The Savior of the World
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world." (1 John 4:14)
This unique title of the Lord Jesus Christ assures us that when the Father sent His Son away from the glories of heaven down to a world lost in sin, it was not just to be the Messiah of the Jews, or to assume David's throne as King of Israel, or to punish the wicked Gentile nations. He came to save this world!
(John 3:17) "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved"
In fact, this special title is used only one other time in the Bible, and it was used by Samaritans rather than Jews when they came to know Jesus as He ministered among them for two days. These people were mostly of Gentile background with a mixture of Israeli blood who also had a mixture in religion that was part pagan and part Jewish.
But they were actually looking for a Savior, and their testimony after meeting Jesus was:
They perceived that He had come to bring salvation to lost sinners in every nation, not just to Israel or Samaria. As Jesus said,
"I came not to judge the world, but to save the world" (John 12:47).
And so He commanded His disciples that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations
Luke 24:46-47 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
He became the propitiation for the sins of the whole world
1 John 2:2-4 And he is the propitiation (atonement) for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 ¶ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
He became the propitiation when He offered up His life as a sacrifice for sins, then died and rose again.
Ac 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Cor. 15:1-5
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Jesus died to save the world but they world has to obey him to be saved. He is the savior of the world.
2 Thes 1:7-9
We who have believed on Him and have obyed him that he is our personal Savior are now to be His witnesses
"in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:8).
Act 8:4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.
What about you life are being a witnesses for Jesus Christ?
Have you obeyed the gospel?
Mark 16:16
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Gal. 3:27 – Acts 22:16
