DL Moody on the Victorious Christian Life

If we would know what Christ wants to be to us, we must first of all know Him as our Saviour from sin.  When the angel came down from heaven to proclaim that He was to be born into the world, you remember he gave His name, “He shall be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.”  Have we been delivered from sin?  He did not come to save us in our sins, but from our sins. . . .


Let us look at Him as He hangs upon the Cross, and see how He has put away sin.  He was manifested that He might take away our sins. . . .


But Christ is not only a Saviour.  I might save a man from drowning and rescue him from an untimely grave; but I might probably not be able to do any more for him.  Christ is something more than a Saviour.  When the children of Israel were placed behind the blood, that blood was their salvation; but they would still have heard the crack of the slave-driver’s whip, if they had not been delivered from the Egyptian yoke of bondage:  then it was that God delivered them from the hand of the King of Egypt.  I have little sympathy with the idea that God comes down to save us, and then leaves us in prison, the slaves of our besetting sins.  No; He has come to deliver us, and to give us victory over our evil tempers, our passions, and our lusts.  Are you a professed Christian, but one who is a slave to some besetting sin? If you want to get victory over that temper or that lust, go on to know Christ more intimately.  He brings deliverance for the past, the present, and the future. 


D. L. Moody