It’s That Simple – by Joseph A. Cortes
Romans 10:1, “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law,”[the end; it doesn’t say Christ is the continuation of the law] “for righteousness to every one that believeth.”
If you still believe that it’s your own righteousness that gets you to heaven, you’re wrong and Paul is right. “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth [has trust and confidence in Christ Jesus].” Man can’t earn that kind of righteousness. Why? Because we are born into sin and we sin. The only hope we have of having that type of righteousness is if we receive it from Christ, which He purchased for us on Calvary. We can receive it if we have trust and confidence in what He did at Calvary and what the gift of grace has provided for us that makes us right with God. Satan cannot enter unto God’s throne and accuse us any longer. I know some preach he can still accuse us like in Job’s day, but no, not after Christ presented His precious blood at the heavenly mercy seat. Not possible. If it is, then why did He die? Why did He spill his blood? Why did He spend 3 days in the grave if after coming out of that grave His blood wouldn’t be sufficient when He presented it to his heavenly Father upon the heavenly mercy seat? If Satan had access (to heaven) any longer, which I don’t think he does, he couldn’t even open his mouth. He would be speechless. That is what Christ has done for us.
Which brings us to: there is a process in our life that we go through. And for those that are called and able to see the truth that is preached, hopefully rightly divided, they will understand the points I am making right now: Number one, let’s look at the order of life. One, right from the get-go, we are born in sin.
· Number one, we are born in sin.
· Number two, because we are born in sin, our sins are recorded.
Three, if the next step didn’t happen, it’s gloom and doom for sure. If you don’t see it, if you don’t believe it, and if you don’t have trust and confidence in the Gospel record—I pray you do because your eternal destiny is not looking up if you don’t—and that’s assuming you even believe you have one.
· Number three, Jesus became sin for us on that cross.
That had to happen; and because He became sin,
· Number 4, He paid the price for sin.
· Number 5, we must believe that the Gospel record is true.
If you put yourself in that position that you have trust and confidence in what Jesus did, then
· Number 6, you receive Christ and His payment for sin as a sufficient payment that God requires.
Now this next one could be 7 and 8 but well just make it one.
· Numbers 7, man’s sins are covered/removed making man right with God.
This means God will not impute sin, as we read in Romans 4:7, “Blessed is the man whom the Lord will not impute sin.” God will not impute our sins to us because the record in heaven is wiped clean. It’s removed, never to be seen again.
· Number 8, God will impute no sin to us.
Salvation isn’t complicated. You probably could break it down in a simpler way, but we are born into sin, our sins are recorded, and they stay recorded. Jesus had to come and become sin so that the erasing process could start, because He paid the price and penalty for sin. And if we believe in what He did, (have trust and confidence that what He did was sufficient to please God), then those sins no longer exist, because we have received Christ and His payment for sin. Our sins are covered. Our sins are removed. We are made justified or right with God—that is what Justification means, becoming right with God in the sight of God. And last, God will impute no sin to us because they have been wiped out. And all this happens with no effort by us concerning how to receive Salvation. It’s all about Jesus, my friend. It’s always been about Jesus. Forever it will always be about Jesus. The only way to become right with God is through Jesus. Christ became our substitute on that cross, which literally, He put himself in place of us for sin. God the Father imputed our sins to His only begotten son on that cross.
We received a wonderful deal and all we must do to receive salvation is receive His grace, that gift, and put our trust and confidence in Jesus, and nothing else. It’s that simple.
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