Metaphors for Salvation Galatians 3:6-14,
-- What does it mean to be "saved"? 4 analogies of salvation in this passage
(other analogies exist; each is imperfect, so there are many angles):
- 1. Credit (:6)- gaining something you don't have the currency for; credit card
- Credit card-- faith. Purchase -- righteousness; eternal life. Payment-- Jesus's
sinless life, death, and resurrection.
- It is how Abraham & OT people receive God's righteousness b/f Jesus came.
-2. Children (:7)-- become sons & daughters of God when He saves us.
Terms:"Heavenly Father;" being "born again;" part of the "family of God."
- God will adopt anyone who wants to become His child.
- 3. Justification (:8) -- "deemed right;" just-as-if-I'd never sinned. Forgiven.
- God as Judge; Christ as our mediator. We're guilty for breaking God's Law
but He declares us innocent if we place our faith in Christ.
- Justified -- saved from sin's penalty. Redeemed -- from its power & presence.
- 4. Redemption (:13-14) -- "saved"; "bought w/the blood;" "Purified;" "Cleansed;"
"Atoned."
- OT -- sprinkling the lamb's blood before God's mercy seat or altar.
- Jesus paid the ransom for us being kidnapped; held hostage by sin & death.
- Some US northerners pre-Civil War bought slaves from southerners in order to set
them free.
- In the richness of God's mercy, Jesus paid the price w/HIs blood for us to be free
from sin& death. He set us free so that we could live w/Him.
- We can never fully repay God. That's why Jesus had to pay it in the first place.
However, we should live in an indebted manner to God for salvation.
- Jesus paid a debt He kid not owe for a price that we could not pay.
-- What does it mean to be "saved"? 4 analogies of salvation in this passage
(other analogies exist; each is imperfect, so there are many angles):
- 1. Credit (:6)- gaining something you don't have the currency for; credit card
- Credit card-- faith. Purchase -- righteousness; eternal life. Payment-- Jesus's
sinless life, death, and resurrection.
- It is how Abraham & OT people receive God's righteousness b/f Jesus came.
-2. Children (:7)-- become sons & daughters of God when He saves us.
Terms:"Heavenly Father;" being "born again;" part of the "family of God."
- God will adopt anyone who wants to become His child.
- 3. Justification (:8) -- "deemed right;" just-as-if-I'd never sinned. Forgiven.
- God as Judge; Christ as our mediator. We're guilty for breaking God's Law
but He declares us innocent if we place our faith in Christ.
- Justified -- saved from sin's penalty. Redeemed -- from its power & presence.
- 4. Redemption (:13-14) -- "saved"; "bought w/the blood;" "Purified;" "Cleansed;"
"Atoned."
- OT -- sprinkling the lamb's blood before God's mercy seat or altar.
- Jesus paid the ransom for us being kidnapped; held hostage by sin & death.
- Some US northerners pre-Civil War bought slaves from southerners in order to set
them free.
- In the richness of God's mercy, Jesus paid the price w/HIs blood for us to be free
from sin& death. He set us free so that we could live w/Him.
- We can never fully repay God. That's why Jesus had to pay it in the first place.
However, we should live in an indebted manner to God for salvation.
- Jesus paid a debt He kid not owe for a price that we could not pay.
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