Repentance and Salvation
by Pastor Ricky Kurth
“What do sorrow and repentance have to do with salvation, and why would anyone repent of being saved? (II Cor. 7:10).”“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of…” (II Cor. 7:10).
There
are different kinds of salvation in Scripture. Paul spoke about the
salvation of our souls (Eph. 2:8,9), but he also spoke about his physical salvation from prison
(Phil. 1:19 cf. Ex. 14:13). Additionally, he advised Timothy that if he
would continue in Pauline doctrine he would “save” himself from the
misery that always comes from not
continuing in Pauline doctrine! (I Tim. 4:16). There is also the
salvation from despair that the hope of the Rapture gives (Rom.
8:23,24), and the Rapture itself is called a salvation (Rom. 13:11).
The
salvation in our text is yet another kind. In the context, Paul says he
made the Corinthians sorry “with a letter” (II Cor. 7:8), i.e., his
first epistle to them, in which he rebuked them for not disciplining the
man living in fornication (I Cor. 5). They then “sorrowed to
repentance” about this (II Cor. 8:9). The word repentance
means to have a change of mind, and they changed their mind about
allowing the fornicator to continue in their midst. This “saved” them
from the dangerous leavening effect that his presence would otherwise
have among them, and so their godly sorrow worked repentance to
salvation, a salvation Paul assured them they would not regret or repent
of later.
It
also worked another kind of salvation among them, one similar to the
salvation Paul references in I Corinthians 5:5, where he speaks about
the fornicator and tells them,
“To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.”
In
context, we know that delivering the man to Satan meant putting him out
of the assembly (v. 2,13). Letting him wallow in sin might destroy his
flesh, but it would bring him back to the Lord, and “save” him from a loss of rewards
at the Judgment Seat (I Cor. 3:15). The Corinthians would likewise be
saved from such loss by their obedence to Paul’s instructions. Their
sorrow worked this kind of repentance to salvation as well, another
salvation they would not regret, of course, for no one at the Judgment
Seat will ever repent of having done the right thing
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