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Brother Mike
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Wow this is a good thread. I hadn't realized that before, that salvation means protected or rescued (daily). It is so easy to misunderstand scripture at times when we take words to mean something that we thought we (obviously) knew. I did do a quick word study on it and I am in agreement with BrotherMike on this. Awesome! This changes perspective ever so slightly and builds me up. Thanks brothrs and sisters.
As a small aside...what makes you think that, that prayers are only symbolic of incense rising to heaven rthom7? I can easily see the analogy, but have suspected before that it may be a reality of the spiritual realm that we just don't realize.
Ah, blessing Brother Edward.
We had no Greek Words to convey the meaning of born again and eternal life. The Holy Spirit used the Words He had. Jesus said he came to give us life, and give that life abundantly. All the promises then are in Jesus, we being the seed of Abraham with great promise. So........... Salvation and Saved do not mean eternal life....... (Sort of) It's the whole package for here on earth and life to come. When we die (Physical body gives up) we still are saved from death. (Sozo- rescued) for it is written, "Death, where is your sting?"
Peter answering the Sanhedrin about what authority He used to make a crippled man whole said.
And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
(Act 4:7)
By what power, and what name, have you made this crippled man whole................
Peter said............
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
(Act 4:10)
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
(Act 4:12)
There is no other name, but the name of Jesus by which we can be healed and made whole. Peter gave the name, and by what authority, that caused that crippled man to walk again.
Salvation: sōtēria
Feminine of a derivative of G4990 as (properly abstract) noun; rescue or safety (physically or morally): - deliver, health, salvation, save, saving.
Saved: Sozo
to save, that is, deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.
Satan has no ability to heal, and there is no other name in Heaven that carries the authority to heal a human body.
And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
(Act 3:16)
Faith in the name of Jesus, has never passed away, and produces the same results today as it did for Peter.
Blessings.