{"id":2757,"date":"2014-02-11T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T11:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2014-02-11T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T11:27:40","slug":"of-time-and-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"Of Time and Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Of Time and Eternity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, men talk about salvation only as something done in the  experience of time with eternal consequences. But in the Bible salvation  is described as something done by God in eternity past, revealed and  experienced in time, and enjoyed in eternity future. Read the Word of  God, marking the verb tenses used, and you will see that salvation was  accomplished for God\u2019s elect in the covenant of grace before the world  began (Romans 8:28-31; 2 Timothy 1:9; Ephesians 1:3-6).<\/p>\n<p>First, since it was done in eternity, it must have been done by God  alone. Without our aid, cooperation, assistance, work, or even our will,  God saved us. Salvation is the work of God alone. And that salvation  which God gives is the salvation God performs. It is an \u2018eternal  salvation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Third, God\u2019s holy character tells us that He must have looked upon  His people as being justified and accepted in Christ from eternity. Had  it not been for the chosen seed in Adam\u2019s loins, whom God had eternally  justified in Christ, at the moment Adam sinned, the holy Lord God would  have wiped our race off the earth. The only thing that keeps God from  destroying the world in His wrath right now is the fact that He has an  elect remnant in it, whom He has accepted in Christ and is determined to  save (2 Peter 3:9).<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, the immutability of God demands that our salvation by Him be  eternal. God never changes. Neither does His attitude and relation to  men change (Malachi 3:6).  God\u2019s will to elect is election. God\u2019s will to adopt is adoption. God\u2019s  will to justify is justification. God\u2019s will to save is salvation. That  is not to suggest that this is the whole of salvation. Redemption,  regeneration, repentance, faith, and perseverance are necessary. But in  the mind and purpose of God, His people were as truly saved before the  world began as they shall be when all are gathered around His throne in  heaven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Focus http:\/\/go-newfocus.co.uk\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Time and Eternity Today, men talk about salvation only as something done in the experience of time with eternal consequences. But in the Bible salvation is described as something done by God in eternity past, revealed and experienced in time, and enjoyed in eternity future. Read the Word of God, marking the verb tenses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,41,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-peter-meney","category-the-eternal-covenant","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}