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Eternal Salvation

Salvation was in the Law

First it was the law. The hope of mankind rested on the power of men because our strength to fulfill the law was our only hope of salvation. Knowing we weren’t able, we tried anyway. We tried to achieve this unrealistic and impossible task of fulfilling the law. It wasn’t that we didn’t know it can’t be done, but if there were any kind of hope for us, it laid in trying. However, it turned out that hope was slimmer than we thought. Trying to fulfill the law end up looking more like choosing the location of death; and the choice was dying here or there, either way we’ll have to die.

Hope became less impossible

All in the mean time God was up to something. He was mixing and creating a better hope, the joy of salvation. After the law, hope came in the form of a promise, which was good at the time. But as time went on, flaw could be seen because the promise involved children of men. Not to mention it looked one sided. God was offering something to mankind, but mankind has nothing in return. Is this how covenant is establish?

Though it could have been better, at least the promise was much more reliable. Its strength no longer relied on men. This is good because men strength can take you so far. So then our hope rested on a promise…promise of God’s word and not strength of men. The problem with this lay on trusting the word of God. How could you trust God, a being you could not see? And all He had as a testimony is His word.

Salvation became a guarantee

Then Jesus came to the scene…and hope became tangible. Hope went from resting on men’s strength to a promise, and from a promise to Jesus, the living hope. It went from a law to a promise, and ultimately to a promise with a form. Though His words are true, he gave me more tangible proof to His words. He placed the Holy Spirit inside me, the down payment and a proof of what has been done. And when the Spirit testifies, to label what my soul feels as security is under statement.

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