SALVATION IS SOTERIA

SALVATION IS SOTERIA

Thursday, July 11, 2013

            Romans [MKJV] 1:16-7 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
             Acts [MKJV] 4:10-12 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in this name does this man stand before you whole. 11 This is the Stone which you builders have counted worthless, and He has become the Head of the Corner. 12 And there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
 
  Ask Christians what the word “salvation” means. Summarizing what I usually hear in response: Going to heaven; Eternal life with God; Not going to hell; Saved from my sins. Forgiven. Redemption.

  All wonderfully true definitions, but incomplete and with effect; lacking knowing the true magnitude of God’s salvation limits our sight and action; what we truly believe in our heart of hearts makes for how we live.

  Salvation is not limited to “Going to heaven when I die or am raptured.”, but is frontier place; salvation is a position of commencement.

  To aid you in gaining salvation knowledge, I share from Scofield’s  notes:

“Salvation” The Hebrew, and (Greek, "sōtēria", meaning "safety", "preservation", "healing", and "soundness"). Salvation is the great inclusive word of the Gospel, gathering into itself all the redemptive acts and processes: as justification, redemption, grace, propitiation, imputation, forgiveness, sanctification, and glorification. Salvation is in three tenses:

(1) The believer has been saved from the guilt and penalty of sin (Luk_7:50); (1Co_1:18); (2Co_2:15); (Eph_2:5); (Eph_2:8); (2Ti_1:9) and is safe.

(2) the believer is being saved from the habit and dominion of sin (Rom_6:14); (Phi_1:19); (Phi_2:12); (Phi_2:13); (2Th_2:13); (Rom_8:2); (Gal_2:19); (Gal_2:20); (2Co_3:18).

 

(3) The believer is to be saved in the sense of entire conformity to Christ. (Rom_13:11); (Heb_10:36); (1Pe_1:5); (1Jo_3:2).

 

Salvation is by grace through faith, is a free gift, and wholly without works; (Rom_3:27); (Rom_3:28); (Rom_4:1-8); (Rom_6:23); (Eph_2:8).

 

The divine order is: first, salvation, then, works; (Eph_2:9); (Eph_2:10); (Tit_3:5-8).

 
  Possibly you are already empowered by comprehensive knowledge and practical application within fullness of soteria. If not, now that you’ve looked up and pondered verse references in Scofield’s notes you may sensibly commence practice of Philippians 2:12, or opt to live on with weight of knowledge sans godly action.  EBB4