Why Does God Save Us?

Q."Why does G-d save us?
A. The typical answer to this would be "So we don"t go to hell" which is partly true, but not the complete answer. He saves us so we can keep the commandments of the Torah in our lives. That is part of G-d's plan to restore back into a correct relationship with Him, which is the purpose for mankind that goes back to Eden. Why do we have situations in our lives?

So we can follow G-d's instruction in handling them. In Psa 119 David is asking G-d to save him so he can keep the commandments. That psalm has 176 verses and every one of them speak about the commandments. How could David murder and commit adultery, lie and everything else, and yet say he is man after G-d's own heart and say he followed the Torah all his life? Because he was saved by G-d's "chessed" or grace, not by keeping all the Law perfectly. G-d judged David on his faith AND desire to follow the Torah, not on his ability to keep every point of it. That is how people got saved before Yeshua ever came. Grace didn't start with the cross, it has always been a part of how G-d deals with mankind.

Sins were forgiven before Yeshua just like today. Starting from Adam all the way to 2003, G-d has been forgiving man when he truly repents and turns to Him. So, another question should come to mind. Why did G-d give the Torah at Mt Sinai if salvation was always attainable by faith? He did it out of mercy. G-d's word has always been in existence. Clean and unclean, Sabbath, theft, murder, loving your neighbor pre-existed Mt. sinai. In exodus 18, Moses is judging the people according to the Torah of G-d and that was before Sinai. In the time of Noah, man had become so sinful that He had to destroy all living things except one family.

But, he gave them 120 years to repent, but they didn't. In Abraham's time, the canaanites were given 400 years to repenet, and they didn't. Moving ahead to Yeshua, G-d is giving more time to people to turn to Him. Man has strayed from G-d and His will, the Torah. The Torah, which has always been there from the beginning, was given and written down at Sinai for several reasons. It was to give guidance because man's sin was getting very bad. It was to stir up sin in man so there was a line to cross. Man, knowing he is a sinner and falling short of G-d's standards, would now turn to Him for mercy and trust G-d for salvation. The Torah tells us how to love G-d and approach him by faith.

Faith in Yeshua does not, nor ever did, void the commandments in the life of a believer. There many who believe in a perverse teaching that once one believes, they are set free from the commandments. This theology says that the Law was too hard for people to follow, so when Yeshua came it was done away with and now they follow the "law of love" or "law of liberty" and are "led by the Spirit" or something. G-d said that following His caommandments was not too hard or too deep to comprehend (Dt 30.11-14). Nowhere in the Scriptures is there a hint that the commandments were done away with. G-d looks at your desire to follow them as a part of your faith. One who does not believe will not keep the commandments and say they don't apply, and that is the issue you must deal with when you stand before Him. To reject the commandments is to reject G-d Himself .