Idowu O. Adelubi 'Salvation is being saved

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aIland his creator. ‘ mm may ask why salvation necessary. »Actually, it a need because man has ready been condemned to ath by sin. Notice the

Jory ovaod." 'Therefore

ccording,to the standard fthe living God. But I

'd not want us to pay the awlty of pur sins. That

David Bernard

In the last couple fissues of the UPEI mu there were ar- m-. icles dealing, basi-, ally, with the exis— ame of God. The_ar— icles I'm referring o are IdOwu's inSert n Sin, and Joe's, nsert on supersti— ion. Their articles In forth points omewhat distant from ach other.

filmy own life I ave realized major anges brought

mm by.God's lov— ng hand. There fore ith these concrete

rying to get

brough each day as

est they can, I'm

18 to see myself

F my place in God's

lny caravan.

lately, not only in

he university newspaper, ut also in the Charlotte- mm Guardian, there was front page atricle

ward I g on Prince sland. If we 0?k a little farther from rlnce Edward Island, , aywith an eye to the' hole world, we see eOPle committing them- etves to gregariously rle“ted get-togethers. ere are probably sev- ral reasOns for this; aseeing as all things Ve their being in God, en We: each of us,

om danger and difficulty. eologically, it is spiritual escue from the consequences fsin — which, as clearly tated in the Bible, is death a eternal separation between

rd Of God which says'"The

ul that sinneth, it shall _ -efl' Moreover, all men have jmed and come short of the

fl_men are supposed to die

t you to notice that God

Wliat .. Salvation :?

is why he made a way of escape through Jesus Christ. "For God so loved the world

have everlasting life." Salvation therefore is

necessary in order to escape

the consequences of sin. Salvation is a gift of

God to man through Jesus

Christ. It is an unmerited

favour, and no man can obtain

it except by his faith in -the Lord Jesus Christ.

world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." Also Salvation is only through Christ. ;been another person in history sent by God to die for sins. Christ was

Hot Stuff .

with the gift of life, have a hunger to exper— ience God. ( It is said 'We can experience God in each other.) In my own life I experienced

a pronounced emptiness, a

that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but

"For God sent not his Son into the

There has never been

born to take the horrible death on the cross, so that by his blood, we are cleaned from our sins and become

the true children of God. "...being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved jfrom the wrath of God through him."

V Dear, reader, salvation is jfor you too, though you can't say you have not sinned. Note that your sinful nature is by virtue of inheritance. '"Wherefore, as by one man sin 'entered into the world, and Ideath by sin; and so death 'paSSed upon all men, for that

all have sinned." But I have good news for you. The price

of your sins was paid by Jesus Christ on the cross, and by his shed blood, your sins are washed away. The

root of the sin that constantly

strives to separate man from

God.

This God accomplished through

his son Jesus, the Christ, Spirit—God took on Earth and mud flesh.

The Go d—man taught us about Father-Love

hollow nothingness. I was hun-and achieved victory over

gering for the indwelling

prescence of God. As far as pleasures this world offers, they only served to make me less happy, and indeed 'effectively obscured my. vision of who I was, and better still, who I am cal- led to be. 2. People today_ as always need to be acknowledged, to feel respected, worthy. ‘ActualLy this is a need to be loved. People so often see this as

a weakness when really it is a built-in God given strength. Think about it. ”

3. Thirdly, some of the major churches that have been experiencing something of a slump in attendance, have been examining themselves and saying why is it so? They are finding out that people need to hear what the heck it is they're here on Earth for. They need to be taught over and over again that God does indeed very

I much loves mankind, that God

is holy, and that because we sinned we could not join God

,in that Holiness until that

transgression was removed.

We of ourselves c0uld in no way restore our sonship with God, so once and for all God made known for all generations his torrential, fierce, yet' gentle, bleeding love for his earth—man creatures by sending part of himself to Earth to convihce mankind of his love for us, and to overcome the

I and Adam).

the forces that first enslaved

THE UPEI SUN, Thursday, Oct. 25,.1979, page 17

only thing you need to do is to realize your incomp pleteness and imperfection. Then turn to the Lord Jesus Christ. Confess your sins to him and ask him to take them away. If you do this sincerely, the Lord will forgive you and clean you from all unrighteousness. Friend, I beseech you in Christ's stead, be reconciled to God. ’May God bless you as you trace your way back to him.

For further inquiry, questions or explanation on this and other related spiritual problems, CONTACT IDOWU Q'MEUBI,BUWGMMDMEL, ROOM 311, BOX 30, UPEI, CHARLOTTETOWN

PHONE 902-892—5573

lifted up from the Earth, I shall draw all men to myself." (John 12 31:32) '

Sure, God is a loving God. But he doesn't fool around either. He gave us our intelligence and he knows we know knowzright from wrong, and he'll Judge us accordingly. Listen to the Word the Almighty

man. In stressing the importanceGod addresses to us "today"

of his death, Jesus said, "Now sentence is being passed on this world; now the prince ' of this world is to be over— thrown (Christ's death breaks Satan's dominion over man because Jesus has by this act done all the Father deemed necessary to restore the God to man relationship disrupted by sin since the action of Eve And when I am

JUNIOR

Well, the Junior Class has finally got off its ass, having tWo meetings last week. Yes, ’o/vo meet" ings. g Both meetings were attended by a meagre 8‘ people. Don't start ask- ing for excuses; both meetings were advertised.

The first meeting was held Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the Panther Lounge, The purpose of the meet- ing was to elect an executive. Lud<ily, three pecple came forward to help get‘things

started. They were Grace Cameron, secretary- . treasurers; Derwin Banks (Satdl) ,vice-president,

and Ivan MacArthur, president. Since we are

_well almg in the f semester, if was also decid-

‘through one of his friends of

several or so generations

ago...-......"The heart is more devious than any other thing, perverse too: who can.pierce its secrets? I, Yahweh,

search to the heart, I probe the loins, toxgive each man What his conduct and his actions deserve." (Jeremiah 17:9-10)

CLASS

ed to have a general ‘Junior Class meeting soon. How soon? Well, it was held on Friday, Oct, 19 on the third floor of the Barn. At the meeting several good ideas were Passed around as how to raise money (believe me, we need it) and we will be getting start-ed right away. Among other things, we will be spcnsoring a pub ’ on Friday, NOV. 16. Eéep 511/ eye and/0r ear open for further mfomlatim.

Anyway, you are now up ' on the latest Junior Class happenings; If you would like to get the news first— hand, oome to the meetings.

We will be holding another meeting before the end

of the semester. Try to attend. Remember, we are the Class of 1981.