Am I Convinced That Jesus Is My Only Savior?

 

Jesus has done everything I need by living, dying, rising, and ascending to heaven.  

• Jesus took me, in my sinful state, 
• and in football terms, brought me all the way across the goal line into the end zone.  
• He did not go halfway 
• or even bring me to the one yard line.  
• He did it all.

Why is the Son of God called "Jesus," meaning "savior"?

• Because He saves me from my sins,
• and because salvation should not be sought
• and cannot be found in anyone else.

I must be convinced that Jesus is the only Savior.

• The Roman Catholic custom of calling on the saints to help me must be condemned because it undermines the exclusiveness of Christ's work.
• The idea that I can somehow contribute to my own salvation by means of acts of piety or charity has the same effect.
• Nor can my salvation be found in any revolutionary movement such as today's "Christian nationalism".

I either acknowledge the redemptive work of Christ as complete or else I render it incomplete.

• Either He is everything to me or He is something else
• and if He is something else, then in the end He will be nothing.
• Jesus saves, and no one else!

If I were to look for my salvation in saints, in myself, or elsewhere, do I really believe in the only savior Jesus?

• No.
• Although I may boast of being his,
• by my actions I deny
• the only Savior, Jesus.
• Either Jesus is not a perfect Savior,
• or if I in true faith accept this Savior,
• I have in Him all I need for my salvation.

Matthew 1:21.  She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.

Acts 4:11  He is the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.  Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.

1 Timothy 2:5  For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.

Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.  Psalm 69:14 

Adapted Excerpts from

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 11

Our Only Comfort by Stephen C. Shaffer

I Belong (Teacher) by Visscher