Rochester Baptist Church
Rochester, Ohio
We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace; through the mediatorial office of the Son of God Who, by the appointment of the Father, freely took upon Him our nature, yet without sin, honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and by His death made a full and vicarious atonement for our sins; that His atonement consisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was the voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner's place, the Just dying for the unjust; Christ the Lord bearing our sins in His own body on the tree; that having risen from the dead, He is now enthroned in Heaven, and uniting in His wonderful Person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfection, He is in every way qualified to be a suitable, a compassionate, and all-sufficient Savior.
Ephesians 2:8,9 NASB
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Acts 15:11 NASB
11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are.”
Romans 3:24 NASB
24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,
John 3:16 NASB
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.
Matthew 18:11 NASB
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1 John 4:10 NASB
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 Corinthians 15:3 NASB
3 For I handed down to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB
21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
John 10:18 NASB
18 No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it back. This commandment I received from My Father.”
Philippians 2:8 NASB
8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross.
Galatians 1:4 NASB
4 who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
1 Peter 2:24 NASB
24 and He Himself brought our sins in His body up on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His wounds you were healed.
1 Peter 3:18 NASB
18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
Isaiah 53:11 NASB
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will bear their wrongdoings.
Hebrews 12:21 NASB
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
1 Corinthians 15:20 NASB
20 But the fact is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.
Isaiah 53:12 NASB
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His life unto death,
And was counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.
Hebrews 9:12-25 NASB
12 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all time, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the violations that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where there is a covenant, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. 17 For a covenant is valid only when people are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. 18 Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.” 21 And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood. 22 And almost all things are cleansed with blood, according to the Law, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. 23 Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these things, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ did not enter a holy place made by hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Holy Place year by year with blood that is not his own.
Hebrews 7:25 NASB
25 Therefore He is also able to save forever those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
1 John 2:2 NASB
2 and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.