SOTERIA: Salvation, the Savior and the Saved (6)
Either we don’t understand “eternal life”, or we don’t believe God’s word for it. But we can’t understand it and believe God’s word to be true, and still be afraid of losing the life that we have received. Eternal, Greek aionios, means never to end. The new creation life is not a life that ends! Why? God was not stingy with the gift of His life to us. He gave it abundantly.
SOTERIA: Salvation, the Savior and the Saved (1)
Salvation is not a singular act of God. Viewing salvation this way, as a singular, one time act of God, will rob us of seeing the vastness and richness of God’s salvation. It is also the reason some think of salvation as what can be lost. But the Bible’s revelation of God’s salvation shows salvation, not as a singular act of God and one time event, but as a broad theme that captures all the gracious actions and activities of God to rescue man from the penalties and power of sin, and bestow His glorious riches on him, including eternal life and the provisions for a full, rich life.