Salvation Compromised?

I had a shocking revelation this week:
Although many of are infact saved, i

t is possible that we are living beneath the blessing of our salvation. 

Are we saved but not living in the Power of it?

This is what is on my mind right now.

Complete work:
We believe Biblical salvation is a complete work.

We know we can’t add to it or take away from it. T

his was his work, and because of his death and resurrection we are complete in him.

- Collosians 2:10. 

Although there are different elements in salvation, I just want to focus on the complete work that salvation brings. That characteristic of never giving up, the realisation that all is done, till all are redeemed.

I believe we are supposed to experience in our every day a pattern of salvation.

What will it mean if we can’t pray expecting Gods kind of salvation?

 We live in a world of trouble, do we walk around and say; “I’m nearly saved…” or “one day I will be fully saved…”

There is no such confession of faith or doctrine.

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust in him, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, he has become my salvation.” - Isaiah 12:2

 Many have taught that God is mysterious, and we shouldn’t really have high expectations.

“My friends, they are quoting Scripture, but not reading the Bible.”

“God does not change”, he is the Saviour, “He is same yesterday, today and tomorrow.”

Many are born again because he saved them before they were born again, and after they were born again, many that are saved are still experiencing this redeeming feature even now.

Can you imagine if we rejected this feature for one reason or another?

Let’s look to God for his Fullness, not the half measures we are used to.

Mixing the World with God is a leathal mixture.

(This isn’t God by the way, because God is not double minded, God is pure).

“Jesus came to give us life and life abundantly.”

-John 10 :10

This life can only come from salvation.

This is what I see the abundant life is.

For those who are not living “the abundant life”, there is no lack in heaven, so abundance is irrelevant.

“Heaven is a one stop shop.”

And here is where there is abundance and lack. The listeners would have known about being satisfied completely, spiritually and physically.

Now I'm not talking about man’s version of prosperity. When I mention abundance, that’s another message!

I'm talking about seeing salvation as a complete work in every part of your everyday life, and seeing it abundantly.

Take a moment and think about praying with that kind of expectation, and what kind of prayers we shouldn’t be praying.

God paid the price for our salvation, a complete work: Salvation for a fully redeemed life!

Can we expect that here?

Yes!

But in practice do we pray and expect a semi redeemed life, or a fully redeemed life? 

How you think and believe is critical to help you to see what you have.

If you think the fruit of His redemption comes later, you need to think again, because redemption is here now!

Conclusion
Here's the revelation:
When God offers salvation, it is because an alternative is present. Rejection of salvation is acceptance of an alternative.

Have we accepted in our lives the alternative?

Is this why we struggle?

You can’t have God’s salvation and the Worlds salvation mixed together.

Are we prepared to get Biblical and wait for his salvation?

Though you are in the World, you are not of it.

The Israelites by the red sea, knew the Egyptian army was right behind them, building a bridge or a boat was an aternative means of escape, which was their temporary idea of salvation, it was not Gods.

God had said through Moses;

“You will never see them again.”

The key to that moment of salvation was in those words…..

“You will not see this enemy again.”

This is what is on the mind of a saviour.

Moses answered the people; "Do not be afraid! Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

-Exodus 14:13-14

God’s word was the key to the mind that was at work in that situation.

Listening and acting was the key to the total salvation that was present.

How many of us are still dealing with the same enemy?

That's not salvation.

When you spend time with God today, he'll be ready to take you past where you are, into a place you have mentally and physically never been to before.

Walk in freedom to do what he has planned for you.

God's salvation changes your whole life, so that you will never look back.

Don’t listen to man’s half-baked experiences, listen to God, He is King.