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do you do Salvation happens in an instant, but maturing spiritually or sanctification, that takes time and effort.

Today on Truth for Life weekend Alistairbegg teaches us how and why we need to tap into

the power of scripture.

Father, we pray that as we study the Bible together we may meet with Christ. And to this end we ask for the help of the Holy Spirit praying in the

strong and powerful name of Jesus. Amen. I invite you to turn again to the portion of scripture that was read some moments ago in

2 Timothy chapter 3. We are looking together at this section of the Bible for a third and final time.

We noted last time in our consideration of the question, why bother with the Bible that the Bible is able to make men and women wise for salvation

through faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible itself does not save but it points to

the Lord Jesus Christ who by his atoning death is the Savior of

all who believe. We start to summarize that last time by pointing out that in the

Bible we have essentially a handbook for salvation.

And there were two questions which we said were inevitably before us.

One was if the Bible is a handbook for salvation has it then brought me to saving

faith in Jesus and if it has then how is it teaching and training me to live as someone who has been brought to

saving faith?

It is to the second of those questions that we come now reminding one another of what we've said with frequency in the last years that salvation has three tenses to it or we may helpfully reference these three aspects of what it means to be saved.

And if you're not familiar with this little trilogy, you may want to make a note of it.

I think you'll find this very helpful in discovering just where you are

if you are on the journey of faith. In the Lord Jesus Christ, the believer is able to say,

I have been saved past tense from

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