DELIVER
DELIVER - Greek "rhuomai"; Strong's #4506; akin to "eryo" which means "to drag".
DEFINITION - to draw (pull) to oneself; to rescue (snatch up); to draw and rescue a person to and for oneself.
Rhuomai is used in The Lord's Prayer ("and deliver us from evil"). It is also used by Paul in Romans 7:24 when he said, "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?"
When I think about our conversion experience and being delivered from sin, using this term gives me an idea that our salvation isn't some casual, ho-hum event. It has the impression of a violent event. It implies removing someone from the midst (presence) of danger or oppression.
I remember seeing images on TV of an area, maybe in the mid-west back in 1993, when there was catastrophic flooding of the Mississippi River, and several people got swept away in their cars with some being able to escape and swim to the nearest trees and climbing those trees until help arrived. I watched as rescuers were lowered from helicopters and grabbing hold of the victims one by one and pulling them up into the safety of the aircraft.
That's what I envision our salvation to be like. God sees us on the destructive path, and He swoops in and draws us up to Himself FOR Himself. He doesn't pause to ask, "Hey, would you like for me to rescue you?", He just does it.
DEFINITION - to draw (pull) to oneself; to rescue (snatch up); to draw and rescue a person to and for oneself.
Rhuomai is used in The Lord's Prayer ("and deliver us from evil"). It is also used by Paul in Romans 7:24 when he said, "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?"
When I think about our conversion experience and being delivered from sin, using this term gives me an idea that our salvation isn't some casual, ho-hum event. It has the impression of a violent event. It implies removing someone from the midst (presence) of danger or oppression.
I remember seeing images on TV of an area, maybe in the mid-west back in 1993, when there was catastrophic flooding of the Mississippi River, and several people got swept away in their cars with some being able to escape and swim to the nearest trees and climbing those trees until help arrived. I watched as rescuers were lowered from helicopters and grabbing hold of the victims one by one and pulling them up into the safety of the aircraft.
That's what I envision our salvation to be like. God sees us on the destructive path, and He swoops in and draws us up to Himself FOR Himself. He doesn't pause to ask, "Hey, would you like for me to rescue you?", He just does it.
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