Nuggets from An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith by Dave Hunt -Our God and Savior

Nuggets from An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith by Dave Hunt – Our God and Savior

The New Testament testifies that God is the Savior. The expression “God our Savior” is used repeatedly: 1 Timothy:1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
See All...; 2:3; Titus:2:10Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
See All...; 3:4; Jude 25. But for God to pay the penalty for mankind’s sins would itself not be just, because He is not one of us. God would have to become a man in order to represent us in payment of sin. How could He do that and remain God in control of the universe? Only if God is three Persons yet One.

At the same time that it declares that God is the only Savior, the New Testament makes it equally clear that Jesus Christ is the Savior. The angel of the Lord tells Joseph in a dream that Mary, the virgin to whom he is engaged to be married, is with child of the Holy Spirit, that she will give birth to a son, and he instructs Joseph: “Thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins” (Matthew:1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
See All...). Announcing the birth of Jesus to the shepherds, the angel of the Lord tells them: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke:2:11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
See All...). The expression “the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour” or the equivalent is found repeatedly : Philippians:3:20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
See All...; 2 Timothy:1:10But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
See All...; Titus:1:4To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
See All.... It follows, then, that Jesus must be God come to earth as a man through the virgin birth, and the New Testament declares that fact again and again: Titus:2:13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
See All..., Jude 25.

In the Old Testament, after making it crystal clear that He alone is the Savior, God proceeds to introduce the One whom He calls, “my servant” and reveals that He is to be the Savior of the world. Of Him God says, “that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isaiah:49:6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
See All...). How is He to save the world from the penalty of sin? God, who is the only Savior, tells us through His prophet that His servant, who, it becomes clear, is the Messiah, must suffer and die for sin: “Behold my servant…his visage was so marred more than any man…He is despised and rejected…a man of sorrows…wounded for our transgression…bruised for our iniquities…he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken…it pleased the Lord [Yahweh] to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin…shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities…because he hath poured out his soul unto death” (Isaiah:52:13-14 [13] Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. [14] As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
See All...; 53:3-13).