Christ Alone

500 years ago Martin Luther put 95 thesis on the door of the Wittenberg church. He didn’t put it there to be published, but soon it was published by some of his followers. Later the Five’ Solas’ of Reformation came into being.

1.    Sola Scriptura (“Scripture alone”): The Bible alone is our highest authority.
2.    Sola Fide (“faith alone”): We are saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
3.    Sola Gratia (“grace alone”): We are saved by the grace of God alone.
4.    Solus Christus (“Christ alone”): Jesus Christ alone is our Lord, Saviour, and King.
5.    Soli Deo Gloria (“to the glory of God alone”): We live for the glory of God alone.

All these five ‘Solas’became the Slogans of Protestantism.
We are here thinking about Christ alone is the way of Salvation. You may think it is irrelevant here?  

 I have posed this question to some of the Christian leaders, but I was surprised to see that they could not answer properly and some of them believed that people of O.T. had a different way for salvation.
Scripture clearly says that in Acts 4:12 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” And in John 14:6”  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” and in 1 Tim 2:5 “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.”

We have to understand that from Genesis to Revelation, Jesus is the only way for our salvation. It is true that  several of the Old Testament saints didn’t understand Jesus Christ as a historical person as we know, namely where Jesus is going to be born, when and how is going to be born etc. Nevertheless, they believed what God said and it was counted as righteousness. Abraham said in Gen 22:14 “The Lord will provide---------‘In John 1:29 we read, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”   Again, in John 1.56 we read. “Behold the lamb of God”. In Jn. 8:56 we read “Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”

 Rev. M. V. Abraham

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