Rescued from Imminent Danger ~ 21 October, 2026 A.D.

What Does it Mean to be Saved?
 

Hebrews 7:25, “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them.”

 

Jesus saves to the uttermost ...but what does that mean? It means He is able, willing, and ready to completely, perfectly and utterly save.  His uttermost salvation means that we have salvation to the fullest extent! Since there is nothing beyond the uttermost there can be nothing lacking in God’s salvation.  Christ has removed every power and enemy that has attempted to roadblock our salvation. He saves to the uttermost! But let´s now ask, What does it mean to be saved? Simply put, when we are saved we have salvation.

 

But what is salvation?

 

One of the things that salvation means is that we have been rescued and delivered from imminent danger. One of the earliest expressions of salvation being equated with deliverance from danger is found in Exodus 14. At that time, Moses and the children of Israel were facing the impassible Red Sea.  Pharaoh and his blood-baying army were rapidly closing in for the kill. But faithful Moses said to the people, “Fear ye not! Stand still and see the salvation of the LORD which He will show you today.”

 

You know the rest of the story, how that God parted the Red Sea, Israel was delivered and the Egyptians destroyed. At the conclusion of these events we read, “Thus the LORD saved Israel that day, out of the hand of the Egyptians,” Salvation and deliverance from danger, therefore, are one and the same. Salvation may be looked at in three tenses, past, present and future.

  1. The Past.

So, what danger have we been delivered from? First, we were delivered from the wrath of God! Wrath is lethal! However, we have been utterly saved from it because God’s wrath has been exhausted on Christ! Christ’s blood has already been poured out on Calvary. Our sins have already been punished there. The Law demanded satisfaction for sins, but there was no law which demanded that the sinner provide the needed satisfaction in his own person! Freedom was his if he had a suitable substitute. Today, however, because of grace, we have the satisfactory substitute, the Lord Jesus, who lived and died for us. At the cross, He suffered the whole of divine wrath in our place. There are now, therefore, no charges against us— (Romans 8:1, Romans 4:8). There can, therefore, be no punishment due to us, as Christ has already paid for our crimes in full. He saves to the uttermost!

  1. The Present.

Have you ever noticed, however, that our past often filters into our present? That is dangerous! It can lead to despair and depression. Perhaps you are weighed down by an ongoing sense of guilt and shame. Old sins are casting long shadows. Is there a possibility that you can escape from this? Yes indeed there is, for Jesus saves to the uttermost! Your failures and sins have been taken away ...do you believe that? Tell yourself that! Preach that to yourself!

 

Here’s the Gospel Truth------No sin which you have committed needs plague you---it cannot shut you out of Heaven; Christ has died for all your sins and has risen to make intercession for you. However damnable your past iniquities, there is present tense deliverance through your high priest, Christ Jesus! The arm of God’s grace is long enough to reach the worst and the vilest thing you have ever done. —Christ Jesus is mighty to save. His blood cleanses us from all sin and clears our conscience. He saves us to the uttermost!

 

3) The Future.

 

There is one final aspect of Salvation which is yet to come. That’s when we will be saved from the very presence of sin when we are ushered into the presence of God Himself. When the Lord returns, our vile bodies will be transformed to bodies of glory (Philippians 3:21)!

 

That’s our future hope!

 

When this happens, we will have been fully delivered and fully saved ... to the uttermost. We are blessed today because all our sins are forgiven and done away with in Christ. God does not count our sins against us. ... Instead, He counts us with His righteous in Christ. We are blessed because the Lord does not and will not impute sin to us (Romans 4:8). 

 

We have been saved to the uttermost, are being saved to the uttermost and will be saved to the uttermost because of one man, the God/Man, Jesus the Christ.

 

And that’s the Gospel Truth!

 

-preacher D G Miles McKee 


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