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       I Explain What It Means To Be Saved
       By: Olde Tymer Date: October 13, 2018, 7:40 pm
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       [font=arial].
       A common New Testament Greek word for save is sozo (sode'-zo);
       which means: to rescue and/or protect.
       Rescuing is what the Coast Guard does when boats capsize.
       Rescuing is what Firemen do when people are trapped inside
       burning buildings. Rescuing is what mountaineer teams do when
       climbers are in trouble. Rescuing is what EMT paramedics do when
       someone needs to get to a hospital in a hurry; and kept alive
       till they arrive. Rescuing is what surgeons do when someone
       needs an organ transplant. And rescuers are very active getting
       people to safety in areas ravaged by storms, flooding, and
       wildfires.
       I could go on and on giving examples of rescue after rescue; but
       I think you get the idea. Christ is like that: he rescues and
       protects people from the wrath of God-- people who fully deserve
       it; i.e. people on track for the wrath of God and have no means
       of their own to escape it. For them; the wrath of God is nigh
       unto inevitable; unstoppable and coming their way like a tsunami
       and a 9.0 earthquake.
       &#9679; Luke 2:8-11 . . And there were in the same country
       shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock
       by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the
       glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore
       afraid. And the angel said unto them: Fear not: for, behold, I
       bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
       people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a
       rescuer, which is Christ the Lord.
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       Re: I Explain What It Means To Be Saved
       By: Olde Tymer Date: October 16, 2018, 1:54 pm
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       [font=arial]&#9679;1John 1:9 . . If we confess our sins, he is
       faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
       all unrighteousness.
       On the surface, that passage says nothing new. Jews are, and
       were, forgiven and cleansed by means of confession just the same
       as Christians.
       However, the Jews' sins stay on the books. (Ex 34:6-7, Nah 1:3)
       Christian sins don't even get in the books to begin with. (2Cor
       5:18-19)
       Seeing as how the Jews' sins stay on the books, then forgiveness
       for them amounts to little more than a reprieve; which can be
       defined as: to delay punishment.
       But the reason that Christian sins never even make it to the
       books is because their punishment was fully accomplished on the
       cross as joint principals in Christ's crucifixion.
       &#9679; Rom 6:3 . . Or do you not know that as many of us as
       were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
       &#9679; Rom 6:6 . . Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
       with him
       &#9679; Gal 2:20 . . I am crucified with Christ
       &#9679; Col 3:3 . . For you died when Christ died
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       Re: I Explain What It Means To Be Saved
       By: Olde Tymer Date: October 19, 2018, 8:59 am
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       [font=arial]Numbers of people out there in the world are pretty
       sure they're going to hell. They can feel it in their bones like
       instinct and intuition; and many no doubt have come to terms
       with the prospect.
       There isn't a day goes by but that they add yet more and more
       sins to the indictment that God is building against them. They
       literally don't have a snowball's chance in hell of ever
       escaping the wrath of God. Only a miracle can save them now and
       they know it only too well.
       The gospel is often called good news; but in my judicious
       estimation, it should be called news too good to be true because
       in it is explained how God has invented a perfectly legal way to
       get those indictments thrown out, and to acquit those people so
       completely that on the books it looks as though they have never
       been anything but 100% innocent.
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       Re: I Explain What It Means To Be Saved
       By: Scripter Date: October 20, 2018, 8:44 am
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       The last paragraph is excellent.  You have captured what Paul
       meant exactly.  Cp Rom 4 about the man who does not work.
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       Re: I Explain What It Means To Be Saved
       By: Olde Tymer Date: October 21, 2018, 7:51 am
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       [font=arial]&#9679; Matt 14:22-31 . . Jesus made the disciples
       get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side,
       while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he
       went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came,
       he was there alone, but the boat was already a considerable
       distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was
       against it.
       . . During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them,
       walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the
       lake, they were terrified. It's a ghost! they said, and cried
       out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: Take courage!
       It is I. Don't be afraid.
       . . Lord, if it's you, Peter replied, tell me to come to you on
       the water. Come, he said.
       . .Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and
       came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and,
       beginning to sink, cried out: Lord, save me! Immediately Jesus
       reached out his hand and caught him.
       That incident is often referred to as the shortest prayer on
       record. My very first sincere prayer was short too. Though not
       quite as brief as Peter's; my prayer's motive was the same as
       his: I was in grave peril and needed to be rescued. Here's the
       text; as near as I can remember.
       "God; I know I'm a sinner. I would like to take advantage of
       your son's death."
       I didn't know it at the time, but to-the-point prayers are right
       up God's alley.
       &#9679; Heb 4:15-16 . . For we do not have a high priest who
       cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been
       tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Let us
       therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that
       we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need.
       The koin� Greek word for "confidence" in Heb 4:16 is parrhesia
       (par-rhay-see'-ah) which means: all out-spokenness; viz:
       frankness, bluntness. In other words: it's okay to speak one's
       mind, to be candid-- just as we might hang out with beer buddies
       and/or Alcoholics Anonymous. That is a whole lots more in step
       with God than reciting rote and/or stuffing pieces of paper in
       the stone chinks of the so-called Wailing Wall.
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