In every church, it’s proclaimed, and you also see it on billboards, on YouTube, and in Facebook posts: Jesus saves!
But what does He actually save us from?
To answer this question, we need to go all the way back to the beginning.
First, we’ll look into the book of Exodus, and then we’ll go even further back.
I promise you’ll have a profound understanding of what Jesus saves us from by the end of this video.
Jesus is the Lamb that was slaughtered for us.
A shadow of this is seen in the Old Testament, specifically the lamb slaughtered in Egypt.
This lamb was slaughtered and eaten, (Exodus 12:8)
and its blood had to be applied to the doorposts.(Exodus 12:7)
When done, death would pass over that house.
All these images find fulfillment in Christ Jesus.
The house represents you, and the doorpost, the entrance to the house, symbolizes your spiritual ears, for faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17).
Therefore, Jesus says:
John 6:54 (NKJ)
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.
When you apply the blood of Jesus to your spiritual ears, you truly understand the profound spiritual meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ.
This insight is the path to eternal life.
So, Jesus saves you from death.
Through His blood, death passes over you.
But death is not the cause; it’s the effect.
It results from not hearing, not understanding, and not believing what God says.
The Bible calls this sin.
Sin is unbelief, and its outcome is doing things devoid of love, ultimately leading to death.
The effect shouldn’t be fought; the cause should be.
When the cause is right, the effect automatically becomes right.
When you start hearing, understanding, and believing what the blood of Jesus truly means, the result is that you naturally act accordingly.
God is not concerned with changing the effect; He wants to change the cause.
He’s not focused on altering your behavior; He wants to free you from the slavery of sin.
Because sin is not believing who God says you are.
Thus, you become a slave to a self-made false identity.
God wants to free you from that slavery, just as He freed the people of Israel after the lamb was slaughtered.
So, God doesn’t want to merely forgive you of sin. That changes nothing!
He wants to free you from sin.
Forgiveness of sin, as we often perceive it, suggests a debt that needs to be repaid.
And here lies the problem!
God is love, faithful, patient, full of grace, but, we say, only when you’ve repaid everything you’ve stolen from Him by not meeting His standards.
However, you haven’t stolen anything from Him; you’ve stolen from yourself!
You’ve stolen your true identity.
You have no idea who you truly are!
That’s why God sent His Son—to reveal who you are.
To show how much He loves you, DESPITE what you do.
Because what you do stems from who you think you are.
They are a consequence, not the cause.
You do things from your identity.
But you’ve lost that because you’ve stolen it from yourself.
God made you in His image and likeness!
THAT is your identity.
And NOTHING can separate us from God’s love for us! (Romans 8:38)
NOTHING!
John 3:16-17 (ESV)
For God so loved you that He gave His only Son,
So that, when you believe what He says, you won’t die with your self-made identity but will speak the same words as Jesus.
(John 1:4)
in the word was life
Then the Word also becomes flesh in you
(John 1:14)
the word became flesh
and you, too, speak words of eternal life.
(John 1:4)
in the word was life
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn you
but that through Him you would find your true identity and thus life.
John 3:16-17 (NKJ)
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through Him might be saved.
For as He is, so are we in this world
Redemption through Jesus Christ is being freed from the lie.
Namely, the lie that you’re not a child of God or that you have to earn it.
Redemption is being freed from the identity you’ve adopted.
This identity is a veil over your true identity.
God spoke your true identity over you from the beginning.
1 John 2:24-25 (NKJ)
24a. Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning.
What did God speak from the beginning?
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
And God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
THAT is what you heard from the beginning!
24b. For if what you heard from the beginning abides in you,
you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
When you remain in your true identity, that you are in God’s image and likeness, then you will also remain in the Son—in Christ—and in the Father.
25. And this is the promise that He promised us: eternal life.
Eternal life means there is no death.
1 Corinthians 15:56 (NKJ)
The sting of death is sin.
Sin is the cause, and death is the effect.
Sin is not believing what you heard from the beginning.
What did you hear from the beginning?
➡️ You are the embodiment, the personification, the incarnation of Me; you are My image and likeness.
When this remains in you, when this is the identity from which you live, then you will also remain in Christ and in the Father.
Romans 6:9 (ESV)
(and) We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again.
Death no longer has dominion over Him.
Thus, you receive the promise He made to you: eternal life.
➡️ by staying in your true identity, that you are the embodiment, the personification, the incarnation of God; His image and likeness.
Don’t see that in your life yet?
That’s okay, you’re growing.
Let me give you an example.
An oak tree has always been an oak tree, no matter its size.
This is a 6-month-old oak
This is a 600-year-old oak
They are entirely different from each other, but they both have always been oak trees.
However, the old tree has grown, and is deeply rooted in its true identity.
The tree grew by the water it drank over time.
Water is an image of the word of God; it’s an image of what God says.
And Jesus says:
John 4:14 (ESV)
Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.
Whoever takes in what God says will never want anything else.
Whoever accepts the identity God spoke over them will never adopt another identity.
Jesus continues:
But the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
See how beautifully that aligns with what we just learned?
If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, so if you drink from the living water, then you will also remain in Christ and in the Father.
And this is the promise He made to us: eternal life.
John says:
1 John 4:17 (ESV)
As He is, so are we in this world.
As Jesus is, so are we in this world.
Jesus came to show who you truly are.
You are the same as Jesus; you have the same identity.
Don’t see that in your life yet?
That’s okay, you’re growing.
Jesus saves you from the lie you and others have spoken over you.
That lie covers the truth you heard from the beginning.
Jesus helps you dis-cover who you truly are.
For Jesus has always remained in the identity He heard from the beginning.
Let me show you.
John 1:1,3 (HST)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
All things were made through the Word.
And what did this Word say when man was made?
➡️ Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
You are the embodiment, the personification, the incarnation of God; you are His image and likeness. THAT is what Jesus shows you.
Because…
John 1:14-17 (ESV)
The Word (what you heard from the beginning) became flesh
and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth.
Jesus is the fullness of what God spoke over you from the beginning.
And Jesus shows who you are, for as He is, so are we in this world.
I pray that you keep drinking from the truth you heard from the beginning and that Jesus shows you,
Ephesians 4:13-15 (NAS)
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a mature – a fully grown – man,
to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
so that we may no longer be children,
tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine,
– tossed back and forth, confused by the water of the world instead of drinking the living water of God’s truth –
by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes,
– by the lie that covers the truth spoken by God from the beginning –
but rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ.
