Jesus Our Savior

Jesus the Savior.

The next office that Jesus fills is that of a Savior. Titus 2:10-11, “Not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men.” Jesus is God’s Savior.
Acts 4:12, “For there is no other name under heaven, that is given among men, whereby we must be saved.” No man can save himself.

No man can make himself Righteous or give to himself Eternal Life. There is but one Savior-the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for us all. He might be a Savior; He might be God’s own Savior, but His work of salvation would be limited and of no real value unless there was a Mediator between God and man. How often we hear in evangelistic meetings, an invitation to come to Jesus and get sins pardoned.

If the one who invites the unsaved understood the Glad Tidings, he would never speak like that. It is not coming to Jesus but it is going to God through Jesus. 1 Tim. 2:5, “For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.” Until we recognize the Mediatorial ministry of Jesus, our ministry will be cramped. No man can reach the Father but through Him. John 14:6. “I am the way, the truth, and the Life. No one can reach the Father but through me.” Jesus there is magnifying His position as a Mediator.

What the sinner needs is Eternal Life and remission of his trespasses. He must he made a New Creation, but he cannot approach God. He has no standing with God. When Adam sinned in the Garden, he forfeited his legal right of approach to God. Jesus, by His great Substitutionary work, purchased the right to be the Mediator between the unapproachable God and the sin-ruled sinner. When the unsaved man makes his approach today, he wants to reach God. He wants Eternal Life. He wants the wiping out of all his old sins.
Jesus sits there as the Mediator between God and man.

He can be touched by the feeling of the infirmities of that lost world for which He died.
The Intercessor. He is not only the Mediator between God and man, but the moment that the unsaved man accepts Him as his Savior, then He becomes his Intercessor. How happy my heart was when I first knew this. I had someone to pray for me that I knew the Father would hear. I remember what Jesus said as He stood before the tomb of Lazarus (John 11:41): “And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me. And I know that thou hearest me always.”

I have someone now to vouch for nee, someone who never forgets me. Heb. 7:25, “Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to, make intercession for them.” Here is a precious fact. The Greek word that is used, “saved” here, is “Sozo,” which can be translated as “heal,” and it is rightly used because sin is sickness. Disease is sickness, and Jesus came to “Sozo” us out of the hand of the enemy.

Isn’t it wonderful that He ever lives to make intercession for us; to heal us of physical and spiritual diseases; to restore our broken spirits and to hold us in the hour of temptation and trial? Not only is Jesus our great Intercessor. I love to think of Him as a High Priestly Intercessor, but He is more than that.