Your Salvation; Redemption of the Soul; a Divine pardon from death in Hell?

Your salvation, a divine pardon from death in Hell for sin, has absolutely NOTHING to do with Sinai or Torah or obedience, philanthropy, good works, self-righteousness. Your salvation, the initiation of soul-saving covenant with the Father, is a gift of grace (unmerited favor, a divine gift you cannot earn through human effort) through faith-trust in Jesus Christ as your Messiah believing that Jesus died for you to pay your sin-debt owed the Father…a debt you could never pay yourself.

The essential elements of salvation; that is, the process of establishing eternal New Covenant relationship with the Father are as follows,

1) Repentance – a sincere apology to the Father for your sin and your failure to live in obedience to His will for your life. A sincere desire to turn-away from a life of disobedience coupled with a sincere desire to pursue the Father’s will in all things.

2) A sincere belief, a sincere trust, that what the Father has said about His Son, Jesus Christ, is true and that you believe by faith that Jesus is Messiah who suffered, shed His innocent blood for the atonement, forgiveness, of your sin; a sincere faith acknowledging that Jesus died for you to pay a sin-debt you owe the Father, a sin-debt you could never pay yourself.

The deceit of self-righteousness,

If you could initiate covenant with the Father through Commandment-keeping, good works, philanthropy, genetics, Church attendance, baptism, Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die in your place (Galatians 2:21).

Obedience that actually pleases the Father is obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit who is gifted to everyone who enters into true New Covenant relationship with the Father; it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father, Son and Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) and it is the Holy Spirit who methodically walks the redeemed in Jesus in the daily process of sanctification where the Spirit employs the spiritual law written upon the human heart and the redeemed conscience to create the “new man or woman,” the “new creation” in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) as the Spirit produces “fruits of righteousness” in the life of the redeemed, fruit that glorifies the Father, fruit that furthers the Father’s eschatological purposes on Earth and in the Kingdom, fruit – against which there is no law (Galatians 5; Matthew 7:15-20).

Peace with the Father,

Obedience that pleases the Father is NOT enslavement to a written code, Torah Law, religion, a denomination, but obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit during sanctification as the Spirit prepares the faithful in Jesus for service in the New Jerusalem (Galatians 5:16). It is faith in Jesus, obedience to the Holy Spirit, that manifests in enduring “peace” with the Father (Romans 5:1).