"Now Is Our Salvation Nearer Than When We Believed"
Romans 13:11
As we have been saved by the decree of God, the blood of Christ, and the power of his Spirit, and are being saved by his almighty grace, so we hope that we shall yet be saved. There is a sense in which our salvation is yet future.
GOD WILL SAVE US THROUGH ALL THE DAYS OF OUR EARTHLY PILGRIMAGE (Isa. 41:10-11; 43:1-7). I do not know what troubles we may face tomorrow. But God will not forsake us now. He will finish his work in us. He who has kept us and is keeping us, will keep us still by his infallible, unfailing grace (Mal. 3:6). In the hour of temptation, God will save us. When satan assaults, God will save us. Though trials come, one upon the heels of another, God will save us.
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THE HOUR OF DEATH, GOD WILL SAVE US (Psa. 23:1-6). All God's saints will have
dying grace in the hour of death.The swelling of
WE HAVE GOOD REASON TO ANTICIPATE THE
COMPLETION OF OUR SALVATION BY THE GRACE OF GOD. Our salvation will not be
complete until the final restoration of all things under the dominion of King
Jesus. But at God's appointed time that shall come (I Cor.
Don Fortner