Salvation

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The point of salvation is a conversation with God that will last forever. That is what was broken in the garden in Genesis 3.

Salvation happens by "calling on the name of the Lord"

Romans 10:11For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.

13For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”

14How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

Paul, in Romans 10, was referring to Joel 2:32. "Calling on the name of the Lord" is a response to the "pouring out of the Spirit." It is a response to encountering God supernaturally.

Salvation is a supernatural response to hearing God speak to the inner man by the Holy Spirit primarily through those that know Him and have consecrated themselves to waiting on Him:

Joel 2:28“And it shall come to pass afterward

That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

Your old men shall dream dreams,

Your young men shall see visions.

29And also on My menservants and on My maidservants

I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

30“And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:

Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

31The sun shall be turned into darkness,

And the moon into blood,

Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

32And it shall come to pass

That whoever calls on the name of the LORD

Shall be saved.

For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance,

As the LORD has said,

Among the remnant whom the LORD calls.

All who call on the name of the Lord will be saved, but salvation begins with the pouring out of the Spirit on the servants of God in front of those the LORD is calling!

Do we have a testimony to preach of hearing God that invites others to hear God?

That is the very basis of salvation. That is the salvation Jesus preached. Salvation, or reconnection to God, is only possible because Jesus paid for the Spirit to be reintroduced to man's frame, but you have to use that connection for conversation that leads you into greater realms of obedience and conversation...otherwise you aren't working out your own salvation and salvation isn't really spreading.

What are we saving people into? Meetings, a club, a pyramid, a ministry structure, a congregation, a movement?...or a living conversation with the living Word?

Are we saving people into prayer? Are we leading others into a prophetic conversation with God because they see us in our own active prophetic conversation with God as we wait for more of His Spirit?

That is what happened in Acts 2. Those who knew God were talking to Him, God poured something out, they knew what to say, God prophetically spoke to the unsaved, and 3,000 responded. This is the only way salvation actually works. There are different settings and different scales of application, but this is what salvation looks like.

This has to start with us "going in" to listen to the one who saves...with us calling on his name daily saying "speak God, your servant is listening" and then living on every word God speaks. God is about to pour out His spirit...are we putting ourselves in the places that is going to happen?

Luke 4:4But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ”

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