SALVATION

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John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Many do not understand what salvation really means. Some think that it is mere going to church, or being baptized in water, or taking Holy Communion; while others take it to be holding one position or the other, or attending of all church activities like prayers meetings, singing in the choir, Sunday school or embarking on weekly fasting etc.
Salvation is more than all these. It comes after one has heard a sound gospel from a truely born-again preacher; then repent and believes the gospel. It is a spiritual operation, taking place by grace and receive through faith.
Salvation means resting or setting in chirst after justification and adoption. It means being in Christ as it is recorded

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

That means when someone is saved, there is that possiblity for the old sinful nature to pass away.

In salvation, man and God have positive part to play:

• Man has to hear the gospel, accept the message, decide, repent and to confess his sins.
• God by his infinite mercy and grace will forgive, justify and adopt, then salvation takes place.