Acts 15:8-11
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit
just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.
So we can add a third tense to our paradox of understanding salvation. We will be saved. We live in hope that when we breathe our last, and though we dodge the thought- we certainly will meet death; we hope that God will save us from death.
So here we are
knowing-- we have been saved through faith
living-- a life of transformation as we are being saved through faith
hoping-- that we will be saved from death through faith
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Just so we're all clear.....Steve is not giving us an April Fool's....WE WILL BE SAVED!!
ReplyDeleteIndeed we WILL BE SAVED which as the Apostle Paul notes is foolishness to many-- on April 1st or on any other day.
ReplyDeleteJust as the tenses of our salvation are paradoxical, our hoping, our living, and our knowing happen at once on this day and every other. Our hoping is for what is not seen, our living is in what we believe we see, and our knowing is in what we have seen.