John 3:17

Sent by God on a mission to save, Jesus came not to judge nor to condemn nor to pass sentence rather to redeem. We are told the following in Scripture:

21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." Matt 1:21 (NIV)

10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost." Luke 19:10 (NIV)

For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. John 12:47 (NIV)

14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 1 John 4:14 (NIV)

Indeed, Jesus came to save – to deliver us from that spiritual death which is common to all men because of Adam’s sin. He sought to make us whole and to preserve us from danger, loss or destruction. God’s own arm worked this salvation for us:

The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice. 16 He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm worked salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him. Isaiah 59:15-16 (NIV)

“He came into the world with salvation in His eye, with salvation in His hand...God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and so saving it. This is good news to a convinced conscience, healing to broken bones and bleeding wounds, that Christ, our judge, came not to condemn, but to save.” Matthew Henry

“Israel was totally incapable of helping herself. Only God could help her. This is true of salvation in any era. No one can save himself. Only God can forgive sin and change a person’s heart.” Bible Knowledge Commentary

12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12 (NIV)

6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 (NIV)

Salvation, contrary to what many may believe, is only possible through the blood of Christ – Jesus stresses this. He is the only access to the Father, He is the only One from the Father, and He is the only way to the Father.

9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10 (NIV)

“No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ. God does this, not because Jesus pleads with Him to do so but because He died. It cannot be earned, just accepted. All the pleading for salvation which deliberately ignores the Cross of Christ is useless. It is knocking at a door other than the one which Jesus has already opened. We protest by saying, ‘But I don’t want to come that way. It is too humiliating to be received as a sinner.’ God’s response, through Peter, is, ‘...there is no other name...by which we must be saved’ (Acts 4:12). What at first appears to be heartlessness on God’s part is actually the true expression of His heart. There is unlimited entrance His way. ‘In Him we have redemption through His blood...’ (Ephesians 1:7). To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him. God is just in saving bad people only as He makes them good. Our Lord does not pretend we are all right when we are all wrong. The atonement by the Cross of Christ is the propitiation God uses to make unholy people holy.” Oswald Chambers

“Unbelief, therefore, which refuses to accept of this great gift, is, no doubt, the greatest of all sins. O Lord, teach me this, and grant me faith. ...Therefore delay no longer to receive what his love has offered thee, but firmly believe that the Father loves thee as well as the Son.” K. H. Von Bogatzky

1 As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. 2 For he says,
"In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation. 2 Cor 6:1-2 (NIV)

“Author of faith, to thee I lift my weary, longing eyes; Oh let me now receive that gift – my soul without it dies.” K. H. Von Bogatzky