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Saviour of the World

Whom say ye that I am? How should we answer this question to: night? If it should be that we have only a vague opinion about Christ, that in answer to this question we are hesitant and indefinite, then may I remind you that your Eternal welfare hinges on your relationship to Jesus Christ. An answer that lacks the love and joy of/personal conviction, means that Jesus Christ is nothing more to you than a mere figure of history. Chris its purest and truest sense is a personal thing, it is a matter of being righ related to the Lord Jesus. All is not well if we can only say, Jesus Christ is a Saviour, or the Saviour of the world; is He My Saviour? Can I read my name into the promises and declarations of God's word? In those verds of our Saviour's passion can I read 'He was wounded for my trans and by His stripes I am healed' gain, 'God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that (change whosoever' and repeat your name)

believing in Him should not but have everlasting life'?

s' Word- is full of personal testimonies and confessions of Him; it mattered supremely to the Psalmist that he could write: The Lord is my Shepherd.

The Good Shepherd Spending a holiday amo hills, two Christian men fell in with a shepherd lad and his sheep. To their surprise the lad knew nothing of the Good Shepherd, and they told him some of the shepherd stories of the Bible. They left the lad with a parting word about the preciousness of the Lord Jesus as a personal Shepherd. To help him to remember the opening words of Psalm 23 they taught the shepherd lad to spell out the first five words, on the thumb and fingers of his left hand, 'The Lord is my shepherd,' gripping the third finger when he came to the fourth word my.' Twelve months passed

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