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Clothed with Salvation. Salvation: being saved or delivered from some dire situation or danger.
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Salvation: being saved or delivered from some dire situation or danger
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools… Romans 1:21-22
Romans 1:21-28 • Neither glorified him as God or gave thanks • Exchanged the truth of God for a lie • Worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator • Did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God
…remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. Ephesians 2:12
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:4-5
… Like the rest we were by nature deserving of wrath. Ephesians 2:3
The Times: “What’s wrong with the world today?” Dear Sir, I am. Yours, G.K. Chesterton.
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. Romans 2:5
….you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household Ephesians 2:19
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10
Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. 2 Corinthians 1:21-22