That which is born of God is eternal – for it is of the incorruptible seed of the word – 1Pet 1:23/Luke 8:11. But this incorruptible spirit that we received from God, must put on a heavenly body–otherwise, it is kept within bounds. We ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body (Romans 8:23). In other words, at the new birth, only the spirit of man gets to experience salvation – in this respect, revived or quickened – but the soul and the body need to be dealt with, without which the Salvation remains partial.
So “Salvation” refers to the whole person. Only the spirit gets revived at the new birth.
What does it imply when we say “we are being saved” by the blood of God’s lamb? Firstly we must understand what we are saved from. Weren’t we all condemned? Condemned for what? Adam’s sin, right? Read Romans 5 – So it is clear that we were not right with God in that sense – the wrath of God rested on all of us. But God in His great mercy arranged a propitiation for our sins and condemned sin in the body of his flesh – that we might be made the righteousness of God. So when you say you got saved – it isn’t the entire Salvation that it talks about but a part of that great Salvation.
As we can see from the book of Numbers, when people sinned, the first thing that happened was that it infuriated God, who as a result left them wandering in the wilderness. How are you going to handle that rage? God even looked for a man from the human race to serve as the hedge and fill the breach in front of Him so that He wouldn’t destroy, but He couldn’t find one (Ezekiel 22:30) – For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).
The only way God’s anger toward sin may be placated without sending us to damnation is through propitiation. The word “propitiation” is used throughout the Bible. God presented Jesus as our atonement/ propitiation in Romans 3:25 and 1 John 2:2 and 4 John.
“To assuage someone’s anger” is the definition of propitiation. The Bible speaks about placating God’s wrath.
A blood sacrifice known as propitiation is used to assuage and placate God’s anger against sin.
Because the blood is what atones for the soul (Leviticus 17:11)
Propitiation is intended to calm or assuage God’s wrath. This means that before God could save us from the influence of Satan, He first had to save us from Himself. As a result of our justification by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, we are at peace with God (Romans 5:1)
A guilty individual can only be found innocent with sufficient justification. Justification is a word of law and belongs in a courtroom. Justification is when a judge finds you to be innocent and rules in your favor.
God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ
2 Corinthians 5:18.
You can only be set free and have your obligations/debt paid off through redemption.
In the world of finance, redemption is a term for payment. It can involve purchasing a slave in order to free that person from servitude. Redeeming a person can entail paying for their release from prison after they have been incarcerated for failing to pay their debts. Paying a ransom to release a captive is another form of redemption. To “offer his life as a ransom for many,” as Jesus stated, he came (Mark 10:45). The simplest way to define redemption is possibly as “remittance to acquire freedom.” Acts 20:28, GAL 3:13, 1PET 1:18, and 19
First of all, we must understand what we had lost in first Adam and what the last Adam has regained. Romans 5 clearly states about it. The function of the spirit is to draw life from its source. And a body without the spirit is dead (James 2:26). If that is the case, then this spirit was intended to not only draw life from its Creator but also to promote life to the body in which it was deposited. This life-giving spirit, being incapacitated by the Adamic Sin, had made man desolate. The umbilical cord through which the spirit of man was nourished got cut off and the light of man was snuffed out. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men (John 1:4). In essence, the spirit which was dead in Adam gets resuscitated in Christ (by the Spirit and Word – John 3:5,6/1Pet 1:23/1John 5:1)
What we are saved from? For instance: When we believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, being now justified by faith, we have peace with God – Romans 5:1 – the power of Sin, which once dominated us gets broken – Eph 2:5/Rom 6:1-7,14/8:3 – Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness* (the Hebrew word for darkness is “Choshek”. It is not referring to Satan, but in the non-literal sense mean ignorance – Eph 4:18/5:8/Acts 17:30 – Satan is the Prince of this world/ignorance – John 16:11/1Cor 2:8), *and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son (Colossians 1:13)
GOD
- Saved us from the wrath to come, and condemnation; provided, we live after the Spirit (1Thes 1:10/1Cor 11:31,32/Rev 3:10/Rom 8:1– KJV)
- Washed us from our sins in His own blood (Rev 1:5)
- Delivered us from the power of darkness (Col 1:13/Matt 20:28/Hosea 13:14)
- Set us free (judicially) from sin (Rom 5/6/1Pet 4:1,2/Heb 12:6-11)
- Forgiven all our trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailed it to His cross (Col 2:13,14)
- Remitted the sins that are past (Rom 3:25/Heb 9:15)
- Abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances (Eph 2:14,15)
- Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us – Gal 3:13
- Our conscience is purged – Hebrews 9:14/10:2,22/1Pet 3:21
- We are reconciled to God by the death of His Son – Rom 5:10
- Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ – Rom 5:1
- We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren (everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God – 1John 4:7). He that loveth not his brother abideth in death (1John 3:14).
- The blood of Christ hath purged our conscience from dead works to serve the living God (Hebrews 9:14) – our hearts sprinkled* (sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ – 1Pet 1:2/Heb 12:24) *from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water (Hebrews 10:22).
- Having saved the people out of the land of Egypt (Jude 1:5)
- Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world (Galatians 1:4).
Which part of our Being got resuscitated? And that ye put on the new man (our spirit-being), which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Ephesians 4:24/Col 3:10 – That which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:6/1Pet 1:23)
The soul alone has the propensity to sin – Ezekiel 18:20 – Our soul needs to be sanctified – 1Thes 4:3/Rom 2:9 – we must be renewed in the spirit of our minds – Eph 4:23 – be ye transformed by the renewing of the mind – Rom 12:2 – we must guard our soul – 1Pet 2:11/1Thes 5:23/Luke 21:19 – we purify the soul by obeying the truth – 1Pet 1:22 – We all must lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save our souls – James 1:21/Heb 13:17 – receiving the end of your (tried) faith, even the salvation of your souls – 1Pet 1:9/Heb 10:39.
Our body is not yet reinstated – Phil 3:21 – And not only they but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body (Romans 8:23) – Having, therefore, these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God (2 Corinthians 7:1) – For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor – 1 Thess 4:3,4.
Saved (complete salvation – Rom 5:10/1Pet 4:18/James 1:21/Matt 24:13/2Cor 1:10/Phil 2:12)
- We shall be saved by his life (Romans 5:10)
- Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them (Heb 7:25)
- We shall be saved from wrath through him (Romans 5:9)
- We also should walk in the newness of life (Romans 6:4)
- For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die (Romans 8:13)
- And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together (Romans 8:17)
- For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spares not thee (Romans 11:21)
- If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it (Romans 8:25)
- For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end (Hebrews 3:14).
- For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (Romans 8: 29). Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified (Romans 8: 30)!!
- And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now, is our salvation nearer than when we believed (Romans 13:11).
- To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath – Romans 2:7-8 – to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness (Romans 6:16)
- Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out* (not to earn Salvation)(but that, he hath begun a good work in you – Philippians 1:6 – hence your compliance is crucial for His Spirit to transform you to the image of Christ, for which you also consented to when you submitted to the Lordship of Christ – you are now a purchased possession – Eph 1:14 – For ye are bought with a price – 1 Corinthians 6:20/ hence, your right to live for your own self is adjourned – 1Pet 4:2/2Cor 5:15/Gal 2:20 – total surrender to the Lordship of Christ is the basis) *your own salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12)- For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure (Philippians 2:13). That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness – Colossians 1:10-11. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him (Hebrews 5:9). Compliance with the word of God is what “work” refers to. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves (James 1:22).
- Receiving the end of your (tried) faith, even the salvation of your souls (1Peter 1:9)(1Pet 1:7/4:12/James 1:3)
- But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them, that believe to the saving of the soul (Hebrews 10:39)
- This then means that one could lose the gift of Salvation (by negligence/by hardening the heart – Heb 2:2,3/Rom 2:4,5/Rom 11:21,22) if we do not pass the time of our sojourning here in fear (1Peter 1:17)!
- And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed – Rom 13:11
- For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation – Hebrews 2:2-3
- For he that soweth to his flesh (the lust of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and mind – Eph 2:3/Rom 8:13/Mark 4:19) shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth (the seed of the word – Luke 8:11/Rev 3:18) to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting (in due season we shall reap, if we faint not) – Gal 6:8,9/ John 5:39.
- If we continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel (Col 1:22,23)