Salvation Series

John 14:1-3(KJV): Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. So, we have often been taught in Sunday School/Children's Church growing up, and even after we had grown, we have found our theology to have this portion of Scriptures as the basis for teaching about the kind of rewards we will receive in Heaven after this life's work is done. Mansions in heaven, streets made of gold, etc. All of these have been used to paint a desirable picture of Heaven. Now this is not to disparage the beauty of heaven as a location - we have testimonies of people who have been there, no less the accounts in Scriptures in the OT and NT - but there is a concern with the application of this portion of Scripture to our reward in h...

SALVATION: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT IS NOT! Theme scriptures: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Ephesians 2:8-9; 2 Timothy 3:14-17 INTRODUCTION: God’s most important mission on earth is the salvation of man; which is why through the length of Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, it is outlined exhaustively. In fact, we see from (Genesis 1:1-3, 3:15) our first insights into what salvation is.  Scriptures suggest that man is the greatest creation. The only one created after God’s image, man represented God’s authority on the earth (Genesis 1:26-28). However, man’s unbelief and rejection of God, expressed by disobedience to God in listening to his wife and ‘eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil’, scuttled this plan. (Romans 3:23, 6:23; Ephesians 2:1-3).  His act of disobedience, birthed by unbelief, had resulted in death – spiritual death, which in truth, is separation from God, man’s life source (Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12). Man then suffered physical death, which is the cu...