Salvation Is Be Receiving Christ

But as many as received Him,

to them He gave

The right to become 

Children of God,

To those who

Believe in His name:

John 1:12

     The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ is the direct being object of saving faith. We are said to receive Him and to secure salvation. It is this act of receiving that imputes that salvation and our acts therefrom are the testimony. The above quoted Scripture from John the Apostle clearly and plainly declares that fact. It is a fact that so often those who seek God, salvation, and desire to experience that newness of life choose a Jesus that is not Biblical. It is not that they do not receive Christ, it is not Jesus Christ as elucidated in His Word: "I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive" (John 5:43). All one has to do is look around and examine the Churches and their teachings and will find Pastor's who are allegorical, promoting ear tickling illustrations, but little exegetical preaching of God's Word.  Many are willing to accept the witness of men: "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; fro this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son. He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son" (1 John 5:9-10). Notice the Scritpure's wording, "given of His Son" not "has given His Son" so then what is the "given of..:" mean?  God gave His Son to be the propitiation for sins and all who receive Jesus Christ as truly sent from God, who died, was buried, rose the third day, ascended into heaven, who gave a witness of His resurrection to more than 500 people, was seen to ascend into heaven; that is what God gave "of Christ." This is what God gave of Himself for Jesus is both God and Man, it was God in the substance of His son, and in the substance of man, who never left or did not have the essence of the Father. It was God who saves, and that through the object of saving faith; Jesus Christ. It is Jesus' accomplished work upon the cross that gives life: "And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. he who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life" (1 John 5:11-12). It is this rebirth, being born of God, that which only God can do for man, and He did this by his dispensation, His Will, and by means of His Son, and through the power of the Holy Spirit, we had nothing to do with this salvation granted to those who were predestined to live eternally with God, and only those who have been given this saving grace can they love Jesus Christ: "Whoever (the Gr. word is "pas" and is translated literally as "everyone" and the next word "pisteuon" is a a participle and is translated, believing, so it is everyone who is believing that is begotten of God), believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also also loves him who is begotten of Him" (1 John 5:1).

     Therefore, it is receiving of Jesus Christ who is the immediate object of saving faith recorded in His Word that it is He who God gave to be the propitiation for our sins and is what is required and to be exercised by those claiming to be Christian and is in order to salvation. Our salvation is secure, secured by God Himself, who being eternal causes His act upon the cross for His people is eternal. Faith then is applied and expressed by looking at Jesus Christ, coming to Christ, having been enabled and drawn to Him be God.  It is then we commit ourselves to Jesus Christ a committing of our souls to Him, with the sure hope of eternal life.

This is He who

     Came by 

Water, and blood

     Jesus Christ;

not only by water,

     but by water and blood.

And it is the Sprit

     who bears witness,

Because the Spirit is Truth

                       1 John 5:6

Many God Bless This Day

Richard L. Crumb