A Mighty Claim by The Mighty God !

“…and there is no God else beside Me;

a just God and a Savior;

there is none beside Me”

-ISAIAH 45:21 [KJV]

God is “a just God”. One preacher said, “God is immutably determined by His own essential righteousness to visit every sin with a proportionate punishment.” He thus treats men as they deserve and gives what is their due. His predetermined standard is His own righteousness. He will not and cannot compromise and remain just. As the administrator of justice, He is the Judge of the universe; the final arbiter of justice.

JUSTICE ILLUSTRATED: Noah's world [GENESIS 6-8]; Sodom and Gomorrah [GENESIS 18-19].

JUSTICE DECLARED: The Lord would “…by no means clear the guilty” [EXODUS 34:7].

JUSTICE DEMONSTRATED: Christ in death.

Only man could suffer for man's sins. Only God could be without sin. Since the standard is perfect righteousness and holiness, the perfect God-Man had to suffer. IN HIM JUSTICE WAS SATISFIED.

God is “a Savior”. He is Savior on a just ground. A parallel statement is ROMANS 3:26 “To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus”. By virtue of Jesus’ Sinless Person and Sin-bearing Death, God acted to declare righteousness in behalf of His elect at the cross. In time and experience, the justified ones believe the gospel. Christ isn’t a potential but an actual Savior.

MATTHEW 1:21, “He shall save His people from their sins”; and, EPHESIANS 4:32, “And be kind one to another…even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you”. Everything the Lord did was crowned with success. The apostle wrote: “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor…” [HEBREWS 2:9].

-Gospel report by preacher David Simpson