Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

We're going to jump right in and we're going to kind of pick up without doing a ton of review.

I'd like to pick up where we left off last week.

The challenge with that, of course I know is you've had multiple sessions since then.

But what we talked about last week was an orthodox satirology.

So what we are then beginning to define what the early fathers meant when they said saved.

What the Holy Spirit was trying to communicate to us through the early church fathers

when the New Testament was penned and we get this word over and over again, sozo, and occasionally we get the word soteria.

So I'm going to give you a couple of more detailed definitions of those two words, give you

a little analogy, and then we're going to start reading some more about what we mean when we say

Christification.

Because my current definition of the combination of the two words of sozo and soteria is christification.

And I'll give you an analogy of that in just a little while.

But first of all, let me give you some deeper definitions.

When we say sozo, why do we use two different words?

Well, one's a verb.

And the Greek verb used as saved is sozo and it means to rescue from great peril.

So you see the rescued from aspect of the word in the verb. It's an action. You're being rescued

from. All right. But it also means to heal until reaching a state of wholeness.

So the verb sozo is to rescue from peril, but also to heal until you attain a state of

wholeness. Therefore, you can say you were saved from great peril, but you are also being healed until you reach a state of wholeness.

So it was true for the early church fathers to say, mankind has been saved and mankind is being saved.

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