John Stott writes, 'Salvation is a comprehensive term ( Past) Justification . (Present ) Sanctification. (Future) Glorification. Consider Justification,what does it mean?,it is a very important question ,it involves our standing,and acceptance before a holy God..How can a person achieve this?,first of all no one can,if you are religious and keep all the rules of that religion,that will not give you a right standing and acceptance with God. If you are a moral person, and most people think they are ,human morality fails also, The term ,the milk of human kindness comes to mind,I recently met a man who said he was not a sinner, and then he went on to relate how he had helped someone ,that also will fail. Why you may ask do all these things fail,for none of them deal with the real problem that we are all sinners,it is no use saying ,well no one is perfect,that's right,but that term is often a way of ignoring the more serious truth ,that we are in Gods sight ,a sinner. Our sin cannot be expunged by anything we can do,no matter how sincere we are,and so the problem remains,which means we have no standing or acceptance with a holy God..That means we will never go to heaven and we will go to to hell.The answer to our sinfulness can only be dealt with if first of all we acknowledge our sinfulness,to stop minimising it,it is to serious,to do that.sin is spiritual cancer,it is fatal, you cannot beat it,the result is certain,eternal separation from God,and that is more awful than one can ever imagine..There is an answer to this problem we will consider it next time.
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