GETTING SAVED III

The last couple of days I have written to explain briefly what ‘Getting Saved’ means from Bible texts and from a study of the word saved (or save). Rather than just meaning rescue from future judgment, sozo (save or saved) implies bringing a person back to their original, intended state of wholeness in this life—body, mind, and spirit.

One way to understand this is written clearly by Paul, an apostle in Romans 5: “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God” (Romans 5:8-11 NLT).

And more than friends of God… children of the Father, sons and daughters.

Charles Williams (1886-1945) English author and academic wrote: “Christianity is, always, the redemption of a point, of one particular point. “Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.” In this sense there is nothing but now; there is no duration. We have nothing to do with duration, and yet (being mortal) we have to do with nothing but duration; between those contrasts also all the history and doctrine of Christendom lies.”
(From: ‘Now is the Day of Salvation’ Plough Magazine)

Getting Saved? Now is the Day of Salvation.

“What sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you remove the key to knowledge from the people. You don’t enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering.” Jesus