BE SAVED

 

A few weeks ago, this phrase caught my attention. Call on the name of the Lord and BE Saved. Not Get saved, not received salvation.

62 verses of BE SAVED.

0 verses of get saved. Got Saved, receive Jesus.

Many times, I get intrigued by Wording in the Bible.

For instance, in the Book of Mark

Mar 6:51  And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.

Were they amazed? No they were sore amazed! Beyond Measure! And then they wondered. Mark gets his point across but frankly seeing Jesus walk on the water, then watching Him

I look at the wording of verses in the bible, and it says be saved.

Rom 10:12  For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 

Rom 10:13  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

It says call on the name of the Lord and BE SAVED. Not get saved, not receive salvation.

I don’t know why but that hit me as a strong thing to say. The Wording spoke to me. It is not a thing to achieve, a thing to work for, it is an enduring state - present and future bearing. BE saved.

We talked not too long ago about this same Jesus and the comfort that should bring to God fearing people.

Now we have Be Saved. Which Means call on the name of the Lord and Be saved. Be Saved. Don’t do a thing but call on the Name of the Lord, Believe and be saved. It’s all on Him at that point right? If you believe and call on His name, then by His Word you must be Saved. Of course this is not a flippant call and why? God knows the Heart.

Be saved. It’s a state of being. Be saved.

Walk around Being saved from the penalty of sin which is death and Hell.

Be, Saved. Not earn, not get not lose it. But BE SAVED.

Comforting for some reason.

Sin is rebelling against Divine Law

 So often we forget that SIN in any form no matter what the action, SIN is rebellion against God. Every single sin, every single time is a rebellion against God.

How often do we forget that? Water it down?

The Definition from the Oxford Language which is Googles Dictionary:

an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.

An act considered to be a transgression against Divine Law. SIN.

Sin is the act of rebelling against God and His Word, His Rules, His Holiness.

How far we have come from that definition.

We now call it sickness, disease, the way I was made, a defect.

Rather than an intentional act against God and His Law.

Christian remember this applies to you as well, not just the world. Your sin, your transgression of God's law, no matter how small it is in your opinion. is sin.

How do we get back to this?

We preach God and His Law, His standard, His Rules, His Holiness, and His Purity.

We preach the price He paid that we might escape death and the punishment for those sins.

We preach that His Holiness, imputed to us, is all the hope we have for life and freedom from the sin debt.

We preach living to His Standard, Being Holy as He is Holy for we are bought with a price. We are owned by Him yet accepted in as Sons and Daughters. What grace!

Carrying the family name, carrying that reputation, that Purpose, then we must live as pure as we possibly can for Him so that they might see Him through us and want to be with Him, the One that died for them.

God the Father, the lover of their souls, the perfect Sacrifice, the Just, The Alpha and the Omega.

He is all, we are merely here to further His Will. What is His Will?

That ALL might come to repentance.

How can we do that when we are slaves to sin? How can we represent Him when we are in the muck and mire of this World's life? When we are in the pigpen next to them?

The Christian will SIN, no doubt about that.

Yet, A True child of God Will not be able to stay there.