Author	Thread: What is SALVATION?
Admin	What is SALVATION? Posted : 22 May, 2013 08:56 AM Salvation is through FAITH in the Son of God and godly life. We are saved NOT by faith alone says the Holy Scripture. Repentance is the point in our life when we turn our hearts from sins to the God of Israel abandoning our sins to live with God. To be saved, we need to repent. Post Reply
View Profile History	What is SALVATION? Posted : 22 May, 2013 08:56 AM To be born of God (born from above/get salvation) we need to REPENT! Mark 6:12 - Jesus sent the apostles to preach that people should repent. Matthew 3:2 - John the Baptist taught, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" Mark 1:15 - Mark's summary of Jesus' message includes: "Repent, and believe in the gospel." God JESUS says: Luke 13:3 - Unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Acts 2:38 - In the first gospel sermon, Peter preached, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you for the remission of sins..." Acts 17:30 - God commands all men everywhere to repent. Isaiah 55: 3. ?Open your ears, and come unto me (repent).Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you?? God promises to establish the new covenant with Israel if he will repent. Jesus says to Christians: Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.Revelation 2:5 Revelation 2:16 Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. Revelation 2:22 So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. Revelation 3:3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Revelation 3:19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. 2 Peter 3:17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. All who study the Bible agree that repentance is fundamental to Bible teaching. Despite the frequent Bible references to repentance AND WORDS OF GOD JESUS, many people misunderstand it and still more neglect it. Many people commit immorality, indifference, mistreatment of others, or doctrinal error, yet never truly repent. What is repentance and why is it important? What does repentance require us to do? Note that people who are not Christians need to repent, but so do Christians when we sin. Luke 24:47 - Those who are not God's children should be taught the need for repentance and remission of sin. What they need remission of is what they need to repent of: sin! [2 Tim. 2:25,26; Matt. 9:13] Acts 8:22 - Likewise, Christians who sin need to be taught to repent of their wickedness. [Luke 15:7,10; 17:3,4; 2 Cor. 12:21] Repentance is a decision to cease sinning and begin serving God instead. Repentance Is Essential in order to Receive God's Forgiveness. 2 Peter 3:9 - God is not willing for men to perish but wants all to come to repentance. The alternative to repentance is perishing! [Luke 13:3,5] To repent One Must Change His Conduct - Quit Practicing Sin! Repentance is a decision to change! Let me say it so: If you did NOT change yourself (did NOT transform yourself), you still live in sins and God abandoned you! You live AGAINST God! Acts 26:20 - After forgiveness men must do works worthy of repentance. [Luke 3:8-14; Matthew 3:8] Ezekiel 18:21-32 - To avoid death, the wicked must turn from evil and do right and keep God's statutes. Proverbs 28:13 - We prosper, not by hiding our sins, but by confessing and forsaking them. This is where many members of the church fail. They profess that they want forgiveness, then are baptized or pray for forgiveness, but never follow through and change. They want forgiveness but not change. There is a difference between repentance and the fruits of repentance. Sometimes people go through the motions of baptism (or public confession), but do not truly repent. These people will never truly be forgiven until they first truly repent. Other people really did repent and intended to change their lives, but never followed through. These people may have been forgiven the first time but now are back in sin. They need to repent again and this time produce the fruits of repentance. Post Reply
DontHitThatMark View Profile History	What is SALVATION? Posted : 22 May, 2013 09:57 AM I'd say salvation only comes after conversion, which in Peter's case, was only after he denied Christ 3 times, which was after his baptism and belief in Jesus. That was the point where he looked inward and truly saw his sinfulness and the reason he needed Jesus to save him. I think Paul touches on this when he talks about the law being a schoolmaster until we understand the full wisdom, or that those weak/new in the faith need milk and not meat. Luke 22:32 "But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." :peace::peace: Post Reply
View Profile History	What is SALVATION? Posted : 22 May, 2013 08:35 PM I do not think so. Christians can be backsliding. Post Reply
View Profile History	What is SALVATION? Posted : 22 May, 2013 08:38 PM I say so: We all are "flying":angel: to the Kingdom of God. If we follow the navigation system (the Holy Spirit and the Holy Bible) then we are able to survive dangerous situations in our life. If we do not live with God, we are crashed by our sins. Who are saved? Those who will land safe and saved at our final destination. We need to be safe and saved.:angel: Post Reply
View Profile History	What is SALVATION? Posted : 23 May, 2013 10:54 AM The term saved as in Romans 10 is to be delivered from the kingdom of darkness unto the kingdom of God. You do not ge continually saved. To be bron again is not salvation, it is the entrnace into whay is called salvation as in Romans 10. Salvation is simply the sum total of all God's blessing upon man Post Reply
dljrn04 View Profile History	What is SALVATION? Posted : 23 May, 2013 11:55 AM I just read this this morning, and had to share. Psalm 119:81 My soul faints for Your salvation; but I hope in Your word. The salvation of the Gospel was the constant object of faith and desire to the Lord's people under the old dispensation. Long had the church triumphed in the glowing anticipation, as if in the full possession of the promised blessing- "It shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation; He has covered me with the robe of righteousness; as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels." And as it was the joy of their living moments, so was it the support and consolation of their dying hours. "I have waited for Your salvation, O Lord!" was the expression of the dying patriarch's faith. And how cheering were the last words of this "sweet Psalmist of Israel," whose soul was now fainting for God's salvation, even in his dark and foreboding family prospect! "Although my house be not so with God, yet has He made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow." Good old Simeon, in the break of the gospel-day, was ready to "depart in peace, for his eyes had seen God's salvation." And shall not we, under this heavenly influence, naturally appropriate these feelings of ancient believers to ourselves? What interpreter but experience will be needed to explain them? The uneasiness felt by any interruption of our enjoyment, will show the soul to be fainting for this salvation. Nothing will satisfy but the Savior. The tempting offer of "all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them," will fail in attraction. Still the cry will be- "Say unto my soul, I am Your salvation. Let Your mercies come also unto me, O Lord; even Your salvation, according to Your word." As the lowest expectant of this salvation, am not I richer than the sole possessor of this world's portion? And therefore if the Lord hides His face, I would look to no other quarter; I would stay by Him, and "wait on Him," though days and months and years may pass away, "until He have mercy upon me." My soul faints for His salvation: and-pressing to my lips the fullest cup of earth's best joy-my heart would burst with despair of satisfaction, "but" that "I hope in His word." "By this hope I am saved." In "the patience of hope" I am resolved to wait until the last moment, lying at the footstool of my Savior. I am looking for the "assurance of this hope"-when, in the joyous anticipation of eternity, and with "the earnest of" the heavenly "inheritance" in my soul, I shall echo the voice of my coming Savior-"Even so come, Lord Jesus." Oh, how precious and important a part of our armor is Hope! As a "helmet," it has "covered our head in the day of battle" from many a "fiery dart of the wicked." In times of darknesswhen the restless foe hides the prospect from the eye of faith, and the child of God can scarcely, if at all, mount up and singeven then hope remains, and lights a candle in moments dark as the chamber of the grave-"Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night-season His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life." And when the afflicted, tempest-tossed soul is trembling at the prospect of impending danger-at this moment of infinite peril, Hope holds out the "anchor sure and steadfast;" so that in the awful crisis, when "deep calls unto deep, and all the waves and billows are going over us," most unexpectedly "an entrance is ministered unto us abundantly," in the Lord's best time, into our desired haven. And it is this hope alone that sustains us. Were we to conceive of God according to the notions of our own hearts, we should give way to most unbelieving patience. But the Divine character-as it shines forth in the word with such love and wisdom, such tenderness and grace-invigorates our hope. The strength of the strongest of God's people proves but small, when afflictions press heavily, and expected help is delayed. But though the soul faints, it cannot fail. We depend not on what we see or feel, but on what the word promises. If God has engaged, it must be fulfilled, be the difficulties-no, impossibilities-what they may. Fixed, therefore, upon this sure foundation, with our father Abraham, "against hope" from what we see, "we believe in hope" from what God has promised. Thus the word is faith's sure venture for eternity-stamped with such a marvelous, mysterious impression of Divine glory and faithfulness, and communicating such Divine power and refreshment, that the believer cannot but produce his experience of its efficacy for the support of his tempted brethren-"I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the Lord." by Charles Bridges Post Reply