Jesus came to save us from God.
Now let me explain myself since I know that this concept is rather strange.
We all are sinners “for all have fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:25) and God gets angry when we sin “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. (Romans 1:18)” and “[…] the wages of sin is death […] (Romans 6:23)”.
So the bottom line is: All of us are sinners and the all-powerful God who controls everything is angry at us because of our sin and his wrath needs to be appeased.
Crap. We have a problem here. We need salvation… from God.
Enter Jesus Christ.
Christ came into the world to save sinners on the cross in which “for our sake he (God) made him (Christ) to be sin who knew no sin […] (2 Corinthians 5:21)” and when Jesus took on our sin when he died on the cross he became the sacrifice in “whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood […] (Romans 3:25)”.
Now let’s reflect on that word propitiation. Propitiation is defined by dictionary.com as: to appease or make well disposed; conciliate. So when I say “Jesus came to save us from God.” what I mean is that God sent his only son to die to appease his wrath against us because of our sin so that we wouldn’t have to endure God’s punishment “In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth […] (Luke 13:28)”.
Phew… there’s hope.
As you can see, the Bible teaches that we need salvation from God and his wrath, not from Hell; In other words Jesus didn’t come to save us from the punishment as much as he did come to save us from the punisher. But the odd thing is that the punisher sent Jesus to save us from himself, but it’s also beautiful in a way. God loves us so much that he sent his son to die so that he wouldn’t have to completely annihilate us even though we fully deserve to be annihilated.
But wait, it gets better.
Not only do we get saved from the wrath of God, we become children of God “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God (John 1:12)” So now we are able to enjoy a father-child relationship with him through Christ. And even on top of that we receive the privilege of “[…] the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)”
In summary, Jesus was sent by God to save us from his wrath which is revealed against our sin so that we could become children of God and enjoy eternal life. Now, I’ve chosen to take God up on his offer and I thank him for it, and if you have done the same then you should thank him as well and spread the good news to your friends; but if you haven’t than I’d seriously suggest it if I were you. Just sayin’.
