Today is the Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 6

​God longs to have a closer fellowship with us, but He will not share the yoke with the world.
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“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:14–18 (ESV)

Believers in the church were compartmentalizing their lives and compromising with the world much like today. They were not walking a separated pay from the world and Jesus was just a small part of their everyday or every week life.

Believers were not abiding by the Word of God that says, “come out from among them and be separate”— different, Godly, holy, and abiding in His truth and His ways.

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;” Psalm 1:1

Too often there are those who cause issues in and for the church are people who have never truly been born again— people who have never repented from their sin and surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. They may think they are saved because they walked an aisle or chose to be baptized, but they are not— and one knows not based on the fruit they exhibit and the fruit that they fail to bear.

“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.” Galatians 5:16–26 (ESV)

Paul proclaims the words that “today is the day of salvation.” Now is the time to accept God’s love, grace, mercy, salvation, and gift of eternal life. Tomorrow may be too late, as no one is promises tomorrow.

Throughout 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Paul made it very clear that the Judaizers were motivated by pride and unwillingness to suffer for Christ. He did, however, continue to proclaim the Gospel that brought Jews and Gentiles together as “new and different people,” no matter how he might have had to suffer because of his often unpopular messages that boldly called out the callous sin and compromise.

Paul ended his letter as he had begun it, proclaiming the genuineness of his apostleship, acceptance, appreciation, and agreement.

“Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:1–2 (ESV)
Have you accepted Jesus’ gift of salvation for which He shed His blood freely on the Cross of Calvary? Do you believe you are a sinner in need of forgiveness? Have you trusted Jesus to be the sacrificial Lamb that paid for your sin and salvation on that old tree? Will you wholeheartedly surrender your life for the life Jesus has prepared for you?

As a believer, will you walk away from the sinful patterns in your present journey by seeking His Holiness and His Will and way for your life? Will you embrace Jesus and the life He has designed and is calling you to?

Today, choose to follow and live for Jesus at all cost and turn your back on sin and all that separates you from Him.

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