| Not only has the true believer been saved from sin’s penalty, we are also being continually saved from sin’s power in our lives, “seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for” us. He “delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us.” “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life,” for “it is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Many times we must cry to Him for this present salvation from sin’s dominion, from pressure of trials, when we “are in heaviness through manifold temptations.” But we never cry in vain. “I am Thine, save me; for I have sought Thy precepts” ought to be our constant prayer. And whenever we cry or whatever circumstances we are under, His word comes to us: “Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” |
