SAVED!

The Wednesday Word

SAVED

“Neither is there salvation in any other:

for there is none other name under heaven

given among men, whereby we must be saved”

-Acts 4:12

 
 

SAVED! What a great Bible term. Some people say it is antiquated, but I disagree.  It means deliverance instead of destruction, life instead of death, acquittal instead of punishment and rescue instead of ruin. Saved! What a wonderful multi-faceted word! May we never drop it from our vocabulary. We are saved!

And how did we get saved? We got saved on the basis of Christ’s finished work outside of us in history (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).
Believers have been delivered from damnation (Romans 5:1). We are saved. Believers are no longer under wrath (Romans 5:9)…..we are saved.  Jesus said, ¨I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture¨ (John 10:9).

Again, In Acts 2:21 we learn that “whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” ‘But surely I am saved by giving up my bad habits?’ Not at all! As Harry Ironside said, “The Gospel is not a demand that you give up the world, that you give up your sins, that you break off bad habits and try to cultivate good ones. You may do all these things, and yet never believe the Gospel and consequently never be saved at all.”

In spite of our unworthiness, we, by faith, receive a complete and finished salvation. We are not half condemned, we are saved.  We are not half accepted, we are saved.
 

Because of the doing, dying and rising again of Christ Jesus we are saved completely (Colossians 2:10).

We are saved forever (Romans 11:29).

And, we are saved for His glory (Romans 15:7).

Notice how our salvation begins with grace and ends with glory? Grace is the forerunner of Glory. Glory is the consummation of grace.

Across the history of the believer’s life is now written in large bold letters ..SAVED. The more we understand the Gospel the more we realise that the Father cannot discover any state to ‘unfit’ us for Jesus (see Romans 8:33-39).  We are saved!

It’s a wonderful thing to know that the Lord Jesus has nothing against us. We are saved!  We are saved because Christ Jesus suffered on the cross. He was charged with our sin and He acknowledged our sin to be His.  We are saved!  In His life, He gave Himself for us. At the cross, He gave Himself for us.  We are saved!

What sin can keep the believer out of Glory?

Would you say blasphemy? No it can’t be blasphemy for Saul of Tarsus said, “I was a blasphemer” (1 Timothy 1:13). Yet, God saved him.

Would adultery keep a person out of Glory? That can’t be so. Rahab the harlot had practiced prostitution (Joshua 2:1). Yet God saved her.

Would you say murder would keep a person out of glory? Well, David had a hit man go and kill Uriah; that’s murder (2 Samuel 12). Yet God saved him.

Would you say divorce would keep you out of Glory? The woman at the well was married five times (John 4:16-18).  But God saved her.

We have too small a view of the Lord’s power, grace and mercy.  He is the Saviour! We are the saved.

As you remember, the name Jesus comes from the Hebrew ‘Jehoshua’, meaning "Jehovah saves". Jesus was born as our Saviour. If he loses us, he’s not the saviour who was born to save.  But He died on the cross as our saviour. He was buried and rose again as our Saviour! Therefore, we are safe and we are saved!

And that’s the Gospel Truth!

-Gospel report by preacher Miles McKee

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