5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: What Is Salvation? | 5 Minutes with Jesus | February 17, 2026
- Salvation
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- Is a huge and comprehensive word.
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- It means freedom.
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- There are three tenses of salvation.
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- We have been set free from the penalty of sin.
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- We are being set free from the power of sin,
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- And we will be set free one day
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- From the presence of sin.
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- What does it mean to be saved?
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- Is it only that one moment
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- When you realize your need
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- For a savior and you give christ the reins of your life?
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- Or is it more?
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- Is it deeper?
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- Is it more present and powerful right now?
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- No matter what you are going through, you.
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- The gift of salvation is god's active,
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- Present gift to us no matter where we are.
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- I remember one of my darkest nights in a psychiatric hospital
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- When i felt so alone, so tormented.
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- But i did what i knew to be true from god's word.
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- In romans chapter ten, verse 13, we read this.
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- Everyone who calls on the name of the lord will be saved.
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- I called that verse out loud.
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- And i believed it.
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- I called on his name and believed him.
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- Now i have been saved from hell and into eternity ever
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- Since i was an 11 year old girl.
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- I accepted jesus as my savior.
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- But that night i needed saving in the present and i knew it.
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- It wasn't.
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- I needed to become a christian again.
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- Instead, i needed the power of the living word of god
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- To save me from the darkness that was closing in on me.
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- And that night, as i called on the name of the lord.
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- I found him pushing back the darkness.
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- I felt him saving me.
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- That was the night i truly grasped
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- The truth of ephesians 612.
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- My battle was not against flesh and blood,
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- But against the rulers, against the authorities,
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- Against the powers of this dark world,
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- And against the spiritual
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- Forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
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- And this battle was won for my life.
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- Same for you too, isn't it?
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- Even if you're not plagued by depression
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- Or thoughts of suicide, you have your own struggles.
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- Big and small.
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- Perhaps you're a single mom or dad.
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- Literally at the end of your rope.
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- You feel all alone, and at times you take your frustration
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- Out on the ones that honestly you love the most.
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- Maybe you just can't get your head
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- Above water financially,
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- And every day feels like a struggle to make ends meet.
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- Perhaps your own body has betrayed you.
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- Chronic sickness is debilitating
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- Not only to the body, but also to the soul.
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- Or perhaps you work with people who make life difficult.
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- No matter what you try to do, how you try to make things
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- Better, they seem committed to making your life hard.
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- Sometimes it's the great big darkness that swallows us whole.
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- But i think more often it's a small daily thing.
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- Somewhere is down the most.
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- How can we be saved from the very things
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- That are woven into the tapestry of our everyday lives?
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- Too often the meaning of salvation
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- Is reduced to a simplistic formula.
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- The very question are you saved?
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- Implies a once and for all action.
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- And in terms of receiving christ as savior.
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- Asking to be forgiven for our sins.
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- It is absolutely that.
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- And that would be all we'd need
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- If the presence of sin was gone.
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- The moment we became christians,
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- You could just tick that box and move on.
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- If all our brokenness was healed the moment we came to christ,
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- We'd have no need to constantly call on
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- His name over and over again.
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- But that's not my story,
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- And i suspect it's probably not yours either.
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- My friend nicky gumbel, who used to be the vicar of holy
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- Trinity church in brompton in london and wrote this.
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- Salvation is a huge and comprehensive word.
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- It means freedom.
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- There are three tenses of salvation.
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- We have been set free from the penalty of sin.
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- We are being set free from the power of sin,
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- And we will be set free one day
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- From the presence of sin.
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- So when you confess your sin to christ, your past is gone.
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- The penalty is paid in full.
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- And in this confession, we also know that christ secures
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- Our glorious, eternal future.
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- This eternal future is one free of sin, grief, and pain.
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- As john wrote in the revelation,
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- God himself will be with them and be their god.
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- He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
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- Death will be no longer.
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- Grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer
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- Because the previous things have passed away.
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- But that's not it.
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- There's more.
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- There is a present tense salvation.
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- One that's offered to you and me right now
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- In the middle of our mess.
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- Salvation is far greater and more present than we imagine.
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- The greek word for salvation is sozo.
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- It means to save, to deliver,
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- To heal, and to make whole.
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- And that delivering that healing is
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- A daily and ongoing process.
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- Whatever you might be facing right now,
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- You can call on the name of the lord and be saved.
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- We pray for you.
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- Lord jesus, i want to thank you that there is power
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- In your name.
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- And when we find ourselves in a situation, lord,
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- Where we feel as if we are sinking fast,
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- Perhaps
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- Someone reaching for a bottle
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- That they said they would never take from again.
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- Perhaps someone in a place
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- Where they said they'd never go again.
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- Whatever it is, lord, you have said
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- We can call on your name and we will be saved.
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- So, lord, we add that to our daily arsenal
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- Of the spiritual weaponry that we carry with us.
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- That there is power in the name of the lord.
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- Lord, we ask that by your grace you would help us
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- Even when we feel most shamed by where we find ourselves.
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- Help us in that moment, lord, to drop to our knees
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- At the cross and call on the name of the lord.
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- In jesus name i pray.
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- Amen.
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