Easter: Our Exclusive Savior

When we make the confession, “I believe in Jesus Christ,” 

• we do more than confess Him as our Savior. 
• We also confess that He is our only Savior. 
• There is no one besides Him from whom we can receive redemption from our sins and misery.

He is our exclusive Savior, 

• but He is also the all-inclusive, the complete Savior. 
• There is no Savior besides Him, and we need no other Savior in addition to Him. 
• In Him we find everything we need for the redemption of body and soul. 

Our Mediator must be true God and true man. 

• We emphasize here the two-fold reason why our Savior must be divine: 

Our Savior must have divine power, 

• for He must bear the sins of all God’s elect, 
• of all the “144,000” whom God has chosen to redemption. 
• The weight of so many sins is greater than any mere creature could bear. 
• Our Savior must have divine power to be able to bear the heavy burden of God’s wrath.

Furthermore, our Savior’s death must have sufficient value and worth if the death of the one Man is to suffice as payment for the sins of many. 

• Also for this reason our Savior must be true God. 
• The death of the Son of God is ... of infinite value and worth,
• abundantly sufficient to expiate the sins of the whole world ...
• because the person who submitted to [death] is ... the only-begotten Son of God. 

Salvation could not come from one who was only true and righteous man, but also from one who was true God. 

• God must save His people. 

That was declared throughout the Old Testament: 

• “Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD” (Deuteronomy 33:29). 
• “But Israel shall be saved by the LORD” (Isaiah 45:17). 
• “Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but Me; for there is no savior besides Me” (Hosea 13:4).

To be continued...

Adapted Excerpt From

Only By True Faith

A. VanDelden