Step 1 – Your Spirit is first saved..(Who you really are, Your life Force) If your Spirit leaves your body, you are dead...Well , YOU are not dead.. But your body, it is dead.. , for a moment.., think of your body as your earth suit... To be absent from the body is to be present with the LORD..
We are saved: (Our Spirits are Born Again”)
1 Pet 1:23
You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.
2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!
John 3:6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Step 2-We are being Saved – Progressive tense---(Our souls, -Our personalities, the culmination of all experiences, our heart, mind and emotions, how we relate to the outside world, our consciousness, )…
First we must desire the WORD.., the Bible.. Why?? Well for the same reason a baby needs milk.. To grow..!!! and growth is a progressive experience....
1 Pet 2:2
like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
There's that word again"grow".....grow into what??? Our Salvation...
Of course, just as it it would not be normal to remain a baby in the natural....It is not normal to remain a baby in the spirit... Our nurishment must soon be coupled with strong meat....to aid in further development.....Ahhh, I hate to mention this but.. here goes..what is strong meat.., try suffering .
Mark 4:17
and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.
Through the trial of our Faith we grow further into our salvation.. Everyone must face the testing of their Faith.., Through suffering..
Pet 5:10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace [Who imparts all blessing and favor], Who has called you to His [own] eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will Himself complete and make you what you ought to be, establish and ground you securely, and strengthen, and settle you.
Ok, if everything was taken care of.. after we were water baptised..why the need to be completed???.. Why?? Because we must grow-up..in our salvation....
I call it the third Baptism , First Baptism is a Water Baptism, (The Baptism of Repentence)… Second Baptism, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the Third Baptism, The Baptism of Fire)
Matt 3:11 "As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
We are not done after the sinners prayer .. We then must decide to press on ...
Phil 3:14
I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.
This is why the Lord Jesus said , the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.., Salvation is not a casual walk in the park….
Matt 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force [as a precious prize--a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion].
Yes my friends, enter in through the narrow gate.. only there can we experience the abundant life in CHRIST JESUS..
Matt 7:13
Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it.
Matt 7:14
But the gate is narrow (contracted by pressure) and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find it
Step 3---And Finally... In that DAY.. We Will Be Saved!!! –We get New Bodies..
1 Cor 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
1 Cor 15:50 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1 Cor 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
1 Cor 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1 Cor 15:53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Cor 15:54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory..
See what I mean... Salvation..One ..Two ..Three.., .How can you be assured of reaching step 3... , by Faith .. it is already done!!!..
Phil 1:6
And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.
. See all of you in Step 3.. You don't have to wait until the battle is over you can shout NOW!!!!
Praise the Name of Jesus!!!
