So, the sin debt has been paid!
What does that mean? I’m glad you asked.
Now that the sin debt has been paid, God is now at peace with humanity. God’s need for blood sacrificed for sin has been satisfied through Jesus’ death. Eph. 2:11-22
However, humanity is still under the condemnation of sin.
Although God has made peace with humanity, humanity now has to make peace with God if it wants to have a relationship with and spend eternity with God.
To make peace with God humanity must accept God’s offer of peace (salvation) through faith in God’s sacrifice of Jesus His only begotten son.
God’s new covenant with humanity which only has two commandments.
The new covenant only has two commandments and they are to love God with all their heart, mind, body, and soul. And love their neighbor as themself. Love does no harm to a neighbor.
Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Old and New Testament law. Matt. 22:37, Rom. 13:10.
This is how God describes love for Him. For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome. 1 John 5:3, 4.
By agreeing to the new covenant in faith you are declared righteous by God with no doing on your own to achieve it. You are now a Saint saved by grace!
Humanity was declared unrighteous sinners because of Adam, now humanity can be declared righteous because of Jesus a standing that will never change in the sight of God.
Once humanity accepts the new covenant through faith by being born-again, God then performs spiritual surgery on you.
God gives you a new heart, a new spirit, takes out your stony, stubborn heart, and gives you a tender, responsive heart to the word of God and puts His Spirit in you so that you will follow His decrees and be careful to obey His regulations. Ezek. 36:25-27
Without this spiritual surgery, it will be impossible for you to obey God which will be characterized by righteous living. 1 John 3: 7-10
The inability to practice righteousness will only happen if your confession of faith to accept the new covenant was not genuine, proving that you are not born again. 1 John 2:19
God validates this truth in 1 John 3: 7-10:
These are the conditions of God’s offer of salvation to humanity, complete with all the resources necessary for you to be successful in fulfilling them. Phil. 2:14