THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION

Thursday April 01, 2004 04:37:44 PM -0500

 

 

      This e-mail was sent to me accompanied by an Easter greetings from a friend:

“Would the Creator, with all the power and wisdom of the universe, make us all so different and then deem only one right way to get to His kingdom? I would think not. As an expression of the awesome power of the ultimate creative energy, we the people have been blessed to bring forth various expressions.” The following was my response to this e-mail.

THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION

ACTS 4 verses 8-12 " THEN PETER, FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID TO THEM, "RULERS AND ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE, IF WE ARE BEING CALLED TODAY TO ACCOUNT FOR AN ACT OF KINDNESS SHOWN TO A CRIPPLE AND ARE ASKED HOW HE WAS HEALED, THEN KNOW THIS, YOU AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL: IT IS BY THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, WHOM YOU CRUCIFIED BUT WHOM GOD RAISED FROM THE DEAD, THAT THIS MAN STANDS BEFORE YOU HEALED. HE (Jesus) IS THE STONE THE BUILDERS REJECTED, WHICH HAS BECOME THE CORNERSTONE".

"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." ACTS 4 verse 8-12

Matthew 1 verse 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."

John chapter 1. “In the beginning was the WORD and the WORD was with God and the WORD WAS GOD...He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made, without him NOTHING was made.....verse 14 .....and the Word became FLESH (Jesus) and made his dwelling among us”.. This tell us that Christ who was the WORD, became flesh as MAN, but it also confirms that Christ IS all in all GOD, remember it said the WORD WAS IN THE BEGINNING, Remember Acts 4 verse 8 SALVATION IS FOUND IN NO ONE ELSE, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN TO MEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED... would this not mean EXACTLY what it says, Jesus Christ is the only way...NO OTHER WAY MEANS NO OTHER WAY as I understand it.

John 14 verse 6 JESUS told them "I am the Way the Truth and the Life, NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME. If you had known who I am then you would have known who my Father is. From now on you know him and have seen him”. Philip said "Lord show us the Father and we will be satisfied”. Jesus replied "Philip, don't you even yet know who I am, even after all the time I have been with you? ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER. (isn’t Jesus telling Philip here that he indeed is God?)

 

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