The Holy God of Israel’s Plan of Eternal Life

God’s plan of eternal life with Him is very simple. It involves placing one faith entirely in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, as your Savior. There is nothing complicated about this.

“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.

There are several doctrines in the Bible which lead to salvation in His only begotten Son. The Bible establishes very clear doctrines in the Hebrew Scriptures which the Lord Jesus fulfilled in the New Testament. The following is through study of God’s plan of eternal life with Him.

The headings below show the foundation verse in the Hebrew Scriptures followed by the fulfillment in the New Testament. You can see that the holy God of Israel clearly shows the way to eternal life with Him. His plan for eternal life is the same for all mankind, both the Jew and Gentile.

God revealed Himself as holy while all of mankind is sinful and in rebellion against Him. The Bible reveals God's plan of reconciling sinful man to Himself. We earn the death penalty for this rebellion against God. His plan for salvation reconciles His holiness, which demands the death penalty, and His love which wants to reconcile sinful man with Him. There is no way of receiving eternal life outside of God's plan.

God's plan for atonement of sin in the Hebrew Scriptures calls for an innocent animal to die in place of the sinner. The shed blood then atones for the sin.  In the New Testament God's King Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, provides this atonement and remission for sin which is His death and shed blood completes.

In God's plan, we must believe that God alone is the Savior, and we cannot save ourselves from sin. We must repent of sin and call on the name of the LORD for salvation, confessing that the Lord Jesus is the only begotten Son of God and Lord and Savior. With this confession of faith, God brings us into a blood covenant relationship with Him. This covenant includes the total forgiveness of sin and eternal life with God.

The God of Israel is Holy

“And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. Isaiah 6:3.

“And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.” Revelation 4:8.

God is Love

“Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.” Deuteronomy 10:15.

“In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.” 1 John 4:9.

The Effect of Adam Sin Was Universal,

All of Mankind Now Separated From God

“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever”… (24) So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. Genesis 3:22-24.

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” Romans 5:12.

The Result of Man's Sin Was Death

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Genesis 2:17.

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23.

Man Cannot Save Himself From Sin,

But Needs an Atonement For Sin

“And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.” Leviticus 16:16.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: (2) And he is the propitiation (atonement) for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” 1John 2:1, 2.

The Atonement Means a Vicarious Death For Sin.

The Innocent Died for the Guilty

“And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness” Leviticus 16:21

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.” 1Peter 3:18

The Atonement Means the Shedding of Blood For Sin

“For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” Leviticus 17:11.

“And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.” Revelation 1:5.

You Must Believe That God's Righteous Servant, King Messiah,

Jesus of Nazareth Died in Your Place for

“He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. (12)...he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” Isaiah 53:11.

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” 1Peter 2:24.

God Alone is the Savior

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation” Isaiah 12:2.

“To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. Amen.” Jude 1:25.

God Requires Repentance of Sin

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (19) Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar” Psalm 51:17.

“And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent” Acts 17:30.

God Requires That Everyone Call Upon His Name for Salvation

“And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” Zechariah 13:9.

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:13.

Calling on the Name of the LORD,

Means Confessing Jesus of Nazareth

As Your Lord and Savior

“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. (10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:9.

King Messiah is the Only Begotten Son of God

“Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. (7) I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten.” Psalm 2:6.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting.” John 3:16.

When You Follow God's Plan of Salvation

You Enter into a Blood Covenant Relationship With Him

“And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. (8) And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.” Exodus 24:7.

“For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” Matthew 26:28.

“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant” Hebrews 13:20.

Right now, you can obey God's plan for eternal life. You can now enter into a blood covenant relationship with the holy God of Israel. This eternal covenant is in the blood of God's King Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth

Assurance of Eternal Life

God's requirement for you to have assurance of eternal life is to maintain or hold fast your confession of faith. The confession is that Jesus of Nazareth is your Lord and Savior. The Book of Hebrews encourages us to firmly hold fast the confession of your faith to the end and not to waiver.

“Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.” Hebrews 4:14.

“Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised)” Hebrews 10:23.

It is important to remember that God warns you must hold this confession must to the end. We must guard our hearts from the deceitfulness of sin so we do not become hard. Sin hardened hearts can lead us away from holding fast the confession of faith, carrying us further away from the Gospel of Truth. The Scriptures are clear that you must hold steadfast the confession of Jesus Christ until the end to be a partaker in the salvation of the Lord Jesus

“But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.” Hebrews 3:6.

“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (13) But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (14) For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.” Hebrews 3:12-14.

God warns that those who renounce their confession of the Lord Jesus draw back into perdition. His true believers must stand firm, hold steadfast and believe until the very end.

“Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. (39) But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul” Hebrews 10:38.