09/22/2026 – “The Divine Let” – Romans 6:10 / But, I submit: We should read and pray over all of Romans Chapter Six, even if we were “saved” in an altar call six decades ago. //6:1-14 – “The New Life in Christ” & 6:15 – 6:22 – “From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God”/ Comment below
The Two Days Of Your Salvation
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
When were you saved? The answer is, the day you received the Lord into your life. But there is another answer as well. You were saved two thousand years before that. Messiah died on the cross in Jerusalem around 30 AD. Yet that salvation doesn’t come into effect or become real in your life until you believe and receive it. It’s true for salvation, but it’s also true for other things. You may be wondering why you don’t feel blessed, joyful, holy, pure, strong, cleansed, or victorious. All those things are completed at the cross. The work of Messiah is finished. But it’s not in effect, or real in your life, until you let it have its way. Therefore, in Messiah, you’ve already overcome. You’re already cleansed, made righteous, blessed, free, and victorious in Messiah. Now it’s time for you to start accepting the truth. For you were saved and transformed as you accepted that you were indeed saved. In the same way, you are blessed and will be blessed when you receive the fact of how blessed you already are in the finished work of Messiah.
From Message #808 – The Divine Let
Scripture: Romans 6:10
TODAY’S MISSION – Today, activate the fullness of joy and blessing that Messiah won for you through his death 2,000 years ago.
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To be clear – I don’t disparage “altar calls”. Nancy and I have jointly shared how awesome it will be in heaven if we are approached by a soul with: “I know you!; You are the person that invited me here!” Well, can you imagine how many souls will be coming up to Billy Graham in this reflective scenario?
Nancy and I have shared a few laughs when interviewed by a pastor as new potential members to a church with the question: When were you saved? For both of us, the answer is: “I don’t know, I have been a christian as long as I can remember…” Be it pastor or church laity members, the worried look on their faces is what we chuckle over after the fact. Much as we consider our personal salvation incomprehensibly joyful by the grace of God alone, can I say there is infinitely more significance to just “my salvation”. Further – I submit we are not only saved “from” something (sin), but saved “to” something. (The Great Commission) So, let’s focus on the short window of opportunity, a relative single “breath” on our mission calling, shall we !?!
So, for churches, let’s go further than keeping a count of 1). How many new members that have made “altar calls” and/or 2) how many souls we have sitting in the pews in each Sunday. How about taking the “harder” road?: “Discipleship!” It sure seems like Jesus spent alot of his time on this earth discipling the twelve disciples, all “chips on the table” so to speak.
“… Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up to heaven?” that is, to bring Christ down or, “Who will go down into the abyss!”. that is, to bring Christ up from the dead. This is the message of faith that we proclaim: if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10: 6-10
Who can measure a heart? , excepting the Lord our God? But I submit if an elderly soul has been sitting in the pew all of their life, but still looks like all the “future christians that do not even profess faith” in their earthly walk outside of that one hour of worship per week, witness to them as you would to a “future christian”. That is not judging that person’s heart. I can’t count the times that, in response to : “Where are you going?” (“Quo Vadis?” (*A-below) ), the fellow self professed christian soul responds with: “I am going to heaven, I am a good person.”
(*A):
“Quo vadis?” is a Latin phrase that translates to “where are you going?” in English. It is associated with an early Christian tradition, recorded in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in which Peter encounters Jesus while fleeing Rome. Peter asks Jesus “Quo vadis?” as he is surprised to see him. The phrase has come to represent a reflection on one’s direction or purpose in life.
Source: https://www.grammar-monster.com/Latin_terms/quo_vadis.htm
Thoughts / Reflections?
Your brother in Christ,
Jimmy