Jesus had to tell the Jews of His own time that Moses was not the one who supplied manna from heaven. The people had obviously raised Moses to the throne of God. And we have done similarly for others in our own time. There is only one real hero in Scripture. Only one. His name is Jesus. The rest of them are ordinary, flawed human beings—just like us. We are not called be as good as they were, we are called to be far better. The blood of Jesus is the empowerment to launch us towards achieving this impossible target.
Saviour
William Tyndale
He is our Redeemer, Deliverer, Reconciler, Mediator, Intercessor, Advocate, Attorney, Solicitor, our Hope, Comfort, Shield, Protection, Defender, Strength, Health, Satisfaction and Salvation. His blood, his death, all that he ever did, is ours. And Christ himself, with all that he is or can do, is ours… And God (as great as he is) is mine, with all that he has, through Christ and his purchasing.
C S Lewis
You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call Him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
Ernest Salmond
There is doubt, fear, anger, frustration, confusion about all that is going on. Trying to figure out what is true what is false, who is lying and who isn’t. I think we can all agree it is a mess. Have you ever been in a barn this time of year, it is always a mess, you know what I mean. Yet it was in a barn that God chose to have His Son born, right in the middle of that mess. The world of Jesus’s day was a mess just like ours is today and yet Jesus stepped right into the middle of it. He came to bring hope, peace, love, forgiveness, redemption, He came to be a light in the darkness.
Reinhard Bonnke
When God said ‘Let there be …’ He knew things would go badly wrong, but He left a door open to come in and put things right. It involved the Lamb being slain in some mysterious sense. The Saviour was the Creator. He made a world in which to be crucified. This planet was to be the scene of everlasting redemption. It was founded for salvation, bearing the mark of the Cross
Katherine Walden
They say it is best not to move around when you know you are lost, set up a signal fire and wait. And so the light of Jesus – His flame – fires up within us, beckoning Himself to us. Now, how is that for amazing? Be still, call out to Him and anticipate His rescue.
R.C. Sproul
God just doesn’t throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.