Hey everyone I’m Pastor Gary Hoban and welcome to Refinery Life Australia.
This year our goal is to release a new video / Podcast every Monday Wednesday and Friday.
To begin the new year we are starting our Friday messages with Experiencing the Great Salvation of God” this series will enlarge or concepts of what God has provided for us in and through Jesus.
He came to do something more than just give us a ticket to heaven.
This is week three and we are talking about.
Partial or Complete Salvation
Text
Hebrews 2:3 (ESV)
3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,
Introduction
The Bible is a book that reveals the way of salvation.
Jesus Christ came to be a saviour.
He lived a sinless life and died in our place for our sins.
He rose from the dead, triumphant and victorious, to bring us salvation.
No He lives at His Fathers side making intercession for those who trust him.
Our text today, speaks about salvation as being a great salvation.
Unfortunately, many have made only a half hearted response and have only a fractional understanding of the great salvation available through Jesus Christ.
Our text also speaks about the tragic possibility of believers ignoring their great salvation.
This verse has often been used as a text for an evangelistic sermon, emphasising that unbelievers should no longer neglect to respond to Jesus Christ as saviour.
In reality, the text is addressed to those who have already entered the gateway of salvation but who face the perils of ignoring certain phases of it, resulting in their own hurt in the injury of others.
Have you made a half-hearted response to the great salvation that God offers to you through Jesus Christ.
Only Jesus can save us from the death that sin brings.
Salvation from death, however, is only part of the great salvation that is offered to us.
Christ alone can save us from the downward drag of our inherited evil nature.
And He alone can save us from the hopeless destiny to which is in Leeds.
We should make a complete response to a great salvation rather than ignoring some aspects of it.
For many people, salvation from the penalty of sin is a past experience.
We are justified in God’s sight through faith in Jesus Christ.
Those who have already experienced salvation from the punishment of sin should now be in the process of being saved from the power and the practice of sin.
This is salvation and sanctification in the present tense.
Further, all of trusted Jesus as Saviour in the past and you are presently experiencing the Holy Spirit's work in their lives look forward to salvation from sin in the future.
This is salvation in the future tense, the bible calls are glorification.
As you taking inventory of your own heart and your own faith, have you become satisfied with partial salvation, or are you hungry for and seeking the complete salvation that God offers you through Jesus Christ?
If you have trusted him a saviour, you should desire his full salvation in the present.
To experience complete salvation in the present, you must do a number of things.
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