Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Salvation God Promised


Hebrews 5:7 KJV
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

When Christ came to this earth He came with the purpose both to seek and to save them that are lost. He came knowing that such salvation would require the Cross. He therefore never would have sought a salvation from it. Christ knew that God was able to save Him from death but not dying. Death was His whole purpose in becoming a man. His confidence was not that He would escape dying but that death itself would be defeated in resurrection.

We often want a salvation that is not that which God has promised. We want
  • A salvation from hurt and pain
  • A salvation from responsibility and accountability
We want
  • A salvation that frees us from guilt and that liberates us from expectations
  • A salvation from fear of consequences but not from those acts that bring consequences
Christ came to fulfill His purpose and not to be free of it. So ought we who claim salvation. We have been saved, but not to liberty[1]. We have been saved to service having confidence that God is able to recompense abundantly that service in glory.



[1] I know that we have liberty in Christ, ,but not the kind so many of today's Christians claim to enjoy. Theirs is license.

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