SOTERIA

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Soteria is an ancient greek word which may refer to safety and salvation, deliverance, and preservation from harm.
Salvation is the endpoint of redemption, there's no salvation, no deliverance outside Christ. It is the knowledge of salvation that gives you rest and makes you wise.

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1Timothy 2:1-4
1FIRST OF all, then, I admonish and urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men,
2For kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that [outwardly] we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life [and inwardly] a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way.
3For such [praying] is good and right, and [it is] pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior,
4Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth.

All men needs to be prayed for, no one is excluded, we pray that they all be saved because when they are saved they begin to walk in the ways and ordinances of the Lord. The gospel is for the high and the low people.

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The gospel makes room for equality, God's love is unbiased, anybody can be saved because grace is available to everyone, it is now left for you to accept.
Whether educated or not educated, whether rich or poor the grace of the Lord is meant for all. The message of fear , the message of tribulation, temptation, judgement and threat does not save you.

Romans 10:17
17So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).

It is the word of faith that gives salvation. Salvation is not the feeling, you just know it, believe it and then receive it. When you believe you are empowers to be the child of God, for a man to be born again he must hear and believe the message which bears incorruptible seeds.

God will not manipulate you for you to get the Gospel, He can send anyone and use anyone of any status, He gave us all easy access to the message , God uses man to reach man, man lost it but God helped man recover it. Our future is secured because we are in Christ.

Ezekiel 33:11
11Say to them, As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, people do not know the consequence of them dying in sin but God knows and this is why He implores everyone to turn from their evil ways.

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God is patient to everybody so that all men can be saved, He wants all men saved. No one is too bad that God cannot save. His grace is the same towards all men.

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