| We who are sinners by nature and practice, and all of us are, do not need a teacher, nor an example; we need a Savior. And the One who came down from heaven two thousand years ago was and is “a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” “Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.” Hundreds of years before He came, He had declared through Isaiah that “I, even I, am the Lord; and beside Me there is no savior,” for “neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” It “is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,” and this “according to the commandment of God our Savior.” He could be our Savior because He is the spotless Son of God, “a lamb without blemish and without spot,” “who did no sin,” “who knew no sin,” and “in Him is no sin.” We say with Mary, “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.” And knowing Him, “we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,” daily “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.” |
