WEDNESDAY November 6th
We look today at another of the titles we give to our wonderful Jesus, and it is a title that he alone has the right to own, and it is ‘Saviour’ for there is absolutely nobody else who can be or ever will be a saviour for this world or the Saviour of this world, it is Jesus only! This was the reason why he came into this world; this was the reason why he willingly went to and died at Calvary. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
Other religions and faiths will point to what they consider to be the means of entry into heaven, or the basis for receiving eternal life, the way to gain access into the presence of God, but by the very fact that each of them would present an option that by passes Jesus and all that he has done through his atoning death and resurrection is sufficient for us to write them off as false religions, non-starters and therefore to be avoided at all cost.
In Acts 4:12, Peter makes this statement ‘And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.’ This is an affirmation of the very words of Jesus himself when he made this very telling ‘I am’ statement in John 14:6 ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’
When he was writing to the church at Ephesus, Paul reminded them and of course us today as well that we were dead in our trespasses and sins, then continues to say that we have been made alive again, and in verses 12-18 he says this ‘And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father’. This again confirms what Jesus declared that our access, anyone’s access to the Father is only through the one who came and preached peace, the Lord Jesus Christ who is still the only way.
As our Saviour he has saved us, he has redeemed us, he has provided the means by which we have been cleansed and forgiven, his shed blood, and in saving us he has delivered us from the punishment we all deserved for our sin, he has removed from upon us the wrath of God which we all deserved and he has brought us into a dynamic and powerful relationship with the one whom we had offended—almighty God and in such an incredible way that we can now know him and call him our heavenly Father. What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus my Jesus, what a wonderful Saviour is Jesus my Lord.
Perhaps someone may read this today and you are relying on some other means to get you into heaven, well if it doesn’t involve Jesus and what he has done for you at Calvary then you are heading down a road that will lead to destruction, it most definitely will not lead you to eternal redemption. Another important statement that Jesus made about himself is this ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.’
No one else can make these claims, no other prophet, no other god, ONLY JESUS, anyone else you may be trusting in is a thief and a robber. Come to Jesus today and accept him as Saviour, this is the only way.