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Morning and Evening

February 8, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"He shall save His people from their sins." — Matthew 1:21 · KJV

If you ask many people what they understand by salvation, they will answer, "Being saved from hell and taken to heaven." That is one result of salvation, but it is not a tenth of what is contained in that gift. It is true that our Lord Jesus Christ redeems all His people from the wrath to come and saves them from the dreadful condemnation their sins had brought on them; but His triumph is far more complete than that. He saves His people "from their sins." Oh, sweet deliverance from our worst enemies! Where Christ works a saving work, He casts Satan from his throne and will not let him be master any longer. No man is a true Christian if sin reigns in his mortal body. Sin will be in us — it will never be wholly expelled until the spirit enters glory — but it will never have dominion. There will be a struggle for mastery, a lusting against the new law and the new spirit God has implanted; but sin will never gain the upper hand so as to be the absolute ruler of our nature. Christ will be Master of the heart, and sin must be put to death. The Lion of the tribe of Judah shall prevail, and the dragon shall be cast out. You who profess faith — is sin subdued in you? If your life is unholy, your heart is unchanged; and if your heart is unchanged, you are an unsaved person. If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, and given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has done nothing in you of a saving kind. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not in their sins, but from them. "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord." "Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." If we are not saved from sin, how can we hope to be counted among His people? Lord, save me now from all evil, and enable me to honor my Savior.