A continuation of the Salvation Study, I am revisiting the last six scriptures that I have posted the past couple of days. I did a search of the word "salvation" and came up with 120 scriptures in the NIV Bible. I honestly didn't think it would be that high. In fact, I thought it would be about 20 scriptures at most.
Luke 6:6-9- To save life on the sabbath day was agreeable to their own canons: there were many things which they allowed might be done on the sabbath day, when life was in danger, which otherwise were not lawful.
- The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, or "to destroy", To do evil, kill, or destroy, are not lawful at any time; and to do good, and to save life, must be right at all times: our Lord has a particular view to the Scribes and Pharisees, and the question is put home to their own consciences; whose hearts and thoughts, designs and views, were all open to Christ; and who were now watching to do evil to him, and even to destroy and take away his life: for the violation of the sabbath was death by the law, and this was what they sought to accuse him of: now he puts the question to them, and makes them judges which must appear most right and just in the sight of God and men, for him to heal this poor man of his withered hand, though on the sabbath day; which would be doing a good and beneficent action to him, whereby his life would be saved, and preserved with comfort and usefulness, and he would be in a capacity of getting his livelihood; or for them to cherish an evil intention against him, to seek to bring mischief on him; and not only destroy his character and usefulness as much as in them lay, but even take away his very life also: he leaves it with them to consider of which was most agreeable to the law of God, the nature of a sabbath, and the good of mankind.
Acts 2:36-41
"Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call." With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation." Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
Corrupt: skolios (pronounced: skol-ee-os'):
- Warped, that is, winding; figuratively perverse: - crooked, froward, untoward.
- Crooked, curved; metaphorically; perverse, wicked; unfair, surly, froward.
Repent: metanoeō (pronounced: met-an-o-eh'-o):
- To think differently or afterwards, that is, reconsider (morally to feel compunction): - repent.
- To change one’s mind, i.e. to repent; to change one’s mind for better, heartily to amend with abhorrence of one’s past sins.
Forgiveness: aphesis (pronounced: af'-es-is):
- Freedom; (figuratively) pardon: - deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.
- Release from bondage or imprisonment; forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty.
- A heavenly light such as surrounds angels when they appear on earth; metaphorically, God is light because light has the extremely delicate, subtle, pure, brilliant quality, of truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity associated with it, that which is exposed to the view of all, openly, publicly, reason, mind; the power of understanding especially moral and spiritual truth.
- (To shine or make manifest, especially by rays; luminousness (in the widest application, natural or artificial, abstract or concrete, literal or figurative): - fire, light.
Darkness: skotia (pronounced: skot-ee'-ah):
- Dimness, obscurity (literally or figuratively): - dark (-ness).
- Darkness; the darkness due to want of light; metaphorically used of ignorance of divine things, and its associated wickedness, and the resultant misery in hell.
God's elect themselves, whilst in a state of unregeneracy and unbelief, are in darkness; when Christ shines in upon them, and infuses the light of faith into them, they are no longer in darkness; the darkness is past, at least in a great measure, and the true light shines; in which they see light, see glory and grace of Christ, and the invisible realities of another world: nor do they continue in the darkness of sin, ignorance, and unbelief; but walk in the light of truth, faith, and holiness, until the perfect day comes, when all the shadows of remaining darkness will flee away.
Mark 8:34-38
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels."
Follow: akoloutheō (pronounced: ak-ol-oo-theh'-o):
- Properly to be in the same way with, that is, to accompany (specifically as a disciple): - follow, reach.
- To follow one who precedes, join him as his attendant, accompany him; to join one as a disciple, become or be his disciple; side with his party.
Gospel: euaggelion (pronounced: yoo-ang-ghel'-ee-on):
- A good message, that is, the gospel: - gospel.
- A reward for good tidings; good tidings; the glad tidings of the kingdom of God soon to be set up, and subsequently also of Jesus the Messiah, the founder of this kingdom. After the death of Christ, the term comprises also the preaching of (concerning) Jesus Christ as having suffered death on the cross to procure eternal salvation for the men in the kingdom of God, but as restored to life and exalted to the right hand of God in heaven, thence to return in majesty to consummate the kingdom of God; the glad tidings of salvation through Christ; the proclamation of the grace of God manifest and pledged in Christ; the gospel; as the messianic rank of Jesus was proved by his words, his deeds, and his death, the narrative of the sayings, deeds, and death of Jesus Christ came to be called the gospel or glad tidings.
Luke 9:23-26
Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
See above...
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
- Perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well): - eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).
- Without beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be; without beginning; without end, never to cease, everlasting.
Believes: pisteuō (pronounced: pist-yoo'-o):
- To think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in; of the thing believed; to credit, have confidence; in a moral or religious reference; used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul; to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith; to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity; to be intrusted with a thing.
- To have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; by implication to entrust (especially one’s spiritual well being to Christ): - believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with.
Evil: ponēros (pronounced: pon-ay-ros'):
- Hurtful, that is, evil (properly in effect or influence), figuratively calamitous; also (passively) ill, that is, diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, that is, derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners: - bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked (wickedness).
- Full of labours, annoyances, hardships; pressed and harassed by labours; bringing toils, annoyances, perils; of a time full of peril to Christian faith and steadfastness; causing pain and trouble; bad, of a bad nature or condition; in a physical sense: diseased or blind; in an ethical sense: evil wicked, bad.
Hates: miseō (pronounced: mis-eh'-o):
- To detest (especially to persecute); by extension to love less: - hate (hateful).
- To hate, pursue with hatred, detest; to be hated, detested.
It seems like yesterday that I did the #600 post. Now, I have the #650 coming up. Today is the #646 post. Four more to complete #650.
I think it is a great study thus far... I want to place some more comments on this, but I want to let it swirl around in my head for a minute. I think I will post all the notes and add some comments in a day or so. Johnny Out.
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