Yes, trust in what he did for us.
He is the Son of God, and he died as a ransom to set us free from sin and to rise from the dead to assume his role as High Priest before the Father in heaven for our justification. No need to complicate it beyond that.
Me thinks differently.
He died as a result of our sin.
He did this is in order to reconcile us to the father.
Romans 5:1-2
Faith Triumphs in Trouble
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Galatians 4:4-7
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
The first step for salvation is to repent of the sin of unbelief in Jesus that the Holy Spirit came to convict us of. That's why Jesus had to go back to the Father.
We repent of that.
Romans 10:9-13
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
The first step is to not say Jesus "died to set you free from sinning therefore do not sin"
The first step is to say you are now a child of God, accepted and adopted as his child.
Instill this then discipleship follows.
If a person truly knows their identity in Jesus, the security he offers then as a result of discipleship, help and so on then their natural response will be
"I want to be like you"
That involves wanting sin to decrease and Jesus to increase.
This does not just encompass putting aside deeds of the flesh but walking in the other ways Jesus walked in.
Love.
Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, go the extra mile.
I could stop sinning all I want and seek to do so, but if I have not love then I'm nothing.
The package is not just stop sinning it's all encompassing.
Focus only on stop sinning then you miss the rest.
Focus on Jesus and what he has done and how he walked and what he asks of us as brothers then we have the full package.
Focus on sin only then we can become like the Pharisees.
Simple really but only when you know who you are in Jesus.
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