Saved to the Uttermost

 

“ Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him…”

—Hebrews 7:25a

Let’s say we’re falling off a cliff and someone reaches out to stop our fall and saves us partially.

Or, more germane to my previous profession, let’s say we’re in a smoke-filled room and a firefighter in self-contained breathing apparatus just pulls us part of the way out of the room.

You see, no one wants to be partially saved. When we are in mortal danger, we want to be fully, completely, and totally saved.

The writer to the Hebrew Christians wanted to make certain they and we understood the scope of our salvation when he wrote these words in Hebrews 7:25, speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ:

Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

The King James Version uses the more colorful phrase: “saved to the uttermost.” I really like that phrase.

In our sin—the sin we inherited from Adam and the sin we have committed throughout our lives—we are utterly lost. How wonderful that Jesus completely reverses our condition. Through His death and resurrection, we are now “saved to the uttermost.”

Whereas we were utterly lost, now we are utterly saved. In this truth resides the source of our greatest joy.

As John Newton wrote in his famous hymn:

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

As we begin a new day, let’s rejoice that though mired in the depths of sin, through the blessed Lord Jesus Christ, we have now been “saved to the uttermost.”

 

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