[CyberAnt]

I have been “saved” for over 20 years now .. and it’s not a “constant” thing. Jesus died ONCE, FOR ALL. Jesus is not constantly dying. So .. Salvation has already been paid for .. the key is .. people just have to receive it.

[bdeaner]

I have been “saved” for over 20 years now .. and it’s not a “constant” thing. Jesus died ONCE, FOR ALL. Jesus is not constantly dying. So .. Salvation has already been paid for .. the key is .. people just have to receive it.

Jesus died to give us the opportunity to be saved. But we still have to do some work to get sanctified, so that we can be in the presence of our Holy Holy Holy Lord.

Salvation is a lifelong process and not a one-time event.

Philippians 2:12-13, 3:10-14 12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose....

10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

So, yes, we are saved -- were saved, are being saved, and will be saved -- but it is a process of santification in which we "continue to work out our salvation with fear and trembling."

God bless.

[Secret Agent Man]

Justifitcation is instantaneous. You receive Christ as personal Savior. You believe He died for you and you ask Him to save you based on His promise that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

Sanctification is the process that goes on from the point we are justified to when we die. THIS is the ongoing process of becoming more mature Christians with God’s help.

Glorification is instantaneous, the moment after we die. God finishes the good work He began in us, and we are made perfect.