Title: Those who gain salvation and forsake themselves!
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Those who have received Christ are those who have been saved. This is because Christ has come from God and has become to us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Anyone who says they have been saved and does not have Christ is a liar.
Therefore, those who have definitely obtained salvation (Christ) abandon me and the world. This is because a better homeland was promised through the covenant made with the blood of his son, and he obtained his kingdom and his righteousness through precious faith. Forsaking me and the world is a gift from God through faith given to those who have won Christ. Because you have gained Christ through this faith (actually), you can forsake yourself and the world.
The forerunners who gained Christ testify, “But whatever things that were useful to me, I count not only as all loss for Christ’s sake, but also as loss of all things, because of the noblest knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, that I did everything for him. Losing it and counting it as excrement, so that we may gain Christ and be found in him. My righteousness is not from the law, but is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God through faith” (Philippians 3:7-9).
To gain Christ and to be found in him is true salvation. Therefore, salvation is oneness with Christ.
Regarding the truth, Christ said, “I have given them the glory that was given to me, that they may be one, even as we are one. I am in them, and the Father is in me, so that they may be made whole, that they may be one. so that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them as you loved me” (John 17:22-23).
Those who are not one with Christ are not children of God. Those who are one with Christ die with him, are buried with him, and are raised with him, and heirs with him the kingdom of God. It is as it is written, “If children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, for we must suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him” (Romans 8:17).
Salvation is not about being alive and crying and laughing and appreciating. Salvation is written, “...I have nothing to boast about except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Galatians 6:14). Those who have attained Christ as such are necessarily those who have been crucified with me and the world.
As it is testified, “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts” (Galatians 5:24), so those who have obtained salvation, through Christ, have been crucified with the flesh with its passions and lusts for six hours. It is to achieve salvation during (from the third hour to the ninth hour). At the end of the six hours (six), “It is finished” and the soul left. This is the process of achieving salvation.
Therefore, it is written, “Therefore, my beloved, always obey, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12).
But those who have not attained Christ do not even know that this exists. It is written, “He said, To you it is granted to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others it is in parables, so that they may see, see, and hear, but do not understand” (Luke 8:10).
Again, He said, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts so that they may not see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed by Me…” (John 12:40).
Therefore, Christ crucified is foolishness to those who are perishing. As it is written, “And they have become a stone of stumbling and a rock of stumbling.” They stumble because they disobey the word, and this is how it was ordained them” (1 Peter 2:8).
Those who have salvation, that is, Christ, are no part of the world, just as he is not of the world. As it is written, “They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world” (John 17:16).
Therefore, the prophet said in advance, “Save me by your hand, O LORD, from the people of the world, who have received their portion in this life, who is filled with your riches, and is satisfied with your children, and passes on the rest of the inheritance to their little ones. I will see Your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Your image when I awake” (Psalm 17:14-15). Amen, thank you Lord.
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