Notes from the Salvation Study

These are the notes from the Salvation Study.

Salvation is:

• Consists of love, faith, and being holy.
• Consists of loving the truth.
• Consists of grace and faith (and not by works).

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.

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.

Light: phōs (pronounced: foce):

• 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.

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.

Eternal: aiōnios (pronounced: ahee-o'-nee-os):

• 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.

Salvation (noun):

• The act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
• The state of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.
• A source, cause, or means of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.
• Deliverance from the power and penalty of sin; redemption.

Jesus will save people from their sins.

Save: sōzō (pronounced: sode'-zo):

• To save, that is, deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.
• To save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction; one (from injury or peril); to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health; to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue; to save in the technical biblical sense; negatively; to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment; to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance.

The same save used in Matthew 1 and 16 are the same in the Greek. I have to DENY myself to be saved. I have to take up my cross. I have to follow Christ. These are essential for salvation. That is what the scripture says.

Deny: aparneomai (pronounced: ap-ar-neh'-om-ahee):

• To deny utterly, that is, disown, abstain: - deny.
• To deny; to affirm that one has no acquaintance or connection with someone; to forget one’s self, lose sight of one’s self and one’s own interests.

What would it look like if I "disowned" myself? What would it look like if I abstained from the things I wanted to do so that I could help others? What if I focused on the interest of others and not my own interests? YOWZAH! Tough, but that is what God wants.

There is never a BAD time to do a good thing. Even if it means I have to stop somewhere on the way to church to help someone, that is what God wants: a heart to do a good thing, the right thing, a loving thing at all times.

In Matthew 1:20-21, I learned that Jesus came to save people from their sins. In Luke 19, I learn that Jesus came to seek and save the lost.

Seek: zēteō (pronounced: dzay-teh'-o):

• Of uncertain affinity; to seek (literally or figuratively); specifically (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life): - be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means).
• To seek in order to find; to seek a thing; to seek [in order to find out] by thinking, meditating, reasoning, to enquire into; to seek after, seek for, aim at, strive after; to seek, i.e. require, demand; to crave, demand something from someone.

I like how "seek" can mean to worship. Helping someone find God? That is a form of worship. Seeking a place to pray? That is a form of worship. Just the process is a form of worship. That's amazing to think about...

These are the notes from the Salvation Study. I find it informative. And this is my 650th post.

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