Romans 6:3 English Standard Version (ESV) Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

I recently saw another way of looking at our Lords secondary salvation and please forgive my approach here. It is a visual example of what I believe occurs because of this opening verse.

If I have a personalized serving of food and I take a bite out of it, it is now mine. I can place the remainder in a container and put it away in the refrigerator with my personal seal, identifying it as mine. It is mine, my refrigerator, my house, my land and no thieves are allowed access.

Accepting Christ’s Lordship is being saved for later in the same way.

Ephesians 2:4-7 English Standard Version (ESV)

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ⁶ and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Spiritually we are seated with Christ in heaven. There we are being saved for later, sealed, secure and no one can steal us away. I understand that is a rather different approach about being saved from the power of sin but that image gives me comfort that my salvation is saved from contamination.

Meanwhile here on earth we sojourn where every speck of dust wants to cling to our sandals. Our Lord has an answer for that.

John 13:12-14 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹² When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? ¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴ If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

Genesis 47:25 King James Version (KJV) And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

I like to look at first use scriptures to gain insight into the meaning of words. Saved, i.e. salvation, has an implication of immediacy in which we sense danger and are relieved from the fear of that danger. A life has been saved and with it comes two important factors, a relationship that expects to receive unmerited favor, grace, and servitude out of gratitude.

What we deem to be a danger in our lives might vary but the attitude towards salvation must always remain the same. We were helpless to save ourselves and needed someone with the power to save us from those dangers to intercede on our behalf.  We must ask ourselves that all important question in order to understand our salvation, what are we being saved from?

Isaiah 64:5 English Standard Version (ESV)

⁵ You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
    those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
    in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?^[a]

Footnotes: Isaiah 64:5 Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved

Because sin cannot approach God and we continue in sin we cannot have a personal relationship with God. If we seek Him to save us from anything other than our sin nature, we pray that His forbearance will continue by grace to lead us to that saving grace knowledge we find in accepting His Lordship.

Grace and service thru salvation only comes from His Lordship. This however is only the first salvation. This is salvation from the penalty of sin. Because we accept His Lordship our outcome falls solely in His hands.

John 12:25 English Standard Version (ESV)Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Did we hate our lives when we asked to be saved?