Second Salvation

Praise the Lord I was saved more than two decades ago in 1997! Yet as I listened to the radio program of the life-study of Job, I was so much impressed by the "second salvation" brothers fellowshipped about concerning the need to be saved not merely from eternal perdition, but to be saved from being in myself or in anything other than being in the Lord. Yes, all the believers were already saved eternally; yet there is a need for another salvation, by being delivered from the self into Christ.

But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth; Job 19:25

In the Old Testament, the Redeemer, God lives! Job saw this revelation. But a higher revelation revealed in the New Testament is the location where the Redeemer lives. Yes, He sure is in the heavens. If that is all then, it is too objective. Nothing much to experience of the Redeemer living in the heavens only. How about men on the earth? How could man experience Him? The answer is in the New Testament.

The book of Ephesians, Philippians, and Galatians reveals to us the Redeemer living in us! 

And raised us up together with Him and seated us together with Him in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, That He might display in the ages to come the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have become near in the blood of Christ. Ephesians 2:6,7 13

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Philipians 1:21

I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:2o

This revelation is a sure second-salvation to me and to all who will receive this revelation. The Redeemer lives in me! Christ lives in me! I am in Christ! This revelation and experience is salvation from many besetting and frustrating sins in a daily practical human life. No wonder, the Bible says, "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;" in Philippians 2:12, pointing to the practical Christian living in Christ, a daily-salvation.

Christ lives in me! O what a salvation this, that Christ lives in me! 

I was saved! I am being saved! And I will also be saved!