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V e r s e b y V e r s e
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This Rock
Volume 4, Number 8
 September 1993 
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FUNDAMENTALISTS ask, "Have you been saved?"--a
question which conceives of salvation as a past event. While Scripture
does sometimes speak of salvation as a past event (Rom. 8:24, Eph.
2:5, 8, 2 Tim. 1:9, Titus 3:5), or as a present process (Phil. 2:12,
1 Pet. 1:9), it most often speaks of it as a future event:
" [A]nd you will be hated by all for
my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved"
(Matt. 10:22).
"For whoever would save his life will
lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will
save it" (Mark 8:3-5).
"But we believe that we shall be saved
through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will" (Acts
15:11).
"Since, therefore, we are now justified
by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of
God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the
death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we
be saved by his life" (Rom. 5:9-10).
"Besides this you know what hour it
is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation
is nearer to us now than when we first believed" (Rom. 13:11).
"If any man's work is burned up, he
will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through
fire" (1 Cor. 3:15).
"[Y]ou are to deliver this man to Satan
for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in
the day of the Lord Jesus" (1 Cor. 5:5).
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