The moment you put your trust in Christ and in Christ alone,

that moment God pronounces you just in his sight

and you are safe in the arms of Jesus.

There will come a moment when the Father will say,

Come, my beloved, inherit the kingdom that was prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

When we examine the meaning of the term salvation, the first thing that we notice about it

is that the term salvation is used in a wide variety of ways.

I've often wondered, for example, when Paul and Silas were freed from the jail in Philippi, when God delivered them by the earthquake,

and you recall that situation that the jailer in panic came up to Paul and Silas and said,

Sir, what must I do to be saved?

And Paul responded immediately by saying, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,

and you and your household will be saved. Now, I think I know what Paul meant by salvation

when he responded to the jailer, but I've wondered

what was in the jailer's mind.

Here is a man who is responsible to the government for the guarding and keeping of prisoners.

And the law in that day in the provinces was simply this,

that if prisoners escaped from the jail,

whatever penalty they were awaiting to suffer for their crimes,

their jailer had to take in the escapee's place.

Now, it's certainly possible that what he had in his mind at that moment was a question

about his eternal destiny, about his relationship with God.

And having heard Paul and Silas singing hymns and knew that they were religious fellows,

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