The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-29
Salvation Worked Out.


St. Paul admonished US To work out
our own salvation with fear and trem-
bling. This seriptural command means
far more than the common belief that
salvation Ii assured by simply having
belief or faith in Jesus as the Son of
God. Such saving faith is yitally
necessary. but IL is only the beginning
of our saIyation-its spiritual basis.
Then must follow the working out Of
our deliyerance from evil, our separa-
tion from sin. from the bondage OF this
world. from Limitation. failure. sick
ness, disease. death.
Saving faith" the recognition that
Christ Jesus Is the Son of God and
that he brought salvation to all man.
kind. includes not only the glad accep-
tance Of what Jesus was and did, but
OF what he said We can and must do.
He said. Il am the way. the truth and
the iife.' and he also said. He that
believeth on me. the works that | do
shall he do also"
What did his disciples, his immedI-
ate followers, learn from these and
similar sayings of the MASTER Their
saving faith I'm Jesus az the Son of
his commands To heal the sick,
cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast
out devils" They literally followed
his example and did the works which
he was doing. and which na COM
manded them To do. Their faith grew
into an understanding of the principle
and law taught and demonstrated by
Jesus. and they had thereby begun To
work out their salvation from sin. dis
ease and death. This same teaching
and demonstration is available to al.
today. and our Christian duty as tmen-
tieth century disciples is to apply his
rules and get his results. as Was done
In his day and for 800 years after.
Working out our own salvation
means To secure the mastery over the
Ills of this world. To destroy them by
the demonstrable knowledge of God re-
ceiyed through Christ Jesus. and to
establish harmony. health. happiness in
every day life. Hence our salvation is
not fully worked out until we have
dominion over all discard and every
thing that causes it, This necessarily
includes dominion over evil and its
sensation. sin and sorrow. dominion
even over death and its ferrors. IL
means tn attain To perfect harmonious
living, To bring about Gods kingdom
on earth
Unless We work out our salvation
we will not gain the victory over the
world. the flesh and the devil. as We
are commanded.
Salvation Gained BY Spiritual Growth.
Few men would presume la say or
think that they are ready for heaven.
fitted To enter the presence of God:
and we can never reach spiritual ex-
istence, the kingdom of heaven, until
We are prepared for IL by overcoming
materfality. all evil. This overcoming
is growth. the gradual unfolding Of
spiritual sense in the human conscious
ness until We attain To the full stature
of manhood in Christ Jesus.
Jesus said repeatedly, THE kingdom
of heaven Is within YOU" that Is, not
a place but Il state of mind. Can this
state of mind be reached by death. as
50 many are taught to believe, or must
ii not rather be gained by spiritual
srowth education and enlightenment
However strong Il schouihoy's faith
may be in his teacher. and however
firm his belief thar the teacher has
solved and can solve any problem. the
pupil will not gain the mastery of the
subject without actually working il out
and se gaining the understanding for
himself
Ii mere faith or belief i'm Jesus is
all that is necessary Tor salvation.
why are 50 many promises in Resela-
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