The Lord saves blatant transgressors (Gen 3:21)
The Lord saves drunks (Gen 9:1)
The Lord saves cowardly liars (Gen 12)
The Lord saves devious cheaters (Gen 28)
The Lord saves weak murderers (Exod 3)
The Lord saves grumbling ingrates (Exod 14)
The Lord saves sinners by placing their punishment upon Another (Gen 22; Leviticus 16)
The Lord saves freely, by grace alone (Deut 7)
The Lord saves the poor and the fatherless (Deut 10)
The Lord saves pagan foreigners (Gen 17; Deut 10, 24)
The Lord saves dirty sluts (Joshua 2)
The Lord saves wimpy doubters (Judges 6)
The Lord saves sex addicts (Judges 15)
The Lord saves and uses small, insignificant women (Ruth)
The Lord saves womanizing and murderous adulterers (2 Sam 12)
The Lord saves struggling widows with children (1 Kings 18)
The Lord saves those who grow weary serving Him (1 Kings 19)
The Lord continually saves His rebellious people from tyrannous leaders (2 Kings 22)
The Lord saves child-sacrificing, innocent-blood-sheding idolaters (2 Chron 33:10ff)
The Lord faithfully saves His people from the seed of the serpent (Gen 3:15; Esther)
The Lord saves those who humbly come to Him in faith and repentance (Psalms)
The Lord saves the stupid people like me (Proverbs)
The Lord saves the hopeless and depressed (Ecclesiastes)
The Lord saves His people through wounding and healing (Prophets)
The Lord saves horrible sinners by crushing a Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)
The Lord saves and uses children (Jeremiah)
The Lord saves naked, bloody, cheap, whore-like communities (Ezekiel 16)
The Lord saves miraculously (Daniel 3)
The Lord saves prideful and hard-hearted rulers [Presidents] (Daniel 4)
The Lord saves those who simply seek Him by faith alone (Amos 5; Hab 2:4)
The Lord saves from His awful lionlike wrath (Amos)
The Lord saves savage nations (Jonah)
The Lord saves resentful and stubborn ministers (Jonah)
The Lord saves even though every single person deserves to die (Minor Prophets)
The Lord saves His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21)
The Lord's name is Jesus (Matthew 1:21)
The message of the Old Testament (as well as the New!) is overwhelmingly clear. Salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 2:9). Many of us have grown up thinking that the God of the Old Testament is the God of wrath, while the God of the New Testament - Jesus Christ - is the God of grace. This could not be farther from the truth. The glory of all of the Scriptures, especially the Old Testament, is that God relentlessly pursues sinners to save them.
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