Jesus Is A Savior

The name Jesus means The Lord saves. The word save means to deliver, or set free. The name Jesus therefore means The Lord our Deliverer, or The Lord is a Deliverer.

MATTHEW 1:21 NKJ
21 "And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins."

LUKE 2:10-11 NKJ
10 Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.
11 "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Jesus Came To Deliver Us

JOHN 3:17 NKJ
17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

LUKE 9:56 NKJ
56 "For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." . . . .

ACTS 4:12 NKJ
12 "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

ROMANS 10:9,13 NKJ
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
13 For "whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Call on Jesus. He will deliver you. Deliverance is available now.

LUKE 4:18 NKJ
18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

What is Jesus a savior from? All the devil's works -- and their effects: sickness, poverty and lack, sin, death, and the devil's dominion.

From Sickness

MATTHEW 9:35 NKJ
35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

1 PETER 2:24 NKJ
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.

From Poverty and Lack

MATTHEW 14:15-21 NKJ
15 When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food."
16 But Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."
17 And they said to Him, "We have here only five loaves and two fish."
18 He said, "Bring them here to Me."
19 Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
20 So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.
21 Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

MATTHEW 17:24,27 NKJ
24 And when they had come to Capernaum, those who received the temple tax came to Peter and said, "Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?"
27 "Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you."

From Sin

1 TIMOTHY 1:15 NKJ
15 . . . Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

HEBREWS 9:26 NKJ
26 . . . He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

1 PETER 2:24 NKJ
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness . . . .

ROMANS 8:2 NKJ
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

From The Devil's Dominion

MATTHEW 8:16 NKJ
16 When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,

COLOSSIANS 1:13 NKJ
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

MARK 16:17 NKJ
17 "And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;

LUKE 10:19 NKJ
19 "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

From Death

2 TIMOTHY 1:10 NKJ
10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

LUKE 7:14-15 NKJ
14 Then He came and touched the open coffin, and those who carried him stood still. And He said, "Young man, I say to you, arise."
15 And he who was dead sat up and began to speak. And He presented him to his mother.

JOHN 11:43-44 NKJ
43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth!"
44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Loose him, and let him go."

JOHN 11:25 NKJ
25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.


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