If the gospel is not preached with conviction — the convictions that humanity is
in need of salvation and that Jesus is the Savior who liberates us into the fullness of our humanity and gives us eternal life — then the gospel will not be believed.
First, the person may stop resisting, and submit to what the Holy Spirit is saying, and so, having understood that they are a sinner and
in need of salvation because judgment is coming, they will believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life.
You've realized you're a sinner
in need of salvation so remember you're exactly who he came to save.
Forget about telling folks they are sinners
in need of salvation.
Agree with Him that you are sinner and
in need of salvation.
In other words, not all who do not believe as you do are
in need of salvation.
We who have the experience are
in need of salvation.
I am
in need of salvation because according to the Bible, the wage of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.
Big Sam has been eager to convince everyone the Toffees are a relegation outfit
in need of salvation — the gig will be up soon
Feeling inspired,
in need of salvation myself, I set off for the holy mountain.
Sci - fi fans will also enjoy the backdrop to the action, which is a millennium - spanning saga which encompasses global civil war, an ages old alien threat and humanity
in need of salvation as it teeters on the edge of extinction.
At the heart of the film is the question of Tomás» welfare and, if he is
in need of salvation - whether this lies in tradition or modernity.»
The Zombie Mall Apocalypse trope better describes a much larger group of middling - to - poor malls that are, in fact,
in need of salvation — or a wrecking ball.
Not exact matches
They
needed the «new birth»
of salvation, as described
in the Gospel
of John, chapter 3, and other parts
of the New Testament.
I think you all
need to stop worring about the president and pray for him you all have been on the mans back ever since he step foot
in the white house everybody
needs to do what the word
of GOD says which is to «work out your own soul
salvation with fear and trembleling.»
Second, as we read
in the rest
of Ephesians 2:8, we
need to remember that this
salvation is the gift
of God.
Considering that the temple was an official place
of religion, it is surprising how much
of this recognition
of the true character
of Yahweh has been preserved
in these prayers for humble persons who
need salvation from the wicked.
The first phase
of the Reformation focused on issues relating to personal
salvation and the
need for reform
in the life
of the church.
It probably will be a shock to many when the Lord reveals just how much we didn't understand, but that the main thing we
need to know, is that Christ is our «all
in all», and that faith
in His work and nothing
of ourselves is our
salvation.
The point is that we
need this hymn to restate and magnify our entire
salvation history, to draw on Hannah's song
in 1 Samuel, as well as on prophetic warnings about the day
of the Lord as a time when all that we value will be called into question.
Indeed the «world,» that is, human society, has not changed very much
in nineteen centuries, and the message
of salvation is as greatly
needed now as then, or ever.
If you are truly sure
of your
salvation then you do not
need to beat people
in the face with it all the time.
They had inculcated a deep sense
of sin and a conscious
need of personal
salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter
of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith
in immortality and the
need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together
in mystical societies
of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature
of religious experience
in terms
of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»
If water baptism was all that was important and necessary for
salvation, there would have been no
need for the disciples to wait
in Jerusalem or receive the gift
of holy spirit.
At the time
of the Old Testament, God's Covenants were
in place for His people
of the time, as revealed first verbally from generation to generation, then when Hebrew became a written language, by Moses and the prophets, and through all time the intended audience knew as much about their condition and
need for
salvation as God wanted them to know at the time.
The prophetic motif
of salvation in and through historical process and the apocalyptic motif
of salvation crashing
in from outside
of history are intertwined
in the biblical documents, and each motif
needs to be qualified by the other.
The most recent
salvation by words -
in - print comes
in the flights into the Third World — as though there weren't enough and too much «benign neglect»
of the pressing communal
needs at home.
I'm now saved (for the 1st time) because I have truly seen the error
of my ways (
Need of a Saviour), repented to God, turned from all known sin, and have trusted
in Jesus Christ's atoning sacrifice as the only means
of my
salvation.
In my exploration
of the connections between an emphasis on «personal
salvation» and a recognition
of the
need for extensive structural change, two themes have seemed to me to be important to stress: first, that a concern for «individual conversion,» properly understood, should naturally spill over into a desire for political change.
He
needs our view on
salvation, wrath, and eternal rewards, and our case might be strengthened with his view
of justification, while avoiding the mistakes he makes about works following faith... though really, his point about works is that they follow faith
in the Holy Spirit... which is different, and which I could probably agree with.
For Aphrahat, the election
of Israel
needs to be understood
in the light
of God's plan
of universal
salvation.
Can we lose that
salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction
of the holy spirit
in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord
of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i
needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz
In the eyes
of faith we are all diseased, and
salvation must be to all what is so evidently
needed by some — a healing
of the self.
Those on the center right
need to explain the interpretive rules which seem to lead them to different conclusions on some issues (divorce, the role
of women
in the church) than on others (homosexuality,
salvation for non-Christians).
Gaines is «a traditionalist on evangelism, the
need for personal commitment to Christ
in salvation, and the commonly held Baptist soteriology
of the past century,» noted Eric Reed, editor
of the Illinois Baptist, while Greear's leadership is more contemporary and more Reformed.
The ascription
of messianic honors to Jesus by the early church, although it does not
need to be so explained, and can not
in any case be adequately so explained, can nevertheless be more easily explained, if it was remembered that Jesus gave evidence
of knowing himself to be
in some unique and mysterious way related to the coming crisis
of judgment and
salvation.
Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture
in the case
of the woman caught
in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace
of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all
of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still
in our thinking and understanding dwell
in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.
In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we
need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we
need discipline
in the church that we
need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still
need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on
salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press
in to the Lord for answers to some
of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz
These people, knowing it necessary that people that we have been given an undeserved gift
of Grace didn't choose to «keep it simple» but felt compelled to also make sure we were aware: Christianity is shocking
in that God loves us so much he was willing to die for us rather than leave us trying (and failing) to impress him on our own; but frankly, people had conceived
of such an notion before, the twist is that a God fully capable
of saving us has already accomplished all the necessary work to save us but without
needing us to do so nonetheless invites us to participate
in our own
salvation.
At least
in many parts
of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival
of historic religious convictions about man's nature and destiny, about his lostness and his
salvation, and the
need to realize the significance
of these convictions
in relation to contemporary world and life views, have led to a renewal
of the theological endeavor.
We
need not think
of this as «
salvation» from anything, and
in fact because
of the negative connotations
of this word we should not use it.
But we
need to realize that such anticipations are not the whole
of salvation, and must keep
in mind the other dimensions.
The very term «saviorhood» suggests man's
need of salvation, and any discussion
of soteriology must begin with anthropology,
in the sense
in which the theologians use that term.
Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and
in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related
of the woman caught
in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references
in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his
needs he cant do it he is
in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way
of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver
of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations
of the woman caught
in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture
of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our
salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked
in to our feelings
of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way
of thinking.brentnz
According to Gerrish, «To say that the Christian receives saving faith through the New Testament image
of Jesus
need not imply that faith can not be had
in any other way, or that no other religious faiths convey
salvation.»
I am
in no
need of your «
salvation».
But today it is widely true that the churches
need to be awakened from their undogmatic slumber,
in the sense that they have lost the sense
of the fateful issues
of good and evil,
of salvation and damnation.
Dispensationalists therefore have a distinct place for Jews
in their scheme
of salvation — they
need to be around
in order to be converted and to populate the kingdom at the eschaton.
The relationship
of the cross to our
salvation, the connection between the suffering
of Christ and human suffering, the
need for God to become physically entangled
in the world's evil and pain — this is too great a mystery for intellectual comprehension.
Having convinced his interviewees
of the evil
of abortion, Comfort then launches into a blunt attempt to convince them that they are
in danger
of going to hell and
of their
need for
salvation through Jesus.
In order to bring
salvation to all men, even God
needed the help
of a woman.