Living in Salvation
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In a shaking world, our focus must be on the unshakeable kingdom of God.
· This is a focus on heavenly things.
The kingdom of God is not just a kingdom coming in the future. It is a constantly coming kingdom working in our hearts (Lk. 17:20, 21).
· God speaks to us internally.
God’s voice is not a voice of information. It is a voice of transformation!
· Hebrews 12:25-29
Christ in us empowers us to experience internal and external realities in supernatural ways.
· We must know God’s mercy and grace – Heb. 4:16
· Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
The power of the cross and the power of Christ in His resurrection are two events – two realities in our lives.
Jesus’ first coming was a coming for the judgment of sin. His death upon our cross gave His mercy to us all.
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
It is appointed for all men to die once for the judgment of the flesh. Jesus died once for us all and has reconciled us to God as our Father, even while we were still sinners.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Jesus died once for us all, and His death justified all people to live.
Since we have been justified to live, we must seek His manifest presence in our lives to be empowered to reign in life.
In Christ, we are empowered to reign in life –
Romans 5:17 For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Jesus is our salvation through His death for us upon our cross and His present life for us as we find His presence in our lives through our access to Him on the throne of grace (Heb. 4:16).
Our salvation is not just a salvation when we physically die.
Jesus came so that we could find our death in Him and, therefore, find our life in Him.
Eternal life is not just a place we are going; it is the fruit and testimony of knowing the One who gives life in all things. It is through personally knowing God that we have eternal life today, tomorrow, and in all times.
John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
John 5:24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life."
· 1 Jn. 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren…
Our life in Old Adam was destined to die, but Jesus was the Son of Man in the flesh to free us from the life of the flesh.
Jesus came to liberate us to live our lives empowered by the life of His Spirit.
This is a life of faith – a life of hearing God within our hearts that empowers us to live.
Through Jesus we experience the end of our old life to live a new life by His resurrection power.
John 5:25 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, 27 and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.
Jesus has judged sin that we might live our lives empowered by the life-giving desires of His Holy Spirit.
His sacrifice for our sins was merely the entrance for us to know Him in His salvation.
John 14:1-6
Jesus was making a way for the disciples to be where He would go and for Him to be with them in the world in which they would still live.
Hebrews 9:26 …but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
The end of the ages is the end of Old Adam and an administration of the knowledge of good and evil for those who receive His gift of love.
The end of the Old Covenant at the birth of the New Covenant bride of Christ was only the beginning of His increasing grace for every age of men to come.
Jesus has put away sin, and He empowers us to live free from the power of sin through a relationship with Him as the body of Christ.
· But now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin
Jesus' First Coming and Second Coming in the First Century was the end of the Old Covenant Generation for Israel first to then go to all nations – First a man of the flesh (living soul) – Second a life-giving Spirit.
· 1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
· Matthew 24:34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.
To know the salvation of God, we must know Jesus in both His first coming and an eternally increasing second coming in our lives.
· We must embrace His sacrifice for us upon our cross
· We must live from the throne room of grace - Hebrews 9:27-28
We are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places – Eph. 1:3
We are to live as sons of God - Eph. 1:3-6
As members of the body of Christ, we are empowered by Christ in us to live in the destiny of purpose-filled salvation in Christ – Eph. 1:18-23
Living in the Salvation of Christ is to live as the light of Christ to our world – 1 Thes. 5:4-10
Our salvation includes the regeneration that comes to us by Jesus in His first coming and the renewing of our lives by Holy Spirit in us – Tit. 3:4-7
The salvation of the last time of the first century is the salvation for believers in every century
1 Peter 1:3-12