The apostle Paul wrote, “Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” (Romans 5:9) What a positive, comforting thing it is to hear “we shall be saved from wrath.” The wrath of God which shall fall upon every sinner outside of Christ shall not fall upon me, not because I don’t deserve it, nor because God has decided not to judge my sin, but because it has already fallen upon Christ my Substitute. We shall be saved “through Him.” Simply stated, believers in Christ shall be saved because they have been saved! Our justification through His blood (His life laid down, His cross death) was not only the sum of all our justification before God but is also the source of all our consolation from God. Since God has declared us righteous in Christ and put away our sin by the shedding of His blood, we now “wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” (1st Thessalonians 1:10) Everything is “through Him,” through our Lord Jesus Christ, and this comfort and consolation is received and enjoyed by us through God-given faith. How can a sinner live in this life without fear of the wrath to come? HIM! HIS BLOOD! We believe God and sit in quietness of conscience and mind as those Hebrews sat in their houses in Goshen with the blood of the Passover Lamb on their doors as the death angel passed through Egypt. We have been saved so we shall be saved!

G. Shepard