Romans Road to Salvation

Romans Road to Salvation, is a series of Scriptures in the Book of Romans that explains of Gods Divine Plan of Salvation through His Son Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, it is imperative that we know and spread The Great Commision that God has planned for His people.

                   What is the purpose of us needing Salvation?                                                                                          How was Salvation obtained through God? 

What are the steps to receiving salvation?                                                                                                  What are the end results of this Divine gift?

The purpose of salvation is to deliver human beings from sin and its consequences, which include death and separation from God. Salvation is obtained through God's grace, a gift of freedom from sins made possible by Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. The steps to receiving salvation typically involve hearing the Gospel, believing in Jesus Christ, repenting of sins, and being baptized.

The end results of this divine gift are Justification, Adoption into God's family, Regeneration, and ultimately, Eternal life with God.

The Fall of Man

So, just a recap on how I explained in A Lesson on Romans Road to Salvation

How Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. He held Adam accountable and from that sin, the ground was cursed in the earth and sin and evil dwelt among us, through centuries up until this very day evil and sin has been among us and resides in us, as soon as we came out of our mother's womb, we are considered sinners.

I know for some of us this is hard to believe, but we are sinners by nature.

Psalm 51:5 tells how we all come into this world as sinners:

Behold, I was bought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. 

Ephesians 2:3, also tells us that we are all by nature children of wrath:

Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

So, God did not create us as babies to be sinful, but we have inherited this through the sin of Adam.

In plain terms it's like we are guilty by association, and may God be glorified in that statement.

 Romans 3:10-12 The Bible declares. "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.

All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one." 

This is from an Old Testament passage of Scripture which can be found in Psalm 53: 1-3

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt and have done abominable iniquity; There is none who does good. God looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. Every one of them has turned aside; they have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one.

There was only one that was righteous and that was Jesus Christ 

Our righteousness does not come from ourselves it only comes through our faith in Jesus Christ 

  Romans 3:23, since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God,

We all have sinned; I've defiantly had my share of sin; we all have done things that go against Gods will for our lives, there is nobody that hasn't sinned, and like I stated in my previous post, God doesn't look at sin like we do, we as mankind categorize sin, we think the big sins in this world deserves great punishment and the little ones deserves a slap on the hand, but God in His Righteous Judgement looks at sin all the same whether you steal some food from your local store or a quarter from your mothers purse, up to the horrified sins you see on the news or in the newspaper, God is no respecter of persons, Acts 10:34, which means He doesn't show favoritism, You can be black, white, yellow or green, you can be rich or poor, hold offices,

or live your life to a higher standard on this earth

He doesn't show favoritism in sin, nor does He show favoritism in Salvation for all. Glory to His name!

For God does not show favoritism.

 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.

Romans 2:11-13

 For even though they knew God [as the Creator], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks [for His wondrous creation]. On the contrary, they became worthless in their thinking [godless, with pointless reasonings, and silly speculations], and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21

Free will

Just as Adam and Eve had a choice, God the Father grants us all free will. Even when Adam and Eve were forewarned, they had the option to either heed to God's word or face death, and this same choice is extended to us.

God offers us the gift of free will; He will not plead with us to surrender to Him, but He expects us to make the right decision 

I believe we all inherently know this deep down in our conscience, as the scriptures testify to the right course of action.

In our hearts and minds, we are without excuse, for God has made His presence known everywhere.

Romans 1:20 For ever since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through His workmanship [all His creation, the wonderful things that He has made], so that they [who fail to believe and trust in Him] are without excuse and without defense.

but sometimes the forces of this world and the things in it takes complete control.

Because Adam sinned against God and caused us to be separated from God, God in His Sovereignty,

Mercy and Grace extended His love He has for His creation, by sending His Son to be the second Adam. 

Romans 5:8 declares, But God clearly shows and proves His own love for us, by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us

Even when we were sinners, Christ died for us. God has given His Son Jesus Christ all power and authority.

Just know that regardless how we feel about God and Jesus Christ His plan is still going to show itself on this earth and in Heaven 

Philippians 2:10-11, so that at the name of Jesus Every Knee Shall Bow, (in submission) of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that Every Tongue Will Confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord (sovereign God), to the glory of God the Father 

John 14:6, states, Jesus said to him, “I am the [only] Way [to God] and the [real] Truth and the [real] Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

 " But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23

Steps to Receiving Salvation and The End Result

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.

Through Jesus's death and resurrection, we have now been given a chance to be reconciled with God, Jesus who knew no sin, became sin for us,

Jesus was the Sacrificial Lamb who died on the Cross at Calvary Hallelujah to the Father which is in Heaven, and Glory Be His Name Forever.

Romans 10:13, says "For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." 

The gift of Salvation is for all who accepts and receives this gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the one who accepts this salvation will have had overcome the wrath of God and the punishment which we are so deserving of, 

Romans 5:1 says "Therefore since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ 

The peace of God is now upon us, we can now have peace within us knowing that our relationship with God is sealed.

Ephesians 4:30, And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 

You have the promise of knowing that this seal cannot be broken, God will keep His promise,

Numbers 23:19, For God is not a man that He should lie neither the son of man that He should repent; hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good. 

Romans 8:1-2, There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death

We are now free from the bondage of sin; God does not look at our past sins anymore; you are not guilty because of your faith in Christ Jesus 

 Remember just because we now have this declaration of righteousness don't treat it foolishly, this Divine declaration according to Paul is for those who live and walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit, we now have to live under the power of the Holy Spirit which now lives in you and I and turn away from sin.

We will stumble at times, and we will fall, we fall short of Gods glory every day because of our sinful nature, but by reading God's Word, Praying and allowing the Holy Spirit to work inside you, you will start seeing a change and give God the Glory for it.

We as believers who have put away their old sinful ways are now a new creation in Jesus Christ, Praise God!!!!!! 

 Romans 6:1-2, What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?  By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?