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Salvation
"Mine eyes have seen thy salvation." Luke 2:30.
Jesus is God's salvation for man—Jesus and none other.
Salvation is more than saving man from all that is unlike
Christ; it is also imparting to him all that is like
Christ. It is Christ's and man's nature inwrought one in
the other, making them of like nature. It is the
transforming of man into the likeness of God. It is man
attaining his true manhood. Salvation is manhood regained.
Look at Christ and you will see what you ought to be and
can be. Jesus became the Savior of men by giving Himself
for men. Men are saved by giving themselves to the Savior.
A saved man is one to whom the Savior has been given and
one who has given himself to the Savior. They are of like
nature. They have perfect fellowship, blessed communion,
and share everything in common. Each has what the other
has. That which the man has belongs to Christ, and that
which Christ has belongs to the man. Christ sups with the
man and the man with Christ. Wherever you find the saved
man you will also find Jesus there. They think, they speak
they act together. They are one life. Christ is the life
of the man, and the man's life is lived in by Christ. This
is holy living—this is salvation.
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