16 November ACTS 4

There is salvation in no one else

Acts 4:12(NLT) There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”

What does it mean that there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved? God makes it very clear: Jesus is the only way to the Father. This verse also confirms that there are no other names under heaven by which we must be saved. There is no other person who can save us. Only Jesus saves.

John 3:16-17(ESV) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 14:6(AMP) Jesus said to him, “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Hebrews 2:3(NLT) So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak?

1 Peter 3:18(ESV) For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Romans 10:9-11(ESV) because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

1 John 5:10-12(ESV) Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

I conclude with a quote from Jim Elliff: “When a person is sick, the doctor may prescribe medicine. What heals the man? Is it the medicine, or his reaching out for the medicine? Christ is the only solution for your problem of sin and judgment. He is the medicine. Who else but Christ can rescue you and bring you into the forgiven family of God? He is the exclusive way to God. He is a narrow way, but a sufficient one. But how do you reach out to Christ? By repentance and faith.”