The True Salvation!

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” – Ephesians 2:8-10 NIV

The world urges us to get into highest place as possible through our careers or in everything that we do for our lives. Religion works kind of world’s way as well but in  order to please God. Nevertheless, we want something more, even though if we are in top-level of everything and want to get spiritual nourishment through our bodies to confirm that we have been saved by God. However, the truth is that we are going to never get satisfied physically and spiritually by doing every kind of work. Only way to be truly satisfied and to get saved spiritually and physically, it is by turning to Jesus Christ through faith and by doing the will of God in full devotion until the end of the age (Ephesians 2:8-10). This is because Jesus is the way of the truthful life (John 14:6), faith and deeds are working together (James 2:14-26) and the way to please God is by having faith in Him (Hebrews 11:6) Hence, Jesus Christ pronounces,

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ (Matthew 7:21-23)

Earth is not our eternal home but the kingdom of heaven is (Philippians 3:18-21). The main reason for this is that God has created humans in His eternal kingdom (Genesis 1:26-Genesis 2). However, all of us have sinned by falling short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) because of Satan, the enemy of God (Revelation 12:7-9), who tries to put us into death at the end of the age (Romans 5:12-14). John 16:8-11 states that not believing Jesus Christ is indeed sin, because if we do not believe in Him, then we deny the fact that God has created us since Jesus is the perfect image of God (Colossians 1:15) Therefore, all of us have to repent our sins because the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 3:2). In addition, we have to believe in Jesus Christ with all of our souls, hearts and minds to get eternally saved (John 3:16-18; John 11:25-26). “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) When we repent and start to accept and believe Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, then the Spirit of God begins to work within us (Acts 2:38-39; Acts 3:19-20) for His purposes and His glory (John 14:15-27). In addition to this, we automatically become the children of God (John 1:12-13), due to the fact that all of us actually been created to be the image of God (Genesis 1:27). “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” (Romans 8:29-30)

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. (2 Corinthians 5:1-5)

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.  (Romans 8:1-17)