AM I REALLY SAVED ( Stages of Salvation )
( Deeper Knowledge of Salvation that all Christian must achieve )
LET ALL CHRISTIAN KNOW THIS TRUTH IN ORDER TO HAVE AN ASSURANCE TO BE CAUGHT UP BY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN HIS COMING :
Is it right that after receiving Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, already enough to claim that you are saved ?
Many Born Again Christians now have this kind of belief, that by receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, That’s it ! I am saved !
But they don’t know that Salvation is in 3 Stages that every Christian must obtain, achieved, and possessed.
LET US READ, FOR IT IS WRITTEN :
2 Corinthians 1:10 King James Version (KJV)
10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us :
" delivered us " " doth deliver " " will yet ever us " past present future
LET US FIRST PROVE TO THEM (to the READERS) THAT WE CHRISTIANS IN JESUS TRULY ARE SAVED AND PREDESTINED TO HEAVEN BY THE GRACE OF GOD :
Ephesians 2:8-9 King James Version (KJV)
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Very clear “ you are saved through faith. – already saved
YES ! It is by GRACE through FAITH we are SAVED !
WHAT IS GRACE ?
Grace | Definition of Grace at Dictionary.com
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The freely given, unmerited favor, and love of God. the influence or spirit of God operating in humans to regenerate or strengthen them. a virtue or excellence of divine origin: the Christian graces. Also called a state of grace. the condition of being in God's favor or one of the elect.
Grace is freely given, it is free !
It is free and unmerited favor and love of God as what is written :
John 3:16 King James Version (KJV)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Father God gave His Son Christ Jesus as our Savior, you have to receive what is already been given, many already received Him (How about you and the others?), the reason why many Christian now claiming that they are already saved by grace through faith:
John 1:12 King James Version (KJV)
But as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
By receiving Jesus Christ is to become children of God and as children of God is a joint-heir with Christ in heaven :
Romans 8:17 King James Version (KJV)
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
HOW A PERSON CAN RECEIVE SALVATION FROM CHRIST ?
Mark 16:15-16 King James Version (KJV)
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
But why does the thief (one of the malefactors) at the right side of Jesus at the Cross of Calvary was saved ? Though he was not baptized even into water baptism? but has the promise of paradise in heaven ?
He is considered as an exemption to the rule, How can he be baptized for being already hanged at the cross ? It is also written “ but he that believeth not shall be damned ”.
He believed and made a confession to Jesus and accept that he is a sinner, he shows repentance, unlike the other thief at the left side of the Lord.
Only God can read the heart of every person and can decide or judge if He will accept the person who is dying and be with Him in Heaven. But clearly on what is also written in the bible is written, that “whosoever call upon the name of Jesus shall also be saved” :
Romans 10:10-13 King James Version (KJV)
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek : for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Let us read and justify these words of truth on what happened that moment ? :
Luke 23: 39-43 King James Version
And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, if thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Does not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thy comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
TRULY THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.
LET US GO BACK IF IT IS ENOUGH TO BE SAVED BY ACCEPTING JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR ?
HERE IS TO CLARIFY EVERYTHING, THAT BEING SAVED IS NOT ONLY UP TO THAT, BUT MUST CONTINUE SERVING GOD UP TO PERFECTION.
THAT IS WHY THERE ARE THREE (3) STAGES OF SALVATION THAT WE MUST OBTAIN ACHIEVED AND POSSESSED IN ORDER TO BECOMELET US READ AGAIN :
2 Corinthians 1:10 King James Version (KJV)
10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us :
" delivered us " " doth deliver " " will yet ever us " past present future
These 3 Stages of Salvation are what the Lord wants us to achieved and possessed, as what I have said, does not mean that after receiving and believing Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, It’s done, You’re Saved, Only up to that ? No ! :
WHAT IS WRITTEN ABOUT SALVATION ARE :
1st : “ delivered us ”, – “Past Tense”: Who delivered us (saved us) from so great a death ( saved from condemnation for being doomed to hell – Luke 16:-24 ), Having new way predestined to Heaven – 2 Peter 1:11— For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2nd : “ doth deliver ”– “Present Tense”: We are presently molding (continuously saving us) up to perfection which is very purposed of the Sent and Ministers of God in order to bring us and show us worthy in His 2nd Coming — “Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus — Colosians 1:28, That we could live in peace and holiness that without which we will not see the Lord — Hebrews 12:14, That by continuous listening to His words we will be cleansed unto holiness — “ Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you “ - John 15:3 , So that we may be as what the Church must be in the Second (2nd) Coming of Christ — “That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having a spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing,; but that it should be holy and without blemish” — Ephesians 5: 27.
Perfection is a must that without attaining or not to achieved it, you will not be qualified to the coming of Christ - “Rapture”:
Revelation 3:2-3 King James Version
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die (or soon to an end ): for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Watching or to watch is the key for all to become worthy in His Coming, even in prayer :
Luke 21:35-38 King James Version
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always (Watch and Pray - Matthew 13:33-34), that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man (Jesus). And in the day he was teaching in the temple, and at night he went out, and about in the mount that is called the mount of olives. And the people came early in the morning (early morning devotion) to him in the temple, for to hear him.
So here, clearly that only Church whose Watching and Pray always be counted worthy in His coming, like the 5 Virgins who watched and slept not, but took oil in their vessel (Please read Matthew 28-1-13 about the ” Parable of the Ten Virgins ”)
3rd : “ he will yet deliver us ” - “Future Tense”: We are not yet changed into an immortal body, we are still in a mortal body that could suffer death by reason, even waiting for the 2nd Coming of Christ Jesus like others who already died, but when the Lord come and find us worthy in His Coming (Rapture), we will not any more to experienced death of our mortal body but will be changed to immortality with “glorify body” as what is written that “ he will yet deliver us ” :
I Corinthians 15: 51-54 King James Version
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (or we shall not all die), but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raise incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So then this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that us written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
So, No more Death, No more Sorrow, Neither Crying o Pain, We will all live full of Joy and Happiness .
Revelation 21:4 King James Version
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away.
You said, you are Christian and you are saved and have personal relationship with the Lord Jesus ?
Have you ever heard these about Perfection that all Christian's must Watch ?
Have you already reach Perfection ? Are you now living in Peace and Holiness ?
Do you Watch and Pray always, Are you really in the True Church who is Watching ?
And if not ? You don’t have an assurance to be caught up in the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, The Coming King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
By : Art Ron Herrera ( Full knowledge and Revelation from His Living Apostle - The Goodman of the House )
Always To God Be The Glory, forever and ever, Amen !
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