Glorious Deliverance
by
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
In I Thes. 1:10, the Apostle Paul, by divine inspiration, assures
believers that the Lord Jesus Christ has “delivered us from the
wrath to come.” He refers, of course, to deliverance from the
penalty of sin. But in other passages he declares that we are also
delivered from the power of sin.
In Col. 1:12,13, for example, he gives thanks to God “Who hath
delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into
the kingdom of His dear Son.”
This deliverance, and the glory of our heavenly position and
blessings in Christ, we may enjoy experientially now, by grace. Rom.
6:14 says: “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are
not under the law but under grace.” This does not mean that it is
not possible for the believer to sin, but rather that it is possible,
in any situation, not to sin. Thus the same passage in Romans goes on
to say that we should not yield ourselves as servants to sin, but to
God, who, in grace has broken sin’s power over us.
Finally, the believer in Christ will one day be delivered even
from the presence of sin, for at our Lord’s coming for us “we
shall all be changed” (I Cor. 15:51). Believers should long for
Christ’s coming for them, not merely because these bodies of
humiliation will then be glorified, but because from that moment on
they shall never again be tempted or defiled by sin. What a change
that will be!
In II Cor. 1:10 the Apostle includes all three tenses of the
believer’s deliverance. Here he tells how God has “delivered us
from so great a death, and doth deliver, in whom we trust that He
will yet deliver us.” This is why he could write to the Philippians
about his confidence that “He who hath begun a good work in you
will perform [complete] it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil.
1:6).
Some may not feel the need of deliverance now, but we all need
deliverance from sin and its results. If you have not yet experienced
this deliverance, why not place your trust in Christ who died to
“deliver us from the wrath to come.”
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