THIRTEEN FACETS OF THE JEWEL OF SALVATION (FROM SIN)

  THE 13 TERMS OF SALVATION – "SALVATION"

                   

ESSENTIALLY, the term “salvation” means deliverance, or to be rescued or brought to safety. When God saves a sinner He does so in a three-phased effort. What must we do to be saved? “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31 – read the entire story of the salvation of the Philippian jailor, and his household. This was a call to initial salvation. Receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord brings INITIAL salvation which guarantees both progressive and ultimate salvation. God clears the sinner of the penalty and, that done, God continues to work in every such life, taking the sinner from earth to glory.)

1.  INITIAL SALVATION IS WHEN A SINNER BELIEVES IN JESUS CHRIST AND IS SAVED FROM THE PENALTY OF SIN (The penalty is death – Genesis 2:17; Romans 6:23; 5:12,20,21).  (Acts 16:31; Acts 4:12; John 3:16,18; Romans 8:1,38,39; Ephesians 2: 8,9) 

Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

2.  PROGRESSIVE SALVATION IS WHEN A SAVED PERSON WALKS WITH CHRIST, BY FAITH, DAY BY DAY, AND IS SAVED FROM THE POWER OF SIN. (Philippians 2: 12,13; Phil. 1: 5,6; Ephesians 6: 10-20; 1 Peter 4: 1,2; Romans 13: 13,14)

Romans 13:13 "Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."

3.  ULTIMATE SALVATION IS WHEN THE SAVED ARE DELIVERED FROM THE VERY PRESENCE OF SIN, EITHER AT DEATH OR IN THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH. (1 Peter 1: 5, 9 and 10; John 14: 1-6; 17: 20-24)      

1 Peter 1:3 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." 
                                                                                                                                                                 HYMN:  "Free from the law, oh, happy condition; Jesus has bled and there is remission; cursed by the law, bruised by the fall; Christ has redeemed us once for all."  - P.P. Bliss

- dick d. christen