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GOT SALVATION?. The What! Matthew 19:16-24. GOT SALVATION? The What!. For baseball fans, when you talk about, ‘how can you be saved’ you might be talking about someone like the native Australian, Grant Balfour. GOT SALVATION? The What!. Last year, Balfour had 67 ‘saves’… … 44 in a row!.
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GOT SALVATION? The What! Matthew 19:16-24
GOT SALVATION? The What! For baseball fans, when you talk about, ‘how can you be saved’ you might be talking about someone like the native Australian, Grant Balfour
GOT SALVATION? The What! Last year, Balfour had 67 ‘saves’… …44 in a row!
GOT SALVATION? The What! In a secular sense, salvation is deliverance from danger or suffering
GOT SALVATION? The What! The word carries the idea of victory, health, preservation or a temporal, physical deliverance
GOT SALVATION? The What! More often, the word “salvation” concerns an eternal, spiritual deliverance
GOT SALVATION? The What! What Is Salvation? Jesus equated being saved with entering the kingdom of God
GOT SALVATION? The What! Matthew 19:16-24 16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” 17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.
GOT SALVATION? The What! But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 19 ‘Honor your…
GOT SALVATION? The What! …father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” 20 The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?” 21 Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give…
GOT SALVATION? The What! …to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” 22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 23 Then Jesus said to His disciples…
GOT SALVATION? The What! …Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
GOT SALVATION? The What! 25 When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” 26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:16-25
GOT SALVATION? The What! Salvation is the deliverance, by the grace of God, from eternal separation from God which is granted to those who accept by faith, God’s demands of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus.”
GOT SALVATION? The What! What Are We Saved From? Our Disobedience!
GOT SALVATION? The What! What Are We Saved From? Our Sin has separated us from God!
GOT SALVATION? The What! “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”Romans 6:23
GOT SALVATION? The What! What Are We Saved From? Biblical salvation refers to our deliverance from disobedience!
GOT SALVATION? The What! What Are We Saved From? God’s Ordained Consequences!
GOT SALVATION? The What! What Are We Saved From? In Christian salvation, we are saved from ‘wrath’, that is, from God’s judgment of our disobedience
GOT SALVATION? The What! “For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 5:9
GOT SALVATION? The What! In Christ, we are ‘saved’ unto God for life eternal, the life more abundant!
GOT SALVATION? The What! Matthew 19:16-24