- September 12, 2024
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Jesus has delivered us.
- From the penalty of sin
Romans 4:25 “Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification”
Many people will admit that they commit sin and are, therefore sinners. However, most sinners are not aware of the biblical penalty for sin in the sight of God.
The gospel proclaims that Jesus paid sin’s penalty thru His substitutionary death for sin. Jesus died, was buried, and rose again, proving that God accepted His payment for sin. Jesus was punished for our sins so that we could be forgiven and avoid sin’s punishment. This is the true concept of salvation.
“For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23).
“For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,(Romans 8:3).
2. Power of sin
Christ also has delivered us from the power of sin. Sin has no power over us as believers.
Romans 6:5 “if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin”
Romans 6: 12-14 “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace”
3. We will be delivered from the presence of sin
Romans 8: 18-29)
Thus far in the epistle, Paul has shown that believers on the Lord Jesus Christ have a past deliverance from the penalty of their sins and also a present deliverance from the power of sin. He now shows that the fullness of God’s salvation for the believer also includes a future deliverance from the very presence of sin in us. This has to do with the eradication of the sin-nature from the believer by being glorified like Christ. Paul has alluded to this in verse 17. This final aspect of deliverance, which will be ours at the coming of the Lord (the Rapture), is so immense that its effects will reach even to the creation itself—but this won’t happen until the Appearing of Christ, seven years after the Rapture. At that time, men, animals, and plant life will be delivered from “the bondage of corruption” (vs. 21).
