Some thoughts on the salvation walk
Our journey through saved life should be something like my article below.
Rhetorical points
1) Having reached a point of deep sorrow and regret for sinning against God and remembering vividly the day you received Jesus as your Savior.
2) Repentance, meaning you begin to live the “changed life”.
3) Immediate trials of your faith as God allows you to be tempted to strengthen you inner being. Jesus was lead into the desert to be tempted of the Devil and “if you think back, so were we”.
4) We develop a more sensitive acute conscious and no longer want to practice sin, although we still sin. You see when we are really saved God forgives our past, present and future sins, “so rejoice we are free of the curse of sin forever”The battle of flesh, mind and Soul begins here.
5) We suffer the chastisement of the Lord if we stray to bring us back to the straight road of truth. God does this in love
6) The road we travel is sometimes hard and our faith put to the test time, time again. (Note this is what I meant in my essay “Practical advise on how to live your life”)
7) We start finding out much to our disappointment that our brothers and sisters in Christ are not living up to what they are confessing.
8) We explore other avenues looking for a group that is absolutely correct and true to the word and Gospel. Alas in vain, we must find this or own way through our own study of the word.
9) We sometimes become suspended in a barren desert thinking God has become remote. It is difficult to pray.
10) We finally come out from our stubborn attitude begin to pray again and to our joy, we find that the word is true. Jesus said I will be with you always even unto the end of the world. I am closer than a brother said God.
11) Why all the above?. You know without tribulations trials, overcoming of life’s obstacles we would be weak spineless spiritual beings. We are Saints of the most high.
12) All through the above learning process, if we look and feel deep down "we know for absolute sure that that emptiness that only God can fill has been with us from the moment we received Jesus".
13) You see from the moment of our salvation we have become a special project by God, indeed we are a work in progress.
14) Perhaps you might be wondering why I have not yet mentioned baptism. Baptism is a step of obedience, that one must always do but in my view not necessary for salvation. Why we could be dying in the desert far from water. The thief next to Jesus on the cross did not have time to be baptized but went to paradise.
15) Lastly what about our unsaved beloved children and family members. Well in the flood God only found one righteous person in Noah, but saved his whole family, only Lot was righteous but God saved his family. When Paul went to the home of the Roman centurion, he said if you receive Jesus as you Lord and Savior "you and you whole house will be saved". Likewise, beloved if we stay firm and true God will do the same for us would he not?
I am just putting the above out there to make us think and have meaningdfull dialogue
God bless
Alan
Our journey through saved life should be something like my article below.
Rhetorical points
1) Having reached a point of deep sorrow and regret for sinning against God and remembering vividly the day you received Jesus as your Savior.
2) Repentance, meaning you begin to live the “changed life”.
3) Immediate trials of your faith as God allows you to be tempted to strengthen you inner being. Jesus was lead into the desert to be tempted of the Devil and “if you think back, so were we”.
4) We develop a more sensitive acute conscious and no longer want to practice sin, although we still sin. You see when we are really saved God forgives our past, present and future sins, “so rejoice we are free of the curse of sin forever”The battle of flesh, mind and Soul begins here.
5) We suffer the chastisement of the Lord if we stray to bring us back to the straight road of truth. God does this in love
6) The road we travel is sometimes hard and our faith put to the test time, time again. (Note this is what I meant in my essay “Practical advise on how to live your life”)
7) We start finding out much to our disappointment that our brothers and sisters in Christ are not living up to what they are confessing.
8) We explore other avenues looking for a group that is absolutely correct and true to the word and Gospel. Alas in vain, we must find this or own way through our own study of the word.
9) We sometimes become suspended in a barren desert thinking God has become remote. It is difficult to pray.
10) We finally come out from our stubborn attitude begin to pray again and to our joy, we find that the word is true. Jesus said I will be with you always even unto the end of the world. I am closer than a brother said God.
11) Why all the above?. You know without tribulations trials, overcoming of life’s obstacles we would be weak spineless spiritual beings. We are Saints of the most high.
12) All through the above learning process, if we look and feel deep down "we know for absolute sure that that emptiness that only God can fill has been with us from the moment we received Jesus".
13) You see from the moment of our salvation we have become a special project by God, indeed we are a work in progress.
14) Perhaps you might be wondering why I have not yet mentioned baptism. Baptism is a step of obedience, that one must always do but in my view not necessary for salvation. Why we could be dying in the desert far from water. The thief next to Jesus on the cross did not have time to be baptized but went to paradise.
15) Lastly what about our unsaved beloved children and family members. Well in the flood God only found one righteous person in Noah, but saved his whole family, only Lot was righteous but God saved his family. When Paul went to the home of the Roman centurion, he said if you receive Jesus as you Lord and Savior "you and you whole house will be saved". Likewise, beloved if we stay firm and true God will do the same for us would he not?
I am just putting the above out there to make us think and have meaningdfull dialogue
God bless
Alan