Understanding The Completeness of Salvation and The Root Of Joy.

The anticipation of a great expectation can be a very good tonic to the soul. For a bride, the anticipation of her wedding can bring some anxiety loaded with joy, for a businessman, it may be the news of an expected business breakthrough, and for a sick, the symptoms of the sickness disappearing, but the bible says something interesting about the salvation of our souls in Isaiah 12 verse 3 ‘Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation’ So then Christians should be the liveliest folks! How then is it that many times you still see Christians dull, moody, and filled with anxiety? The answers is that though these ones claim to know God, the issue of salvation and the expectation of the glory promised by God has not been settled in their hearts! It is necessary to note that the salvation of our soul is in three stages, namely the saving of our spirit man, saving of the soul and finally the redemption of our bodies. Many receive the word in their spirit and make confessions according to Romans 10:10 ‘for with heart man believeth unto righteousness but with mouth confession is made unto salvation’. But salvation does not end there! Man is embodiment of the spirit, soul and body! The word of God is capable of diving the three (Hebrews 4:12). Most people don’t know the difference between the soul and the spirit yet the Bibles says the word of God can effectively divide them! The soul is the point at which we contact the emotional and intellectual realm through our senses and the soul needs to be saved through a process as well, otherwise the spirit will be lost over time if the soul is not saved Romans 12 verse 1-2 gives a deeper insight ‘ I beseech you therefore by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable and perfect will of God. Beloved, what can make you accept the scripture above and its demands is that you believe that the salvation of your soul offers you the best of eternity that is worth waiting for! If you don’t have this hope, the saving of your soul will not be possible. The redemption of our body is the last stage of the process of salvation. This can be found in Romans 8 verse 22-23 ‘ for we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 and not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. The above is the perfect state of the man/woman who understands the very nitty-gritty of salvation. This understanding brings about a fresh hope of eternity and destroys the sense of condemnation that goes with sin, guilty conscience and satanic manifestations which are really the root causes of sorrow. '' In effect Salvation is: -the saving of our Spirit man. This happens when the word of God is confessed according to Rom 10:10 in faith and in absolute deference to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. It confers on us the instantaneous renewal of our spirit man which is what is referred to as the new birth. -The saving of the soul. These entails constant reading, hearing and meditating on God's word over a period of time with the attendant effect of humbling the soul, renewing the mind, making it meek and obedient to the word. Long term exposure to the word cuts off ignorance from our understanding, cuts of rebellion from the will and cuts of carnality from the intellect and gives us control over the emotions