Remember Jesus, the founder of our salvation

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation [perfect through suffering]. Hebrews 2:10, brackets because I'll talk about that tomorrow. 

If there is no Jesus, there is no salvation. God knows the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10), so Jesus was not a back up plan. God asks Jesus to live a sinless human life and die as a sacrificial Lamb, and Jesus willfully, humbly obeys. 

Now, it doesn't take a genius to see that Christians would not exist without Christ. Think about how different your life would be of Jesus didn't exist. You would have no faith, no foundation. I think of everything I have in Christ, and it is clear that His salvation is like nothing else. 

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12 

Jesus is it. He is the only Savior. And His death and resurrection is the method ordained to demonstrate the riches of God's mercy, glory and grace. 

If Jesus is not the founder of our salvation, we have some problems: 

- preaching is in vain 

- faith is in vain 

- we misrepresent God 

- faith is futile 

- we are still in our sins 

(Taken from 1 Corinthians 15:12-19) 

But here is the promise we have in the resurrection - 

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

Thanks be to Jesus, who found sand secured our salvation!