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Jesus - The Savior

by Jerry Ousley  
10/28/2016 / Christian Living

For the next four weeks I'd like to change our format somewhat. I want to talk about the four basic aspects of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Songs are a wonderful way to express our worship and what we know to be true. Now some of us may not have such an appealing voice to others in the human race, but nowhere in the scripture did God require our voices to be beautiful. We are just told to make a joyful noise to the Lord. By the way, I heard a true story the other day about an elderly man who got up in a service to sing. His voice was absolutely terrible and you could barely make out the words of the song he was singing. He even asked the congregation to join in with him but it was impossible to do so because he couldn't carry a tune and again you couldn't understand his words. When he was finished he told the people, "Thanks for putting up with me. I know that I'm the worse singer in the world but God gave me this voice and every once in a while I like to use it to remind Him about it."

Anyway, there is a song we used to sing that in a nutshell tells the good news of Jesus Christ. It is called "Nothing But the Blood of Jesus" by Robert Lowry. The words are:

What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!

Oh! Precious is the flow, that makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know, Nothing but the blood of Jesus!

Jesus is our Savior. We need a Savior:

THE REASON: Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."

THE PRICE: Romans 5:9 "Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him."

THE PEACE: Romans 5:1 "Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."

FOR ALL WHO COME: John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

There's a story about a man who worked in a factory. We'll call him Jake for the sake of this rendition. Jake hated working and in the factory he had to work very hard. Often while he worked he'd mutter to himself, "That old Adam! This is all his fault!" One day Jake's supervisor was walking by and he overheard Jake's comments. Being a Christian himself he thought that he'd teach Jake a lesson so he stopped and invited the man up into his office. Once there he asked Jake, "How would you like a new job? All you have to do is to stay up here in my office and watch things on the floor below. What do you think Jake?"

Of course Jake was overjoyed that he had finally gotten an easy job. All he had to do all day was to sit up there in the boss's office and gaze out the window to the floor below him. His supervisor had even given him free access to the coffee pot. How much better could it get? However there was one stipulation; his boss told him, "The only thing I ask Jake, is that you leave that box up on the shelf alone. Don't open it, don't look inside it and man, you'd be better off if you'd just not even touch it." That sounded simple enough. Jake agreed and his boss left him.

The first day wasn't so bad. By the second day Jake began to get a little bored with just sipping coffee and looking out the window. He began thinking about that box up on the shelf. He eyed it all day and by the end of the day he couldn't help but touch it, but he made sure that no one, especially his foreman, was around.

The third day boredom completely overtook the man and he got up, rubbed his hand over the box then thought, "What could it hurt? No one's here and the boss will never know I looked inside." So he cracked open the box and saw a note. He had to know what it said. Lifting the lid fully he read, "See Jake, you couldn't keep from yielding to temptation either. It isn't all Adam's fault. If you'd been there you would have done the same thing. Now get back down on the floor and get back to work!"

The point is that we are all like Jake. We want to blame Adam or Eve or even the serpent for the curse on the earth. But when it comes right down to it, the fault lies at our own feet because the point of the story is that we are no better than Adam. We are all guilty of sin. That's why we need a savior and thank God for Jesus Christ!

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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