What did Jesus Christ do to save sinners?

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Essential to becoming a Christian is to rightly understand what Jesus Christ did in order to save sinners - it is in these things that we are called to believe in order to be saved. Let's do it by answering a few vitally important questions about Him and about His work.

Who is Jesus Christ?

That very question might have puzzled you, surely, you might think, it should have been "Who was Jesus Christ?". After all central to a Christian's beliefs is that the man Jesus Christ died. But to understand who Jesus Christ is we need to go back far before His human birth. Indeed what the Bible insists on is that Jesus Christ is (and has always been) God.

What the Bible tells us is that although there is only one God, He has eternally existed in three persons - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. This is perhaps the greatest mystery of all and yet the Bible insists that it is so and that we must believe it.

We are also told that before God began to create anything, He fully foresaw what would happen if He made the world that He planned to make. He foresaw how Adam and Eve would sin, and how, as a result of the curse that He would put on creation as a result of that sin, every single human being born into this world would also sin, indeed they would also inherit sin from Adam. Despite foreseeing the full extent of man's rebellion against Him, He still purposed to create this world and do whatever was necessary in order to bring about an end result in which men and women out of every nation on earth could dwell with Him for all of eternity without sin and without any damage as a result of sin

Referenced verses

John 3:3

Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."[ESV]

Acts 2:47

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.[ESV]

2 Cor 5:18

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;[ESV]

Matt 21:31-32

Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.[ESV]

Acts 2:37-38

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. [ESV]

1 John 1: 8-9

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. [ESV]

Isa 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. [ESV]

Rom 3:10

as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;[ESV]

1 Tim 2:5

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,[ESV]

1 Pet 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [ESV]

Acts 4;12

(speaking of Jesus) And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."[ESV]

Mark 10:17

And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"[ESV]

Luke 24:47

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.[ESV]

Rev 5:9

And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,[ESV]

John 18:36

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."
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Eph 1:13-14

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. [ESV]

Rom 4:5

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,[ESV]

Gal 5:16-25

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, Gal 5:23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [ESV]

1 Cor 10:31

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.[ESV]

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.[ESV]

Psa 100:4

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name![ESV]

Psalm 37:4

Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.[ESV]

Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.[ESV]

Romans 8:31-39

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. [ESV]

John 14:1-3

"Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. [ESV]

1 Corinthians 15:54-57

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. [ESV]

Philippians 1:21-23

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. [ESV]

1 Thessalonians 4:17

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. [ESV]

Romans 10:9

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.[ESV]

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