Image of Salvation Essay

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1 Image of Salvation Essay Dalton Snipes Liberty University Theology 104 Spring 2024
2 As a Christian I have always heard the word salvation and understood it as a time in my life that the Lord called out to me to be saved. I looked at it as a one-time thing that would only be the start of my journey with Christ. I thought of it as a signing of a contract, if you will, between me and God that if I accepted His son Jesus as the payment from my sins and turned from my wicked ways that I would be sealed as a child of God on the day of Judgement. I have come to find that it is much more than just a beginning salvation encompasses our whole life as a Christian from adoption to glorification. What speaks to me most is the process of sanctification and how it continues throughout our Christian walk with Jesus. Sanctification means to be, “holy, to be set apart, or to be sacred.” (Gutierrez and Etzel 2012) . Throughout the Bible we see reference of the people of God being called to be set apart or different from others. Deuteronomy 7:6 says, “For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.” (The Holy Bible n.d.) . Calling the people of God to be holy because He is holy, and we are to be obedient to Him by striving to be holy. An example would be Paul urging Timothy to flee evil temptations and chase after righteousness. In the New Testament “The church (the assembly of the followers of Jesus) is said to be sanctified in Ephesians 5:25–27, which is accomplished through the work of Jesus.” (Gutierrez and Etzel 2012) . In the Old Testament, God is telling us our need to be set apart and different from those around us, ultimately pointing to the coming of His Son in the New Testament, in which we can accept the ultimate payment for sin and begin our sanctification journey in Jesus with the help of the Holy Spirit. Sanctification in its relationship to sin may not be easy to see or pick out a first glance, but if you look deeper, you will see that sanctification is really a yearning to get closer to God
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