Salvation Cycle

Since all are sinners and to rescue us from the sin Jesus came to this world as a human and paid the price for our sins, it is necessary to know about how to get our debt from sin cleared.

Here I present a Life cycle of how sin came to the world and how we can overcome it.

Origin of Sin

Lucifer (Satan) rebelled against God and was thrown out from the holy place to Earth. “How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!” – Isaiah 14:12. Lucifer wanted to become the most high and was thrown out from heaven. Since then he made it a point to rebel against God. The next step he did was to take out God’s creation. So he led man to sin.

The fall of Man (Adam and Eve)

You can find the fall of man in Genesis 3. Satan came in the form of serpent and made the woman to eat the fruit which was forbidden. She ate and gave it to man and as a result got into sin. But the same chapter God promises to provide them a saviour and through him the human race can come out of sin. (Genesis 3:15)

Sin got inherited

The fall of first man resulted in all men inheriting the basic sin nature and committing individual acts of sin due to this nature. Satan started working with the sin from the first children onwards, resulting in murder. One killed by his sibling. Genesis 4.

Death

Sin further leaded to Spiritual and Physical death. The punishment for sin is death. “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned” – Romans 5:12. Sin can be attacked only by shedding of pure blood. So in the Old Testament times, sacrificing animals was the way to get saved from sin. It was temporary. But God gave another option for everyone to come out of sin permanently.

On the Cross Jesus Paid the Price

Son of God came as a man and obeyed the laws and commandments, did not sinned, but was beaten and finally died on the cross shedding blood for all the mankind as a permanent sacrifice for the sin and destroyed the devil on the cross and resurrected on the third day and overcame death. On the cross, Jesus paid the penalties which resulted in justification of sinful man. The salvation is free but man has to accept Christ as his saviour and leave his old life, repent and ask for salvation. Repentance is necessary to avoid Spiritual death and eternal life. It will make an inner change of mind resulting in an outward turning away from sin to move towards God and righteousness. 

Conversion

Repentance and accepting Jesus leads you to conversion. Conversion means to turn from the wrong way to right way. The parable of Prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32 is a good example of conversion. When the young man realized his sinful condition he made a decision to go to his father and repent of his sin. This is repentance. The young man left the old life and went to his father to start a new life. This is conversion. It is the outward change.

Salvation from Sin and Justification before Righteous God.

The conversion will result in justification of sinful man before a righteous God and salvation from a life of sin and the penalties of sin.

Friends, if you feel you are a Christian, have you gone through these processes? Have your repented your sins? Have you got converted? You cannot inherit salvation through your family, only sin comes as inheritance. Individually you need to take a step for salvation. Your name cannot make you a Christian, only your acceptance of Christ and repentance from sin can make you a true Christian. If you haven’t done it, now it’s the time to act.