Message by Todd Crosthwaite, Lead Pastor

SALVATION

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1, What is salvation?

rescue; deliverance; wholeness; putting back together

Genesis 1 & 2: God creates; harmony

Genesis 3-4, 6, 11

sin: pulling apart

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2, What are we saved from?

Matthew 1:21

> saved from sin

> Sin is like a disease; all the things that we do or fail to do that violate our relationship with God, and our relationships with one another

been saved from the penalty of sin;

the consequence of a life apart from God

Ephesians 2:8-9

being saved from the power of sin

1 Corinthians 1:18

will be saved from the presence of sin

"new creation"

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3, What are we saved for?

Exodus 8:1

"Let my people go, so that they may worship me."

Romans 12:1

We have been saved for worshipful service to God.

Ephesians 2:10

Acts 4:12

2 Corinthians 5:17-21

reconciled with God = a new kind of relationship with God

Salvation is about rescue from the power that wants to destroy our lives, and restoration to the new life that you were made to live.