HALLELUJAH!  WHAT A SAVIOR…Bill Thoughts For Today…

Understanding important truths from the Bible….

Luke 2:11

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

The issue which Christians face is contained in the text for today.  Into history at a particular time in a particular place a Savior has been born.  God has entered time and space in human form.

This fact is offensive to man.  The issue is joined.  Either God has made man or man has made God.  And if God takes the initiative, invades space and time, comes as man’s Savior, then man must face two certain facts.  First he needs a savior.  He is an offender.  He cannot perfect himself in this life and face God who he has offended in the life to come.  Secondly God has revealed that as a Savior He takes the initiative.  Those who oppose God cannot define the terms of their acceptance.

Man’s thoughts of God are frustrated by this invasion.  The Psalmist in 50:21B writes of God’s estimation of the sinner, “You thought I was altogether such a one as you are.”  In this historical timely birth God demonstrates the great difference.  His Being is supernatural, Luke 1:35    He will from conception be “the Holy One.” 

The temptations which are common do not overwhelm Him.  The sin which is ours does not touch Him.  “He is holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners.” 

Man’s need is Jesus’ mission, “For there is born to you this day a Savior”.  Again look at Paul’s statement, “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinner.”  How frustrating this is to a self-sufficient person to be faced with God’s absolute, “You need a Savior.”

What is the response to this?  “I’m good.”  There might be any number of reasons for this reply that doesn’t matter.  It is the lie which the world has claimed from Adam to this day and which will continue, “I’m good.”

These are the two choices man faces, his goodness, or God’s Savior.  There are no other choices.  When the balances of judgment are struck before God on one side of the scale will be Jesus; on the other side the sinner stands.  Daniel told the trembling king, “You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.”  But unto us a Savior was born.  We place Him in our stead on the scales of divine justice and have no fear that He will be found wanting.

Please read Acts 17:30-31.

Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!
Jesus! Lover of my soul;
Friends may fail me, foes assail me,
He, my Savior, makes me whole.

Jesus! I do now receive Him,          More than all in Him I find.
He hath granted me forgiveness,
I am His, and He is mine.

Hallelujah! what a Savior!

Hallelujah! what a Friend!

Saving, helping, keeping, loving,

He is with me to the end.

J. Wil­bur Chap­man, 1910.