Temple Baptist Church - 8-17-2025
John 10:27-30
Introduction:
A. We have seen who Christ was, the eternal, self-existing Jehovah God: the Word! Incomprehensible but teachable and knowable. We have seen the condescension of Christ: who and what He became in incarnation. Incomprehensible but teachable and knowable.
B. We saw what Christ left to be made in the flesh because of His great love for us. This morning, I want to discuss what He did for us! It is about you and me! What Christ did, He did for the whole world, though the majority of sinners reject both Him and what He did. Incomprehensible but teachable and knowable.
C. Before we get into what Christ did for us, we need to realize that salvation, along with its individual aspects, is an act of God, not man.
1. It is Grace, we get what we do not deserve, that saves us. Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
2. It is Mercy, we do not get what we deserve, and Goodness follows us. Psalms 23:6a Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life …
D. Salvation is a gift of God. A gift is something that we especially pick out for a loved one. We pay the price of the gift, bring it to our loved one, and present it.
1. The Gift of Choice. Then the loved one MUST make a choice.
a. Either to receive the gift with thanksgiving - Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
b. Or to reject the gift - John 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
c. I thank God that I chose life!
2. Propitiation - Expiation - expiator- the act of removing guilt through the payment of a penalty.
1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
a. The appeasement of God’s wrath. God’s wrath had to be appeased through sacrifice. Our sin, when Christ became sin for us, He appeased the righteous judgment of God for sin. had a payment (the wages of sin is death), and Christ paid it in full.
b. What wonderous grace that bought us through propitiation.
3. Salvation. To deliver, to heal, to make whole.
a. The Promise - Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
b. The Procedure - Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
1) God grants us Repentance. Acts 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
2) God gives us Faith to be exercised. Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
3) The sinner’s responsibility is to bring a bankrupt sinner to God with repentance and exercise the faith that God gives.
4. Redemption (restoration-rescue-liberation).
Romans 3:24-25 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (25) Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
a. Saved from the penalty of sin.
b. Saved from the power of sin.
3. Imputation (accounting or crediting of righteousness to an individual by God.). When God sees me, He sees me through the blood of Christ and places me in Christ. As perfect as Christ is.
Romans 4:6-8 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, (7) Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. (8) Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Jude 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
4. Reconciliation (reunion-bringing together-ceasefire). Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
a. Took away the enmity with God.
b. Brought into fellowship with God.
5. Adoption (how Christians are brought into the family of God).
Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
6. Sanctification - a state of separation unto God; all believers enter into this state when they are born of God.
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
7. Justification - an act of God whereby He pronounces a sinner to be righteous because of that sinner’s faith in Christ. Just as if we had never sinned!
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Jude 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
8. Preservation - When something is kept entirely from decay, or in its original state, and it has eternal life.
John 10:27-29 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: (28) And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (29) My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
These are only a few of the things that God gives us who have made the right choice. Make this choice RIGHT because it is an eternal one!
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