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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: I can't accept the so-called second blessing concept, or a two-tiered aspect, whichever one would like to call it. I am just suggesting that there maybe a time span that actually takes place once an unbeliever starts to ingest or assimilates God's Word and the point of actually being born again. All this must take place through the work of the Holy Spirit because the human spirit isn't alive until regeneration or the second birth. We know that the Word says Ephes. 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: I think a lot of people have faith because we tell them to have it not because God the Father reveals who Jesus is to them, but if they spend enough time in God's word they eventually find out. I think that the book of John is a good example. John 20:30-31 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. Considering how many things Jesus did; it must take quite a few signs to convince some people and that is even with the Holy Spirit doing the work. Paul himself must have been under great convection or in a gestation period before his conversion according to Acts 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goad. Kicking against the goad was because he had heard the Word and was fighting against the working of The Spirit, but alas he came to faith in Jesus the Christ. Charis I hope you have a blessed New Year, CDBJ |