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What are some of the riches that he gives with his salvation? Here is a
verse that speaks of them. Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us,
wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. These are all
qualities that in our impoverished state as sinners we are totally bereft
of. But let a person take Christ as their Savior and all these qualities in
their perfection and super-abundance will be theirs through the blessed
Savior.
Wisdom: in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. All
the efforts of this worlds philosophers never devised a way for a sinner
to be cleansed from their sins and made fit for heaven, but God through
Christ not only devised a plan but carried it out. Before the foundation of
the earth was laid, God knew His Son would become a man and die for his
creatures sin, as the one way those sins could ever be put away. It was
God in his supreme wisdom that made such a plan, while his perfect love
carried it out. We can enjoy all the benefits of that wisdom when we make
Jesus Christ ours through faith.
Righteousness: in our sinful condition, God describes even the best
of us as having only filthy rags for righteousness. However let a person
believe in Christ and the work he did on the cross, and they will be made
the righteousness of God in him the moment they believe. For he hath made
him to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in
Him. Dont think that you can be made righteous some other way such as by
law keeping, or religious observances. No matter how sincere you are in
these things they will never make you righteous. They cant do it. There is
no power in them. Instead they will only bring you into bondage to what the
Bible calls weak and beggarly elements. Why go on in such abject poverty
when Gods grace is so rich and free, and he is so willingly to account you
righteous the moment you believe on his Son? The only way to be justified
or accounted righteous is through faith in Christ. But to him that worketh
not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted
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Sanctification: this word means to be set apart to God. The Lord Jesus
is the light of the world, and without a real faith in him, people are set
apart to sin, darkness, and headed towards hell. But when a person turns to
Jesus Christ for salvation, God will forgive their sins and set them apart for
his special care for time and eternity. When the apostle Paul was converted on
the road to Damascus the Lord Jesus spoke to him direct from glory and gave him
a special commission to the gentiles. He was to go to them in order to open
their eyes and to turn them from the power of Satan unto God, that they might
receive the forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them that are
sanctified by faith in me. The forgiveness of sins and an inheritance in
heaven only belong to those who are set apart by a faith in Christ.
Redemption: redemption means deliverance with power. Death had such an
overwhelming power over us through sin that it was going to bring us all down
into an everlasting hell. Jesus Christ went into death, and conquered it for
us, rising out of the grave. In his victory over death he became our great
redeemer. Believe on his name and redemption will be yours. Death and hell will
have no more claim on you. Then you can say like Job of old, I know that my
redeemer liveth. For the believer trusting in Christ, the powerful enemy of
death has been completely destroyed forever.
When a person repents and believes on the Lord Jesus Christ they go from the
utter poverty of being a sinner, to possessing eternal life and all the riches
that come through faith in Christ. They are riches that no thief, nor murderer,
nor government of man can ever take from them. Every sinner who trust in the
Lord Jesus has passed through a rags to riches transformation. Wont you take
him as your Savior so that you can leave the rags and ruin of sin behind, and
possess the riches of salvation through Christ?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved.
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