Forgiveness Under Grace Today

Some three thousand years ago, and about one thousand years before Christ, the Psalmist said:

³ If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? ⁴ But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. Psalm 130:3-4 (KJV)

Quite often the connections between repentance and salvation is not what religion assumes and tells you it means. Here Paul writes

“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” (2 Corinthians 7:10 (KJV)

What does sorrow and repentance have to do with a salvation, and why would anyone consider repenting of this salvation?

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6 KJV).

The third verse of Jack P. Scholfield’s classic 1911 hymn, “Saved, Saved, Saved,” the truth of our Salvation.

“When poor and needy and all alone,
In love He said to me,
‘Come unto Me and I’ll lead you home,
To live with Me eternally.’”

Many people have truly come to know Christ personally as their Savior, but some have come to believe only after having already been sincere, religious ‘church members’ of some independent organized church or denomination. Though having been faithful supporters of some earthly church organization, some had never really experienced the reality and joy of new life in union with Christ.

Reconciliation In Christ

By Arthur J Licursi

To 'reconcile' speaks of two estranged parties coming together, with their differences resolved. 'Reconcile' is defined as 'making two people or groups friendly again, to cause someone to accept a decision or action, or to match the details of two accounts.' This is what Christ's cross has done for man.

Three times in Paul's letter to the Romans we read that Christ died for us, that is, in our place - for us.

5:6: "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."

5:8: "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

God sees every believer as being "in Christ" and as already in heaven.

Let's now see what the Bible says about this.

Paul wrote this to the Colossian believers who had already received Christ's salvation and the deposit of His eternal life into them.