🔥 SALVATION: THE MOMENT GOD DECLARES A SINNER RIGHTEOUS 🔥
Many people sincerely believe salvation unfolds over time — that it begins at faith but is completed through effort, endurance, or personal faithfulness. While that idea sounds reasonable, it is not how Scripture defines salvation.
The Bible presents salvation as an instant, legal act of God, grounded in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Growth follows salvation, but salvation itself is settled in a moment.
To understand this clearly,... more🔥 SALVATION: THE MOMENT GOD DECLARES A SINNER RIGHTEOUS 🔥
Many people sincerely believe salvation unfolds over time — that it begins at faith but is completed through effort, endurance, or personal faithfulness. While that idea sounds reasonable, it is not how Scripture defines salvation.
The Bible presents salvation as an instant, legal act of God, grounded in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Growth follows salvation, but salvation itself is settled in a moment.
To understand this clearly, we must understand one word the Bible repeatedly uses: justification.
⚖️ JUSTIFICATION — THE HEART OF SALVATION
Salvation is not first about change in behavior; it is about a change in standing before God. Scripture calls this change justification.
📖 “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
— Romans 5:1 (KJV)
Justification is courtroom language. God, the righteous Judge, declares the believing sinner righteous. This declaration is not based on works, obedience, or reform, but on the righteousness of Christ being imputed to the believer.
📖 “To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”
— Romans 4:5 (KJV)
A verdict is not progressive. A judge does not partially justify someone. The moment faith is placed in Christ, the verdict is rendered.
📜 WHY JUSTIFICATION CANNOT BE A PROCESS
If justification were a process, assurance would be impossible. Peace with God would be uncertain. Eternal life would depend on performance. But Scripture says the believer already possesses eternal life.
📖 “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.”
— John 3:36 (KJV)
Justification settles the sin issue completely.
📖 “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.”
— Romans 4:8 (KJV)
Sin is no longer charged to the believer’s account. Christ bore it in full. This is why salvation cannot be lost — because the verdict is God’s, not man’s.
📖 “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.”
— Romans 8:33 (KJV)
🕊️ THE SEAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CONFIRMS THE VERDICT
God does not merely justify the believer — He seals them.
📖 “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.”
— Ephesians 1:13 (KJV)
The order is unmistakable:
👉The gospel is heard
👉The sinner believes
👉God acts
The sealing is not symbolic. In Scripture, a seal represents ownership, security, and finality.
📖 “Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
— Ephesians 4:30 (KJV)
The seal lasts until redemption is complete — not until the believer fails.
🌱 WHAT SALVATION IS — AND WHAT IT IS NOT
Salvation is not:
moral reform
lifelong probation
gradual acceptance
Salvation is:
justification by faith
peace with God
eternal life received, not earned
Growth, obedience, and discipleship belong to sanctification, which follows salvation — but never secures it.
📖 “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.”
— Colossians 2:6 (KJV)
We walk because we are saved, not to become saved.
✝️ THE GOSPEL FOR THE LOST — THE FOUNDATION OF EVERYTHING
Salvation rests on a finished work, not human effort.
📖 “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel…
That Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day…”
— 1 Corinthians 15:1–4 (KJV)
Jesus paid the full penalty for sin. Nothing remains to be added. The only response God requires is belief.
📖 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”
— Ephesians 2:8 (KJV)
A gift is received in a moment — not earned over time.
🔚 FINAL TRUTH
Salvation is a moment because:
God justifies the believer
God seals the believer
God imputes righteousness, not sin
All of these are acts of God, not processes of man.
📖 “These things have I written unto you that believe… that ye may know that ye have eternal life.”
— 1 John 5:13 (KJV)
If justification is a legal verdict by God, how could salvation ever be a process?
✠ Sir John Scivoletti ✠
✠ Turco Joan of Arc Priory ✠
✠✠Act and God will Act (Actus et Deus Act)✠✠
