When are we saved ?
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John 1:13............
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
This is speaking to the nature of our new birth.. not the means.
Ephesians 1:13 makes is clear and the correct order.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
This is speaking to the nature of our new birth.. not the means.
Ephesians 1:13 makes is clear and the correct order.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
The natural man, before he has been regenerated, would not have responded to Paul in the manner that the Jailer responded.
Before the natural man has been regenerated he has a stony heart, as indicated in the men that stoned Stephen to death for preaching the same sermon that Peter preached on the day of pentecost.
In Stephen's case the men that stoned Stephen were "CUT TO THE HEART", and the Jews, at pentecost, who had had their stony heart changed to a fleshy heart in regeneration, responded in the same manner as the Jailer, as they were "PRICKED IN THEIR HEART" and ask "what must we do".
When considering your text of Acts 16, The word "saved" in verse 30 & 31, according to the Greek meaning, means "to save, i.e, deliver or protect.
The scriptures teach that there is an eternal deliverance, and there is a deliverance that the regenerated person receives, by their good works, as he sojourns here in this world, that is not eternal.
By misinterpreting this, many of God's well intended regenerated children, tend to believe that there is something they have to do to be delivered eternally.
2 Tim 2:13, If we believe not, yet he (Jesus) abideth faithful, he (Jesus) cannot deny himself. Eph 1:4, According as he has chosen us "in him" before the foundation of the world.
Before the natural man has been regenerated he has a stony heart, as indicated in the men that stoned Stephen to death for preaching the same sermon that Peter preached on the day of pentecost.
In Stephen's case the men that stoned Stephen were "CUT TO THE HEART", and the Jews, at pentecost, who had had their stony heart changed to a fleshy heart in regeneration, responded in the same manner as the Jailer, as they were "PRICKED IN THEIR HEART" and ask "what must we do".
When considering your text of Acts 16, The word "saved" in verse 30 & 31, according to the Greek meaning, means "to save, i.e, deliver or protect.
The scriptures teach that there is an eternal deliverance, and there is a deliverance that the regenerated person receives, by their good works, as he sojourns here in this world, that is not eternal.
By misinterpreting this, many of God's well intended regenerated children, tend to believe that there is something they have to do to be delivered eternally.
2 Tim 2:13, If we believe not, yet he (Jesus) abideth faithful, he (Jesus) cannot deny himself. Eph 1:4, According as he has chosen us "in him" before the foundation of the world.
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