Salvation Means you were saved from the Penalty of Sin

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Read – (2 1/2 minutes) – “But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.” (2 Thessalonians 2:13)
     Passage: John 3:1-18

         God never sends anyone to hell. Those who spend eternity separated from God are there because of their own choice not to believe in Jesus and confess Him as Lord. God loves everyone. Period. Jesus paid the penalty for sin on the cross and through His resurrection, conquered death, hell and the grave. The offer of salvation is simple. Admit you are a sinner. Believe in Jesus. Confess Him as Lord. The moment you did that, you received the new nature of the Holy Spirit, and you were born again. Your sin nature died and though it keeps opposing the things of God on earth, it will not go into eternity with you. Your new nature will and that nature is the perfect nature of Jesus.
       Believing in Jesus is the first part of the totality of what salvation means. The moment you received Jesus, you were saved from the penalty of sin. That experience is described by the word justified, which means “just as if I’d never sinned.” God transferred the perfection of Jesus to your account and your sin debt was reckoned as paid for at the cross. Be thankful for the position you have eternally. You are saved!   

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