Salvation means different things to different people. The biblical term (soteria) "means deliverance, preservation, victory, and health, and it refers to material and temporal deliverance, as well as personal, national, temporal and eternal triumph." In paganism, salvation is escapism. In liberalism, salvation means escape from unpleasant circumstances, including such things as burnt toast according to one pastor! In Marxist idealism, salvation is liberation from restrictive political and economic circumstances. In some quarters of fundamentalism and evangelicalism, salvation means catastrophic fire insurance. In Scripture, salvation is deliverance, but it's more - much more. Salvation is not only deliverance from; it is especially deliverance TO. To be saved means "baptism into Christ and his kingdom; it means obedience to His law, fellowship with His saints in the Church, and a common service to the acknowledged king, and much more" (Rushdoony). "Protestant Christians ought therefore to celebrate the grace of God their Savior unto them by noting carefully from what they have been saved and to what they are called. Their method of apologetics should be in line with their theology" (Van Til). Salvation begins with God, the solo and sovereign Creator, Provider and Savior...
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Bruce Ray
There is No Other A Survey of Biblical Salvation King's Cross Church
“ Great Sermon! ” Standing for the true gospel! One way to heaven, through Christ only. May God always be glorified in the preaching of the gospel. Let us all keep strong in our stand of the gospel and may we all stay strong in our faith.
Pastor Bruce Ray has been senior pastor of Juanita Community Church in Kirkland, Washington since 1976. He also serves as a Police, Fire & EMS chaplain. Books include Withhold Not Correction and Celebrating the Sabbath (both published by P&R Publishing). He is a member of the...
