* Election - the sinner chooses Christ the Elect One (Isaiah 42:1), and then God chooses the sinner, and puts him into the Elect One, Christ Jesus Himself. The sinner is not elect until he is in Christ. (I Thessalonians 1:4; Titus 1:1; I Peter 2:6; II Peter 1:10)
* Imputation - The divine operation where God charges all our sins to Christ's account, and then charges all of Christ's Righteousness to our account. God takes the life of Jesus Christ and credits it to me, and then God takes my wickedness and credits it to Jesus Christ. Imputation is when God takes my sins and marks them down on His Son's record, and then God takes His Son's Righteousness and marks it down on my record, and I am found absolutely innocent in God's sight for Christ's sake (Romans 4:6,8,11,22-24; 5:13; II Corinthians 5:19-21). Imputation means that God no longer counts your sins against you for Christ's sake. God can only do this because Christ has taken your sins upon Himself, along with all the blame, curse, and wrath due to your sins. Jesus took your place, so you can now take His place. God eternally imputes Christ's Righteousness to a guilty sinner's account when that sinner places His faith in the Blood and Merits of Jesus Christ alone. Works can never have a part in any sinner's salvation, for no sinner has any merit to present to God.
* Incarnation - God became a Jewish man in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, so that He could die for sinful men and save them from their sins (I Timothy 3:16; Matthew 1:23).
* Justification - To be legally discharged, acquitted, and cleared from all our sins by the grace and blood of God. To be declared absolutely just in God's sight because of Christ's sinless obedience and bloody death. Free Justification through the atoning Sacrifice of God manifest in the flesh on Calvary's Cross (Romans 3:24,26; 4:5,25; 5:1,9,16,18; Acts 13:38-39; Galatians 2:16; 3:24; Titus 3:7).
* Propitiation - The satisfying of God's divine justice by Christ's Atonement for human sin; the appeasing of God's wrath and being made acceptable in His sight through faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ; the atoning sacrifice offered to God by Jesus Christ to appease the wrath due to our sins, thereby making God pleased with us for Christ's sake. Every sin committed by every man was paid for with God's Blood on the Cross. God's wrath fell on Jesus Christ when He became Sin on Calvary's Cross. If you want to be Safe, go to Calvary; you want to be damned, go and try to work for your salvation. Safety from the wrath of God is only found where the wrath of God has already fallen - The Lamb of God (Romans 3:25; I John 2:2; 4:10)
* Reconciliation - To be brought back into a state of favor with God through simple faith in Christ's atoning Blood (Romans 5:10; II Corinthians 5:18-20; Ephesians 2:16; Colossians 1:20-21; Hebrews 2:17)
* Redemption - The payment to buy back something that was lost; the deliverance from the captivity to sin, Satan, the Law, present evil world, and our own daily tendencies and propensities to sin (Romans 3:24; 8:23; I Corinthians 1:30; Ephesians 1:7,14; 4:30; Colossians 1:14; Hebrews 9:12,15).
* Regeneration - The washing away of guilt and sin, and the inward renewing by the word, grace, Spirit, and Blood of God (Titus 3:5).
* Salvation - Preservation from bondage of sin and liability to eternal death (Romans 1:16; 10:10; II Corinthians 6:2; 7:10; Ephesians 1:13; 6:17; Philippians 2:12; I Thessalonians 5:9; II Timothy 2:10; 3:15; Titus 2:11; Hebrews 2:3; I Peter 1:9; Jude 1:3).
* Sanctification - Being made perfect by the imputing of Christ's holiness to our soul, and being set apart from sin daily and eternally (Penalty, Power, Presence) (I Corinthians 1:30; I Thessalonians 4:3-4; II Thessalonians 2:13; I Peter 1:2).
* Substitution - Christ Jesus bled and died; He paid for my sins in my place, so I could be free from the Judgment of God on my sin. Christ for me, Christ in my place, Christ instead of me, None but Christ, Christ is All.
* Translation - Being caught up by God (spirit, soul and body) from the earth into the presence of God (Hebrews 11:5; I Corinthians 15:51-54; I Thessalonians 4:16-17)
The Great Eternal JEHOVAH, who made the heavens and the earth, revealed Himself to this evil world in the person of the Man Christ Jesus. God was manifest in human flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. God’s only-begotten and well-beloved Son came down from Heaven and became a Jewish man, He lived upon this earth a sinless life of perfect obedience to His Father’s law, and a life of holy service on behalf of sinful men. On the Cross of Calvary, Jesus was obedient unto death. Your sins were laid upon Jesus; and on the accursed tree, Jesus bore upon Himself all the punishment due to human guilt. God bruised Christ, His own Son, in the place of sinners. The payment of your enormous debt of guilt was demanded, and Christ has paid it in full with His own Blood. Your soul will be accounted just the moment you put your faith in Jesus Christ, the great Sin-Bearer.
Look now to the Cross and see the Great Substitute taking the wrath that your sins deserved.The Innocent dying for the guilty. The Lord of glory bearing the sins of rebellious men. Christ suffering instead of us. Come to Jesus now, accept Him as your Substitute. “The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” “God hath made Jesus to be sin for you, who knew no sin; that you might be made the righteousness of God in Christ.” The way of safety is the way of Substitution, the way of Atonement, the way of Jesus Christ’s Blood. The only way to travel in the King's Highway is by simply trusting in Christ alone, believing on Him alone with all the heart, relying upon Him, depending upon Him, leaning on Him, resting on Him, believing His words and promises. Christ Jesus is God in human flesh, He suffered and bled for human sin, trust your soul with Him, and you are eternally saved.
