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Only One Way to Experience Salvation
John 1:10–18
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There is only one way to experience salvation and become a child of God and that is through God’s power (v. 12). There are three ways by which you cannot become a child of God (v. 13).
John the Baptist had the privilege of introducing Jesus to the nation of Israel. He also had the task of preparing the Jewish nation to receive their Messiah. He was bold in calling them to repent of their sins and to prove that they had by living a changed life. “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (v. 17). The law was truth but it was truth without grace. We are saved by grace (Eph. 2:8-9), and we also live by grace (I Cor. 15:10). Finally, Jesus Christ reveals God to us (v. 18). Man can see God revealed in nature (Rom. 1:20); but he cannot see God Himself. We simply cannot understand God apart from knowing His Son, Jesus Christ.
Application
There are many people who are personally trusting they are going to heaven when they die by one or all of the ways that verse 13 says is impossible to be a Christian. Lord, help me to be able to show people in a loving way that salvation is through grace alone.
John 1:10-18 (English Standard Version)
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'") And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
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