Saved From

Text: Eph.2: 5-9

Intro:

I was fifteen years old when I was saved.  It was on a Sunday Morning.  I remember what the preacher preached on.  God recorded the day and the time.  I remember what I wore, where I was sitting, and the decision I made that day.  I “got” saved.  I went home after service dreaming of going to heaven.  Little did I understand then how much that entailed or how my life would change.  “To be saved!”  I knew I had been saved from Hell, but I did not understand all the other things that salvation delivered me from. 

I am going to speak to you today on the subject of “Saved from”.  It is my desire that your joy level will increase when you understand what all salvation brings to you.

1. Saved from the curse of the law.

1. Gal. 3:10
2. The law reveals the sin in my life.
3. I John 3:4 “for sin is the transgression of the law.”
4. Rom. 3:19, 20 “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.  Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
5. We know this – it is impossible to keep the law.
6. While it is our schoolmaster that brings us to Christ, it is also our condemnation.

1. Saved from the wrath to come.

1. Rom. 5:9
2. God is angry with the wicked everyday.
3. God must judge sin.
4. Salvation delivers me from the wrath of God.

III.  Saved from the yoke (or dominance of sin or bondage of sin).

1. Rom. 6:16, 20
2. Before salvation I knew of no way to deal with this bully of sin.
3. He tricked me and then enslaved me.
4. There seemed to be no end to what he demanded from me.
5. A cruel and merciless taskmaster was he!
6. Ill – Slave who was freed and finally understood she didn’t have to go back to slavery. 

1. Saved from the pollution of sin.

1. I Cor. 6:9, 10
2. “Be of sin the double cure, saved from wrath and make me pure”
3. Sin is like a giant skunk that sprays you and you cannot remove the stink.
4. Sin is like a cancer that pollutes the very fibers of your soul.
5. You cannot clean up on your own!  You don’t wait to get well to call the rescue squad.  You don’t wait to clean up to take a bath.  Come to Jesus just as you are.  Ill – Song history of “Just as I am”.

1. Saved from the corruption of this world.

1. II Peter 1:4
2. Now I can sing, “this world is not my home I’m just a passing through”.
3. “Oh how this world to evil allures me”
4. This old world can corrupt your believes, doctrines and very soul.
5. I don’t have to have it all I have salvation. 
6. I don’t have to have the accolades.
7. I don’t have to have the social status.
8. I don’t have to have the latest and greatest.
9. I don’t have to have the most money in the bank.

1. Saved from the selfishness of self.

1. II Peter 2:10
2. When I got saved, I got saved from my self.
3. Old self wants everything his way.
4. Old self wants more and more.
5. Old self wants to injure and hurt.
6. Old self wants to impose.
7. Old self wants for self.

VII.  Saved from death and hell.

1. Rev. 20:14, 15
2. I was under a death sentence because of sin.
   1. Rom. 6:23  “For the wages of sin is death”.
   2. James 1:5 “and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”
3. I was going to hell forever and ever.  Salvation came and I changed my eternal destination.  Saved!  Saved for sure!

VIII.  Saved from condemnation.

1. Rom. 8:1
2. Understand I was condemned by birth.
   1. John 3:18 “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
   2. I stood condemned before a holy God.
   3. Unsaved one, you stand condemned before God.
3. Salvation saved me from that condemnation, and it can save you.
4. John 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”
5. “O happy day that fixed my choice on Thee my Saviour and my God.  Well may this glowing heart rejoice, and tell its raptures all abroad.  Happy day, happy day, when Jesus washed my sins away.”