God's
Salvation Discourse
Ishak Natan
Nov 2017
An Analogy
Tom,
a teenager brought the little boat that he had built to the
river. He carefully placed it in the water and slowly let out the
string. Suddenly a swift current hit the boat and the string broke. Tom
ran along the banks of the river to catch it, but in vain. The boat
disappeared although he sought it until sunset.
A
few days later when Tom walked home from school, he was surprised to
see his little boat in a store window. He then went to the shop owner
and said: “Sir, that’s
my boat in your window! I made it!” “Sorry, son, but
someone else brought it in this morning. If you want it, you’ll have to
buy it for one dollar.” Tom
ran home and counted all his money. Exactly one
dollar!
When he reached the store, he
rushed to the counter. “Here’s
the money for my boat.”
As he left the store, Tom hugged his boat and
said, “Now you’re twice mine. First, I made you and now I bought you.”
The chart below seeks to illustrate the salvation from God
the Creator to sinful man. The underlying Bible verses are linked to
the bulleted headings in the columns and the rows of the table.
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Meaning
of Salvation
Lu 19:10
Mt 18:11
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 LOST
Old Man
Flesh & Blood
Without Jesus
going to Hell
|
 FOUND
Redeemed by the
blood of Jesus (1Pe 1: 18-19)
New Man
Flesh & Blood
With Jesus
going to Heaven
|
 GLORIFIED
BODY
Eternal Man
Flesh & Bone
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Human
Trinity
Consisting of Spirit,Soul and Body
1Th 5:23 |
Living Soul
Body of Sin
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Christ
in you
New Creation
Body of Death
Circumcision of Christ
Sealed by the Spirit
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the glorified body
of Jesus after
His resurrection
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Lord
Jesus Comes
Suddenly |
Entering Persecution Period
aka Jacob's Trouble
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Caught up
Never die
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will be changed
similar to the glorified body of Jesus
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Died and Jesus is not coming
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Perish in flame |
Staying with God
Death is an advantage
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The Trinity Of The Fallen Man
What Happens With His Spirit, Soul and
Body?
His spirit died
although he is able to communicate as a living soul.
And
the LORD God gave this command
to man [Adam]: "All the trees of this garden may eat the fruit freely,
but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, do not eat the fruit,
for in the day you eat it you
shall surely die." (Ge 2: 16-17)
The woman [Eve] saw that the fruit of the tree was good to eat and
tasted, and the tree was appealing because it gave understanding. Then
she took from her fruit and eaten it and gave it to her husband who was
with her, and her husband ate it. And the eyes of both of them opened,
and they knew that they were naked; then they embroidered fig
leaves
and made loincloths. (Ge 3: 6-7)
But Jesus said to him, "Let the
dead [dead spirit] bury the dead, but
you, go and preach the Kingdom of God everywhere." (Lu 9:60)
For all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God, (Ro 3:23)
Therefore, just as sin entered the world by one man [Adam], and by that
sin
also death, so death has spread to all people, for all have sinned.
(Romans 5:12)
For we know that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin may be lost, that
we should no longer be slaves to sin. (Ro 6: 6)
The
Redeemed Trinity Man
What Happens With His Spirit, Soul and
Body?
His spirit is
revived even though his physical body will die, buried or
cremated.
As it
is written: "The first man,
Adam became a living soul", but the last Adam became a live-giving
spirit. (1Co 15:45)
But if Christ is in you, then the body is dead because of sin,
but the
spirit is life because of righteousness. (Ro 8:10)
So whoever is in Christ, he is
a new creation: the old is gone, the new
has come. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I
myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. (Ro
7:24-25)
In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,
in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of
Christ: (Col 2:11)
In whom you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation: in whom also after you believed, you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of
promise,
Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the
purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. (Eph 1:13-14)
Lord Jesus Christ
Comes As We Breathe
For The Lost And Not Saved. . .
Left behind entering the tribulation period
designed for the
Jews (the Israelites). Salvation by faith and works during this period
could be
lost, because the tribulation saint is not sealed by the Holy Spirit.
In contrast during this grace period salvation is by faith alone and sealed by the
Spirit.
And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that
endures to the end shall be
saved. (Mt 10:22)
For then shall be great
tribulation,
such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor
ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should
no flesh be saved: but for the
elect's [the Jews] sake those days shall be shortened. (Mt
24:21-22)
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given
unto them: and I saw the
souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and
for the word of God, and which
had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in
their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand
years. (Re 20:4)
For the Redeemed And Already Saved . .
.
Entering the
presence of God with a new and eternal body (Body of
Glory).
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first: Then we
who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord. (1Th 4:16-17)
And to wait for his Son
from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who
delivered us from the wrath to
come. (1Th 1:10)
For God has not appointed
us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
(1Th 5:9)
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain
together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our body.
(Ro
8:22-23)
Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed. (1Co 15:51-52)
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that
believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever lives and believes in me
shall never die. Do you believe this? (Joh 11:25-26)
The Lord Jesus Has Not
Appeared, We
Already Dead
For the Lost in Unbelief . . .
Enter into death
and suffer forever in the flame. The senses of the
sinful body are fully functional in death (Lu 16: 22-31)
And as it is appointed unto men once
to die, but after this the judgment: (Heb 9:27)
He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God. (Joh 3:18)
For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal
life in
Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
And in hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and seeing
Abraham far off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said,
Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the
tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
(Lu 16:23-24)
For Those Who Has Been
Redeemed And
Belief . . .
Absent from the
mortal body and move to stay with Christ whilst awaiting
for the resurrection body when Jesus comes. For in
Christ has been circumcised with the 'sword of the spirit' in the
matter of taking off the sinful body. (Colossians 2:11)
For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart. (Heb 4:12)
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the
body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8)
For to me to live is
Christ and to die is gain.
(Philippians 1:21)
The characteristic
of the Resurrection Body
It
is not a ghost body, non-material and not subject to space and time
dimensions.
Behold
my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a
spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have. And when he had
thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet
believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have you here any food? (Lu
24:39-41)
When Christ, who is our
life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. (Col
3:4)
Beloved, now we are children of God, but not yet what our circumstances
will be; but we know that when Christ manifests Himself, we will become
like Him, for we will see Him in His true state. (1 John 3: 2)
Conclusion
The road map for eternal salvation has been revealed by the Bible. Dear
reader, have you been found by the Saviour?
For
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(John 3:16)
Maranatha