HE SAVED US – Titus 3:5

This is a three word summary of the gospel we preach: He saved us.

He: God. God did all of the saving. God the Father elected a people unto salvation. God the Son redeemed those people by the blood of His sacrifice for them. God the Holy Spirit calls those people to Christ and gives them life and faith to come. God keeps and preserves those people and brings them to glory by the power of His grace and love for them.

Saved. God saved His elect from all of their sin. He redeemed His people by paying their sin debt with His precious blood. Christ saved His people from the curse of the law by being made a curse for them and dying the death that they deserve. (Gal. 3:13)

Us. Christ didn’t come to try to save as many people as might would decide to accept Him. Christ came to save a specific people: the people the Father gave Him to save (John 17:9). Christ came to save those people who belong to Him because the Father gave them to Him (Matt. 1:21). Christ came to save His sheep and only His sheep (John 10:15).

All of the “us” who are chosen, called, and believe on Christ are fully and eternally saved because He saved us.

Pastor

THE HEIR(S) OF GOD

“And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.” (Genesis 25:5)

There are many places in the book of Genesis where Isaac is typical of the Lord Jesus Christ. Isaac was the promised seed. (Genesis 21:12) Isaac voluntarily laid upon the altar as a sacrifice in total obedience to his father. (Genesis 22) It was Isaac that had his bride sought out by his father and drawn to him through the word of his father’s servant. (Genesis 24) It is in our text that Isaac, as the sole heir of Abraham, is given all that his father had. What a glorious picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Promised Seed, the Substitute and the Sacrifice for sin, that heavenly Bridegroom who is the heir of all that belongs to God His Father.

However, this verse makes us aware of another blessed fact and truth that may not at first be seen. Rebekah, the sought-out bride of Isaac, being his wife, also shared in father Abraham’s inheritance. She is a beautiful picture of the believer, the chosen bride, who is made a joint-heir with Christ. All the wealth, comfort and pleasure that Isaac enjoyed as Abraham’s heir, Rebekah also enjoyed as Isaac’s wife. Doesn’t that blessed thought and truth make the apostle Paul’s words in Romans chapter 8, verse 17 even more glorious to God’s people? “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ...”

Truly, all that God the Father has given to His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has also been given to the elect of God who were chosen to be His bride before the foundation of the world. All that is God’s belongs to Christ. All that is Christ’s belongs to His Bride. The children of God are heirs of God, because they are joint-heirs with Christ, and they are joint-heirs with Christ because they are the children of God. Everything that God is going to do for His people, He is going to do through His Son, His Heir, our Lord, Savior and heavenly Husband, Jesus Christ.

Pastor David Eddmenson

What servant chooses his own task? His own place of labor? His own time of service? Does not the faithful servant ask, “Lord, what would you have me to do?” Everybody wants to take the floor, few care to sweep it.