{"id":4404,"date":"2012-11-13T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:35:32","slug":"salvation-past-present-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2012\/11\/13\/salvation-past-present-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation: Past, Present, Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following has been adapted from the devotionals of F.E. Marsh, a new resource coming soon to the\u00a0Blue Letter Bible<\/span><\/a>!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Salvation has a three-fold nature in regards to its timing. It has a past, present, and future aspect to the believer in Christ.<\/p>\n

Past salvation.<\/strong>\u00a0Those who are Christ’s are saved from what they deserve as sinners, because Christ has died for them and borne in His body the curse that sin merits (Galatians 3:13; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Ephesians 2:8; 2 Timothy 1:9).<\/p>\n

Present salvation.<\/strong>\u00a0Believers are being saved from the despotism of sin as they abide in Christ and look to Him who lives in the power of an endless life (Romans 5:9; Hebrews 7:25), and who, by the Holy Spirit, is able to work in us mightily, so that we can work out our own salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12).<\/p>\n

Future Salvation.<\/strong>\u00a0The Lord’s children will be saved from the disgrace of sin when Christ returns; hence we wait for Him as a Savior (Philippians 3:20); for this we are kept (1 Peter 1:5), and for this Christ will return (Hebrews 9:28). It is this aspect of salvation of which the Lord says, “It is nearer” (Romans 13:11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following has been adapted from the devotionals of F.E. Marsh, a new resource coming soon to the\u00a0Blue Letter Bible!   Salvation has a three-fold nature in regards to its timing. It has a past, present, and future aspect to the believer in Christ. Past salvation.\u00a0Those who are Christ’s are saved from what they deserve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9158,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/9158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}