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ARE WE SAVED NOW?

ARE WE SAVED NOW?
We are saved now when we repent, in the context of being made free from sin when God forgives us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness - 1John 1:9
This is why Titus 3:5-7 speaks in the present tense, I quote:
Titus 3:5-7
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life."

However our past sins are dealt with in the future, when our probation is closed and our names come up in the judgement.
Remember Revelation 20:12 tells us about books being opened and the dead being judged according to their deeds. So there is a record of all your past sins in the book of iniquity, and of your good works done by faith in the book of remembrance.
Once you were once converted your name enters the book of life. If you die in your sins and were not overcoming your sins by the faith of Christ or the revealed truths of Christ, your name will be blotted out of the book of life, and you will be cast into the lake of fire. As it is written in Matt.24:13 "he that endure to the end shall be saved" - future tense, so there is a context also of BEING saved also. This why we are told in Phil.2:12-13, and I quote:
"12 ...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure."
My facebook friends the issue of salvation whether we are saved or not must be carefully determined by Scripture. Many pull a text out of context and run with it (so that they could fantasize in a false hope) without taking other texts into consideration. For example many would pull a text and say we are saved by grace with the idea of no surrender to God's will, a saved in sin fantasy. But as you study the bible you see when you are saved by grace it is through faith and the saving makes you sinfree by the washing of regeneration. Read over Titus 3:5-7 quoted above, also consider Ephesians 2:8-10, I quote:
Eph.2:8-10 kjv
"8 For by GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."
Note: the faith of Jesus which we are saved by is the revealed truths of Jesus not our believing, our believing is of ourselves and is not a gift of God, so in reading over the verse you would see that salvation by Grace through faith is not salvation through believing but salvation through the truth or being made free from sin by the truth. I quote John 8:32-34,36
"32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."

After you are made sinfree the work of Sanctification is of maintaining Christ in you through faith motivated obedience.
Dear facebook friends much more evidences can be given, but do feel free to ask questions that by the Grace of God I may help.
May God bless you all as you seek him with all diligence. As it is written:
Hebrews 11:6 kjv
"But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."

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