Isaiah 43:10-11 “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.”
Here is where men get into playing word games. We need to ask ourselves a few questions. Did Jesus speak of himself as the source of the strength that saves us?
Do you recall that Moses was not permitted of God to enter the Promised Land after he took credit to himself for splitting the stone and providing water for the people? Did Jesus do that? John 10:29 “My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.”
Yet Moses was being used of God to save God’s people, just as Jesus. At that time the name of Moses was the highest name given “under heaven” to whom people had to look if they desired salvation. Today that highest name given “under heaven” is Jesus. Acts 4:12 “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
John 14:28 “Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.”
Ponder and think:
Hebrews 3:1”Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
We know that the Father built all things through his Son and for his Son, because of his good pleasure in his Son.
Many miss that the prophet greater than Moses Peter spoke of in Acts chapter 3 was Jesus. They mistakenly think it refers to John the Baptist. It is similar with Acts chapter 7. Some among you do know it was Jesus. For those that have not before understood this it is time that you do. For those of you that do understand this it is time for you to do more with that understanding.
Jesus does not usurp his Father as savior. Jesus perfectly operates in his Father’s will by means of his Father’s power to do that saving and never takes the credit to himself. Jesus is his Father’s channel whereby that saving is accomplished.