Have you considered that salvation is a communication issue?

• God has communicated to His creatures His Law which has revealed His

righteous character and manifested the requirement that His creatures

lovingly obey Him from the heart.

• Adam (and through his representation all humankind) has communicated

back to God a defiant “No” to God and His Law.

• God has communicated to His creatures the plan of redemption through

the revelation of His Word in the Bible. From Genesis through Revelation,

66 books of the Bible, God has communicated that He will raise up a seed,

an offspring, a child of promise through the history of redemption to crush

that rebellious “No” by judging sin and saving sinners.

• The gospel of Jesus communicates through gospel-proclamation the

nature of sin so that sinners would confess (communicate) their sin in

agreement with God.

• The gospel of Jesus communicates through gospel-proclamation that

God’s Son is the Beloved one in whom He is well-pleased, who alone is the

Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world for those who trust in

Him.

• The gospel of Jesus communicates (here we are using the old English meaning of communicate, as in to convey or impart) the power of God’s salvation, granting life for spiritual deadness, light for spiritual blindness, and faith for spiritual rebellion to awaken, enlighten, and provide the saving faith necessary to embrace Christ for salvation from sin.

• Through the gospel of Jesus, sinners communicate through Jesus back to God a resounding “Yes” to God’s salvation in Christ. It is our Great Confession.

• Through the gospel of Jesus, God communicates to the sinner an eternal “Yes” for the forgiveness of sins and His reckoning that the sinner has been credited with the righteous law-keeping and sin-paying-penalty of Christ’s work.

• Through the gospel of Jesus, grounded in Christ's promise of salvation to sinners who come to Him, the Spirit of God communicates that the believing sinner is indeed His child united with His family in Christ and the child of God communicates back to God “Amen,” “Let it Be,” and “Yes, indeed.”

Finally, let’s consider two Reformed Christian paradigms - "Law and Gospel" and “Guilt, Grace, and Gratitude” - through the lens of communication:

God has communicated His expectations in His Law (what God requires) and Gospel (what God has provided through Jesus). Concerning the Law, God expects His creatures to obey His Law. This first use of the Law has been communicated by God to all of His creatures by imprinting the work of the Law on every heart (Romans 2:15) and revealing His will through Moses in the ten commandments. God has made known the reasonable expectation that all creatures owe their Creator loving loyalty. God's Law communicates guilt in relation to trespassing God's Law. 

Secondly, as to the matter of Gospel and Grace, God has graciously declared and proclaimed through preachers, evangelists, and missionaries that sinners trust in His Son Jesus for the fulfillment of the requirement of the Law for the salvation of sinners. This is the gospel general call. The gospel is grounded in God's grace.

Thirdly, regarding gratitude, God also has communicated that those who trust in Christ as His children ought to and are enabled to obey His law, not to gain salvation or to keep salvation, but as an offering of thanksgiving to God because of His salvation. This use of the Law has been called the third use of the Law. The Law in this sense is an instructor in the family, an instrument for growing conformity to Christ’s character rooted in the Spirit-empowered gospel. Christian obedience communicated in Scripture is grounded in gratitude for God's grace to guilty sinners through the provision of Christ. Communication is indeed, everything.