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Salvation, is not earned by our own effort or merit. It is a free gift by God’s grace (undeserved favour) in response to our faith

One of the hardest things for people to understand is that the forgiveness of our sins and the granting of salvation, in terms of being justified, are not things that we can earn or deserve through living a good life or through our own merit. …

The difference between “resurrection” and “resuscitation”

Jesus was physically ‘resurrected’. That is a very important word. Nobody else has ever been resurrected in the way that Jesus was. Yet, one day, all of us will be. Many have been raised from the dead in the sense of being ‘resuscitated’. There was Lazarus, the …

Jesus had repeatedly prophesied beforehand about His own resurrection

The resurrection of Jesus took the disciples by surprise, but it shouldn’t have done, because He had already told them many times that it would happen. He spoke about it publicly, such that even the unbelievers and officials knew He had said it: 20And He …

Arguments for and against the resurrection

Perhaps the simplest way to approach the resurrection is first of all to consider the alternative explanations that men have put forward over the years to try to disprove it. We can then examine whether they hold any water in comparison to what the Bible …

Proof of the resurrection

We have seen in the last two chapters that Jesus Christ died on the cross, in our place, and how important that is for our salvation. However, we must now turn to the question of His bodily resurrection. Although Jesus died, He did not remain …

Discipleship audio series

This series of 17 talks looks at what we should expect if we are to become faithful and effective disciples of Jesus. Being a disciple means encountering hardship, cost, being hated by the world and dealing with affliction. It also requires us to address issues …

Forgiving other people audio series

This series of eight talks addresses what forgiveness really means, and what it doesn’t mean. Sean looks at definitions of various words such as forgiveness, reconciliation, showing mercy, and so on. Then he discusses what exactly it is that Jesus commanded Christians to do when …

The anguish that God the Father and the Holy Spirit also endured as they had to watch Jesus suffer and die without intervening to stop it.

It would be wrong to finish this chapter on what Jesus suffered on our behalf on the cross without referring in more detail to what God the Father and the Holy Spirit also suffered for our sake. We rightly focus on the heroic feat of …

A brief summary of six of the main aspects of what Jesus achieved for us through His atoning death on the cross

It is right and proper to refer to Jesus as having ‘died for us’ or ‘saved us’. Those are valid short-hand phases which sum up what He did for us. However, it is also right to say that when Jesus died on the cross many …

Justification – this means being deemed to be as righteous as Jesus and having all his righteousness transferred to us or imputed to us

All the aspects of the atonement that we have looked at so far have been to do with forgiving our sins, taking guilt away from us and preventing God’s judgment happening to us. Justification, is different. It relates to receiving righteousness from Jesus and having it added to us. This aspect of what …