Jesus Christ is my Savior. If you know nothing else about me, please know this!
Embedded in that blessed statement are a few important truths.
TRUTH #1: The statement begins with JESUS, just as my eternal hope begins with Him, and His grace. He created me, and by His grace I have been born again spiritually.
TRUTH #2: CHRIST is not Jesus’ last name … it is a title. It means that Jesus is a one and only. He is fully God and fully man, and came to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies about the coming Messiah (“Christ” is the Greek word for the Hebrew word “Messiah”).
TRUTH #3: Jesus Christ IS. Jesus deserves to be either spoken of in the present tense (highlighting His existence), or to be spoken of in the eternal (the One who was, and is, and always will be). Just as God told Moses from the burning bush that His name was “I am,” so also Jesus is.
TRUTH #4: Jesus Christ is MY SAVIOR. This reveals the recognition that I am in need of saving! I have sinned before a holy God and fallen short of His glorious standard. In my sinfulness I am so in need that my only hope for forgiveness, reconciliation with God, and an eternity in heaven and not hell is found in the rescue I have found in His work upon the cross on my behalf. Jesus died for my sins. Trusting in Him, I am forgiven and justified before God, and have confidence before God like a child approaching the loving embrace of the best of Fathers.
JESUS CHRIST IS MY SAVIOR.
Do you know Him?
Isaiah the prophet did. Though he lived 700 years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Isaiah (pushed along by the Holy Spirit) wrote of Jesus … His life, His death, and His resurrection. Isaiah’s prophecies are some of the over 300 Old Testament prophecies given about the coming of Jesus.
This Sunday at Wildwood Community Church, we will wrap up our sermon series “Scarlet Thread” as we see the strongest shadows of this series of Jesus in the Old Testament as we look at Isaiah 53:1-12 together. Join us for the ninth and final message in this series.
My prayer is that we might all look to Jesus after reading Isaiah 53, and say:
JESUS CHRIST IS MY SAVIOR.
See you Sunday, October 5 for a time of singing, prayer, study of God’s Word, and sharing the Lord’s Supper together in our 8:30, 9:45, or 11:00 service. See you there … and bring friends!