How Does Jesus Save Us?
First with respect to appeasing God's wrath, he accomplished that by himself being the propitiation for our sins. "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1John 4:10 It would have been unjust for God to simply forgive sin without some kind of penalty being paid. Yet God had been tolerating sin with a view towards the atoning work of Christ. For "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." John 3:23-26 "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:5,6
But even when one is forgiven, there is still the issue of being saved from our innate sinfulness so that we may live in the presence of God. So it says of Jesus' role, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless." Eph 5:25-27 And thus it says of the transforming work of being born of God, "if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2Cor 5:17 and "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God." 1John 3:9 (These ideas I will elaborate upon later) "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight." Eph 1:4 Thus of those who enter the city God will build it is written, "Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life." Rev 21:27
First with respect to appeasing God's wrath, he accomplished that by himself being the propitiation for our sins. "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1John 4:10 It would have been unjust for God to simply forgive sin without some kind of penalty being paid. Yet God had been tolerating sin with a view towards the atoning work of Christ. For "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." John 3:23-26 "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:5,6
But even when one is forgiven, there is still the issue of being saved from our innate sinfulness so that we may live in the presence of God. So it says of Jesus' role, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless." Eph 5:25-27 And thus it says of the transforming work of being born of God, "if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2Cor 5:17 and "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God." 1John 3:9 (These ideas I will elaborate upon later) "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight." Eph 1:4 Thus of those who enter the city God will build it is written, "Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life." Rev 21:27
