JESUS: HE IS OUR ONLY SAVIOR
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Jesus
a) No doubt Pilate wrote the name "Jesus" over the head of our Lord on the cross, simply because that was his name. This name, however, was given by God at Jesus's birth because it has a special meaning. Jesus is our Savior (Matthew 1:21).
2. He Is Our Only Savior
a) We state that Jesus our Savior is our only possible savior, justifier, sanctifier, and redeemer.
b) Only Jesus our Savior was able to rescue us from slavery to sin and from the wrath to come. God saw no other thing but the blood of his only begotten Son, as sufficient price and sacrifice to justify our salvation from sin. Yet God in his goodness so loved us, that he gave us his one and only Son (John 3:16). Therefore the gospel says, "You have been bought with a price" (1 Corinthians 6:20, 7:23), and "God purchased the church with his own blood" (Acts 20:28).
c) The heavenly song praises Jesus, "You purchased for God with your blood men from every nation" (Revelation 5:9). As Jesus our Savior faced his own death, he spoke of his "blood... shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:28). Nobody else could have done that.
d) The Bible says, "Behold the kindness and the severity of God" (Romans 11:22). God's severity demands that a price be paid. But God's kindness pays the price that we could not find. And such a price! The blood of his only Son. Our freedom from slavery has been purchased. We have been "redeemed" by the precious blood of Jesus our Savior (1 Peter 1:18-19).
The End ...
1. Jesus a) No doubt Pilate wrote the name "Jesus" over the head of our Lord on the cross, simply because that was his name. This name, however, was given by God at Jesus's birth because it has a special meaning. Jesus is our Savior (Matthew 1:21).
2. He Is Our Only Savior
a) We state that Jesus our Savior is our only possible savior, justifier, sanctifier, and redeemer.
b) Only Jesus our Savior was able to rescue us from slavery to sin and from the wrath to come. God saw no other thing but the blood of his only begotten Son, as sufficient price and sacrifice to justify our salvation from sin. Yet God in his goodness so loved us, that he gave us his one and only Son (John 3:16). Therefore the gospel says, "You have been bought with a price" (1 Corinthians 6:20, 7:23), and "God purchased the church with his own blood" (Acts 20:28).
c) The heavenly song praises Jesus, "You purchased for God with your blood men from every nation" (Revelation 5:9). As Jesus our Savior faced his own death, he spoke of his "blood... shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:28). Nobody else could have done that.
d) The Bible says, "Behold the kindness and the severity of God" (Romans 11:22). God's severity demands that a price be paid. But God's kindness pays the price that we could not find. And such a price! The blood of his only Son. Our freedom from slavery has been purchased. We have been "redeemed" by the precious blood of Jesus our Savior (1 Peter 1:18-19).
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