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MichaelATL44
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Thu 04/09/09 08:02 AM
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Are You Sozo?
God, please save me. I beg you. I have cleaned up my act. I have quit using profanity. I have quit drinking. I try not to get angry anymore. I am paying tithes at my local church. I pray an hour a day, whether I feel like it or not. I rarely even watch television or listen to secular music anymore. I even wear the right clothes. God, please, please God, will you save me? Look at everything I am doing! I am begging you! That's the way we get saved, right? Wrong. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Ephesians 2:8 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10:9 We cannot earn our salvation. There is nothing we can do, or quit doing, rather than unbelieveing, to make ourselves acceptable to God. We are saved by confessing with our mouth that He is Lord and believing in out Hearts that God raised him from the dead. It's all grace. Grace appropriated through faith. All of our good works are like fifthly rags. If I were to ask how many of you right at this very moment are saved, more than likely just about everybody on this site would say, "Yes brother, I am saved". What If I asked you if you had been rescued from danger? Or restored to health? Made well, or even healed? How many would say, "Yes brother, I am all of those"? The Greek word that was translated as "saved" in the New Testament is the word "Sozo" In light of that, lets look at Romans 10:9 one more time: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be SOZO. Romans 10:9 The word Sozo was used 110 times in the New Testament. Here's what the word Sozo means and includes: - to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction, injury or peril - to save a suffering one from perishing, suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health - to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue to save in the technical biblical sense - to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment - to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance Everything you see in the definitions above, and more, was included in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus. Salvation means so much more than just being forgiven of our sins and missing hell. And, everything that was included in His sacrifice has now becomes yours, if you are truly born-again. No begging required. The Words says: As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Colossians 2:6 When you got saved you didn't have to beg God. You received faith by hearing of the Word of God and by that faith you believed that He had already died for your sins, forgiven you, and that salvation was a free gift. And so it is with everything else which was atoned for. You have been Sozo! In love, Michael |
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Are You Sozo? God, please save me. I beg you. I have cleaned up my act. I have quit using profanity. I have quit drinking. I try not to get angry anymore. I am paying tithes at my local church. I pray an hour a day, whether I feel like it or not. I rarely even watch television or listen to secular music anymore. I even wear the right clothes. God, please, please God, will you save me? Look at everything I am doing! I am begging you! That's the way we get saved, right? Wrong. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Ephesians 2:8 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10:9 We cannot earn our salvation. There is nothing we can do, or quit doing, rather than unbelieveing, to make ourselves acceptable to God. We are saved by confessing with our mouth that He is Lord and believing in out Hearts that God raised him from the dead. It's all grace. Grace appropriated through faith. All of our good works are like fifthly rags. If I were to ask how many of you right at this very moment are saved, more than likely just about everybody on this site would say, "Yes brother, I am saved". What If I asked you if you had been rescued from danger? Or restored to health? Made well, or even healed? How many would say, "Yes brother, I am all of those"? The Greek word that was translated as "saved" in the New Testament is the word "Sozo" In light of that, lets look at Romans 10:9 one more time: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be SOZO. Romans 10:9 The word Sozo was used 110 times in the New Testament. Here's what the word Sozo means and includes: - to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction, injury or peril - to save a suffering one from perishing, suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health - to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue to save in the technical biblical sense - to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment - to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance Everything you see in the definitions above, and more, was included in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus. Salvation means so much more than just being forgiven of our sins and missing hell. And, everything that was included in His sacrifice has now becomes yours, if you are truly born-again. No begging required. The Words says: As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Colossians 2:6 When you got saved you didn't have to beg God. You received faith by hearing of the Word of God and by that faith you believed that He had already died for your sins, forgiven you, and that salvation was a free gift. And so it is with everything else which was atoned for. You have been Sozo! In love, Michael 
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