Season 2: Ep 4 - What Are the Implications of Salvation?

If God wants to set free and heal all of His creation from the bondage of sin, how does that impact our everyday lives?

Podcast Transcript - What are the Implications of Salvation?

Hopefully we have seen that salvation is a little bit bigger than what we may have originally imagined it to be. Because it is so much bigger, it should have bigger implications on our lives. Some of the implications that I think follow from what we've learned about this concept of salvation is that we need to turn to God before we turn to anything or anyone else to fix the situation. 

If He really is the author of salvation and the prime mover of salvation, then when we turn to our friends, when we turn to our resources, when we turn to google, whatever it is that we turn to, to try to fix the problems that we've gotten ourselves into then we're missing the good news. This God who created the entire universe He wants to put it all back into order He wants to fix everything. 

And so that has another layer of implication there, and it is often times we turn to God when the problems get really big.  That's when we go “God you got to step in,” “you got to do something in this in this place.” And that's ok, we can turn to God at those moments. More importantly, He wants to step into the littlest of things. When we're trying to complete a project and we just completely messed it up. He wants to heal that. He wants to save that as much as he wants to save our soul. When we don't know how to train our animal right. When we don't know how to parent our child. There is nothing that He doesn't want to come in and really bring salvation in that place. 

Also as we see ourselves fall into patterns of addiction, He's not waiting for that moment when we find ourselves in rehab to turn to Him. He's asking for that moment when we have the temptation to step out of this salvation that He is bought for us with his life and rest in His grace. To say I'm going to need You to save me. I'm holding on to You in this moment, keep me away from alcohol, keep me away from pornography, keep me away from a lying tongue. Whatever it is that we see ourselves in bondage to, that has been so hard for us to move past, He has done everything to bring us to that salvation. And that salvation can touch everything. 

And that’s the next implications that we see in this grand concept of salvation. A lot of times we have a past, everybody has a past. We look at our past and we either feel guilt or shame or we try to ignore it. God, the eternal God never leaves any moment. He exists eternally throughout time as much as he exists eternally throughout space. He is waiting at those most painful moments for us to let Him into those so that he could set us free and heal those moments. 

We need to trust Him that his grace is sufficient. He is going to be able to fix those problems and that we don't need to be afraid In our everyday moments. Let His salvation be applied there and if we can let Him into our past week and also let Him into our present we can trust him in our everyday lives. He's going to be good. He's going to be faithful. He’s going to make things right when we let Him into the center of that picture. 

Which brings us to our future. We really can live lives filled with hope. I don't care how long you've had a problem with your sister. I don't care how long your family has been messed up. That's what God says “I've come to fix it all and if you don't stop trusting me in this process, if you let me into the center of it we're going to make things right, I'm going to work out my salvation through you so that you can bring healing. So that you can bring reconciliation.”

You may never see it in your lifetime but I've planted the seeds of salvation that are going to bring healing to the places that need it most. 

Can we trust Him in that? And if so what great news. There is nothing that God, by his grace cannot overcome, that He cannot fix. So we're going to need to work with God to maintain this. This isn't just like “Hey God we're going to sit back and watch everything.” No, like a kid that he's brought to come work on the car with him. He's letting us into His great work and we're going to work this great gift of Salvation in his world. Because it puts us at the center of His purposes, and it puts us purposefully in relationship with Him.

We have to have Him to see these great problems fixed. He wants us there so that we can come to know Him, not just information about Him, but know this true Savior. We do this as we share this great gift of salvation. Not only does it change us, it changes the world around us. It changes it drastically and it begins to make things new. In this place, it really is a place of freedom. 

If we really get this great concept of salvation, God's already done the work, so we don't have to fix it ourselves. We don't have to fix anybody. We just have to simply do whatever He asks us to do in that place. And what He's going to ask us to do is based upon our intimate, hurtful, overwhelmed experience of the brokenness that's in our world. That when we pray most passionately, that's when we cry out for God to save us. To save these situations that we see no way of redeeming. We can trust in His greatness and His goodness to make everything back into the order that it was originally made to be. That is great news.