Deliverance

Deliverance is defined as “a rescue from bondage or danger.” Deliverance in the Bible is the acts of God whereby He rescues His people from peril. In the Old Testament, deliverance is focused primarily on God’s removal of those who are in the midst of trouble or danger. He rescues His people from their enemies  and from the hand of the wicked . He preserves them from famine  death  and the grave . The most striking example of deliverance is the exodus from Egypt .

Here is God defined as the Deliverer of Israel who rescues His people, not because they deserve to be rescued, but as an expression of His mercy and love . In the New Testament, God is always the subject and His people are always the object of deliverance. The descriptions of temporal deliverance in the Old Testament serve as symbolic representations of the spiritual deliverance from sin which is available only through Christ. He offers deliverance from mankind’s greatest perisin, evil, death and judgment.

By God’s power, believers are delivered from this present evil age (Galatians 1:4) and from the power of Satan’s reign . All aspects of deliverance are available only through the person and work of Jesus Christ, who was Himself delivered up for us (Romans 4:25) so that we would be delivered from eternal punishment for sin. Only Jesus rescues us from the “wrath to come” .