Salvation implies deliverance, a deliverance from sin unto righteousness. The full meaning of it can be found in Paul's word that "if any many be in Christ he is a new creature," consequently, "old things are passed away" and "all things are become new." A converted person, in Bible language, is one who lives a converted life. The life lived proved the reality or otherwise of the profession voiced.
Christ can save the penitent sinner from the depths of sin, for where sin abounds, just there grace super-abounds. No matter how fare one has wondered from the beaten track of God, His grace can go further. However deep into the pit of iniquity your feet may have gone, his grace can go deeper and lift you out. However high into supposed self-righteousness you may have advanced, his grace can go one higher and bring you down to earth and show you the real cancerous condition of your inner heart.
God's grace can bring you face to face with reality, reveal your need, then assure you of an all sufficient remedy in the atonement of Christ on Calvary.
-E. W. Lawrence
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