Reidhead Sermon Report
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So Great Salvation: Faith, New Birth, and Witness of the Spirit
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Soteriology
Hebrews 2:3
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Sermon Overview
Reidhead describes "Saving Faith" as a purposeful "receiving" of the Lord Jesus. This results in the "New Birth"—the literal implantation of the life of God in the human spirit. He explains the "Witness of the Spirit" as the internal "knowing" that God gives to His children, providing a certainty that no human counselor can provide.
Key Principles
Appropriating Christ: Use faith as the "hand" that actively receives the Person of Christ into your spirit.
Supernatural Birth:Accept that salvation is a "biological miracle" of the Spirit that changes your actual nature.
Death to Life: Walk in the confidence of a "legal and vital change"—realize you are no longer a citizen of death.
Witness of the Spirit:Look for the "internal knowing" (Romans 8:16) where the Spirit confirms you are God's child.
Process of Cleansing:When you fail, immediately "judge yourself," call the sin by its "ugly name," and confess it.
Self-Judgment:Refuse to make excuses; accept total "legal responsibility" for your decisions to sin.
Specific Confession:Stop using "general" prayers for forgiveness; name the specific "dirt" revealed in the mirror.
Restoration: Trust that immediate confession "clears the air," allowing the flow of life to resume without delay.