2023-05-12 “Father sent the Son to be the Saviour”

I John 4:14  “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

Before our Lord was born, the angel explained His coming to Joseph like this: “And she [Mary] shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21).  Later, our Lord declared His reason for coming like this: “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.  39  And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” (John 6:38-39).  And, again, not long before He was crucified, our lord explained that He came to sacrifice Himself: “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.” (John 12:27).  Paul put it this way: “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.” (I Timothy 1:15).  In the mind and purpose of God; He had chosen a great multitude of people (Revelation 7:9) to love and to save to Eternal Heaven to be forever with Him.  When Adam disobeyed God (sinned), he rendered himself and all his posterity unjust before God and plunged them into a state of sin (Romans 5:12) from which they have insufficient righteousness (Isaiah 64:6) with which to recover or restore themselves; but our Lord was/is perfectly righteous and did “save his people from their sins” (Romans 5:15).  That is, “God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” [His “flesh” when He Sacrificed Himself] (Romans 8:3) rendering all “his people” just and righteous and perfectly fit for Eternal Heaven!  The Gospel declares that He did indeed, surely and finally, save everyone that His Father had given Him before the foundation of the world, and when it was done, He declared, “It is finished.” (John 19:30).  Therefore, when we die, our soul/spirit shall be taken to be with Him in His “paradise” (Luke 23:43).  Then, one Blessed and Holy Day, He will Command, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 25:34) and our bodies shall be raised from the dead and reunited with our soul/spirit and then we “shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (I Thessalonians 4:17).  This Blessed Gospel is for our “comfort” in this present life (Romans 15:4; I Thessalonians 4:18) while we await our departure!