SAVIOR AND LORD

 

    A. W. Tozer

 

    For by grace are ye saved through faith. . . it is the gift of God.

    (Ephesians 2:8)

 

       God chose His only begotten Son as the channel for His

    grace and truth, for John witnesses that "grace and truth

    came by Jesus Christ!"

 

       The Law was given by Moses, but that was all that

    Moses  could  do.  He  could  only  "command"

    righteousness.  In contrast, only Jesus Christ produces

    righteousness.

 

       All that Moses could do was to forbid us to sin.  In

    contrast, Jesus Christ came to save us from sin.

 

       Moses could not save any one, but Jesus Christ

    is both Savior and Lord.

 

       Grace came through Jesus Christ before Mary wept in

    the manger stall in Bethlehem. It was the grace of God in

    Christ that saved the human race from extinction when

    our first parents sinned in the Garden.

 

       It is plain in history that God forgave Israel time and

    time again.  It was the grace of God in Christ prior to the

    Incarnation that made God say: "I have risen early in the

    morning and stretched out my hands to you!" 

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    Yours in Christ,

 

    Paul N. F.