Some Definitions 

Salvation:  The act faith in God in God that allows us to enter heaven and have eternal life

Righteousness: being in a correct (proper) relationship with God.

Redemption: Jesus paying the price to take us out of the effects of The Law and the consequences of it..

Sanctification: being set apart by God for His use.

Holiness: Voluntarily setting yourself aside for the worship and service of God.

Justification: This refers to w hat God does.  He declares that we are in a proper relationship with Him because of our faith in what Jesus h as done.

 It all fits together this way:
 
We are saved by faith and as a result we are also redeemed.  We are then considered by God to be in righteous (proper) relationship with Him.  God then declares we are His and sets us aside for His purposes.  We then should live holy lives as a response to what God has done for us.

 In all this God has justified us.  He has said it is just that we enter into these things because of what Jesus did at Calvary and because of our response to what He did there.

 Holiness

 Holiness -without which no man can see God!

 Our response to All that God does should be holiness.  The maintaining of our attitudes to God that leads to faithful, trusting, obedient relationship with Him that results in the maintaining of our salvation.

 Holiness is an attitude that rejects all that Satan offers through His world system and clings to that which God gives you.  Seeking to learn all you can about who God is, what He desires of you, your relationship to Him and whatever else you need to know to keep holy.

 Grace

Grace is God doing something for us that He does not need to as it is not a reward of service or faith.  It is an act resulting solely out of His Love for us and benefits us in some way.

Salvation is the first of God’s Grace.  He did not need to do it but His Love drove Him to die for us even though He was not really required to do it.

Calvary and all it entails is His Grace. All His Mercy is epitomised in Calvary and through all that Jesus did there for us.

Grace is the free and unmerited favour or beneficence of God.  In other words, God does something good for us without requiring us to do something for Him and often without our knowing we needed the thing done for us or even knowing the thing has been done for us.  It is God giving us the things we don’t deserve like Jesus, eternal life, salvation, a place in heaven, The Holy Spirit, keeping us alive, providing all we need to live and serve Him etc.

The Blood and Calvary

The Blood, shed by Jesus at Calvary, is the evidence of the New Covenant (Testament) that now exists between God and Mankind as a result of Jesus shedding His Blood and dying at Calvary.

Covenants were evidenced by a sacrifice and the death of Jesus evidenced the commencement of the new Covenant between God and man. The death of Jesus was God’s way of showing when this new covenant began.

Redemption and Propitiation

The Mosaic Law required a sacrifice to be offered in The Temple for sins committed by a person before they could approach God. An animal died in place of the person to meet the requirements of this sacrifice.

On the cross Jesus died in our place. He was our propitiation. In simple language, He met God’s requirements for this sacrifice and by this also met God’s requirement for our sins. Because Jesus was God, eternal and infinite He met the requirements for all time for anyone anywhere in the Universe.

He freed us from the requirements of the Mosaic Law so that it no longer applies to us (see Acts 15) so we can now live under His Mercy and Grace, being freed from the legalism of The Mosaic Law.

The Blood shed by Jesus at Calvary is God’s Witness to all this.

Justification and Sanctification:

Justify: declare to be in a proper relationship with someone.

Sanctify: set apart as belonging to someone, usually a god.

The defilement of sin was removed through our redemption by Jesus so that God no longer sees us as unholy and defiled, but holy and undefiled.  Able to enter a correct relationship with Him if we so desire to do so.

As a result of Calvary God can declare we are in a correct relationship with Him without the need to sacrifice an animal so that we can approach Him anytime, anywhere we are. We now have 24 hour access to God on a personal relationship basis. As the sacrificial Law was fulfilled for all time so was the need for a temple to hold this sacrifice in.  This is why The Temple was removed in 70AD. So now where ever we are we can approach God as we are now part of the temple (building) in which He now resides (unified by The Holy Spirit). The Body (people) of Christ is the visible manifestation of this temple on earth.

Because we accept the Sacrifice of Calvary and Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, God declares we are His, declaring we are in a correct elation with Him (in other words, justified) and sets us apart for His use (sanctifies us).

Salvation and Forgiveness

Salvation has always been through obedient faith and forgiveness as a result of wholehearted repentance. This is how it was for the three thousand years before The Mosaic Law and God has not done anything to change this.

Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Jesus removed (remitted) the punishment for our sins so it is as if we have never sinned! We no longer need to ask for forgiveness for sin as sin and all its consequences have been dealt with at Calvary.  The forgiveness of Calvary was not done in installments.  It was complete.  When God looks at us now He sees no sin on us as it is all on Jesus.

Cleansing and Peace

The sacrifice of Calvary removes all Satan has done to you spiritually and mentally, removing the spiritual effects of his world system on you. This allows you peace with God as there is nothing in you God cannot accept (except unrepented sin) as it has all been dealt with at Calvary by the sacrifice of Jesus (His Blood).

Boldness to approach The Throne of God!

Because of what Jesus did at Calvary we can approach God unhindered by anything. This is because all sin has been remitted and God sees us undefiled and in a correct relationship with Him and because also we desire wholeheartedly to seek to follow Jesus and serve God. Any unknown sin we have does not affect our approaching God as all sin was remitted and dealt with at Calvary.

You are judged by what you know or knowingly reject and not by what you do not know or else those who have never heard of Jesus would be judged for not knowing His requirements of them.

Maturity

Because of this relationship we have with God, resulting from what Jesus did at Calvary, we can be led by The Holy Spirit to grow into the Image of God’s Character so that our heart and desires line up with His. This allows The Holy Spirit to guide and mature us, prepare us to serve Jesus and use us for the purposes of The Kingdom as well as earn rewards in heaven for our service to God on earth.

Rulership of all

At Calvary, Jesus took Satan captive and made him His prisoner.  After Calvary, Satan has no right to wander the earth so in Jesus’ Name can be commanded to go back to the Throne of Judgment for Jesus to punish for his escaping from his prison as well as for what he did while free.

Jesus obtained the right, by capturing Satan, to rule all creation so that He is now Lord of all creation!

Because He is Lord of all, in His Name (Authority) is victory over Satan and because we have been given the delegated authority to capture Satan and his demons as well as to destroy or hinder their workings and  send back to prison, we are able to do God’s work unhindered by them!

The ‘Blood’ and ‘Name’ of Jesus

People plead the ‘Blood’ and ‘Name’ of Jesus as if they are a magic formula.

The Blood is the evidence of the New Covenant (Testament), His victory over Satan and all that occurred as a result of Jesus shedding His Blood and dying at Calvary. The phrase is usually is used in the context of spiritual warfare, and refers to His victory at Calvary over Satan.

The ‘Name of Jesus’ is a statement that you are praying or commanding in accordance with His revealed Will and that it will be done as it is His Will and He is Lord of all.

Calvary is also the witness to the obedience of Jesus to The Father as well as to the Redemption He obtained for us there. Jesus did not obtain His authority over all through His actual death. The authority was a reward His obedience (Phil 2:9-11).

To use Blood and the authority (Name of Jesus) in any other way than:

Declaring the victory over Satan, so Satan must go when cast out,

Praying the revealed Will of God so God will answer your prayer and be able to do it,

Is to miss the meaning of these two terms and is a misuse of God’s Authority so that He will not answer the prayer or perform the command.

Unless you are led by The Holy Spirit or the matter being commanded or being prayed is in The Bible you may not be commanding or praying God’s Will and it will not be done by God.  Satan will try to answer these prayers though in his way and in that is the danger of praying without knowing God’s Will in a matter. Remember, when you do not know what to pray The Holy Spirit prays for you (Rom 8:26-28).

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