BIBLICAL WORDS OF SALVATION
By Robert R. Breaker III
copyright 2004
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This tract in printed form can be ordered from Breaker Publications.
BIBLICAL WORDS OF SALVATION
"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love
which is in Christ Jesus. (2 Tim. 1:13)
There are some very important "sound words" in the Bible that you should be familiar with.
They have to do with salvation.
REPENTANCE
"I tell you...except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish [or go to Hell]." (Luke 13:3)
The word repent has two meanings. They are:
Feel sorry for something.
To turn from one thing or direction to another.
Biblically, a man should feel sorry for his sins against a holy God. And to be saved, he must
turn from trusting his righteousness to trusting completely in Christ's blood and
righteousness. By so doing, his eternal destiny will be changed from Hell to Heaven. If you
haven't repented yet, won't you do so today?
ATONEMENT
"For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to
make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the
soul." (Levitcus 17:11)
The word atonement means:
"Expiation, reconciliation after enmity or controversy, satisfaction or reparation made by
giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing or suffering that which is received in
satisfaction for an offense or injury."
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ has made an atonement for mankind. He paid our sin debt
when he died on the cross and shed his blood, was buried, and rose again (1 Cor. 15:1-4). The
Apostle Paul says in Romans 5:11, speaking to Christians, or those who've accepted Christ's
sacrificial blood atonement for their sins:
"And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
we have now received the atonement."
When someone trusts Christ Jesus as their Saviour they have the atonement. They are at-one-
ment with God. Have you yet received the atonement of Jesus Christ?
REDEMPTION
"Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into
the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." (Hebrews 9:12)
The word redemption simply put means to buy back.
God made man in his image (Gen. 1:26). But the problem is that man fell into sin. Now, all
men are born are in Adam's fallen, sinful image (Gen. 5:3).
But the great and merciful God in heaven came down to earth (1 Tim. 3:16) to die for sinful
mankind and redeem them. He shed his blood, God's blood (Acts 20:28), to purchase us to
himself. And all who accept his sacrifice of his own blood for their sin will be eternally
redeemed and have complete forgiveness of their sins as it says in Ephesians 1:7:
"In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace."
PROPITIATION
"And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
whole world." (1 John 2:2)
The word propitiation literally means the act of appeasing wrath. Someone who is a
propitiation is a substitute for another. Jesus died in your place to appease the wrath of God.
He is your substitute.
The Bible tells says that you must make Jesus your propitiation (or substitute) personally by
faith in his blood. For in Romans 3:25 we read:
"Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God."
JUSTIFICATION
"And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to
condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification." (Romans 5:16)
Justification means the act of free grace by which God pardons the sinner and accepts him as
righteous on account of the atonement of Christ [when he trusts Christ as his Saviour].
If you are not saved, you are not justified. You must come to Jesus Christ to be saved (Acts
4:12). How? The following three verses show it clearly:
"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."
(Romans 3:24)
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ." (Romans 5:1)
"Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him." (Romans 5:9)
According to these verses, a person is "justified" or saved by three things.
1. God's Grace
2. Their Faith
3. God's blood
In other words, salvation or justification is by grace through faith in the precious blood of
Jesus Christ! This is exactly how to be saved according to Romans 3:25 which tells us that
salvation is by faith in his [Jesus'] blood.
Thus, when a person gets saved he's justified. Remember the definition of the word. It's Just
as if one had never sinned. Applied personally, it's Just-if-I'd never sinned! How wonderful
is Justification! It's total absolution and forgiveness of sins! But this justification only comes
by trusting the shed blood of Jesus Christ. How about it? Are you justified? Acts 13:39
reiterates that justification only comes through Jesus Christ:
"And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not
be justified by the law of Moses."
The Bible is clear that salvation or eternal life is a free gift (Rom. 6:23). It cannot be earned
by one's own works for Galatians 2:16 tells us:
"Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of
Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by
the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law
shall no flesh be justified."
Again we read that salvation is not of works in Ephesians 2:8,9:
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift
of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."
Thus, salvation or justification is a free gift of God to all that come to him by faith in his
blood and receive him as their Saviour.
IMPUTATION
"Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God
imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities
are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord
will not impute sin." (Romans 4:6-8)
The word impute means to charge, to set to the account of, to attribute, to ascribe, to reckon
unto. In the Biblical sense, imputation is God giving a man His righteousness, not because of
his works, but because he takes Jesus as his Saviour by faith, as seen in the verse above.
In Romans 4:4-5, the verses right before, we read:
"Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to
him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is
counted for righteousness."
According to the Bible, salvation is not by man's works. God only justifies a sinner when he
trusts Christ alone (without works). God then imputes to him His righteousness. Do you yet
have the imputed righteousness of God? It's a free gift by faith!
Repentence, Atonment, Redemption, Propitiation, Justification and Imputation are all
"sound" Biblical words. But more than that, they are God's words in speaking about
salvation.
Jesus said the following about his words in John 12:48:
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word
that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Dear reader, what is your decision. Will you reject God's words of salvation and be eternally
lost? Or will you come to your Propitiation as a repentant sinner and trust his Blood
Atonment for the redemption of you sins, so that Jesus can justify you and impute to you His
rightouesness?
"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians
6:2)
Won't you come to Christ Jesus today and trust his shed blood to save your soul? If so, won't
you write me at the address below and tell me about it?
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