Salvation

What is Salvation?
-Salvation is being saved from the wrath to come.
John 3:1-6; 1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.” 3 In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” 4 “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born!” 5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to Spirit.
What did Jesus mean when He said you have to be born again to see the kingdom of God?
He meant you have to renew your spirit man by accepting Jesus and accepting that he was resurrected from the dead. By repentance-confessing, changing your way of life and your thinking= spiritual rebirth. When you were physically born you did not accept Jesus but now you know and can accept Jesus Christ.
What does the actual word "birth" or to be "born" mean?
-It means the emergence and separation of offspring from the body of the mother. So to be born again means this time to emerge and be separated from the “world.”
That is why the Jews (Nicodemus) could not understand how they could be born again. They thought they had to physically be born again. They did not realize that this time they had to be spiritually born, even though they had grown up in the church.
Ezekiel 11:19 I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Ezekiel 11:20 Then they follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God. Ruth 2:16 But ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!