0874. Full Salvation Set Forth. (3) Salvation From Sin's Presence

Full Salvation Set Forth. (3) Salvation From Sin's Presence

"So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them, that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation" (Heb_9:28).

There is a salvation yet to come. It is a salvation made possible by the Cross, but made operative upon the coming of Christ from Heaven.

Numerous passages set forth this salvation.

1. "Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed" (Rom_13:11).

2. "And unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time apart from sin unto salvation" (Heb_9:28).

3. "Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time" (1Pe_1:5).

There is a day of redemption that is coming, just as there is a day of redemption past. In Eph_1:7 we read, "In Whom we have redemption" and in Eph_1:14 we read: "Until the redemption of the purchased possession." Thus we have been redeemed, and we are going to be redeemed.

This future salvation has to do with two great facts.

1. There is a salvation of the body, which is future. Mortality must be swallowed up of life. He that hath wrought us for this selfsame thing is God. Christ will bring immortality to us when He comes again. By this we mean that Christ will bring us immortal bodies when He comes. This is a salvation yet to be revealed. This salvation is the hope of His calling. And we who "have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves, groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body" (Rom_8:23).

2. There is the salvation from sin's presence in the future. This is a common expression, but it is not altogether Scriptural, unless it is circumscribed. We are saved at Christ's coming, from sin's presence in this sense–that we are to be forever with the Lord. However, during the thousand years, there will be sin upon the earth; for we read that "the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed" (Isa_65:20).

In our present experiences, we see not yet all things put under Christ's feet; in the thousand-year reign of Christ, we will see not yet all things put under His feet; but we will see Him reigning until He does put all things under His feet, and then shall He deliver the Kingdom unto the Father, that God may be all in all.

However, so far as the raptured saints are concerned, they shall be forever with the Lord; and so far as sin's power or any possibility of sin's contamination is concerned, they shall be forever beyond its sway.

Blessed completed salvation! We ardently await thy day!

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR