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Do You Know What You Have Been Saved From?

Writer's picture: Brian DoyleBrian Doyle

I hear many people say “Jesus is my Savior.” But they say it with such frivolity. Far too often, I treat my salvation with a frivolous attitude. We take this salvation that Jesus gives us and say “he saved me from my old life. Which is true. Or we say “He saved me from my sin,” which is also true. But the reality of what Jesus saved us from, or, rather, who is far more striking and frightening. The Bible says we should fear the Lord. Over the years, people have taken that to mean “just hold him in Awe and respect,” which is only a partial truth. No, we should seriously be afraid of the Father, for it is from His wrath that we have been rescued, if we have been rescued at all.

 

Have you ever wondered about the wrath of God? We think on the last days, the book of Revelation, and more, but consider the flood, which wiped out all the earth or the plagues of Egypt, the armies wiped out by the mere rumor of God, the sun stopping in the sky while boulders rained down on the enemies of Israel at Gibeon, how chariots of fire wiped out invading armies in Israel, or how 185,000 were wiped out in one night through Hezekiah’s prayer. Our God has split seas, and buried armies in them, He has rained fire and Sulphur from heaven, leveling whole regions which, even today are uninhabitable, and He makes Kingdoms rise and fall. And some day, in the final judgement, those who fall in to Judgement will bear that wrath for all eternity in the punishment reserved for Satan and His angels. It is His wrath, in this life and the next that we have been rescued from.

 

Why do we deserve God’s wrath? Because God is the ultimate good,  the author, designer, creator and definer of good, and we are creatures in rebellion. He has withheld His complete wrath from us. He has not wiped us out, though it is within His right. Instead, He has been patient toward us, and even satisfied His justice, not on us, but on His own Son, who is also God, and allowed His wrath to be executed through torture and pain, and being nailed on a tree. God’s wrath was satisfied in His own Son, who took what we deserved, and gives us Life in Himself. We are not merely saved by Christ, but we are indebted to Him. He bought us with His blood, and so when we say we are saved, we should understand that we are purchased, ransomed and redeemed. Jesus satisfied the wrath of God so that those who believe, who are conformed to His will, should never see the true wrath of God, in this life or the next.

 

Romans 5

 

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

 

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

 

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

 

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

 

Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.




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