What Exactly Is Salvation? (Part 1)

It’s Easter everyone,

Today is the day we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ which happened about 2,000 years ago. A person who has no idea about what Easter celebration is all about might ask what Easter was meant for, and many might answer saying something like, “it is the celebration of the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”. And the person might ask what we were saved from, and the answer might be something like, “from our sins”, quotation such as Romans 5:8 could be given, which says, “But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.” AMP. All these are true, but the person could ask, “what is the benefit of all these?” Yeah, many might say things like “we would go to heaven and be with Jesus on the last day or when we die”. But are answers like these or even saying Jesus gave us salvation really answering the questions or convincing enough for a person to jump up and say, “I get it now”. Yeah, of course, we would probably justify our statement by saying, “It is the Holy Spirit who convicts”. My write up today is most likely not for babies, but for the mature. My question today is “What Exactly Is Salvation?”

We often say we received Grace through faith in Christ Jesus when we received Christ into our lives, this is the benefit of our salvation in Christ, but do we really understand the word salvation. I’m not going to start showing you the etymological meaning of the word salvation, that’s not my point, my point is to give us further enlightenment on salvation and grace, for it appears we have limited our understanding on what salvation really mean.

In simple terms, the moment we received Christ into our lives, we died, we ceased to exist. Some of us would be like, “yeah right, I knew that”, but the question here is, have you ever calm down to understand what it means to die or cease to exist? Let’s take a look at two popular verses of the Bible shall we? 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creation altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!” AMP; then Galatians 2:20 says, “I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to the reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” AMP.

Both 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Galatians 2:20 says, you became a new person when you received Christ into your life. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says you became a brand new person altogether because of your old self-died (ref. Galatians 2:20). Now, who is this new person who lives in you? Jesus! Jesus is the new person who lives in you, or you could say, the Spirit of Jesus lives in you. This is why 1 John 3:9 says, “No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God.” AMP. But why do we see those born of God still sinning even when this verse has been written? The answer is simple, those born of God would still continue to sin because they think their old man is still alive and was given a second chance, so they strive with all their strength and might to be perfect before God, but guess what, God never gave us a second chance. That sounds surprising, right?

What God did was that He eliminated and destroyed our old man immediately we decided to receive Christ. We died! What we fear would happen in future happened when we received Christ. The new man in us is Christ and not our old man who was given a second chance. How else would it make any sense for the scripture to say “as He is so are we in this world” (ref. 1 John 4:17) if it was He Himself who dwells in us.

We haven’t gotten to the heat of the moment. Log on same time tomorrow to continue the unravelling of what our salvation truly mean.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

Log on next time.

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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James Version (NKJV)