Cheryl Schatz

So let’s have a look at this verse:

Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

Is this verse saying that we are now justified but right now we are not saved from God’s wrath but we will be saved? Or is it saying that being justified we are safe in the shelter of His wings and in the future that solid place of safety will stay even through the judgment of our works so that we will never face God’s wrath? I would think that the latter is true. That our salvation from God’s wrath is now and into the future and that never changes into eternity.

So I could legitimately say that my grandmother (who is now dead), who was a godly, christian woman “will be saved” from God’s wrath and her spirit “will be saved” in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Yes. However you could legitimately say that she already was saved from God’s wrath before she died and her spirit was already saved before she died. I don’t think that we can say that a saved person’s spirit is not saved right now.

As far as Paul’s quote about the one turned over to satan:

1 Cor 5:5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

His actions showed that he was not living in salvation for the Scriptures say that those who continue to practice sin are not walking in the light. This is a man who was living as a wicked man and with no repentance. Paul delivered him over to satan so that he would have consequences of his sin so that he would turn from his sin in repentance. Then and only then would his spirit be saved. At this point, though, he may have been a believer, but he was living in unrepentant sin so was outside the camp by his sin. Paul said that he “may” be saved in the future if he was destroyed here so that he would repent.

The question is whether our spirits are saved right now? I believe thy are and the only thing we await for is the redemption of our body which has not yet happed. But the salvation of our spirits is here for those who are in Christ and that salvation will continue (not be something new) in the future. I believe that the future tense is used as an encouragement not to fear what the future holds regarding God’s wrath.

Again, it is only a small point of difference and in the end we believe the same.