APRIL 18

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

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Galatians 2:20

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” –

 1 Corinthians 1:18

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

Hebrews 12:2

“Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” –

Is 12:2

“Behold, God is my salvation,  I will trust and not be afraid;  ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song;  He also has become my salvation.’ ”

Philippians 2:6-8

“Who, being in very nature God,  did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;  rather, He made Himself nothing  by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. and being found in appearance as a man, He  humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!”

Isaiah 53:6

“All we like sheep have gone astray;  we have turned, every one, to his own way;and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”

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Our book for this month  is called “100 NAMES OF GOD”  written by Christopher D. Hudson.  Each day we’ll take one Hebrew name for God as given in the Bible to study and relate to.

EL-MOSHAAH

THE GOD WHO SAVES

Psalm 68:20

“Our God is a God who saves: from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.”

(On this Good Friday, we will honor Christ’s sacrifice by honoring the Trinity as the God who saves.   No one tells it better than the prophet Isaiah almost 700 years before Christ was even born, and at a time when the practice of crucifixion was unheard of.  Yet, the details are perfect…..just one of the hundreds of prophetic proofs of Jesus as the True Messiah of mankind, written by many different prophets, at different times, and who never met each other ~ ~ all of which were fulfilled to perfection hundreds of years later.  Only God can do that.

Isaiah Chapter 53:

“Who has believed our report?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,

And as a root out of dry ground.

He has no form or comeliness;

And when we see Him,

There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

He is despised and rejected by men,

A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Surely He has borne our griefs

And carried our sorrows;

Yet we esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten by God, and afflicted.

But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray;

We have turned, every one, to his own way;

And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He opened not His mouth;

He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,

And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,

So He opened not His mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgment,

And who will declare His generation?

For He was cut off from the land of the living;

For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

And they made His grave with the wicked—

But with the rich at His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;

He has put Him to grief.

When You make His soul an offering for sin,

He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,

And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.

By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,

For He shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,

And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,

Because He poured out His soul unto death,

And He was numbered with the transgressors,

And He bore the sin of many,

And made intercession for the transgressors.”

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EL MOSHAAH

THE GOD WHO SAVES

Each god in antiquity was known for a certain strength or ability.  Zeus was known as the king of gods.  Athena was considered the goddess of war.  Apollo was regarded as the god of the sun.  Poseidon was the god of the sea.  Aphrodite was worshipped as the goddess of love and beauty.  Ares was the god of war.

Israel’s God set Himself apart by identifying Himself as the “GOD WHO SAVES. ~ EL-MOSHAAH.”  What could be more meaningful to any human anywhere than escaping death.  (And more importantly, in relation to the salvation of Christ………..escaping the second death……eternal hell.)

Death has been humanity’s “last enemy” ~ as we see in 1 Corinthians 15:26 ~ almost since the beginning of time.  God told Adam and Eve in Genesis chapters 2 and 3, that when they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they would certainly die.  Despite this overt, stark warning, our original ancestors chose to rebel anyway.  Their choice plunged the world into sin and brokenness.  Since then, human existence has been marked by death – both spiritual and physical.

But in identifying Himself as the God who saves, God declares Himself as the One who can free us from all the consequences of sin – up to and including death.  His poured-out, resurrected life is able to undo the curse of the fall into sin by Adam and Eve.  His death pays for sin.  His resurrection brings new life.  This is the Good News.  These blessings can be ours – salvation can be experienced – if we believe 

John 5:24 ~ ~ “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”

Our God is the God who saves.  Of course, He does much more than that.  He is not limited to one “specialty” like Athena or Apollo.  In addition to saving, He creates, redeems, delivers, protects, and so much more.

Who or what needs saving in your life today?  Call upon EL MOSHAAH, THE GOD WHO SAVES.

In how many different ways has God saved you?

PRAYER

God, I praise You for saving  me.  In Jesus, whose name means “the Lord is salvation,” You have saved me from sin and so much more.  Please open my eyes that I may see all the different ways You deliver me.  Amen

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