Jesus Keeps Us From All Evil

"And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. A-men." 2 Timothy 4:18

The inspired Word of God boldly proclaims that once we are saved then Jesus will deliver us from every evil work and that He will preserve us for eternity! There is no maybe in this Truth and there are no preconditions that say that Jesus will only do it for us if we first do this or that. This work of the Lord isn’t based on our actions; it is based on His grace and the power of His love for us! Now is the time of our salvation, today is the day of our salvation, so today is the day that Jesus will deliver us from every evil work and today is the day that Jesus will preserve us! Jesus is our Shepherd and through Him and His love for us we shall not want. We no longer have to earn a life of righteousness through our own works, or want for a life that is free from sin, through Jesus these things are free gifts that just come with our salvation!

Sin is no longer a factor for us! If sin were still a factor for us who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, then Jesus would be a lousy Shepherd. If sin could still harm us then this verse, that proclaims that we are preserved and delivered from every evil work, would be a lie! If the only thing, which is sin, that can separate us from our Father were allowed to come in and snatch us away, then Jesus would be a failure as our Shepherd! But Jesus has defeated sin and through His victory the power of sin has been destroyed for us. Jesus’ Blood, the Blood of our Savior, is victorious! Jesus has triumphed over sin and He has made a shew of it openly. Jesus has preserved us from sin and we are delivered from the guilt of it by having the mind of our Savior Jesus Christ, a mind that understands who we are in Him. A mind that knows the power of the Blood that has been applied to our lives, and a mind that has peace and joy in believing the Truth that has set us free!

Jesus is at work within us and we are being increased with the increase of God Himself! Through Christ we have passed from death unto life, we have passed from sin unto righteousness, and every last thing that stood in our Father's way of completely and fully saving us has been removed! The Truth is Jesus has removed us from every evil work that the world and the devil had. Jesus has removed us from sin, from fear, from doubt, from sickness, from poverty, from hopelessness, from ignorance, from anything and everything that is contrary to the ways and purposes and will of God!

Jesus is able to do all of this for us because He stands as one with us! “Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.” 2 Timothy 4:17 God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He changes not, Malachi 3:6, and we are all able bodied ministers unto the Lord! So if Jesus strengthened Paul and delivered him from every evil work, than He will do the same for us as well!

But am I taking these verses out of context, is God just talking about evil works that others will try against us? Well let’s look at the Word and see. The first thing that we must remember is this, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities of wickedness, Ephesians 6:12. The wicked works that are trying to attack us are being generated through satan and satan’s power has been destroyed by Jesus and through Him we now live in freedom and liberty. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Hebrews 2:14-15 We are no longer under bondage, the bondage of sin and the fear of its consequences, have been destroyed for us by Jesus! Jesus has destroyed the devil, which is the author of evil and sin. Jesus has delivered us from every evil and from every force that would try to work evil against us. Sin, being the only force that could separate us from God has been destroyed, attacks against us by the children of satan have been destroyed, and we are delivered from every evil work, regardless of where it is coming from!