For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved

 

For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved

 

Acts 2:21 "For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

The name of the Lord (κυρίου) comes from the Hebrew word Adonai, which is Yahweh (Jehovah). When the translator translated the English Bible (niv), he translated it as the LORD, and it means one who calls on the name of Yahweh. The name of Yahweh is Hayah in Hebrew, which is called Yehye, and in Greek it is Jesus. Therefore, it means that whoever calls on Jesus will be saved.

Epikalesetai (ἐπικαλέσηται) means to appeal, to call a name. Epikalesetai is a compound word of epi (ἐπι) and kalesetai (basic form: kaleo). Epi means above, beside, and kaleo is derived from kaleuo, which means to shout, and means to shout loudly. It means to shout loudly to Jesus. There is a reason why people shout loudly to Jesus.

The one who cries out is asking for salvation. Salvation is an expression of an appeal to be saved from a situation of suffering. The one who finds living in the world as a physical human being painful is in that situation. It is not just a person who cries out for difficulties due to economic or physical shortcomings, but a person who realizes that he is spiritually trapped.

A person is a spirit imprisoned in the body. That is why they do not know about God and say that their spirit is dead. Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected three days later. In 1 Peter 3:18, it says, "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the Spirit." The flesh died on the cross, but the spirit was made alive. This is the resurrection. The spirit that was imprisoned in the body came out alive. The spirit originally exists in the kingdom of God.

In the kingdom of God, the angel who committed a crime could not keep his position, so God put his spirit into a body and made him a human being. Therefore, the human body is like a prison for the spirit. Those who realize this cry out to God. The reason they cry out to Jesus is because they realize that He is their savior.

Romans 6:4-5, "Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be in a resurrection like his."

Salvation is that the flesh must die with Jesus, and the spirit must be saved by being resurrected with the resurrected Jesus. If one does not receive the life of resurrection, there is no salvation. Ephesians 2:5-6 speaks of salvation: “Even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Salvation is making the spirit, which was dead in trespasses, sit in heaven in Jesus.

Ephesians 2:1-2 And you he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. The prince of the power of the air refers to Satan. Satan works as a spirit. He plays the role of capturing and imprisoning the spirits of sinners. The sons of disobedience refer to the fallen angels. Satan strips the fallen angels of their clothes, imprisons their spirits in the flesh of the world, and becomes the one who rules and accuses sin.

Ephesians 2:3 "Among them we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest." The word "we" refers to us, sinners, before Jesus saved believers who were dead in trespasses and sins. Fleshly lust refers to the idol of greed in the flesh, and the root of that greed is the greed to become like God. This is the greed of Eve in Genesis 3, when she ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because she wanted to become like God. Genesis 3:6 "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat."

A sinner is someone who wants to be like God. This is sin. Fault refers to the sin of the world that is manifested through greed and actions. In this way, the spirit was dead due to sin and fault, but Jesus saves those who are united with Him through His death of atonement.

Salvation begins with calling on Jesus. It is believing that we died with Jesus and that our spirits are resurrected with Jesus. This is calling out to Jesus. It is not believing in the name of Jesus, but uniting with Jesus. Calling out to Jesus is uniting with Jesus, obtaining the life of resurrection, and entering the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of God in our souls. There is a temple in our souls, and this temple was built when man was born, but it was ruined by sin and iniquity. However, for those who obtain the life of resurrection, the old temple is destroyed, and a new temple is built in heaven. Jesus comes again and enters this new temple, and we become one with Jesus.

When the saints become one with Jesus, they become one with God. The Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and the saints become one in the Holy Spirit. John 17:11 "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep in your name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, just as we are one."

Salvation is becoming one. Believers do not understand the meaning of becoming one with God. In order for believers to become one with God, they must enter into Christ, and in order to do so, they must die with Jesus and be resurrected with the resurrected Jesus. Those who believe in the present resurrection become one.

John 17:21-22 “That they may all be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. And the glory that you gave me I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one.”