How The Lord Jesus Saves The World:

[JAG ..]

(and maybe even saves you one day - don't you want to live forever?)

"As Rousas John Rushdooney notes: The key to remedying the world situation
is NOT revolution, nor any kind of resistance that works to subvert law and order.
The key is regeneration, propagation of the gospel, and the conversion of men
and nations to God's laws.

This is [true] because evil men cannot produce a good society. The key to renewal
is regeneration."

Source: He Shall Have Dominion
by Kenneth Gentry, page 82

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Regeneration is mentioned in John 3:3 where the Lord Jesus said to
a Jewish leader, "You must be born again."

Regeneration changes your nature. You were dead in sin and your
fallen human nature was dead -- but regeneration is the supernatural
work of the Holy Spirit where he makes you ALIVE and changes your
nature so that NOW you CAN understand spiritual truths -- whereas
before you were regenerated, spiritual truths were thought to be mere
foolishness to you.

The Lord Jesus will Christianize the world one person at a time. The
Lord Jesus wins The War For The Wprld as noted above.

The Lord Jesus NOW has been given ALL authority both in Heaven and
here and Earth -- see the ending of Matthew chapter 28

JAG

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[Bruce.Leiter]

Yes, God the Father still rules the world through Jesus by the Spirit's power as the one all-powerful God, but a very large segment of the world is in active or passive rebellion against his rule, as John says about the world of his time that God loves:

Joh 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Joh 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Joh 3:19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

The Light that is Jesus has come into the world, but people of darkness have rejected him as the Light and prefer the darkness of sin. Jesus has saved the world, but lifelong rebels in the world will be banished from that saved world so that it will be perfectly made as the new earth after Jesus returns (Revelation 21:1). Believers as the bride of Christ will live there (verse 2):

Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.