{"id":9876,"date":"2017-10-03T00:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T00:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=9876"},"modified":"2017-10-03T00:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T00:39:45","slug":"conversion-and-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/9876\/conversion-and-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion and Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I Would like to understand the difference between salvation and conversion. Will you please help?<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Shirley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi, Shirley.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>There is a great difference between &#8220;conversion&#8221; and &#8220;salvation&#8221;.\u00a0 Conversion is\u00a0experienced in this life.\u00a0 It is to be &#8220;born again&#8221;.\u00a0 Conversion\u00a0happens when our sins are washed away, which takes place when we are baptized with the\u00a0Spirit of God.\u00a0 The disciples were converted and had their sins washed away on the day of Pentecost\u00a0(see Acts 2:1-4).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Salvation, on the other hand, is God&#8217;s reward for the faithful.\u00a0 Jesus will bring that reward with him when he returns to catch away his faithful saints.\u00a0 As for any unfaithful\u00a0believer, though converted, he will not receive salvation but God &#8220;will cut him off and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites.\u00a0 In that place, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth!&#8221; (Mt. 24:51).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>No believer who is still living on earth has received his salvation yet because\u00a0Jesus has not yet comes.\u00a0 Paul said that &#8220;our salvation is nearer than when we believed&#8221; (Rom.\u00a013:11), and that is true.\u00a0 Every day, our salvation draws nearer because every day, the\u00a0coming of the Lord is\u00a0nearer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Do not follow those who teach that you receive salvation now, in this life.\u00a0 Jesus is the Judge, not them.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Would like to understand the difference between salvation and conversion. Will you please help?\u00a0 Shirley \u00a0========== Hi, Shirley. There is a great difference between &#8220;conversion&#8221; and &#8220;salvation&#8221;.\u00a0 Conversion is\u00a0experienced in this life.\u00a0 It is to be &#8220;born again&#8221;.\u00a0 Conversion\u00a0happens when our sins are washed away, which takes place when we are baptized with the\u00a0Spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}