plan of salvation.

The biblical message of salvation is simple, clear, and amazing at the same time.

We have all committed sin against God (Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God), Other than Jesus Christ, there is no one who has lived an entire life without sinning (Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.) Because of our sin, we have earned judgment from God—death (Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.). Because of our sin and its deserved punishment, there is nothing we can do on our own to make ourselves right with God. As a result of His love for us, God became a human being in the Person of Jesus Christ. Jesus lived a perfect life and always taught the truth. However, humanity rejected Jesus and put Him to death by crucifying Him. Though that horrible act killed the only truly innocent man, our salvation was obtained. Jesus died in our place. He took the burden and judgment of our sin upon Himself (2 corinthians 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.). Jesus was then resurrected (1st corinthians 15), proving that His payment for sin was sufficient and that He had overcome sin and death. As a result of Jesus’ sacrifice, God offers us salvation as a gift. God calls us all to repent of our sins (Acts 17:30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,) and have faith in Christ as the full payment of our sins (1 john 2:2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.). Salvation is gained by receiving the gift God offers us. 

The results of salvation :

Peace with God, we are made right with God and enter in to a relationship with our creator.   

Adoption in to God's family.

Experince the profound love and grace of God.  

Made alive spiritually.   

renewed and transformed.  

Ephesians 2 1-10 (grace through faith)  
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 3-14 (redemption through the blood) 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.