Title: Wisdom to Salvation
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“...from childhood you have known the Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15).
The Bible records the processes leading to salvation in various ways, so that in the end, we can gain the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
The first is the process of finding the lost.
It is written, “The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10). A lost person refers to a person who has been with God and has departed from God.
This is the same as in the Bible, when Jonah was with God and then disobeyed God's command and fled to Tarshish from the presence of God.“...Jonah got up to flee from the presence of the Lord and fled to Tarshish to Joppa. When they went down to Tarshish, they found a boat going to Tarshish, and they paid a good price to go to Tarshish with them from the presence of the Lord” (Jon 1:3).
The second is the process of waking the sleeping person.
It is written, “Therefore, awake, you who sleep, and rise from the dead, for Christ will give you light” (Ephesians 5:14). All of these are like Jonah, who was lying on the bottom of the boat, trying to live because he was afraid of death. “The sailors were afraid, and each called upon his god, and threw the things in it into the sea to lighten the boat. As he lay down and fell into a deep sleep, the captain came up to him and said to him, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and ask your God, and maybe God will think of us so that we will not perish..." (Jon 1:5-6). .
The third is the process of raising the dead.
It is written, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live” (John 5:25). This is because all life was dead in Adam. It is like the evidence of “The LORD prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, so Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights” (Jon 1:17). Likewise, the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the earth” (Matthew 12:40).
The fourth is the process of calling those who do not exist as if they exist.
It is the same as the testimony of what is written, “...the God whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls the things that are not as though they were” (Romans 4:17). What is seen is temporary, but what is not seen is eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18). It is not” (Hebrews 11:3).
In the Bible, “Abraham and Sarah grew old, and Sarah’s light had ceased” (Genesis 18:11). In the words of evidence, “By faith Sarah herself also grew old and gave birth, but she was given strength to conceive. It is the same as the record of “knowing this is faithful” (Hebrews 11:11), and Jonah from Hades, where there is no hope of life, “said, “I called the Lord because of the afflictions I was going through. I cried out, and you have heard my voice” (Jon 2:2).
Therefore, from the beginning of salvation, "He called the crowd and his disciples and said to them, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me" (Mark 8:34), and "If we hold fast what is certain from the beginning to the end, You will become partakers of Christ” (Hebrews 3:14).
For this reason, it is the same as the evidence of salvation that is written about salvation, “…Thus says the Lord of hosts, not by might, not by might, but by my spirit” (Zechariah 4:6). Neither of the runner, nor of the runner, but of a compassionate God” (Romans 9:16). that is salvation.
“Deep is the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God; his judgments are beyond measure, and his ways are beyond finding” (Romans 11:33) Amen, Amen, thank you Lord.