SAVED FROM

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 1:21 (NASB77) ²¹  “And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for it is He who will save His people from their sins.”

Many unbelievers wonder what you are saved from when one is born again. I considered I was already in hell so dying and going to hell couldn’t be any worse so I didn’t care. I had the Roman Catholic mentality that if I do more good than bad I will be ok. Well Jesus knew the truth and I praise Him to this day He saved me.

The question still remains, “What are we saved from?”

We are saved from the guilt of sin When you repent and leave that sin at the foot of the cross the guilt will evaporate because that sin against God doesn’t exist anymore. God will never see it!

Weare saved from the power of sin. The Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will want the Lord’s blessing more than you want the sin. When that happens, Satan’s temptations have no effect on you.

We are saved from the presence of sin. We don’t enjoy being with sinners or being in a potentially sinful situation also, those who live in the darkness ae repelled by our light.

We are saved from the consequence of sin. This not only means the flames of hell will never touch us but that our quality of life will get better and better as we resume more proficient at avoiding sin.

We are saved from the love of sin. The sin you have is the sin you love more than Jesus because if you didn’t want the sin than you do want the sin, you wouldn’t have it. It really is that simple. The more you get to learn of and receive the love of Jesus the more you will fear offending Him.

Lastly, we are saved from the practice of sin. Sinners naturally sin. Believes supernaturally don’t sin. Could Jesus sin? Yes He could in the flesh sin because He was a man just like we are. But with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, He was “able not to sin.”

The same thing happens to us. We’re saved are saved from Satan’s grasp when the Holy Spirit claims us as His own. We are then able not to sin. The process of sanctification has begun because we ae in the pursuit of holiness.