Joshua - Salvation预览

Do you want to be free? Do you want to be adopted into God’s family? You can’t free yourself from slavery any more than you can choose the family you were born into. By yourself, you are hopeless. That’s where Jesus comes in. Jesus not only offers you immediate freedom from sin, but He also provides you adoption into a new family - God’s family.  

Jesus doesn’t free you from sin to be recaptured later, like Pharaoh tried to recapture Israel. He invites you to cross through the river of death with Him and into abundant life. He calls you to join God’s family, and when you do - that’s adoption. That’s Salvation.

A note on “abundance.” Some associate the word abundance with earthly prosperity - Jesus never promised that. He promised that His followers would live life more abundantly. What is life – it’s a series of ups and downs. What is abundant life? It’s more life. The ups are higher and more humbling, the downs are lower and more glorifying. Salvation frees you from the prison of the mundane into the glorious spiritual richness of the Holy Spirit living through you.

Salvation is the demonstration of God’s inescapable love for you through the complete and perfect work of His Son Jesus. The work of Jesus is to totally set you free from your self-imposed slavery and continually refine you to become His salt and light disciple, a fully adopted joint heir with the Son of God.  

God’s call is to all men, but not all men hear it. If you will hear His voice – He is calling you.

Salvation is being supernaturally freed from slavery to adoption.

Challenge:

• Memorize Exodus 15:2
• Are you a slave?
• Do you want to be free?