"what if he hadn't saved me". I can't even imagine such a ting because I have been saved since before the world was made. I did live like a child of the Devil, until I was converted at the age of 26
Jesus didn't save me from the wrath of God, because there never was any chance of me facing His wrath. Jesus saved me before He created the world, so Gods wrath was removed off me back then.
Jesus saved me from paying the penalty for my sin, so he took my sin onto Himself and paid for it in full so I never have to face the angry Judge. So I can't say Jesus saved me from Gods wrath as if God is just an angry old man who takes pleasure in watching people burn forever.
God only gives people what they deserve, so He's a righteous judge. I deserve what Jesus deserves, because He imputed His righteousness onto me. So God will judge me according to His righteousness and not my own.
Scripture is clear, says some are given His mercy. Those who get mercy from God, God does not impute to them their sin.
You had sin, God did not impute your sins to your account. That is why the NC is so wonderful. Find it in Hebrews 8.
In our NC, for believers, God imputes to us Christ's righteousness. God does not remember our sins and trespasses to the judgement of hell. God is merciful to our unrighteousness.
It is not about what we deserve it is about God's purposes and plans.
We all sinned, and the soul that sins shall die God says, and in reality, you DIED,
so then since you died, now you are dead to sin so that you are alive to God in Christ.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
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For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ
who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new
man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave
nor free, but Christ
is all and in all.
Good reading here about what God imputes to us believers
1 What then shall we say that Abraham our father[
a] has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has
something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was [
b]accounted to him for righteousness.” 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted [
c]as grace but as debt.
David Celebrates the Same Truth
5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 6 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed
are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
And whose sins are covered;
8 Blessed
is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”
Abraham Justified Before Circumcision
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Does this blessedness then
come upon the circumcised
only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which
he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, 12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only
are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham
had while still uncircumcised.
The Promise Granted Through Faith
13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world
was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law
are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, 15 because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law
there is no transgression.
16 Therefore
it is of faith that
it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be [
d]sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 17 (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” 19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 22 And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, 24 but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.
