"Salvation Is Not A Word For Everyone"

Salvation is not a word for everyone! Sin is a way of life for the majority. Cheating, lying, stealing, deceiving, profanity, drinking, abusing your mate, adultery, fornication (couples that live together included), hate, dishonesty, arrogance, unloving attitudes, jealousy, strife, sensuality, disputes, homosexuals, covetors, swindlers...should I continue? Salvation is not a word for everyone! Sin is a way of life for the majority. Satan is the father of sin and the world steps in line with his lead (Eph. 2:1-3). People in sin will not admit to such. They admit they make mistakes but not sin. If they admit to sin, they admit there is a standard of right and wrong. This exposes the reality of their lives and brings condemnation from God upon themselves (Rom. 1:28-32).

Salvation is not a word for everyone, even in the church! People are baptized into Christ without leaving their old sinful selves behind. They try to live in Christ under this old dominated sinful person and it doesn't work. You see it often, people are united with Christ in baptism and after some time return to their former way of living or standard of belief. They didn't embrace Christ and His salvation. Some leave Jesus too easily! No commitment, no involvement and no real desire to move forward. Some are baptized into Christ for the fear that they cannot enter heaven without baptism. No commitment, no involvement but fear because they aren't baptized. Salvation is not a word for them.

Salvation is for the honest, penitent beliver who confesses they are a lost sinner! They come to Christ realizing their separation from the Lord, the price of sin and the accountability they stand under. Salvation becomes their because of the grace of God. The grace of God moves them from the consequences of sin into His salvation. God promised that salvation is found only in Jesus. Until the heart is convicted of sin, the known sinner confesses and repents of their sinfulness and baptized into union with Jesus, salvation is not a word for them!