Salvation

Salvation means deliverance, made whole, preservation. From what does man need to be saved and delivered preserved? Scripture paints some pictures of salvation, showing man’s great need.

Salvation means deliverance from lost. Man in pictured as wandering about in the forest of life trying to go someplace, but unable to find his way. He is lost, and if he continues to stumble about through the forest life, the underbrush and thorns of the forest will sap his strength and prick him to the point that he lies down and dies. His only hope is for someone to notice that he is lost and to begin seeking for him. This is where the glorious gospel of salvation comes in. God sees that man is lost and He sends His Son to seek and to save man.

Salvation means that Christ…

Seeks and saves man from his lost condition.

Sets man on the right road that leads him to eternal life.

Matthew 18:10-12

10 “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels  always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

11 “For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.

12. “What do you think? If a man has a hundred  sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?

Luke 19:10  

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”

John 5:14  

Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

John 10:9  

I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture.