Hebrews 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

The first of the five saves is the Holy Spirit as an external agent sears the conscience of your sins. Sin is no longer as satisfying. You have begun to loose your taste for it.

Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

The second save is the eternal life but do not think that it does not begin until death.

John 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Sin once held us captive but Christ has set us free, our third save.

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

The illusive fourth save is tied to the presence of sin in our lives. While we strive for perfection, we are not yet perfected and therefore need Christ continually.

1 John 1:8-9 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Which brings us to our final save, to be saved from the presence of sin.

Revelation21:1-4 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Isaiah 64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

Yesterday I said the first promised fulfilled was the gift of the Holy Spirit as Comforter, companion, instructor in righteousness, and the power of God unto salvation.

We need that as the first gift to enact the will of God towards us in His promises, His covenant with us. We need to be reminded of one immutable gift, that God does not change His mind about us, no matter what we do.

Here in Isaiah 64 the words “in his continuance” because we continue to sin and do not feel worthy of the salvation offered. We as humans have a tendency to change our minds about forgiveness when we see those who have offended us have not changed their behavior.

Not so with God. What we must understand in our ignorance of God’s unfailing love, is that God does not withhold His love ever. We as humans do, but we should never believe God acts like a human. He is after all God.

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

The Holy Spirit is with us to remind us of that as many times as needed when our thoughts and responses to sin do not match God’s way.

John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Might be saved refers to the unbeliever. Salvation is given to those that place their faith in Christ. Our confusion lies first in assuming salvation is a one and done phenomenon.

Salvation occurs in five stages.