Now I want you to understand, brothers and sisters, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain.
—1 Corinthians 15:1-2

Here, we have all three tenses of salvation. We receive a word in the past, it is saving us, and it will deliver us for our hope in the future. But it takes us standing in it.

For more on this theme, read: The Story of Repentance: Believing vs. Achieving.

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