"Saved From Hell"
Text: Romans 3:25-26
      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; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

      The key word from which I have gleaned this thought, "saved from hell"
comes from the word "propitiation" in verse 25 of the above scriptures.
Paul in this third chapter of this letters to the Romans is debating with
the Jewish Christians concerning how they were saved. Many of the Jewish
Christians
believed that their salvation was a result of works and faith. And Paul
wanted them to understand that their salvation came only through their faith
in
Jesus Christ not by the law and their works.

      He wanted them to understand that all men have sinned and come short
of the glory of God and that their was no difference between the Jew and the
Gentle when it comes to salvation. For both the Jew and the Gentle were
saved by the same faith in the works of Jesus Christ. Christ was set forth
to be
a propitiation for us, so that by faith we are "saved from hell". The word
"propitiation" means to offer something to God to turn away his wrath. We my
fellow believers are "saved from hell" because God offered his only Son to
be a propitiation for us to turn his wrath away from us so that we can be
"saved
from hell".

      From the start of life, every man and woman is bound for hell. David
said, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive
me",
(Psa 51:5). As David is saying, we are born perverted having the stain of
Adam and out of the will of God, distend for a devil's hell. We yield to the
lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh and the pride of life and when all
of these are conceived they bring forth death. They will bring forth upon
us the wrath of God.

      We as men we will always try to make excuses for our sins, we try to
find a scapegoat to lay them upon. We will use the saying "the devil made me
do it" or "I got the can't help its" and this is true in some ways because
when you are born in sin the only thing you can do is sin because sin is in
control of your nature. My friend your body is not your own, it is in
bondage and under the control of Satan. You may feel that there is no way to
be freed
from all of the different vices of sin.

      And as time goes on you begin to loose hope and you find you hate
because you want to hate, you commit adultery because you want to commit
adultery,
you steal because you want to steal, and your going down, down, down into
the cesspool of sin. My friend you can be rescued and be "saved from hell".
My
friend the gospel of Jesus Christ is your life line, hear it in faith and
believe. The gospel says, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the
world;
but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is
not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he
hath
not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God", (John 3:16-18).

      Hearing this gospel of love and conviction will bring you to
repentance and you will cry out like Paul, "O wretched man that I am! who
shall deliver
me from the body of this death", (Rom 7:24)? The Lord Jesus Christ is your
answer, he was the propitiation, he was the scapegoat for you. all of our
blame
when upon him for you and by faith in him you will not have to suffer the
wrath of God and you will be "saved from hell".

      Then do as Jesus said, be born again, of the water and of the spirit.
Peter revealed this mystery of how to be born again after the day of
Pentecost.
Peter said, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy
Ghost. My friend if you want to be "saved from hell" do as Peter said do!!

Act 2:23
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye
have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Act 3:18
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his
prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

Act 4:28
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Act 15:18
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

1Pe 1:18
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as]
silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from
your
fathers;

Rev 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not
written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world.

Exd 25:17
And thou shalt make a mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half
[shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

Lev 16:15
Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that [is] for the people,
and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with
the
blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the
mercy seat:

Hbr 9:5
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we
cannot now speak particularly.

1Jo 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for
[the sins of] the whole world.

1Jo 4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his
Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

Rom 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ:

Isa 53:11
He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their
iniquities.

Jhn 6:47
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting
life.

Col 1:20
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile
all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth,
or things in heaven.

Hbr 10:19
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood
of Jesus,

Rom 3:26
To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just,
and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Psa 22:31
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that
shall be born, that he hath done [this].

Psa 40:10
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy
faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and
thy truth
from the great congregation.

Psa 50:6
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself.
Selah.

Psa 97:6
The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

Psa 119:142
Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the
truth.

1Jo 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not
in us.

Rom 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Rom 4:1
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh,
hath found?

Act 13:38
Be it known unto you therefore, men [and] brethren, that through this man is
preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

Act 17:30
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men
every where to repent:

1Ti 1:15
This [is] a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Hbr 9:15
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of
death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first
testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal
inheritance.

Hbr 10:4
For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take
away sins.

Hbr 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with
fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned
the
world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Hbr 11:14
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Rev 5:9
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to
open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by
thy
blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Rev 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not
written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world.

Rev 20:15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the
lake of fire.


To get out of a hard situation,
try a soft answer.
Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turneth away wrath:
but grievous words stir up anger.
YBIC, Thomas And YSIC, Linda.
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