A dear religious lady said, “Don’t use that word ‘saved,’ kids don’t dig it. It’s not cool!”

A dear religious lady said, “Don’t use that word ‘saved,’ kids don’t dig it. It’s not cool!”

A well known gospel preacher recounts , I preached one time and I was preaching to young people at a youth rally and I used the word “saved.” And I said, “You young people need to be saved.” And a dear religious lady came to me afterwards, and said, ‘You shouldn’t use that word. It’s not contemporary, kids can’t really dig on that word, it’s not cool. You’ve got to use a better word.’

You want to know something? I couldn’t think of a better word. That was God’s word. You know my first reaction was ‘Lady, that’s God’s word. I am not interested in what your word is. What does it mean to be SAVED?

It means to be delivered. From what? From sin, and Satan and judgement, and death, and hell, and only the saving gospel of Christ has the power to do that. Being saved includes:

Forgiveness

A transformed life

Escape from wrath

Life in the spirit

Resurrection

Eternal life with God.

Being saved,” is God’s effective power in the world to bring about deliverance for men, women, and young people from God’s wrath, from sin, and Satan, and judgement, and death, and hell.

The noun “salvation” is used 23 times by Paul, and the verb form ” saved” 29 times. It’s a key word. It means deliverance!

Have you been delivered, or are you just like that “sweet religious lady” who is skipping down the road to hell while telling us not to use the word “SAVED”?

Brian

Passionately telling the religious lost and pagan lost how to be saved, and reconciled to God.