Wednesday, April 06, 2005

God Wants You Well!

I taught at our church on Thursday night, March 31st, 2005
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Rom 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Salvation is:
soteria and has its root in SOZO
rescue, safety, deliver, health, salvation, save, saving.
sozo
to save, that is, deliver or protect, heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be or make whole.

NT=SOZO, OT=SHALOM
Dakes
Both words include: salvation, deliverance, health, help, welfare, safety, victory, saviour, defend, avenge, rescue, preserve, freedom

Scofield
The Heb. and Greek: safety, preservation, healing, and soundness. Salvation is the great inclusive word of the Gospel, gathering into itself all the redemptive acts and processes: as justification, redemption, grace, propitiation, imputation, forgiveness, sanctification, and glorification.

IS 26:3 (literal)
You will guard him and conceal him in SHALOM whose purpose & imagination is propped up on, taken hold of, rests upon, established & sustained on You - because he trusts in You.

“Before you can get SOZO’d, you have to know some things…”

2 Peter 1: 2-4
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge
of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power
hath given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and
virtue: Whereby are given to us exceeding great and
precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the
divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the
world through lust.

Rom 5: 1-5 (LB)
So now, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith in His promises, we can have real peace with Him because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. For because of our faith, He has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to actually becoming all that God has had in mind for us to be. We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials for we know that they are good for us -- they help us learn to be patient. And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady. Then when that happens, we are able to hold our heads high no matter what happens and know that all is well, for we know how dearly God loves us, and we feel this warm love everywhere within us because God has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love.

Rom 4:16-21 (LB)
So God's blessings are given to us by faith, as a free gift; we are certain to get them whether or not we follow Jewish customs if we have faith like Abraham's, for Abraham is the father of us all when it comes to these matters of faith. That is what the scriptures mean when they say that God made Abraham the father of many nations. God will accept all people in every nation who trust God as Abraham did. And this promise is from God Himself, who makes the dead live again and speaks of future events with as much certainty as though they were already past! So, when God told Abraham that He would give him a son who would have many descendants and become a great nation, Abraham believed God even though such a promise just couldn't come to pass! And because his faith was strong, he didn't worry about the fact that he was far too old to be a father, at the age of one hundred, and that Sarah his wife, at ninety, was also much too old to have a baby. But Abraham never doubted. He believed God, for his faith and trust grew ever stronger, and he praised God for this blessing even before it happened. He was completely sure that God was well able to do anything He promised.vs 20-21 (Amp) No unbelief or distrust made him waver or doubtingly question concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God, fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.

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