"What Is Salvation?"
March 23, 2025 | Pastor Charles P. Akins, Sr.
Passage: Luke 4:17-19
Body:
Salvation:
- the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- Theology. deliverance from the power and penalty of sin; redemption.
Salvation is the freedom from the mental chains/slavery and effects of sin.
Signs of Slavery:
- Stuck in one’s past, can’t let go of things situations, or people
- Tunnel vision, stuck in your ways/ideas, not a free thinker
- Theres only one way to do things
- Shallow/surface mind things aren’t that deep
- Can’t see the brighter side of things
- No hope for better
- Whatever the world says controls your ways and life
- Fear what the world fears
- Doubt what the world doubts
- Think what the world thinks
If we believe the Lord our God Hayah to be Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, then we would understand that His Salvation is all encompassing.
Abundant Life eliminates being taken advantage of, used, mistreated, or manipulated by others when we are obedient.
Israel’s history shows Hayah has warned/delivered them from enemies, oppression, danger, and famine. He has been our Salvation. Yah doesn’t change!
One cannot be truly free physically until they have been set free mentally!
If you are yet enslaved mentally then you shall remain enslaved physically!
2 Corinthians 4
“4 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
My Theology:
Salvation is an all-encompassing rescue of the Believer from this world (Sin) and every element of it which seeks to entrap/ensnare you whether by false doctrines, ideologies, or even truths!
Thus, Salvation of:
- Mind
- Will
- Body
- Soul
- Spirit
- Emotion
- People
- Politics
- Economics
- Physical Things
God didn’t give us Theology, Hayah gave us His Word! Let that sink in!
This means theology is a concept developed by the same people who use religion to control and manipulate others.
Theology:
- the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
- a particular form, system, branch, or course of this study.
Theology is the study of God, based upon one’s opinion!
In order to trust one’s theology, I must trust their relationship with Hayah/God!
Without the Holy Spirit no one can interpret Hayah’s Word correctly, period.
Your interpretation will always find its base analysis within a carnal understanding.
See John 4:23 True Worshippers worship in Spirit and in Truth. God only reveals the truth of His Word to true worshippers.
Some truths are wicked! Satan is the Father of Lies and author of confusion! True?
What am I saying then:
Yeshua came to save us from world systems and narratives, not just from our sins!
Many of our sins are bolstered through world systems and ideologies.
Political Systems are used to manipulate and control people through fear, doubt, and preoccupation.
Hayah wants us free in our minds so that we can accurately assess the world around us. So that we can worship Him in Spirit and in Truth!
It is said that Theology is the study of God, His Word, Character, Power, Promises.
Yet, the same people who created this study are known for stealing, killing, destroying, raping, plundering, etc.
Religion was used to Colonize the better part of the world, so how then could one trust the Theology of such a sinful person/people.
Paganism removes the focus from a spiritual connection to a physical one.
Matthew 7:15-17 (Beware False Prophets in sheep’s clothing by their fruits)
Hayah wants His People free from every influence of this world which seeks to harm them!
Your mind must be made free, so that you can detect all of the schemes of the wicked.
You receive the Holy Spirit so that you are capable of discerning
- Who is lying to you or yours.
- Who is planning to misuse you or yours.
- Who/what will harm you or yours.
- When you and others are in danger
- When others are in need
- When you are to help
Contrary to the teaching of some, the church isn’t the problem.
False Teachers within the church, calling themselves the church are the problem.
Matthew 22:21 (Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s)
Believers are not to live lawlessly, but there is no authority above that of God!
Therefore, when I bring charges against the wicked, if you are of God then you are with me!
If you desire true Salvation set yourself apart from this world’s ideas by surrendering to God. As you surrender God will reveal the truth of His Word to you.
Signs of Salvation:
- Walk by Faith, real faith!
- Hope in change, and trust God and in a better way
- Praying more than they speak
- Peace and joy in times of hardship
Rom 4:17 reminds us that Yah speaks things which aren’t as though they were.
Prov 18:21 reminds us death and life are in the power of our tongue (Thoughts).
Conclusion:
Salvation is Eternal Freedom from the slavery of sin and the world systems.
If you desire this freedom allow God to have His way in your heart!
The best decision you will ever make is to serve God!