Staying Salty: At The Moment of Salvation #12 #13 (A Weekly Series)

...that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; or with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:9-10

At the moment of salvation, every believer in Jesus Christ receives 40 things from God. Of the 40 things, 39 of them are permanent and can never be removed from the believer - even by God himself! The only temporary thing is the Filling of the Holy Spirit which we lose due to our own free will to act against God. We can repeatedly gain the Filling of the Spirit following confession of our known sins to the Father.

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12. Removal of Domination of the Old Sin Nature

At the moment of salvation, we are "dead" to the domination of the Old Sin Nature. The Old Sin Nature should be a "toothless tiger" in the life of the Christian. It has only the power we allow it to have. At salvation, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit becomes the new "ruler" of the body where He creates a temple for the indwelling of our Lord Jesus Christ as the "Shekinah Glory." This is the guarantee that we can be under divine blessing as we advance in the spiritual life.
This is also known as PAST Positional Truth, where we are identified with Christ on the cross. We are identified with His spiritual death, physical death, and burial. This is accomplished by the Baptism (identification) of the Holy Spirit.
The application of this PAST Positional Truth is the Christian in fellowship with God, possessing a continual attitude of rejecting, separating from, and being dead to personal sin and the production of human good and evil! Romans 6:6-12
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. (Romans 6:6-12)
13. Removal of Satan’s Power
At salvation, we have freedom from Satan’s kingdom of evil. Satan has sovereignty over the unsaved and authority over all those who choose to live their lives in his cosmic (worldly) system of sin and evil. Satan’s influence of mankind is through man’s Old Sin Nature. However, Satan’s influence is "held in check" by God’s grace manifested in His laws of Divine Establishment. Colossians 1:12-13; 1 John 5:19; Ephesians 6:11-12; Ephesians 2:1-2; Galatians 5:1
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, (Colossians 1:12-13)
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. (1 John 5:19)
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:11-12)
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. (Ephesians 2:1-2)
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1)