My Status: Saved or Lost? Acts 2:47

This post examines my status. Saved or lost?

My Status discusses how God dwells among His people.

After creation, God made a beautiful garden to dwell among His creation, Genesis 2:8; 15. “… the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed…

…God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” Adam and Eve’s sin ruined this wonderful arrangement. God cast them out of the garden.

God chose Noah, Abraham, and then Moses to institute His long-range plan to again live among His people. Moses led in obeying God by forming a system whereby God lived among the Israelites. Moses built a tent of worship where God dwelled in the “holy of holiest” in the Ark of the covenant.

However, in disobedience, the Israelites often worshipped idols. God destroyed all but a fraction of them and then sent His Son to institute a new way for Him to dwell among His people.

The Jews rejected Jesus and killed Him on a cross. But God raised Him up and received Him into heaven. Thereafter, the establishment of the church again allowed God to dwell among His people. Ephesians 2:20-22. “Christ Jesus himself … the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure… joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also … built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.”

Thus, the church, serves as a spiritual home for the saved, Acts 2:47. “And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.”

“In Christ” describes this state of salvation, Ephesians 3:17; 21. “…Christ … to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,”

Thus, ‘in Christ’ describes the saved group of people.

Therefore, only physical death and the resurrection separate the saved from heaven where God will dwell among His people throughout eternity.

Consequently, now only two states exist: the saved and the lost.

I need to ask myself if I’m part of the saved.

So, what did we learn?

1.God built the church as His dwelling.

2.The saved in the church will dwell with God in eternity.

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