This is the most important question we have to ask ourselves. This question has been asked so many times in the Bible. "What must I do to be saved?" (Acts 16:30) The answer is "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."
The answer is so simple, yet needs revelation from God. Salvation means being saved from many things, eternal death, sinful nature, hostility, hatred, envy, jealousy, revenge and all ungodly attitudes. How can I be set free from all of these ungodly attitudes in a world full of sin? The answer is to believe that Jesus Christ paid the price for our entire salvation and our reconciliation with God. We have to realize that when we are reconciled with God, our spirit becomes alive and we no longer live independently from God, but His Holy Spirit lives in us. It is only then that we could be set free from all ungodly attitudes.
In Adam we all died spiritually, in Christ we all live spiritually. What Adam lost in the Garden of Eden, Jesus gained back. He came to our aid and rescued us. 'The living must die so that the dying may live'! Jesus died so that we may live; Jesus said, "I have come so that you may have life and have it more abundantly". Christ secured the ransom by shedding his blood and giving his life. He purchased us with his own blood. As the author to the Hebrews writes it is only the blood of Christ that could atone for man’s sin – not the blood of bulls or goats. Peter writes in his letter in 1 Peter 1:18-19 that we were "not redeemed with perishable things such as silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. Christ died in our place so that we may live.
The penalty of sin died with Christ on the cross. God has declared us not guilty, and we need no longer live under sin's power. We are now free from the guilt and power of sin to live for Christ (Gal 2:20). Christ’s sacrifice for sin fully satisfies the justice of God; the wrath of God is detoured away from the believer by the cross of God’s Son, and we stand before God in Jesus fully pardoned and fully acquitted of any and all wrong doing. It is as if we had never sinned; the rebellion of Adam has been reversed; and the original relationship of perfection, peace and fellowship has been restored according to and "through the righteousness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
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