Devotionals on Salvation

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• Job: who so exemplifies the life of a believer from salvation to the millennium.

• It is, then, simply a case of stand still and see the salvation of God.' This should give us confidence in praying intelligently for those who are far from Gospel light.

• Now listen to this: It is not salvation, nor redemption, but it is God's power in salvation and redemption that unites us.

• And like the Israelites, we also start to murmur with dissatisfaction of our lot – almost dismissive of the great price that our Salvation and acceptance cost Him.
• One day we rejoice in our salvation, but the next we question our acceptance, One night we bathe in His presence, but the next we despair of His love.

• It does not refer to initial salvation..

• Yet I will joy in the God of my salvation.

• Self-righteous Pride Nicodemus, a pious Jewish leader, struggled with the idea of grace rather than human merit to gain God’s acceptance. Self-righteous pride may be the most difficult obstacle to overcome when free grace is offered, for one relies on the merits of man while the other rests on the grace of God. The constant strivings of the religious man to become acceptable to God by works is a far cry from the submitted heart of a broken sinner, who is thirsting for salvation.

• knowing the return of the Lord is soon – even at the very door – and how much they desired their salvation.

• which means God is Salvation, and the baby was to be the holy and sinless Son of God.

• Blessings flow through the Jews for Salvation must come through Christ.
• Israel, the Jewish nation, the adoptive son and Wife of Jehovah for 2000 years – the Church, the body and bride of Christ, and heirs of salvation for 2000 years.

• And today is still our day of salvation.
• Paul’s was shut away in prison chains, before he wrote many words of salvation and truth.

• For the one who has placed their trust in Jesus for salvation, and rested their eternal destiny on His finished work at Calvary, the Bible is the divine authority, upon which our lives should be founded.
• Journey Thru Life Just as God had a plan for our salvation so He has a life-plan for each of us.
• Eternal Perspective And so we are reminded that in this world there will be trials and suffering, but Scripture urges us to view the trials of life in light of God’s wider plan of His great salvation, in the eternal ages to come.

• Forgiveness and Fellowship Although all our past, present, and future sins were forever forgiven at the cross God can never look on any sin – even a believer’s post-salvation sins.
• Sins we commit after salvation are forever forgiven but break our fellowship with Him.

• He looks back to their pre-salvation life and reminds them: at one time you also were servants and slaves of sin.
• Before salvation they were enslaved by the old sin-nature – they were in bondage to sin and slaves of sin, but after salvation, they were given a new nature and became servants of Christ – with a new life and a born-again spirit.
• Now we are servants of the new nature in Christ rather than the old sin-nature, and these verses contrast an unbeliever’s former relationship as slaves of sin with a believer’s new relationship to their new life-in-Christ, which we all receive at salvation and which has made us all servants of righteousness.
• at salvation, connection with the sin-nature was severed, but sin’s influence remains throughout our life.
• Inner Conflict At salvation the believer also receives the permanent presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit, causing two sets of demands to have an influence on a believer’s life.

• But the young Jesus also set His face as a flint to carry out His Father’s work of salvation..

• Christ’s Work Our salvation has nothing to do with our character, but rests on Christ's finished work.
• Every step of salvation is planned, performed, and finished by God – by His grace.
• Every expression of salvation is secured in Christ’s righteousness – by His grace.
• Christ’s Sufficiency Past, present, and future salvation is planned, performed, and finished – by grace.
• Past, present and future salvation is planned, performed, and finished – in Christ.
• His plan of salvation is entirely-whole; exhaustively-complete' totally-accomplished.

• Spiritual Truth IN HIM you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; IN WHOM also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.” Eph.1:13 Through time and through eternity, this heavenly fact is expressed in many forms, Through the cross, this eternal reality is wrought in literal and experimental forms, but always, Always, ALWAYS the same principle emerges:- always, ALWAYS the same abiding, infinite, glorious, spiritual truth is manifested.

• Threefold Promise Salvation is 100% God’s by grace through faith.
• All are sealed and indwelt by the Holy Spirit unto the day of salvation, but some are living as God desires, and sadly others are not.
• With regards to being born again (salvation), a sinner is all-saved or all-lost.

• Authored by God Grace for salvation; grace for sufficiency and the grace of Scripture is perfect.

• We shall see the greatness of Christ and the corresponding greatness of our salvation ...according to His eternal purpose.

• It warns of neglecting salvation, falling short of His promises..
• a choice that affects the future destiny of a man – salvation of the spirit – being born again – regeneration.
• But He also leaves the choice of being made into Christ's likeness in this world to the believer:- allow the Spirit of Christ Who lives in you and work through you – salvation of the soul – that’s sanctification – being conformed into the image and likeness of Christ, OR resist this child-training and quench the Spirit..
• Do not neglect so great salvation. Do not fall short of the promised rest. Be careful not to be slothful, or stand still who fall away. Do not sin wilfully or draw back to perdition and don’t ignore the important sanctification process.

• When I see this, those very conditions magnify before my soul the greatness of His salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Many simply struggle with this issue and many true believers doubt their salvation.
• Doubting Salvation They do not have God’s assurance in their heart. They do not enjoy the security of His promised provision.
• Finished Work Yet we have an assurance, from Scripture, that our salvation in Christ, is secure.
• Security in our salvation is locked into Christ’s finished work – in time and eternity.
• Wrong teaching can also contribute to believers’ questioning their eternal salvation.
• Christian Stability The Bible teaches we have continuity of salvation, from the day we first believed.
• There are a number of reasons that the eternal security of the believer is disbelieved, and anyone questioning their salvation should think this through – prayerfully.
• To gain assurance of salvation believers will often look inside – into their feelings.
• Fluctuating Feelings Feelings can fluctuate and are a totally false gauge of our assured salvation.
• Feelings and emotions are God-given, but they are not the source of salvation truth.  Believers should never allow feelings and emotions to dictate scriptural doctrine.
• Romans 10:17.  God’s Word alone must be relied on to supply us with salvation truth – not feelings.
• God’s Word is truth, which provides our doctrinal understanding of salvation.
• Extra-Biblical Add-ons There are no add-ons to Scripture but many men and ministries add to salvation.
• To suggest we can do anything to lose salvation is to minimise His work on the cross.
• To suggest we lose our salvation is to elevate our power above the sovereignty of God.
• Reasons for Insecurity There are other reasons we doubt our assurance in Christ, and our secure salvation.
• It may be poor teaching, self-doubt, or resistance to God’s child-training programme – but all suggestions that our salvation is in jeopardy denies the truth of God's word.
• and you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation.
• Three-fold Assurance Our assurance of salvation and eternal security is purchased by Christ. Our assurance of salvation and eternal security was promised by the Father. Our assurance of salvation and eternal security is sealed by the Holy Spirit.
• Father’s Promise Our eternal security is not based on our own abilities but founded on God alone. The salvation of all the redeemed is established on the Father’s promise.

• 2 Opposing Natures The more we feed one of these two bitterly opposing natures, the more it grows and develops – and the stronger it becomes the greater its capacity for good or for evil. The new life in Christ, we received at salvation, is the very life of Jesus Christ, that was breathed into us by God’s Spirit, so we could grow in grace and spiritually mature.

• – The Lamb Who sits upon the throne, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!”

• Eternal Life This is eternal life that they might know Thee – the only true God and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent. It is that simple, and yet how many reject God’s grace. The shocking reason that men turn their back on God’s free and gracious gift of salvation is wrapped up in the notion that man can produce his own righteousness.
• God made His gospel simple and clear – believe on the Lord Jesus OR remain condemned. The redemption message is clear – salvation is of grace… through Christ Jesus..

• John and Romans The two books of the Bible considered as the clearest and best explanation on how to be saved, are to be found in the gospel of John – and in Paul’s epistle the Romans. Both men, in their own unique writing style and language, explain that God’s gift of saving grace for all men, is simply by believing on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. John says that grace came through Christ and whoever believes on Him will be saved. Paul reminds us that salvation comes through faith alone – that it might be of grace. But one issue confuses and confounds many people – the issue of repentance.
• and never ever in the context of salvation or ‘being saved’.
• God-Breathed Is it possible that these two giants of the faith, who were moved by the Spirit to write Scripture, could have misunderstood salvation, or is there another explanation? As all scripture is God-breathed, it is impossible for John and Paul to give incorrect teaching on how to be saved..
• Integral Not Additional If John and Paul clearly teach that salvation is the gift of God’s grace alone, by faith in Christ how can we reconcile the issue of repentance.
• Grace Thru Faith John and Paul taught that salvation is by God’s grace alone – through faith alone.
• a change of attitude – a change of heart. An integral part of scriptural repentance must include believing on the Lord Jesus… salvation – a gift of God – by grace alone – through faith alone.

• Non-Meritus Salvation is the gifts of God’s grace to man and is accessed by believing His Word.
• Faith has no room for human worthiness – but is based on Christ’s righteousness.  It is not faith that merits salvation – but faith that gains access to God’s gift of grace.
• Free-Will Choice Faith is a free-will choice made by the individual, in response to the Word of God. Faith is the only possible response that God accepts – and salvation is the outcome.  But unbelief is also a free-will choice, and only condemnation follows unbelief.

• These people believed the gospel of grace for their salvation and then returned to the old way of legalism.
• At the point of salvation, we became identified with our Lord, forever.

• The whole purpose of salvation is that men and women may grow in the deeper stable characteristics of the Christian life - that they might be conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. -G.D.

• Man’s Need of Acceptance Satan has robbed many believers of their full ASSURANCE of eternal salvation, and many crave for reassurance of spiritual life here and eternal life to come. Many seek through good works and spiritual activity to confirm their acceptance..

• Salvation by grace through faith is certainly the most wonderful news that any sinner can be told but the Christian life is not an easy path to tread and all too frequently suffering and pain comes in its wake.
• Victory of Defeat We all delight in the wonderful news that all our sins have been forgiven, past present and future, and rightly so – but new believers should also be trained up in the Christian life and understand about post-salvation sins, and all to often they can affect our relationship to God and our fellowship with Him.

• What think ye of Christ?  for He is the power of God and the wisdom of God, and in Him is salvation- redemption.; sanctification; glorification.

• One Salvation God spoke to man in the beginning when He created the world and made Adam. God demonstrated His mighty power through general and specific revelation. God declared Himself through the evidence of creation – and the Word made flesh, and the ONLY way to reach God is being covered with the blood of the Lamb – and this is non-negotiable.

• Oh, religion is no argument for salvation.
• It does not say that Christendom more intelligent, civilized, educated interpretation of God, even though it gets its ideas from the Bible, is salvation.

• If only we could understand that God purposed our eternal salvation in eternity past.
• Gift of Grace We don’t deserve His forgiveness or salvation, but it is His gift of grace to us..

• Jesus Himself our perfect example was perfected in life – through obedience. Hebrews tells us that by His being made perfect: Jesus became the author of eternal salvation..

• “Consider” the position of the eternal Son of God, Who made Man, for our salvation.
• God of Salvation And Why…?

• Christ’s Triumph The Lord’s trials were needful to demonstrate the qualities of the second Adam: for being made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him. Christ’s testings were designed so that He, as our High Priest could empathise and succour – for we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathise with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

• All we had to do was believe. Our identification with Christ is also by grace – and all we have to do is believe it. God has so designed salvation that it had nothing to do with our merit or works.

• The very first thing to remember when we take this cup is that while we are taking it as the cup of salvation, while we are remembering the atonement which is in the Blood, and all the wonderful redemption which is ours because of that Blood, the cup does also speak to us of fellowship with His suffering....

• Salvation Joy Did you experience overwhelming joy, delight and glory when you first believed? Did you tell all and sundry the wonders of God and the message of salvation? Were you one that for a time was seated on the top of the mount of transfiguration? Did you tell the world of all the joy and thankfulness that was in your heart..?

• which plunged the human race into death, so that the transgression of one man resulted in the condemnation of the human race. The gift of salvation that was freely bestowed on us through one Man:- Christ Jesus, so that by the obedience and righteousness of one Man, many were made righteous – for by His death and resurrection the consequences of sin were done away with.
• Gift of Salvation Having demonstrated God’s amazing gift of salvation by grace through trusting Christ, Paul paraphrases a question he knows must be lingering in the minds of his listeners, “Shall we keep on sinning so that God’s grace may abound more and more?” Imagine that!  Shall we revel in sin so that the grace of God can increase even more!

• So that the Holy Spirit's way with us is to bring us into living, actual conditions and situations, and needs, in which only some fresh knowledge of the Lord Jesus can be our deliverance, our salvation, our life, and then to give us, not a revelation of truth, but a revelation of the Person, new knowledge of the Person, that we come to see Christ in some way that just meets our need.

• Are we aware of the importance of a personal assurance of salvation?

• There is something here much more than typology interpreted and the interpretation accepted as to salvation from sin and judgment; it is the essential and indispensable heavenly relatedness and life of the Lord's people as inwardly detached from the natural life even in a religious sense.

• Non-dispensational teachers have endeavored to bring over the many promises of the physical and material aspects of kingdom salvation into the present dispensation, giving hope of material prosperity and physical health, as well as political peace.

• Understanding Dispensations For example - without an understanding of dispensations... Salvation of the spirit and the soul becomes intermingled leading to confusion.
• Initial salvation; ongoing maturity and glorification becomes cloudy.

• Greater Horizons To satisfy God’s heart in His eternal plan is greater than man’s initial salvation.

• others are told of the gospel of grace and others find rest in the same God of our salvation.

• This significant issue is crucial to a believer's spiritual walk, for denial of our eternal security is a distortion of scripture, a denial of God’s plan of salvation and it defames God’s character.
• Scriptural Harmony The harmony in Scripture on the issue of eternal security is truly beautiful to behold, but when salvation passages for the unbeliever are confused with those on growing in grace and spiritual maturity, confusion is inevitable.
• Perfect Plan Every member of the Godhead planned, proclaimed and promised the eternal salvation of the believer, as explained in Scripture.
• God’s plan of salvation is good and perfect, it is pure and right – it is holy and eternal and it glorifies God's name.

• His many blessings provide all that’s needed for salvation, sanctification, and service.

• 2 Aspects of Salvation The death of Christ is the most wonderful thing that deserves our thanks, for through the death of the innocent Victim our sins were forever forgiven.
• The spiritual cure for triviality, is a new note of greatness born of the realisation of what it cost Jesus to produce His salvation in us – a sanctified life.

• Israel – An Example Do not neglect so great salvation – but live by faith and not by sight.
• Egypt – A Type I believe as we get closer to the return of Christ and His coming kingdom these warnings should be taken very seriously. Israel was redeemed from Egypt – just as we are redeemed from the world, but Israel fell short of the promise and neglected their salvation – just as we are warned that we too can neglect so great salvation. Paul clearly tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:6: now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. God was not pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• Take heed of Israel’s shortcomings and loss and be warned, and give the more earnest heed to these instructions in the book of Hebrews – that you do not neglect so great salvation.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,1 Peter 2:2

• Essential Doctrines Paul alone was specifically called on to disclose the essential doctrines of salvation – a responsibility reserved for Saul of Tarsus, God’s chosen apostle to the gentiles – Paul.
• Salvation Essentials The mysteries of the kingdom of heaven were indeed taught to the Lord’s apostles,  but the essentials of salvation, sanctification, and glorification came through Paul.

• Spiritual Growth Faith is necessary for the initial (salvation of the spirit).
• Faith is required for holiness and for sanctification (the salvation of the soul).

• Threefold Salvation This patient endurance is designed for sanctification – “the salvation of the soul”.  We are to be those who believe to the saving of the soul.
• Praise God, our spirit was redeemed, when the Spirit of God breathed in new life, Regeneration – salvation of the spirit.  Praise God, our soul, through “patient endurance” in this life, is being saved. Sanctification – salvation of the soul.
• Praise God, our body at the resurrection and rapture, will be saved. Glorification – salvation of the body
• the salvation of the soul – spiritual maturity: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless, unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1Thes.5:23

• Salvation is the gift of God to all that believe in the name of His only begotten Son.

• In His mercy, not one person was to be excluded from the offer of His great salvation.
• And God foreknows EVERYONE that will accept His plan of salvation.
• God foreknows EVERYONE that will reject His plan of salvation.
• God foreknows the free-will choices that every man will ever make, and God will never coerce or override man’s volition regarding his choices. Salvation is a free gift of God’s grace to whosoever will trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• All believers are His children and are redeemed by His blood, and all that are not called, made a deliberate choice to reject God’s plan of salvation.
• God foresaw who would accept His free gift of salvation and who would reject it.

• Reginald Wallis: “God says in effect, ‘My child, as you reckoned on the substitutionary work of the Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation, now go a step farther and reckon on His representative work for your victory day by day.’ You believe that the Lord Jesus died for your sins because God said so.

• Positioned in Christ But at the point of salvation, every one of these deprivations melted into the morning mist.

• Every unbeliever has a choice – to accept or reject God’s free gift of deliverance, and all who reject salvation by grace through faith in Christ, are condemned.
• Every believer made the right choice – to accept God’s free gift of deliverance, for only those that trust Christ for salvation, by grace through faith, are saved.

• Abiding in the Lord Jesus is not a work that we have to do as the condition for enjoying His salvation, but a consenting to let Him do all for us and in us, and through us.

• To receive from Him the gifts of salvation – the gift of hope, the gift of love, the gift of joy.

• Plan of Salvation Had Christ been begotten of a human father He could not be the second Person of the Trinity, and the plan of Salvation would have been the biggest farce in history. Had He been begotten of a human father Christ would have been imputed with SIN.

• He is the immovable Rock upon which your anchor is stayed. Oh yes, our justification was secured at the cross and our glorification is similarly secured and anchored on the Rock of our Salvation.
• Our eternal salvation is immovably secure and anchored on Christ alone.
• Future Hope Our anchor was secured heaven at the point of salvation, but in this life, we also have a responsibility.
• May your anchor hold in the storms of this life and may my anchor hold fast too… on the Rock of our salvation.

• I have become an heir of salvation, purchased through Christ’s sacrifice – purchased of God – born-again in His Spirit, washed in His life-giving, atoning blood. Perfect submission, all is at rest. I in my Saviour am happy and blessed. Watching and waiting, looking above. Filled with His goodness, lost in His love. This is my story and this must be my everlasting song.

• You are the Rock of my salvation; protected in the cleft of the Rock... covered, cleansed, purified in Christ.

• In Revelation 21:24 we read that:  the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the LIGHT of it, while the sweet Psalmist lifted up his voice in glorious praise as he proclaimed forth in Psalm 119:105 - Thy Word is a light unto my feet… and in Psalm 27:1 the Lord is my light and my salvation….

• The Psalmist motivates us to come and sing… Come – come let us sing unto the LORD… let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

• Salvation is a once for all, full cleansing – but we are required, from that day on to be cleansed… cleansed from the influences of life... cleansed, day by day, from all that infects and debilitates our witness for Him… cleansed from any daily sins.

• Sacrifice for Sin God so loved the world that when man sinned, He put into effect the plan of salvation, that He had purposed before the world was created.
• God did not love the world system that is currently under Satan’s rule for Jesus plainly tells us, My kingdom is not of this world. John 18:36 It was man, for whom God set about implementing His glorious plan of salvation.
• Plan of Salvation It was man – sin-ridden, rebellious human-kind that God loved so much.
• Salvation of Man There is only one place in Scripture where the question is actually asked, What must I do to be saved..? and the answer is given clearly and simply, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. The spirit of man which was born dead in trespasses and sins is saved simply by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ as our sacrifice for sin. But our initial salvation (our salvation of the spirit) is of course the first step on a life journey for the salvation of the soul of man, for once we have been eternally saved we are told by Paul, in Philippians 2:12, that we must work out our own salvation. This aspect of salvation is called sanctification and is ongoing throughout the whole of our whole Christian life.
• And at the rapture of the church (the resurrection of the dead) will be the salvation of the body.
• Tripartite Salvation Our spirit is saved at the point we believe in Christ as Saviour.
• Salvation of the spirit.Salvation of the soul.Salvation of the body.
• Singular Salvation But salvation is also a single thing for at the point of initial salvation – the salvation of the soul and the body is automatically secured. Although there are three aspects to salvation it is the initial salvation of the spirit, where we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, that secures forever the salvation of the body, soul, and spirit – eternally.
• God-Given Salvation Christ became flesh and died to restore the original relationship between God and man.
• Free Gift of Salvation Salvation was made possible by God’s love.
• The essential condition for salvation is simply to believe that Jesus died for my sins and that by His death and resurrection He paid the full price for my sins – and all I have to do is to believe on Him. I cannot win my salvation or buy salvation for myself.
• I cannot earn my salvation, work for my salvation or assist God with my salvation.
• There is nothing that I can do to secure my salvation – I can only accept it as a free gift of God’s grace.
• Only Believe Oh, the world has designed multiple ways that they think will get them salvation.

• STUDY - God, All I Need Now is come salvation and STRENGTH.Revelation 12:10
• In Revelation, we read: Now is come salvation and strength… the power of His Christ has come  Revelation 12:10  while in Joshua we read: Be strong and very courageous, for the LORD your God is with you. Oh yes, we are reminded that – God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness.

• you will lose your life (you will lose your soul) Luke.17:33  Should a believer choose the broad way, he would be eternally saved, for eternal salvation is the free gift of grace to all who trust in Jesus as Saviour… eternally saved but choosing to live your own self-life and not His Christ-life.

• Yet I will joy in the God of my salvation”.

• God has charged Himself with the responsibility of man’s salvation.

• Security and Assurance Without security and assurance of our salvation, there is no stability in a believer’s life.
• Our security and assurance of our salvation rests entirely on the grace of our faithful God.
• Our salvation is a gift of God’s grace to those who believe.
• Eternal Benefit The assurance of our salvation and promise of eternal life is an established fact in scripture, and each person of the Trinity is involved in our salvation and security.
• The Father Salvation was conceived by the Father, Who chose us before the foundation of the world.
• The Father instigated the glorious plan of salvation and He undertakes the process from the beginning to the end.
• The Son The Son was sent by the Father as the representative Man and Sacrifice for sin, to carry out the work of salvation by paying the price of humanities sin, and redeeming all who would trust on His name.
• The Spirit The Spirit not only convicts us of our need of Salvation but is instrumental in every aspect of our new birth from above.
• Thrice Holy God’s plan for our Salvation and is eternally secure in His thrice holy hand, and His purpose and plan in the lives of all who trust His Son as Saviour can never ever fail.

• Faith in the One Who saved, for His initial salvation at the time of rebirth – trusting the indwelling Spirit,  for a lifetime of His working in and through us – believing in God to work out His plans and His purposes in your life and in mine.
• But that trusting faith is built on a hope of salvation..

• That is the point of your salvation because you heard the gospel and believed.
• Cost of Redemption Sometimes we overlook the enormous significance of salvation and its cost to God.  But redemption and the forgiveness of sins are according to the riches of His grace.
• Full Salvation But because of the riches of God’s grace, we have redemption in all its many facets.
• Because of the riches of God’s grace, we have salvation of the spirit, soul, and body.
• God’s word speaks of our full salvation in the past tense.
• God has given us an assurance of salvation that can never be taken from us – and forever we are in union with Christ and have redemption through His blood.
• Purchase Possession The life is in the blood, and the lifeblood from His veins secured our full salvation.
• The shedding of His blood secures pardon and God remembers our sin no more.  But without forgiveness of sin, we are ineligible for all other graces of salvation.

• Jesus Christ alone is the God of our Salvation – and He it is, that causes all things to work together for good to them that love God – to them that are the called according to His purpose.
• Greater Plan Every believer in Christ rejoices in their salvation, knowing that their sins have been forgiven and that they have received eternal life – knowing that they have a glorious inheritance, which is laid up for them in heaven.

• He was Shepherd and Refuge, Light and Salvation to King David.

• Tasted Death for ALL By God’s grace, Jesus tasted death for ALL – every member of the fallen race of man, And as part of God’s plan to bring many sons to glory – God made Jesus (Who was made perfect through what He suffered)  the leader and pioneer of our salvation.

• God’s Peace Yet Peace with God is a free gift of grace that is freely available to all who will put their trust in Christ for Salvation.

• The payment for our sins is eternal separation from God, but He gave His unique Son through Whom comes life. Eternal life is God’s gift – Salvation is God’s gift – Jesus Christ is God’s special gift. The gift of salvation was no afterthought on the part of God.
• Great Salvation The Salvation that is given as a free gift of grace to all Who trust in the name of God’s only begotten Son, is a great Salvation that was given to man by God; announced to the world by angelic beings; confirmed by all Who heard and received the glorious gospel of Christ and recorded for our learning – to guide us into all truth and to give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled.
• Eternal Salvation Salvation that came through the Man Christ Jesus was not a finite redemption but an eternal salvation.
• Complete Salvation The Salvation Christ gives is not a restricted redemption but embraces every aspect of our lives – body, soul and spirit.

• but in His mercy He shows enough to us, for our salvation and godly conduct.
• That Son, Who Himself was made perfect through suffering – for it became Him, for Whom are all things, and by Whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make perfect the Leader of their salvation – through sufferings.

• Truth + Grace The Law of Moses, though perfect was given to man through a fallen member of a sinful race. Grace and truth, was the gift of God to condemned sinners, thru Jesus Christ our Lord. Grace without truth – would have rendered the righteousness of God as void. Truth without grace – would have rendered the salvation of man as impossible.

• It requires a deep desire in our inner being, to know the God of our salvation.

• Showers of Grace Grace, grace and more grace is what is showered on all that believe in Jesus Christ. Grace for salvation, grace for this life, grace to mature, grace in the ages to come.
• Continuing Grace Too often we limit the grace of God to salvation from the penalty of sin – alone. We often forget that salvation was the start of our eternal journey and not the end, for grace is poured out throughout life and grace continues into the ages to come.
• Examples of Grace One day we will be examples of God’s grace to the angels and heavenly powers. One day salvation will be complete but His grace will extend into the eternal ages  – today we live by faith but then we will see Him as He is – and it is all by grace.

• perhaps through gratefulness to God for salvation or presumption of the old sin nature.

• behold, now is the accepted time - behold, now is the day of salvation.

• They are no better, no happier, nor satisfied despite the privilege they just enjoy, for their hearts are lukewarm toward the Lord of their salvation.

• Today, the Lord Jesus is the Living Water that is poured into our hearts by faith – and today He is the Rock of our salvation, from Whose side poured blood and water.

• There is a very great deal of the old creation in our prayers; it is our convenience, our deliverance from inconvenience and discomfort, our salvation from what would bring us a great deal of trouble and sorrow.

• This is not the salvation we already have as born again believers.
• God’s Promise Stand still and watch and wait and witness the salvation of God Ex.14:13 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle.
• Stand ye still and see the salvation of the LORD with you.

• Yet these truths are as binding on the heart of God as the blood-drenched cross, These promises are solid and as secure as Christ, the Rock of our Salvation.

• A Study:- Man’s Nature and Destiny Threefold Name Our triune God created triune man: spirit, soul, and body for a threefold purpose:-salvation, sanctification and service, for time and through eternity.

• He has graciously identified for us the season and reason for His return, and He has reminded us that today is the day of salvation.

• Since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.1Thessalonians 5:8
• Protective Peace The third grace of this harmonious trio of protective peace – is the hope of salvation.
• The helmet of the hope of our salvation protects our minds from the darkness of this age.
• Let us put on the breastplate of faith and love, for we are covered in His righteousness, and for a helmet – let us wear the hope of eternal salvation in Him.

• Eternal Salvation Though incarnate deity and perfect man, Christ needed to learn obedience.
• Christ was perfected so He could be the Author of eternal salvation to all believers, for after He was perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation. for all who obey Him. Hebrews 5:9
• Had Christ acted independently of God He could never have secured our salvation, but in loving obedience to the Father and in gracious love for us He became obedient, for being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

• Man may accept God’s gift of salvation and may even sacrifice much for God.

• Having been made perfect, Christ became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him.

• Letters of Grace Often a sermon on salvation is beautifully woven into the initial letters of GRACE, G – Salvation is a Gift of God – a Good Gift that is Granted to allR – Salvation is Redemption – Received by faith, Reuniting us with GodA – Salvation is Accepted by God’s love, Available to All, Accessible through faithC – Salvation Comes thru Christ Crucified Who paid the Cost at the CrossE – Salvation Ends in Eternal life and is an Everlasting gift – and an Escape
• Special Grace But there is a special grace for those that have accessed salvation by grace, through faith: Strombeck writes the following: Grace is God’s provision to bring into being, sustain and perfect His new creation in Christ.

• In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.  Ephesians 1:13
• We have the Spirit of truth whose sword is the Word:- take the Helmet of Salvation, and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

• Gifts of God’s Our salvation comes to us as a gift of God’s grace, and it is all due to the Lord Jesus.
• We can contribute nothing to initial salvation, nor the work God does through us.
• Bottom Line The bottom line is that there is nothing man can contribute to any aspect of salvation.

• It takes us so long to come to the place where we do fully and finally settle this matter, that if we lived as long as ever man lived on this earth, we shall not be able to contribute one iota which can be acceptable to God, and which He can take and use for our salvation, for our sanctification, for our glorification, not a bit.

• This one small act of trust brings us out of sin and into salvation; out of darkness into His perfect light; out of Satan into Christ in God; out of death into life; out of despair into hope – out of ashes into beauty.
• Initial Salvation – Justification Salvation of the spirit is once and for all a gift.
• Ongoing Salvation – Sanctification When the salvation of the spirit is fully accomplished..
• the salvation of the soul is only just beginning.

• This has nothing to do with the birth from above – the salvation of your spirit.
• Your eternal salvation is secure in Christ – completed the moment you believed – when you were born from above by the Spirit.
• But this has everything to do with your sanctification – the salvation of the soul.

• Sanctifying Faith We must not think that faith in Hebrews only refers to being initial salvation.
• Hebrews is not about salvation from sin, but the sanctification of the saved soul.

• “It is a harmful perversion of the truth of God to teach (as did the Puritan theologians) that while we are not to keep the law as a means of salvation, we are under it as a ‘rule of life.’ Let a Christian only confess, ‘I am under the law,’ and straightway Moses fastens his yoke upon him, despite all his protests that the law has lost its power.

• Ongoing Salvation Galatians tells us we no longer require to be ‘child-minded’.
• Christ has done all for our initial salvation by the “grace-promise-faith” way.
• As sons and He does all for our ongoing salvation by the same “grace-promise-faith” way.
• Christ has done all for initial salvation and He will do all for our ongoing sanctification.

• 3-times Blameless 1) Past:- that once for all salvation of the spirit: I am born again – blameless. 2) Present:- that ongoing, lifelong salvation of the soul (our new live in Christ and not the old sinful Adamic nature): I am being sanctified – blameless. 3) Future:- the soon to be salvation of the body: glorified, I will be glorified – I am being saved – I will be saved – all blameless.

• Let us remember, Now is the accepted time – now is the day of salvation.

• A Study:- Man’s Nature and Destiny Image and Likeness The triune God created man in His own image with body, soul, and a spirit, and in His grace God gave fallen man a threefold life-experience with his Creator:- salvation, sanctification, and service, and it is all through the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Fallen man comes to Jesus for salvation: for He shall save His people from their sins, Matt.1:21. As we abide in Him and He in us we are sanctified by His Spirit, for we are being conformed into His likeness.
• Behold Him Prophets announced: behold your salvation comes.
• JESUS → your salvation, Who came to save you from your sins.

• The Lord is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid. Isaiah 12:2

• Simple Trust in God Hezekiah, Gideon, and Habakkuk all trusted the Lord for their salvation.

• Hope of  Salvation Yet Mary the virgin was given the honour of honour among all women.
• But how few recognise and trust in the hope of their Salvation..

• He has promised to beautify them with salvation. It appears that the way of faith is also the way of meekness.

• And like initial salvation that is also through faith, Christian growth is also by faith – for every aspect of Salvation is God’s gift of grace, through faith.

• all His salvation..

• Casting out upon the sea of humanity gifts of salvation;a gift of hope; a gift of love; a gift of joy.

• Well, we are told in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 10 that... it was fitting for Him, for Whom are all things and by Whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, (that’s US – we are thos sons…) and to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

• Covered in Christ We need to be undergirded with His truth and remain covered in His righteousness. We should minister the gospel of peace and have trust His word implicitly – as fact. We should take the helmet of salvation and the believers’ sword, which is God’s Word.
• We are to dress in truth; righteousness; peace; faith; salvation and the Word of God.  We are to be praying always with All-Prayer and supplication in the Spirit.
• Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God – and pray.

• Gift of Grace God’s condition for salvation was to believe – believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation was His free gift of grace to everyone, who would believe in His beloved Son.  And one thing that happens to a believer is that he becomes a new creation in Christ.

• God hath chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit (2 Thess. 2:13).

• With prophets, priests, and kings – we stand still and see the salvation of the LORD.
• But hearken to the voice of the prophet, Moses: Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more, forever.

• In a great many evangelical churches the Gospel of salvation is magnificently presented, seekers are led to Christ; but the totality of the Gospel, the Gospel in its ultimate category, is by no means so clearly presented, nor maybe even understood by teacher as well as pupil.

• God’s Blessings God the Father is to be blessed for the blessings He has bestowed upon us all, and we are blessed to be the recipients of His so great salvation – in Christ Jesus.
• Gift of Grace Nothing that is in ourselves could ever qualify to be the beneficiary of God’s grace. Reconciliation with the Father is the free gift of God’s grace to those who believe. Salvation and all the blessings that accompany it is only given to those who believe: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ – and thou shalt be saved.
• Our Salvation The Father has blessed us – we are already blessed : pressed down, shaken together.. a superabundance of God’s unsearchable riches – running over beyond imagination.
• The Father’s blessing are as certain as our salvation.

• from the open simplicity of salvation, where Christ died to save us, to great anomalies and apparent contradictions concealed in a passage like Romans Chaptr 6.

• Salvation in Christ The gift of God is salvation through Christ and eternal life is a beautiful consequence. Salvation is offered to all and given to those that believe on the Son of God: for all have sinned and the wages for all is death – but God sent His Son so that all who believe in His work on Calvary would be saved.
• Redeeming Blood The wages of sin is our due, but salvation is God’s gift to all who believe – and it comes singularly through the redeeming blood of Christ. Mystery of mystery that God’s own Son should die for me – and for you.

• Having been made perfect, Christ became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him.

• For there is salvation in no one else.
• All- Sufficient The wonders of Christ sufficiency should stagger the mind and humble the heart. There is nothing we can do to get right with God except believe on the Lord Jesus – but those that accept His free gift of salvation discover Him to be sufficient.

• Great Salvation We are to know more fully the vast extent of the hope of His calling.. a hope that Paul spilled out like a casket of jewels in the verses that went before.. a great hope that is not yet fully realised in our experience until the day of Christ..
• an eternal hope that God wrote in the past tense, which speaks of utter assurance - the full vista of our great Salvation when we are transformed in His very presence.

• Great Salvation We are to know more fully the vast extent of the hope of His calling..
• an eternal hope that God wrote in the past tense – which speaks of utter assurance – the full vista of our great salvation, when we are transformed in His very presence.

• But if this foundational truth is not apprehended by faith, there is no bright, happy, emancipating sense of full and everlasting salvation. -C.H.M.

• Through it all He has been perfected i>made perfect.i>Though He was a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered; and having been made perfect (having been made complete) He became... the author of eternal salvation(Heb. 5:8,9), i>eternal redemption(Heb. 9:12).

• Every born-again believer is freely given salvation by God’s grace – through believing,  and the consequences of this is everlasting life and eternal union with Christ.
• God commended His love to us in that while we were sinners Christ died for us, and EVERYONE has a choice to accept or to reject God’s free gift of salvation.

• Pray for Understanding How we need to pray for the good news of Calvary to take root in their hearts.. that Satan won’t be permitted to steal the precious seed of the gospel sown in their hearts – that God would open their hearts to understand the hope of Christ’s salvation: for when anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. Matt.13:19

• He is our gospel of peace. He is our helmet of salvation and He is our defence and defender in whom we trust.

• And God in His wisdom designed a plan that whosoever will – may receive salvation.
• Plan of Salvation Salvation was determined upon one thing – believe on the Lord Jesus Christ: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
• Free Will Choice No one is predestined to be saved, for salvation is a free gift to be received, by faith. No one is predestined to be lost, for all men are given a free-will to accept or reject.
• Those who accept God’s free salvation, by grace through faith in Christ, are saved.
• God foreknows all who will accept salvation and all that will refuse His gift.  But foreknowledge is not predestination and predestination is not foreknowledge.
• God in His foreknowledge knows ahead of time all who will trust His Son, as Saviour.  And God uses His advanced knowledge to predestine those that believe on Christ, but all who reject salvation bring condemnation upon their own heads.
• Self Condemnation Salvation is a free-will choice to be accepted or rejected by every man and woman. Those that accept Christ as Saviour were foreknown by God and predestined by Him.
• NEVER let it be said that God predestined unbelievers to the lake of fire, for that is a lie of the enemy.  But those that refuse salvation by grace through faith choose their own destiny – and that is the truth of Scripture.

• No Partiality At four years old my little granddaughter received Jesus as her Saviour because she believed the gospel of salvation.

• God has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David, as He promised through His holy prophets long ago.Luke 1:69-70
• He was Servant and Saviour – Deliverer and King, for He was the Horn of Salvation.
• The Saviour was at the door – for God has raised up a horn of salvation for the house of His servant David… as prophets predicted, so long ago.
• Horn of Salvation So much accompanied this prophetic utterance.
• He was not party to all the plans of God for the horn of Salvation, Who was to die on a cross and be raised the third day..
• Future Prophecy But Zacharias trusted God to fulfil His promises – to raise up a horn of salvation in the house of His servant David… to save His people from their enemies and from the hand of all who hate them… to show mercy promised to the fathers and to remember His holy covenant, which he swore to Abraham… that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life – and that day is coming… very SOON.

• Words of Salvation One unbelieving criminal hardened his heart.
• For the unbeliever, today is the day of salvation of the spirit..
• Today is the day of Salvation, so harden not your Heart.

• The Staggering Cross I wonder if we will ever really appreciate what the Lord has undertaken for us. I wonder if we have even started to really comprehend the enormity of our salvation. It seems that the more we gaze at the cross the more staggering it becomes.
• Enormity of Salvation I doubt we will ever truly appreciate what the Lord has undertaken for us. I doubt we will have even started to comprehend the enormity of our salvation,  but the more we reflect on all He has done the more staggering it becomes.

• Eternal Significance God made peace with us by grace, through faith in the one perfect sacrifice for sin, and we are entrusted with a holy office – entreating the world to receive salvation.
• Gift of Salvation The Lord Himself pleads with sinners to accept His free gift of salvation. He is like a judge imploring a condemned criminal to accept a free pardon – He is like a father aching for the prodigal to cry, 'I have sinned against you'.

• Pain of the World There is much in life’s circumstances that gives the believer pain. There is much in the world in which he lives that causes him distress. The injustices of life; the sufferings of so many; the neglect of the truths of God; the rejection of the love of the Father; the compromise of the gift of Salvation; the venomous hatred of the Giver of Salvation; the ignorance of so many who have never heard His Word of Salvation. Yes, there is much in life’s circumstances that gives the believer pain.
• Hope has its foundation firmly set on the Rock of our Salvation.
• Word of Hope Let us lift up our voice and sing with the sweet Psalmist of Israel who reminds us to hope in God, and to hope in His Salvation, and to hope in His Word. Let us delight in the reassuring words of the apostle to the Gentiles, who excites us that our hope, our joy, and our crown of rejoicing, is rejoicing in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming to set up His kingdom. Our rejoicing is in Christ – in Christ alone.

• Here - the point that our salvation was procured.
• Salvation Procured Man had done what they could to this sinless One.
• His death and His resurrection combine, to complete His Work of Salvation in the victory of the Cross.

• He caused men to pen the Scriptures, outlining His gracious character and His plan of Salvation.

• The youngest Christian get hold of this and everybody else; that if we take our salvation, our conversion or anything that has to do with it as something in itself, there's going to be limitation.
• That is, we have not to take this as a gift salvation as a gift or anything else of the Christian life as a gift in itself; we have got to look at that and say: What does that signify as to the Giver?
• What does that mean as to the Source of my salvation?
• You may not grasp the point but it is of infinite importance because all progress in the Christian life and all power in Christian service comes from not the grasping, the apprehending, and the enjoyment of salvation as such, but seeing Jesus!

• Justification and Sanctification It is also vital also to rightly divide between justification and sanctification. 1) Justification – the salvation of the spirit : born into the family of God. 2) Sanctification – the salvation of the soul... living as a child of God. 1) Justification – born again once and in eternal union with Christ forever. 2) Sanctification – growing in grace throughout life.

• In chapter 3 we discover God’s plan of salvation, which is grace alone by faith alone in Christ alone – and we are saved and praise God, worshiping Him with grateful thanks.

• When the ecstasies and the emotions and all the more superficial elements in our salvation are brought under the stress of terrific opposition; when in addition to that the enemy lays on his accusations, then the foundations are discovered, and many, many breakdown.
• It is not that they are lost, if they have trusted the Lord, but, so far as their enjoyment of their salvation is concerned, they lose it.

• And such would have been the fate of all humanity if God had not designed salvation.
• so that Adam, and his fallen race, could be reunited in spirit with God – by faith..  faith in the Seed of the woman, not faith in any of the fallen progeny of Adam – salvation in the Son of Man..
• ot salvation by any other man or means or method.

• It includes our salvation -  . . .

• Justification Many teachers consider discipleship as integral to the initial stage of salvation… making discipleship a requirement of salvation – an add on to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ..” But salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
• We need to realise the biblical criteria for salvation and discipleship are different.
• but NEVER initial salvation. The concept of discipleship is often misunderstood or misappropriated by Christians. Many think that getting saved means that we automatically become Christ’s disciple – but this is not what the holy scriptures teach about disciples or discipleship.
• BUT When viewed as one called by Christ to become His disciple, to take up their cross daily and to give up all for the sake of Christ – it is a call to submission to all who believe on His name, and can never be seen in the context of Salvation.
• God’s Gift Salvation involves what God gives to us – His own life, not what we give to Him, for Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
• Salvation costs us NOTHING, but it gives us EVERYTHING.
• But Discipleship is the choice of a believer and NOT a requirement of salvation.
• Remember, in Christ’s economy it is only believers who are called to be disciples and forsake all for Christ’s sake – but it is a free-will choice to live as unto the Lord and to submit to His guidance – but never a requirement of salvation as widely taught today.

• Salvation in John The gospel of John tells us how to be saved - what we must do to be redeemed.
• Salvation in Romans The epistle to the Romans tells how to be redeemed – what we must do to be saved.
• He takes us step by step, to show us that salvation is not of the law or of works.
• He shows us that salvation is all by God’s grace, which came through Jesus.
• Salvation is by grace.
• Salvation is the free gift of grace that is given to all who believe on Christ. Paul tells us that believing is a faith choice – that is might be of grace. It means we choose to believe that God’s gift of grace is by believing on Christ. Righteousness is our portion because we trusted what God has said in His word. It isn’t believing on Christ for salvation PLUS doing something else.
• It is believing on Christ for salvation knowing that we CAN’T do anything ourself.
• But baptism is not required for salvation which is by grace alone. Water baptism may be a result of being saved – but not a condition of salvation.
• Lordship Salvation Some ministries say that in order to be saved you must make Jesus Lord of your life.
• They say that if you do not make Jesus Lord of your life, you are not properly saved – Or that if you stray from this path into carnality you have lost your eternal salvation.
• This complicates the simple message of salvation by grace alone – through faith in Christ.
• Making Jesus Lord of your life is good..  but not a requirement of scriptural salvation.
• To make Jesus your Lord is part of spiritual growth but must never be added to the simple gospel of salvation, which is a free gift of God – to all who believe on Jesus.
• Act of Consecration This beautiful act of consecration may be a result – but is not a condition of salvation Paul tells us that if it is not by faith – then it is not of grace. A carnal believer will certainly suffer loss of rewards – but never his eternal salvation, which is always and only by grace – through faith – in Christ.
• Some people add works of the flesh, works of the Law – self-imposed rules or Church regulations and a variety of ‘add-ons’ to the basic gospel of salvation by grace – through faith in Christ Jesus, while others insist on actions relating to eating or drinking – places of worship or times and seasons – spiritual fruit or gifts of the Holy Spirit.
• Free Gift of Grace It’s sad when believers are put under bondage, simply because the truth of the free gift of salvation – given to us by God’s grace, through believing on Christ has been misapplied.

• and as a helmet the hope of salvation. 1 Thessalonians 5:8

• your eternal salvation is secure, for you are forever accepted in the Beloved, but check if Christ is the main influence on you or is 'Self' manipulating your life-deeds?

• A Study:- Man’s Nature and Destiny Threefold Life The Christian life is a three-fold experience – three phases, planned by the Trinity. 1) Salvation : 2) Sanctification : 3) Service.  FIRST: we come to Christ for salvation.
• Not Guilt Sins are forever forgiven at the point of salvation.

• All By Grace When we were positionally sanctified at salvation, it was all by God’s grace. We had no part to play in our positional sanctification – all we did was to believe.

• In Christ you also, when you HEARD the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and BELIEVED in Jesus, were SEALED with the promised Holy Spirit.Ephesians 1:13
• Scripture alone provides the truth of the when, where, why, and how of our 'sealing'. 'In Christ you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Jesus, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.' Ephesians 1:13
• New Creation But the Spirit is also deeply and wonderfully involved in all aspects of salvation.
• He is the down-payment of our inheritance, which is given by God to guarantee our full salvation.

• Our salvation in Christ is the true rags to riches story.

• This is not because he hates us, for He knows the plans He has for each of us: plans for good and not for evil – to give you a promise and a hope of salvation.

• God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth (2 Thess. 2:13).

• The Work of Salvation The work of salvation is His unique work, but the sinner must believe.

• Now is the accepted day – now is the day of salvation of the ‘soul’ The Lord is coming – at His appointed time and He won’t be late.

• Stunted Growth Growing in the faith and maturing spiritually has a number of associated terms, Sanctification - Salvation of the soul - spiritual maturity - growing in the faith - growing in grace.

• We may say that our salvation was a matter of seeing ourselves as sinners.

• Mine eyes have seen your salvation.Luke 2:26
• After a lifetime of living by faith and a lifespan of watching and waiting, Simeon saw, and Simeon cried, “mine eyes have seen your salvation.” Luke 2:30
• But we too must “SEE” the salvation of God – through the spiritual eye of faith, and we must “KNOW” the promise of His Word, with the understanding of the heart.

• The Lord said to Moses, 'Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today'.Exodus 14:13
• But Moses told the Israelites to stand still– Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
• Moses told the terrified Israelites… 'Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD– which He will accomplish for you today'.
• Stand still, Christian and see the salvation of the Lord.
• it’s not good, nothing can save you now',  and like Job’s wife, some would say: 'curse God and die…'  But God would have us stand still and see the salvation of God.  Stand still for a while, if it is only to renew your strength..
• Faith hears God’s quiet counsel and calm instruction: Stand Still… and see the salvation of God.
• STAND STILL …and see the salvation of the LORD.
• Reward of Faith 'Do not be afraid…' Moses told the terrified Israelites. 'Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today, for the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever.

• At times I wished I’d had the earth-shattering salvation “experience” of many saints.

• Defeat : Prepare : Edify Such prayer is destined to DEFEAT the strategies of the enemy. Such prayer is designed to PREPARE the way for the salvation of the lost. Such prayer is designated to BUILD UP and edify the body of Christ in holy faith.

• We want to earn our salvation but God requires us to accept His free gift of salvation and mature in the faith His way.

• The only safe one is Christ, and therefore the only one who stands in God eyes is Christ, and it is as you and I, in all the brokenness, frailty, conscious weakness and humility of our own beings, by faith cling to Christ that we shall find the way out, the deliverance, the salvation.

• Horn of Salvation The prophets foretold of the coming Messiah King, Who would destroy the enemies of Israel, sit on the throne of His father David – and deliver His people from their sins.
• Both Mary in her humble song of praise and Zacharias in his glorious benediction rejoiced that the many prophecies of their coming Messiah were soon to be realised. Mary rejoiced in God my Saviour, Who would reside in her womb for nine months and Zacharias announced deliverance from their enemies and rescue from all who hated them, for God had raised up a horn of Salvation in the house of His servant David.
• God’s Plan of Salvation Both prophets and angels longed to look into God’s plan of Salvation, which He purposed in His eternal council chambers – whereby He would save His people, Israel. But in His wisdom men and angels only saw through a glass darkly.

• Law, legalism, rules, and regulations are enemies of grace and need to be identified. Law is adding something – ANYTHING to salvation, for we are saved by grace alone.
• Salvation is God’s grace…(by faith) and is not to do with our merit so we can’t brag.

• If Christ is not God, there is no Christian faith – no Salvation – no hope – no future.
• All who reject the salvation He offers have secured the wrath of God on their heads.
• Those who accept the free gift of Salvation, which God freely gives to all who trust in His Son as saviour, (by grace through faith) revere Christ as God manifest in the flesh.

• It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.Lamentations 3:26
• No work in life is as hard as waiting. Wait – wait for God.  Micah 7:7 tells us: I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

• If the deity of Jesus Christ were to be false, man’s hope of salvation would be over.

• If we trusted His word for salvation, should we not also trust Him to keep us?

• Salvation is not just to get a soul saved, but to start that soul on the way to the fullness of Christ.

• Fullness of Grace It was the fullness of grace that conceived of the plan of salvation that purposed that He’d plead the hopeless cause of unregenerate man and undertake to pay its price. It was the person of Christ Who demonstrated the fullness of grace on Calvary’s cross and out of His fullness have we all received grace upon grace upon much more grace, for in Christ is all the fullness of the Godhead bodily – the fullness of all grace.

• Rock of Salvation The Rock Whose side was smitten deeply, with a brutal sword-thrust.

• The Bad News The bad news of the biblical gospel is that all have sinned and are deserving of death. All have missed the mark – all are separated from God – all are sinners to the core. All are spiritually dead – all are without hope and without God in a world of sin. But only when the bad news of the gospel is seen in its proper context – where sin separates man from God forever – does the good news of the gospel come into view. So what is the good news of the gospel of salvation that is open to every man? What is the good news for those that believe in Jesus Christ – the Son of God?
• Our Response There is also a specific work – that Jesus Christ undertook for our Salvation.
• Full Salvation We are to rely on His work on the cross to save us from sin and death and hell.
• This is the good news of the gospel of grace which centres on Christ’s finished work on the cross – and the fact that He rose from the dead to accomplish our full salvation.

• God’s Witnesses Israel was to tell the good news of salvation to all the gentile nations of the world.

• My soul, wait thou only upon God — for my hope is in Him, my expectation is in Him, my assurance is in Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation – my fortress where I will not be shaken.Psalm 62:5

• Now, this does not only apply in the matter of our salvation in its first steps, but it comes in new revelations and calls at different times in the Christian life.

• Unique Person & Work The two natures of Christ is a simple concept and yet it contains a profound reality. Without the two natures of Jesus Christ humanity has no Saviour and no Salvation, but by faith in the unique person and work of Jesus Christ  – as Son of God and Son of Man we are given  the free gift of life – eternal life – abundant life – by God’s grace.

• It is very possible to have a wonderful grasp of the Scriptures, a comprehensive and intimate familiarity with doctrine; to stand for cardinal verities of the faith; to be an unceasing worker in Christian service; to have a great devotion to the salvation of men, and yet, alas, to have a very inadequate and limited personal knowledge of God within.

• It is just wonderful.... You are not meant just to be saved and get to heaven, to know your sins are forgiven and to have a certain number of blessings which come with salvation.

• Rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of your salvation.

• What of them who of their own volition have rejected God’s free offer of salvation?

• It is Christ in that fullness, which is more than our salvation, more than our initial salvation.

• For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.
• Titus is a man that understands that the grace of God touches every aspect of our lives – for it is the grace of God that offers us the gift of salvation, we so richly enjoy,
• Grace of God For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.

• The mystery of godliness is the gospel of Christ, unfolded in the scheme of salvation.
• It is the mystery of our faith; it is the glorious gospel of Christ; it is the amazing plan of God’s gift of salvation to you and to me.
• Jesus became the Captain of our salvation to demonstrate how to live godly in Him. He was made in the image of man, that He might destroy the works of the evil one.
• Precious is the gospel of God’s great salvation.
• He fulfilled God’s righteous requirements and so He was vindicated by the Spirit. Great is the mystery of godliness. Precious is the incarnate Word of God and His great salvation.
• Gift of Salvation The mystery of godliness is that astonishing truth given by Paul to Timothy.
• The mystery of godliness is the wonderful truth of the glorious gospel of Christ, unfolded in the scheme of Salvation.
• It is the amazing plan of God’s gift of Salvation to you and to me.

• Jesus: that redeeming name that being interpreted is God our Salvation.

• – he is the unsaved man, who needs to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for Salvation.

• God the Father God in His wisdom and grace designed the plan of salvation before the world began. God in His love and mercy purposed to save humanity before we were even created.
• This hypostatic union of Christ’s divine nature and His human nature is crucial for salvation.

• What a supernatural marvel of genesis was accomplished in our salvation.

• Eternal Salvation Just as we, rejoice to be blood-bought believers..

• God and Man If Christ was not God, there could be no salvation, for God alone is good enough to pay the price of sin.
• But unless Christ is also Man – unless Jesus is our kinsman-redeemer, there would be no salvation – for the price of sin must be made by a perfect MAN. The teachings of His incarnation and atonement for sin is impregnated in Scripture.
• Christ’s Humanity Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit, Who overshadowed the virgin Mary, and was made perfect Man. Christ was accused of being born out of wedlock.

• No other price would satisfy a holy God, and so we were bought at a price – the precious blood of our Lord and Saviour, – but the free gift of salvation to all who believe, cost God the life of His beloved Son.

• And He picked us up out of the miry clay and from the depth of our sinful depravity – and placed our feet on the Rock of our Salvation, Who is Christ.

• It is good to sing praises to the God of our Salvation, for His countless blessings.

• bringing Salvation to all people. The keynote of Isaiah’s forty years ministry was – Salvation is of the Lord, and his message called for Israel to repent of their sins… to return to the Lord and be saved., and this truth is confirmed multiple times in Scripture – that Jesus Christ is God.
• The God-Man The Creator God of Genesis is the Word made flesh, Who came to dwell among man. The Saviour God of Israel is the Man Who was nailed to a cross as God’s gift to man – for there is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved – for salvation is found in none other..
• Gift of Salvation The keynote of Isaiah’s forty years ministry was – Salvation is of the Lord and so the Son of the Most High was supernaturally begotten in the womb of a virgin – so that He could save His people from their sins and become our Wonderful Counsellor; our Mighty God; our Everlasting Father – our Prince of Peace.

• Salvation and Sanctification We come to the Lord Jesus for salvation, when we are born from above.
• We come to the Lord Jesus as a sinner and receive salvation (of the spirit).
• Spirit and Soul Through salvation (of the spirit) we become related to God as His children.
• Salvation of the spirit (or being born again) takes one moment in time.
• Salvation of the soul (or sanctification) takes the complete life-span of a believer.
• Salvation of the body (or glorification) takes effect after death,  (or at the rapture) and the apostle Paul outlines in logical and perfect detail this triplet of experience.
• Triplet of Salvation When we are born again we become the children of God.
• At glorification, we will be perfected, and the apostle Paul in his epistles outlines in a logical sequence this triad of salvation.
• Sanctification Process Salvation is open to all sinners but only those choosing to believe in Him are saved.

• Muddy Truth God has set one criterion for salvation in His word, and it is, believe on the Lord Jesus.

• em>How shall we escape (we, we escape, we Christians, we believers of this dispensation) how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? ...Our God is a consuming fire... it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.This is said to these people, these Christians; and other things like that are said.

• Salvation Choice Initial Salvation or being born of the Spirit, is a choice we all make in this life.
• Salvation is an unbeliever’s choice: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

• There can be no salvation, except by the work of the Spirit of God.
• 1st : Salvation FIRST: Salvation is secured through the Spirit at the time of rebirth, but we are given a choice and warned against resisting the Holy Spirit.
• Seven 7-fold Work There is a sevenfold work of the Spirit of God at our salvation, which can be resisted:-  1) He convicts us of our need of a Saviour (John 16:8-9) 2) He regenerates the forgiven sinner, giving a new life (Titus 3:5) 3) He baptises the new believer into the body of Christ (1Cor.12:13) 4) He indwells the new believer permanently and forever (1Cor.3:16 1Cor.6:19) 5) He anoints the new believer (2Cor.1:21 1John 2:20-21) 6) He earnests a first-fruit pledge of full fruit (Eph.1:14 Rom.8:23) and 7) He witnesses with an assurance of son-ship (Rom.8:16).

• His death and His resurrection combine to complete His Work of Salvation in the victory of the cross.

• Single Salvation There is only one salvation, which is a gracious gift of God, and is accessed by faith alone.
• But salvation is ike a beautiful flower that buds; blossoms and then gives fruits.
• These three sparkling gems unite into the unique gift of God’s grace – SALVATION.
• Three Elements Salvation is triangular, as it has three distinct tenses – a past, a present, and a future -and many passages show a clear distinction between these three grammatical forms, but Salvation also has its roots in the Creator – for it is eternal and it is indivisible.
• One Gift of Grace Salvation is ONE and yet salvation is THREE – for we were saved at a single point in time:- (justified) We are being saved through the passage of time:- (sanctification) and at a point in time, known only to God, we will be finally fully saved:- (glorified). There are not 3 salvations, but ONE gift of grace that is accessed by faith, in Christ, God’s ONE gift of salvation has THREE elements – 1) justification, 2) sanctification, and 3)glorification.
• Three Stages It is vital that believers understand the simplicity and the complexities of salvation, for a misunderstanding of salvation can cause misinterpretation of the Word of God. It is therefore essential to distinguish between these three stages of salvation.
• Justification – PAST There are many passages that distinguish between these three tenses of salvation, In 2 Timothy 1:9 we discover God saved us – a past event, that took place at a point in time, when we were saved from the penalty of sin i.e.
• eternal separation from God. Salvation in this verse is given the term justification – for we are justified by grace.
• Initial Salvation Although we were not made righteous in a practical way – for we still have an old sin nature, this was the point we were positioned “in Christ” – and imputed with His righteousness – and from then on we had a right standing with God – JUSTIFIED. This is the point in time when we were born again – by believing in the work of Christ.
• In this verse, Salvation is a done deal – a past event, when we were made righteous. Justification is a past event – and is the first of three meanings of SALVATION.
• Sanctification – PRESENT In 1 Timothy 4:16 Paul is seen reminding Timothy to persevere in the things of God – which will ensure SALVATION both for himself – and for all who hear him teach. Salvation in this verse is given the term sanctification – for we are sanctified by grace. 
• Ongoing Salvation Timothy, who was already saved in the past from the penalty of sin, is now being instructed on how to be saved in the present - from the POWER of sin, for he, like all believers, is in the process of being saved in his Christian life – SANCTIFICATION.
• All His children are positionally sanctified – but not all are being practically sanctified. The final element of Salvation by grace is the glorification of our bodies, and when this third element of salvation is complete, we will be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.
• Salvation here relates to glorification – and we are also glorified by grace. The apostle John gives a rare look at a verse glimpsing all 3 elements of salvation.
• Finished Salvation We know that when He appears, we will be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.
• There is only one salvation, which is a gracious gift of God – accessed by faith alone.
• We’re justified by grace; sanctified by grace and glorified by grace – through faith in Christ, and these 3 sparkling gems unite into God’s unique gift of grace – SALVATION.

• The Godhead created Adam with spirit, soul, and body, for a threefold life:- a life of salvation, sanctification, and service.
• Salvation by Him: Romans 3:21 to Romans 5:21.
• All By Grace We come to the Lord Jesus – for salvation (which is all by grace. We live in the Lord Jesus – for sanctification (which is all by grace). We work for the Lord Jesus – in service (which is all by grace)
• Resist or Relate Some fail to even come to Him for salvation, as they resist His Holy Spirit, Some start the process of sanctification, but carnal lusts grieve the Holy Spirit.
• The free gift of life… of salvation is offered to all sinners: for the wages of sin is death, but God’s gift of life is to those who believe.
• The free gift of life (of salvation),  is offered to those that believe in the Son.
• Yet Christ says that salvation is not for those who believe about Him but those who believe in Him (believe on Him) “Believing” does not necessarily establish a saving relationship.
• Salvation is not for those who believe about Him but those who believe on Him: for as many as believe on His name, He gave power to become His sons.
• Similarly, salvation of the spirit is the first step on the journey of an everlasting story, and every man and woman is offered a role in this immortal drama.

• Now is the time and the hour to awake from our sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.Romans 13:11
• As Paul told the Romans, “now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.”
• We are to encourage others to be awake, alert, ready and prepared to meet our Lord – prepared all-day; any-day; every-day – for our salvation is drawing ever closer.

• What salvation has done is not merely forgiving me my sins; forgiveness, cleansing, justifying, applies to my responsibility and guilty condition in the first Adam; but salvation applies to my standing in the Last Adam.

• If, according to John 3:16, salvation is a matter of whosoever, the Lord's presence and true worship, according to Matthew 18:20, is wheresoever.

• Very few of the fundamentals of our faith came through Christ’s twelve apostles  – (note: by fundamentals I mean the foundations of salvation – being saved).

• Central Crux Christ is the centre crux that floods the pages of the inerrant God-breathed Scriptures. Christ is the human heart that beats at the hub of history – the key-stone of humanity. Christ is the source and circumference of Salvation – our living, breathing Redeemer. Christ is very God of very God; not created : of One Being with both Father and Spirit.

• He has raised up a horn of salvation for us, in the house of His servant David – as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, who’ve been since the world began, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hands of all who hate us”… Luke 1:68-79

• His living streams bring the glorious hope of salvation to all who drink of Him, just as redemptive salvation flooded into the life of the woman of Samaria, the moment that she believed His Word and obeyed His command.
• Similarly, once saved – sanctifying salvation streams into the maturing believer – the one who walks not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

• God teaches that salvation is through the shedding of blood..
• Had Christ lived 2000 years His combined good works could not recompense for sin, for salvation is through the shedding of blood.

• He also shall be my salvation. Job 13:15-16 While in Revelation 2:10 John told us: Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

• Liberating Gospel It seems that most believers stop their pursuit of salvation when they are saved. Truly salvation is the liberation from sin and the loosing from bondage. Salvation is the free gift for all that believe in Jesus Christm Who died and rose again..
• And years pass and decades roll by and he looks back to that day of his salvation when faith was shared with friends and family and some joined and others refused.
• Pursuit of Salvation But the first flush of joy fades as life and its problems start to invade the blue skies.
• And our first love is left as other, more important issues start to occupy the mind – and pressures invade and circumstances press in and salvation loses its appeal.
• Why do Christians so often start so well, and yet finish their salvation at this point?
• Why, when the urgent, repetitive message of the Lord is – overcome in life? Well, it seems that most believers stop their pursuit of salvation when they are saved.
• Lifelong Process One reason is that there is a misunderstanding of 'salvation'.
• We can't lose our salvation but we stray from a spiritual walk into a carnal walk.  We can leave our first love of Christ and be enticed back to the ways of the world – or we can fall from grace, trying to please God through our own good works.
• It is a message of salvation – a message of sanctification – a message of walking in spirit and truth.

• Day of Salvation Life is like a cloud of steam.
• Psalm 90:6 But Today is the accepted hour. Today is the day of Salvation. Today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. Today you have been ordained for the service of the Lord.
• Service To God For the Word of the Lord endures forever, and the Name of the Lord endures forever, and today you have been ordained for the service of the Lord. Today is the day of salvation – harden not your heart.

• Today is the day of salvation – and He said, Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.

• Two Perspectives From one point of view, salvation is so simple that a little child can understand.
• From another perspective salvation is deeply profound and taxes comprehension.
• Paul summed up the bottom-line truth of salvation in a few simple words in Acts: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.  Acts 16:31
• In another, the more familiar we become with it, the richer we become spiritually – the more we understand the riches of salvation, the greater our awe and wonder.
• All-Embracing Word The word ‘salvation’ is one all-embracing word that unites a variety of concepts; redemption; rebirth; justification; security; sanctification; growth; maturity; foreknowledge; election; predestination; righteousness; glorification; grace; reconciliation; new-life-in-Christ; new creation; adoption; saved by grace; born-from-above; baptised into Christ; accepted-in Him; citizens of heaven - and more.
• Multihued Rainbow The single jewel of Salvation has many faces – each a gemstone in its own right.
• Individually, each aspect of salvation embraces its own particular message of truth.
• Together they sing a symphony of salvation, in praise of the riches of God’s grace.
• Brands of Glory Each aspect of salvation has its own particular brand of glory and magnificence, and each needs to be studied and understood for the riches and truth it contains. Yet together they combine to demonstrate the enormity of God’s grace towards us.
• Together each component of salvation starts to unfold the fullness of God’s plan.
• Misunderstandings Salvation is often misunderstood, causing many to be left bewildered or bemused. Salvation can also be distorted by untaught teachers or wolves in sheep’s clothing.
• Attending a denominational church can distort one's understanding of salvation.
• Seminaries students often graduate with conflicting interpretations of salvation.
• Facets of Salvation The crux of the matter is that every aspect of salvation is dependent on God’s grace.
• All facets of Salvation are by the power of God and because of the grace of God.  All God does in redemption, rebirth, justification; and sanctification is by grace.
• All Of God This concept is often rejected by many, as it conflicts with much teaching today, but the truth of the matter is that man can contribute NOTHING to salvation.
• Man cannot add to any facet of salvation, because it is all by God’s gracious power.
• Man is not able to contribute a thread or shoe-latchet to the riches of His salvation.
• The word ‘salvation’ is an all-embracing word that touches a variety of concepts.
• All God’s Work How sad that so many believers strive in their own strength to live a godly life, when all that is needed is to yield to the power of God working within them. But the truth is that salvation from the penalty and power of sin is ALL God’s work.
• All merit belongs to God, and man cannot contribute ANYTHING to salvation.
• Indeed, God will not accept any aspect of Salvation any other way than by GRACE.
• God’s Divine Power The fact is that Salvation depends on God’s divine standard and His divine power.
• All aspects of salvation require something more than our inept, human resources.
• Simple Salvation Salvation is so simple that a little child can understand.
• for every facet of salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
• Each aspect of salvation embraces its own particular message of biblical truth - but from start to finish Salvation is God working in us – and it is all His grace.

• The Ten Commandments require no life of prayer, no Christian service, no evangelism, no missionary outreach, no Gospel preaching, no life and walk in the Spirit, no union with the Lord Jesus Christ, no fellowship of saints, no hope of salvation, and no hope of heaven. -L.S.C.

• For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly lusts so that we might live sensible, honest, and godly lives in this present age-Titus 2:12
• Humanity was endowed with a free-will to submit to God’s rule OR to reject Him – man can believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation OR remain in condemnation.
• For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly lusts so that we might live sensible, honest, and godly lives in this present age.

• If it becomes Him for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings, who are we that we should expect easily to bring many sons to glory?

• Mystery of Salvation Meditate on the mystery of His triad of grace: Salvation, Sanctification, and Glorification..

• God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth (2 Thess. 2:13).

• Greater zeal for the salvation of sinners, and the amelioration of the condition of mankind, never was more manifested than at present (1850).
• Zeal for the purity of divine truth has not kept pace with zeal for the salvation of sinners. -A.C.

• Paul’s Challenge Paul challenges those given initial salvation by grace through faith with these words: are ye so foolish, having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?  He is saying, having begun ‘the grace-promise-faith way’ are ye now made perfect by ‘the works-merit-law way?’ Many believers aren’t properly schooled in these two contrasting ways of living the Christian life and fall into the works-merit–law trap.
• All believers are born-again the ‘grace-promise-faith’ way, for salvation is simply: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved – by grace thru faith, which is a done deed.

• Those who believe on Jesus for salvation are saved, and brought into union with Him by the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Christianity is totally opposed to Judaism, and any mixture of the two must result in the loss of all that is vital in the present plan of salvation.

• Jesus the Jew Jesus was born a Jew and lived His life in full accordance with the Jewish law, for the law, promises, prophecies and salvation must all come through the Jews. And so on the eighth day, after the custom of the law, Jesus was brought to the temple, and there He was seen by Simeon, and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

• It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait, for the salvation of the LORD.Lamentations.3:25

• A Worthy Calling Our initial salvation when we were born again is a gift of grace – received by faith. Our Christian walk as we grow in grace is also a gift of grace – received by faith. And as we grow in grace and in a knowledge of Him, so we will reflect our Lord – and we will walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which we have been called.

• Wise Preparation Noah heeded the word of the Lord and made ready an ark of salvation for his family. Israel were ready to move camp in the wilderness, as soon as God’s pillars appeared. The prudence of wise preparation is a repeated warning in the book of Proverbs.
• Accepted Time Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation 2Cor.6:2.

• 2 Verbs for Wash Why did Christ deliberately use two different verbs for the word WASH. The Greek word ‘louo’ means a full cleansing – like a full priestly cleansing,The Greek word ‘nipto’ means a partial, ongoing wash – like a priests’ daily wash – and the two words refer to initial-salvation and ongoing-sanctification.

• 3 Elements to Salvation But Scripture clearly tells us that there are three elements to Salvation.
• So why is sanctification omitted in Romans 8:30? We read:- those He called He also justified, and those He justified, He also glorified. Why is sanctification omitted in this verse – when it is an integral part of salvation?
• Past Present and Future Justification was the element of salvation that freed us from the PENALTY of sin.
• Glorification is the element of salvation that frees us from the PRESENCE of sin.
• And Sanctification is the element of salvation that frees us from the POWER of sin.
• Grace through Faith Well, every part of salvation is a gift of God’s grace that is accessed by faith. God does it all and we contribute nothing – all we had to do was to freely believe. Once we believed that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God Who died to pay the price for our sins…..

• Findlay… The cloud, shading and guiding the Israelites from above, and the sea making a path for them through its midst and drowning their enemies behind them, were glorious signs to “our fathers” of God’s salvation; together they formed a washing of regeneration, inaugurating the national covenant life; as it trod the miraculous path between upper and nether waters.

• Suffering and Salvation Whatever form of suffering God’s training takes, it will do His work in each one.
• The Lord selects suffering that will bring His children to the fullness of Christ and like their Lord, to make their salvation perfect through sufferings.

• They had been entrusted with the oracles of His coming. They had the prophets, the law, the word of truth, the hope of salvation. And yet we read that: He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own people received Him not.

• Only Way It all centres around believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and His work on the cross, for apart from Calvary there is no forgiveness of sin – no salvation – no heaven. Man’s assumption is inevitably that I must win my way to heaven by my good deeds. God’s criteria is believe on the finished work of Christ crucified – and nothing else. The one point men seem to forget is that we are all sinners and estranged from God. Sin is the one thing that separates man from God.
• Moody that once said: “I believe hundreds of Christians have not got the assurance of Salvation – just because they are not willing to take God at His Word” 

• Salvation Truths Substitution truths are generally wonderfully understood – He died for me. Identification truths are a much more difficult concept – I died in Him. So what are substitution truths and identification truths?

• Initial Salvation Faith is necessary for the initial salvation of the spirit.
• God so loves… that whosoever believes shall be saved… John 3:16, for salvation, is being born of the Holy Spirit and is accessed through faith.
• Faith is needed for salvation, for sanctification, and for service and faith is essential if we are to please God in our daily living.
• Faith is necessary for the continuing salvation of the soul.
• John tells us that post-salvation sins need to be confessed before God.
• Post-salvation forgiveness is dependent on confession.
• In 1John 1:9 we read that: if we (we who are saved) confess our sins (our post-salvation sins), He is faithful and just to forgive us our (post-salvation) sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (all known and unknown unrighteousness).

• Christ’s Witness John, whose name means: God is gracious, bore witness of Jesus: God is salvation. John was to point to the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world. John was a witness to the grace of God – that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. John was sent as a moon to reflect the Son – the only true Light of the world.

• Examples of such ‘words’ could be carnal; flesh; spiritual; salvation; repent; confess; world; condemnation.
• Here is one example: In John chapter 3 we are told by Christ that there is NO condemnation in salvation: for we read, God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.
• This is clearly a passage on initial salvation – a passage connected with being born-again.
• The context in Romans is not one of initial salvation.
• The context in Romans is the ongoing, sanctifying salvation of believers, where God deals with us as His children.

• Being made perfect, Jesus became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him.
• Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

• There is nothing we can do that can earn our salvation or trigger His approval, other than being covered by the blood of the Lamb and clothed in the righteousness of Christ - which can only be ours by God's grace through faith in Christ.
• It is only by grace through faith that we are being conformed into the likeness of God's beloved Son... and by His grace, we have been promised an immortal body and innumerable, additional spiritual blessings by simply trusting Him for our salvation - by believing in the sacrificial death, burial, and Resurrection of Christ.

• His words were not designed to exalt his person, position, or status, for his collective writings emphasise that our great salvation is only because of the amazing grace of God and His unfathomable mercy that saved us through faith in the sacrificial death and glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
• It was not because of their goodness that they were called 'saints', but because of their great salvation through faith in Christ.

• He urged them to fix their hope completely on the grace they received when they first heard, believe the glorious gospel of grace, and understand their salvation was through faith in Jesus Christ alone.
• He encouraged them to be obedient children to the truth of the gospel and not to be conformed to the former lusts of the flesh, in which they engaged ignorantly before their great salvation.
• We are to remember that at the point of our salvation we were declared righteous in God's eyes, through faith, and have a duty to continue in holiness of heart, by standing on the truth of the gospel and allowing our conduct to reflect the character of Christ - through the power of the indwelling Spirit.
• He purified our soul at the point of salvation and continues to purify it day by day, as we confess our sin, keep ourselves in fellowship with Him and obey the truth of His Word.

• They placed a pagan 'Asherah pole' inside the holy Temple of God and even sacrificed their own children on the satanically inspired altar, to a blood-thirsty god, called Molech.God's offer of salvation, by grace through faith in Him, has lasted many thousands of years, but a day of deep darkness and righteous judgement is coming on the whole earth, when His wrath will be poured out on a God-despising, Christ-hating, sinful world.
• He will avenge and protect all who honour His name BUT will severely judge those who reject the truth, distort His Word, turn aside from His offer of salvation, and engage in the wicked ways of the world.May we readily eschew evil and reject the enticing ways of the world, which seek to turn our hearts away from the true and living Lord and entrap our lives in the lust of the flesh, the pride of life and the destructive ways of the world.

• And so we are urged to move on from the initial salvation message, where we are justified by faith, and are urged to grow in a knowledge of our Lord and Saviour - as we press on to spiritual maturity.
• We are to grow from being a baby Christian, whose main focus is the importance of repenting of our pre-salvation sins and bathing in the joy of being saved, into becoming a mature believer, where we develop an abiding fellowship with the Father, by walking in the light of His glorious truth and being continuously cleansed through His sufficient grace - as we rest in our Saviour's love.
• At salvation, we are given ALL that we need for life and godliness - as recorded in the Word of God.

• The power of the grave was insufficient to keep the dead body of the sinless Son of Man entombed in the heart of the earth, for in Him was LIFE; the eternal, resurrected life that becomes our life when we trust in Him for salvation.

• And Romans is a book that systematically and logically takes us into a fuller understanding of God's plans and purposes for salvation, redemption, sanctification, glorification, and all that accompanies the riches of God's grace towards us who were once dead in trespasses and sins, but have now been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
• There is no excuse for unbelief, for now, as the prophets foretold through the command of the eternal God, His message of salvation by grace through faith in Christ is made known to all nations everywhere so that they too might believe and be saved.

• He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with a baptism of Fire. He will baptise you with 1) the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (unto salvation) and 2) a baptism with Fire (unto damnation).
• At the moment of salvation, a person immediately undergoes a baptism - a DRY, SPIRITUAL Baptism - the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, which places them into the Body of Christ. 
• Johns's message is a sobering one and every one of us should praise God for our great salvation.

• They were more concerned about their physical and temporal needs than their spiritual health and eternal salvation.

• The Word of God not only tells us of our salvation by grace through faith in Christ as Saviour, but the Bible tells us the end from the beginning.

• Praise God that we can receive salvation through Him – by faith.

• He longed that those who were dead in their trespasses and sins would be attracted to Jesus, and find their great salvation in His Person and work.

• And so we read: He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honours Me; And to him who orders his way aright, I shall show the salvation of God.

• Instead of singing psalms of joy to the Lord and shouting joyfully to the Rock of their salvation, the people of Israel engaged in complaining and murmuring against their God.

• No matter how amazing the gospel of Christ may be, unless lost souls are told the truth about sin and salvation... and unless the good news of the gospel of grace is proclaimed universally, men and women, boys and girls, rich and poor, Jews and Gentiles alike, will remain dead in their trespasses and sins.
• And how will they hear about His message of salvation without a preacher?

• He talks of God's gracious offer of salvation and walks us through the treasures of justification and sanctification, election and adoption, and he opens up the wonderful identification truths where Christ's resurrected life is imparted to us and we are positioned in Him.
• Paul traces the great plan of redemption from the first man-Adam to the last Adam-Jesus; from the old creation in the flesh to the new creation in the spirit; from the old sin nature to the new life in Christ; from the curse of the Law to the freedom of grace, and points out that salvation is by grace through faith in Christ alone and not by personal merit or through works of the flesh.
• These and other foundational facts were carefully laid by Paul in His letter to the Romans, to show that Israel would be set aside during this Church age because they heard the truth but rejected the message of salvation.
• Did Israel understand the message of salvation? Yes, is Paul's emphatic reply.
• It was Moses who foretold that Israel would be provoked to jealousy and anger by a rag-tag group of foolish Gentile believers who would receive the free gift of salvation from the God of Israel, by faith, before they did, and it was Isaiah who foretold that Israel's Messiah was also to be a light to lighten the Gentile nations: And that they would become God's children as a result of Israel's transgression, rebellion and apostasy.
• But Paul also goes on to rejoice that in His goodness and grace, God's offer of salvation continues to be extended to Israel and that His punishment for their sin will not remain forever.

• As Paul points out, Israel may have stumbled, but by God's grace, they did not fall and as a result of their terrible transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
• And so for a season (during the Church age, the current dispensation of grace), Israel has been set aside, but as a result of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
• And the privileges that the Church has received, is to provoke the nation of Israel to jealousy so that they too will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ Who is salvation to Jew and Gentile alike.
• God's plan to set up Christ on the throne of His Father David still stands, for salvation comes through Jesus, the promised SEED of the woman, the promised SEED of Abraham, the promised SEED of David.

• There is no other name given under heaven whereby we must be saved, for salvation is from the Lord and justification rests on the precious blood of Christ.
• What a marvellous matter to know that the gift of eternal life, which we received at the moment of our salvation, is not conditional on our own steadfastness but on the truth of the Word of the Lord and the faithfulness of God's unchangeable character: For His name's sake.

• They are a new creation in Christ, and they have been called and chosen to be His sons and daughters simply because they believe on the only begotten Son of God and the finished work of salvation that was carried out by Him, on Calvary's Cross.

• May our hearts truly rejoice in the God of our salvation and may we lift up our voices together in continuous thanksgiving and praise.

• The life-blood of a little animal, that did nothing wrong, became to Adam and his wife, their 'salvation', for God covered their guilt with its blood-stained body, for without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness of sin.
• Let us rejoice greatly in the Lord for as long as we live and exult in the God of our salvation, for He has clothed me with garments of salvation.

• The righteousness requirements of the Law were not given as a means of salvation, for its standard is unattainable, so much so that no man living could ever be justified by it.

• He knew that His anointed Messiah would be born into the human race as a babe in Bethlehem and be despised and rejected at His first advent, God knew that Christ's sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection would secure salvation for all who believe.
• JESUS is the Rock of our salvation, and whosoever shall fall on this Stone shall be broken before the Lord (i.e.

• But how gracious Jesus was to these two troubled souls, for He then opened up the Scriptures to them and gave them an exclusive Bible study on His mission and ministry, His Person and Work, His death and His Resurrection, and God's entire plan of salvation for the redemption of mankind.

• From start to finish, the book of Galatians outlines the deep concern that the apostle Paul showed for the Christians in Galatia who, having been saved by grace through faith in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins, and having been born from above, chose to give up the glorious liberty they had in Christ (salvation, through the hearing of faith) for the meritorious work and legalistic bondage from which they had been set free.
• They chose to turn from the law of grace back to the law of sin and death and to work for their salvation.
• Having been delivered from slavery to sin by faith and having been released from the curse of the Law, they returned to a works based salvation!
• If salvation is gained any way other than by grace through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, then Christ died in vain!

• No surprise that the disciples could not bear these identification truths at that time for like us, they had to discover the inability of the old self life and that only the new life in Christ, which we all receive at Salvation can live a godly life.

• As we ponder the gentle kindness, faithful protection, and loving nurture we receive, moment by moment, should we not glory that we are known so intimately by the God of our salvation, the Saviour of our soul, and that He is with us every step of the way? 

• It is a process that starts at salvation, continues through life, and at His appointed time will be used by God for His eternal glory. 

• May we be increasingly aware of the days in which we live and take every opportunity to tell others that salvation is by grace through faith in Christ before this terrible time of Tribulation.

• Paul rejoiced greatly when a lost sinner heard the gospel, and turned from sin to Christ for salvation.
• Those who faithfully ministered to US will rejoice at our salvation and we will be part of their Crown of Rejoicing.
• Together we will be part of a great company in heaven that are rejoicing because of our salvation and the salvation of others.
• Today is the day of salvation.

• The chapter goes on to talk specifically about Noah: By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

• Paul was certainly filled with joy knowing that there were many who were continuing his work and preaching Christ from a sincere love of the Lord and a desire to tell forth the glorious message of salvation by grace through faith in Him, but he also rejoiced over the ministry of those whose motive in preaching was rooted in envy and strife.
• May we never allow wrong motives or fleshly attitudes to influence the calling that God has laid on each one of our lives, rather, let us rejoice that the good news of God is being proclaimed to lost souls who need to hear the glorious gospel of salvation, by grace through faith in Christ.

• Let our every thought be taken captive to the Lord so that we may remain in sweet fellowship with the God of our salvation, for when the eyes of our heart are fixed on Him in grateful thanks for His work on Calvary's Cross and the redemptive work within our own lives, we who are forgiven much will love much.

• For the unbeliever, the reality of the fires of hell, the Great White Throne Judgement-seat of God and the terrible Lake of eternal Fire, should never be ignored, for it is the shocking reality for those who reject God's offer of salvation and do not believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God.For the believer who has trusted Christ for their salvation, the fires of God's judgement are equally serious.

• Indeed, he reminds us that the world hates us, simply because we are His children - for they have rejected His gracious offer of salvation, spurned His only begotten Son, and reduced the inerrant Word of God to a foolish fairy tale that they regard with amusement, disdain, or sarcasm.
• There are only two types of people on earth today... the sinners and the saved... those who reject God's offer of salvation and live in direct opposition to His will and those that have accepted His gift of salvation.

• And we do this as we trust in the Lord with all our heart, for He is the Rock our Salvation and the Foundation upon which we stand.

• God used Israel and the Mosaic Law to demonstrate the inability of the Law to provide the salvation that sinful man desperately needed.

• And we discover that Benjamin, Israel's youngest son, was the forefather of Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles who penned so much of New Testament Scripture that clarifies God's plan of salvation, teaches us His objective for the Church, and guides us into all truth.Issachar and Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher, complete the sons of Jacob, and together, these twelve men are the founding fathers of the nation of Israel.
• May we never forget that those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse them will themselves be cursed, for salvation comes through the Jews – for salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ, our God and our Saviour.

• The Lord Jesus was born to become the representative Man, upon Whose shoulders rested the future of humanity and the salvation of the human race.

• Although the Lord chose the Jewish race to be His people through whom the Messiah would be born, their birthright did not provide any exemption from God's directive that salvation, which is a gift of grace, received by faith alone in Christ Jesus alone as detailed in Scripture.
• Although Israel was identified as God's chosen nation through their covenant agreement with the Lord and the sign of circumcision given through Abraham - salvation for Jew and Gentile alike is given by God's grace - through faith in Christ Jesus.
• While salvation comes THROUGH the Jewish nation, it is only through faith in the Jewish Messiah that an individual soul can be redeemed from the slave market of sin.
• While Paul admitted that having a Jewish heritage was a great advantage and that there was a clear distinction between God's relationship with Israel and His dealings with the rest of mankind, he also made it clear that every member of the Jewish race was equally guilty before God and needed salvation just like Gentiles - and Romans 3 makes this point very clear.
• Paul knew that unbelieving, religious-minded Jews had developed the false notion that their heritage guaranteed their salvation, yet they had rejected the true gospel of God and become an apostate nation - and Paul found it necessary to expose this false teaching.
• The testimony of David, which is quoted in Romans, establishes a truth we all need to understand - that God is justified in His dealings with sinful man, for we are all guilty creatures in need of His gift of grace for our salvation... and any presumptuous accusations that men may make against God's Word or His Character will simply condemn the sinner as a liar and justify the Lord in His righteousness. 

• Even in the terrible Tribulation period, God's offer of salvation is open, and many will be saved during this time.As John watched the awesome scene in heavenly places, he saw countless martyred, Tribulation saints resurrected to life.
• However, all those who rejected God’s offer of salvation before the Cross and throughout the Church-age, as well as during the 7-year Tribulation, will be confined in hell for a further 1000 years and must partake in the SECOND resurrection – the terrible resurrection of all unbelievers at the Great White Throne of the living God, which will result in eternal separation from God.Let us increase our efforts to tell the good news of the gospel of Christ to as many as we can, before the great and terrible Day of the Lord, for the Word of God through the revelation of Jesus Christ will not fail.

• Let us be part of Paul's 'others' as we share the good news of the Christ crucified, risen, and ascended for the redemption of mankind - so that whosoever believes on Him for salvation, will not perish but have everlasting life.

• To blaspheme the Holy Spirit in this way is to reject the one and only means of salvation, for He is the One Whose witness points to Christ Jesus as Saviour.
• It is God's will that in everything we give thanks and glory to the God of our salvation, through Christ the Lord.
• And it is God's will that having trusted in Christ for salvation that we present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to the Lord, which is our spiritual worship.

• And the gift of God that the Lord Jesus spoke of to this woman-at-the-well is His free gift of salvation, which is openly available to all who will accept God's gracious offer of redemption and be cleansed of their sin, by faith in Christ.
• And God clothed Himself in human flesh so that He could go through the hostile country of Samaria in order to offer salvation to a disparate group of lost and helpless sinners.

• Like Christians in the early Church, we also need to know that there is a resurrection unto life for the believer, and a resurrection unto death for those that have rejected God's gracious offer of salvation by grace through faith in Christ.

• It teaches the truth, opens the way of salvation, warns of danger and comforts us in our sorrows.

• God rebuked the people of Israel for their apostasy and idolatry, pronouncing a severe judgement upon them and causing Amos the prophet to mourn that His people were destroyed for lack of knowledge of the God of Israel, while bewailing their disinterest in the God of their salvation.

• Paul never wanted anyone to become complacent in their faith and always made a point of reminding others of the joy we have in Christ, and so his letter to this 'son in the faith began by reminding him of God's amazing goodness and grace, the privileged peace we have with God through our great salvation, and the perfect peace of God that can guard our heart when our mind is stayed on Him.

• Christians have obtained salvation by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and are not appointed to wrath, but these concerned believers thought that the Day of the Lord had already started.

• Our faithful God is the one who fed the hungry multitude, provides comfort for the broken-hearted, gives succour to the weak, strength to the weary, hope to the afflicted, and salvation to all who trust in Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins - for while we were yet sinners, God in His grace provided a Kinsman-Redeemer to save His people from their sins.

• In that day they will look on Him Whom they pierced and remember, repent, and return to the Lord God of their salvation.

• But in every respect, the Lord Jesus fulfilled the Law of God which was given to Israel through Moses, and He kept the statutes of the Lord in order to remove the curse of the Law from those who would believe on His name and trust in Him for salvation by grace through faith in His sacrificial work at Calvary.

• He is our Peace and our Hope, He is our Provider and Protector, He is Life and Light, He is Shepherd and Shield, and in Him is salvation.

• No surprise that we are called upon to make a joyful noise and sing praises to the God of our salvation, for the Lord is good, His mercy endures forever, and His faithfulness lasts throughout every generation.
• Let us bless the God of our salvation, for He is good, His lovingkindness is everlasting, and His faithfulness stretches into the eternity of eternities.

• Gentile believers were to become Jewish proselytes and were to be circumcised, adhere to the Law, participate in the feasts, keep the Sabbath day sacred, and worship the Lord in His holy Temple.New Testament believers, however, have been instructed to GO and share the good tidings of salvation with lost men and women, making disciples of all nations.

• His Word stands fast forever and His truth never changes, but as we journey through the 66 books of the Bible, we see a beautiful unfolding of God's gracious character and plan of salvation as we trace the scarlet story of redemption through its precious pages.

• But Israel rejected their King, and for 2000 years this age of grace has been an acceptable year of the Lord, the day of salvation, the dispensation of grace. 

• But even in the midst of such times, David could stand firm on the Rock of his salvation, seeking God's face, singing praises to the Lord.
• And from this secure position inside God's tabernacle, David could write the words which are as relevant to us today as the day in which he penned them: The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom should I fear?

• Before salvation he could boast that as to the Law, he was a Pharisee; as to zeal, he was a persecutor of the Church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, he was blameless.

• This verse has caused much controversy and is used as a proof-text that 'water baptism' is necessary for salvation, but that is not what this verse teaches.
• Baptismal regeneration is unbiblical, and when this verse is read in its correct context and in conjunction with every other passage on salvation, the 'baptism' that saves is clearly Christ's 'baptism unto death'. 
• When a thorough examination of soteriology (the doctrine of salvation) is undertaken, the meaning of 'baptism' is clarified, an understanding of types and their antitypes is appreciated, confusion is checked, and the meaning of this verse become clear.
• The reference to 'the baptism which now saves us' in this verse, is not implying that 'water baptism' or 'spirit baptism' is the means of salvation.
• Spirit baptism is the result of faith in Christ while water baptism is a illustrative picture of the inner cleansing of the heart at salvation.

• In a time when food was regularly offered to Roman gods and sacrifices made to pagan idols, Paul knew that believers, who had engaged in these ungodly practices before their salvation, were often repulsed by the thought of eating food that had been sacrificed to these false gods, while other Christians understood that it was not eating the food that defiles a man, but his attitude of heart.
• While food and drink is not offered in pagan temples today, as in the days of Paul, there are many practices, religious observances, martial arts or various trends and customs that are not sinful, but could cause the one who has abandoned these traditions from their pre-salvation days, to be offended or distressed if a fellow-believer engages in them.
• Salvation, or entrance into the kingdom of God, is by grace through faith in Christ and has nothing to do with eating, drinking, or any other rites, rituals or observances.
• Salvation is a condition of the heart - a heart that has trusted Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.
• Our great salvation does not depend on what we eat, drink or do.
• Our salvation depends on faith in what Christ has done for us.

• The judgement being made in this passage is not connected with salvation.
• Jesus did not say blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain salvation, nor is James implying that believers that demonstrate a lack of mercy will lose their salvation.
• Salvation is not gained by the one who is merciful and salvation is not lost when someone lacks mercy.
• Salvation is a free gift of God's grace to all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
• A Christian who shows no mercy towards others will not lose his salvation, but will be judged by God and suffer loss of reward in the ages to come, as Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 3.

• Oh, man has been blessed beyond compare because of the gracious pardon that we have received and the eternal salvation that we have been given, by grace through faith in Him.

• He shone His redeeming Light into the hearts and lives of all who trust in His name for salvation.
• Jesus reminded us that while He was on earth, He was the light of the world, but His light still shines in the darkness of this fallen globe for we, who have trusted Him for our salvation, have been transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, and the Light of His radiance continues to be reflected out to lost souls through the witness of the Church.

• The Bible tells us that all unsaved people are, by nature, children of wrath and disobedience, until the time when they trust in the Lord Jesus for salvation by grace through faith in Him.
• However, there are those who willingly reject the truth and turn their back on the only means of salvation: For salvation is found in no one else but Jesus Christ, for there is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved.

• The Holy Spirit enriches us by guiding us into all truth relative to sound doctrine, salvation, sanctification, glorification, and all that streams from the amazing grace of God.

• Our trust is in the God of our salvation, for He has given us His assurance that every accusing tongue will be silenced, and every judgemental charge against us shall be condemned.

• And this unschooled, old fisherman, presented many quotes from God's Word and fluently expounded the gospel of salvation, about which the very prophets who prophesied did not understand, yet longed to know what it meant.
• Peter's heartfelt desire was that those who had trusted Christ for salvation knew from the depths of their soul the incredible value of the gracious gift that was theirs through faith in Christ Jesus: This precious treasure is for you who believe, he declared.
• If the Father places such significance on Jesus Christ as the Founder and Foundation of His perfect plan of salvation and identifies Him in the Scriptures as the 'chief Cornerstone' of life, should we not consider Christ and all that He is?

• We are blessed to receive our great salvation, our position in Christ, the indwelling Spirit, and spiritual gifts and graces.
• But we are charged to set our hearts on things above, for the spiritual blessings that are already ours, have been given in superlative-abundance and unconditional-grace to all who have trusted Christ for salvation.

• Some suggest that Jesus is setting out a message of salvation; live this way and you will be saved and go to heaven.
• His teaching in those early days was only addressed to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, especially those who had repented of the nation's past sin of apostasy, through John's 'baptism of repentance'.Knowing that the message of salvation is: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, indicates that this 'Sermon on the Mount' is not addressed to unbelievers, but a message to those who are already believers in God. Christ's 'Sermon on the Mount' points out that sinful actions are conceived in the heart, and that a false 'righteousness' is hidden within man's fallen nature.
• The Law cannot forgive the sins of a sinner, but is a school-master that points lost sinners to Christ, in Whom is life and light, hope and salvation.It demonstrates that godly living emanates from an inner attitude of a changed heart that trusts in God for salvation.

• Salvation in the Old and New Testaments is always given to the unworthy sinner by God's grace, through faith in His Word.
• Salvation is a free gift of God's grace, which comes through trusting in the incarnate Word of God Whose shed blood at Calvary paid the full and final penalty for sin: For without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

• Salvation through faith in Christ is the great gift of life.
• As we consider the beauty of all that Christ has done for us, His gift of eternal salvation and the eternal security we find in Him, our rejoicing heart travels to Romans 12, where Paul calms each doubting heart with that memorable truth: Who will separate us from the love of Christ?

• Israel will be brought to repentance and cry out for salvation.

• The old sin nature has to remain in the place of death, nailed to the Cross, replaced with a new life, the resurrected life of Christ - a new nature that we receive at salvation.
• It is only by faith in the sacrificial death of Christ that our spirit can be regenerated and new life breathed into us, at salvation.
• The old, soulish, fleshly life, so impregnated with sin cannot be renewed, but a new God-breathed life is given at salvation; the new life in Christ.
• But just as we, who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ, were born in the image of the man of dust, so too we will also bear the image of the heavenly man; for He Who started a good work in us at salvation will complete it in the day of Christ Jesus.

• We are not appointed to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Good Shepherd Who will take us to the heavenly home He has prepared for all who love Him so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. 

• In His wisdom, He purposed that salvation would be fulfilled through the Jewish nation who were given the Law, the Prophets, the Psalms, the covenants, and the promises, and through whom the Messiah of Israel and Saviour of the world was to come.

• However, it will not be until He is accepted and crowned by Israel as their King, that He will return to earth to set up His heavenly kingdom in the earthly Jerusalem.You see, EVERY prophecy concerning Christ MUST be fulfilled if He is to return to earth and complete God's programme of redemption and the salvation of the world.
• One important prophecy that must be fulfilled before His return, but which is often overlooked, is that Israel as a nation, MUST call on the name of the Lord for salvation before Christ Jesus can return to set up His Millennial Kingdom.Through the study of Scripture, we know that Christ told His people that they would see Him no more until they fulfil Psalm 118 by crying out, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
• Finally, they will ALL cry out to the Lord for salvation: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.May we make sure that we are properly informed of the mystery of the Church and the mystery of Israel.
• But the day is coming when Christ, the Deliverer of His people, will hear their cry for salvation, and the final chapter of God’s redemptive plan will begin to unfold.

• Sinners are saved from the penalty of sin by God's grace, once and for all, through trusting in the death, burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ for salvation, but believers must mature in the faith and continue the process of ongoing salvation.
• This ongoing salvation process, or sanctification, happens moment by moment, as the life on Christ within, saves us from the power of sin in our lives.

• Having thoroughly and systematically presented every aspect of the glorious gospel of salvation, and the eternal foundation of God's amazing grace upon which these everlasting truths rest, Paul earnestly urges believers in Christ to practically apply all that he has taught in this weighty epistle to the Romans, by presenting our bodies to the Lord as a living sacrifice.

• The grace of God spills over the pages of Peter's epistles like so many sparkling jewels, and in the final words of his letter, we are encouraged to grow in the grace of God that has been so freely bestowed on all who believe in His free gift of salvation.

• During their discourse, Jesus told Nicodemus three times the salvation truth he needed to hear.

• Think about and contemplate this glorious truth, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the LORD GOD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation. God, the Lord Who covers Himself with light and rides upon the wings of the wind is my strength, my song and my Saviour.
• Behold, the everlasting God Who declared, I AM that I AM, is the author and alpha, the beginning and source of my salvation and He is also the finisher, the omega, the end and the finality of my life.
• The worth of the gift is intensified by the worthiness of the Giver, and the immeasurable value and inestimable blessing of salvation to the unworthy sinner is without comparison in both the visible world and the invisible universe.
• It is beyond human comprehension that the Lord has become my salvation through the sacrifice of His own life on the cross of Calvary.
• Knowing that my salvation is secure in His worthy hands, every facet that touches my life is equally under the protection of His mighty power, for He has become the foundational bedrock upon which my confidence rests and He is the ever-flowing fountain of living strength that infills my heart and overspills into songs of worship and shouts of praise to His wonderful name.
• A day is coming when the Nation of Israel will stand up with the Church of Christ and together with saints of old and those yet to be born, will sing a harmonious chorus, in unity, in spirit and in truth, Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the LORD GOD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.

• They were also chosen to be God's witnesses on earth who were to teach the nations about the Lord and His plan of salvation.
• For this reason, Israel was to be set aside for a season while God implemented a new dispensation and continued His plan of salvation through Christ's Body - which is the Church.

• There is no one that is excluded from His gracious offer of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ... and there are none that are given extra-special treatment based on their status, skills, colour, parentage, gender, intellectual capacity, political leanings, business acumen, or charismatic personality.

• He explained that before salvation we were dead IN sin but after salvation we are dead TO sin.

• But faith is not a meritorious work that we have performed which makes us deserving of our salvation.
• Faith must never ever be viewed as a ticket that has earned us a right to salvation... NEVER.
• Salvation is simply God's gracious, unmerited, glorious, free gift to all who simply trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
• Salvation is a gift of God's grace alone, through faith alone, in our Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord.

• We should rejoice in our calling and our birth, our salvation, and our sanctification, knowing that death has been conquered, and we are kept by the power of God unto good works and words.

• They are rooted in the eternal faithfulness of His everlasting Word, and His Word is securely anchored on the rock of our salvation which is Jesus Whose name is Faithful and True: For Faithful is He who hath promised, Who also will do it.

• The glorious gospel of salvation, by grace through faith in the sacrificial death and wonderful Resurrection of the Lord Jesus, should delight the worst of sinners.
• This was the antithesis of the gospel they were called to teach, where there is neither Jew nor Gentile but One New Man In Christ - One Body of people who trust in Christ's death and Resurrection for salvation.

• Paul knew that the righteousness with which he was clothed is the right and privilege of ALL who would trust in the Lord Jesus for salvation, and so he strove to spread abroad the gospel of God; Christ crucified, risen, ascended, and glorified.

• Scripture tells us all that we need to know of God's wonderful plans and marvellous purposes for our salvation and eternal security, which is only found in Christ.

• This verse has caused many Christians to think their salvation is lost if they become discouraged, walk away from their faith for a time, or become engage in worldly carnality.
• These final verses of chapter 2 are not talking about losing one's salvation.
• There is no question that the salvation of a truly born again individual can be lost.
• The infiltration of apostate teachers and heretics in the early Church was a serious problem just as it is today, because those teaching a false gospel can only promise their followers a false freedom, a false christ, and a false salvation, because they are slaves to their own greed and corruption, for whatever gets the better of a man makes him its servant.

• Judgement eventually followed after they rejected God's gracious offer of salvation and all were swept away in the waters of judgement.
• But for those who have trusted Christ for salvation, Peter's warning is a call to live godly in Christ Jesus and not to follow in the foolish footsteps of the world.

• Jesus was that promised Seed of Abraham, and while Israel are his physical seed, all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, both Jew and Gentile, are his spiritual seed.
• No one KNOWS Jesus as Lord except those who believe on His name for salvation.
• There is no one whose life is so ruined and heart so broken, that the Lord Jesus cannot have mercy on them and bind-up their wounds and commission them as His vessel, to reach out to others in need of salvation. 

• Paul did not change the message of redemption, nor did he compromise the central doctrine of salvation, but he was prepared to alter his behaviour, adapt a certain convention, or adopt a cultural practice so that some might be saved.

• He had been chosen to be the missionary to the Gentiles who were formerly alienated from God, hopelessly dead in sins, and engaged in evil deeds, but by God's grace, many were reconciled to Him through faith in Christ for their salvation.

• The salvation message of Luke's Gospel is: Good tidings of great joy to all people, and the core content of Luke's Gospel is that Jesus Christ has come to seek and to save that which was lost, both Jew and Gentile, male and female, young and old, rich and poor.

• But the glory of the gospel and the eternal truths that it contains far outweigh the pain of persecution in this world, and so Paul confesses: I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for he knows that it is the power of God that brings salvation to ALL who believe.
• Paul met the Lord Jesus at the point of his salvation, just as every sinner who comes to Christ meets and trusts in Him as Saviour when they are born from above.

• Paul encourages us to know the times in which we live: It is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now, salvation is nearer to us than when we first believed.

• No part of my old pre-salvation self is righteous before God.
• But at salvation, God started a good work in each of His children and HE has promised to finish the good work in us.

• From the beginning, the enemy of our soul has sought to hide God from us, to distort His character, to disrupt His plan of salvation, to deceive the nations, to destroy His Anointed and to shipwreck the faith of those that put their trust in Him.
• But while the age of grace is still here, let us tell as many as we can, the glorious gospel of Salvation and warn of the wrath to come.

• And he exhorts us to appropriate all that is ours in Him and to translate this into our everyday life so that we are enabled to greatly rejoice in the God of our salvation - even in the midst of tremendous suffering and pain.

• At salvation, they had all received the free gift of God's grace, but they were trying to replace that gift of grace which they had received by faith in Christ, with their own works of the law.
• These Christians had believed in Christ for salvation and had been justified by faith and, like Abraham, their faith was credited to them as righteousness.

• The character of God, and the plans and purposes which He ordained in eternity past have never changed, nor has the means of salvation been altered, for salvation comes by faith alone in God.
• However, that which was given to Paul for us in 'the dispensation of the grace of God' gives us a perspective on salvation that was kept hidden in earlier times, but how we praise God for the ministry of Paul who became a minister to the Church to make God's message fully known: Which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

• But those who have trusted in the Word of God for salvation, by grace through faith in the shed blood of our Kinsman-Redeemer, have the inner witness of God's Holy Spirit within.

• True discipleship can only happen after salvation, for a disciple is one that learns of Christ and keeps on learning of Him.
• The commission Christ gave His own disciples at His Ascension was not simply a call to evangelise the lost (who certainly need to learn about God's free gift of salvation through Christ so that they can trust Him as Saviour), but it is equally a call for all believers to learn of Christ and to keep on learning of Him throughout their whole life, and even to become teachers of Christ as they grow in their Christian life.
• And as we walk in Him, may the natural overflow be a desire to tell those we meet of the wonderful love of Christ Jesus and the salvation found in believing in Him.

• If he delays there is a reason, and any delay pours an additional stream of grace into a Christ-rejecting sinful world, enabling sinners to turn to Christ for salvation, allowing the prodigal son to return to the Father's embrace, permitting the saint to grow in grace and a knowledge of his lovely Lord Jesus, for everything that God does is VERY GOOD.
• Every day, by God's grace, many are trusting in Christ for salvation, prodigals are returning, and saints are growing in grace.

• The good news of salvation and life eternal, is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

• The focus of Romans chapter 4, is salvation by grace through faith.
• In this section, Paul is writing about the justification aspect of salvation (being justified in the eyes of God).
• Although we are also to live by faith, to walk by faith, and to pray in faith throughout our earthly life (the ongoing process of our sanctification) the emphasis of this particular passage is initial salvation (justification). 
• Paul wanted to emphasise that salvation is a free gift from God and not something we can earn through good works of the flesh.
• The only good work that secures our salvation is Christ's finished work on the Cross, and the only way we can receive salvation is by faith.
• There is nothing we can add in order to improve our salvation or make it more secure, for like Abraham and David, salvation is by faith alone in God's Word, and when a man or woman believes in their heart by faith, God declares us righteous in His sight.

• Unlike many of his other writings which open by lamenting the tremendous trials and tribulations the psalmist is facing, and crying out to God for help and relief before finally recalling the faithfulness of the Lord towards His people, Psalm 27 opens with an outburst of praise and confidence in the Lord, The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
• Rather than starting to write from a position of weakness for fear of wicked men and enemies that encompass him round about, and allowing his spirits to be lifted as he reflects on the goodness and faithfulness of God, this Psalm begins from a point of victory, because God IS good, His mercy endures forever, and He is the God of our Salvation.
• We too have great hope in the God of our salvation and like David, we too will please Him when we unreservedly trust in His Word and believe that he is a God Who rewards those who diligently seek Him and obey His Word in spirit, in truth and out of love for Him, Who loved us first.

• God has promised that whosever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved, and we can be sure that this offer of salvation is effective for all: men or women, old or young, black or white, Jew or Gentile, slave or freeman; ALL who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.
• It is to appeal to the sovereign authority of the Lord for our salvation by faith in Christ.
• Praise God that the full and final completion of this prophecy from Joel will finally come to fruition, when all Israel calls on the name of the Lord for salvation at the end of that terrible time of Jacob's Trouble.

• God's holy angels are ministering servants sent forth to render service to those who shall be heirs of salvation.

• It is only through the grace of God that He formulated His plan of Salvation.
• The peace that flows from the grace of God embraces a multiplicity of meanings including peace with God, as a free gift of salvation to all that believe, as well as the peace of God which imparts a tranquillity of soul, which is beautifully bestowed through His Spirit of peace, into the heart of a believer who is walking in spirit and truth.

• It is not knowing about the Lord Jesus but believing in His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection for the salvation of our soul that is necessary.

• But it is also God who instils a deep hunger in the heart of the Christian and so, like Paul, they reach a point in their lives when they too cry out: That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. And the one who has been saved by grace through faith begins to learn that salvation is not only that exciting point of rebirth into the family of God, but is also a long and often difficult journey through life, where faith is tried and tested and God is proved to be faithful once again.

• Christians have been made the righteousness of God in Christ by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, and during the Church age there is a remnant of Israel that are being saved as part of that Body of Christ.

• They were the ones through whom the holy Scriptures (which taught the message of salvation) were written, and they were the ones through whom the Messiah was to be born, for He was to be the Saviour of the whole world.

• Every year since their escape from Egypt, Jews and Jewish proselytes celebrated the Passover, which looked back to their salvation from Egyptian slavery and forward to the promised Messiah Whom John the Baptist identified as Jesus, the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world.

• They missed their most glorious opportunity and caused the kingdom of heaven to be postponed, until a time yet future when Israel as a nation will repent of her sin and cry out to her Messiah for salvation.
• However, it secured salvation for Gentile nations, and for 2000 years, men and women have been saved by grace through faith in Christ.

• The hour had come for God's terrible verdict to fall upon a world that spurned God's offer of salvation and rejected His only begotten Son - it was the time that the prince of this world was to be deposed.
• They wanted salvation without the Saviour... but the price of sin had to be paid in full and so the time came for judgment to come upon this fallen world so that the ruler of this world could be cast out.
• But woe to those who choose to reject His offer of salvation for they are already condemned and judged - because they chose not to believe in the eternal Son of God.

• All of us are sinners, and children also have a sin nature and are in equal need of redemption, but little children are a wonderful example of a heart that is ready to hear the good news of salvation and a mind that is ready and willing to receive the good news of the gospel of grace.

• Having been brought to a realisation of our sinfulness and unworthiness in the eyes of a holy God in the early chapters of Romans, we discover ourselves face to face with our own gross sinfulness and desperate need for salvation.
• But justification is only the first step in the unending love-story of salvation.

• We did not receive salvation and all its accompanying benefits because of our vain acts, conceited conversation, or church activities, but through the precious blood of a Lamb, unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
• It was GRACE that caused God to reach down to a fallen race of sinners and formulate His redeeming plan of salvation.

• We are to have confidence in the Lord's faithfulness, and we are to quietly trust in the God of our salvation, for He has promised to fight for us and to deliver us from all our enemies.

• The wonders of salvation and mercy of God that forgives us our sins and imputes us with Christ's righteousness is joy indeed, as is the glorious hope of our eternal home that God has prepared for all those that love Him. 

• He had discovered that the Lord was His abiding Treasure: The Rock of my Salvation.
• We are the people of God and He is the God our salvation.

• When used correctly, the gifts of the Spirit were an amazing tool the Lord used to spread the message of salvation to Jew and Gentile alike in those early days of the Church.

• It should be a joy for every Christian to rejoice together in the simple message of salvation, by grace through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.It was the uncomplicated message of redemption that Jude planned to share with fellow believers in Christ, when he started to pen his epistle.

• His message of salvation is only effective in the heart of the man or woman who acknowledges their sinfulness.
• Those who reject His message of salvation and remain proud, unrepentant, and self-righteous, forgo the eternal benefits of the glorious gospel of grace, and remain dead in their trespasses and sins.
• Time and again, He rehearsed the need for sinners to acknowledge their fallen state, to recognise their need for salvation, and to turn from their sin and look to Him Who alone has the words of eternal life.

• Their salvation is by grace through faith in Christ's finished work on the Cross, and forgiveness of sins and eternal life are two of many heavenly benefits that every sinner receives by grace through faith in the only begotten Son of God.

• Sometimes we are unaware of the abundant blessings that have become ours at the point of our salvation and sometimes it takes time to become aware of all the gifts of grace that have been bountifully bestowed upon us, in Christ Jesus.
• Every person who has accepted the free gift of salvation through the shed blood of Christ has peace with God from the moment of salvation and continuing for the whole of their life.

• At salvation, the soul that is dead in trespasses and sin, receives Christ's new, resurrected, eternal life, and the born-again child of God becomes part of His New-Creation-In Christ!

• But their hatred of us can be translated into prayers of intercession for them that God, in His grace, would meet them at their point of need and convict them of the need of a Saviour and the salvation that He offers freely and without charge.

• As a nation, they had collectively violated His Word and rejected His offer of salvation by grace - through faith in Jesus Christ, their Messiah and King.

• We who were born in trespasses and sins, were groping about in deep darkness before we trusted in Christ for salvation and became children of light in the Lord Jesus.
• God knows the heart and reads the secret thoughts and intents of men, and those who seek to know Him with all their heart will be found of Him and will be shown the true light in Whom alone is the salvation of the soul and will be brought to a knowledge of the glorious gospel of Christ.
• But many choose to arrogantly deny His name, foolishly reject His existence, and stubbornly refuse His salvation.

• God in His grace invites us to live a life that is free from worry and devoid of anxieties by seeking first the kingdom of God and the righteousness with which we are clothed, when we trust in Him for salvation.

• Their faith was a sanctifying faith, the type of faith James challenged his readers with when he wrote: Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. It is always important to ascertain if a passage relates to initial salvation (justification) or progressively ongoing salvation (sanctification).

• They were His chosen people, but did not carry out His instructions to be a light to the Gentiles or to tell the nations that God is the eternal Lord, the great Creator of the heavens, and He formed the earth.As well as bringing God's punishment upon themselves because of their sinful idolatry, Israel refused to share the good news of salvation, as instructed.
• However, they refused to tell others that He is a light to lighten the Gentiles as well as the Jews, and they did not instruct other nations that in Him alone is man's salvation.But God never changes, and His plans and purposes can never be thwarted by sinful man or rebellious angels.
• Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.There is only one way to be saved, and God Himself proclaimed this to the nations: I have sworn by Myself, was His sovereign challenge, the Word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness and will not turn back – that to Me every knee will bow, and every tongue will swear allegiance.God in His grace, extended His hand of salvation to the Gentiles, if they would turn away from their idols of wood and stone, and trust in the Lord for the forgiveness of sin and eternal salvation.That same gracious hand of reconciliation continues to be extended today, to whosoever will hear, answer, and believe in the One Who paid the price for the sin of the world – the shed blood of a perfect sacrifice – Jesus Christ the righteous.In the light of New Testament revelation, we know: At the name of Jesus every knee will bow, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.The message of salvation is one of hope and blessing to those that believe, and one of condemnation and eternal separation from God for those that refuse to confess His name.May we be ready and willing to go into the world, whether at home or abroad, and tell the good news of salvation to the lost – to Jew and Gentile alike: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

• Salvation for pre-Cross believers who lived in the dispensation of the Law and post-Cross believers who live in the dispensation of the grace-of-God, is given and received in the same way; for salvation is by God's grace through man's faith in the God's Word.
• In this Church age, salvation is ours by grace through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Salvation is always a matter of faith, but the way God deals with His servants in different dispensations varies in a number of ways.

• Like Israel, we have the witness of the Word of God together with our own personal testimony that God is our Defence and Defender, our Source and Supply, and He is the Rock of our salvation Whose ear is open to our every cry.
• When we start to trust in anything other than the Lord Jesus, we are looking to the wrong source of supply and allowing the old sin nature to govern our lives, rather than the new life in Christ which we received at salvation.

• The Lord is full of loving-kindness and tender mercies to all who will call out to Him for help - and like the children of Israel who so often cried out to the Lord when they strayed from the paths of righteousness, we too can cry to the Lord our God to show us His loving-kindness and to grant us His salvation.
• In every season of our lives, whether in pain or in joy, let us call on our Father: Show us Your loving-kindness, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.

• When you contemplate the intricacies of nature, the complexities of design, and the unique position that humanity has been granted in the entire structure of the universe, not to mention the great salvation that is ours through trusting Jesus Christ as Saviour, the question surely must come to mind: What is man that God is mindful of him and the son of man that the Creator of the universe cares for him?

• But we who have trusted Him for salvation are to sit serenely in His presence, in quiet confidence, and in godly trust.

• Chapter 9 reminds us of Israel's past history, their tremendous privileges, and precious promises, while chapter 11 rejoices in their election by grace, their future hope, and eventual salvation.
• Jesus became a Rock of offence and a Stone of stumbling to unbelieving Israel, which grieved the apostle Paul who longed that His fellow-countrymen would believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved: Brethren, he wrote in this first verse of chapter 10: Brothers-in-Christ, my heart's desire and earnest prayer to God for my Jewish brothers, is for their salvation.
• I wonder if the yearning in his heart for the salvation of his fellow-Jews was heightened, when he recalled the stoning of Stephen and heard his Christ-like prayer, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. (Lord, lay not this sin on Saul of Tarsus).
• The dear pleasure of Paul's heart and his deep spiritual burden was for Israel's salvation. His personal longing and pleading prayer was that God's chosen nation would believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and place their collective trust in His sacrificial work for the forgiveness of their sins.
• Let us never forget that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes, and pray for the salvation of Jew and Gentile alike.

• None of the warnings threaten believers with loss of salvation, as some people teach, because we are saved by grace through faith in Christ's sacrificial offering of Himself on the Cross and His glorious Resurrection; we can do nothing to receive salvation and we can do nothing to keep our salvation.
• None of the warnings in Hebrews teach that Christians can lose their eternal salvation, for in Christ we are eternally secure.
• While there is no threat to a believer's eternal security or suggestion of loss of salvation in any of the five warnings, we are warned of severe chastening from our Heavenly Father in this life and the loss of reward in the next.
• The dangers of neglecting our salvation, drifting away from the truth, being warned against unbelief and disobedience, the problems of spiritual infancy rather than spiritual maturity, and indifference to the truth of God's Word, are dangers that are addressed in the other warning passages.
• Although this warning was particularly pertinent to certain believing Jews in the early Church who were tempted to revert to Judaism to avoid the terrible persecution that was sweeping through the early Christian Church, this danger of a Christian sinning wilfully, by returning to some pre-Cross teaching or being persuaded that other man-made policies, procedures, traditions, or customs are necessary for salvation or are required to keep one saved, is still perilous today.
• Any Christian, Jew or Gentile alike, who places themself back under any law or set of regulations to gain or maintain the salvation that is already theirs through Christ's shed blood on Calvary, is actually trampling the Son of God underfoot, as they are effectively declaring that the New Covenant that was cut at Calvary through His blood is of no effect.
• When Christ's blood has already sanctified a believer - what a terrible insult to the Almighty God Who saved us, to revert to the belief that something more is necessary for salvation.
• While a genuine believer will not lose his salvation under these circumstances, he will most certainly be judged for this gross offense. Hebrews points out that a Christian who sins in this way will be severely chastened by God and concludes with these sombre words: It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

• He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed.Jesus pronounced the fulfilment of this ancient prophecy from Isaiah, and the people there wondered at the gracious words that fell from His lips, yet they sought to slay Him for they could not accept the truth – but He passed through their midst, for His time had not yet arrived.Although Jesus was rejected in His hometown of Nazareth and an attempt was made to kill Him, He fulfilled this and many more astounding ancient prophecies, over the course of His life.The Spirit of God was indeed upon Him, for He submitted to the leading of the Spirit throughout His life, spoke only those things He heard from the Father, carried out His Father's will, and fulfilled every prophecy relating to His first advent.He did preach the good news of salvation to the poor, proclaiming freedom from sin, Satan, death, and hell – by faith in Him.

• We who have a heavenly calling are exhorted to set our thoughts upon the Lord Jesus because it is His name, His Person, and His sacrificial work that we confess in our hearts and proclaim with our mouths for the salvation of the soul.
• But He was also entrusted with every aspect of the salvation and the calling of the Church of God.

• Our salvation rests on Christ and is ours by faith in the truth of God's Word.

• It details the glorious plan of salvation and the enormous sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, whereby fallen man is not only released from slavery to sin, delivered from eternal condemnation, and reconciled back to God, but also saved by grace through faith in Him, made a new creation in Christ, made a citizen of heaven and a joint-heir with the Son of God, bestowed with the riches of God's grace, in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit, eternally secure in His gracious love, and so much more.

• Paul's chains were the vehicle whereby the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard were being brought to salvation in Christ, and the people that taught the gospel with a wrong motive were nonetheless bringing many into the kingdom of God.

• We are the called of God, the chosen of God, the elect of God, and enriched by God's grace simply because we believe God's Word and trusted the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation.
• We who trust in His redeeming blood for salvation have been promised eternal life, a heavenly home, and joy for evermore according to the riches of His grace.

• Sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death passed onto all men for all are sinners and all are in need of salvation.

• It was sent to the Church in Rome and teaches salvation is by grace alone through faith in Christ, which has set us free from slavery to sin through the fleshly works of the Law. 

• It encourages the unbiblical attitude of salvation, or blessing through works - but salvation and God's blessings are a demonstration of God's grace - not of works.

• Salvation is not merely based on a whim, an intellectual exercise, or the acquisition of some factual head-knowledge.
• Salvation must rest on a genuine, bona fide heart-faith in God and His Son, Jesus Christ Who was sent by the Father be the sacrifice for the sin of the whole world.
• However, because of this passage in Romans, there are many who demand that there are two, distinct steps to salvation.
• And it should also be studied alongside all other passages that teach about salvation if we are to understand precisely what Paul meant at the time that the passage was written.
• Although this passage is used to teach that publicly confessing that 'Jesus is Lord' is necessary for salvation... a systematic study of every passage on salvation (soteriology), clearly shows that public confession is not a requirement for salvation.
• The Gospel of John describes various people who believed in their hearts for salvation... but they did not confess Jesus as Lord before men with their mouths 'for fear of the Jews' or 'for fear of being put out of the synagogue'.
• Joseph of Arimathea and certain other secret disciples were saved by believing in Christ for salvation... but they did not openly confess Jesus as Lord before others - and their reticence was out of fear.
• Paul wrote this passage in Romans using this writing technique - Confession with the mouth leading to righteousness is synonymous with believing in the heart leading to salvation.
• Believing in the heart leading to salvation equates to confession with the mouth leading to righteousness.
• Instead of this passage teaching two STEPS to salvation, it could now be argued that this verse teaches there are two WAYS to be saved!
• salvation is either through believing or through confessing.
• But this is NOT biblical, and again, a systematic study of salvation (soteriology), clearly shows that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins is sufficient for salvation.
• If confession with the mouth leading to righteousness is synonymous with believing in the heart leading to salvation, we must clarify to whom we confess and in whom we believe.
• And it is with the mouth that we confess to our Heavenly Father that Jesus is Lord - which results in salvation - and all is done to the glory of God the Father.

• And after the world has heard this message of repentance and salvation, amidst all the tumult they are going through during the 7 year Tribulation, the Lord Jesus will come from heaven, accompanied by the Church, to destroy this satanic one-world system.

• Through time and into eternity, we must never forget the grace of God that has been extended to all who trust in Christ for salvation, for by His blood he reconciled both Jew and Gentile into one Body, which is the Church.

• The whole sanctification process from initial salvation to final glorification, is to transform us into the likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ Who loved the Church so much that He gave His life for us.

• While God shows no favouritism between rich and poor, because salvation is a free gift of grace to whosoever will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, James does seem to imply that God extends special favour towards those that are poor, in respect of the riches of this world: Listen, my beloved brothers, he writes, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
• God also knows that a poor man living in needy circumstances, a destitute widow without hope in the world, or a penniless orphan, is much more likely to grasp hold of God's great gift of salvation which is given freely to all, rather than a self-sufficient, affluent man, whose super-abundance of material possessions and worldly wealth renders him independent of God's provision and can even cause him to become disdainful of God's free gift of salvation.
• Most of those who put their faith in Jesus and trusted Him for salvation, were simple folk with few earthy possessions - and yet the testimony they leave behind is a wealth of faith in Christ because they loved Him and discovered His grace to be sufficient and His strength to be made perfect, as He lived in them and they abode in Him.

• They worry that if they fall into carnality or go astray, they will lose their salvation and: Their last state will become worse for them than the first.
• They are not told the way of salvation but are presented with the lie that they can ignore God's Word, disobey His commands, and wilfully participate in sin, with no repercussions.
• Indeed, multiple passages teaches that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone, and there can be no deviation from God's declared way of salvation.
• Salvation is not gained through an intellectual understanding of the Word of truth.
• Hearing of a corrupted gospel from an apostate teacher who shares a warped salvation message through a counterfeit Christ with a twisted truth, is hardly likely to endear someone to the glorious gospel of grace.
• It is far more likely to harden the heart of an unbeliever toward the good news of salvation and cause them to distrust godly ministers and be wary of genuine believers.

• They were to tell pagan nations the good news of God and bring them into the camp of salvation.

• According to Scripture, Jesus had to offer salvation to His own people first, before He could shepherd the Gentiles into His heavenly sheepfold, and most of His earthly ministry and Messianic claims were directed towards His own people - the Jewish nation. 

• He wanted to rejoice in the great salvation which we have in Jesus, and rehearse the beautiful gospel of grace in the ears of his hearers.
• These men by nature are ungodly men who reject God's offer of salvation, wilfully distort the grace of God, and choose to deny the deity of the Lord Jesus.

• By His redemptive work, we have been made a new creation in Christ, fully pardoned from sin, endowed with eternal salvation, permanently in-dwelt with His Holy Spirit, and forever accepted in the Beloved, by our Father in heaven.

• Men and women who are taught a false way of salvation, cannot mix truth with faith and be saved.
• This verse does not teach that a believer can lose their salvation as the context clearly shows.
• He has also promised to finish the good work of salvation He started in ALL His children, and has given each one the in-dwelling Holy Spirit as a guarantee that He will fulfil His promise.
• Our salvation does not depend on what we do, but on what Christ has already done for us.

• May we all openly demonstrate our joy of the Lord, develop a cheerful disposition, and be willing to offer all we have and all we are to the God of our salvation.

• Our initial salvation brings peace WITH God but during our walk of faith through the journey of life, we can enjoy the peace OF God - God's continuous, divine peace in our hearts, Let not your heart be troubled, Jesus told his confused disciples just before He was to walk to the cross, Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in Me.

• This hypostatic union of eternal deity with perfect humanity is found in one Person alone, the Lord Jesus Christ Who became the Head of a new creation and the Author of eternal salvation to all who believe on His name.
• Multiple passages tell us that salvation is by grace through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, but here we read that He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey.
• Is eternal salvation conditional on faith or on obedience?
• We read that the 'obedience of faith' is brought about by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

• David's great confidence in the Lord is expressed in this exquisite verse: The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear?
• The struggling Psalmist may be shrouded in spiritual darkness or be facing a black night of deep despair or despondency, and yet he does not shrink from rejoicing in the God of his salvation with an explosion of praise, for he is confident that God is his light in Whom there is no darkness at all, and the Lord is his Saviour so he has nothing to fear.
• In Him is security and salvation for all who believe, for by Him sin and death has been conquered through the sacrificial offering of Himself for each of us, and through Him, we have access to our Father in heaven for He is the one way, the only truth, and the only revealed Word of God.
• He is not only our light and salvation, but He is our light and life, our strength and peace, our salvation and our God.
• Rather, we should rejoice in the God of our salvation who has brought us out of darkness into His glorious light: For if God is for us who can be against us?

• We, who are saved by grace through faith in Christ, are one part of that precious plan of salvation.

• Like the rest of the people, the Levitical priests also stood in need of salvation and reconciliation between man and God.
• They too needed a mediator between themselves and God. But just as the perfect Law was the tool that God used to show man his sinfulness and his need for salvation, so too the insufficiency of the Levitical priesthood was an instrument that God used to demonstrate the limitation of the Levitical priesthood and the insufficiency of its mediatorial role.

• God's unshakable and irrefutable declaration to the fallen race of man is that God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son, for He is the Way, and the Truth, and the Life, and He alone has the authority to give eternal life to all who come to Him for salvation.

• The truth of God's Word has been tried and tested by a myriad of saints down through the centuries, who not only trusted Him for their salvation, but continued to trust Him through all the circumstances of life, for He has promised that He will never leave us nor forsake us.
• Let us trust in the God of our salvation in all things too.

• Paul reminded the Corinthians of his former teachings on salvation, lest they forget: For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.

• We please God when we are justified (initial salvation), but we also please God through a sanctified life (ongoing salvation).

• Let us remember that today is the day of salvation for many, and that we need to conduct ourselves in a godly manner with all wisdom.

• Today, we are being: Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

• He did not hesitate to proclaim the gospel of Christ to a skeptical world of fallen men, despite his message being a stumbling block to the proud Jewish nation and foolishness to educated Greeks citizens, for Paul knew: The gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes.
• God alone has the power to redeem a race of sinners, and the only vehicle through Whom God offers salvation to Jew and Gentile alike, is by believing the gospel of Christ.
• In Him alone is there salvation to everyone who believes, the Jew first and also to the Greek.
• But today, the gospel is to be preached to Jew and Gentile alike, for all have sinned, all fall short of the glory of God, and all need the gospel of Christ: Which is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ.

• The righteous man has recognised that he is a sinner in need of salvation, and believes that God sent His dearly beloved Son to die on the Cross for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.
• Those who deny the truth of God's Word and reject His offer of salvation will perish.

• The return of Christ is thrilling for those who believe, but for those who reject God's offer of salvation, it is a time of awesome judgement when God's justified wrath must be poured out, in fullest measure, on a God-hating, Christ-rejecting, sinful world.
• Let us tell forth the glory of His name, the wonderful works that He has done, and the great salvation that is offered freely to all who believe.
• And let us warn of the thick darkness and consuming judgement that must befall all who reject His offer of salvation.

• Following Israel's rejection of their Messiah and the birth of the Christian Church at Pentecost, God's chosen nation fell into two camps: those that accepted Christ as their Saviour and those that rejected His offer of salvation.

• God gave us the Word of truth through prophets of old, without which none of us would know the way of salvation or the means to be saved.
• This means that Christ was the first man to ever rise from the dead with an immortal body, and all who trust in Him for salvation will also be a kind of 'first-fruit from the dead' with an immortal body.

• There is no more important issue in the life of every man than knowing the way of salvation, because there are eternal consequences that lead to an eternal life with God or eternal separation from Him; heaven or the lake of fire.
• Not one man has ever lived who is deserving of forgiveness of sin and the salvation of their soul, for humanity is a fallen race.
• We are ALL sinners in need of salvation.
• It is vital, first of all, to understand that salvation is a gift from God.
• Salvation, which includes eternal life, is not something that can be bought or earned with our 'good' deeds, generous giving, a mountain of money, or acts of kindness.
• The forgiveness of sin (salvation of the soul and eternal life, which is part of the package of forgiveness) is a gift - a free gift - a free gift from God - an unconditional gift from God which demonstrates His amazing grace and unconditional love, and it is available to every-man, every sinner.
• Salvation is given freely THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

• He did not reject His people, despite their rebellion and unbelief, and although they broke their covenant with Him and had to be punished, He pledged to heal the nation, return them to their land, and restore the joy of their salvation.

• The passionate appeal at the start of Psalm 7 is a cry for salvation.
• It caused him to rejoice in the Lord and to offer thanksgiving and praise for the sure knowledge that His plans and purposes for the salvation of His people is sure.

• This is a psalm that rejoices over our great salvation and points directly to the Lord Jesus as our mighty Deliverer. 

• But it is the Father in this verse Who is called 'Saviour', for it is not His will that any should perish but that all should come to salvation, by faith in Christ.

• We often use the terms; justification, sanctification, and glorification to explain a believer's initial salvation (justification), ongoing maturity as we walk with the Lord in our lives on earth (sanctification), and the wonderful eternal state in heaven, when we see Jesus and will be like Him (glorification).
• This is our initial salvation, when we are set apart for the Lord.
• May we walk worthy of our calling and look to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our salvation.

• He knew it is the power of God for salvation to all who believe, and it was while on the witness stand that he summarised his encounter with the risen, glorified Lord Jesus Christ, on the road to Damascus.
• He was to witness before Jews, Gentiles, kings, and governors, that faith in Christ will bring salvation to all who believe on His name.

• And God saw all that He had done was good, very good: For every good and perfect gifts comes from our Father above, Who alone is our Light, our life, and our hope of salvation.
• The light of Christ is the true light that shines in the darkness, giving light and life and the hope of salvation to whosoever will.

• Every one of them 'ate of spiritual food' when manna fell from heaven and they ALL 'drank spiritual drink' as refreshing water gushed from the side of the Rock, which was identified as Jesus, the Rock of their salvation and Sustainer of their soul.
• He is the Rock of our salvation and the Sustainer of our soul, and Jesus is with us every step of this journey through life.

• However, during the Tribulation Period, He will once again reach a lost world, through the nation of Israel.Once the Church has been raptured, God will continue His plan of salvation through His people, Israel.
• They will be privileged to reign on earth with Christ for 1000 years – after He has returned, in power and great glory, to sit on the throne of David and begin His earthly rule from Jerusalem.The great crowd that John saw in his vision were Jews and Gentiles who had rejected God's offer of salvation during the Church age, but who trusted Him for the forgiveness of sin during this terrible time of Tribulation.
• They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands.Having rejected salvation during the Church dispensation, they are not members of Christ's Body but, like the Church, will participate in the Millennial Kingdom – and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.Unlike the Church who are destined to be kings and priest of God who will rule and reign with Christ on His throne, this multitude of saints will serve the Lord as priests in the Temple of the Lord, day and night.Today, we in the Church teach the gospel of the grace of God, but in the Tribulation, Israel will declare the gospel of the coming kingdom of Christ... and in the Millennial Kingdom, Old Testament saints, Church-age saints, and Tribulation saints will unite their voices in praise and thanksgiving for Christ – the Lamb of God and King of Israel Who takes away the sin of the world.

• Walking in a manner that is worthy of God is perhaps the highest calling to which those who have tasted of His gracious salvation can ascend.

• Their great salvation was secured at Calvary through faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus.
• These two bond-servants of Christ Jesus ministered together in the city and joyfully met up with a group of believers who trusted in Christ for salvation.
• Like all sinners who trust in Christ for salvation, these men and women were the redeemed of God.

• It is only through the imputed life of Christ, which we receive at salvation, that we can live more abundantly and live eternally.

• They will want to have their ears tickled, with a watered-down and compromised gospel, he continues, and they will accumulate for themselves teachers, who say the things they want to hear, by preaching a feel-good credo instead of teaching the plain truth of the gospel of grace, about sin and salvation and about Jesus Christ as the one and only way to be justified by God.
• Some falsely teach a universal salvation... where everyone is eventually saved or that there are many ways to God.
• Many like to focus on social changes in the community while denigrating the gospel of Christ, the salvation of the lost, and spiritual maturity, while others continue to teach an equally concerning works-based religion, rather that a grace-based faith which too often promotes the unbiblical teaching called 'replacement theology' - which incorrectly teaches that the Church has replaced Israel.

• No one has seen the invisible God at any time, and yet God the Father sent God the Holy Spirit to live in and work through all those who have chosen to trust in God the Son for salvation, by grace through faith.

• The closing verses of the Old Testament end with a description of the day of the Lord, where fiery judgement is poured out on all evil-doers and those who have rejected God’s gift of salvation.
• It is a time when self-sufficient unbelievers who have relied on their own righteousness as a means to salvation, will be tried in the fires of God's righteous judgement and found wanting. 
• He is Jesus Who has been made to us: The power of God and the wisdom of God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption, and salvation, belong to Him.
• Although this verse was given to Israel by Malachi and will be realised for them at Christ's Second Advent, this is a truth for ALL who have believed on Him in their hearts by faith that has already been fulfilled in each of us at our salvation.

• Before their salvation, the Thessalonians indulged in worldly ways.
• They were to remember who they were in Christ and the price He paid to secure their salvation.

• He was to be a descendant of the great king David, as foretold by prophets of old, and He would bring salvation to His people, Israel.Zechariah quoted many Old Testament verses in his beautiful song of thanksgiving, which pointed to the Lord Jesus Who would bring salvation to Israel, deliverance from their enemies, and freedom from the hands of all who hated them.He rejoiced that God remembered His holy covenant with Israel and gave thanks that the Lord had not forgotten the oath which He swore to his forefather, Abraham, that He Himself would rescue His people from the hand of their enemies and that they would serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness, all the days of their life.Zechariah proclaimed that the One to come would give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.
• He was about to send the prophesied Messiah of Israel Whom he called 'the Dayspring from on High' Who would bring salvation to all who are called by His name.

• Once we have been saved by grace through faith in Christ, any good works that we undertake are to be done through the new, Christ-given nature which we receive at salvation, and not the old, sin nature which was imputed to us due to our membership of the first creation in Adam.
• At salvation we were removed from the old creation in Adam and placed into the new creation in Christ.

• One benefit of the various imprisonments to which Paul was subjected were the number and variety of people with whom he was able to share the good news of salvation.

• They had believed Jesus to be the Messiah and trusted Him for their salvation, but they had expected deliverance to come through political success and military might.
• These two disciples had placed their faith in the Lord Jesus for salvation, but they had not yet learned to live by faith; to walk in spirit and truth; to live their life by trusting God's Word and not relying on sight, circumstances, or their fluctuating feelings.

• Paul, on the other hand, quietly taught in various Gentile communities and set up Christian churches throughout the wider Asia-minor region.Although the apostles at Jerusalem recognised that Paul had been divinely commissioned to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, there was little interaction or overlap between these two Christian ministries for many years.It was after Peter's angelic vision at Joppa and his experience with the salvation of Cornelius the Gentile centurion, that he came to understand that Gentiles and Jews were equal in the sight of God, and both were saved by grace through faith alone.
• Indeed, the Jerusalem council was formally set up to clarify the fundamentals of the Christian faith.They agreed that Gentile believers could not be expected to adhere to Jewish rules, rites, and regulations, but too often, Jewish converts to Christianity clung fast to their former rituals, even though they knew that it was not the Law that justifies them before God, but faith in Christ.Although these early Jewish believers understood that salvation was by grace alone through faith in Christ alone, many of them, including some of the apostles, continued to cling to the Jewish Sabbath, Jewish sacrifices, the Temple worship, feasts days, and other Jewish observances.Time passed since Paul's first, brief visit to Jerusalem where he had met with Peter and a few Church leaders.
• It was fellow Jews who had insisted in the segregation of circumcised Jewish believers from uncircumcised Gentiles Christians – and Peter caved into their pressure.Peter wanted a peaceful existence, and although he was a pillar of the early Christian Church who knew that salvation was by faith and not by following the Law, he crumbled from pressure and withdrew himself FEARING those of the circumcision.May we know the truth, stand fast on the Word of God, and not allow ourselves to compromise the glorious gospel of Christ through fear of the world, fear of our Christian brethren, or fear of our fellow man.
• May we not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation for ALL who believe – through Christ Who loved us and gave Himself for us.

• This Psalm is a beautiful testimony of salvation - by grace through faith in the Lord.

• The man or woman who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, is the one whose heart has turned to Christ for full and free salvation.

• Before salvation, we were children of the night and a product of the darkness of sin.

• He first expressed his joy that they had all repented of their carnal ways and ungodly behaviour, and then explained that the sorrow they underwent: Was according to the will of God, because it produced repentance without any regret, which leads to salvation, while the sorrow of the world produces death.
• But which sort of salvation was Paul referencing in this verse, when he wrote: Repentance that leads to salvation. 1) salvation of the spirit? 2) salvation of the soul? 3) salvation of the body?
• Did Paul mean a) initial salvation/ justification?
• b) progressive salvation/ sanctification?
• or c) completed salvation/ glorification? 
• The sorrow that leads to salvation is the godly sorrow that brings a carnal believer back into fellowship with the Father and places him back on the path of progressive sanctification.
• This is what leads to the salvation of the soul; the ongoing process of sanctification where we are being conformed into the image and likeness of Christ.

• But in this verse her misery and wretchedness prefigures the deep agonies of the Lord Jesus, whose rebellious people rejected His beauty, despised His Person, and refused His gracious offer of salvation.

• The Psalm outlines Israel's glorious salvation from centuries of slavery in Egypt.

• And each was rewarded for their obedience, when the Father sent the Spirit to permanently indwell all who would trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, the salvation of their soul, and life everlasting.
• This gift of languages was one of the signs which Old Testament prophets had foretold would bear testimony to the truth of their message of salvation.

• It is Israel that is seen greatly rejoicing in this prophetic verse: I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
• At His First Coming, He came to bring the hope of salvation to His people and proclaim liberty to those enslaved by sin.
• Today, only those who believe in Jesus are able to declare: He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation and hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
• For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of His righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
• And like Israel, we who have already been saved by grace through faith in the Messiah rejoice today, for we too have been dressed in His heavenly mantle of salvation and we too have been draped in His royal robe of righteousness.
• We also greatly rejoice in the Lord our God and how our soul delights in the God of our salvation Who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ, for He chose us in Him before the creation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight.
• But the greatest gift of all is the garment of His salvation and the clean robe of His own precious righteousness, for greater than the gifts of God is the Giver of all Who has come to dwell in the hearts of all who believe on His name.
• May we cultivate an attitude of humble gratitude and joyful thanksgiving, for it is good to sing praises to the God of our salvation: For He hath clothed us with the garments of salvation, He hath covered us with His robe of righteousness.

• They believed keeping the Law was necessary for salvation, not realising that the rites, rituals, feasts, and sacrifices pointed to Christ.
• Many Jews were prepared to add 'believing in Christ' to their religious rites, but very few could accept the gospel Paul taught; that faith alone in Christ alone was sufficient for salvation and that no man living would be justified by works of the Law.
• These legalists, however, berated Paul, insisting that circumcision was also necessary for salvation, which is diametrically opposite to the gospel of grace, for we are not justified by any works of the Law (circumcision) but by faith in Christ.
• When legalism is adopted as a requirement for righteousness, the glorious gospel of Christ Who is our righteousness, is abandoned. When circumcision is insisted upon as necessary for salvation, the gospel of grace is nullified, for works of the Law have been added to Christ's finished work of Grace on the Cross. 
• These legalists knew Paul's teaching conflicted with their own doctrine but in Paul's absence, it appears they secured the trust of the Galatian believers and persuaded them to change their belief and add certain aspects of the Law to the requirement for salvation, including circumcision.
• First, they persecuted Paul for teaching the true gospel of grace and then pretended he had changed his doctrine to entice the gullible believers into accepting a false gospel, which added circumcision to faith in Christ as a requirement for salvation.
• However, the seriousness of his next sentence cannot be overlooked, for if circumcision was required for salvation, the very reason he was being persecuted was void: For the stumbling block of the Cross would have been abolished. But NOTHING, including circumcision, can be added to Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, for in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, for we are saved through faith alone in Christ alone, working through love.
• The eternal truth is that the Cross is offensive to legalists; very offensive because it insults the pride of those who want to make some sort of 'recompense' to God for their salvation, and having to accept salvation as a free gift is an affront to their vanity!

• It signified salvation for this sinful woman and deliverance all her family who believed God's Word.
• You are to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, and each member of your family are to believe on Him to be saved.
• Rahab believed on the Lord for her salvation, and every member of her family, including her father, mother, brothers, and sisters, and all who trusted in the God of Israel and joined her in her home, were also saved through faith.
• Both Rahab and every member of her family who believed the promise of salvation from God and joined her in her home with the crimson cord hanging from the window, were declared righteous in the eyes of God, and saved.

• A name which means God is my Salvation, Jehovah is Salvation.
• Joseph was instructed to call His name JESUS, which means THE SALVATION of GOD.
• He came to bring salvation from sin as promised in Old Testament Scriptures.
• He came to save us from the PENALTY of sin (at salvation) the POWER of sin (through the process of sanctification), and the PRESENCE of sin (when we are with Him in glory).
• The Lord suddenly appeared to this man in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit. Joseph, as the head of his family, was instructed to call this Child JESUS, God's Salvation, the name that is above every other name, for there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.
• It was through the Child, that Joseph would care for, that our Salvation was accomplished, through the death of Jesus, Who redeemed us from our sins and transferred us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His glorious light.
• But our salvation means so much, for it embraces the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who sanctifies us and conforms us into the image of Jesus.
• It lifts us up out of the miry clay and sets our feet forever on Jesus, Who is the Rock of our Salvation.

• Water baptism is a beautiful outward sign of the spiritual baptism that takes place at the moment of salvation.
• As believers who were baptised into the Body of Christ by the Spirit at salvation, we are now to walk in spirit and truth and to be filled with the Spirit of God, day by day.

• And it is by believing on HIM that salvation is given as a free gift of God's grace.
• Sadly, there are many that refuse to acknowledge their Creator and many that reject His offer of salvation.
• But refusal to acknowledge their Creator does not nullify His existence, and rejecting His offer of salvation through unbelief does not nullify the faithfulness of God to keep His Word: that whosever believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, whether Jew or Gentile, will not perish but have everlasting life.
• Paul had explained that both Jew and Gentile are equally sinners, equally in need of salvation, and equally given the opportunity to be saved by God's grace through faith in Christ's redeeming work.

• As prophesied He healed the sick, raised the dead, cleansed the lepers, opened the eyes of the blind, unblocked the ears of the deaf, and preached salvation to whosoever would believe on His name.
• He also gave certain Messianic gifts to His apostles and many of His disciples, whom He sent out in His name, teaching and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and the hope of salvation to none but the lost sheep of the house of Israel, the Jew, first.
• After His Resurrection, salvation was preached to Gentiles also.
• How vital therefore that we pay heed to His Word, trust in His eternal promises, and not neglect our eternal salvation.
• It is steadfast and sure, and stands secure on the unchangeable and trustworthy character of God Who in His grace has warned us not to neglect our salvation.

• John had to understand that the period of God's grace during the Church dispensation must at some point arrive at a point in God's plan of redemption, where judgement must fall on those who rejected His offer of salvation.

• Finally: After the 1000 year Millennial Rule of Christ, millennial believers will also become part of 'the First Resurrection of LIFE', but all unbelievers - all who refused God's offer of salvation, throughout the ages, will have to face 'the Second Resurrection'.
• Let the grim realisation of the second death renew our hearts and minds to tell out to a lost and dying world the glorious plan of salvation in Jesus Christ: Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.

• Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted, for godly sorrow produces repentance which leads to salvation.

• Christ's act of coming into the world as a Man, was a vital step He took in bringing salvation to mankind.
• No wonder Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, who had proudly followed the letter of the Law and considered himself to have lived a perfect life before his encounter with Christ and his great salvation, lamented in poverty of spirit, that of all men he was the worst of sinners.
• The very purpose of the incarnation was salvation for a rebellious race that was dead in trespasses and sin, at enmity with God, and condemned to eternal separation from their Creator.

• David was able to eventually cry in all his distresses and pain: I have trusted in Your lovingkindness; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
• My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.

• Because of His sinless life, death could not hold Him and His own perfect life was restored to Him when He was resurrected from the dead - and that perfect, sinless resurrected life of Christ is the free gift of God's grace to all who trust on His name for salvation.
• At salvation we were made a new creation in Him, with a new life and a new nature.
• Christ died once for all on the Cross; therefore let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, which streams forth from a grateful heart that has been washed clean by the redeeming blood of Christ and is shown forth through the fruit of our lips when we give thanks to the Lord for His goodness and grace, and sing praises to the God of our salvation.

• We are not expected to hide our light under a bushel nor to turn a deaf ear to their pitiful state of the unsaved, for all are in need of salvation, and all need Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Yet by God's grace, their stumbling has brought salvation to the Gentiles.
• Despite having rejected the God Who created them, and having refused His gracious offer of salvation by grace through faith in Christ, man has continued on his foolish quest to establish his own form of peace into this world at war.

• None of us are lacking in the love that God has poured into our hearts, but some sadly choose to walk in the flesh or live in legalism, rather than flourishing in the fullness of God's Holy Spirit, which was poured into our hearts at salvation, and which continues to be poured into our hearts as we walk in spirit and in truth.

• But Revelation is also a book or predictive prophecy, much of which has yet to be fulfilled in the coming Tribulation Period (after the Church has been raptured into heaven) when God's wrath will be poured out on a Christ-rejecting, God-hating, sinful world that has rejected God's offer of salvation and must face His justified punishment.

• But since we are of the day, let’s be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Paul also goes on to tell us that although we are to be watchful for the Day-of-the-Lord, we as believers will not be on earth for the 7 year Tribulation period where God's wrath is poured out: For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

• Christ's ministry to Israel was before the Cross, but after the Cross, salvation was open to Jew and Gentile alike and it was by grace through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Salvation was made available to all;both Jew and Gentile in one Body and, by God's grace, Paul was called to be the main apostle for this ministry.

• It is the new, born again life we received at salvation that must grow.

• There is nothing in the vastness of the universe that compares with the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of God's free and unconditional love towards those that simply believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. 
• Never should we become casual about the power and great glory that is encased within the gospel of grace, which brought us out of a terrible pit and set our feet on the Rock of our salvation.

• In Your salvation how greatly we rejoice!
• Not only does the Lord give Israel victory on the battlefield, but their ultimate salvation is through Christ. The great victory about which David is rejoicing is not simply related to a past historical victory but reaches into a future, worldwide deliverance, when the enemies of God will be utterly destroyed from the face of the earth, those who seek to thwart Christ's coming kingdom will retreat in terror, and the Lord God of Israel will be highly exalted in all the earth.

• God has not destined us for wrath but to obtain salvation through Christ.
• Every man and woman has a free-will choice to trust in Christ for salvation because the wrath of God against their sin and ours was paid at Calvary.
• The choice is to believe and be forgiven of all sin, which means that we escape the wrath to come, having obtained salvation in Christ.
• The only alternative is to refuse to believe on the only begotten son of God, in which case those who refuse God's offer of salvation by grace through faith in Him will suffer the full force of God's anger, wrath, and condemnation because they did not believe on the only begotten Son of God.
• We have not been appointed for wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Oh, our eternal salvation is secure in Christ, for God will never renege on His promise that all who trust in Christ as Saviour will inherit eternal life as His free gift of grace, but we are also to walk worthy of Him in our Christian life, resulting in wonderful rewards.

• The barren wombs of Sarah and Hannah, the immense walls of Jericho, the shocking condition under Egyptian slavery, and the intransigence of the great Pharaoh, resulted in the birth of Isaac, the prophet Samuel, the salvation of Rahab, and the Messiah of Israel.

• What was the purpose of setting standards that could never be reached?The Law was given to Israel not as a means to salvation, but to identify their sin and to establish their need for salvation, by faith.
• The Law spoke to them and they were to tell other nations that they needed salvation – by faith in God.It is by breaking a law that one is condemned by that law – and even if someone starts to keep that law perfectly, from one particular point in time, it cannot remove condemnation from past guilt, for we were born sinners.
• If the Law proves one thing, it demonstrates that keeping God's Law is not God's way of salvation.Keeping God's Law does not result in blessings or justification – it identifies sin.
• The Law IDENTIFIES sin but it cannot bring salvation.

• The Father's offer of salvation is open to whosoever will come as a free gift of grace.
• Salvation means coming to Christ's Cross for forgiveness of sin and life everlasting, which is open to all.
• Many come to Him for the salvation of their soul, but few come after Him in meekness of spirit.
• Christ was made sin for us, and our salvation depended on Christ identifying with our sin.

• The possible reason that Peter gave his extended instructions to wives, is because they may have been married to a pagan husband prior to salvation and whose attitude towards women would be very different from that of Christian men.

• It was during his second missionary journey, while staying in the city of Athens, that Paul taught certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers about the gospel of God and His great salvation – which is through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.On his arrival at Athens, Paul's spirit was provoked within his breast, when he saw that the city had been given over to the worship of idols and false deities.
• He began his discussion of salvation by rehearsing the creation account and introducing God as the one and only true God Who created the world and everything in it.
• The pagan deities that the Athenians worshipped, needed human beings to build their temples and bring them things, whereas the great God of the universe needs nothing from men – since He Himself gives life and breath to all people and all things.There is no correct way to introduce the gospel of grace to unbelievers, but there does need to be willingness to tell others about Jesus and bring God's message of salvation to the lost – and many missionaries have found that a good starting point is to give others a correct understanding of the God of creation Who made heaven and earth and everything in it, and of man whom God created in His own image, but who sinned and needs to be redeemed from sin and death and hell.May we, who have been saved by grace through faith, make ourselves available to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit so that lost sinners may be given the opportunity to hear the gospel and believe, through our ministry – for how shall they hear if no one is willing to tell them?

• The Lord was long-suffering with the city of Nineveh, and 100 years before Nahum pronounced God's vengeance and wrath over the wicked city of Nineveh, God had sent Jonah to preach the gospel of salvation to the evil men of that nation.

• The Law is the tool that God used to show fallen man that they are lost sinners in need of salvation, but the Law can never correct sin which only comes by grace through faith in Christ.

• This beautiful passage in Isaiah chapter 53 is beloved by all who have trusted Christ for salvation.
• But those of us who have trusted Christ for salvation and are being conformed into the image and likeness of Christ cry out with reverential fear: Hallelujah!!

• However, the majority of mankind chooses to directly disregard His divine authority so that: The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth, by means of their unrighteous choices, denying the Truth, and rejecting God's amazing offer of salvation.
• God's gracious gift of salvation by grace through faith in the shed blood of Christ for the remission of sin, has been made available to all.
• We should not be ashamed of the glorious gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe, and yet the majority of mankind reject His gracious offer of salvation by grace through faith and pour scorn on the irrefutable, undeniable, incontrovertible evidences of His divine majesty.

• Jesus then gives a beautiful picture of our justification (initial salvation) and sanctification (ongoing walk with the Lord): Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean.

• The same One Who made us from the dust of the earth, designed a plan to restore the joy of our salvation, and He did this as a gift of His grace and a demonstration of His mercy.

• His earnest expectation and hope, was that his message and ministry would not be discredited or put to shame in any way, but that he would be able to continue speaking out the marvellous message of salvation freely, openly, and boldly so that whether he lived or died, the lovely Lord Jesus Christ would be magnified by his imprisonment.

• They will be clothed in righteousness from the God of our salvation.
• This is indeed a message of hope and encouragement for all who have trusted Christ for their salvation.

• The one who hates his brother does not know where he is going because the darkness, caused by his hatred, has blinded his eyes.This is, indeed, a strong condemnation of the 'one' who hates his brother, especially as this serious state of affairs does not refer to the condition of an unbeliever prior to their salvation, but to a Christian after having been born of the Spirit.Earlier in the epistle, John explained that the believer who sins, must confess his sin to God the Father… and the Lord Jesus will act as our Heavenly Advocate so that our sins may be forgiven and fellowship with the Father may be restored.Hatred is a sin and every sin we commit causes the believer's fellowship with the Father to be broken – until our sin is confessed to Him.

• We must not confuse the rewards we receive for holy living with the free gift of salvation which we received freely by grace through faith in Christ.

• That inner power is not of ourselves but the supernatural workings of the Holy Spirit, for He is continuously working in the inner man (that new life in Christ that we received at salvation), in order to transform us from glory to glory into the person and character that befits a spiritual man, a child of God, a joint-heir with Christ, and a citizen of heaven.

• Jesus could legitimately say to this Gentile woman: You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.
• Jesus was not only the almighty, omniscient God Who planned and purposed that salvation would be available to all by grace through faith in the Messiah of Israel, but prophets of old wrote that He would be born of the Seed of the woman Who would come through the nation of Israel, of the line of Judah, and the house of David.
• Salvation is indeed from the Jews, for God foreordained that His only begotten Son would be born of a Jew, of the lineage and house of David.
• Salvation is indeed from the Lord, for God planned and purposed that His only begotten Son would be born as a Man, that His name would be called Jesus, and that He would save His people from their sins: For there is no other name given under heaven whereby we must be saved.
• This dear Gentile woman had a partial but limited understanding of the truth of God, the worship of God, and of God's great plan of salvation by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Let us worship the God who ordained from the beginning His glorious plan of man's salvation by grace through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of our Saviour Jesus Christ.

• In this chapter, Peter reminds us about our great inheritance that is being kept for us in heaven, and that this life is our one opportunity to prove our faith, as we walk by the Spirit to the praise and glory of the Father, eventually resulting in praise, glory, and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed. And the reason we can so confidently walk by faith today is all because of Christ, our living hope: Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

• Paul pleads with his readers, If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world (by trusting Christ for salvation) why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, 'Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!' If you have died with Christ, you are freed from the curse of the Law. 

• His father announced that John would be a prophet of the Most High and give God's people a knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sin, and throughout his ministry, John gave testimony of the Person and work of Christ. 
• But he testified of the coming One Who was greater than he was, Who would baptise with the Holy Spirit for salvation to all who believe, and with the fire of judgement for those who refuse His offer of salvation.

• They were being led away from the good news of salvation by Israel's arrogant leaders.
• And so God set Israel aside, for a season, until they repent of their sin nationally, and call on the name of the Lord for salvation.
• He also pronounced seven shocking 'woes' against these pious, hypocritical, religious leaders, who had spurned God's anointed Messiah and rejected His offer of salvation.

• THEY were His chosen people who were to tell the wonderful message of salvation to a cursed, Gentile world which was drowning in sin.
• BUT although Israel broke covenant with God, the silken thread of His goodness, grace, and comfort continued to be woven into the history of Israel – which would finally produce an amazing tapestry of salvation for every human life who would trust His Word.God in His grace, sent His only begotten Son to pay the enormous price for their sin and the sin of the whole world, and in Isaiah chapter 40, this great prophet of Israel begins to write his beautiful, prophetic words of comfort to God's people which would eventually be manifested in the birth, life, and sacrifice of the incarnate Word of God.

• He explains that it is through Christ that we have peace with God, and it is by grace through faith in Him that we have access to this free gift of salvation.
• And as we read through this fifth chapter of Romans, we discover that this astonishing free gift of salvation, which is accessed by faith alone in Christ alone, is multiplied into an even greater and a much more wonderful truth: Having now been justified by His blood, we will also be saved from the wrath of God, all because of our faith in Christ.

• Once again, the nation of Israel was being called on to repent nationally, turn from sin, follow their Messiah, and fulfil their original calling to tell the world of God's love, and grace, and His plan of salvation.
• The calling of God is trustworthy and true, and the nation that God called to be His chosen people, will one day fulfil their calling to tell the world of God's love, and grace, and His plan of salvation.

• The work of salvation changes a sinner into a saint and transfers a person from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son.
• Justification (initial salvation or conversion), is the first stage of salvation and a once-for-all work of God Himself in the life of a believer that is permanent and can never be lost.
• Sanctification (the process of salvation or Christian living), is the ongoing work of God in the life of a justified man or woman.
• Glorification (the final step in salvation or completed salvation), when we go into His presence clothed in our new, resurrected, glorified bodies and see Him as He is.
• Every stage of salvation is by faith and not by works of the flesh.
• Salvation in all its stages has nothing to do with our own merit or good works, but has everything to do with faith in Christ and HIS good work.
• One blessing of salvation is the immediate and permanent indwelling Holy Spirit Who develops in us the precious fruit of His righteousness through many acts of faith, as we grow in grace.
• We received the imputed righteousness of Christ at salvation, but the impartation of the spiritual fruit of righteousness, is rooted and grounded in godly acts of faith which can only be produced as we allow the Spirit to lead and guide us in all we do.

• He invites them to come and partake of His unconditional salvation.
• He is slow to anger and desires to restore to them the joy of their salvation - but they must listen to His voice, hear His word, partake of what is good, and delight their soul in the abundance of His blessings.
• It is a godly summons to the lost, to come to HIM, and trust Him for salvation, for it is not God's will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and faith in Christ.

• Because of her courage, the nation was once again protected by God, and on the following day - the 14th of Adar - the feast of Purim was established... and although it is not one of the biblical feasts laid out in the Law of Moses, it continues to this day to be joyfully celebrated as Israel remembers the day salvation came to the Jews through the courage of queen Esther.
• Sadly, they do not yet know that Purim is a dim shadow of their great salvation which comes through faith in Jesus Christ - for the eternal Son of God came to earth as the perfect Son of Man to pay the price for their sins and to redeem His people, Israel, as foretold by the ancient prophets.

• Light is always identified as holy and good, for Christ is the light of the world Who has poured the light of salvation and the light of His eternal life into the heart of all who believe in Him.

• He not only paid the price for our sins, but he broke the power of sin in the life of all who trust in Him for salvation.

• Sin caused fallen man to be separated from his holy Creator, and yet God in His grace, wisdom, justice, and mercy, chose to reveal Himself and His glorious plan of salvation through His Word.

• We can only attain to the standard that God requires of all his children if we die to self and live to Christ; if we keep the old sin nature nailed to the Cross and live, and move, and have our being in the new born-again nature of the Christ-life that we receive at salvation.

• God gave man free will to choose or to reject His gracious offer of salvation, but God in His omniscience knew, from before the foundation of the world, who would accept His gift and who would reject it.
• God does not exclude anyone from salvation.
• Indeed, it is not God's will that anyone should perish but that all should come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and so be given eternal life, and there are a multitude of heavenly benefits that flow from this free gift of salvation, given to all who trust in Jesus as Saviour.

• Similarly, once justified, Christians do not lose their salvation, but lack of faith can keep us defeated and wandering in a wilderness of spiritual immaturity, rather than claiming the precious promises of God that are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ.

• A knowledge of the truth of God's Word brings joy to every heart that trusts in Christ for salvation.

• Christ took the punishment we deserve when He died on the cross in our stead, so that we no longer need to fear God's wrath, because He declared us righteous at the point of our salvation. 

• But God’s salvation painted a very different picture from Israel’s perceived imagination of deliverance, at that first advent of the Lord Jesus Christ.He shall save His people from their oppressors but FIRST He must save them from their sin.

• The devil cannot accuse us when we are abiding in Christ and covered in the armour of God - for Christ is our salvation and we have the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

• But following their miraculous escape from slavery in Egypt and God's covenant to provide for all their needs, some turned away from the God of their salvation and became idolators.

• We have been called to share forth the good news of the glorious gospel of grace to a lost and dying world, for God in His omniscience, knew who would accept His gracious offer of salvation, by faith.
• Darkness is the domain of those who reject God's offer of salvation.

• God's blessing of salvation is not given because of works of the Law.
• God gives salvation freely; apart from works.
• It is unbiblical to teach that to gain salvation one has to keep the Law, or that one is justified by engaging in a religious ritual, or undertaking a good work.
• And so, when any post-salvation sin was confessed, David was restored into fellowship with the Lord.

• Paul spoke out God's secret wisdom which had been hidden for ages and generations but has now been revealed to all who have trusted Christ for salvation.
• Paul was God's appointed apostle to the Gentiles and the message of salvation that he proclaims in his epistles did not originate from man, but from God.

• In a moment of time these wicked men would all be swept always into eternal separation from the Lord, while Asaph's own future was secured to the Rock of our salvation.

• And His mother was instructed to name Him Jesus, which being interpreted is, 'God is Salvation'.
• Through His death and Resurrection, Jesus broke down the middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile, uniting us together into one Body with one Lord Jesus Christ, one faith in Him for salvation, and one baptism by the Holy Spirit of God into the Body of Christ, which is the Church.

• This is a glorious statement of fact and a profound promise that keeps our souls eternally secure in the God of our salvation.
• The unchangeable nature of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, is an all-embracing assurance that His Word is faithful, and His promises are true, His saving grace is free to all who trust in Him for salvation, and none of the many precious promises contained in the Word of God can ever fail.

• I am sure that Paul had a special place in his heart for these brothers and sisters in Thessalonica who received the message of salvation with joy and peace, who believed despite the severe suffering they were undergoing, and whose exemplary faith was talked about across Greece and beyond: Brethren, beloved by God, he wrote we recognise and know that He has selected you; He has chosen you.
• Some choose to ignore, question, dismiss, or challenge our 'election', because they consider it conflicts with the doctrine of human responsibility and man's volition, while others reject the doctrine of man's freewill choice in salvation and teach that salvation depends on God's sovereign will alone, without any free-will option for man, but the Bible teaches both God's sovereign will AND man's free-will choice. 

• Christ's Sermon is not a presentation of the gospel, nor does it explain the plan of salvation to unbelievers.
• Although the entire Sermon on the Mount is distinctly Jewish and was originally given to a remnant of Jews who trusted Christ for their salvation, the principles apply to all people who already are, or will become, part of His kingdom on earth.

• Finally, the appointed time for Israel's deliverance arrived and God, in His grace, raised up a horn of salvation for His people - Jesus, the Christ.

• As born again believers, we are given a new nature (which is the very life of Christ), when we trust in Him for salvation.
• For those that are spiritually minded carry out their good works from their new born again nature from Christ which is imputed to us at salvation, rather than reverting back to their old, carnal nature which was inherited from Adam - a fallen, sinful nature is the birth-right of all humanity.

• And God's gift of salvation to the human race would be LIFE, eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord - the second Man - the last Adam.

• Before the creation of the world, the omnipotent God foreknew which men and women, down through the centuries, would choose to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

• We may sever our close communion with our Father in heaven and cause the sweet fellowship we enjoy to turn sour, but we can never lose our eternal salvation or sever our relationship with our Father.
• Some Christians say that our great salvation and God's gracious acceptance of us is too easy, and encourages believers into licentious living and a careless attitude, but I suggest to you that as a believer grows and matures in the faith and starts to see the incredible, glorious grace of God and the staggering truth that is outlined in the first few chapters of Ephesians, it will open your eyes to that amazing love of the Father and compel you to glorify His holy name.
• The truths that are packed into these early verses of the epistle to the Ephesians should rejoice our heart, steady our soul, dispel our doubts, and strengthen our faith, and we should thank Him continuously for our great salvation and the many precious promises that are ours in Christ.

• The reverence Abel offered to the Lord through the blood-sacrifice, signifies the first step in a believer's walk of faith, that salvation is by grace through by faith in God's Word.

• They could not comprehend that they were sinners in need of salvation, nor could they recognise the barrenness of their soul or the importance of repenting of their sin, both individually and nationally.

• They came as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God to bring them hope of salvation.

• It opens up God's plan of salvation so that whosoever believes on Him will not perish but have everlasting life.

• We live in a fallen world, and there are many challenges that face the believer who has not only trusted Christ for salvation, but is also ready and willing to deny self, take up his cross, follow Christ’s example, and say without compromise – Thy will, not mine, be done.The newborn baby Christian has to grow in grace and mature in the faith over an unspecified period of time, to reach this level of maturity in his faith, while other who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ may slip in and out of carnality and worldliness for many years, stunting their growth and even regressing in their faith back to spiritual infancy.Many, if not all believers, are called to become mature in the faith by walking in spirit and truth and living godly, Christ-centred lives, but few are willing to exchange the cosy blessings of early Christian infancy, for the difficulties that inevitably follow the mature believer.

• There was an urgency in this earnest entreaty, for Paul desired that these faithful Thessalonian believers, and all who trust in Christ for salvation, become shining examples of godly living.

• The Lord jealously guards His character and will make a complete and terrifying end of all the inhabitants of the earth who reject His offer of salvation.

• It was when the Lord revealed His plan to destroy the wicked cities and their inhabitants that Abraham not only considered the fate of Lot and others in that city who had trusted God for salvation, but also had pity for the many souls who were dead in their sin.
• But man also has a freewill to believe or to refuse to trust in His gracious offer of salvation, and even when things happen that we don't understand, we must never forget that He is God and we are not.

• It was then that the Lord Jesus turned to His disciples, and looking at them, intently, He said to them, 'With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' With man, it is impossible to be saved, but with God all things are possible, including the salvation of sinners.
• Jesus was teaching that good works aren't sufficient to gain salvation and riches can't buy salvation.
• Nothing we can do can earn salvation and nothing we can give can purchase salvation.
• Salvation is a free gift of God's grace to guilty sinners through faith in Christ.
• Salvation is a supernatural act of the omnipotent God, given to those who are saved by faith.
• Salvation is impossible with man, but praise God that it is possible with Him.
• The impossible task of our eternal salvation was made possible by God.

• My horn is exulted in God, was Hannah’s exultant prayer of praise and thanksgiving, My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation… The bows of the mighty are shattered, but the feeble gird on strength… The LORD will judge the ends of the earth.

• There are no contradictions in the Word of God, and yet many believers consider this letter of James to be at odds with the teachings of the apostle Paul, for James seems to be basing salvation on works while Paul clearly says, Having be justified by faith we have peace with God.
• James is emphasising that genuine salvation is based on works which can be observed by man, while Paul teaches that genuine salvation is based on sincere, heart-faith which can only be seen by God!
• Only God can see the heart, so only God can see the root of salvation (faith), but when a Christian is walking in spirit and truth, they will produce the fruit of salvation (good works which God has prepared for us to do).
• But both the root and the fruit of salvation are only manifested in a man or woman that is a born-again believer, and not in an unsaved person who is professing to believe in Jesus or pretending to be a Christian.
• Paul and James are approaching salvation (or saving faith) from two different perspectives (God's and man's).
• But James is also making a contrast between a true believer and one that only makes an outward profession of faith while not having truly trusted in the only object of faith which brings salvation to mankind (the death, burial, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God and perfect Son of Man).

• She was to come to realise that there is salvation in no other name than Jesus, for salvation has come through the Jews, in the person of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

• Once we trust God for salvation (where God paid the price our sins), we should then trust God for our sanctification (where God breaks the power of sin in our life).

• The Tribulation period is not only to punish the nations for rejecting God's offer of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but is designed to punish His people for their rebellious apostasy, defiant idolatry, and many centuries of disobedience.
• However, the works of those that rejected God's offer of salvation will be judged and found wanting, and they will face the full wrath of God's great anger - and not one will be able to stand on that awful day.
• May we recognise that the time is short and do all that we can to tell a lost world that salvation is by grace through faith in Christ, Who faced the wrath of God for us when He died on the Cross.

• The very instrument that God gave Israel in order to point them to Christ for salvation, was the very tool they modified to accuse the Son of God of blasphemy, and this particular Sabbath-day healing was a great turning-point in Christ's ministry, because from that time forward: The Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him.

• He became the Founder of our faith and Finisher of our salvation.Though He was fully God and a perfect, sinless Man, Christ was to be made perfect during His sojourn on earth, through a willing obedience to His Father and the things that He suffered as He walked towards the Cross: For it was fitting for Him, for Whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.Jesus was not 'made perfect' through some moral refinement or lessons on virtue, for perfection can’t be advanced or improved.

• Jesus is the well-spring of Life and the Light that has come into the world to give hope to all who will trust on His name for salvation, and His invitation to 'COME' is for whosoever will.
• This promise of rest that Jesus offers is a rest that He freely gives to all who will come to Him for salvation.

• One cannot get away from the Jewish nature of Matthew's Gospel and for good reason, for salvation is from the Jews because salvation must come through faith in JESUS, the Jewish Messiah.

• His initial praise in the opening verses quickly turned back to an urgent petition for the Lord: Restore us our salvation and cause Your indignation toward us to cease.
• Show us Your lovingkindness, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation!
• He trusted the Word of the Lord and was ready to testify that the salvation of the Lord is near to those who fear Him, and that a day is coming when the earth will be filled with God's glory, their Messiah will dwell in the land He promised to Israel, mercy and truth will meet together, and righteousness and peace will kiss one another.

• It denounces justification by works of the law, insists that salvation is by grace through faith in Christ alone, and like the epistles to the Romans and Hebrews, it quotes the singular, most noteworthy verse from Habakkuk that prompted the great 16th century reformation: The just shall live by faith.
• Galatians confirms the reformers' premise that the Bible is the plumb-line for truth, with Scripture being the sole authority in matters of faith as it relates to the salvation of the soul.
• It stresses that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
• It reminds us that salvation is for the glory of God alone, and that our salvation is the primary evidence of the outpouring of His undeserved grace and favour on all who believe.
• Paul's testimony was the most glorious example that salvation is by God's grace and not by man's merit or works of the Law.
• Paul considered himself as the least-worthy of sinners and certainly not deserving of salvation, yet it was by grace that God looked down at this legalistic man who was ravaging the Church, entering house after house and dragging off men and women, putting them in prison, and mercilessly persecuting the Body of Christ... and decided to use him as His apostle to the Gentiles!
• Religiosity, legalism, Judaism, 'Lordship' salvation, and many other teachings that promote salvation by works are unscriptural, and yet are promoted in many churches today.
• No wonder Paul said that anyone who teaches a different gospel other than salvation by grace alone through faith in Christ alone, is to be cursed.
• May we be willing to stand up for the gospel of Grace, when legalistic teachers tell us that salvation requires something in addition to faith.
• May we live lives that point others to Christ and not to ourselves so that others may see that our salvation is by God's grace and not our own merit, and glorify our Father in heaven.

• This is the promise of God to all who trust in Christ for salvation both during the Church Age and during the Great Tribulation.

• Paul's prayer for all who have found their eternal salvation in Christ, is that God would direct each of our hearts into the love of God so that in Him we would reflect His patient endurance and steadfast love, as we are being conformed, day by day, into the image and likeness of Christ.
• The unfathomable depth of God's love is beyond man's understanding, and that love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has come to permanently indwell our body at the moment of salvation.

• Christ is our Salvation; and Christ is the Truth.

• But he was trying to win salvation and favour from God by all the good things that he did.
• God's way is by faith, and salvation is a free and irreversible gift of God's grace to man.
• Salvation is only given to those that have faith in the Messiah; the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God.

• The forgiveness of sin, life everlasting, and the gates of heaven itself are flung open wide to whosoever will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.
• There is no need for even one member of the human race to perish, for God’s invitation for salvation is open to ALL.
• The only condition to receive His free gift of salvation is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.

• He is the Anchor of our soul, the Bread of Life, the Living Water, and He is the One who gives the water of eternal life to whosoever thirsts, for He is the One Who has provided salvation, by grace through faith in Him.

• We are to watch for Him, recognise that the consummation of the age is very close, and be ready for His imminent return... when, in the twinkling of an eye, the dead in Christ will be raised imperishable, and all who believe on the Lord for salvation will be changed into the likeness of Christ.
• He will display His righteous judgement before the nations and will destroy Israel's enemies and FINALLY, salvation will visit His people.

• Paul reminds us that believers are not only called to trust in the Lord Jesus for salvation but also to be ready to suffer for His name's sake.
• We live in a world where the vast majority of people are dead in their trespasses and sins, at enmity with God, and have willingly rejected His gracious offer of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 

• And in this passage, the Lord Himself urges the Gentile nations to come to Him for salvation, to believe on Him for redemption, and to confess His holy name.
• This passage, which speaks of salvation, will one day be fulfilled in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, following the seven-year Tribulation Period which is that 'time of Jacob's Trouble'.
• There is an increasing urgency to spread abroad the gospel of salvation to ALL who are dead in their sins so that they may turn to the Lord and be saved - for the Lord has spoken: Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no other.

• The resurrection of the body is one of the many advantages of trusting Christ for salvation.
• He knew that the good works that we do to the glory of God have no effect on our salvation - for salvation is exclusively by grace through faith in Christ's sacrifice.
• He also knew that salvation is the first stride and not the final step in our Christian life.

• God set in motion His new work of redemption, and His glorious plan of salvation started to unfold.
• The salvation of man's spirit, soul, and body became God's continuous work of salvation from the moment that man sinned.
• Each member of the Godhead has their own unique role in the salvation of mankind, and that work of salvation; spirit, soul, and body, will continue until there is a new heaven, a new earth, and eternal rest for the Creator and His creation alike.

• Most of that generation missed their Messiah and are placed under condemnation as prophesied, but the little remnant of Israel who accepted Christ's message of salvation at His First Coming, received the promised restoration; the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.
• Christ took the punishment for the sins of all who believe on the name of the Son of God for salvation; God's wrath was poured out on Him in our stead, and for His sake, there is no longer condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus.
• Those who trusted Christ for salvation will not be condemned and will be settled in their land, as promised to their forefather, Abraham.

• Paul knows that spiritual knowledge, godly counsel, and an understanding of the Scripture, is able to make us wise for salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• This selfish and uncaring attitude in a Christian does not invalidate their salvation as some like to teach, but it does show they are carnal and out of fellowship with the Father, for the love of God is not being reflected in their life.

• He was the Horn of his salvation.
• And David rejoiced in the God of his salvation.
• And perhaps the climax of his jubilant song is captured in verse 46, where he writes, The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock; and may the God of my salvation be exalted.
• No doubt, as David reflected on life and living, in the knowledge that the Messiah was coming one day to sit on his throne and establish an everlasting kingdom, that David cried out, blessed be my Rock and exalted be the GOD of my salvation.  David knew his Saviour was coming one day, and together with all Old Testament saints, he looked forward to that day of redemption and rejoiced in the God of their salvation, Who was to come.
• May we bless the Lord at all times and exalt the God of our salvation, for He is our Rock and He is our strong Tower.

• Mary also needed salvation which could only come through her firstborn Son.

• He is the Rock of our salvation, for in Him alone are the words of eternal life.

• In that day, the nation of Israel will repent of their sin, recognise their folly, return to the Lord God of their fathers, and call out to their Messiah for salvation.
• We have waited for Him and we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
• By grace we have been saved from the wrath to come and we rejoice in our salvation from Christ’s finished work on Calvary.
• It was for the joy that was set before Him that the Lord Jesus endured the Cross, and it is with hopeful expectation and joyful anticipation that we wait for His any-day return, when He will take us to be with Himself forever, and how we rejoice in our sure salvation.
• We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.

• However, his lament is short-lived because he knows his refuge in the God of his salvation and calls out to the Lord: O send out Your light and Your truth.
• When Israel were away from their land and the holy Temple of God, they were unable to fulfil the requirements of the Law and were denied the joy that worshipping in the house of God afforded all who trusted in Him for their salvation.

• Those who rejected God's offer of salvation will reap eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord - they will find themselves excluded from the glory and majesty of God's mercy and love.
• While-ever there is life, the offer of salvation remains open, but today must be the day of salvation for the sinner, if tomorrow is not to end up in eternal destruction.

• There is also one faith with a settled body of doctrine that is clearly laid out in Scriptures, one baptism into the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation, one God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one Holy Spirit Who gives spiritual gifts to all who are positioned in Christ.

• The duties of the day and responsibilities of life will continue to bear down upon this man, but God's servant has learned that those who wait on the Lord will have their strength renewed and their souls refreshed... for the Lord’s righteousness is immeasurable and His salvation lasts throughout all generations.No matter what fears and foes are crouched at his door and irrespective of the arrows that fly by day or the pestilence that lurks in the dusk, the psalmist has placed his lifelong confidence in the righteous Lamb of God to deliver him.
• This seasoned saint was not ashamed to make mention of the gospel of God, which is the power of salvation to all who believe, and so he was ready to 'gossip' the gospel.
• While we rejoice in our great salvation, may we go forward in the strength of the Lord our God, and make mention of His goodness, His grace, and His eternal righteousness.

• The assurance we have in our great salvation, by faith in Christ, is rooted in this oath the Lord made to His servant.
• When the enormity of God's oath to our father Abraham takes root in our heart and mind, how can we ever doubt God's goodness towards us or question our eternal salvation and the eternal security that is ours in Christ.
• The Lord showed the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan of salvation when He made His oath to Abraham.
• May we who have trusted Him for salvation take refuge in the strong encouragement we gain from this passage and take hold of the salvation that is ours by faith in Christ.

• My shield and the horn of my salvation.
• As the Rock of our salvation, Jesus is the One that has been raised up, far above all others.
• He is my shield and the horn of my salvation.
• But the Lord is also the object of David's love and adoration, and like David, may we also proclaim, He is the One Who anoints me with the oil of gladness, and He is none other than my GOD - my Father, my Lord, my Saviour, my Friend, my King and my ALL in ALL.the LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, and my stronghold.

• No matter where we are placed in the history of the world, we receive God's gracious gift of salvation by believing His Word.

• The Lord Jesus was not simply referring to the physical resurrection of people like Lazarus, Jairus' daughter, or the dead son of the widow of Nain, but to all who would hear and receive His message of salvation, and trust in His own redeeming blood for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.
• And so in His grace, the eternal Son of God stripped Himself of His heavenly garments and was made in the likeness of sinful man so that by His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection, He would rise to life immortal and be given the authority from on high to give His resurrected life to all who would trust in His sacrificial death for salvation.

• Nicodemus may have known the letter of the Law, but He did not know the Word of truth, the Word of life, the Word of light, and the Word of salvation about Whom the Scriptures were written.

• From the glories of the gospel of grace flow love, joy, peace, hope, and salvation.

• The Lord made the way of salvation so simple that even a little child could understand.

• We are positioned in Him through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and it is by being baptised into the Body of Christ at salvation, that we become identified with His death as well as His life.

• In His grace and love, He reached down to the fallen race of man, to pick us up out of the miry clay and set our feet on the Rock of our salvation.

• Having been saved by grace through faith in Christ, obtaining eternal redemption through the one and only means of salvation (by trusting in the Cross of Christ, for the forgiveness of sins) we are warned not to become legalistic, by reverting back to the Levitical system.
• Hebrews is written to believers who have already received eternal salvation.
• The phrase, 'the saving of the soul' in this verse, does not refer to eternal salvation - which is a free gift of God's grace and can never be taken away.
• Saving one's 'soul' or saving one's 'life' does not refer to eternal salvation, but to living one's life in such a way that God is honoured.
• For an unbeliever, the saving of the soul is salvation by grace through faith, BUT when we are already born again, the saving of our soul occurs when a believer lives their life for Christ and dies to self.

• The Christians at Galatia had started their Christian life so well by trusting in the Lord Jesus for salvation by faith.

• Christ is the gift of life and the message of salvation to a lost and dying world.

• It is not a nice reminder of our pre-salvation status, but this is the raw truth of what the sin of pride and disobedience towards our Creator God has done to humanity in general, and you and me in particular.
• Salvation is indeed by grace alone - through faith alone - in Christ alone, but never let us ignore that tremendous price that God Himself had to pay so that you and I could be given this free gift of salvation.

• The new life we received at salvation is being transformed into the image and likeness of Christ, as we mature in the faith, grow in grace, and gain a more intimate knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

• Jesus knew His mission was to call His people to repent of their sin and to deliver the message of salvation to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• Jesus, Who was sent to bring salvation to Israel, was from the tribe of Judah; of the house and lineage of David.
• He came as the promised Seed of Abraham, through Whom all the families of the earth would be blessed, for it was through God's chosen people that salvation was to come to all men.
• This daughter of the Gentiles had to gain some dispensational understanding before Jesus could help her, for salvation is from the Jew.
• To fulfil Scripture, Christ HAD to offer salvation to Israel first: I come ONLY to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• God's offer of salvation had to come THROUGH the Jewish Messiah first, but feeding on the Bread of Life from heaven is open to ALL.
• Salvation must come through faith in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Father and prophesied Messiah of Israel.
• The lesson we all have to learn is that it is only by faith in Christ that we are redeemed by God and declared righteous, for salvation is by grace through faith in Christ Jesus our Lord and Israel's Messiah.

• And while we can never lose our salvation, we can quench the Spirit, which dishonours God and is detrimental in our lives.

• However, salvation was not automatically credited to Israelites simply because of their earthly parentage, but by their faith in God.
• Both before and after the Cross, salvation is by grace through faith and righteousness is credited to ALL who believe God's Word... but before the Cross, there was a distinct difference between Jew and Gentile, the circumcised and the uncircumcised.

• He was to be the second Adam through Whom would come salvation for all who believe.

• Such men and women have rejected God's free gift of salvation by faith and have lives that are characterised by conflict with God, discord with God, disobedience towards God, and the disputing the truth of of God's Word.
• But those who have rejected God's gracious offer of salvation are already condemned, because they have not believed on the only begotten Son of God.
• All who have trusted Christ for salvation have already had their sins judged at the Cross.
• However, all who have rejected God's gracious offer of salvation are under condemnation and will be judged according to their own good works, and not the good work that Christ accomplished for them on the Cross on their behalf.
• They do not follow the Way and obey the Truth but rather they go their own way, they disobey the truth, and in so doing they reject God's free offer of salvation; the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.
• But every soul of man who does evil by rejecting God's free offer of salvation, is condemned already.
• To those who have believed in Christ, salvation.

• We are to accept that our salvation depends on what Christ did for us and not what we do for God. 
• They have submitted to a yoke of slavery rather than cherishing our freedom in Christ, and rejoicing in the hope of our salvation.
• Paul was convinced they would adopt no other view of salvation but the truth of God's written Word.

• Before our salvation, we were dead in our sin and at enmity with God.

• The Feast of Purim is a day of celebration for the nation of Israel, for it commemorates that joyful time when Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, was raised up by the Lord for the salvation of her people - the Jewish nation.
• God ordained that ONLY when the nation of Israel repents and call out to HIM for salvation, will He bring all things to completion.
• From that day forward,  14 Adar has been established as an additional feast-day in Israel's calendar, in thanksgiving and praise for God's gracious salvation of His people, Israel.
• We, who are been born again by grace through faith, can see an astonishing parallel between Esther's story of deliverance for her people, and God's redemptive plan of salvation for the whole of mankind.

• Paul's life had been turned upside-down and inside-out as a result of his encounter with the Lord of glory, and his immense love and eternal thanksgiving to God for his conversion to Christ and his salvation by grace, caused this man to follow the Lord with selfless abandon.

• God knows the end from the beginning and in His omniscience, He knows all who will one day exercise their God-given free-will and choose to believe on the only begotten Son of God for the salvation of their soul, the forgiveness of sins, and life everlasting.
• And in these few simple, yet profound words, Jesus declares that man's salvation is dependent on two things: divine sovereignty and human responsibility.
• Although no-one would come to salvation except the Spirit draws them, ALL who choose to believe in Christ, when convicted by the Holy Spirit of sin, righteousness, and judgement, become part of that Body of believers that are given by the Father to the Son.
• The whole company of believers who trust in Christ for salvation becomes a sovereign love-gift from God the Father to God the Son, through time and into eternity We are also given God's supreme assurance that all who come by grace through faith in Christ, will be given to Him by the Father and none shall pluck them out of His hands, and this is God's sovereign will.
• But Christ adds that every single person who trusts in Him for salvation will be accepted, and none will be cast away.
• Salvation has been made available to all who exercise their free-will and come to Christ for God's free gift of salvation.
• All are given the same offer of salvation.
• But ALL that the Father gives to Christ will come to Him, and not one who comes to Jesus for salvation will be cast away.

• Salvation is offered to anyone who will call on the name of the Lord - and that name is JESUS, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.

• Salvation is from the Lord, and God has raised up a Horn of salvation.
• A horn in Scripture denotes strength and authority, might and power, and God has raised up a Horn of salvation for us, a strong and mighty Saviour from the house and lineage of Israel's king David Who was to have the authority and power of the Almighty God.
• Just as the bright sunshine of a glorious day begins with a tiny pin-point of light whose tendrilled rays gradually increase into a flash of silver sunrise on the eastern horizon before bursting into the sky to shine its light and warmth on the cold, dark, dying earth, so also is the wonderful truth of God's salvation for human-kind.
• Hidden secretly in the womb of a young virgin was God's Horn of salvation.
• At last, the Messiah of Israel was coming into the world to shine His light on the people that walked in darkness and to proclaim salvation for whosoever will.
• The Messiah had been promised to Israel, for God had pledged that salvation was to come through the people of Israel.
• Salvation is from the Lord and can only come through believing on the death and Resurrection of the Jewish-born Messiah.
• God had also promised David that He would build him a house - and one of his descendants would be born as Messiah of Israel, the Horn of salvation, the one and only Saviour of the whole world.
• And 2000 years ago, God fulfilled his promise to raise up a Horn of salvation for us in the house of David, His servant.
• Jesus Christ was that salvation and He came to the people who walked in darkness and as a light to lighten the Gentiles.
• But the day is coming when He will return as the Son of righteousness with healing on His wings for all who trust in Christ as their Horn of salvation.

• They were to tell them God's plan of salvation and His coming kingdom, and they were to bring them into the fold of Israel.

• They were ready and willing to trust in the Lord joyfully, for their salvation.

• While the title and content of Hebrews suggests that its initial audience were immature converts from Judaism who were in danger of leaving their Christian faith and returning to the Law of Moses, the subject matter, instructions, and warnings offered in Hebrews are equally pertinent to Christians of today who have legalistic teachers, or trust in a works-based salvation message.
• In Hebrews chapter 1 we read that holy angels of God are used by Him as ministering spirits who are sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation.

• It is through the unity of the Trinity that we are presented with the many precious promises of our salvation, our sanctification, our glorification, and an eternal heritage that is kept for us in heaven. It is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, together as One Who illuminates our hearts and leads us in the way of righteousness and peace.

• May we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, knowing that the only true peace that will overshadow the nation in unbelief, is when they recognise Jesus as Lord and cry out to Him for their salvation.

• May we never lose track of the incredible privilege God's gift of salvation is to each of us who are saved by grace through faith.

• It also refers to the crushing weight of a believer's post-salvation sins.
• Unlike David, Church-age believers need never be concerned that the Holy Spirit will be taken from us, for He took up permanent residence in our heart the moment we trusted Christ for salvation and He will NEVER leave us nor forsake us, even when we sin.

• We may not know the time that the God the Father will send God the Son to rescue the Body of Christ (the Church) from the wrath that is to come, but we have His promise that we are not appointed to wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

• When we are faced with difficult decisions or find our faith is being challenged, we should turn to God's Word and read through this series of Psalms which will bring our focus back to the Lord our God and the joy of our salvation.

• When unregenerate man falls into the hands of an angry God, it is a terrible thing... but when it is the people of God who choose to make alliances with unregenerate nations instead of trusting in the God of their salvation Who bought them with His precious blood - it is indeed, a shocking indictment.

• This is a true story, but it is also a beautiful picture of developing faith; a simple childlike trust in the Lord Jesus which gave birth to the salvation of the soul for the forgiveness of sins, life everlasting, and spiritual growth.

• He mentioned judgement, but he did not talk about sin nor the need for salvation.
• Judgement is coming but those who have trusted in Christ as Saviour have already had their sins judged at the Cross, but those who have rejected His free offer of salvation will have to stand before Him as condemned sinners.
• How vital to let them know that the free gift of God is salvation.
• For all who reject Christ's sacrificial death and God's offer of salvation, that final day of judgement is fast approaching, for God has fixed a day in which the crucified and resurrected Jesus will judge the world in righteousness.

• He had told Nicodemus that as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that all who believe on Him - all Who look to the Son of Man for salvation - would be healed and declared righteous by His Heavenly Father.
• But His offer of salvation was wider than the chosen nation into which He was born.
• To fulfil Scripture, salvation had to come through the Seed of the woman Who was to crush the serpent's head, but the heel of the Saviour would also be bruised in the battle.
• To fulfil Scripture, salvation had to come through the Jews.

• The eternal, resurrected life of Christ which we receive at the point of our salvation, has all we need for life and godliness in this earthly realm, and in the world to come, life everlasting.

• No doubt, when Simeon saw Mary with the baby Jesus, his heart was stirred by the Holy Spirit so that he would take the baby into his arms and sing his memorable song of praise and thanksgiving: Now Lord, You are releasing Your bond-servant to depart in peace, according to Your Word; for my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared in the presence of all peoples - a light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people, Israel.

• Although we should not compromise the glorious gospel of salvation: That Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was buried and rose again, according to the Scriptures, there are certain minor issues that can cause disunity and disagreement between believers.

• Many mistakenly consider this to be a Christian that has lost his salvation, but this flies in the face of the undeniable scriptural truth, that our position in Christ is eternally secure.

• It was the third Person of the Godhead, sent to deliver God's full and final message of salvation to all Who will trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
• And so the Son of God as Son of Man became higher in rank than the angels He created, just as the name He inherited is superior to theirs for He was given the name Jesus: The Lord is my salvation - for He shall save His people from their sins.

• The judgements that the household of God must undergo during our sojourn on earth, will come from a God-hating, Christ-rejecting, unbelieving, sinful world, and be used by the Lord to discipline, chasten, purify, and refine us for His glory: And if it begins with us first (who have trusted Christ for salvation), what will be the outcome for those who do not obey (believe) the gospel of God (by trusting Christ)?
• In contract, the judgement of the unbelieving world was set in motion when they cried, we will not have this Man to rule over us, crucify Him.The judgement of the unbeliever who has rejected God's gracious offer of salvation is horrifying, for they will one day have to stand before the 'Great White Judgement Throne of God' where their works will be found wanting.

• Instructions for the post-Cross Church are also written in the New Testament, by the Word of the Lord: FAITH in the shed blood of Christ, for there is salvation in none other than Christ, the crucified Lamb of God Who shed His own blood for the sin of the whole world.

• He is given to all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

• Jesus told Pilate the good news of the gospel of grace and that He was indeed a King, that He was born to be King, that He came from heaven above into this fallen world to tell the lost souls the truth of salvation, and that whosoever hears His voice and believes in Him will be saved: God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him would not perish, but have everlasting life. 
• Did Pilate respond to Christ's offer of salvation?

• Having presented the eternal benefits and positive virtues of our great salvation, Ephesians 4:17-24, gives a serious reminder of the kind of lives we once lived in our pre-salvation existence: Darkened in their understanding and excluded from the life of God - because of the ignorance that was in them.

• We have received a free and full salvation and have been quickened and made alive, by faith in Christ.
• Our salvation has nothing to do with what we have done, but it has everything to do with what Christ had done on our account - therefore the desire of our hearts should be to do only those things that are pleasing in the sight of God and to live godly lives, in Christ Jesus.

• Redemption is offered to all, without exception, but is only received by those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

• Christ's sacrificial work on the Cross at Calvary, which includes His substitutionary death, burial, and Resurrection as laid out in Scripture, is the single most spectacular event that has ever taken place in time and into eternity, for by it, God opened up the way of salvation for whosoever will believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

• He would accomplish man's salvation by returning to the same holy City of God, only three years later, to walk the Calvary Road and be punished for the accumulated sin of the whole world.
• However, the combined ministries of John the Baptist together with that of the Lord Jesus Himself, did not bring the entire nation to cry out to Him for salvation.
• And although a remnant of Israel confessed Jesus as Lord and acknowledged Him as the Messiah and Son of God, their promised kingdom was postponed and their anointed King returned to heaven – until the entire nation of Israel will cry out to Him for salvation (at the Second Coming of Christ).
• But let us never forget: It is by their transgression that salvation has come to the Gentiles.

• Both for the nation of Israel and for unsaved Gentiles alike, the precious truth of this passage is that it is never too late for sinners or backsliders to turn away from their sins, to return to the Lord with all their heart, and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness and salvation.

• He is the crucified, risen, ascended, and glorified Lord Who, at the appointed time, was manifest in the flesh so that all who trust in Him for salvation would not perish, but have everlasting life.

• He was to break the power of sin and death in the lives of all who trust in Him for salvation by rising from the dead and becoming the federal head of a new creation of man, even for those who believe on His name.

• He was crucified on a cruel cross to make purification for the sins of the whole world so that whosoever will may come to Him for everlasting life, everlasting light, everlasting hope, everlasting peace, everlasting joy, everlasting salvation.

• Some use this passage as a 'proof text' to teach that salvation can be lost through an unbelieving heart, but this contradicts the clear, biblical teaching on soteriology, which dictates that salvation is by grace through faith.
• Similarly, Christians who are genuinely saved by God's grace through faith will not lose their salvation, but will suffer loss of a promised reward.

• Not only is salvation given to all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as a free gift of God's grace, but His ongoing favour is readily available to every believer, as we journey along the path of life.

• The King that stood before Pilate was Jesus, Who is our God our Salvation.

• He came to raise up a horn of salvation in the house of His servant David, to shine on those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
• While the people were blinded to the truth of salvation because they were only interested in Jesus fulfilling their physical needs, their leaders were blinded to the truth through a lust for control over the people and a refusal to hear the truth of God's Word.

• Although these instructions from Paul to Titus may appear to be predictable, and list behaviours that are appropriate for every man or woman of God and expedient for sound doctrine... nevertheless, there are greater numbers of people who reject God's offer of salvation by grace through faith in Christ... and remain enslaved to this satanic world system.

• We read in John's epistle that having believed in Christ for salvation, we were sealed in Him by the Holy Spirit of promise and that seal of God can never be broken, for the Word of God is true and stands fast forever.
• At the moment of salvation we were sealed, and God's seal on His children is a stamp of ownership.

• We are to be covered in His truth, covered in His righteousness, and rest in His peace and His salvation which is ours by grace alone through faith alone in His finished work alone.

• Similarly, the Law teaches, the Law protects, the Law disciplines, and the Law regulates, but the Law cannot make a sinner righteous, it can only identify our sins and point us to the Source of our salvation.

• This is a powerful reminder that all who thirst after the Rock of our salvation, will be satisfied by the rivers of living water that flood the inner soul of those that seek Him with all their hearts.

• Most men did not listen to the appointed representatives through whom the eternal, omnipotent God chose to communicate His astonishing plan of salvation.

• Judah will celebrate the Rock of Ages and the Lord Himself will rejoice over His redeemed people, with singing. It is in the middle of chapter 26 that a remnant of the house of Judah are seen celebrating a future event, when a repentant, redeemed, and restored Israel will have been reinstated as God's righteous nation, and set apart unto Him. They rejoice in their restored faith in the God of their salvation, on Whom they depend and through Whom comes the perfect peace of God which confounds all human understanding.

• Once he discovered that Jesus of Nazareth was his God and Saviour, Paul's desire was to tell others of our great salvation.
• When Paul was saved on the road to Damascus, he discovered the precious truth of the gospel; that salvation is a gift from God and the privileged possession of all who believe on Him.
• Paul's passion was to teach that salvation does not rely on anything we do but rests entirely on what Jesus Christ has done for us.
• Paul's primary passion was preaching the truth of the gospel of grace and pointing people to the One Who alone could provide salvation for a lost sinner.
• He was a minister of the gospel who was instructed to bring the good news to Jews and Gentiles in need of salvation.
• As Paul reminds us, there are many responsibilities that accompany our great salvation. 
• Like the apostle Paul, we have received our salvation by faith in Christ, and like him we have nothing to boast about, for our salvation does not depend on what we do but on what Christ has already done on our account.
• And like Paul, with the privileges that accompany salvation, there are certain responsibilities we have towards both God and fellow believers.

• While humanity's collective condemnation resulted from one man's sinful disobedience, God in His grace designed a glorious plan of salvation whereby one single act of obedience, carried out by the one sinless Man, would not only bring justification to those who believe in Him and the forgiveness of their sin, but so much more!
• But when you consider the plan of salvation that God has designed, we can only wonder at His goodness and grace in sending Jesus, His only begotten Son, to pay the price for the sin of the world so that whoever will trust in His name is identified with HIM and declared righteous through faith in Him.
• Sin and death may have come upon the whole human race through ONE act of sin which placed the whole of mankind under God's condemnation, but God in His grace provided salvation for the human race through ONE act of righteousness; Christ's death, burial, and Resurrection from the dead (so that whosoever believes on His name would not be condemned and perish, but would be forgiven and receive eternal life).

• This false gospel exchanged salvation, which can only come as a gracious gift of God through faith, into a striving type of salvation that can only be gained through man's legalistic works and depends on man's merit rather than God's grace.
• They had not understood that Christ was the fulfilment of the Law on behalf of all who believe in Him for salvation, and that salvation (both our justification and sanctification, as well as our final glorification) is ours by faith in Christ alone and not by works.
• Salvation is not dependent on what we DO but on what Christ has already DONE.
• Salvation is not dependent on any type of legalistic practices, but on grace alone, by faith alone, in Christ's finished work alone.
• But sadly today, many religions denominations, Jewish practices, and other works of the flesh are being added to the glorious gospel of Christ and His finished work on Calvary by certain legalistic groups as a necessary requirement for salvation.
• Paul's message in this verse is quite a serious warning to any ministry that is teaching there are extra things that we need to do for our initial salvation or for our ongoing sanctification, for it means that Christ's finished, sacrificial work on the Cross and His glorious Resurrection from the dead was not sufficient for our salvation.
• Let us hold fast to the truth which is plainly taught in the Bible: that salvation of the spirit, salvation of the soul, and salvation of the body, is dependent on grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, with no extra fleshly works.

• In the middle of God righteous sentence on sin, was nestled a gracious provision for mankind, which would secure salvation for Adam's fallen race through a sin-substitute.

• How could it be that the Almighty, Everlasting Father, the eternal Ancient of Days Who knows the end from the beginning, should condescend to send the salvation message of the ages to a rebellious people who are at enmity with Himself, and who would one day crucify His only begotten Son?

• He knows the choices every man will make, with respect to salvation.
• All who believe in Christ for their salvation are called the elect of God.

• The result is the rejection of God's gracious offer of salvation by grace through faith in Christ.
• But His Word was discarded, His message was rejected, and His offer of salvation was spurned by fallen men who did not want the pure radiance of His glorious Light to expose their evil deeds of darkness: For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

• Although there is nothing necessarily wrong or sinful when participating in certain ceremonies or eating particular foods, the problem arises when a believer thinks religious rules and regulations must be added to our initial salvation or the ongoing process of sanctification.
• NONE of the religious rules and regulations, appealing philosophies, human commands, Jewish procedures, or aesthetic practices, however appealing, can be added to Christ's finished work; for they are nothing more than human commands and doctrines, and irrelevant to our salvation.

• He gave thanks for the good news of their eternal salvation and rejoiced over their work of faith, their labour of love, and the steadfast hope they had in Christ.
• Although Paul and the team that accompanied him were the mouthpieces through whom the gospel message was delivered verbally, and though they were the human agents through whom the good news of salvation was communicated, Paul wanted to emphasise the importance of the gospel message over the messenger.
• Although Paul understood that faith comes by hearing and hearing from the Word of God, which is generally communicated through speech, verbal communication, or the direct teaching of a minister, he wanted to get across that the gospel he delivered is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

• And Scripture tells us that Jesus is the last Adam, and the only way to salvation.
• If a believer subverts God's Word, he will not lose his eternal salvation but will lose some or all of his heavenly reward, forfeiting his benefits found in the Tree of Life and the Holy City.

• We too have been chosen by God due to the sanctifying work of the Spirit in our heart at our salvation, and we too we are called to obey Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord, and be sprinkled with His life-giving blood in the midst of an evil and perverse generation.
• Just as Israel was the elect of God and was called to spread the good news of salvation to the world before the Cross, and just as they will be reestablished as His witnesses during the coming Tribulation period, so the Church are the post-Cross elect of God.
• We are the elect because when we heard the gospel of grace, we trusted Christ for salvation.
• Christ Jesus was born into the human race to be our sin-substitute, but He also gave each man and women a freewill to choose to accept or to reject His offer of salvation; to either believe in the death, burial, and Resurrection of Christ, or to refuse to believe in this free gift of grace.
• Every person has a choice to accept salvation as a free gift of grace or to reject His gracious offer.
• However, God also knew ahead of time that some would not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, and they would not become part of the elect.
• God in His omniscience actually knew which of us would trust in Christ for salvation.

• The Bible tells us that the most high God does not dwell in houses made by human hand, for heaven is His throne and the earth is His footstool, and yet the most wonderful news is that God makes His home in the heart of all who come to Christ for salvation: the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.
• But in this verse, we discover that each believer is also being reminded that our individual body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, for at the point of salvation, He took up permanent residence within our heart.

• The grace of God appeared on earth in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, for He is the power of God and the wisdom of God, and through Him alone was salvation brought to all men (for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and the wages of sin is death but the gift of God's grace is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Who appeared in Person, bringing salvation to all men).
• Yes, the grace of God was made manifest in the unique God-Man, the Lord Jesus Christ Who brought salvation to all men so that all who believe on His name will not perish but have everlasting life.
• And one day, we will be glorified by grace through faith in Christ Who brought salvation to whosoever will.
• And in the future Christ will reward us by grace through faith, simply because Christ appeared bringing salvation to all who would trust in His name.
• Thank You, Father, that at Your appointed time, grace appeared  the Person of Jesus Christ, bringing salvation to all.

• Oh, this does not mean that a believer whose faith is shipwrecked has lost his salvation, but it does mean that he has made a deliberate choice NOT to hold fast to his faith by ignoring God's will for his life (to live by grace through faith as outlined in Scripture).

• The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a onetime event, which happens in the life of a believer the moment of their salvation.
• He also boldly proclaimed, There is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name given under heaven, by which we must be saved.

• This verse contains a quote from Psalm 95, which begins with exuberant rejoicing in the God of our salvation and yet concludes with a warning from Yahweh Himself to pay heed to His voice and not to develop a rebellious heart of unbelief, like the Israelites in the wilderness: Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, when your fathers tested Me, is the same dire warning from the Psalmist to which we need to respond in these increasingly difficult times: They tried Me, even though they had seen My work for forty years.

• He intended to write an epistle about our common salvation.

• They were to tell the Gentile nations about the wonderful works of God and His precious plan of salvation.
• God did not leave His people clueless, but explained His perfect plan of salvation through many prophetic writings - and Israel were to be His earthly witnesses.
• All who believed God's plan of salvation would be reckoned as righteous - just as Abraham believed God and his faith was reckoned to him as righteousness.
• However, the world were to hear about Him through the nation of Israel, for Salvation is of the Jews.
• However, as soon as this Gentile woman addressed Him as 'LORD' and asked Him to heal her daughter, she was saved by grace through faith in Jesus as the Saviour of the world - for Salvation is of the LORD.
• Salvation is of the Jews, through whom was born the Jewish Messiah - for Israel carried the physical Seed of Abraham.
• Salvation is of the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, and all who believe on Him, whether Jew or Gentiles are saved and declared righteous by faith.
• For salvation is of the Lord and we are the spiritual seed of Jesus Christ - the Jewish Messiah and Saviour of the world.

• Peace WITH God is our permanent possession when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, but the peace OF God is conditional upon a believer being in a relationship with the Lord Jesus; as we abide in Christ, trust His Word, depend on His guidance, die to self, and live for Him.

• And God gave man a free-will to believe on Him or reject His offer of salvation.
• this does not mean that all men will be saved, for man is given a free-will to choose to accept God's free gift of salvation or to reject His offer of grace, but it does mean that God is doing all He can to save sinful man from eternal separation from Himself.
• God will never force His salvation on those who choose to reject Him, but all are given an opportunity to respond to His tug of love on their hearts.
• Christ is the Word of God, but those that heard Him proclaim five times that He had come down from heaven to feed their spiritual soul, which was riddled with sin, would not hear the truth and would not believe the truth, and so they missed the most glorious offer of salvation.

• What a wonderful testimony of these dear saints of God, and what an encouragement to us to boldly proclaim the glorious gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe.

• No one is excluded for all have sinned and so all need a Saviour, but sadly not all will choose to accept God's free gift of salvation.
• Christ died for all, and salvation is a free gift of grace that is available to whosoever will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, but the gift of His resurrection life is only for those that trust in Him as Saviour.

• He set in motion His perfect plan of salvation which He purposed and planned before the foundation of the world.

• Paul was prepared to endure ALL THINGS in order to proclaim the whole spectrum of Christian salvation and service, for not only did God save us according to His great mercy, but having been saved by grace through faith we are exhorted to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to the Lord, which is our reasonable service.
• Paul was passionate that the elect of God may, like him, obtain a full and free salvation in Christ Jesus, and to finish the work to which God had called them to do so that they may obtain the glorious crown and the reward of eternal glory, which is promised to all God's children.
• He longed that lost souls would be brought to faith in Christ for initial salvation, but he was also eager to endure all things for the sake of the elect.
• His dear desire was not only that the unsaved came to faith in Christ, but that all the elect of God (the Body of Christ, which is the Church) were taught how to walk by faith, to grow in grace, and mature in the faith so that they may obtain all the many benefits of their full and free salvation; spirit, soul, and body.
• He encouraged him to endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they too also may obtain a like salvation.

• And so we find Paul (a bond-servant of God and a special messenger of Jesus Christ), delivering sound doctrine, exposing false teaching, preaching the Word, promoting the faith of those who would trust in Christ for salvation, and stimulating all believers to godly living on the basis that God Himself has promised eternal life to all who trust in Christ for salvation and God's Word can never be broken, and His truth stands fast for ever and ever.
• At salvation, we both received eternal life (as a present possession today), and were promised eternal life in ages to come.
• And Paul in his opening words to Titus, reiterates the sure hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago to all who trust in Christ for salvation.

• It is the Holy Spirit that sealed us and baptised us into the Body of Christ at salvation, and it is the Holy Spirit that enables and empowers us to serve the Lord as we grow in our spiritual life.

• God will save His people, Israel, who are His inheritance, when they cry out to the Lord for salvation and recognise JESUS as their Messiah and King.

• A man's salvation is judged according to their FAITH in Christ's sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection, as payment for their sin.
• The ungodly pagan says in his heart: There is no God, and by rejecting the existence of God, he rejects Christ Who is the object of our faith and the only means to salvation.
• The judgement of God falls on all who refuse God's gift of salvation, both the fool who denies His existence and the self-righteous moralist who rests on his own righteousness for salvation.
• And may we be ready to warn the lost of their need of Christ, and share with them the good news of salvation.

• Like Mary, we too have been given the amazing truth of God's plan of salvation, and like Mary, we are all sinners in need of a Saviour.

• He freely admitted he had cruelly persecuted the early Church and was only too ready to admit that his own salvation and his God-given apostolic ministry to the Gentiles (in which he served as a priest of the gospel of God) was wholly through God's boundless mercy and amazing grace. 

• Every aspect of our great salvation is systematically and logically set out for our learning, from the very beginning of the book.
• He knows that it is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe.
• As God's children, we are exhorted to learn how vital it is for our salvation to fear the Lord and honour His Word.
• Faith in the sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ - the Son of the most high God - is the single requirement for salvation.

• But he tells of a future judgement of both Israel and the nations, when the wrath of God will be poured out on a God-hating, Christ-rejecting, sinful world, followed by great restoration for those that trust in the Lord, repent of their sins, and turn to Christ for the salvation of their soul.
• Time is short and those who do not know the Lord would do well to seek Him with all their heart - while those who know the Lord should become increasingly active in sharing the gospel of salvation with all who are lost in their sins and without hope in the world.

• Nicodemus was a teacher of the Law, but he had to come to a deeper understanding of salvation by grace through faith.
• And so, Jesus used a beautiful Old Testament illustration to demonstrate to this highly educated Jewish rabbi that salvation is a free gift of grace which can be accepted or rejected by faith: For as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, on the Cross, to pay the price for the sin of the world.

• Step by step, the book of Romans takes us from the depths of man's sin to the heights of man's salvation.
• And verse by verse, Paul builds up the blistering catalogue of corruption and perversity to which men and women throughout history have fallen, and the pit of shame into which we all plummeted before the Lord Himself pulled us out of the miry clay and set our feet on the Rock of our salvation, Jesus Christ our Lord.

• Psalm 40 is a wonderful song of thanksgiving and praise for deliverance from the snare of sin and for God's gracious gift of salvation.

• Our salvation is by grace through faith in Him, but not every Christian abides in Christ, which results in a carnal walk, a fleshly lifestyle, and a wasted life that is influenced by the old sin nature rather than being enlivened by the new life in Christ.

• This is not a verse that is warning believers that they can lose their eternal salvation, but one that alerts those who have trusted Christ as Saviour that they need to be a sweet seasoning in the lives of unbelievers and also that they act as a preservative in a putrefying world, for to do so will bring with it a great reward.

• But the Lord had not forgotten His people, for the day at last came when once again He spoke through the mouth of Zacharias who was to utter a prophecy that the promised kingdom of God, and salvation through the long-awaited Messiah, was at last dawning.
• It was through God's grace and love that the Light of salvation, which had been promised in the garden of Eden so long ago, was ready to pierce the deep darkness of the world.
• And so, through the tender mercy of our gracious God, the Light of His salvation was finally dawning.

• Having an understanding of their pre-salvation life and the pagan culture in Corinth, gave Paul an opportunity to highlight the difference between the way the world conducts itself and the Christian life.
• Passing through the midst of the Red Sea, presents us with a beautiful picture of baptism, for we are identified with Christ when we are baptised by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ - when we place our trust in HIM for salvation.

• Christ had come with the promise of salvation and the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God for all who would believe on His name.

• It is only at the point of salvation that the Spirit of Christ comes to live in our heart so that our human spirit is regenerated and made alive.
• Our once dead human spirit has been made alive because of the imputed righteousness we received by faith in Christ, at salvation.

• He was the Lord God of Israel, the Son of David, and the Horn of their Salvation.

• As we rejoice in our great salvation, let us become increasingly familiar with the truth of the gospel.

• Before our salvation, we were simply part of the world and were participating in the lusts of the flesh and the pride of our self-life.
• But it is God's will that after salvation we put away such worldly pursuits and leave that old life behind us, together with those former desires, as we press towards the goal of our calling - just as the Lord Jesus set His own face as a flint towards Jerusalem, the Cross, and the redemption of mankind.
• But the day is coming when those who refused His offer of salvation and caused His people much pain and grief will give an account to Him - Who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

• We can compromise our faith by allowing unbiblical doctrine, legalistic practices, a works-based salvation, a watered-down gospel, angel-worship, and a plethora of extra biblical practices, including Chrislam to influence us OR we can behave like Nehemiah.

• And so, having come to an understanding of salvation by grace through faith, Paul was able to say without hesitation: Whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

• And despite many preachers of righteousness (like Noah), men of faith (like Abraham), and God's covenant people (Israel), all of whom knew the truth of their origin and their need for salvation, man in general was ignorant of their roots and estranged from the God Who created them and Who came to earth to redeem them from their sins.
• May we seek to tell others the good news of salvation who, like these men of Athens, remain dead in their trespasses and sins and eternally estranged from the God Who created them; the same God Who died for their sins on Calvary's Cross so that by faith in Him, they might live with Him forever.

• Behaviour modification of the old sin nature may produce a superficial change that meets the standards of the world, but only the Holy Spirit alone can transform the old life in Adam into the new life in Christ that we received at salvation.

• The fortress of His love would be our protection, and we would never be shaken as we abided in Christ, our Rock and our salvation.

• He is ready to answer the burning questions of our heart so that we can discover His plans and purpose for the salvation of mankind.

• As believers, we have already made peace with God through trusting Christ for salvation... and in order to have the peace of God permanently dwelling in our heart, we are to live our lives as God desires, which is set out in His Word.

• And Paul wants us to know that our great salvation and amazing redemption is only by the grace and mercy of God.

• Paul came to them, determined to preach nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, knowing that the message of the Cross is the power of God unto salvation, for all who believe.

• At the point of our salvation, we were made alive by the Spirit of God.
• If we live by the Spirit (salvation - born again) let us also walk by the Spirit (sanctification - live our life).

• Peter and Paul saw the very first living stones of God's holy dwelling place being fitted together into this living Temple of God, and we who have trusted Christ for salvation are living stones that have been added to this amazing 2000-year-old spiritual structure which Christ Himself is building up into a holy Temple as a sanctified residence for God.

• There is no cost at all for us in salvation, for we were saved at Christ's expense.

• But immediately, his simple faith was rewarded with a promise of paradise in the company of the Redeemer Himself.Though salvation is conditional on the repentant sinner turning to Christ, this beautiful passage gives assurance that it is never too late to look to the Lord Jesus and live.
• It demonstrates that salvation is by grace through faith in Christ, and is not dependent on any liturgical sacraments, baptismal rituals, good works, man-made doctrines, or legalistic requirements.

• Agreement had to be reached on the means of salvation.
• They had to know if works were necessary for salvation or if they were saved by grace through faith alone in Christ alone.
• They were confusing the true doctrine of Christ by teaching that circumcision was an essential condition of salvation.
• Faith, not circumcision has always been the means of salvation.
• Faith was the means of salvation in the pre-Cross dispensation of Law, and circumcision is clearly not required in post-Cross salvation, which is also by grace through faith in the trustworthy Word of God.
• But like the Law, it was not the means of salvation which has always been by God's grace through faith.

• Any form of 'imprecatory' prayers should never be taken lightly, but perhaps the most appropriate way to address this issue in our own lives is to maintain a biblical balance between praying for the forgiveness and salvation of our enemies and asking God for justice to be carried out.

• But in His grace, God offered man an astonishing gift of salvation, whereby one act of righteousness from the sinless son of His Heavenly Father, would affect the righteous standing of everyone who accepted His offer of salvation and believed on Him.
• God's gift of salvation offered to each of us is not like that which came through sinful Adam, where the sin of one man was imputed to all and his sin nature passed to every member of the human race.
• But the free gift of salvation, available to all, rests on one act of righteousness carried out by the only perfect member of the human race, Jesus Christ.
• As overwhelming as this gift of justification by faith in Christ may be, there is so much more associated with our free gift of salvation.
• May we never allow the joy of our great salvation, our identification with Christ, and the astonishing privileges, position, and promises we possess through faith in Him, to become commonplace in life.

• They were to seek after Him, and to keep on seeking His favour, They were to search for Him until He heard, and answered them - until He came to teach them righteousness and pour His righteous gift of salvation upon them.

• God, in His grace, heard their cries and raised up a series of judges who would rescue them from the oppressive rule, until the next cycle of sin, servitude, supplication, and salvation occurred - through the appointments of a new judge.
• Sadly, the cycle of sin, servitude, supplication, and salvation would continue... until they disappeared from the good land which the Lord their God had given them.

• We were placed into the Body of Christ the moment that, by faith, we trusted Jesus for salvation, and all who would one day come to place their trust in His finished work at Calvary were crucified with Christ.
• Before our salvation, we were among those that exhibited the evil works of the flesh, some of which are listed in verses 19-21 and include sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and other ungodly actions.
• Throughout our Christian life, we are to keep that old sin nature nailed to the Cross and live our life through the new nature that we received from our resurrected Lord at salvation.

• The holy Lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world so that all rebellious human-kind could be offered the free gift of redemption for the forgiveness of sins, an escape from death's cruel sting, a release from the curse of the Law, and eternal salvation with life more abundant.

• For two glorious chapters, Paul continued to exult in our great salvation.
• He expounds the doctrine of salvation and reminds us of the numerous benefits we have been granted by faith in Christ.
• They were dead in their sin and in need of salvation, and Paul was now in prison for the sake of the gospel.
• He knew that the gospel of Christ was the power of God to salvation to everyone who believes...to the Jew first, but ALSO to the Gentile, and for this reason, he was the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of the Gentiles.

• They fear that if a Christian does not demonstrate good works in their life, their faith is dead - which they interpret to mean that they have lost their eternal salvation.
• However, dead faith does not equate to loss of salvation as many teach, but rather loss of reward.

• The rock that Moses struck, represented the Son of God Who is the Rock of our salvation, for He was struck once for all, upon the Cross.

• He had come to bring good tidings to the meek, hope to the poor, salvation to the afflicted, liberty for those that were bound by chains of sin, and freedom to those that were enslaved by Satan. Jesus had come to bind up the brokenhearted, comfort those that were afflicted, proclaim physical and spiritual liberty to the captives, and to free those who were imprisoned by Satan.

• How beautiful are the feet of those who are shod with this gospel of peace and who bring the good tidings of great joy to a lost and dying world who need to hear of salvation by grace through faith in Christ.

• He is the only Way to the Father, the only Truth about God, in Whom is Life eternal for all who trust in Him.And we, who by rights should have death as our payment for sin, have been redeemed by His blood, given the free gift of salvation in Christ, clothed in His perfect righteousness, promised eternal life in heaven, become part of a new creation in Christ, and adopted into God’s own family.

• Throughout Israel's history, there has always been a faithful remnant who stood firm on the Word of God and trusted His plan of salvation, and from chapter 40, we discover words of comfort and droplets of hope.

• However, every individual, then as now, must choose to believe in Him or reject His offer of salvation, which too often results in terrific acrimony. 'What think ye of Christ?' is the question we all have to face.
• Although Christ is Prince of Peace and will one day reign on earth as King of kings and Lord of lords, He knew that His message of salvation would cause tremendous division, even splitting asunder precious family relationships, because the message of the Cross is diametrically opposed to the old sin nature of man: Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword, was His astonishing admission.

• Indeed, incredible, satanic deceptions, which distorted the truth of biblical salvation, started to flood into the Church in those early days, and has continued, unabated, into these end times.
• Knowing about Him does not equate to salvation.
• There are many that like to try to apply His teachings in their lives, or recognise Him as a good and ethical Man... but reject His offer of salvation.
• Unless head knowledge of His life and teaching is transferred into a heart belief in His sacrifice for sin, and His death defeating Resurrection - that knowledge is ineffective for salvation, the forgiveness of sin, and life eternal.
• Indeed, the Bible clearly teaches that the Lord our God is One, and believing in One God, rather than many false gods, is vital for salvation.
• Polytheism, (the belief in many gods) and pantheism, (the belief that god is in everything) are recognised as false teachings... but there are many who hold to a monotheistic faith (the belief in one God) who are still deceived, because the object of their trust must be secured in the shed blood of Christ for salvation.
• Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone in the Person of Christ and His sacrificial work on the Cross.
• Jesus died to pay the price for humanity's sin - and not the sin of fallen angels or demons - and only faith in HIM brings salvation.

• He reminded them that it had been king David's deep desire to build a house for the Lord, but that the task had been given to Solomon his son in order to show these blind religious legalists that God's eternal plan of salvation was far greater than their own limited expectation.
• For 2000 years, God has stayed his hand of judgement on a Christ-rejecting sinful world, answering the prayer of Stephen that Jew and Gentile alike have been offered the free gift of salvation by grace through faith in Christ and brought into the family of God.

• He prayed that they would be set apart from the world as He sent them into the uttermost parts of the earth to proclaim redemption to all; a salvation which they themselves had received through Jesus.

• Throughout the Old Testament, God gradually unveiled His character, His names, and His attributes to the race of fallen man as, little by little, He unfolded His eternal plan of salvation.

• At salvation, we were not only forgiven of our sin but declared to be righteous by God, because we were removed from the old creation in Adam and placed into the new creation in Christ – how important to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to Christ – to reckon on our heavenly position in Christ as fact.Paul reminds us that the moment that we trusted Christ to save us, the Spirit of God positioned us in Christ and we were placed into His Body.
• May we keep on seeking after this from this day forward. May we seek Him with all our heart and soul and mind and strength and recognise the incredible privileges that we have in Christ - the God of our salvation.

• 'The Second Death' which is mentioned in this verse, is reserved for EVERYONE who has not trusted in Christ for their salvation.
• ALL those who reject God's offer of salvation, will have to face 'The Second Death' and take their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone.
• It also tells us that liars and those who knowingly convey untruths by word or deed, will participate in 'The Second Death'. In short, everyone who has not believed God's Word and trusted in His Messiah for their salvation, will participate in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which Revelation calls 'The Second Death'.
• The 'Second Resurrection' is reserved for those who have wilfully rejected God's Word and refused His offer of salvation.

• However, the Lamb Who died on the cross, also sits on the throne, and is worthy to unseal the scroll which will open the flood-gates of God's justified judgement on a world that rejected His offer of reconciliation and a people, who refused to believe on the name of His only begotten Son for the salvation of their souls.

• They had pledged allegiance to foreign kings and pagan nations, instead of looking to the God of their salvation for help in times of need.
• They had run into the arms of God's enemies and sought sustenance from them, instead of standing on the Rock of their salvation, trusting in His bottomless provision, drinking from the still pools that freely flowed from His never-failing promises, or hiding in the secure shelter of His love - which is under the shadow of His protective wings.

• Paul's weighty epistle to his beloved brothers and sisters in Rome is designed to focus our attention on our great salvation; our position as already justified, our conduct in the process of being sanctified, and our assured future of one day being glorified and made like unto Christ's glorious body.
• As Paul draws his amazing treatise on salvation to a conclusion, he ends with a section on how to live the Christian life in a way that is pleasing to God.

• The regenerate man is no longer in bondage to the principle of sin that entraps all who are born into the fallen race of Adam. The man or woman who has been saved by grace through faith in Christ has been set free from slavery to sin and is returned into fellowship with God from the moment of salvation.
• Prior to salvation, a man is dead IN their sin... but after salvation, he is dead TO sin.

• It also records the powerful prayer of the helpless little remnant of believers who cry out for His help and salvation.

• He continued to teach His slow-learning followers that only by God's grace is salvation received, and reminded them that entrance into His Kingdom is impossible by man's merit, man's strength, man's abilities, man's wisdom, man's righteousness - yet He taught them that with God all things are possible - with God salvation and entrance into the Kingdom IS possible.

• God in His grace and mercy formulated a plan of salvation to save us.
• The very essence of the gospel of salvation is that we are saved by God's grace.
• In this chapter, Paul makes it clear that trying to live under the Law would invalidate the supreme sacrifice of Christ, and salvation would no longer be a free gift, but a meritorious work.
• Paul knew that if ANYTHING is added to our salvation, then Christ's work on the Cross was in vain.
• Paul's grave challenge to Peter's behaviour was that he was acting as a hypocrite and that Peter's behavior declared Christ's sacrificial offering of Himself as null and void! I do not nullify the grace of God, Paul cried, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly. If we can add ANYTHING to Christ's finished work then there was no need for Christ to die. If ANYTHING is added to God's grace in order to make our salvation sufficient, then it is no longer grace.
• If any aspect of our initial salvation or our ongoing walk with the Lord as a believer can be gained through what we do then Christ's work on the Cross would not be necessary to make us acceptable to God.
• Christ prayed if there was any other way to accomplish our great salvation, but the answer was 'no' and He was required to drain His cup of suffering on our account.
• Christ died for us, not as an example of what we should do, but as a demonstration of God's unconditional love for us. There is no other way to gain salvation but through faith in Christ. We must never forget that our whole salvation - body, soul, and spirit - our justification, sanctification, and glorification ALL rely on Christ's finished work. 

• God often hears the petitions of His people as we cry to Him for godly rulers, but at times He allows ungodly leadership to be appointed to bring His people to repentance and to return the wandering soul to the God of their salvation.

• All born-again believers are united with Christ at the point of salvation, and having been made one with Him, we are instructed to abide in Christ.
• Sadly, this beautiful illustration of a Vine and its fruitful or unfruitful branches is too often used to suggest that a born-again believer who is unfruitful, can lose their salvation.

• And although that light will not save him, for salvation is found in Christ alone, nevertheless such knowledge and light will condemn him, as Paul tells us in the early chapters of Romans.

• Salvation (grace) came through the only begotten Son of the Father, the unique God-Man, Christ Jesus the righteous: For by grace are You saved, through faith in HIM and not of works, lest anyone should boast.

• Oh, the 'loss' mentioned here most certainly does not refer to a loss of salvation, for the gifts and calling of God will never be revoked and our eternal life is a gift that can never, ever be taken away.

• At salvation, we were transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son and as such, we are expected to walk in the light as He is in the light.
• Yes, it is through the shed blood of Jesus, our Saviour, that we were cleansed at our salvation and brought into the light, and it is as sinners saved by grace, that we need to be continually cleansed of any post-salvation sin as we travel through this life.
• While all our sins, past, present, and future, were forgiven the moment we trusted Christ for salvation, we need to confess any post-salvation sin to our Heavenly Father in order to be returned into fellowship with Him - for sin is the cause of broken fellowship.God is love and peace and hope and joy – and God is purest light.

• He brought the good news of salvation to a lost and dying world.
• Let us consider the Good Shepherd of the sheep and the Rock of our Salvation.

• With every new disclosure, God communicated a deeper understanding of His attributes, His character, His holiness, and His wonderful plan of salvation.
• However much the Lord unveiled His attributes, character, holiness, and plan of salvation in days gone by, we who live in this dispensation of the grace of God have been given the fullest and most complete revelation of the Triune God through Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son.

• We have already put on the breastplate of faith and love by trusting Christ as Saviour, and as a helmet to protect our thoughts and mind, we have the hope of salvation.
• Faith in our Heavenly Father and love for His beloved Son is our eternal protection, both inwardly and outwardly, while the blessed hope we have in our salvation will guard our minds from the wiles of the evil one who would seek to flood us with fear, ship-wreck our mission and ministry, and destroy our testimony, through worry of what is coming on the world.
• We received justification when we were born again and we have the promise of resurrection, rapture, and a glorified body in the days to come... and we have God's assurance that we have salvation from the wrath to come.

• Nevertheless, it remains a vital tool to help us recognise that we are sinners in need of salvation and is an effective schoolmaster that points us to Christ.

• Paul, like all the apostles of Christ, proclaimed that salvation is by grace through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ; the eternal Son of God and perfect Son of Man.
• How sad that having heard and believed the saving message of the Cross and that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ's finished work alone, as written in the Scriptures, that many today follow this same pattern or reverting to legalism or seek to impose the restrictions of the Law on their brothers and sisters in Christ.
• And so, Paul challenged the Galatians with a one searching question: This is the only thing I want to find out from you; did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law or by hearing with faith? Oh, this was a rhetorical question for the only answer in Scripture is that salvation is through the work of the Holy Spirit, within.
• Our initial salvation has nothing to do with the works of the Law and our Christian life has nothing to do with the works of the Law.
• Paul was not questioning the salvation of these believers, but was reminding them of how they were saved in the first place.

• A vital aspect of the Christian life is recognising that we are all sinners and acknowledging that we fall short of the glory of God - that we all need forgiveness of our sin for the salvation of our soul and union with Christ, but we also need to ask for forgiveness when we fall short in our Christian life - for if we confess our sin He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

• Rather than proclaiming the gospel with the joy and thanksgiving for their salvation and to honour their glorious Saviour, they were selfish, ambitious individuals who had developed a spiteful, contentious disposition. Their motive in spreading the Word was far from pure, for their ministry had developed out of selfish envy and an ungodly rivalry.
• The second group, however, taught the gospel of God out of love for Christ and gratitude for their great salvation.

• The glorious truth that Hebrews reveals to Jew and Gentile alike, is that forgiveness of our sin and God's amazing gift of salvation to all who believe in Him, does not depend on what WE do but on what CHRIST did on our behalf.

• But he trusted God in his heart and believed His Words were steadfast and sure - and so God chose David to be one man through whom His own name and nature would be manifested to a lost world in need of salvation.
• Let us never take our salvation for granted, and let us never treat as insignificant our eternal position in Christ, our future inheritance, the forgiveness of sins, and everlasting life - for what God has said He will fulfil - not because of who we are but for the honour of His holy name and to the glory of Jesus Christ - our God and Saviour.

• We were slaves of sin and we were enslaved by Satan because of our sin - and yet Christ willingly sacrificed His own sinless life, so that He might free ALL, who through fear of death, were subjected to slavery. How sad that so many refuse to be saved by rejecting God's offer of salvation, as a free gift which is ours by God's grace - through faith.

• And His victory over sin, death, and hell is an inescapable part of the whole story of our great salvation.
• His death became our death and His resurrected life becomes our eternal life when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation.
• Let us never forget that the message of the Cross does not end with His death but integrates His glorious Resurrection and His victory over sin, death, and hell as an inescapable part of the good news of our great salvation.

• Paul taught the Galatian believers that salvation is from the Lord and that it is received as a free gift of grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
• He taught them that salvation was only through the blood of the Lord Jesus shed at Calvary, and His glorious Resurrection from the dead.
• Paul clearly taught that salvation was a gift of God for all who would believe in His name.
• Paul had also taught that salvation was to glorify God, and yet despite his clear teaching on the gospel of grace, he was astonished to discover that the Galatian Christians had turned away from the gospel of God.

• When tested, He was found to be perfect by His accusers and became the source of eternal salvation for all who trust in Him and obey His Word.

• The Bible exhorts parents to instruct their children in the things of God, to train them in the way they should go and to teach them the Holy Scriptures, which are able to give them the wisdom that leads to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• The old Law was not given to achieve salvation - for in Christ are the words of eternal life and through Him alone will come the prophesied kingdom of heaven on earth.
• The more we read, mark, learn, and understand the Old Covenant, God's plan of salvation, the dispensation of Israel, and the Old Testament Scriptures... the more we will understand the significance of the New Testament writings and the New and better Covenant that was cut at Calvary - and of which we are made ministers.

• Men were unwilling to come to Jesus for salvation and life eternal during His sojourn on earth, 2000 years ago, And men continue to be unwilling to come to Christ so that they may have life.

• There is only one message of salvation from our Father in heaven and that is: Salvation is a free gift of God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
• God commissioned the teaching of the gospel of salvation by grace through faith in Christ Jesus our Lord, to the apostle Paul, and we do well to take note of his sober warning.

• Despite the foolishness, fretfulness, disobedience, and rebellion of Israel, we hear Micah proclaim BUT as for me, I will watch expectantly for the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation.
• BUT as for me, I will wait for the God of my salvation and My God will hear me.

• At salvation, we receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as a guarantee of our eternal life and heavenly inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession - until we are raptured into His presence.
• Although Christians are positioned in Christ and eternally united with Him, any post-salvation sins we commit will always break the precious communion we enjoy with the Lord.

• The enemy of our soul may not be in a position to remove or invalidate our eternal salvation which is ours is by grace through faith in Christ, but he comes as a roaring lion to tear our testimony to shreds, and also as an angel of light peddling many deceitful tactics and subtle deceptions, to cause us to stumble and render our testimony null and void.
• May we run the race that is set before us in spirit and truth, looking to Jesus and abiding in Him, for He is our strength and our salvation.

• What a joy it must have been for that godly man to see the consolation of Israel and take the baby Jesus in his arms, bless the Lord and pray: Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy Word, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people. A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people Israel.

• We should remember that praying for ministries and ministers is a great privilege as well as needful, as the prayers of faith mingle with the faithful work of others, for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

• Promises of blessing for obedience and warnings of curses for disobedience had nothing to do with salvation, but had everything to do with victory and future rewards - or suffering defeat and the loss of rewards.

• Jesus was the Messiah of Israel, the Horn of Salvation, the Prophet like unto Moses, the Bread of Life, and the Living Water.
• He was the One rejected by Israel's leadership, HE is the One anointed of God as the Rock of our Salvation, and HE is The Stone which the builders rejected Who has become the Chief Cornerstone.
• In 2 Samuel He is referred to as the Rock of Israel, in Psalm 62 He is the Rock of my salvation, while in Psalm 91 we discover Him to be the Rock, our Redeemer.

• Paul instructs us not to lie to one another because as believers, we have laid aside the old Adamic nature and the evil practices that accompany our former - pre-salvation life.

• It could not provide salvation but was God's tool to reveal our sinfulness, to bring us to repentance, and to point us to Christ, our sinless Saviour and Kinsman-Redeemer.

• Although this appears to suggest that our eternal salvation depends on US holding fast to the end, this cannot be the case or Christ's finished work on the Cross would be insufficient, and our salvation would depend on US holding fast to the end.
• Our salvation does not depend on OUR endurance, but our faith in HIM.

• After His Resurrection, many of these same Jewish hearers would realise the serious mistake of rejecting their Messiah and repent of their sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

• Salvation was contained within that scroll, but only a sinless MAN had the authority and power to unseal its terrible pages and redeem a world lost in sin.

• They reject God's gracious gift of salvation through faith in Christ, and they pour scorn on the Christian's hope in Christ’s return and the coming judgement of God on His fallen creation: What happened to the Messiah's promise to return?
• And this offer of salvation and the escape from God's wrath, is open to all: For it is not God's will that anyone should perish but that all should come to repentance, In other words, any unbeliever who changes their mind about the Lord Jesus Christ, believes on Him, and receives His free gift of salvation, will not perish but be saved and receive everlasting life.

• Our salvation has nothing to do with what we have done, but depends entirely on what Christ has done on our behalf... and it is all by grace.
• He called apostles and prophets, like Paul, to instruct us in the way of salvation and so Paul rightly reminds us, that through the grace given to me (i.e.

• For two whole chapters, Paul had outlined in brilliant detail our position in Christ, and the superabundant spiritual blessings we have in heavenly places, which are the inherited right of all who trust in Christ for salvation.
• He further details our complete and unconditional acceptance by God because we are positioned in Christ by faith, and he rejoices in the hope of our calling, the riches of His inheritance in the saints, and the exceeding greatness of His power towards us which is manifest in the salvation of Jew and Gentile together in one new Man.
• Paul wants us to stand fast on the truth of God's Word and know that our salvation does not depend on us and what we do, but that it depends on Christ and all that HE did at Calvary.
• And may we share this good news with others so that they too will come to know Christ as Saviour, and that their salvation does not depend on what they do but on what Christ has already done.

• This was done in grateful remembrance of the rock that was smitten in the wilderness, and from which streamed life-giving water into the dusty desert for the thirsty Israelites, but it also pointed forward to the Rock of our Salvation and the Living Water that streams from our Saviour's healing side, bringing spiritual life, spiritual health, and spiritual healing to all who drink, for Jesus is the living water.

• The Galatians heresy was of deep concern to Paul because Judaisers had entered the region, infiltrated the church community, and discredited the true gospel of the grace of God, by substituting a false one which demanded a works-based salvation centred on the Mosaic Law and not the true grace-based teachings of the Bible.
• The Law can only expose sin and highlight man's need of salvation, through Christ.
• We pray that many unbelieving Jews will come to salvation through faith in Christ and become part of that blessed 'Israel of God'. 

• But Jews and Gentiles alike are lost sinners in need of salvation, and reverential fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and faith in Christ is the only way of salvation.

• The saints in Corinth had started their Christian walk well, because they believed in the Lord Jesus Christ for their salvation!

• The Lord Jesus used the feeding of the 5000, in John chapter 6, to teach the powerful truth about God's plan of salvation for mankind, to clarify His heavenly origin and Messianic claim, to correct some flawed beliefs that had developed in Israel, and to announce some very precious promises for all who would believe in Him.

• From the moment of our salvation, all believers embark on a process of sanctification... as we pursue Christlikeness with enthusiasm, persistence, and patient endurance.

• The washing of the water of the Word of God in a heart that has trusted Christ for salvation, is the one that can draw close to our Father's heart.
• Water baptism is the outward, visible sign of the inner, spiritual baptism of the Holy Spirit at the point of salvation.

• May we stand firm on the Rock of our salvation; rejoicing in the Lord, praying without ceasing, and giving thanks in everything– knowing that such a mindset will remain steadfast and immovable.

• But also, we should do all we can to share the good news of the Gospel of Grace to those who are yet unsaved - for the Gospel of Christ is the power of salvation to all who believe.

• However, God is a merciful God and this will also be a time when a multitude without number, both Jew and Gentile, will turn to Christ for salvation. 
• Just as Church-age believers are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise at the time of our salvation and are God's 'purchased possession' who are to do His will, so also this group of Jewish Tribulation believers are to be sealed in order to be used by Him during this time of trouble. 

• The price for our salvation was paid at Calvary through the shed blood of Christ, such that whosoever BELIEVES on the Lord Jesus Christ is saved by God's grace, because of their faith.

• From the moment of salvation on, we are also going through a continuous process of sanctification as, day by day, we are being made more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ: we are being 'Practically or Progressively Sanctified'.
• By God's grace, the Holy Spirit lives in us and works through us, to complete the good work that He started in our life at salvation. And when we finally go to be with the Lord, we will be finally and fully sanctified: 'Perfect Sanctification'.

• The death, burial, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the mainspring upon which our salvation rests, and the Holy Spirit Himself inspired holy men of God to record in advance the saving message of grace, upon which our salvation rests: That Christ died for our sins, that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day - according to the Scriptures.
• Not only is the salvation message under attack from unbelievers with their satanically inspired, unbiblical worldview, and also from many Christian cults and sects that disown or distort one or other aspect of this complete saving message of grace, but also from some that are inside the Body of Christ.
• The Word of God is the sure testimony of the reliability of the gospel message of salvation, for the Word of God is steadfast and sure.
• In their desire to defend the truth of the saving message of salvation (by grace alone through faith alone in Christ's finished work alone, as recorded in the Scriptures alone), these enthusiastic legalists add a wide range of works to this God-breathed message of the Cross.
• When the plain text of Scripture is read, the incredible message of salvation is so simple that even a little child can understand and believe.

• When we sing to the Lord of the wonders of His amazing grace with every breath of our being and glory in the joy of our salvation, then our thoughts will be pleasing to the Lord and our hearts will also rejoice in the God our Saviour.

• God knew that Israel was made up of sinners who needed salvation, and the Law was designed to show them their faults.

• Romans carefully and systematically spells out every aspect of our great salvation; the universal sinfulness of man, our individual need of a Saviour, the terms and conditions of redemption, and what it means to be justified, sanctified, resurrected, and glorified.
• Being redeemed has a number of elements; past, present, and future; spirit, soul, and body; justified, sanctified, and glorified; positional salvation, practical salvation, and perfected salvation.
• We were saved by grace through faith in Him and at that moment of salvation our human spirit was made alive and we were positioned in Christ.
• We were POSITIONALLY SANCTIFIED at salvation but are also going through a lifelong PROCESS of PRACTICAL SANCTIFICATION.
• We were POSITIONALLY GLOROFIED at salvation but will be FULLY and FINALLY GLORIFIED when we go to be with Jesus and receive an immortal body, like unto His glorious, resurrected, eternal body.
• Never let us become complacent about the incredibly great salvation; spirit, soul, and mortal body, which is ours by faith in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• God put His redemptive work through Israel on hold, and in the interim, continued to operate His salvation plan through the Body of Christ, which is the Church.
• It identifies those who have trusted in Christ's finished work on the Cross for salvation, as the blessed benefactors of His amazing gifts and graces, and it lays many foundational principles for the Church and its unique role in God's eternal plan.
• While everyone who believes is baptised with the Spirit and placed into the Body of Christ at salvation, those who do not believe remain under God's eternal condemnation, and will one day be baptised with the terrible fires of God righteous judgement.
• The ministry of the Spirit in the lives of believers covers both experiential and non-experiential work The Spirit's non-experiential work takes place at the point of salvation.

• Peter begins his first epistle with a most glorious doxology, praising God and exalting His holy name: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he writes Who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And his wonder, excitement, and joy in the Lord is not diminished at the end of his letter, for we find him continuing to rejoice in the God of his salvation and lifting up the name of the Lord: To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
• In his first epistle, Peter reminds every believer that in Christ we have a living hope and a sure salvation.

• The gospel of salvation is so simple that a little child can understand and be saved, and yet learned men and clever theologians have grappled with the simplicity of this beautiful message of God's saving grace and have caused it to become one of the most complicated issues in Christendom today.
• It was the Lord Jesus Himself, Who had delivered to Paul the simple, saving message of salvation, which he outlines in the simplest terms in the first few verses of this passage.
• The gospel message was given to Paul by divine revelation: That Christ died for our sins, that He was buried, and rose again, and Paul reminds us that we received our salvation as a free gift of grace, through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
• And here Paul is reiterating this same, vital saving truth, and emphasising its primary position of importance within the gospel of Christ, because believers in Corinth were being influenced by their pagan neighbours and starting to doubt the authenticity of Christ's Resurrection, while others were being ensnared by legalists who were teaching a 'works based' salvation.

• Israel were to be God's mouthpiece to tell the nations of God's goodness and grace, His long-suffering and mercy, His plan of redemption and offer of salvation to all who would trust in His name.
• In spite of Israel's failure to be a light to the Gentiles, God has always invited lost sinners (Jew and Gentile alike) to come to Him for salvation.
• And yet for the best part of 6,000, years man has spurned his Creator and rejected God's gracious offer of salvation.

• But in His mercy, He designed a way of salvation, where sinful man is cleansed and declared righteous, by the washing of regeneration, and renewal by the Spirit of God through faith in Christ.
• To gain salvation and be declared righteous by God: You must be born again, as Nicodemus was told.
• Regeneration is what happens at salvation.
• While 'positional' regeneration takes place at the moment of salvation, regeneration is also an ongoing process in the life of all believers, as they are transformed and restored and renewed, day by day, into the likeness of the lovely Lord Jesus Christ.

• Israel will become the head of the nations and not the tail, and Judah will enjoy deliverance and salvation because Jesus, the 'Branch of Righteousness', their righteous Messiah and King of kings, will sit on David's throne in the holy city of Jerusalem and rule the entire world in righteousness and peace.

• And so it was, at this point in God's plan of salvation, that Christ... the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world, could step forward and carry out the final act which would irrevocably set in motion the full and final redemption of the world.

• Paul is clarifying the gospel of Christ to the brethren in the Corinthian church and in so doing, is giving the most comprehensive statement of the good news that our salvation is secured by believing on the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• There is nothing that needs to be added to Christ's finished work on the Cross, and there is nothing we can do to make our salvation more secure than it already is - for in Christ we are saved as a free gift of grace, by believing: Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day.
• Paul is reminding these brothers and sisters in Christ of the good news of salvation, which he had already preached to them.
• Without believing in both the crucifixion AND the Resurrection there is no salvation in Christ, and Paul realised that there were some in the Corinthian church who were professing to be believers, but who did not believe in the entirety of the gospel which he himself had outlined: That Christ died for our sins, was buried, and was RAISED the third day.
• And so he delivered a challenge to everyone in Corinth to examine their salvation - to examine what they believed about the Lord Jesus, and that same challenge needs to be extended to all who profess to be saved in this age and generation.

• Positional sanctification takes place at the moment of salvation.
• It is not until we all reach unity in the faith, in the knowledge of the Son of God, (either through our physical death or the Rapture of the Church) that we will finally attain to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ, and our sanctification will, at last, be complete.Every one of us that trusts in the Lord for salvation is already sanctified.

• It sets out God's unchangeable standard and was given to show man that he is a sinner in need of salvation.

• From then on, the moment someone trusts in Christ for salvation, the Spirit of God takes up His permanent residency within the regenerated person.
• But at the point of salvation, He moves into His new residence.
• The same Spirit Who indwells us at the point of salvation and empowers us throughout our life, will enable us to guard the precious treasure that has been entrusted to us, as we grow in grace and in a knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

• No matter who wrote this song, the psalmist clearly wanted to encourage his countrymen to remember their redemption and rejoice in the God of their salvation.

• We may not like to consider this to be a portrait of our pre-salvation state... but the Word of God confirms it to be so: For there are none that are good, not even one, for we were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest of the human race.
• Before salvation, we were dead in our trespasses and corrupted by sins.

• It was not a method of salvation, for its demands were far beyond man's moral capabilities due to our sin nature, but it was the means God used to show man his sinfulness and need of a Saviour.

• Both the death and the Resurrection of Christ are crucial to the salvation message, for if Christ had not died and risen again, our faith would be futile.
• As the floodgates of apostasy and paganism continue to pour into the lives of believers today and pollute their faith, it is important to remain securely anchored to this important message of clarification from the apostle Paul: the gospel message of salvation which we have received, accepted, welcomed, and appropriated in our hearts.

• God's plan of salvation was only offered to the fallen race of mankind, and God Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ became our Kinsman-Redeemer so that we might be redeemed through His precious blood.

• We are to look to His shed blood for salvation and partake of His body which was broken for us.

• As believers, we partake of the dry 'baptism of the Cross' at the moment of salvation.

• This was indeed a man who was an expert in the Law, and yet he had never recognised that he was a lost sinner who needed salvation.
• Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone in the finished work of Christ alone, for there is no other way to the Father, except through the SON Who gave His life as a ransom for all who would believe in Him.

• They are ministering spirits who serve Him day and night, in order to forward His redemptive programme for all who are to inherit salvation.

• Every act and action, every temptation and trial, every pain, and every prayer, was preparing Him for this ultimate hour, without which the sins of the world could never have been forgiven and salvation could never have been procured.

• He is our belt of truth, the helmet of our salvation, and He has equipped us with the sword of the Spirit which is the inerrant Word of God.

• However, they brought an offer of salvation to a sinner and her family, if they chose to trust in the God of Israel.
• And THEN she tied the scarlet cord in the window, to remind her that God's promised salvation was true, and He never disappoints for His promises are 'YES' and 'AMEN'.
• We should be so grateful for our great salvation, which has set us free from the bondage of sin and promised us eternal life, together with the many benefits that are ours in Christ.

• He is the One Who gives light to all men coming into the world, and He is the One Who speaks the light of life into whosoever will believe in Him for salvation.
• He had come to enlighten them, and show them the way of salvation, but their hearts were hardened to the incarnate Word of God.
• The Lord Jesus was the Light about Whom David wrote, for He is our Lord, our Light, and our Salvation.
• Man has been given a free will to accept the light of the glorious gospel of grace, and all who trust in Him for salvation will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life as an abiding presence within.
• Jesus is the one and only true Light from above that shines His saving light and life into the hearts of all who believe in Him - for salvation is found in no other name, but the wonderful name of JESUS.

• And while God's Law is perfect in itself and explains exactly how we should live our lives, Paul points out in Romans 7 the terrible limitations of the Law in connection with our great salvation. 

• Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the LORD GOD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.
• Therefore, you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation.
• And it was as the nation once again rejoiced with joy in remembrance of God's promise that He is the Rock of their salvation from Whom flows the water of life, that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy One of Israel about Whom they were singing, stood up and cried with a loud voice: If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
• He is our strength and our song, and in Him alone is salvation.

• He was the Saviour Whom prophets foretold would save His people from their sins, and long after Jesus explained to Nicodemus that a man must be born again to receive eternal life, we discover a lawyer who was an expert in the Law of Moses, who also came to the Lord Jesus to a seek an alternative way of salvation by asking the question, Teacher, what must I DO to INHERIT eternal life?
• It appears that this question was designed to demonstrate his own perfect righteousness before the admiring crowd, for we read that he asked this question to test the Lord Jesus rather than humbly recognising his sinful state, his lost status, and his desperate need for salvation.
• All the good works and self-righteous acts produced by man are filthy rags in the eyes the Lord, for only in Christ can true righteousness be found, and all who trust in Him for salvation are clothed in HIS righteousness.

• And their love bore witness to their great salvation in Christ, for everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God; everyone who is walking in spirit and truth is knit together in Christian love.
• Their day by day hope in God was secured to the Rock of their salvation and His faithfulness to complete the good work that He had started in each of their lives.

• They were to tell the pagan nations of God's promise of salvation.

• God's promise that this old man would not die until he had seen the Lord's Christ, was answered according to His Word: For my eyes have seen Your salvation.
• Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word: For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people. A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people Israel.

• Indeed, the sorrow that is according to the will of God brings salvation i.e.

• In the previous Psalm, David identified the man who denies the existence of God and who refuses His offer of salvation by grace through faith in His Word of truth, as the natural man, the unbelieving fool who has said in his heart: There is no God.

• How we thank God that Christ fulfilled the righteous requirement of the Law on behalf of all who would trust in Him for salvation.

• Should we not in humility of heart and poverty of spirit accept God's gracious free gift of salvation?

• Their desire was salvation from the Roman empire rather than the salvation of their souls - and so the Lord called the Church into being to sing forth the greatness of God to the sea of humanity in the unsaved nations, and to tell of the gracious character and redeeming love of Israel’s rejected Kinsman-Redeemer.

• May we come to a deeper awareness of the beautiful attributes of our glorious God, for He is the only source of grace and truth, mercy and love, peace and hope, salvation for the soul, and life eternal. 

• Isaiah was called to alert his people, and us, to our sin and our need of salvation.
• He warns against hardening our heart to the message of salvation.

• Noah found that trusting His Word leads to salvation and life, while rejecting biblical truth results in condemnation and death.
• But it is only by faith alone in Christ alone that salvation is given as a free gift of God's grace.

• A ritual baptism, (being baptised in water) represents a real baptism, (the baptism of the Holy Spirit at salvation).
• Moses was a 'TYPE' of Christ, and Israel's redemption is a witness of their salvation.

• Now is the day of salvation.
• Let us continue to sound the alarm of God's approaching judgement to those that are lost in their sin and blinded to the truth, and pray that in His wrath God will graciously remember mercy, knowing that the day is coming when those that have rejected His offer of salvation and free gift of eternal life, will have to stand before His Great White Throne of terrible judgement and have to face an eternity without God and without hope.

• Like all the Gospel writers, Mark introduces us to Jesus Christ, the eternally begotten Son of God and prophesied Saviour of the world. Mark's specific focus is upon the humanity of Jesus as servant of all, and the divinely appointed name of Jesus which is specifically linked with His humanity and which means God is Salvation.
• He came as the suffering servant of God, Whose death, burial, and Resurrection would be good news for all who would trust in His sacrificial death for salvation.

• The salvation of the sinner is evidence of the abounding and overflowing riches of God’s amazing grace towards the children of men, and in the eternal ages to come, this salvation will stand as a witness of the undeniable proof to both men and angels - the inexhaustible and unsearchable riches of God’s grace towards those who have been saved by His blood.
• Whatever else falls and fades away, the salvation of the saints will remain as an everlasting monument of God’s never-ending mercy, through time and into eternity.
• No matter what is taken away or what additional joys are bestowed upon us all, our great salvation will stand firm as the singular, timeless testimonial of the divine goodness of our God towards us, and we will become a perpetual demonstration of the incomparable and exceeding riches of God’s amazing grace which has been expressed in His kindness towards us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• During that pre-salvation time, we were spiritually dead and without God which means that both the noble deeds we carried out in the flesh, and our evil works, selfish actions, and undisciplined behaviours, were ALL considered by God as unacceptable and only fit to be consumed by the fire of His righteous judgement.
• Prior to salvation, such pagan practices would be considered commonplace activities.
• But following salvation, God-fearing men and women should set aside such things and engage in the moral standards and righteous behaviours that are instituted by the Lord: There has already been enough time spent in doing the will of the pagans, Peter points out, carrying on in unrestrained behaviour, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
• We are to put off the old man and disengage ourselves from our former conduct and jettison the things in which we engaged before our salvation.

• They need salvation.

• We are charged to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, and we are counselled to believe on the One Whom God sent into the world to be the propitiation for our sins.
• It is by God's grace that the Father gave His only begotten Son to pay the ransom price for our sin, and it is by faith in His finished work on Calvary's Cross, that salvation (the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting) becomes our eternal possession.

• They had witnessed many signs and wonders, which were designed to authenticate His claim to be Israel's Messiah and King, and yet they appeared to be more interested in filling their bellies with food, rather than seeking sustenance for their soul and salvation of their spirit.
• Passover was designed as a remembrance of God's great salvation, and is clearly identified in the Old Testament as 'a Feast of the Lord'.

• The promises of the New Covenant; victory over sin and death, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and all the privileges that come with our great salvation, were cut at Calvary - the promises were secured at the Cross.

• The spiritual fruit of the believer who shares the truth of the gospel with others and points souls to Christ, brings life and truth and hope and salvation to the lost, while in Chapter 15 we find: A wholesome tongue is a Tree of Life, while perversity is a breach in the spirit. Both verses point to Christ as Word of truth, the Nourisher and Sustainer of the soul, for in Him is Life, and He is the wisdom of God and the power of God, for all who believe.
• As with all other biblical references to the Tree of Life, we can see a clear link with Christ and salvation.
• He is the true Vine in Whom is life eternal; He is the Bread of life; He is the living water, the Rock of our salvation, and the Hope of all the ends of the earth.

• They may be people who openly oppose us, or they may be unsaved men and women in need of salvation, for whom we ought to pray.

• They were to shed abroad the wonders of His name and proclaim throughout the world the glorious news of salvation by grace through faith to those who were dead in sin.
• They were to restrain Satan's evil ploys, and they were to go into all the world preaching the message of salvation to lost and dying souls - making disciples of all people groups, all tribes, and all nations - teaching individuals of every colour and every clime.

• As believers who have trusted Christ for our salvation, we are to develop in our Christian walk and advance from simply taking-in the pure milk of the Word to feeding on the strong meat of everything that proceeds from the mouth of God.

• By the time Peter, the big, brawny, blustery fisherman, was writing his second epistle, we discover he had matured into a modest and unassuming man who continued to express his deep devotion for his divine Master and articulate his immense gratitude for his eternal salvation.
• Peter knew that he must never stop bringing to their remembrance the joy that is ours in our great salvation and he diligently and repeatedly reminded his listeners of the many precious promises that are ours by faith.

• The more we come to understand the interchange that took place the moment we trusted Christ for salvation, the more mindful we are of our privileges in Him.
• Our salvation is fully accomplished (John 19:30).
• There are some essential ministries the Holy Spirit carries out instantly at salvation.

• The Galatian Christians were being urged, by Jewish legalists, to add works of the Mosaic Law to Christ's finished work on the Cross as a necessary requirement for their salvation.
• The strong language that Paul uses to refute this false teaching and the stern denunciations he makes about these legalists, who were insisting on adding to the simple truth of the gospel message (that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in the finished, sacrificial work of Christ alone) serves only to demonstrate how dangerous Paul considered this legalist teaching.
• Now, as then, any form of legalist work that is insisted upon as being a necessary addition to God's free gift of salvation by faith alone in Christ's death, burial, and Resurrection, is strongly to be rejected, and Paul spends two whole chapters in this book of Galatians using the strongest possible language in defence of justification by faith in Christ's finished work on Calvary's Cross alone.
• And through the teaching of the apostle Paul, God demands that we too recognise that salvation is His free gift of grace to all who will trust in Christ's finished work at Calvary. 

• Just as there are three 'tenses' of our great salvation (justification, sanctification, and glorification), so also the Bible identifies three 'tenses' of Sanctification: POSITIONAL sanctification, PRACTICAL or PROGRESSIVE sanctification, and COMPLETED sanctification.

• Being baptised into the Body of Christ, sealed by the Spirit of God, and having Him take up permanent residence in our mortal body, are some of the wonderful ministries that take place the moment a sinner believes in Christ and trusts the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation.
• These supernatural ministries occur once in the life of every believer at the point of salvation.
• The Holy Spirit has other supernatural offices in the life of a believer that are set in motion at the point of salvation.
• Although the filling of the Spirit is inextricably linked to our initial salvation, it is an ongoing ministry that continues throughout life.
• We are permanently forgiven at salvation and clothed in Christ's eternal righteousness, which gives us eternal peace with God.

• The people that were present during the life, ministry, death, burial, and Resurrection of Jesus belong to a unique generation because their life spanned the closing years of the pre-Cross dispensation of the Law (when Christ offered the kingdom to Israel, who rejected it), and the post-Resurrection dispensation of grace (where salvation is a free gift of God's grace, to all who will believe in Christ's death, burial and Resurrection for the forgiveness of our sin).

• Paul structured the first few chapters of the book of Romans to bring every member of the human race, whether Jew or Gentile, to the stark realisation that we are ALL under sin and we ALL need salvation by grace through faith - and he used a string of Old Testament verses to verify the truth and to seal his argument:
• In laying out man's desperate need of salvation, Paul is able to start the next section which gives hope to all... for though the wages of sin is death, nevertheless, the gift of God is eternal life THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
• Let us celebrate the wonderful truth of God's amazing gift of salvation which is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ - not of works, lest any man should boast.

• He reminded them how he was the one that brought them the good news of the gospel and of the spiritual fruit that had formed in their lives, due to their salvation.
• Paul had been entrusted with the gospel message of salvation and was entrusted with many mysteries that had been hidden from ages and generations.

• As believers, we have been placed in union with Christ and imputed with His own righteousness, and Paul sketches out a brief outline of the main characteristics and distinctive features which should be manifest in the life of all who have trusted Christ for the salvation of their soul and life everlasting.

• What a great distinction between the time when we were dead in our trespasses and sins and without God in the world, and the wonderful day when we began to believe in the only begotten Son of the Father, for our full and free salvation.

• We are to look to the Rock of our salvation.

• At the appointed time, He sent the Lord Jesus to His people, as He promised, Who for three years called them to repent of their sins and turn to Him for salvation.
• He was the Rock of their Salvation from Whom flowed the Living Waters of eternal Life.

• The truths that Jeremiah shared about the New Covenant are thrilling to both Israel and the Church, and we who believe in Christ for salvation know that this covenant was cut at Calvary, through the shed blood of Christ and will be fully and finally ratified when Jesus returns as King of Israel to set up His Millennial kingdom on earth.
• We who have trusted Christ for salvation and have had the Gospel revealed to us, the indwelling Holy Spirit to govern our lives, and the living Word to guide us into all truth, have already recognised that Jesus Christ alone is the fulfilment of Jeremiah's prophecy.
• But a day is coming when the whole house of Israel and Judah; the united Kingdom of Israel, will collectively respond to the clarion call to repent, for the kingdom of heaven will once again be at hand, and Israel as a nation will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for their salvation and cry out in unison: Blessed is HE WHO comes in the name of the Lord. 
• He will respond to Israel's cry for salvation when they cry: HOSANNAH!

• Praise God that we gain salvation, union with God, and fellowship with our Heavenly Father, not by what we do, but faith in what Christ has DONE.

• The stoning of Stephen, who was the first Christian martyr, set the course for the rapid spread of the good news of salvation to faraway regions as men, women, and children began to be rounded up and imprisoned for their faith.
• As they fled from their persecutors, so they proclaimed the good news of salvation far and wide.

• Eternal life is a free gift to EVERYONE who believes in Jesus for salvation... and cannot be earned or maintained by good works.

• In this verse, Paul gives a potted history of the life and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, covering the foundational doctrines upon which our eternal salvation rests.
• He died on the Cross for our salvation and destroyed the evil work of the devil so that by faith in Him, we might be identified with His godliness, covered in His righteousness, and become a part of His mystical Body which is the Church.
• The faith of deacons and leaders, together with all who trust in Christ for salvation, must be rooted securely in sound doctrine: That Christ was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world and received up into glory.

• It also spans from creation to the eternal ages to come, and contains God's wider plan of salvation as well as identifying the arch enemy of God and men as the fallen angel, Satan.

• The testimony and truth of God is also recorded in His written Word, and clearly outlines His gracious redemptive plans and eternal purposes for the salvation of fallen man.

• He used the phrase: Day of the Lord, seven times in his writings and paints a dark and gloomy picture of a time when God's wrath will be poured out on a God-hating sinful world that has rejected His anointed Messiah, refused His offer of salvation, and defiantly celebrates sin.

• He was sent by the Father to accomplish salvation in the power of the Spirit.

• Jerusalem is founded on the holy mountains of Israel, and the Lord's love for Zion, its gates, and its walls, is greater than for any other city because Jerusalem is the foundation and focal point of God's redemptive work of salvation.

• These four blessings stand in stark contrast with the four bitter woes that are the just desserts of those that refuse to accept Christ's offer of salvation.
• The four woes that follow are for those that want their best life now... at the expense of their eternal salvation.
• They may be rich in worldly goods, well-fed, famous, and popular, but if they reject Christ's offer of salvation, by grace through faith in Him... they are men most miserable for they are eternally cursed and excluded from His eternal kingdom. Woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.

• It is the heavens that declare the glory of the Lord, and our consciences which give an inner witness of God's righteous goodness, but it is the Word of God which was written for our learning and encouragement which points the way to salvation.
• It is the Bible, the Word of the Lord, which encourages us to hope in Him, and provides the only means to salvation.

• Paul emphasises the importance of Christians living together in spiritual unity and godly harmony, and of the eternal benefits that we derive from our salvation by grace through faith in Christ.

• We who are saved by grace through faith have already trusted in Christ for salvation, and in so doing have not only found our rest in Him already, but as the writer to the Hebrews reminds us, there remains a Sabbath rest for ALL the people of God, an eternal Sabbath rest in the ages to come that is ours by grace through faith in Christ Jesus our Saviour. 

• How important that we do not allow our own preconceived notions of salvation or acquired traditions to blind us to the truth.

• They were to tell the nations about the great salvation of God, which is offered to all who trust His Word and live by faith in Him.
• In seeking to flee from God and avoid his divine call to tell forth the good news of salvation, Jonah boarded a foreign ship that was bound for Tarshish, and paid money for his passage - in order to escape from the Lord!
• God could have carried out His gracious plans for Nineveh through a more responsive individual... but it was God's grace that permitted the reluctant Jonah to have a second chance to take the good news of salvation to the lost Gentiles in that great city of Nineveh.

• Despite Israel's rejection of their Messiah-King, Paul is giving full assurance that God's gracious offer of salvation by grace through faith in Christ finished work, is wide open to both Jew and Gentiles alike and he gave the assurance to both Israel and the nations: If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
• Neither Jew nor Gentile need to jump though legalist hoops to achieve salvation.
• Nor did they need to 'go to the place of the dead', for Christ has been raised from the dead thus completing the work of salvation on behalf of all who will believe.
• There are not two steps to salvation as some like to suggest (confessing Jesus is Lord + believing in Christ for salvation) but simply two sides of the same justification coin.
• And once that hidden heart decision to trust in Christ for salvation is met, the man or woman is immediately born from above by the power of the Holy Spirit and is freely able to confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord, for as the apostle John reminds us: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and the Spirit of God abides in him.

• But God in His long-suffering, loving-kindness, and great mercy, has extended the period of His gracious forgiveness to include you, and to include me, and to include all who will turn from their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, Who alone deserves our eternal praise and worship.

• Whatever the reason for the visit of His mother and brothers, Jesus wanted to make it clear that family relationships, genealogical ties, human heritage, privileged parentage, or godly ancestry, provides no birthright for salvation.
• Believing on the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ must be a personal decision, for there are no special favours given to anyone and nothing that can alter or influence God's criteria for salvation.

• He details their past history (chapter 9), their present status (chapter 10), their future salvation (chapter 11), and the long-suffering mercy of God towards His chosen nation.
• In a similar way, salvation is not dependent on our good or bad works nor on our parentage.
• God alone determined that the wages of guilty sinners is death, and He also determined that salvation would be His gift of grace, through faith alone in His only begotten Son, and that nothing in our character, conduct, natural descent, or human merit, would influence or affect our salvation.
• Just as God sovereignly selected Jacob without any outside influence, so also He sovereignly dictates the conditions of our salvation, which is a gift of His grace ALONE to ALL who believe.
• Salvation is by grace ALONE, through faith ALONE, in Christ ALONE because God determined it to be so.

• Every Member of the Godhead is merciful and kind, long-suffering, and of great goodness, and as history unfolds through the pages of Scripture, we can see the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, having distinct duties and tasks in the great unfolding work of salvation.

• The death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, are the critical elements of salvation.

• When that 7th trumpet sounds, the world will know that nothing can prevent the inevitable resolution of God's 6000 year plan of salvation, when Christ's kingdom will shortly be set up on earth.

• Peter taught the good news of the gospel of grace and the glorious message of salvation by grace though faith in Christ, and made clear to us the power of the Cross and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ Whose sacrifice of Himself at Calvary and glorious Resurrection is the single thing that is worth living for - and the one thing worth dying for.

• His death became our death, death to the old self so that by His life He could become our life, His new resurrected life, imputed to us at salvation.

• This passage has been used by some to teach a works-based salvation.
• But there is a secondary issue in this verse that needs to be addressed; the meaning of justification in relation to salvation and its wider meaning in everyday life.
• It is a 'salvation' label given to a child of God who is covered in Christ's righteousness, forgiven of sin, a recipient of eternal life, and many other incredible privileges.

• We who are saved by grace through faith, find our everlasting refuge in Christ Who took the punishment for our sin and became our strong Fortress, our everlasting Refuge, and the Rock of our salvation.

• We are called to wake from any spiritual slumber, for now our salvation draws ever closer. Christ is coming to take us to be with Himself and the time is getting nearer.
• Paul tells us, and do this NOW - wake up from your slumbering, knowing that the hour for our salvation is nearer than when we believed!
• However, Paul goes on to reveal the glorious hope of salvation for all who believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• The hour has already come when we should awake out of sleep; for now, is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
• We have been given the blessed hope of His imminent return, and we are to establish it anew in our hearts, every moment of every day.  Throughout our Christian life, our focus should always be on Christ, but as the time for His return draws ever closer we are exhorted to WAKE UP, from our spiritual sleep, and remember that our salvation... i.e.

• A time was coming when the Spirit of Christ was to indwell the heart of all who trusted Him for salvation.

• As in so many of his epistles, Paul contrasts the way of the wicked, who reject God's gracious gift of salvation and the final devastating outcome of their choice, with those who have accepted His call to trust in Christ's sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection.
• And so after having outlined the shocking end that awaits the Antichrist and his wicked followers, Paul contrasts the beautiful destiny of these Christians in Thessalonica (and of all who will trust in the only begotten Son of God), and gives them a lovely reminder that they were chosen by God for salvation.
• The clear teaching of Scripture is that God chose each one for salvation based on the choices He knew we would one day make, in respect of His offer of salvation, which is by grace through faith in Christ.
• God bases his 'choosing' on the freewill choices that each individual will make in respect of God's individual offer of salvation to them: That whoever believes on the name of the only begotten Son of God will not perish but have everlasting life.
• But from the beginning of the world, God knew the salvation choices each of us would make.
• Thank God that He loved us so much that He sent Jesus to be our Redeemer, and thank God that He has chosen us for salvation simply because we trusted in Christ's finished work on our behalf.
• How we thank God that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us and sent His Holy Spirit into the world to convict us of our guilt before a righteous God and of the need to turn from our sins and accept His gracious offer of salvation.
• In His mercy and grace, God chose us for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit, by trusting the Word of God, hearing the truth, and believing it.

• And so at the beginning of his epistle, he calls us to consider the various trials we face as pure joy, and the inevitable difficulties that come our way as a glorious opportunity to rejoice in the Lord, the Rock of our salvation.

• This Captain of the Lord's Army Who met with Joshua, is the same Captain of our Salvation.

• David was a man after God's own heart, who spent hours reflecting on the many blessings he received from the God of his salvation.
• He first restored our soul into newness of life, through the quickening power of His death and resurrection, when we first trusted in His name for our great salvation.

• They have closed their eyes; otherwise, they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and return, and I would heal them.' And so, for the third and last time in his ministry, we hear Paul's scathing rebuke: Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen.
• He used obstacles that were placed in his path as opportunities to testify to the gospel of God and to witness to the salvation in His Son, Jesus Christ.

• However, the means of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ is found in the Word of God.
• By grace through faith, we receive an incorruptible salvation, together with an incorruptible inheritance through the incorruptible Word of God which is living, powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword.

• Paul was not ashamed to preach the gospel of Christ wherever he went, for he knew that it was the power of God unto salvation for all who believe, but he relied on the sustaining power of God in the Person of the indwelling Holy Spirit, to keep him and equip him in his task.
• Paul also knew that spiritual wickedness in high places would seek to disrupt his important ministry, but as a soldier of Christ, he relied on the weapons of righteousness which the Lord Himself provides: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God.

• Firstly, he was not to be ashamed of: The testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the glorious gospel of salvation by grace through our faith in Jesus.
• Paul was never ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for he knew it was the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes and so he reminded Timothy, and us, that suffering for Christ's sake is a heavenly badge of honour, and encouraged us: Join with me in suffering for the sake of the gospel, according to the power of God.

• They are to point us to God as our sole Provider and Healer, the Rock of our salvation and the Hope of all the ends of the earth.

• They came to understand that the Messiah had to suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day, if the plan of salvation, which God ordained in eternity past, was to accomplish its great work of man's reconciliation to God, the redemption of human-kind, the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, for all who would believe on His name.
• They failed to understand that in God's plan of salvation the cross had to come before the crown.
• Salvation of the soul through the forgiveness of sin had to precede Christ's kingdom rule of peace and prosperity.

• We do not know the identity of this chosen lady, but she was a woman who had loved and trusted the Lord Jesus Christ for her salvation and had wisely taught this truth to her children, and John had no doubt ministered to her and rejoiced to see her and her family grow in a knowledge of the truth.
• Not only are we to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation (our justification) but we are to keep on walking in the truth, and loving as Christ loved.
• If we leave our first love, grow weary of well-doing, fall into legalism, compromise the truth, become lukewarm in our faith, or allow false doctrine to shipwreck our testimony, we will not lose our salvation, but we will forfeit any rewards that God has prepared for us to do.

• This single gift of salvation, by grace through faith, should be sufficient to merit our eternal and never-ending thanks and praise.
• As we reflect on this 103rd Psalm of David and the privileges that are ours in Him, let our hearts and souls bless the Lord for His goodness, His grace, and His mercy, and let us never cease to thank Him for His unfathomable gift of salvation.

• He lays emphasis on the truth that there is none that do good, not even one, and that despite being God's chosen people who enjoy a unique covenanted relationship with Him, Israel are not exempt from the consequences of sin and are equally in need of salvation as the Gentile nations.
• And Paul anticipates the different Jewish objections in his Roman letter and proceeds to address the first set of questions they wanted to understand: If as you say, Paul, that Israel can't rest their salvation on our Jewish heritage, what advantage is there in being Jewish and what value is there in being circumcised?

• And all who trust in Him for salvation may enter into His promised rest. Christ Jesus is the visible image of the invisible, triune God, and although in times past God spoke in various ways through Moses and the prophets, in these last days God has clearly spoken to man through His Son, Whom He has appointed heir of all things.
• But today, as in the days of the early Church, there is a huge interest in angels and an intense fascination with the ministry of the angelic host which will often eclipse the vital message of salvation that God gave through His Son.
• How important that we do not drift away from the glorious gospel of grace: For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, after it was at the first spoken through the Lord Jesus Himself and confirmed to us by those His holy apostles?

• May we never forget that our salvation has nothing to do with ourselves It is not our works, our kind acts, or generous giving that has saved us, forgiven us, and redeemed us from sin, Satan, death, and hell.
• Our salvation did not come because of the good works we have done, so none of us can boast that we contributed towards our salvation.
• The fact of our salvation is that we are HIS workmanship.
• May the truth of our salvation and the good works that we carry out through the power of Christ, bring everlasting glory to our Lord and Saviour in the same way that the Lord Jesus gave honour and glory to the Father during His sojourn on earth.

• It is the message of the Cross (and not the man who delivers the message) that is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe.

• By returning to the Law of Moses, these Judaisers were turning away from the gospel of salvation, which comes as a free gift of grace from God to all who believe on the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Spiritual regeneration, the baptism of the Spirit, His sealing of believers, and the Holy Spirit's indwelling ministry in the Body of Christ, takes place only once in the life of a believer; at his or her salvation.
• It seems that His 'unction' or 'anointing' corresponds with His 'indwelling' ministry, which takes place at the moment of salvation.

• If the only way to escape that terrible time to come is through faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, should we not take every opportunity to tell our loved ones, our friends, our relatives, our neighbours, our work colleagues, and those we meet, the good news of the gospel of grace and the terrible consequences of rejecting God's offer of salvation?

• At salvation we are given a new, Christ-like nature.
• The Pharisees taught that strict adherence to the Law was the way to earn salvation and 'see God'... but Christ came to show that it was inner cleanliness that mattered to the Lord and not exterior religiosity.

• He knows before the foundation of the world the choices that every man and woman will make with regard to their salvation.
• We who, at some point in our life, have chosen to accept His gift of salvation, were elected as God's children before the foundation of the world.
• God knows those who through their free-will choice will trust in the death, burial, and Resurrection of Christ for salvation during their lifetime on earth, and it is because God is omniscient that He knows ahead of time the choices each one of us will make.
• God elects everyone who by faith choose to trust in Christ for salvation.
• Our election was established on what each one of us would choose to do with God's free gift of salvation, which is by grace through faith in Christ.
• We, whom God knew would accept His free gift of salvation became 'called' the very moment we first believed on the only begotten Son of God.
• Our election and calling are inseparably woven together and founded on the truth of God's Word: Whosoever believes on the only begotten Son of God will be saved, and salvation includes our election before the foundation of the world, and our calling at the moment of our personal salvation.
• Peter is eager for us to: Make our calling and election sure, and yet our salvation, which includes both our calling and our election, cannot be more secure than it was when we first believed.
• Well, Peter is encouraging us to give all diligence to the truth of God's unbreakable promises regarding our salvation.
• Peter is urging us to be absolutely sure that our salvation, which includes our calling and election, has become a firmly fixed fact in our heart.
• Peter wants us to base our understanding of our salvation on the never-changing truth of God's Word, for when we have absolute assurance in our heart and mind that our calling and election is secure in Christ and anchored to the precious promises in the Word of God, then we are much more secure in every aspect of our lives.
• We will not stumble so quickly in our Christian walk, we will not start to doubt God's Word regarding our salvation, and we will not be tossed about by every changing wind of doctrine that seeks to place believers under condemnation when the Word of God clearly tells us that there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus.
• Peter is not suggesting that we can lose our eternal salvation, but that we stand secure in God's eternal promises connected with our salvation.
• Our election and calling is an integral part of our salvation and we confirm it in our lives by living a holy life, growing more like Christ, trusting in His sufficient grace, and depending on Him in all things.

• They were to lead the soon-to-be formed Body of believers who trusted Christ for their salvation.

• Oh, not all pre-salvation customs and activities are wrong, but Paul gave a clear, identifying mark, of the spiritual man or woman, who was growing in grace as opposed to the unbeliever.
• Before their salvation, the Corinthians believers had been led astray by mute idols of wood and stone, that neither spoke nor lived, but despite being born from above, there were some deep concerns about the lack of spiritual growth among these believers.

• Hebrews was originally written to strengthen the faith of Jewish believers and to warn against drifting away from the truth, neglecting our great salvation, the dangers of unbelief, the hindrances caused by an immature faith, and the foolishness of rejecting God's grace.
• Today these passages in Hebrews are often used to teach, incorrectly, that a believer can lose their salvation, but when taken in its correct historical context it becomes clear that the book in general and these passages in particular, need to be understood from the perspective of first-century Jewish believers.
• Our salvation is secure because of what Christ has done and not due to anything that we have or have not done.

• Christ was seeking to show the immensity of our sin against the goodness of God so that He could provide the message of salvation - by grace through faith.

• Having summarised the position and privileges of the believer and the glory of our salvation, the apostle Peter exhorts Christians to live their lives in a godly manner, and points out the responsibilities and duties that are incumbent on all who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ.
• We are further urged to be self-disciplined, self-controlled, sober, and stable in our walk with God which comes from a heart that is trusting the Lord, eyes that are looking to Jesus, and a life that is submitted to the Spirit and anchored on Christ, the Rock of our salvation.

• Although our post-salvation sins were forgiven forever at the Cross of Christ, fellowship with the Father is broken when we allow the old sin nature to direct our lives, which means that the communion we once enjoyed with Him is broken.

• For God has lavished on us the unfathomable riches of his grace and the inestimable riches of His glory, the eternal riches of His salvation, and the unconditional riches of His love.
• We are not only saved by Christ, but He is our salvation.

• Although an invitation is offered to all who will listen, a grave and terrible warning is extended to those who reject God's offer of salvation, and will finally be confined to the Lake of Fire.

• It is the 70th week of Daniel's prophecy, during which time the Lord will pour out His furious wrath on a Christ-rejecting, sinful world, which refused His gracious offer of salvation.
• NO, we are not appointed to wrath, but for obtaining full and free salvation, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

• For God alone is our salvation and strength, He alone is our Rock of defence, our Shepherd and King, our Lord and our Life, our Way, our End, and our God.
• David knew that in quietness and in confidence is our strength, for salvation is from the Lord and He alone is the one upon whom we must depend.
• May our soul also wait in silence for God, for from Him alone is our salvation.

• He had been sent from His Father in heaven to offer mankind a gift of salvation, by grace through faith in Him, so that whosoever would believe on His name might be saved by grace.

• Conversely, saving-faith or 'salvation' is impossible without repentance towards God.
• In this verse, 'faith in the Lord Jesus Christ' pre-supposes 'repentance of sin towards God', but sadly many churches continue to insist there are two steps to salvation: 1) repent and 2) believing, when there are multiple passages that demonstrate that salvation is by GOD's grace, through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ.

• The one who is forgiven much is the one who loves much and Mary loved her Lord with a deep passion, for she knew the great gift of Salvation that Christ had brought into her life.

• Maybe they were simply speaking of their physical need, but maybe they understood that before them stood the promised Messiah of Israel, the Shepherd of the sheep Who would give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.

• John had experienced wonderful fellowship and sweet communion with his Lord and he wanted all who trust in Christ for salvation to know the beautiful Person of Jesus and to experience the same sweet fellowship that he enjoyed.
• Close communion with our Saviour and sweet fellowship with the Father is the right of all who have trusted Christ for salvation by faith.

• Let us treasure the things of the Lord, and unrelentingly pursue after righteousness and godliness, faith and love, perseverance and gentleness, humility of heart and joy in the Lord, for when our treasure is rooted and grounded in Jesus, then our heart will be anchored to the Rock of our eternal salvation.

• We are encouraged to meet together for instruction and fellowship, but believers who have trusted Christ for salvation have found our rest in HIM.

• Paul describes God's gracious purpose towards all who trust Him for salvation, whether they be Jew or Gentile, and reminds us that we are a holy priesthood, a royal nation, and children of the most-high God.
• It is amazing to realise that our salvation is part of a never-ending plan - a love-story that that stretches from eternity past, into the eternal ages that are to come.

• and Do Gentiles have to keep the Law of Moses after salvation?
• They taught that salvation was part of their Jewish heritage through works of the Law.
• They taught that salvation was gained by works of the Law and not as a free gift of God's grace.
• They could not accept that salvation was by faith in Christ's sacrificial work and glorious Resurrection.
• Because of the opposition to his teaching and ministry, it was necessary for Paul to not only defend the truth of the gospel that he taught and justify his own apostolic calling, but to clarify the true gospel of salvation that he taught; that every man, Jew and Gentile alike, is a guilty sinner who is under God's eternal condemnation, who can only be declared righteous by God through FAITH in Christ Jesus. And so Paul penned his epistle to the Galatians to vehemently condemn their false teaching and meticulously set out the one and only way to be saved - as a free gift of God's grace which is accessed by Jews and Gentiles alike - BY FAITH.

• How shocking to realise that so many have refused to accept His salvation, by faith.
• Today is the day of salvation for all who will believe on Christ for the redemption of their sins.

• As such, Jesus became the federal head of a new creation of man, with the right and authority to represent everyone who would trust in Him for salvation.
• The purpose of Christ's miraculous signs was to confirm that He was God's full and final message to humanity and man's only hope of salvation.

• He describes, in awesome solemnity, the coming Day of the Lord when the full force of God's wrath will be poured out on a God-hating, sinful world which rejected the promised Messiah, and refused His gracious gift of salvation.

• Those who rejected God's offer of salvation will be calling for 'Peace and safety!' But destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labour pains on a woman about to give birth, and they will not escape.
• What a comfort to hear Paul explain that God has not destined us for His wrath during the first part of the Day of the Lord, because we have obtained salvation by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

• The victory that Christ won on the Cross is a victory that is imputed to every child of God at the moment of salvation, for we are told by the apostle John himself: The one who overcomes the world, is the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
• Jesus gained the victory on behalf of all who trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God for salvation, because we cannot overcome the world, the flesh, our sin nature, or the strategies of the evil one in our own strength.
• For at the moment of salvation we are accepted in the Beloved, and His overcoming work has made us overcomers, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.
• We became overcomers by faith at the point of our salvation (which was by faith), we were united together in Him by faith, and we are also to live an overcoming life, by faith.

• The great salvation they had recently experienced evaporated in an avalanche of murmuring accusations against the Lord Who had redeemed them from their enemies.
• Stand by and see the salvation of the LORD which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever.

• It is as we come face to face with the perfect Law of God, that the horror of sin is exposed and our desperate need of God's gift of salvation becomes clear.

• We can pour out our heart of gratitude to Him for our great salvation.

• Paul first mentions the dangers of Gnosticism, which promotes salvation through a secret or hidden knowledge for a few initiated elite people, but which denies that Christ is fully God yet fully Man.
• He further highlights the problem of Legalism, which insists that good works are added as an additional requirement for salvation, rather than recognising that Christ's finished work at Calvary is sufficient.
• He denounces Asceticism and severe self-discipline as a means of gaining God's favour, rather than salvation being a free gift of God's grace by faith in the finished work of Christ Jesus.
• And in these verses, Paul strongly condemns Mysticism and the worship of angels, with its emphasis on extra-biblical dreams, visions, feelings, experiences, and new revelations as being required for true salvation and spirituality.

• By grace, through faith, Noah and his family were kept securely by the power of God, while the wicked were condemned for not responding to His offer of salvation: For whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned because he has not believed in the name of God's Son.

• During his lifetime, Paul had to face much personal criticism and significant hostility towards his message and his ministry, but he was not ashamed of the gospel, because he knew the gospel of Christ was the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.
• We may not have experienced the type of vision Paul had on the road to Emmaus, and we may not be a pastor-teacher like Timothy, but we all have received the same great salvation; the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting, and we all have work to do in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• May we never be ashamed of the gospel of Christ knowing that it is salvation for ALL who believe, and may we carry out the good work that God has appointed each of us to do for His greater praise and glory.

• As the greatest oppressor of the early Christian Church, the apostle Paul was supernaturally changed on that road to Damascus, when Jesus made Himself known to him, and Paul repented of his past life and turned to the Lord for His great salvation.

• The Law was designed to identify our sinfulness and highlight our need of salvation.
• The Law causes the sinner to acknowledge his sinfulness and reach out to Jesus Christ, our perfect sacrifice - for whosoever believes on Him by accepting His gracious offer of salvation through faith, will be saved.

• We have God's assurance that our eternal salvation is secured forever in the nail-pierced hands of Christ, Who died to pay the price of sin.
• We are to remember the thrice-proclaimed warning that is in this verse, that today – Today – TODAY is the day of salvation.
• We are to take to heart the self-same warning that went unheeded by the Israelites: Today is the day of salvation.

• As the 7 trumpets are blown, one after the other, each will unleash a punishment of increasing intensity upon a world of sinful men, who have rejected the God Who made them, and refused His offer of salvation.
• But those who have rejected His offer of salvation will have to face the wrath of God, which is to take place during the coming Tribulation period, as outlined in Revelation, Daniel, and many other prophetic books.

• Rewards are not the result of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.
• Salvation is God's free gift of grace to all who believe; salvation is not a reward.
• Salvation is offered as a free gift to ALL - by faith, and born-again believers are to live by faith.

• Christ's redeeming blood is sufficient to deal with the penalty and power of sin and death - a satanic power that has enslaved humanity since Adam's fall - but all who trust in Him for salvation will be saved.
• Some foolishly suggest that we can lose our salvation, by disengaging ourselves from our Father's hands and stepping away from our position in Christ - but the Bible makes it very clear that nothing - absolutely nothing, created in the mortal realm or spiritual sphere... including ourselves, can separate us from God's love for His blood-bought children.
• Not even those that are redeemed can separate themselves from His loving care, because Jesus Christ, Himself has secured our salvation forever, through His sacrifice on the cross.
• Salvation is the work of God in us.
• Salvation is not something we can get for ourselves.
• Good works and charitable deeds cannot earn salvation.

• We who know the Lord as our God and Saviour are truly blessed because we not only have peace WITH God at the point of our salvation but was ah access to the peace OF God as we walk in spirit and truth.

• It was under the leadership of Ezra that the nation, which had strayed so far from God and fallen into gross apostasy and ungodly idolatry, was reminded of its covenant with the Lord, and Ezra was instrumental in returning the nation from sin to salvation.

• There is not one, specific passage, which lists all the advantages we have received through salvation, but throughout the New Testament, our privileges and position in Christ sparkle like glistening jewels which have been randomly scattered throughout the Word of truth - for all who will take time to study.
• And our hope in the Lord will never, ever be disappointed because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by means of the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who was given to us the moment we trusted Christ for salvation.

• God knew before we were born, if we would be someone who one day would receive His gift of salvation.
• And packaged in our great salvation, is not only justification (when we first believed) but sanctification (as we grow in grace throughout our Christian life) and also glorification (when Jesus returns to take us to be with Himself in heaven).

• Paul was deeply concerned for the spiritual wellbeing of all who trusted Christ for salvation.

• He would come as the Horn of salvation for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• I am the one Who heals your spirit - when you were justified, through initial faith in Jesus as Saviour - PAST salvation.
• I am the one Who heals your soul - through the sanctification process, as you walk in faith and grow in grace - ONGOING salvation.  I am the one Who heals your body - at the Rapture of the church and resurrection of the dead-in-Christ - FUTURE salvation.

• It is only when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation that we are transferred from the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of God's dear Son.
• It is only when we are born again - born from above, that the insurmountable blockade that bars us from our Father in heaven is eternally removed and we become a child of God, purchased from above, an heir of salvation, born of His Spirit and washed in Christ's redeeming blood.
• At the point of salvation, immeasurable blessings are poured out on all God's children, eternal life becomes a present possession, we are justified in the sight of God, we have passed from death to life, we have been quickened - made alive by God.

• They rejected the Rock of their salvation.

• The subject of both dialogues is the gospel of the kingdom, and Jesus begins His discourse in Luke with four blessings for those who by faith follow Him, and four woes for those who reject Christ and His offer of salvation.

• And so Paul reminded him of the truth of the glorious gospel of God; that the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men.
• That the Lord Jesus was sent into the world to deliver Adam's fallen race from sin and death, and to offer ALL who would believe on Christ, God's free gift of salvation. Jesus came instructing us to deny ungodliness and to abstain from worldly desires.

• Let us make a joyful noise unto the Lord - the Rock of our Salvation.

• God resolved that mankind would be justified by the blood of Christ alone and not be awarded salvation in respect of our merit, pious behaviours, or any good works that we could accomplish.
• He determined that nothing extra would be required so that no one could proudly boast that their good deeds were part-payment for their salvation, or smugly stand before God saying that they had made a contribution to their justification.

• But spiritual blindness, the hypocrisy of their leaders, and disobedience to God's written Word, would result in Christ's rejection by the nation He love, and a gracious invitation being extended to all who would hear His Word and accept His free gift of salvation, both Jew and Gentile alike.

• His promises will never fail, for His Word cannot be broken, and Zechariah prophesied of the glorious salvation of a remnant of Israel and the future peace and prosperity they will enjoy in the City of God, when Jesus is King of Israel and Governor over the whole earth. Nevertheless, because of their sin, the Lord was angry with those that disobeyed Him.

• Legalism belittles the glorious grace of God by erroneously requiring some form of human merit to secure God's unconditional, free gift of salvation.
• The Galatian gospel replaced Christ with the false gospel of human effort and an unscriptural, works-based salvation.
• They continued to insist that there was no salvation without circumcision.
• THIS salvation through the LAW is an impossibility for fallen, sinful man.
• OR, we are justified by receiving salvation as a free gift from God, by faith in the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• THIS salvation is a free gift of God's GRACE and open to all men to receive.
• Salvation is not by Law AND Grace.
• Both are mutually exclusive and cannot be combined or co-mingled. 'LAW' severs a sinner from Christ and His free gift salvation.
• Many like to use this verse to teach that one can lose their salvation.
• They suggest that falling from grace by trying to keep the Law means the loss of a believer's salvation.
• Justification is the point in a sinner's life when God declares them to be righteous, because they trust in Christ alone for their salvation.

• Later, he gave thanks to the Father for their great salvation and inheritance of the saints in the light.

• May we be so immersed in Christ Jesus our Lord that we are thus enabled to glory in the God of our salvation and to rejoice in the bright hope for the future.

• For instance, while the Lord permitted the heinous events surrounding Israel's rejection of their Messiah and Christ's cruel crucifixion on a Gentile cross to be carried out by sinful man, the Lord used their nefarious plans and diabolical acts to accomplish His glorious plan of salvation through it.

• How sad that there are those who refuse Christ's offer of salvation and by their own free-will place themselves back under condemnation, through time and into eternity.