Gospel Gazette Online
Volume 28 Number 4 April 2026
Page 12

Our Savior, Jesus

Gary Hampton

Jesus is more than a baby in a manger. His very name means “Savior.” He understood that role from the time He left Heaven. After all, He is eternal. He told the Jews, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58 NKJV). John described Him in the opening words of his record of the life of our Lord. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1–2). John and the writer of the letter to the Hebrew Christians said He was the Creator (John 1:3; Hebrews 1:1–3).

Jesus knows me. I am not accurate if I say, “No one knows how I feel.” The Lord “had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man” (John 2:25). Some scribes were thinking Jesus was blaspheming when He told the paralytic his sins were forgiven. Jesus asked, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Which is easier to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk?’” (Mark 2:1–12). The Lord knows my thoughts.

Jesus loves me. His love is shown in what He did for me and everyone else. He proclaimed, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” He also declared, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep” (John 15:13; 10:11).

The Savior gives me access to the Father. Paul wrote to the young preacher, “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). Our Lord offered His blood in His death on Calvary. He is, therefore, fully qualified to serve as “the Mediator of the new covenant” (Hebrews 9:14–15). He is at God’s right hand. He is able to “sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:14–16).

Let us all resolve to magnify the name of our wonderful Savior!