The Great Salvation

By Odon Bulamba (summary only)

Hebrews 2:3,4

The GREAT salvation means how a Christian must know how he’s living as a Christian; how a Christian must discover that he is working with God; how a Christian must know and be really assured that he belongs to God. This is the great salvation that we will talk about.

That great salvation has different branches, meaning that it’s not just a piece of wood but it’s built with different parts and those parts together will make that great salvation. There are ten steps altogether:

1. Forgiveness
2. Jusitification
3. Redemption
4. Reconciliation
5. Revival
6. Respect
7. Sanctification
8. Second Birth
9. Gift of the Holy Spirit
10. New Creation

In Hebrews 2:3-4, it asks how we will escape if we neglect that great salvation. It’s a matter of becoming mature spiritually. To mean that we have crossed already those steps to know that yes, I’m a Christian, I belong to Jesus my Saviour and so on. Here it’s now a matter of great salvation; something which concerns you in front of God.

So first of all let’s think about salvation. When we are talking about salvation, it means to liberate someone or to set someone free, paying the debt of someone so that they can be completely free. But with the great salvation it doesn’t really stop there. It goes further – much further. So we will be able to understand what forgiveness, justification, and so on really means.

As Christians our spirit needs to be fed and to be fed it’s not a matter of your pastor speaking to you or whoever but it’s now a matter of personal conscience and responsibility. To feed our souls, it depends with how much we are conscience with what we are doing. It means that God gives us that serious responsibility in the same way that God has given Hayley the responsibility of feeding her body. Michelle has the responsibility of taking care of her body. God will never come down and tell her to brush her hair – never – He has given Michelle a brain and intelligence and knows that you will take care of that. And the way also that you were given souls God knows that we have to take care of them also.

It is our responsiblity to read the Word of God, to pray and to find time for God. It is our responsiblity to become mature Christians. It is our responsiblity to discover what are the ten steps of the great salvation (forgiveness, justification etc) and to know what each one means and how to put each one into practise in our every day lives.

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