Dear Skidd: Salvation is in three tenses, all flowing in the present progressive tense. It is NOT only being saved from sin, it is being made unto God.
Do you know the difference between us and them? He is the Mercy-Seat for us and them. We are propitiated, but not just us, but them, (the whole world). Most do not know it yet, they shall!
Your question for today=
What is scope of the predestined will of God & His good pleasure?
We have every Spiritual blessing and are without blame before Him according to the good pleasure of HIS WILL. This is ONLY IN CHRIST, not outside of Christ... including FORGIVENESS OF SINS!!
And the only way to be IN CHRIST is by faith through the gospel of our SALVATION! Again, salvation from what? Salvation from SIN!!!
Ephesians 1:3-14
Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us
in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons
by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted
in the Beloved.
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In Him we have
redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed
in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things
in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—
in Him. 11
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12
that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
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In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your SALVATION;
in whom also,
having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the
redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.