Acts 4:12. Salvation is found in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
Many people say, “There is no God.” But Scripture says they are fools, their hearts are corrupt, and their actions are evil (Psalm 14:1). No matter what they think or say, the truth does not change. It is not that God does not exist, but that they have not met Him, the Creator of all things.
And yet, people do not know the reason for their unhappiness—the eternal separation from their Creator. They do not realize that life apart from God is subject to death, disasters, and calamities. Why, then, can’t people meet God? They have left God and cannot find ways to return to Him.
As a result, their spirits died (Ephesians 2:1). Spiritual death means that the Spirit of God is not with them (Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:16-17). After the Fall (Genesis 3:1-6), spiritual death came upon everyone, and Satan’s spirit began to control them (1 Corinthians 2:12).
People became ignorant of God’s will, and their knowledge and wisdom darkened (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12). Nevertheless, people have been striving to meet God. Because God made only mankind a spiritual being, only people instinctively try to find God (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
Some people think they can meet God if they are sincere and upright. Some people believe they can meet God by following a religion, so they diligently follow all the rules (Matthew 12:43-45). But people cannot meet God because they do not understand the fundamental problems of mankind: Satan, sin, and hell.
Finding a solution to the problem one cannot understand is impossible. As a corpse cannot move, a spiritually dead person’s efforts are useless. An unsaved person’s efforts only produce external changes. Even though their efforts may be noble or good, they are not worthy of salvation.
There is nothing on earth good enough to get to heaven. The person who has not received salvation cannot meet God. Without receiving salvation, people cannot know God. Without being born again, people cannot see God (John 3:3-5).
Salvation means freedom from the hand of Satan. Salvation means coming out of the bondage of sin. Salvation means freedom from the power of hell. No one can earn salvation by any means. Human efforts cannot give life to a spirit. No one on earth has the power to defeat Satan (Acts 4:12). Salvation is God’s grace (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Knowing we have lost ways to return to Him, God came to meet with us instead. Jesus said, “I am the way” (John 14:6). Jesus opened a new and living way back to God by His death and resurrection, crushing the power of the devil who has been keeping us from meeting with God.
By sacrificing His own Son, God reconciled us to Himself. He did not want us to remain as His enemies. Because of what Christ has done on the cross, we now have peace with God through Christ (Romans 5:1). The Holy Spirit lives in us (John 14:16), leads us (John 14:26), and tells us what is yet to come (John 16:13).
God has also entrusted us with the task of bringing people into peace with Him. He gave us the message of reconciliation to tell people. So, we have been sent to speak for Christ. It is like God calling people through us. We speak for Christ when we deliver the message of reconciliation to the world. There is only one name to preach, Jesus the Christ, who had no sin, but God made Him become sin so that in Him we could be right with God (2 Corinthians 5:18-21).
Prayer. Father, I thank You for opening a new and living way to You through Christ and giving me the name above all names, Jesus. Fill me with the Holy Spirit, so I may continue to deliver the message of reconciliation to those living under the power of the devil. In Jesus’ name, Amen.