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JD, it's amazing to read your developing thoughts
in this area. Don't give up!
Love
Caroline
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:40
PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Re [Truth Talk]
Saved -- Salvation -- and the pigpen
Matt 1:21: For he shall
save his people from their sins.
Sin is something we do to ourselves. It brings death. We are dead
already.
He saves us from ourselves !!
Matt 8:25 (in the
storm) Lord, save us.
Here, salvation is the work of the Lord from physical disaster.
Matt
16:25 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose
it
Lose of life in this context is self denial. Again, salvation is
deliverance
FROM SELF.
Matt 18:11 The Son of
Man came to seek and save the
lost.
Here, it means to me "recovery and direction." (he goes out and recovers
a
sheep that is lost).
I am saved when I received by
the Shepherd and given direction. This
direction (the road map) is within the flock -- (Heb
10:24 let us
stimulate
one another to love and good works -- that is our road
map)
Lk 18:42 Thy faith hath saved thee (made
you well ----- same word as all of the
above)
Salvation, here, is physical healing because of our faith.
I Pet
3:21 baptism doeth also now save us.
a personal effort offers "salvation" -- again from ourselves
-- a request for
good conscience through the resurrection.
Without
Christ, we are lost, of course. I drive and drive, confident that
I can find my own way without directions from Another. In the end,
about to run out of gas (death on the highway) and confused -- He
seeks me out and gives me direction.
Salvation is
different from reconciliation. Just as the Covenant is unilateral,
so is reconciliation. Salvation is somewhat different.
Salvation = the proper direction in life. Hence the need for
repentance. If we are headed in the wrong direction, we need to
turn around and go home. In the parable of the prodigal, the
Father WAS there -- in the pigpen ---- and the son
knew. He turned to his father in that pigpen. When he
left that pigpen HE WAS HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. He
was saved.
Jd out
loud
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