Salvation and Meekness
Salvation and Meekness
“…receive the implanted word in meekness,
that is able to save your souls”
James 1:21
The true salvation of God is realized as an individual receives Christ Himself. Mere confessions of belief, formulas and the doctrines of men, have clouded the mystery and wonder of God’s gracious gift.
In our receiving the IMPLANTED Word in the spirit of meekness, we begin the journey into the full salvation God has purposed. Only Christ can free the heart from its misery and emptiness. There is salvation in no other. Meekness is the temper of the heart that recognizes its need for the grace of God.
Christ for the nations is the only hope for humanity. Political aspirations are as impotent as the human nature by which it seeks to rule.
Power without meekness
is the bane of human history.
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“For the fruit of the Spirit
is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.”
Ephesians 5:9 (LITV)
Related Post: Salvation by Confession or Reception
“I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is never found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified are justified. What God has joined together let no man dare to put asunder. Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ’s work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit’s work in you. Think not that Christ and the Spirit can ever be divided.”
– J.C. Ryle
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Brian Troxel
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Blessed and Happy Sunday.
Thank you my dear friend –
BT
Amen 🙏🤗
Romans 10
Amplified Bible
The Word of Faith Brings Salvation
10 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation. 2 For I testify about them that they have a certain enthusiasm for God, but not in accordance with [correct and vital] knowledge [about Him and His purposes]. 3 For not knowing about God’s righteousness [which is based on faith], and seeking to establish their own [righteousness based on works], they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4 For Christ is the end of the law [it leads to Him and its purpose is fulfilled in Him], for [granting] righteousness to everyone who believes [in Him as Savior].
5 For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law [with all its intricate demands] shall live by it. 6 But the righteousness based on faith [which produces a right relationship with Him] says the following: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into Heaven?’ that is, to bring Christ down; 7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ that is, to bring Christ up from the dead [as if we had to be saved by our own efforts, doing the impossible].” 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word [the message, the basis] of faith which we preach— 9 because if you acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart a person believes [in Christ as Savior] resulting in his justification [that is, being made righteous—being freed of the guilt of sin and made acceptable to God]; and with the mouth he acknowledges and confesses [his faith openly], resulting in and confirming [his] salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him [whoever adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] will not be disappointed [in his expectations].” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile; for the same Lord is Lord over all [of us], and [He is] abounding in riches (blessings) for all who call on Him [in faith and prayer]. 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord [in prayer] will be saved.”
“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” The truth of salvation is wrapped up in the Son being resident and abiding in us. The true and living faith by which we have towards Him is in reality the fruit of Him abiding in us. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith…” as Paul declared in Galatians as well “…the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith OF the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” Paul dared not to confess any other faith than that which is OF the Son and sustained by the Son through the wonder of relationship. What a thrilling truth to me…
Faith being the atmosphere of His presence within, not because of some confession or phrase that I utter. Not to discount the confessions of faith that arise from a sincere heart but to negate the confidence many have in this hour in the formula rather than in the Person of Christ Himself.
Love your comments and especially YOU.
BT
The initial true and living faith by which a person is gloriously, gratefully born again begins the instant the individual recognizes, confesses with his mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believes in his heart that God raised Him from the dead. At that moment the Spirit commences His indwelling the person’s spirit, subsequently developing fellowship with and producing fruit by the Spirit. I do not see in Scripture the actual extent of either the fellowship or the fruit as requisite for securing salvation.
Certainly, the faith that saves is solely sourced in the Savior, the Son of God’s love, from Whom the riches of ALL blessings are bestowed on both saved and unsaved souls.
Wholeheartedly I agree with you that mere mental assent or presumptuous glib grab-it-and-blab-it, rather than graced, genuinely illumined heart belief as per Romans 10:9-10, is insufficient for salvation and sadly is satanic subterfuge.
Thanks much for the pure privilege of commenting on your consistently excellent blog. Burning blessings of Jesus’ beauty in your being, beloved brother, and intimate blessings of affection from His holy heart as King of heaven.
Appreciate the comments and be blessed in Him.
BT
Thanks much for your thoughts expressed in your post previous pertaining not to requisite faith absent in the hearts of unbelievers but faith functioning in the hearts of saints.
Blessed, indeed, we are knowing that the life energy of our God Himself fuels faith and that without the direct deepest of involvement and faultlessly faithful intervention of Him Who Is the Holy One and the Just, Love Omnipotent, the Alpha, and the Amen, all the moments and motions of our lives would be verily vain and void of value. In His Being, we no less than live and move and have our being. As we unmistakably hear at Hebrews 12:2, Christ is both the Author and the Perfecter of our faith. I do not think we can overstate or exaggerate the insuperable reality that apart from abiding in Christ, no person can do anything of actual eternal worth and that the loving Trinity of living Infinity is the sole Source and sufficient Supply of our faith and function in His sovereign purposes and superscendedly splendorous plans. As privileged partakers of His divine nature, we, by the grace and gifting of faith, are therefore even glorified co-creators with Him of new dimensions, realities, transactions, and outcomes in persons’ precious, precious lives for whom He sinlessly so severely suffered and supremely sacrificed by the blood of His cross at Calvary.
At Hebrews 11:6 (AMP), the Spirit speaks, “But without faith it is impossible to [walk with God and] please Him, for whoever comes [near] to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He rewards those who [earnestly and diligently] seek Him.” So, it appears luminously clear to me that heaven’s holy key for our progression and strengthening of honoring Him with transcending, transforming, triumphing faith is that we, with indefatigability, the more implore Him to increase in us and release in us voracious, holy heart hunger for Himself, and thus that fulfilling faith.
Of course, this is grandly, gloriously the predominating principle by which our chief capacity to most richly receive from Him the measure of any and all He desires to impart to us and through us for others, both temporarily and eternally, is enlarged and passionately at play to the everlasting praise of His effulgent excellence.
By faith, we finely fellowship, feeding and feasting on the blessing and beneficence of His Being, drinking deeply of the River of His pleasure for His pleasure. By faith, even in the here and now, this side of heaven, we behold the brilliant beauty of our Bridegroom’s face, sublimely smitten with joy beyond the telling, by His oh-so-sweet kisses on our heart. We submit to our Abba’s still small voice, as both affectionate loving and testily trying as that sometimes is, and we experience Holy Spirit’s energizing, emboldening embrace.
Incendiumata Amoriolio (Fire of Love by which faith works Gal. 5:6)
Amen!!!
BT