2. We need to be saved from a broken relationship with God.

“Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God.”
—Isaiah 59:1, 2.

Unforgiven sin cuts off our relationship with God, the Lifegiver. There can be no love relationship without faith or trust in God. That is why Jesus spoke of sin as unbelief (see John 16:9). Christ came to restore trust in God, which Satan had undermined.

3. We need to be saved from eternal death, the penalty for sin.

“Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.”
—Romans 5:12.

The Bible here has in view eternal death, a death from which a person cannot be resurrected.

4. We need to be saved from a sinful, unhappy life.

For the sinner, life is a dead-end street because a life of sin leaves an empty, aching void in his or her existence.

5. We need to be saved from a sinful world.

We must be rescued from a world full of sin and its results—misery, heartache, loneliness, war, sickness, evil, and death!