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Salvation is defined as "deliverance, saved from something hurtful or injurous, to make whole, to protect, to heal, etc". This is all provided for by His grace but to make it yours, you believe it is true for you!

Php 1:6 I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. {HCSB}

Eph 1:13 In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation--in Him when you believed--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
Eph 1:14 He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory. {HCSB}

What does it mean to be "in Him"? To BE in Him is the New Covenant REALITY and that Union is the very reality in which we now live, breathe, and have our BEING. As New Covenant believers and children of God, we should never view ourselves outside of this reality. Old Covenant people 'followed' God as He led them. New Covenant people has God dwelling in them. We no longer follow God, we are in UNION with Him. How can we 'follow' our New identiy? The truth is, you can't 'follow' who you are, you just ARE in Him. It makes no sense. We simply live from our NEW BEING, this is the REALITY of the NEW CREATION.

Many of us have already heard the message of judgment and condemnation and some of us have received it as the Gospel. That my friend is no Gospel at all. The Gospel literally means "Good News". There is no good news in judgment and condemnation. Before you can come to a Holy God, there must be a way of peace. A person who believes that he is condemned can never approach a Holy God. We have been reconciled through peace. Peace is the road that man and God can travel on together in harmony. Peace is the only way that can bring Hope and God knew this, that is why He sent Jesus, to bridge a gap, to break down the wall of hostility, and to make peace between God and man. This peace brings rest and assurance that God is for me and not against me.

Did you know that we are co-heirs with Christ? Jesus qualified those who believe in Him to be an heir of God. Everything that Jesus obtained by His resurrection is ours. All the blesssing of God, actually the very LIFE of God and everything that comes from that, we now possess. There is an abundance of goodness that never runs out, a never ending supply. Man was crowned with Glory and honor when he was created, and now he is recreated in Christ with a new nature and a new future because he is a new man. All the old is gone and the new has come. Jesus paid for everything and we benefit from His finished work on the cross! It is finished, indeed it is.

Righteousness is paramount to receiving all of the benefits of God and His will for you. His perfect will for all humanity is Christ and being in Christ and experiencing His BEST. The paradox of receiving His righteousness is that it is probably the hardest thing to do, yet it is so simple as just to 'believe' it! The hardest, because it is the last thing the 'ego' wants to do is to submit to an authority greater than itself. The simplest because "you can if you will". I think the deception is that we cannot perceive ourselves in someone else's GOODNESS. We have a 'faulty'
paradigm that has been formed by previous experiences mixed with self centeredness. This combination results in a hard heart that is incapable of perceiving God for who He really is and by the same token, the hard heart cannot experience goodness as a gift because of the blindness of pride.

Do you know that between the fall of Adam and Eve and the cross of Jesus, man has been in the bondage of sin and death? Jesus has delivered us from that sin by becoming sin for us. He never sinned, yet He became our sin so that we could inherit eternal Life. Life is not just going to Heaven when we die, but eternal life begins when you receive Jesus and His righteousness. You could say it this way: Jesus became our "state' of sinfulness so we could become His "state" of sinlessnes. This is what it means when we were delivered from sin and death. Sin and death has no more power to operate in us because we now operate in the righteousness of Christ!