Jesus came to save sinners from sin (Matthew 1:21)

Those who follow Jesus gain freedom from sin (John 8:31-36, Romans 6:1-7). They are set free from bondage to sin. So, getting saved is like being a prisoner and getting released from jail. What does the released prisoner have? Freedom. Can that freedom be lost? Can that person go back to committing crimes and still be free? No, that person that goes on committing crimes is not free. Even before that person would be arrested and taken back to jail, it can be said that the person is a slave of lawless behavior. And sin is crime/lawless behavior against God! It's the opposite of loving God and loving one's neighbor as oneself (Matthew 22:37-40).

Sinning is breaking the law of God (1 John 3:4). So, sinners are lawbreakers before God and they are trapped in sin as slaves (Romans 6:16). The Bible says of those who are saved by grace through faith in Jesus that sin will not have power over them to still keep them as slaves (Romans 6:14). And if after they have gotten set free from sin they then go back to being trapped in sin, they do not have freedom from sin anymore (2 Peter 2:20-22). They have lost that! And that is how we need to understand salvation or at least our life on earth from the point of coming to Jesus.

Salvation in a bigger picture is a journey that will end in receiving the gift of eternal life in the age to come (Luke 18:30). So, there is a walk to walk and we need to understand how it begins and how we can go on walking on that path to eternal life (Matthew 7:13-14, Matthew 24:13). We need to abide in Jesus (John 15:4-6, 1 John 3:6). A person who gets saved and becomes an ex-sinner should remain an ex-sinner as the grace of God empowers that person to walk on a new way of righteousness and holiness (Titus 2:11-14, Ephesians 4:17-24, 1 Peter 1:13-16, Hebrews 12:14). The Bible calls saved sinners "saints" or "righteous," not sinners still. But that's not what is popularly preached. So, if we love the truth, let's be diligent to seek it from the Bible and be praying earnestly for God to guide us away from all falsehood. Make sure to lookup all the mentioned scriptures and read them in their context.

Peace to you!

 

See also:
Freedom From Sin

Saved From What?

2 Peter 2:20-22

 20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”