"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

The Wednesday Word SAVED “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be  saved ” - Acts 4:12     SAVED! What a great Bible term. Some people say it is antiquated, but I disagree.  It means deliverance instead of destruction, life instead of death, acquittal instead of punishment and rescue instead of ruin. Saved! What a wonderful multi-faceted word! May we never drop it from our vocabulary. We are saved! And how did we get saved? We got saved on the basis of Christ’s finished work outside of us in history (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Believers have been delivered from damnation (Romans 5:1). We are saved. Believers are no longer under wrath (Romans 5:9)…..we are saved.  Jesus said, ¨I am the door: by M e if any man enter in, he shall be  saved , and shall go in and out, and find pasture¨ (John 10:9). Again, In Acts 2:21 we learn that “whosoever shall call on...

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."  -Luke 19:10 [KJV] "The Son of man is come." What a blessed coming! The Lord Jesus seems to have taken to Himself, with the tenderest condescension to our wants, that gracious title, "the Son of man." He was the Son of God, and that from all eternity; but He delights to call Himself the Son of man. We want one like ourselves, wearing the same nature; carrying in His bosom the same human heart; one who has been, "in all points, tempted like as we are, yet without sin" and therefore able to sympathise with and to succour those that are tempted. A sinner like man, when made sensible of his pollution and guilt, cannot draw near unto God in His intrinsic, essential majesty and holiness. Viewed as the great and glorious Being that fills eternity, Jehovah is too great, too transcendently holy, too awfully perfect for Him to approach. He must therefore have a ...