The word "SAVIOUR" is both a name and title.
God saw fit to approve its proper use as SEVEN letters in the holy scriptures, not six letters as is commonly used today for all manner of "saviors". The perfect divine number of perfection is SEVEN, not six, the number of man and sin.
We call THE SAVIOUR's name, Jesus Christ and his full title is THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. He is the express image of God...and the fullness of the GODHEAD bodily according to Hebrews 1:3 and Colossians 2 in the holy scriptures:
"Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on
high..." (Heb. 1:3)
"For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." (Col. 2:9)
No one else can qualify as the SAVIOUR because ONLY GOD can save mankind from sin.
The first human being and the first human "son of God" was ADAM. He failed miserably even though he was a direct creation by God from the dust of the earth. God breathed life into him and placed him in a perfect environment with every possible benefit but one. He was not yet sealed in holiness.
Adam had to first show his loyalty and obedience to the LORD, His Creator, thereby being made holy and beyond any adverse effects caused by the wrong use of his free will. The potential for evil was there and had to be overcome. Free will made it possible to activate the "mystery of iniquity" (SIN).
Let's see a passage from the Gospel of John that makes profound declarations about the SAVIOUR:
John 1: 29 starts a new paragraph in the holy scriptures:
"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. 31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. 32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God." (emphasis mine)
What have we seen thus far?
The SAVIOUR, the LORD Jesus Christ is:
- the LAMB of God,
- the Son of God,
- the fulness of the Godhead bodily
- the express image of the Godhead
- He baptizes with the Holy Ghost
to be continued.....
