Delivered, Deliver, Yet Deliver

2024-04-25

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us (2 Corinthians 1:10)

The apostle Paul and his companions despaired of life on a certain occasion, in which he says this.

God’s deliverance is past, present, and future. It is not just in dire times like the one mentioned here. God delivered us from death, that is, the penalty of our sin. He delivers us daily from sin and death. One day, He will deliver us from sin and death forever.

We see this deliverance must be more than from physical death. The apostle was killed in Rome by an evil government. However, he could say this of spiritual death and all that encompasses it. Because the previous verse says “God which raiseth the dead,” we know He has delivered and can deliver again. This is why “we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead” (2 Corinthians 1:9).

“Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1 John 5:5). And again, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Our victory over sin and death is always by faith.