My Most Precious Faith (Part 2) Deliverance Accomplished

DELIVERANCE FROM THE MISERY AND GUILT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED

The question before us at this time is, "if according to God's righteous judgment I deserve punishment both in this world and in the world to come, then how can I escape this punishment and return to God's favor?". We cannot repay this great debt that we owe and we increase our guilt every day. My dilemma is based on knowledge that I am helpless, dead in trespasses and sins. I am under the justice of a holy God and on my way to eternal death and separation, unless He has wisdom that can satisfy His justice and deliver me from my sin and guilt and turn his anger from me.

Now I found in the Bible the teaching that God from all eternity out of His good pleasure elected others as well as myself to everlasting life by the way of a covenant of grace with Jesus Christ to deliver the us out of the state of sin and misery I have found myself in. Not only this but He then brings us into a state of deliverance and salvation.


This deliverance had to be done by someone who is truly human and truly righteous, not one who would or could sin. This person had to be God. The only redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ who, being God, took upon himself humanity to fulfill the punishment due to my sins.



I am aware that it may be that at this time you are skeptical. However, the scriptures from the beginning reveal the gospel even in paradise and then in the writings of the prophets and the psalms. The holy patriarchs proclaimed the deliverance by looking forward to a Messiah who would come and die in their place. Showing their faith, they offered sacrifices on God's altar showing their faith in God's promised deliverer.


As the people of God of old I am a person of true faith having a knowledge of that which has been promised and that which was delivered. I am also convinced that all which God has said is true in His word. There is also an assurance that in Christ I am forgiven and have been made right with God - being granted salvation. This great faith is not of myself but is of God alone, worked in my heart, by the blessed Holy Spirit.