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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Divine Fire, #7
And if the righteous scarcely be saved [is saved with difficulty], where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? (I Peter 4:18)
We are saved from sin by Divine judgment. The program is difficult because of our lack of faith and patience.
Many believers drop out of the race because they are unwilling to suffer with patience while the Lord deals with their worldliness, lusts, and self-will.
He who endures to the end of his life the process of salvation will be saved.
We must walk by faith in God. If we draw back from the Divine dealings we are faced with destruction.
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. (Hebrews 10:39)
The Salvation Reserved for the Last Days
People are born into the world with two strikes against them, so to speak. When we are born we are already guilty and cut off from the Life of God because of Adam's sin. We have dwelling in us a body of sin that we have inherited from our ancestors. Also, during our life we acquire many forms of sin and rebellion.
We are guilty, we are under Divine condemnation, and also are bound with strong urges to sin and rebel against God's will.
God, in His love, has sent the Lord Jesus to us. By means of the shed blood of the cross of Calvary our sins are forgiven when we turn to Jesus. But there remains in our personality the strong urges to sin.
The ceremony of the Day of Atonement (Leviticus, Chapter 16), with its slain goat and living goat, portrays the forgiveness of the person who looks to the Lord for salvation, and also the removal of the power of sin from his or her personality.
The Christian salvation includes both the forgiveness and the removal of sin.
The forgiveness of sin has been experienced by multitudes of believers throughout the centuries of the Christian Era. The beginning of the removal of the power of sin, the Day of Redemption, has been reserved to the period just prior to the return of the Lord. The Day of Redemption, of Atonement, of Reconciliation, has begun now and will extend through the thousand-year Kingdom Age.
Several passages of Scripture point to the future day of redemption, of salvation.
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. (Romans 13:11)
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. (Ephesians 4:30)
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Hebrews 9:28)
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (I Peter 1:5)
To be continued.