What We Are Saved From

-April 26, 2022-

Good morning, happy Tuesday,

“Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.”

(Romans 5:9).

Today’s topic is the first of two parts: today is: “What We Are Saved From,” and tomorrow’s is: “What We Are Saved To.” Both are so encouraging for every believer in Christ, like a two-sided coin. Either way you flip it, brings a good result. When one recognizes where he is was in the past, he can truly appreciate what he has now in the present and future in Christ.

We are saved from the wrath of God. God must punish sin, and He laid our sins on His Beloved Son, who bore them, and He experienced the wrath of God on the cross. He suffered the death we deserved and died in our place. The Bible teaches us that we were born in sin and conceived in iniquity; we were separated from God and without God and without hope in this world; and we had no part in the covenants of promise in Israel. We were outcasts, strangers, and aliens.

Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:1-4, “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 who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.” Our past was downright ugly, before the Lord saved us. Our before picture certainly serves to help us appreciate what we now have now in Christ.

What we are saved from is further shown in the NT: we are saved from our sins, from the power of darkness, from spiritual death, from condemnation and judgment, from the control of the evil one, and from the wrath of God. None of us would ever want to go back to the old life. Just to be spared from all these things would we seem enough for us, but God gave us so many things over and above that He has saved us to. We were rescued, ransomed, redeemed, and reconciled.

Mercy does not give us what we deserve, and grace gives us what we do not deserve. Psalm 103:10 says, “He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities.” We broke God’s laws and deserved His judgment and wrath. Our past is now under the precious blood of Jesus. We are now just as if we had never sinned.

We went from being children of wrath to being children of God, from sinners to saints. We will forever be known as sinners saved by grace. It makes us so happy and thankful. Tomorrow we will look at what we are saved to. I can’t wait! The hymn writer John Newton said it well, “Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.”

Have a blessed day thanking God for taking away all our vileness and sins. Stay safe and healthy.

In eternal gratitude,

Dean