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sometimes I wonder if we realize what a
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really big word salvation is what does
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it mean to be saved what's the meaning
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of salvation on the one hand it means
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safe but it means healed also it means
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forgiving it means adopted it means
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having been made whole it's a big word
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it means that we are restored in our
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relationship with God and we've been
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given life with God now and we've also
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been given the gift of eternal life with
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God in heaven forever so salvation is
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big salvation is a gift of God it's not
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something that we can earn even if
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that's the way so many people feel about
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it but no it's a gift of God it's
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something we can't achieve it it's
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something that has to be received we
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need to have that straight from the very
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beginning you know salvation can come
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instantaneously as it was with Zacchaeus
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when Jesus entered into his house and
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you remember he said this day salvation
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has come to this house it can come in a
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moment of realization and faith but its
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salvation is also something that has to
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be lived into and lived out st. Paul
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said that we have to work out our
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salvation in fear and trembling so
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there's a moment when we begin to
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experience salvation but we spend the
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rest of our lives living into what it
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what it means and how it works itself
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out in our life there's a story about an
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old English bishop who was very proper
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who was walking down the street in
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london and a sidewalk evangelist said to
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him sir have you been saved and his
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answer is pretty significant the old man
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was said to have stopped and thought and
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then in a very gracious way said yes
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I have been saved I am being saved and I
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shall be saved what did he mean he meant
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he could look back on a moment in time
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when he put faith in Christ and turned
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to him in faith and hope and he
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experienced salvation but he also meant
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you know salvation is something i'm
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living in too and i'm experiencing and
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learning more about and experiencing
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more of every day but also salvation is
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something i'm going to enter more fully
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into when i go to be with the lord in
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the next life salvation begins when God
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opens our eyes to begin to grasp how
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much we need Christ as long as we think
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we can save ourselves the way is closed
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off being saved is like being in the
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midst of drowning and and realizing you
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can't save yourself and someone has to
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come along and rescue you and you just
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have to relax and be rescued because
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you're over your head and you can't swim
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and you're going to drown otherwise the
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only thing I can contribute to my
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salvation is my own sinful nature it's
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about coming to God with an awareness of
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our humble need coming in faith
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repenting of my sins and laying out
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before God my sense that I need him
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that's the beginning of salvation Paul
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said in Romans 10 everyone who calls
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upon the name of the Lord will be saved
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now of course we live in a time when
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many people reject the idea that faith
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in Christ is necessary in order to
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become a child of God and an inheritor
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of eternal life and yet this is what
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Jesus said who said I am the way and the
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truth and the life no one comes to the
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Father but by me he is our pathway to
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salvation and of course this was the
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message of the Apostles as Peter
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preached in acts for there is no other
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name
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but which we may be saved salvation
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comes through Jesus Christ
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