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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Salvation Is Deliverance From Sin, #15
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. (Zechariah 3:3,4)
At the Judgment Seat we get back the things we have done in the body!
When the Lord sees that it is enough He will bring the individual before him again, now broken in spirit, ready to obey the Lord. With a word the Lord removes the sin. The Lord can remove the sin from any person any time He chooses.
What remains of the personality? Christ has not been formed in him or her so most of what has been gained during life has vanished. Most of the person's memory—perhaps all of it—is gone. A child is left. There is no inheritance in the Kingdom, none of the promises assigned to the victorious saint.
The person has been "saved," meaning delivered from sin, and takes his place with some family somewhere in Paradise, there to be governed by the royal priesthood.
The spirit has been saved, delivered from sin by Divine judgment, but it is naked. There is no white robe of righteous deeds, no house from Heaven.
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (I Corinthians 5:5)
We have seen there are at least three destinies possible to the believer who for whatever reason is not released from sin at the Judgment Seat.
He or she is thrown into the Lake of Fire to be forever with Satan and his angels.
He or she is driven into the outer darkness to spend eternity there.
He or she is burned with fire until the Lord is ready to remove the sinful personality and to permit the naked spirit to enter the garden of God.
Without Sin Unto Salvation
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 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 9:27,28)
If we define salvation as an eligibility for eternal residence in Heaven, an eligibility given to us the moment we "make a decision for Christ," then the expression "unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation" does not make much sense. (Aren't we saved already?)
But if we define salvation as deliverance from sin, then the expression makes perfect sense. The idea is that at the Lord's return all of the sin that has troubled us will be removed, and this removal is salvation.
After the feast of Pentecost comes Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and finally the feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus, Chapter 23). These feasts are symbolic. They mean that after we are filled with the Spirit of God (Pentecost) we will experience the spiritual fulfillments of the blowing of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the feast of Tabernacles.
To be continued.