We need a new heart and we need to be born again.
Loving God, his people and our community
Loving God, his people and our community
'salvation' Tagged Sermons
As Christians we are under new management. We were under Adam and the covenant of works. Now, we are under Christ and the covenant of grace. We have new status, new life and we are a new person. But sin is lurking.
There is a law and yet we are free. We live in tension between the two. Paul tells us we are wretched, but we are rescued. Some believe that the law saves them but Paul shows how this is not true.
Buddha allegedly said ‘no-one saves us but ourselves, no-one can & no-one may …’. In this passage there is a fundamentally different approach. Jesus says ‘salvation is found in no other’.
In this psalm, the psalmist is looking back to God’s compassion and power in his life. It is often used by believers to praise God for recovery from sickness, birth of a child, celebration of the Lord’s supper, thankfulness for salvation and rescue from serious situations.