| “The day of Jesus Christ” is the time when our Lord shall come for His own, and we who know Him are “waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.” We are saved because “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,” because He “His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.” But though the believer in Christ is perfectly and completely saved, yet the full manifestation of our salvation awaits the Lord’s return, and “now is our salvation nearer than when we believed,” and “He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” So “we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.” And “faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.” Meanwhile, we “are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though … ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.” |
