Saved from what, and how?
BQ: People often say, "I'm saved," but from what?
A: "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." (Mt 1:21) We see that we need to be saved from our sins, because, as Is 59:2 says, "your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear."
Being saved=no separation from God due to no sin. So we need to be saved from sin that we're covered in. In Isaiah 1, God says, "“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean...Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow." We need to wash ourselves, to be clean from sin, to have a new exterior. How do we accomplish this in order to be saved from sin? What does God see afterward?
"Now why do you delay? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name." (Acts 22:16) “So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and there were added that day about three thousand souls....And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.”
People were being saved from sin—which results in separation from God—in baptism, with God doing the operation. Why does He see as as being white as snow afterward? Galatians 3:27 has the answer: "For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. " Truly we come up as white as snow!
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