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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. |
Subject: Salvation: Instantaneous, progressive? |
Bible Note: Dear CDBJ, Greetings in the name of Jesus! Indeed this is good food for thought! Without a lot of research on my own, I will just say that some may be upset with a ' mid-relationship salvation point.' If I get your drift, we are not truly saved until a point in time when the Word has worked in us (gestation?) for a while, then we are born again. At this point in time the work is done, with no further saving work in our lives. Is that right? I still see that the Holy Spirit would be working in our lives sanctification to the end of glorification. This sounds a lot like a separate 'conversion' experience some time after we meet the Lord. Brother, don't get me wrong! :-) I am not completely against the idea of conversion. The reason that I cannot deny it completely is because the IS empirical evidence that many DO come to a (later) point of 'knowing' God. (as compared to meeting Him) But I have to say that it could lead to a (as one brother phrased) 'dreaded two-tiered Pentecostal salvation.' Actually, my thoughts do not run in 'tiers' at all, but a sense of our whole relationship with the Lord, with many portions or aspects. Some are synchronous, some are progressive. It starts when the Holy Spirit initiates the relationship, and culminates personally when we meet Him face to face, and corporately when He finishes His glorious plan of salvation for mankind. In any case this question was brought forth as food for thought, and I have enjoyed the various opinions! Thank you! In Christ Jesus, charis |