The Cry for Salvation

The cry for salvation is the God ordained cry in the heart of the elect. This cry is answered in response to Jesus’s obedient self sacrifice on the cross and is only available to those who would embrace it by faith in response to their election according to grace.

But what comes after this cry in the heart of the elect is answered in an individuals life?

Does this huge mercy of God remain in one act of salvation of man’s spirit or does this carry in itself a deeper meaning or purpose.

The question is this Is there a higher purpose to the miracle of salvation?

Many are satisfied by false personal conviction sin regards to salvation and their new position in Christ.

This ignorant out look on the gift of salvation has brought a great bondage in the Church of the Living God, by leaving many with shattered lives. The entire purpose of our salvation being ignored by the majority in the Church the truly redeemed remain a remnant.

As with the majority of the elect we all come to the knowledge of our salvation through a tragic or an unpleasant circumstance of life, yet after we receive the answer to our cries unfortunately we remain barren and unfruitful in understanding the purpose of our call which is called the sanctification of our soul.

Why such a hindrance of our divine purpose in our most valuable possession called salvation? Why such a deviation of truth?

This is the subject of our discussion today.

Although the precious Holy Spirit is the true guide of all the redeemed, but not all will obey His voice and neither His plea for following the divine command of finishing this race well.

The Holy Scriptures say through Paul the Apostle many start well, but not all are crowned to finish the race triumphantly.

One of the many reasons for this is the gradual hardening of the heart.

Many enter the race by divine election, but fail to know the purpose of their call for such an election. The Old covenant scripture says

“ My people perish for the lack of Knowledge” .

This is a very serious saying since a strong word is attached to the fabric of its content.

“ Perish”. To perish means to be lost. Here is the great dilemma Church. In this saying of our Lord it is not the world who is perishing it is His own people. Now that you are hearing this are you concerned or not? Are you still thinking your life in Christ is just the fact that once a cry of your heart was answered and there remains no need for maintenance of that great and amazing gift you once received long ago?

This is what the majority is lacking in these final days. The more the day is approaching  fewer remain concerned to find out the purpose of their call and their redemption.

Some find ourselves even fighting with God.

Christ Jesus the promised Messiah who is the glory of Israel and the light of our salvation did not die to just promote the Adamic sin further, but He died to bring an end to the dominion of the law of sin and death in the lives of His remnant elect. We received Him not to only have His miracle working powers in our lives, but to acknowledge His purpose of redemption in us for the age to come. Jesus preached a kingdom, an invisible, yet very real kingdom, which soon would take a physical form. A kingdom where righteousness dwells and for this He gave His Church an invisible yet a very real white robe.

Upon salvation this invisible robe is placed on all whom He has called from the Jews first and then the goyim or the gentiles. But what does that robe represent to God every time He sees us?

This robe represents the righteousness of His Son transferred to His adopted children.

This represents a true change in the character of this person who is willing to subject themselves to the government of God through His word. This means a continual and willful  turning away from old thought patterns and life styles , which will result into the shaping of the identity of Christ in men. A complete surrender of the old for the new, since in the coming age such would rule and reign with Him. All of this being the purpose of our call is promising us the coming the Kingdom.

Truly the Kingdom of God is within us and the seed of Christ by the coming of the Holy Spirit enters us at the point of salvation of our spirit, but it still needs to be manifested in our utter man as the time progress.

Paul in His letter to the Ephesians’  chapter 4 verses 17 through 24 pleads with the Ephesians’ to walk in accordance of their new man after the image of Christ, so that they would be worthy of their call and election in Christ their Lord.

Ofcource I myself by experience fully recognize this divine purpose in man would not be fully accomplished first without acknowledgement of our sin through the illumination of the Holy Spirit through God’s word,  and then by the confession of our weakness in our own flesh to perform its holy demands.

By saying this I am saying we can not co operate in our sanctification if we first do not see the necessity of such sanctification and the purpose of its redemptive work in us.Apostle Paul therefore says “ Workout your own salvation with fear and trembling” Who’s salvation? My dad or mom or spouse or children’s salvation? No it says “Your Own” .

Then The Apostle says… “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure”. This in itself proves what I just said in the paragraphs before that only by our  readiness to admit our need for

Such a character change God will bring this willingness in us to be transformed to the image of the new man we by faith are professing. Then again it is Him who would accomplish that change in us, so no flesh would receive any glory. This means like Paul in Romans 7 when he personally acknowledged his own faults and his own inability to change himself cried out to God for change and it was only then that the transforming power of God in Christ Jesus was offered to Him. This is where flesh is condemned and its works nothing but an aroma of death to man’s new identity in Christ. It is not you and I who could stop our sinful course of life, but the life giving power of His Spirit working in us after our admittance of our sinfulness and hopelessness to change. Adam’s shame covered by fig leaves is the unwillingness of man to confess his utter helplessness, but in Christ it must be removed in exchange for His righteousness.

As Christ’s nakedness on the cross served as the exposition of Adam’s cover-up for his transgression, so is when you and I come to Him in true heart of honesty and confess our sins and short comings, then He is just and faithful the Bible says, that not only He will pardon our sins, but will cleanse us from all unrighteousness of our sins. Here is the divine purpose of our salvation, not only for us to be saved, but to walk in the light of His word in all righteousness. The purpose of our salvation being our full and complete redemption.

This is why in the letter of the 3^rd John the Elder meaning John the beloved apostle in his writing to Gaius in verse 3 & 4  says the following “ For I rejoiced when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” This is the truth, that they confessed their sin and exposed their nakedness and called upon the righteousness of Christ.

They exchanged their own righteousness for His. They had not become hypocrites by covering what was exposed to God and man. They lived with Christ’s righteousness as their shield and not their own. They welcomed God’s truth of His revealed word and did not stop their ears from hearing and obeying the truth.  Just like when Pontus Pilot asked in all wondering awe that what was the truth? Which was to say the question really remained unanswered, because though he was personally  exposed to Him, yet His redemptive power of His cross remained a mystery in God’s sovereignty for him.

This is why when Christians do not know the purpose of their calling and the Kingdom that shall be theirs if they submit themselves to God and His good pleasure walk in their ignorance , living such sinful and miserable lives forfeiting their own best place in the coming Kingdom. All this because they have become near sighted leading unto blindness.

This why 37 days prior to His ascension to heaven all Jesus spoke was about the Kingdom age to come. His disciples saw Him ascend to heaven in giving them the promise of His return and reality of the Kingdom age to come.

Christ for 37 days spoke of the divine purpose of their election according to grace. In that He spoke to them about the need of sanctification and living a holy life while on earth. He placed that as the requirement of the eternal reign with Him. In Revelations of Jesus Christ He spoke through the angel appearing to John about the 7 ( Seven) churches which would be the different models of Church throughout the ages. He warned them all  of the danger of letting go of their divine purpose by involving themselves in sin and by this loosing their reward.
He declared that His Church will rule with Him in heaven if they overcome on earth by grasping the divine purpose of their call.

In this awesome revelation the Lord was cautioning  His Church in all different eras of  Christianity of the dangers of deviating from her divine and final purpose, which was to be  in the Kingdom age and the reality of the first resurrection kept for the truly redeemed.

The Lord in all these scriptures speaks of a loss of reward that come from many kinds of neglect. Walking in blatant sin. Sins of immoral behavior, physical and sexual immoralities and spiritual adulteries of many kinds. He even warns His church of completely erasing their name from the book of life once inscribed upon their initial salvation. Aren’t these very frightening news to those who’s minds are not kept on the initial purpose of their cry for salvation folks?

Now the choice is yours and mine what we would follow. Our own paths or the path of the Lord.  I want to follow His.

What about you ?