"Yielded"

 "But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:" (John 19:33 KJV)

  ""For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will take you back. In a burst of anger I turned my face away for a little while. But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you," says the LORD your Redeemer." (Isaiah 54:7-8 NLT)

 Now, about that baptism thing: If there is a way, I believe that we should all get baptized, as Jesus has told us to do. Although it does not save us, it does provide us with an opportunity to show our commitment to follow the Lord, as we demonstrate the work completed in our salvation: our born-again experience! 

 Other than that, if you accept Christ with your dying last breath, you will be saved! I really don't care what anyone might say against that statement, because the Bible is absolutely clear about that: "If you confess with your mouth, and believe in your heart, you will be saved!" Plain and simple! 

 As stated before, Jesus yielded up His spirit, which He had the power to do, because He had finished that which the Father asked Him to do! The curse had been broken, the veil was torn in two, and the separation between God and man had been bridged! Satan had his head stepped upon, and he has lost his bite! 

 By the way, though the devil has been defeated, we do not have the right to challenge him and try to take him on, as some think that is easy pickings. We are to resist the devil, standing firm in the faith, and ask the Lord to put him in his place. After all, he might be on a leash, but he still has a bite; so, if you see a Pitbull chained to a tree, you don't walk up and kick it, do you? 

 I will rebuke him, when I see that he has entered into my space; but I do so, in the name of Jesus! Not sure that makes perfect sense to anyone, but there is only so much that we have any control over; we should focus first on the Holy Spirit, making our lives a living sacrifice! 

 That, my friend is what we call being yielded! If you want to know what baptism represents, it is that we have died to ourselves, and have been risen up with Christ: we know longer live, but Christ Jesus lives in us...

"Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives." (Romans 6:1-4 NLT)