Salvation

One of the longest words in scripture is ‘SALVATION’. It takes a lifetime.

What is salvation or what does it mean?

Its meaning is very vast.  In general It is deliverance from danger, deliverance from slavery, deliverance from enemies. In particular to the new testament it is deliverance from sin, flesh, sin’s penalty. Not only does it mean being delivered from but being delivered into – the body of Christ  and into everlasting life. It is also deliverance for sickness and disease and any other damage caused while under the devil’s influence . It is rescue, restoration, reconciliation, renewal and revival.

Why is salvation needed?

Salvation is needed desperately in the entire human race. The number one reason is the fall of Adam and Eve from the presence of God into the dark depths of a sin nature. because of their fall from God into sin, all people born are born with sin in them. The problem in this is that sin is not like catching the cold of flu, something you can get over with time, rest and drinking fluids. Sin is much like having a terminal disease, being a slave and in debt all at the same time; with no way out. Man was utterly cast down and over-powered by the condition of sin. Man had no strength of his own to conquer or subdue sin. Man does not possess the worth or wealth enough to pay for sin.

The Law Was Added

In most cases when the bible speaks of the ‘law’, it is referring to the first covenant – the ten commandments that were given to Moses on Mount Siani

(Deuteronomy 34:28)

Romans 5:13 says, “For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.”. From the time that Adan sinned until the time that Moses was raised up, sin was in man but there was no law to call it sin nor to enforce the penalty for sin.

Sin not imputed = means not charged

From Adam to Moses mankind had no knowledge of sin and and certainly did know how bad it was because there was no law given that would charged then for sin.

God gave the ten commandments to Moses as a measuring rod for sin so that man would come to know his sinful condition. The law of Moses acted as an x-ray machine to help man see that sin was in him; and killing him. The law was the catalyst that defined man’s need for salvation. The law called sin what it was. The law called man a Sinner. Through the law sin became the power of death in the devil’s hand over the human race.

Christ The Savior

As the knowledge of sin reach it’s all-time peak through the law, The advent of Christ as the Word – made flesh; was made manifest to destroy the works of the devil. Christ was sent to be the vehicle of salvation. Just as in the days of Noah, the ark was the vehicle or vessel of salvation for eight people in the entire world.

This salvation though Christ would be offered to the entire world. He is God’s means of deliverance from sin, from danger, from enemies from sickness and disease. Christ is God’s strong arm being able to reach down and undue man’s bondage to sin. John 3:16 says, “For God so love the world that he gave His only begotten Son,that whosoever should believe on Him shield not perish but have everlasting life”

Luke 4:18 Jesus said, “The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”

John 1:29 John saw Jesus coming he said, “Behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world”

Hebrews 2:9 says, “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Hebrews 10:5 states, “Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body thou hast prepared me.”

2 Corinthians 5:21 He who knew no sin was made to be sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

Isaiah 1:18 Come let us reason together, Saith the Lord, thou your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; thou they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

There are gauntlet of scriptures that lift Jesus as the savior and His work of redemption/deliverance. without Jesus, there is no salvation. Jesus became the sin of the world on the cross. He died and tasted death for every man, woman, boy and girl.

The gospel which simply means good news is that Jesus died to pay for your sins and three days later God raised Him from the dead into eternal life. And if any man would believe on Jesus, Call on the name of Jesus, he shall be SAVED.

Salvation is God’s grace given to the world. Grace = means that it is a gift.

It can’t be earn and you can’t afford it. it is purely an expression of of God’s love.

Ephesians 2:8,9 says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

God’s grace is a ‘saving grace’ or grace that saves us without merit or works.

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe(have faith) in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

The Three Parts Of Man

Man is made of three parts. He is spirit, soul and body. Sin is so severe that it saturated every part of man.  Every part of man is saturated with sin because of fall of Adam. Though sin, death took rule over the human race; for the wages of sin is death. Man was on a death doomed course.

Righteousness through Christ has the same leaven effect. Matt 13:33, Jesus says, “Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” Again the three measures of meal is a type of the three parts man being infected with the righteousness of God through Christ.

Faith in Jesus begins the salvation stages in a person’s life. Once a faith is stirred, salvation is on assignment to be accomplished in every part of man’s being. Just as sin actively occupied all three parts of man, salvation is given to saturate and take over all three parts of man’s being. Most Christians Identify themselves as being saved. But this is partly true. Their born-again spirit is saved. The soul can not be included in that arena of salvation. Only After being born-again in spirit, can the salvation of the soul begin by learning the word. The soul literally gives birth to the life of the word of God and this is what saves the soul.

The first area of salvation is to a man’s Spirit. He must be born again of the Spirit. “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”(John 3:3) Jesus further explains in John 3:6 saying, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

The second area of salvation is to a man’s Soul. Learning the word of God saves the Soul. “receive with meekness the engrafted word which able to save your souls.” (James 1:18)

The third area of salvation is to a man’s body. “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. (1 Co 15:53)

also “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body” (Phil 3:21)

The moment a person gives their life to Jesus, their spirit was born again into Christ becoming a new creation. The rest of your years on earth should be spent receiving the word of God through hearing, studying, learning and meditating; this saves the soul. The last stage of salvation shall happen for those who are full of the word when He(Christ) comes to be glorified in His saints.

Salvation is the longest word in scripture because of its ongoing process to be gained in all three areas of our lives as sons of God.

(1 Thess 5:23) follows, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.