Romans 6:3 English Standard Version (ESV) Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

I recently saw another way of looking at our Lords secondary salvation and please forgive my approach here. It is a visual example of what I believe occurs because of this opening verse.

If I have a personalized serving of food and I take a bite out of it, it is now mine. I can place the remainder in a container and put it away in the refrigerator with my personal seal, identifying it as mine. It is mine, my refrigerator, my house, my land and no thieves are allowed access.

Accepting Christ’s Lordship is being saved for later in the same way.

Ephesians 2:4-7 English Standard Version (ESV)

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ⁶ and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Spiritually we are seated with Christ in heaven. There we are being saved for later, sealed, secure and no one can steal us away. I understand that is a rather different approach about being saved from the power of sin but that image gives me comfort that my salvation is saved from contamination.

Meanwhile here on earth we sojourn where every speck of dust wants to cling to our sandals. Our Lord has an answer for that.

John 13:12-14 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹² When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? ¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴ If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.