Romans Part 3 - LIFEनमूना

SOS!

“Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him!”

Another way to say this might be, “Accordingly rendered innocent by His bloodshed, exceedingly healed from the past, rescued from today and preserved for tomorrow from God’s violent passion, by way of our faithful and repentant relationship with Jesus!”

Our justification has nothing to do with anything we did; we are flat-out justified; it’s a gift. Furthermore, we are a healed body through our faithful obedience, out of gratitude toward The Justifier, Jesus Christ. We are rescued from our bad heart, our sinful nature, and our human suffering, as a result of our right relationship with our Savior. A repented and faithful relationship. Such ought to be our response to the gift of justification.

We can only control our attitude and behavior. How often do we tell our kids, or maybe ourselves, that? But, this is what the passage is saying: by our faithful attitude and repentant behavior toward the gift of justification, we are preserved from God’s violent passion and can commune with Christ!

In precept study, on Tuesday mornings, we often enjoy digging into the original language of the Bible. In Greek, the word for “will be saved” is sozo. This word is the root of many other powerful words.

At its core, “sozo” is from the Greek word “SOS,” which means rescue.

In our society, we might think of SOS as a cry for “help.” Actually, at its core, it is a cry to be SAVED! Some say SOS originally came from “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls,” but we see here; SOS is, in fact, “to rescue.” It’s no coincidence that this has woven its way into what we all know is the distress call SOS.

*Sozo is the root of soter, which is Savior.

*Soter is the root of soteria, which is salvation.

*Soter is the root of soterion, which is saved, rescued, and brought into divine safety.

How has our Mighty Savior brought us into divine safety spared from our deserved wrath?

Now that the SOS has been met, we are saved, what are we doing about it? How are we changed? Who do we know that is also crying out SOS? How do you answer the SOS cries in your families or our community?

-Luciana Jonkman