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By grace of
God we are saved
Salvation from the damnation
When a man
repent his/her sins and come to faith in Jesus Christ/Messiah, so immediately
he/she receive forgiveness of the sins and is saved from the
eternal
damnation.
Through salvation God transposes a man into eternal life.
Mark 1:15
And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the
power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and
inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Eph 1:
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us
with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to
himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in
the beloved.
7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace;
Eph 1:13
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of
your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that
holy Spirit of promise,
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
1Jo
5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the
Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may
believe on the name of the Son of God.
When God
saves a man, so He puts seal of the Holy Spirit into the heart of a man. The
Holy Spirit is given to the believer as a power to be and live as the child of
God. God has delivered saved person out of the authority of satan, and
translated him/her into the kingdom of the Son of His love, and in Jesus
Christ we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins, when we
repent and believe the gospel.
Salvation from the corruption of the sins of the world
When God has saved you, He is working through the Holy
Spirit in you both to will and to work for the sake of His good pleasure. And
through this work you will be saved from the corruption of the sins in the
world and that you can be partaker of divine nature in Christ. In this phase
when you already are a child of God and you are living in sanctification you
will not anymore save from the damnation through sanctification life but
through sanctification life you will be saved from the corruption of the sins
in the world. Remember that you have saved from the damnation on that day when
you repented and believed gospel about Jesus Christ. Works that we do through
sanctification life don't save us from the damnation, because if we can
achieve salvation through those works so Jesus alone is not the Saviour, but
we also through sanctification life. But Jesus alone is the Saviour and so
works through sanctification life don't save us from the damnation, but from
the corruption of the sins in the world.
For this reason the Bible says this:
Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we
have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
So salvation from the damnation in which we are saved
from the damnation and received
forgiveness of the sins is not same thing than salvation from the corruption
of the sins in the world. If we mix up salvation from the corruption of the
sins in the world to salvation from the damnation so we are walking on the way
in which we earn salvation through works in righteousness (sanctification
life) which we had done, but according to His mercy, He saved us through the
washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
Sanctification
life is life where Jesus Christ dwells in us and only by that way we can walk
and grow in righteousness. Jesus Christ saves us,
when we repent and believe the gospel.
Gal 2: 19
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 Thess 5:9
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord
Jesus Christ,
Romans 10:
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Next is clear teaching that sanctification life through
the Holy Spirit will save us from the corruption of the sins in the world, but
not from the damnation.
2 Pe 1:
1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus
Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all
things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that
hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
So works of
the faith don't save us from the damnation, but from the corruption of the
sins in the world.
Salvation is the gift of the God
For this reason has been
written:
Eph 2:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the
exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Through good works we don't save from the damnation,
because salvation is the gift. For by grace you are saved, through faith, and
this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works, that not anyone
should boast
Faith without works is dead
James 2:
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith
without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when
he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by
works was faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham
believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called
the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified,
and not by faith only.
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by
works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another
way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
without works is dead also.
James teaches, that faith without works is dead faith,
but he don't cancel it what Paul has taught, because otherwise there would be
a conflict in the Bible, but there is not a conflict in the Bible. James
emphasized that the gift of the salvation and saving by grace don't lead
disciple of Jesus Christ to such condition in which he/she will serve the sin,
but to life in which believer lives righteously and in that way believer is
righteousness. James' teaching emphasizes this side that through grace and
power of God we will abide in salvation, but not earn salvation through good
works.
If a believer falls
into the sin, so God will forgive us when we confess our sins:
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
God grows
His child that he/she will learn in the Holy Spirit deny the sins and reject
the sins and choose to live and grow righteously and godly in this world.
Saving through works is distinctive mark of Pharisee:
Matt 23:
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the
kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer
ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows
houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the
greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and
land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the
child of hell than yourselves.
Grace teaches us to live
righteously and godly
Tit 2:
11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God
and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and
purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Grace of
God teaches and grows us to reject ungodliness and corruptions of the sins and
to live righteously, and godly, in this present world. Life which is filled
with grace of God don't leave us as a slave of the sins, but gives us the
power to live and grow righteously and godly.
Petri Paavola
from Finland
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