Salvation is in the Present Tense
To be born of God is to receive our life from Him, just as we receive life through birth from our earthly parents. But the new birth is a continuous process, and thus something that is ever present.
To be born of God is to receive our life from Him, just as we receive life through birth from our earthly parents. But the new birth is a continuous process, and thus something that is ever present.
There are very many professed Christians who think it would be presumption for them to say, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live live, but Christ lives in me
"Let us take up these words, one by one, and go backward with them, beginning with the original idea of sin." --A. T. Jones
This white garment is "that garment that is woven in the loom of heaven, in which there is not a single thread of human making." That garment was woven in a human body and the flesh of Christ was the loom. That garment was woven in Jesus; in the same flesh that we have, for He took part of the same flesh and blood that we have.
This article is for you dear reader - may it move you from the stagnant, meaningless, theological explanations of today to the real and tangable love God has for you as an individual.
As God inhabits eternity, so that all time is present with Him, so all His promises and blessings for men are in the present tense.
The 'Christian dispensation' began for man as soon, at least, as the fall. There are indeed, two dispensations, a dispensation of sin and death, and a dispensation of righteousness and life, but these two dispensations have run parallel from the fall.
“There is but one thing in this world that a man needs and that is justification—and justification is a fact, not a theory. It is the gospel."
So we are fully assured that the Gospel is the making known of Christ in men. Or rather, the Gospel is Christ in men, and the preaching of it is the making known to men of the possibility of Christ’s dwelling in them.
The mystery of godliness is “God was manifested in the flesh” (1 Tim. 3:16). And the finishing of this mystery signifies not only the finishing of the work of God in the believer, so that the believer reflects only Christ, —all of God and none of self