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NASB | Psalm 68:19 ¶ Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 68:19 ¶ Blessed be the Lord, who bears our burden day by day, The God who is our salvation! Selah. |
Bible Question:
Dear Saints, Is salvation instantaneous, progressive, or both? In Jesus' name, charis |
Bible Answer: Hi Charis, my wife was studying in Mark today and ask me about a verse that triggered a thought; it is along the same lines as your question of salvation being progressive. I don't think salvation is progressive once it actually happens, but I think that maybe being born again or coming to the point of salvation might be. Paul and James speak of the word as that which can germinate a life, as it were, within us. Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. The word engrafted comes to us from the Koine Greek word Emphutos, em meaning in and phutos (a form of phuo) meaning to germinate or impregnate. Thus, for one to be born again they must be impregnated by God's Word. John 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Couple this with 1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. Now we have all heard and know these verses very well, but I wonder if anyone has ever considered that all living things have what is known as a gestation period; some are longer then others? It is the time between conception and birth. All of the functions of life are in place, but the actual birth hasn't taken place yet. There are numerous miscarriages in physical life, maybe by comparison that is what happens when someone hears the Word and gets excited for a while, then they return to their old ways: They didn't go full term to spiritual birth and received a new nature. They might show all the symptoms that a new believer has just before birth, but they turn back and are stillborn. Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Food for thought and I am sure it needs more research, CDBJ |