Part 1: Saved from God's wrath through Christ

Believers, remember when Elijah prayed and fire came down from heaven in 1 Kings 18? This happened during the reign of King Ahab, husband of Jezebel. Before Elijah prayed, “...he repaired the altar of the Lord which had been torn down.” The people had torn down the alter of the Lord and were blatantly serving Baal. The fire of God’s judgment should have fallen upon and consumed them. But this is what happened (verse 38:)

“Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.”

This event is a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ the Lamb of God who bore the fiery indignation of God’s judgment that was meant for us in His own body, so that we might live. The fire of judgment did not fall on the guilty people. It fell on the bull - a picture of Christ. We might think that the evil that the children of Israel who worshipped idols and sacrificed their children to same did was on another level, until we read James 2:10- “For whosoever shall keep the whole law yet stumble at one point, he is guilty of all.”

Only through Christ are we saved from God’s wrath. “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.” Romans 5:9.

We are saved by grace (undeserved, unmerited favour) through faith and not by works.

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