Saved By Life

We (Believers) are familiar with the ministry of Jesus Christ.

And as we read through the scriptures, especially in the New Testament records, we find the various expressions of the ministry well documented. One such expressions we ought to be familiar with is His Salvific ministry.

In the execution of this Salvific ministry, His sacrificial death on the cross stands at the center. It bears the weight of the wrath of God – and at the same time, meets the justice requirements for our redemption. Without the work of the cross, we would not be saved.

Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 7:25 (KJV)

However, the scriptures go on to talk about a saving that happens after the cross.

It is not an add-on to the saving of the cross, neither is it any kind of augmentation. Rather, we shall for the purpose of this discuss say there are two ‘types’ of saving; there is a saving that happens on account of His death (and our believing) and there is a saving that happens on account of His life.

Both are related. If we hadn’t experienced the saving that comes from His death, we would not experience that which comes from His life.

How are we saved by His life, you ask? How does the fact that He is a resurrected man in heaven save us?

To answer that we say: He saves us now as a resurrected man because He ever lives to make intercession. That’s how He saves us with his life, by His being alive. He intercedes for us.

If He was not alive, if all that Jesus did was die, that would still have been a tremendous intervention, because it propitiated God.

But He wanted more than that for us.

He desired that having been saved by His death, we were also saved by His life. And this necessitates intercession. So He ever lives to make intercession, so that He can save to the uttermost we who have come to God by Him.

In His being alive, we are saved by intercession.