What is the meaning of Salvation?
When you hear the word salvation, what comes to mind?
Often, the most popular subject in the body of Christ turns out to be the least known, reason being that we have many teachers by books than by the spirit.
Knowledge is common in our days, so much that we are no longer searching for the ones that are life and spirit.
Whereas it is the life and spirit knowledge that makes up the truth and it is only the truth that can truly set us free.
Salvation is not a dramatic experience of falling, screaming, crying or scattering things like some said it is. Salvation is not usual like we have heard some say. Salvation is not normal!
Salvation is an experience but a transition experience.
A change!
Salvation is first an awareness, assurance and access
Then a death
Then a birth
And lastly a wholeness.
We can say it is first a sudden experience
Then a gradual experience
Then a permanent experience.
Salvation;
It is awareness because
No man comes to the son for salvation except the Father draws him.
So, before we can be saved, there is a force from the within, calling us to come!
It is an awareness of whom we are (a sinner)
An assurance of whom we can be (a saint)
Access to a provision (Jesus)
Then we accept Jesus
We accept the provision
This led to our death
And our rebirth.
Death to sin
Alive in Christ.
The moment we become a new creature
Old things became our pass
All things became new
We are saved!
Our dead spirit comes alive
This is the first salvation.
But man is trine
He is a spirit and his spirit had been saved!
What about his soul?
What about his body?
The moment we are saved, our spirit will come alive, and the spirit of God will begin to live there, it is no longer us that lives but Christ lives in us.
However, that is not the final location, the spirit wants to live in our bodies because as he is living in our spirit, he gives us access to the spirit realm but it is a symbiotic relationship, he too wants access to the earth realm and that can only be possible when he started living in our bodies.
The transition of the Spirit from our spirit to our bodies is what birth the second phase of salvation.
“We are being saved”
It is a daily experience.
The soul of a man is an entity on his own, he has the power to say yes to the spirit or not.
The process of subjecting the soul to the spirit on daily basis is what the Bible called “being saved”.
It is what Paul meant by dying daily
It is what James called working out of salvation with fear and trembling.
Once the spirit and soul are in alignment the body will be holy and acceptable for God to reside and once God resides in your body, others will see your light and give glory to God.
God has fulfilled his part by quickening your spirit at redemption but the loophole is that men are not fulfilling their part in the working out of the reality of the spirit to their bodies.
Whereas he didn’t leave us to do it alone, he gave us the grace to die each day!
We didn’t die because we neglect the grace and embrace laws!
We can’t prevail that way!
The third phase of salvation is that we shall be saved!
We shall be saved from death
We shall be saved from labour
We shall be saved from mourning!
One day we will trade this perishable body
One day we will no longer die daily
Until that day
Until this day
Salvations continues!!!
WE ARE SAVED
Ephesians 2:8-9
8″ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9″ not of works, lest anyone should boast.
This is the first salvation
It is for our justification
WE ARE BEING SAVED
1 Cor 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
2Corinthians 3:18
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord”.
This is the second salvation
It is for our sanctification.
WE SHALL BE SAVED
Roman 5:9-10
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Matthew10:22
And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
This is the third salvation
It is for our glorification.
Keep working out your salvation with fear and trembling as the spirit gives grace!