Jesus is Savior

I want to look at Jesus as Savior first because this is how we come to know Jesus first. When we realize that we are dead in our sin (Rom. 3:23), we know that we need a savior. Jesus is that savior (John 3:17, For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. NASB). Jesus’ purpose in this world was to bring salvation through His death and resurrection. His death paid the penalty for our sin, and He gives us the gift of eternal life (Rom. 6:23) through His resurrection. “But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” Eph. 2:4-7 (NASB).

Salvation happens once. We do not continually have to recommit our lives to His salvation of our souls.