Friday’s Feature Quote – Devotional – Plus Interesting Reads – 07/14/2023 – Faithful Steward Ministries and FSM Women's Outreach

I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior.

—John Newton (1725-1807), Anglican clergyman

Bible Truth Behind the Quote:

The apostle Paul emphasized that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost” (1 Timothy 1:15). Paul recognized that even he was a great sinner, but he also knew he had a great Savior (see Titus 2:13-14).
Ron Rhodes, 1001 Unforgettable Quotes about God, Faith, & the Bible (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2011).

ISAIAH 43:11

Here in our text today, God proclaims in no uncertain terms that He is (I, IAM) the one and only true God. Interestingly this is Old Testament and we see a very common New Testament word in use Savior. It helps to read this in CONTEXT

10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. 11 I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior. 12 I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and I am God.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Is 43:10–12.

43:11 Lord—Jehovah.

savior—temporally, from Babylon: eternally, from sin and hell (Ho 13:4; Ac 4:12). The same titles as are applied to God are applied to Jesus.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, vol. 1 (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997), 479.

43:10–11 my witnesses. God calls His people to publicly stand for the truth that He is the only God and Savior, like those who testify in a courtroom (44:8; Acts 1:8). Their witness is linked to their public praise of the Lord (v. 21).

Joel R. Beeke, Michael P. V. Barrett, and Gerald M. Bilkes, eds., The Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014), 1005.

I AM THAT I AM. One of the distinguishing names and characters of JEHOVAH. (See Exod. 3:14.) and this solemn name demands our greater veneration and reverence because it is the very name by which the Lord was pleased to reveal himself to Moses at the bush. The very expression carries with it its own explanation; that is, as far as creatures, such as we are, can enter into an apprehension of the meaning. When JEHOVAH saith, I AM THAT I AM, it is setting forth a right and power of existence, exclusive of every other. Of all others, some have been, some now are, and some may be. But then all these that have been, or are, or may be; all are what they are from Him, and by his appointment. But He that is I AM, is, and must be always, and eternally the same. His is a self-existence, underived, independent, subject to no change, and impossible to be any other; “the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.” (Heb. 13:8.)

And what tends yet more to endear it to the heart of his people is, that this glorious name becomes the security of all his promises. I AM, gives being to all that he hath said, and becomes a most sure security for the fulfilment of all that he hath promised. Oh! for grace to bend with the lowest humbleness to the dust of the earth, in token of our nothingness before this great and almighty I AM. And no less to rest in holy faith and hope, in the most perfect confidence, that He will perform all his promises. And, reader! do not overlook by whom, and in whom, this and every other revelation is made. Always connect the I AM speaking from the bush to Moses, (Exod. 3:14.) with the I AM speaking in the gospel, (John 8:58.) And oh! that God the Holy Ghost, may give grace to discover that both are one and the same. (John 10:30.) See JEHOVAH.

Robert Hawker, The Poor Man’s Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures (London: Ebenezer Palmer, 1828), 44–45.

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