God has lovingly provided a means for all people to have an eternal relationship with Him. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16). The key that opens the door to have this relationship is believing on the lord Jesus Christ. "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:13).
Romans 10:9:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Why the need of a redeemer to obtain salvation and an eternal life relationship with God?
In the beginning, God made man a 3-fold being. Body ("…formed man of the dust of the ground…" Genesis 2:7); Soul ("…breathed into the nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:7); Spirit ("…make man in our image…" Genesis 1:26). "God is a Spirit…" (John 4:24). So, God made man to have spirit. Now the first man was whole: body, soul, and spirit.
God purposed man to have spirit because He is spirit and He had the desire to fellowship with him. God’s whole purpose for the creation is to have fellowship with His man.
Unfortunately, the spiritual relationship was lost by man due to not adhering to the one thing God told him not to do: “…not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…” (Genesis 2:17). The result of doing so was, “…in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Genesis 2:17). Obviously the body and soul part of man did not die that day. Adam and Eve lived on for many years since committing that error. What died was the spiritual connection.
It took the son of God, Jesus Christ, to pay the ultimate price with his own sacrifice to provide salvation, so that man could once again be whole: body, soul and spirit.
I Peter 1:18a; 19 & 21:
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things…
but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Hebrews 5:9:
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
God’s loving grace allowed man to simply believe on His son and that God raised him from the dead. Man would then receive salvation. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” (Ephesians 2:8). God now regained that treasured relationship with man. Man could now be born again with incorruptible seed (I Peter 1:23). Man now knew he belonged to God, “…because He hath given us of His spirit.” (I John 4:13).
Ephesians 1:13:
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
- Bob Lindfelt
