What Are We Saved From? (Part 3)

   The term “salvation” as used in the Scriptures is first of all a release from bondage.  The bondage which has rendered our spirit incapable of maintaining our life as we were created to live.  As in the image of God, body, soul, and spirit, one in truth and one in purpose, just as Adam and Eve walked in Eden with God before they chose to become “as gods.”

   Having their eyes opened to not only good, but also the knowledge of evil that only gets worse with time!  God’s grace has provided everything we need to be free from this bondage.  As the Lord said to the Apostle Paul in II Corinthians 12:9, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect (to meet all our needs) in (our) weakness.”  We must surrender in our weekness when we realize our total helplessness; or we have chose death!  

   “Behold, all souls are Mine… the soul that sinneth, it shall die.”  (Ezekiel 18:4).

   God’s grace, all that He has done, more than sufficient to meet our every need, begins with all of creation as He said He did in Genesis I and 2.  And giving us also the promise of a stable environment after the flood of Noah’s day in Genesis 8:22.  “While the earth remaineth, sunshine and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease,” ...