"As God's creatures, we are all debtors to Him: to obey Him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken His commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to His justice, and we owe to Him a vast amount which we are not able to pay. But of the Christian it can be said that he does not owe God's justice anything, for Christ has paid the debt His people owed; for this reason the believer owes the more to love. I am a debtor to God's grace and forgiving mercy; but I am no debtor to His justice, for He will never accuse me of a debt already paid. Christ said, 'It is finished!' and by that He meant, that whatever His people owed was wiped away for ever from the book of remembrance. Christ, to the uttermost, has satisfied divine justice; the account is settled; the handwriting is nailed to the cross; the receipt is given, and we are debtors to God's justice no longer. But then, because we are not debtors to our Lord in that sense, we become ten times more debtors to God than we should have been otherwise. Christian, pause and ponder for a moment. What a debtor thou art to divine sovereignty! How much thou owest to His disinterested love, for He gave His own Son that He might die for thee. Consider how much you owe to His forgiving grace, that after ten thousand affronts he loves you as infinitely as ever. Consider what you owe to His power; how He has raised you from your death in sin; how He has preserved your spiritual life; how He has kept you from falling; and how, though a thousand enemies have beset your path, you have been able to hold on your way. Consider what you owe to His immutability. Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once. Thou art as deep in debt as thou canst be to every attribute of God. To God thou owest thyself, and all thou hast - yield thyself as a living sacrifice, it is but thy reasonable service." - C. H. Spurgeon
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"Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" (2 Peter 1:2-4). While on earth, Christ as the Son of Man had no extreme strengths or weaknesses as He was in perfect balance coming from the Throne of God. Thus we may also receive His Balanced Life into our unbalanced needs by humbling ourselves in full submission to Him in all areas of our lives.
At the time of Salvation, one is indued, imbued, and imbrued with numerous spiritual attributes, all of which equally expand and progress throughout life until one is taken to heaven at death to be with Christ throughout the ceaseless ages of Eternity. There are seven Hebrew and Greek words which are translated to the word "salvation." These words are also translated into 23 English words meaning some form of salvation such as: avenged, avenging, deliver, deliverance, delivered, deliverers, defend, health, help, preserved, preservest, rescue, save, saved, savest, saveth, saving, safety, safe, Saviour, Saviours, victory, welfare [whole-well-being]. We encourage our viewers/readers/students to study how great a salvation "whosoever" has in the following list of 60 significant changes (and more could be added) the new man/woman receives when being salvationed. These may be studied by topic with the texts found in Bible Concordances or more specifically as outlined in the chapter, "Lesson 33: The Biblical Doctrine Of Salvation" in Finis Dake's book entitled, God's Plan For Man, published by Dake Publishing, Inc. These spiritual attributes are a matrix of paradigm's authenticity in the newness of the inner-person.
Adoption Assurance Baptism Blood Consecration Conversion Conviction Creation Crucifixion Deliverance Destination Election Faith Forbearance Foreknowledge Foreordination Forgiveness Gentleness Glorification Goodness |
Grace Healing Heirship Holiness Humility Imputation Inspiration Joy Justification Life Longsuffering Love Meekness Mercy Mortification New Birth Peace Power Prayer Predestination |
Preservation Propitiation Providence Ransom Reconciliation Redemption Regeneration Remission Repentance Representation Restitution Resurrection Retribution Revelation Righteousness Sanctification Soundness Substitution Temperance Washing
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