Who hath saved us......

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling.

2 Timothy 1:9

 

"THE apostle uses the perfect tense and says, "Who hath saved us."

 Salvation is not a blessing to be enjoyed upon the dying bed,
and to be sung of in a future state above,
but a matter to be

obtained,

received,

promised, and

enjoyed now.

The Christian is saved also as to the price which has been paid for him: 
 Those whom the Savior saved upon the cross are in due time effectually called by the power of God the Holy Spirit unto holiness:
they leave their sins;
they endeavor to be like Christ;
they choose holiness,
not out of any compulsion, but from the stress of a new nature, which leads them to rejoice in holiness just as naturally as aforetime they delighted in sin.
Such is the believer's privilege—a present salvation; such is the evidence that he is called to it—a holy life."
Charles Spurgeon