07/27/10 SALVATION IS DELIVERANCE
Salvation is not a cycle of sin and repentance, sin and repentance... Salvation is deliverance from sin, with the assurance that we can repent if we sin, "My little children, these things write I unto you, that you SIN NOT. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous (1 Jn. 2:1). Salvation is Deliverance, Triumph, Victory.
GOD GIVES US DELIVERANCE FROM ALL TEMPTATION...
1 Corinthians 10:13
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
BELIEVERS CAN TRIUMPH ALWAYS IN CHRIST...
2 Corinthians 2:14-16
14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.
15 For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
16 To the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
WE HAVE VICTORY THROUGH CHRIST...
1 Corinthians 15:57-58
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
FOR WHOEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMES THE WORLD, BY FAITH...
1 John 5:2-5
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcome the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
