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ONLY JESUS SAVES
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11
Acts 4:11-12

1 Corinthians 3:11

 

“For other foundation can no man lay

than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ”

 

ONLY JESUS SAVES
 
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil 2:9-11).
 
No other stone: This was taken from Psalm 118:22 and Jesus also mentioned this in the gospel: “Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner…” (Matt 21:42). As the stone, Jesus is the head of the corner. This identifies Him as a larger stone which is used to join the two walls of the building in order to bear the weight and stress of the whole edifice. Without this stone the building is just a pile of bricks that would crumble down when floods or strong winds come. Jesus is the head of the corner. He is the stone refused by the chief builders, a stone placed by God’s own hand in the chief place, that it may support the whole spiritual house of God. The church has only one foundation, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor 3:11).
 
No other name: There is no other name whereby one can have salvation except in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone is our perfect substitute and representative. Jesus declared, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). The universalistic doctrine of salvation is now the message of many evangelical churches. They have forgotten the biblical and historical faith in Jesus as the only Saviour of mankind. It is a danger to undermine the exclusivity of the name of Jesus Christ as the only means to heaven. “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).
 
Are you trusting in Jesus Christ alone for your salvation? Do you acknowledge that no one can be saved except through faith in Jesus Christ?
 
THOUGHT: Am I trusting in the biblical Jesus?

PRAYER: Father, grant me the faith to believe in Jesus alone.

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