Salvation is of The Lord

SALVATION IS OF THE LORD
Today many do not have the joy of salvation because they are trying to preserve their ongoing salvation by qualification. Only a path of unconditional surrender brings us Gods peace. Being saved does not depend on good deeds in the past, nor on our pace of spiritual growth in the future, but rather on whether or not we believe that Jesus bore our sins and died for us. No matter how many sins one has throughout life, these sins have all been put upon Jesus. As long as we will believe, we will be saved. We are not saved by ourselves. We cannot save ourselves. It is the Lord Jesus who has saved us. Salvation does not come through a lifetime of labor and striving for spiritual progress, that will not save a person. If you ask a genuinely saved person how he is saved, he will definitely answer, “It is Jesus who saves me. I do not have any ability to save myself. It is all from the Lord.” Only this kind of person will always rejoice. Salvation is progressive. Our Spirit has been saved (New Birth). Our Soul is being Saved (Spirit Filled). Our body will be saved.

(2Pe 1:3-8 KJV) According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.