is what it means it means god has delivered me from satan's control god has delivered me from my sinful nature and god has delivered me from eternal salvation so you cannot be saved and be afraid of going to hell because you've been delivered from eternal domination from the sinful nature and from satan's control so that is what salvation is in a gist but today we will focus on the first of the words of our salvation and the very popular one that most people use the phrase born again born again why do we use this phrase to describe our salvation why is that phrase used and that's what we will explore today it is a term that was first introduced by jesus christ himself in the new testament he used the term to show nicodemus how to enter the kingdom of god and jesus first used it in john chapter 3 verse 3. jesus answered and said to him most assuredly i say to you unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of god unless that means that there is no way you can see the kingdom of god except you are born again remember born again is another phrase that means salvation so salvation and born again are not two different things they are the same thing but the phrase born again is used to describe salvation and help us to see it in a in the light that jesus uh presenting it to us so born again in the greek the word born is means to be born to be born so gay now born and then the word that is translated again is another means again or from above so that word is an interesting word because it means two things it can mean again or above or high and that is why when you read your new testament sometimes you'll find some translations will say except a man be born from above or born from on high and other times it says born again because anathen means again and it means from on high or from above so when we say a person is born again it means that they have been born again sometimes we call it the new beth other times we call it re-birth other times it is called second birth so whether it is second birth rebirth new birth it's all born again and it all means salvation all right so uh somebody cannot ask you are you born again or saved or you are saved but you are not born again oh i'm born again but i do i'm not saved if you are saved you are born again if you are born again you are saved if you are saved you have salvation and if you are salvation it means you are delivered from satan's control from your sinful nature and from eternal damnation so what is it to be born again we know in what it is in the greek but what does that mean first to be born again is a spiritual breath a spiritual remember nicodemus asked jesus do i have to go back to my mother's womb to be born the second time jesus was surprised that a brilliant man will ask such a unbrilliant question it is a spiritual faith we are born into this world by natural breath each one of us was born naturally by our mother and that birth made us part of the life on this earth but this birth is spiritual john chapter 3 verse 6 that which is born of the flesh is flesh that which is born of the spirit is spirit it's a spiritual breath it doesn't take place physically it takes place spiritually so first it is a spiritual birth to be born again is a spiritual bite secondly it is a heavenly bath it's a heavenly bath our natural breath took place on earth but this birth takes place in heaven though a person who is born again lives on earth they are born from heaven they are born from heaven that's why they are citizens of heaven your mother's birth gave you that the bed your mother gave birth to you made you a citizen of the earth but this birth makes you a citizen of heaven it is a heavenly birth john chapter 3 verse 8 the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it but cannot tell where it's where it's coming from and where it goes so is everyone who is born of the spirit in other words a person who is born of the spirit you can't tell where they come from on earth because that birth is not from the earth it comes from the spirit it comes from heaven it is a heavenly birth if a person is born again they belong to the earth and they may be ghanaians but they have been born from heaven they belong to a new kingdom it is called the kingdom of god and it's also sometimes called heaven so it's a spiritual bed it's a heavenly birth and number three it is a new life given by god it's a new life given by god and this is very important because many times people say but all human beings are god's children we are all god's children in fact they are all uh the kind all sorts of music that talks about we are all god's children uh we are we are all god's children we are all from god we are created by god we are all god's children created by god is not the same as child of god all of us are created by god we were all created by the same god whether you are a black man you are a white man you are a china man you are an uh an indian you are from wherever whether you are a male or a female you are tall or short whether you are deformed or not deformed whether you have any sickness or not or no sickness no matter who you are every human being was created by god but not every human being is born of god i will explain it uh very easily and i i try to use analogies to try and explain things one of the greatest or two of the greatest uh artists who ever lived in my estimation and i think it's correct would be mikhail angelo or michelangelo and leonardo da vinci these were the greatest artists and then there are others but these two stand now every painting or sculpture piece made by michelangelo or leonardo da vinci it's precious every painting there's no way they have done that is not precious every work that these people have done is high value and most of them almost all of them are protected secured and most of them cannot even be sold they their value is so high you can't buy them and they are showcased in museums if today somebody discovers a work of leonardo da vinci or michelangelo anywhere in the world by the way these guys died over 500 years ago but if you discover any work of theirs today immediately that work becomes priceless why because of who created it michelle angelo or da vinci created it because of the creator the creation is precious because of who the people are michelangelo is or da vinci is whatever they produce is precious but none of the paintings have the life of michelangelo or da vinci so if da vinci or michelangelo had a child and by the way none of them had a child but if they had a child produced by them the child produced by them will not be the same as the painting produced by them although both are produced by him one is a work he has produced the other has his life in him and that has been borne by him both produced by him but the value is not the same are you following what i'm saying now that is how it is god created all human beings and because of who god is everything he creates is valuable whether it's a dog it's a mouse it's an antelope a river the sun the moon the stars a mountain you can't abuse the creation of god because god made it especially those he made in his own image but the fact that we are made in his image does not mean he has given birth to us his blood his life is not in us so in this human being in this world there are people created by god all human beings precious because god created them but there are special people on this earth who apart from being created by god have been born by god and those people are the ones who the bible says have been born again not by their mother but by their father who is in heaven has given birth to them again and those people have a value that the other creation do not have because the life of the father is in them so when we say a person is born again it goes beyond being created by god it means god himself has given birth to that person john chapter 1 verse 12 and 13. but as many as received him to them he gave the right to become the children of god to those who believe in his name who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of god born not of blood no of the will of the flesh no of the will of man but of god when we say a person is born again their mother didn't give birth to them again their father didn't give back to them again and they didn't give back to themselves again the only one who gives the second birth is the one who created all things jehovah god almighty he gives birth to people and they become children of god those who are born again therefore have been born of god so when we say a person is born again it means they have experienced a spiritual birth it means they have experienced a heavenly birth it means that god has given them his life a new life being born again therefore is not an ordinary thing it is a heavy-duty thing that of all the things god has created there are people that he indwells he lives within them so how do we get it how do we get the salvation of being born again because if it is so good i'm sure everybody say i want to get it how do we get it how is it made available to us first remember it is a gift it is a gift christ paid for it a gift is something that is given to you out of the good will of the giver how do i get it it's a gift it's been paid for romans chapter 6 verse 33 for the wages of sin is dead but the gift of god is eternal god in christ jesus our lord being born again is a gift you say wow this great experience is is a gift yes it is all gifts have a price tag normally when you give gifts to people you have to remove the price tag i hope you do that but once in a while somebody gives you a gift and then you see the price tag because all gifts have a price tag all gifts cost something but the cost of the gift is not passed on to the receiver of the gift if somebody said uh this is a gift for you is one thousand cities give me one thousand back that's not a gift it's a sale it's a it's a trade but a gift means it has a prize but somebody has paid the price and giving you the gift without you paying for the price that's what we mean that salvation or being born again is a gift it has a price but we didn't pay the price and if you want to pay the price then it's no longer a gift and if you get it then it's not salvation it is a gift secondly it is by grace you can't earn it you can't earn it this is what separates christianity from all other faiths every other faith religion tells you you must do a b c d and gives you a long list of what you must do and continue doing to attain salvation or nirvana or whatever it is that you have to attend to in christianity you don't earn it it is by grace it's not a reward for something you have done ephesians chapter two verse eight and nine for by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god not of words lest anyone should boast we don't go to heaven because we are good people we don't become children of god because we have done good things good works makes us good human beings but becoming a child of god is a gift that god gives to us so it is possible to be a good human being and not a child of god a good human being decent but not a child of god nothing we do is enough to merit our salvation nothing there's nothing you can do the price is so high that there is nothing we can do to get it so the only way that we can get it is for god to give it to us as a gift because the price is too high it's so high so expensive you can't pay for it so the only way you can give it get it is for you to receive it as a gift our salvation is so expensive that it can only be given as a gift so how do we get it salvation is in christ it's in christ we don't find salvation or become born again by following down a set of rules and regulations it is not a church creed it is in a man and his name is jesus he is our salvation so how do we get it in christ i run through them quickly first believe in what he did for you that jesus christ died in your place in his death he suffered a punishment for our sins in his resurrection he defeated satan and broke his power over us christ has made it possible for all of us to have new life and we must believe that we must believe he has done it second ask him to save you although being born again is available to all and it's free we must ask for it we must ask for it it's like when you go to buy uh go to a shop and they say buy to get one free the two you buy you pay the one you get free is free but usually you have to ask for the one which is free you are not paying for it but you ask for it salvation is free but you must ask god you must go to god and say father i have come for my free gift you ask for it we must ask for it ourselves people cannot ask for it for you i can't ask for it for you your parents can't ask for it for you the church cannot ask for it for you you must ask for it for yourself because it is your gift and when we ask we must accept christ as our only lord and savior our only lord so you don't you don't say oh jesus is my lord but this one who is my lord once you believe in jesus as your lord then no other salvation no other person offers you salvation so you can believe in christ and believe in something else at the same time only jesus can say only jesus once you accept him you accept him only as your lord and after you have accepted him you live the rest of your life for him in a nutshell this is what being born again is all about if you want to explain it to somebody follow this teaching and explain it don't tell somebody you have to go to church every day you have to stop smoking you have to stop drinking you have to stop chasing the women it's these are all things that people must do but that will not end them salvation you can stop doing all the bad things you just be a good man or a good woman but not a born-again person because being born again is a gift point people to the gift and the giver of the gift not the works they must do because by the works no one can be saved it is a free gift that is the message of christianity so today if you want to receive this gift wherever you are in this hall or out there i just want to leave you in a very short prayer for you to ask for your gift and then we will partake of holy communion so everybody just bow down your head and if you want to pray for christ to come into your heart and receive salvation i'm going to just lead you in your in words but let it be your own words as you ask jesus to be your lord say with me heavenly father i come to you today just as i am i am a sinner i cannot save myself so i ask you father for the gift of salvation by grace christ has died for me he has paid the price for me and today i receive deliverance from the power of satan i receive deliverance from my sinful nature i receive today deliverance from eternal domination and i accept jesus christ as my only lord and my savior and from today i live all my life to please jesus and him alone i thank you father for accepting me in jesus name amen and amen god bless you [Music] you

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Published: Mon Feb 01 2021