Episode 35
Salvation: What It Actually Means | NT90
What does it really mean to be "saved"? In this episode of Seek Go Create, Tim Winders challenges traditional ideas about salvation by digging into its true meaning in the New Testament—far beyond a one-time prayer or ticket to heaven. Discover how the word "saved" originally pointed to rescue, healing, and wholeness, and why understanding its context can radically shift your faith perspective. If you've ever wondered whether you've gotten salvation wrong, or are ready to see this concept in a whole new light, this episode is for you.
"Salvation is not an escape plan. It is an invitation into a reality that is already here." - Tim Winders
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Episode Highlights:
00:00 What Does Saved Mean
00:28 NT 90 Reading Journey
02:02 Salvation As A Decision
05:04 Soso Rescue And Wholeness
06:12 Rome And Political Savior
09:42 How Jesus Used Saved
14:24 Romans And Coming Upheaval
19:26 How Salvation Drifted
23:20 No Checklist Christianity
24:10 Salvation As Kingdom Life
27:57 Three Words Reframed
30:39 Final Challenge And Next Steps
Transcript
Your faith has saved you.
Speaker:Jesus said that to a woman who stopped bleeding to a blind man who could
Speaker:see to a leper who is restored, same Greek word, we translate as getting
Speaker:saved, but nobody walked an aisle.
Speaker:Nobody prayed a prayer.
Speaker:So what does saved actually mean?
Speaker:Welcome to Seek Go Create.
Speaker:I am Tim Winders.
Speaker:Just recently read the entire New Testament in 90 days in the order
Speaker:written, not the order in your bible, the order, the letters actually went out to
Speaker:those reading it in the first century.
Speaker:What a found.
Speaker:It was cool.
Speaker:I enjoyed it, loved it.
Speaker:Some things surprised me and over the last few episodes, and in this one, I am
Speaker:going to be sharing some of those things.
Speaker:I also was challenged, changed the way I thought about some things, and
Speaker:definitely helped me understand scripture.
Speaker:In context, this series is where I'm sharing some of
Speaker:those discoveries with you.
Speaker:If you wanna do what I did, and I do recommend it, the reading plan that I
Speaker:developed, 'cause I wanted to read the Bible and the New Testament in the order
Speaker:written, I just kept wanting to do that.
Speaker:Couldn't find a good plan, so I did the research and wrote it.
Speaker:You can get that plan at K two M Foundation slash.
Speaker:NT 90 and it's got a lot of details there.
Speaker:Links to all the podcast and YouTube episodes we did related to it.
Speaker:You can get the downloaded plan printed out or have it digitally
Speaker:so that you can follow along.
Speaker:I designed it to be 90 days.
Speaker:It could be longer, it could be shorter, but I think the order and the
Speaker:context is what's very critical there.
Speaker:So, uh, download it, check it out, and see what you find.
Speaker:We should have a link down in the show notes for you.
Speaker:All right, in this episode we are going to talk about, another word
Speaker:that came up that kinda meant something a little bit different.
Speaker:When I read it in the New Testament.
Speaker:A few episodes ago we talked about sin, and then the last episode, death.
Speaker:And in this episode, salvation or saved is what we're going to be looking at it.
Speaker:So, whew.
Speaker:So three big words there.
Speaker:We've been having fun.
Speaker:Make sure if you haven't listened to Sin and Death, that you circle back
Speaker:and listen to those exciting episodes.
Speaker:I'm sure those titles will draw you in to what make you want to listen to those.
Speaker:You know, it's interesting in the environment that I grew up in.
Speaker:And, this would've been in the south, in the Bible Belt in the, sixties,
Speaker:seventies, eighties, kind of pre cable tv, pre-internet, the Stone
Speaker:Age, as some of you might think, getting saved seemed like a decision.
Speaker:You made maybe some boxes that you checked to make sure you don't go to hell.
Speaker:That might've been one of the big reasons that a lot of people did it.
Speaker:And I'm not sure that's how I thought about it at the time, but looking
Speaker:back, that seemed like what it was.
Speaker:And it does appear that many people in church world are
Speaker:there for that reason now.
Speaker:Avoiding hell or maybe getting to heaven.
Speaker:maybe wanting to get that message to others and share it or possibly even,
Speaker:and this is bothersome at times, a little gleeful that they have checked
Speaker:that box and then others are not.
Speaker:So they're gonna go to the good place Heaven and those other
Speaker:people, they're gonna burn.
Speaker:They're gonna go to hell.
Speaker:and sometimes you see that attitude, that mindset that just never seemed right.
Speaker:To me, I don't know why.
Speaker:Maybe I, I didn't have a deep theological upbringing and background.
Speaker:It just seemed a little odd.
Speaker:But until I started seeing how the word salvation was actually used in the New
Speaker:Testament, it didn't really click for me.
Speaker:That may not be really using the word correctly, the things
Speaker:that I had known growing up.
Speaker:It when were you saved implies a date, A moment, a prayer.
Speaker:Many people treat it as an event you're supposed to remember Exactly.
Speaker:I sort of do, but not entirely.
Speaker:Um, it's interesting.
Speaker:I've seen situations where people say, if you cannot name the moment
Speaker:or the place, then it wasn't right.
Speaker:And I've actually seen that.
Speaker:Nowhere in the New Testament though, does anyone ask someone to remember
Speaker:when or where they were saved.
Speaker:Now Paul talks about his situation and we do know that it.
Speaker:Did occur, but it's not anything that is, I, I guess, that big of
Speaker:a deal after you have that, after you have gone through that process.
Speaker:No one in acts gives a testimony that starts with a date.
Speaker:That meaning would've been foreign to Paul, foreign to Jesus, foreign
Speaker:to anyone in the room when these letters were first read aloud.
Speaker:This is kind of what they heard.
Speaker:The Greek word that comes up in the New Testament is soso.
Speaker:It means to rescue, to deliver, to pull from danger to preserve,
Speaker:and one of my favorite to make whole, it is the word you use.
Speaker:If someone pulled you out of a burning building.
Speaker:If a city was liberated from a siege, if a patient recovered from a fatal
Speaker:illness, the Old Testament in Greek, the Sept, which is the Bible, Paul's audience
Speaker:actually knew, uses soso constantly, almost never for an afterlife destiny.
Speaker:It's really used for some things such as.
Speaker:Israel being delivered from Egypt.
Speaker:Judges rescuing Israel from foreign oppressors.
Speaker:The remnant being preserved through exile, and when a first century Jewish believer
Speaker:heard, saved, the reflex was not really heaven when I die or where I'm going.
Speaker:It was God rescuing his people from danger.
Speaker:And then I think we also need to look at the, the political aspect about it.
Speaker:And I, I really, because I study history and I'm also studying
Speaker:scripture at the same time, I haven't seen many people discuss this.
Speaker:Angle to, this word, that we're talking about, kind of the, the
Speaker:savior type complex and someone saving one from something.
Speaker:But in the Roman Imperial.
Speaker:Cult, which Roman emperors were considered deities.
Speaker:The emperors were deified.
Speaker:the word soir is savior, and Augustus was hailed as the savior
Speaker:who brought peace to the world.
Speaker:Oddly enough, Augustus was the one that was in power.
Speaker:When Jesus Christ came into the world, he is the one that
Speaker:decreed that there be a census.
Speaker:That forced Joseph and Mary to go back to Bethlehem.
Speaker:It's interesting how these come kind of come together in history, that imperial
Speaker:cult language was still in the air years later when Paul wrote Romans under Nero.
Speaker:Now, during that time, Nero wasn't the.
Speaker:Beast that he became later in the sixties.
Speaker:But he would still be considered a savior because he was the emperor.
Speaker:The imperial propaganda said Rome saves Caesar.
Speaker:The Caesar delivers the empire.
Speaker:Is your savior or your rescue.
Speaker:Paul takes that word and hands it to Jesus.
Speaker:Every time he writes, saved in a letter addressed to Rome, there is
Speaker:a subversive political edge to it.
Speaker:He is not just making a theological point, he is making a loyalty.
Speaker:Claim your savior is not on the throne in Rome.
Speaker:Your savior is on the throne seated next to his father.
Speaker:In the heavenly realm, when Paul says, I might get this wrong, Rios
Speaker:lass, Jesus is Lord, in a letter to the capital of the empire.
Speaker:That is not a worship song.
Speaker:This is a counter imperial declaration.
Speaker:It could get you killed, it could get you thrown in prison, which
Speaker:Paul does get thrown in prison some years after that for another
Speaker:reason, but then later in his life.
Speaker:He is thrown in prison in Rome today.
Speaker:Are you saved?
Speaker:Is sort of a safe question you ask at a church potluck or out in public or when
Speaker:you're around people, are you saved?
Speaker:When did you get saved?
Speaker:When was it?
Speaker:How was it?
Speaker:What was it all about?
Speaker:In 57 AD saying Jesus saves in a letter to Rome was putting a target on your back.
Speaker:The word carried.
Speaker:Risk.
Speaker:It carried political weight.
Speaker:It was a pledge of allegiance to a different king, and you did
Speaker:not do that during that time.
Speaker:You didn't do that and live.
Speaker:That was what was going on when you used the word and when Paul used it in Romans.
Speaker:Let's look at how Jesus used the word saved or soso that we brought up earlier.
Speaker:He used it often and he never once used it.
Speaker:The way we use it today, it was always in different context.
Speaker:That's why I'm reading in context really helps because it can kinda
Speaker:start opening up our minds to maybe this word means something
Speaker:different than we use it for today.
Speaker:He used healing as saving your faith.
Speaker:Has made you, well, that phrase in Greek is literally, your faith has saved you.
Speaker:and it, it, it really is the same word.
Speaker:I've got the Greek written right here.
Speaker:I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce it, but they are the same word.
Speaker:the woman with the bleeding issue marked 5 34.
Speaker:Saved not from hell.
Speaker:From 12 years of suffering and exclusion made whole might be a way of saying it.
Speaker:The leper who returned to give thanks In Luke 1719 saved, made
Speaker:whole restored to a community, able to reconnect with other people.
Speaker:Lepers were unable to connect with people.
Speaker:Blind Bartimaeus.
Speaker:I really hate it that we call him blind Bartimaeus all the time, but
Speaker:that's the way we refer to him from Mark 10 52 saved, given his sight
Speaker:and his place back in the world.
Speaker:Not any afterlife language, not transactional wholeness made.
Speaker:Whole.
Speaker:And then there is the lost that are now found and not sentenced to something.
Speaker:The lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son, all from Luke 15.
Speaker:The sheep was not in danger of hell.
Speaker:It was just separated, exposed, vulnerable.
Speaker:Being saved, meant being found restored, brought back into the fold.
Speaker:Luke 1910, the son of man came to seek and save the lost that was said to Zacchaeus.
Speaker:I love.
Speaker:That story.
Speaker:It was a man who was alive.
Speaker:He was standing in his own house.
Speaker:He was already responding, and I think Jesus even said, salvation has
Speaker:been brought to this house today.
Speaker:It looked like restoration to community and Right.
Speaker:Living that day.
Speaker:Then in that house at that.
Speaker:Time.
Speaker:That was pretty cool.
Speaker:It, there wasn't really a prayer or a process attached to it that
Speaker:we see in the New Testament.
Speaker:I mean, maybe there was something that wasn't documented that's
Speaker:possible, but there was no real documentation of this altar call
Speaker:prayer process in Luke's seven 50.
Speaker:Your faith has saved you.
Speaker:He just said that to a woman.
Speaker:Didn't.
Speaker:She didn't pray a prayer or anything.
Speaker:Luke 2343.
Speaker:Today you will be with me in paradise.
Speaker:Stating that to the thief on the cross.
Speaker:No checklist.
Speaker:No nothing that he said or did or anything like that.
Speaker:I mean, they were about to die.
Speaker:And obviously Jesus references Paradise.
Speaker:Acts 10.
Speaker:Cornelius received the spirit before Peter even finished talking to him.
Speaker:And then even Paul, you know, I guess if there was a salvation moment, Paul might.
Speaker:Have one that we would describe, but even when he describes his Damascus
Speaker:road experience, he never really frames it as the moment I got saved.
Speaker:He sort of frames it as more of a calling and a repentance or a time
Speaker:that he turned and went the other way.
Speaker:And I think that's fascinating.
Speaker:I guess, Paul, that might be the closest we can see in the New
Speaker:Testament to what we would call a modern day salvation experience.
Speaker:Jesus never taught.
Speaker:Getting saved as a one-time prayer that secures an afterlife destination.
Speaker:He used soso for healing, rescue restoration, and deliverance from
Speaker:real life-threatening or real.
Speaker:Danger.
Speaker:Jesus used the word saved for a woman who stopped bleeding for a blind man who could
Speaker:see for a tax collector who opened his door for a thief who said, remember me.
Speaker:Not once did he use it the way we do as a transaction.
Speaker:That punches your ticket to heaven.
Speaker:So let's go back.
Speaker:I, you know, I brought up Romans earlier.
Speaker:Let's go back and let's think a little bit about what Paul was
Speaker:writing into during that time.
Speaker:And let's look at it.
Speaker:This, this is what I did a good bit when I was recording episodes for.
Speaker:the reading, the New Testament, NT 90, reading it in context, I attempted
Speaker:to set the stage and put us into that time during the first century when this
Speaker:letter would've been read or seen, or.
Speaker:Or, um, read out loud for the first time.
Speaker:And so I wanna talk a little bit about that here so that we can understand
Speaker:what was going on when Paul was writing Romans in roughly AD 57, the
Speaker:old Covenant Age is still ending.
Speaker:We're probably only about.
Speaker:27 years away from the cross, about 13 years or so to the
Speaker:destruction of the temple.
Speaker:It still stands today when Paul is writing this.
Speaker:The early church believes though that the destruction is near because Jesus
Speaker:said it would be within that generation.
Speaker:He said, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
Speaker:That was in Matthew 24 34.
Speaker:Nero is on the throne.
Speaker:Rome is somewhat hostile.
Speaker:There's a little bit of peace.
Speaker:They had banned, Christians and Jews from Rome back in the forties.
Speaker:Claudius did that.
Speaker:But then when Nero came on the throne, I believe it was in 54 ad that ban lapsed.
Speaker:It's not as if Nero said All Christians and Jews are welcome now.
Speaker:It just lapsed with Claudius leaving the throne.
Speaker:And so, Paul and other.
Speaker:Others sent Christians and leaders into Rome to reestablish themself.
Speaker:So, so that was what was going on.
Speaker:But there was still considered some hostility.
Speaker:There was pressure on Jewish believers to abandon Jesus and return to the synagogue.
Speaker:That was massive pressure.
Speaker:Their families were still ostracizing, some of them had written them off as dead.
Speaker:Gone through the death ceremony.
Speaker:This was real.
Speaker:Physical, political, covenantal danger bearing down on this community.
Speaker:Paul uses the word soso six times in Romans nine through 12 alone.
Speaker:He is hammering this word saved.
Speaker:Romans 9 27, only a remnant will be saved.
Speaker:He's quoting Isaiah about the Assyrian invasion, only a remnant.
Speaker:Of Israel survived the national catastrophe.
Speaker:Paul applies it to his own moment, Romans 10, nine.
Speaker:You will be saved, you will be delivered, rescued, pulled through the coming
Speaker:upheaval, the coming judgment that will be coming within this generation.
Speaker:He says it again in 10 13 and 1126 over and over.
Speaker:Saved.
Speaker:Delivered, rescued, saved from what?
Speaker:From God's Coming Judgment on the temple system and on those who denied Christ
Speaker:by holding on to the old covenant.
Speaker:This was not random destruction, it was targeted.
Speaker:It was covenant judgment.
Speaker:The same pattern the prophets warned about for centuries when
Speaker:Israel clung to the system instead of the God behind the system.
Speaker:Judgment.
Speaker:Came and it was gonna be coming in just a few years.
Speaker:Revelation uses the image of a Harlett, an unfaithful bride to
Speaker:describe the old covenant system that rejected its own Messiah.
Speaker:That is what the first believers were being saved from that judgment.
Speaker:That was coming in just a few years.
Speaker:Not an abstract hell, a real identifiable historical judgment that arrived in 70 AD.
Speaker:Now, this is important for us.
Speaker:Saved into what?
Speaker:So you're saved from something, but saved into what?
Speaker:A new people.
Speaker:A Kingdom Jew and Gentile grafted into the same olive tree saved.
Speaker:Means belonging.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:When Paul wrote, you'll be Saved, his audience did not
Speaker:hear a nice theological idea.
Speaker:They were facing an emperor who killed Christians for sport.
Speaker:He did that later, not.
Speaker:During the time Romans, but within a few years, seven years, he was doing that.
Speaker:Nero was killing Christians for sport.
Speaker:They were being pressured to abandon Jesus and go back to the synagogue.
Speaker:That definitely was going on.
Speaker:When he wrote this, they could feel the old system cracking and
Speaker:into that Christ followers heard.
Speaker:You will make it through what is coming.
Speaker:God will deliver you.
Speaker:That word was not solved.
Speaker:It was the strongest thing they had You.
Speaker:Will be saved.
Speaker:And that was powerful for them.
Speaker:Now the thing we need to look at here is how did this change, this word
Speaker:change over the last few thousand years?
Speaker:Something had to have happened.
Speaker:It just sort of started to gradually take on something different
Speaker:because now 2000 years we look at this word much, much differently.
Speaker:And, so let's kind of, let's try to cover this fairly quickly.
Speaker:This is kind of the thing that I noticed that it just seemed that
Speaker:some of the words that we've talked about in this episode, the last two
Speaker:saved, also happened to sin and death.
Speaker:All three words went through the same drift or transformation or whatever,
Speaker:and it was sort of for the same reason.
Speaker:As the organized church moved further and further away from the actual
Speaker:events and dangers of that first generation, that first century, the
Speaker:original meaning started to change.
Speaker:Sin went from missing the mark to a crime or in action, or a behavior.
Speaker:Death went from separation from God to your heartbeat.
Speaker:Stopping actual physical death saved went from rescue and deliverance.
Speaker:To a prayer that helps us avoid hell, three words, same pattern, same cause
Speaker:distance from the original context.
Speaker:So let's kind of go through this real quickly to kinda see how
Speaker:that distance occurred in 70 ad.
Speaker:Shortly after these words were written, the temple fell, the
Speaker:original context died and saved.
Speaker:Sort of lost its anchor.
Speaker:That's what most people were saved from that judgment event that occurred
Speaker:in the second and third centuries.
Speaker:Greek philosophy kicked back in.
Speaker:It took the wheel.
Speaker:Plato's body, bad soul, good framework replaced Jewish thought.
Speaker:Salvation became the soul.
Speaker:Escaping to heaven in AD three 13.
Speaker:Constantine legalized the faith.
Speaker:So it wasn't like a, a mighty band of misfits.
Speaker:Now that were outside the system, they became official.
Speaker:And so becoming official means Jesus' Lord stopped being dangerous to say.
Speaker:And it drifted safely into being more about the afterlife than being saved from
Speaker:worldly type things that were going on.
Speaker:Yes, there were things that were involved with the afterlife, but.
Speaker:That saved, really changed when all of a sudden Christianity
Speaker:is legal, it's all good.
Speaker:Fifth century Augustine formalized original sin, hell became infinite.
Speaker:The question shifted from what is God doing to how do I avoid
Speaker:burning and going to hell forever?
Speaker:And then in the modern era, the last few hundred years.
Speaker:Finney invented the altar call.
Speaker:Billy Graham scaled it, getting saved, became a prayer, a walk
Speaker:down the aisle, a checkbox.
Speaker:I'm not saying all these things are necessarily bad, I'm just pointing out how
Speaker:they changed from the original text and.
Speaker:Meaning, and it's just caused us to maybe drift away from understanding
Speaker:what the original was all about.
Speaker:Layers of well-meaning people inheriting a word and gradually shrinking it.
Speaker:What Paul meant by save was enormous historical rescue, kingdom participation,
Speaker:covenant fulfillment, political allegiance, and the restoration of.
Speaker:All things.
Speaker:What modern Christianity often means by saved is pray a prayer so you don't
Speaker:go to hell or so you get to go to heaven, which is the opposite of hell.
Speaker:That's a long way from what the word meant in the New Testament when these
Speaker:scriptures were originally written.
Speaker:So let's look at what's kind of gotten added along the way.
Speaker:And this is not meant to be an attack.
Speaker:This is just observing what we've seen.
Speaker:Somewhere along the way, getting saved, picked up a checklist.
Speaker:Say the sinner's prayer, maybe go down front, doing it in an altar.
Speaker:Accept Jesus into your heart.
Speaker:Walk the aisle, go to church on Sunday, tithe 10%.
Speaker:None of those phrases are in the New Testament, not one.
Speaker:That does not mean the experiences behind them are necessarily bad or meaningless.
Speaker:I'm not saying that, but it means the framework came from somewhere.
Speaker:Other than the biblical text, Jesus never handed anyone a checklist.
Speaker:He healed people, he restored people.
Speaker:He invited people into a kingdom.
Speaker:So let's start wrapping this up and let's look at what.
Speaker:The scripture says, saved actually means you're probably getting some clues.
Speaker:If you're listening along here, here's the full picture.
Speaker:Strip away the layers.
Speaker:Return the word to what it actually means here.
Speaker:It's participation and a patient and allegiance.
Speaker:You are brought into the life of God's.
Speaker:Kingdom not waiting for it, living in it.
Speaker:The new age Paul said was dawning has dawned, and he spoke in present tense
Speaker:even before the destruction of the temple.
Speaker:Salvation is not an escape plan.
Speaker:It is an invitation into a reality that is already here.
Speaker:And if the, the Greek words Rios.
Speaker:I probably did not say that correctly, was a loyalty claim in the first century.
Speaker:It still is to be saved, is to live under the authority of Jesus rather than
Speaker:the competing authorities of the age.
Speaker:And we still have them here.
Speaker:They aren't quite what they were in the first century, but empire ideology,
Speaker:nationalism, consumerism, self.
Speaker:It's a way of life.
Speaker:It's not a moment in time.
Speaker:This next one, this is the word that I really like when we talk about
Speaker:soso or being saved, it's wholeness.
Speaker:Soso also means to heal, to make whole.
Speaker:Jesus used it that way repeatedly.
Speaker:It's the mending of everything that was broken.
Speaker:The stories of that in scripture are absolutely.
Speaker:Beautiful.
Speaker:It's also about community.
Speaker:Paul never describes salvation as a soul endeavor.
Speaker:We do that.
Speaker:It's like an individual thing.
Speaker:Paul describes it as a body, as a family, as a people.
Speaker:Almost every you.
Speaker:In Romans is plural.
Speaker:And it's fascinating to me that a lot of times Jesus even
Speaker:said, your household is saved.
Speaker:He said that to Zacchaeus and I believe Cornelius, his household was saved.
Speaker:And so I I, I find that fascinating.
Speaker:It's not.
Speaker:As individual, and it is as it is sort of a group thing, a community thing.
Speaker:The audience was a room full of people, not one person sitting
Speaker:alone with the Bible necessarily.
Speaker:I'm not saying that that doesn't happen and that's not powerful.
Speaker:I'm just saying we don't really see a lot of those examples and
Speaker:then there's this eternal life.
Speaker:Let me try to see if I can get this Greek Zoe.
Speaker:Ion does not have to mean living forever in heaven.
Speaker:The Greek can mean life of the age, the age to come.
Speaker:Jesus defined it himself.
Speaker:John 17 three.
Speaker:This is eternal life.
Speaker:That they know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Speaker:That is not a duration.
Speaker:It is a quality, a relationship.
Speaker:Something that you have now saved is not smaller than what you were told.
Speaker:It's bigger.
Speaker:It's, walking an aisle and confessing Jesus' Lord is not
Speaker:less than what you thought it was.
Speaker:It's so much more.
Speaker:It's a pledge of allegiance to a different king, a different kingdom.
Speaker:It's a change of citizenship.
Speaker:You're entering and becoming a part of a kingdom, not just checking a box
Speaker:and updating your afterlife status.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Let's try to tie all this together.
Speaker:The last three episodes were big words that just kept rolling around.
Speaker:As I read through the New Testament in context, and you could probably
Speaker:tell the thing that was bothering me was that I realized that I thought
Speaker:those words meant something, but in reading them in the New Testament, I
Speaker:found that they meant something else.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:What we've seen,
Speaker:Three words, three episodes, same pattern each time what we thought the
Speaker:word meant, what the New Testament.
Speaker:Actually says, and then what changes When we understand the real meaning, it
Speaker:really does spill over into so many things and so many understandings that we had.
Speaker:We talked about sin, we thought it meant crime or just something
Speaker:bad, or people doing bad things.
Speaker:The New Testament says it means missing.
Speaker:The mark, a trust problem, an orientation problem, death.
Speaker:We thought it meant just your body stopping your heart.
Speaker:Stopping beating.
Speaker:The New Testament says it means separation from God, covenant death,
Speaker:and that separation is now over.
Speaker:That's been resolved and then saved.
Speaker:Soso.
Speaker:We thought it meant praying a prayer to avoid hell or trying to get to heaven.
Speaker:The New Testament says it means rescued, delivered, made
Speaker:whole, brought into a kingdom.
Speaker:Not a moment.
Speaker:It's a way of life.
Speaker:All of those come together three words.
Speaker:They sound familiar, but when you read them in context, in the original language,
Speaker:they are bigger than what we were taught, or at least what I was taught.
Speaker:And when you give them back their real meaning.
Speaker:You stop managing fear and start living in what has already been done, done for us.
Speaker:That is what these three episodes have been about, but.
Speaker:I'm not quite done because of the list of things that I thought were in the
Speaker:Bible that turned out not to be there.
Speaker:It's much longer than I originally thought.
Speaker:In fact, it's pretty massive.
Speaker:I've got this page that I've been piling them in.
Speaker:And we're going to continue kind of doing that.
Speaker:I don't know if there'll be an episode that's just a bunch of them where
Speaker:I say these are not in the Bible.
Speaker:I'm not saying they're good or bad.
Speaker:I'm not passing judgment on 'em.
Speaker:I'm just saying they're not in the Bible.
Speaker:that is what we're gonna be addressing in future episodes and probably
Speaker:that'll be our episode next on Seek.
Speaker:Go.
Speaker:Create.
Speaker:So here, here's what I wanna leave with you.
Speaker:I've been saying this every time.
Speaker:I'm gonna keep repeating it.
Speaker:Don't take my word for it.
Speaker:Please, please try to, try not to put me up on a pedestal and say, Tim knows this.
Speaker:We need to follow Tim.
Speaker:No, that's not what I'm trying to do here.
Speaker:Read it.
Speaker:For yourself, the actual text in the order it was written.
Speaker:When you do that, this New Testament reads like one story told by one
Speaker:generation, and it will change you.
Speaker:It'll have huge impact.
Speaker:As I said earlier, if you haven't done it yet, get the reading
Speaker:plan and read it yourself.
Speaker:I'm challenging you to do that at Go to K two m.foundation/nt 90 and get the plan.
Speaker:Check out some of the background info.
Speaker:You'll get all the details.
Speaker:I believe it will have a huge impact on who you are and how you
Speaker:understand what Jesus Christ did and the kingdom that he set up.
Speaker:That is what that New Testament message is all about.
Speaker:I am Tim Winders.
Speaker:Keep reading, keep studying.
Speaker:See you next time.
