GETTING SAVED II

I am still considering some thoughts about ‘Getting Saved’ from yesterday’s Journal entry. There is another important understanding to consider concerning Acts 16:32, “And they shared the word of the Lord with him and with all who lived in his household.” Sometimes our conversations allow some time for this and sometimes very little. I believe as best we can we should present Getting Saved according to the meaning of the word as used some 100 times in the New Testament. It is an aberration to not clearly use the word ‘save’ or ‘saved,’ as the word in scripture clearly implies.

In checking this word as it was used in the New Testament, it is the word (sozo), and it translates to ‘save,’ ‘heal,’ ‘deliver,’ or ‘make whole.’ It could signify either (soter) ‘savior’ or ‘physician.’ It is a complete and total restoration of our entire person (‘made whole’).

It concerns our entire person:
“Physically: Healing from sickness or disease (e.g., Jesus telling a blind man, “Your faith has sozo-ed [made] you well” Mark 10:52).
Spiritually: Forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation (e.g., “He will sozo [save] his people from their sins” Matthew 1:21).
Emotionally/Mentally: Deliverance from demonic torment and restoration of mental wholeness (e.g., the demon-possessed man being “sozo-ed [made well]” Luke 8:36).”
(Blue Letter Bible)

Getting Saved is being made new by being ‘born again from above’ (John 3:3-8). We are saved from everything in every way.

“Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’” Jesus