Mighty To Save!!

Jeremy Camp "Mighty To Save"

Song & Lyrics for Jeremy Camp's song "Mighty To Save" from the We Cry Out : The Worship Project

THERE'S NOBODY LIKE HIM!

"I AM THE LORD, AND BESIDES ME THERE IS NO SAVIOUR" (IZAIAH 43:11)

 The Israelites were commanded not to make any 'graven image' of God.  Why? Because God made us, we didn't make Him.   A God you can make is a god you can control and make do whatever you wish.   The ancient Greeks had a host of gods, all created by men.   Some demanded human sacrifice;  others permitted prostitution, and even promoted it in their temples.   When we reverse the order and start to create God in our own image (according to our own imagination) we get the following things;
1.   A god who's liberal or conservative, a hawk or a dove;  a god politicians conveniently pull out of a box at election time to gain votes even though they don't truly serve him.
2.   A flexible god who permits you to do whatever you want, and you  can then say, 'I just felt led to do it.'
3.   A god who promises to bless his children but never disciplines them.
4.   A god you can 'keep in his place'  until you need him.
5.   A god who is not supreme, but happy to be one of many deities offering many ways to heaven.   Not so!
      God says, 'I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no saviour.'   Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me' {John 14:6 NKJV}.
Jesus doesn't need a makeover to bring Him into alignment with the Internet and the space age.   He is Lord!
Indeed, if He is not Lord over all, He is not Lord at all!

GIVE ME JESUS - There is no one else like JESUS!

THERE IS NOBODY LIKE HIM!

'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, Hear Him!   {Matthew 17:5 NKJV}

On the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses, the law giver, and Elijah, who represents the prophets, stood side by side with Jesus.   But Jesus outshone them all.   The Bible says, 'His clothes shimmered, glistening white, whiter than any bleach could make them'
{Mark 9:3 TM}.   In that moment Jesus was God in His purest form.   Awed by Him, Peter said
"Lord ... if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles; one for You, one for Moses, and one for
Elijah"  {Matthew 17:4 NKJV}.   It was a sincere sentiment, but it was sincerely wrong.
'While he was still speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came
out of the cloud, saying,  "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.   Hear Him!"
The word beloved implies 'unique.'     There is no one else like JESUS!
Not Moses, Not Elijah, Not Peter, Not Zoroaster, Buddha, or Muhammad. 
No one in Heaven or on Earth.   Three shrines would have made Moses and Elijah equal with Christ, and God would have none of it.   Only one shrine should be built, because only one person on the mountain deserved to be worshiped. 'When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid'  {Matthew 17:6 NKJV}. 
     The one who hung the stars in space and left Pharaoh dead at the bottom of the Red Sea stood
among them to end up face down on the ground.  
HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU FELT SUCH REVERENCE FOR GOD?
                                                 

JESUS IS AT CENTER OF MY LIFE!

I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE {John 6:35}
I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD {John 8:12}
I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE {John 11:25,26.}
I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE EVERLASTING {John 14:6}
RECEIVE ME _ RECEIVE GOD {Matthew 10:40}
COME TO ME {Matthew 11:28,29}

2Ch 7:14  if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 

“And they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.”
Act_4:13

A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life of Christ is His living biography, written out in the words and actions of his people. If we were what we profess to be, and what we should be, we should be pictures of Christ; 
yea, such striking likenesses of Him, that the world would not have to hold us up by the hour together, and say, “Well, it seems somewhat of a likeness;” but they would, when they once beheld us, exclaim, “He has been with Jesus; he has been taught of him; he is like him; he has caught the very idea of the holy Man of Nazareth, and he works it out in his life and every-day actions.” 
A Christian should be like Christ in his boldness. Never blush to own your religion; your profession will never disgrace you: take care you never disgrace that. 
Be like Jesus, very valiant for your God. 
Imitate him in your loving spirit; 
think kindly, speak kindly, and do kindly, 
that men may say of you, “He has been with Jesus.” Imitate Jesus in His holiness. Was he zealous for his Master? So be you; ever go about doing good. Let not time be wasted: it is too precious. 
Was he self-denying, never looking to his own interest? Be the same. Was he devout? Be you fervent in your prayers. 
Had he deference to his Father’s will? 
So submit yourselves to him. 
Was he patient? So learn to endure. 
And best of all, as the highest portraiture of Jesus, try to forgive your enemies, as he did; and let those sublime words of your Master, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do,” always ring in your ears. Forgive, as you hope to be forgiven. Heap coals of fire on the head of your foe by your kindness to him. Good for evil, recollect, is godlike. 
Be godlike, then; and in all ways and by all means, so live that all may say of you, “He has been with Jesus.”

 Do you know where you are going?  All who want to go to heaven "YOU Must be Born Again."  Jesus talked about heaven, and He said, "In my Father's House are many mansions."  Also He said "I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father but by me."  {John ch 14 v 2,6}.

God did not create the religions of the world; man did, to satisfy his conscience!  Man is "forever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." {2Timothy 3v7} This is not religion, it is life!

Do you know the one who died on the cross for you?
When Jesus came He told us something that no religion has ever thought of, and which contradicts the basic principle of all religions.  He said, "Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God."  {John 3v3}.  

Jesus said that He is the only way to heaven.  What did He mean?  He meant a spiritual birth whereby a person is able to confess his sins to Jesus Christ, accept Him as Savior, and Lord and receive a new life.

This is the Gospel.

Look and Live .  Out of Religion, and into Christ!
May we offer this prayer as your first step?

To Become a Born-Again Christian
"Lord Jesus Christ, I believe that you died for me.   I acknowledge that I am a sinner.   Please
forgive my sins and come into my heart and life.   And save me.  AMEN."

WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?

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01. Who Is Like The Lord!
02. You Lord Are Faithful
03. The More I Know You
04. Have Faith In God
05. Be Still And Know
06. Draw Me To The Well
07. I Wait For You
08. Tenderly
09. Oh The Sweetness Of Your Name
10. Breath Of Heaven
11. Baptize Us With Your Love
12. So Great A Salvation
13. King Of Kings, Lord Of Lords
14. When We See Him

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SAVING FAITH

After her first flight, someone asked an elderly lady what she thought of being on a plane.  She said, "It was okay, but I never did put my whole weight on it."   And we do the same when we
refuse to place our trust on the finished work of Christ.   Most major religions answer the question, 'What must I do to be saved?'   by handing you a book of rules you must keep to get to heaven.   A lot of us try and give up in discouragement.   Instead of leading you away from God's grace, the enemy satan tries to make you earn it.   He was a liar from the start God says in His word.   When asked, 'What must I do to be saved?'  Paul didn't
say, 'Work harder, pray longer, give more, and be more moral,'
No, he said, 'Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved..'
{v31 NIV}   Believing is the root of the tree we call salvation;
behaving is the fruit that grows on it.  We don't do good works to be saved - our good works are just an expression of love and gratitude to the One who already saved us.   The Bible says,
' We should be holy and without blame...' {Ephesians 1:4 NKJV}.  Without blame?   That's an impossible standard!
The only way that will happen is if God takes the righteousness
of Christ and credits it to our account.   And He does!   'God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we
might become the righteousness of God' {2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV}.    The moment you place your trust in Christ, God sees you as 'righteous', and on that basis He accepts you 24/7.
Aren't you glad?

"For by grace are ye saved through faith;  and that not of yourselves;  it is the gift of God." {Ephesians ch2 v 8}
"For God so loved the world, that He gave us His only
begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life." {John ch 3 v 16}.

 Do you know where you are going?  All who want to go to heaven "YOU Must be Born Again."  Jesus talked about heaven, and He said, "In my Father's House are many mansions."  Also He said "I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father but by me."  {John ch 14 v 2,6}.

God did not create the religions of the world; man did, to satisfy his conscience!  Man is "forever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." {2Timothy 3v7} This is not religion, it is life!
Do you know the one who died on the cross for you?
When Jesus came He told us something that no religion has ever thought of, and which contradicts the basic principle of all religions.  He said, "Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God."  {John 3v3}.  Jesus said that He is the only way to heaven.  What did He mean?  He meant a spiritual birth whereby a person is able to confess his sins to Jesus Christ, accept Him as Saviour, and Lord and receive a new life.
This is the Gospel.
Look and Live .  Out of Religion, and into Christ!
May we offer this prayer as your first step?

To Become a Born-Again Christian
"Lord Jesus Christ, I believe that you died for me.   I acknowledge that I am a sinner.   Please
forgive my sins and come into my heart and life.   And save me.  AMEN."

FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM HE ENDURED THE CROSS!

LOOK unto JESUS, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him
He endured the cross.   {Hebrews 12:2}  For God {the Father, Son and Holy Ghost} so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, in due course but have everlasting life.
For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world;  but that the world through Him might be
rescued, ransomed and saved from the coming wrath.
{John 3:16 & 17}

While visiting Australia.   I had the opportunity on a particularly clear night to see the Southern Cross.  Located in the Southern Hemisphere, this constellation is one of the most distinctive.   Mariners and navigators began relying on it as early as the 15th century for direction and navigation through
the seas.   Although relatively small it is visible throughout most of the year.   The Southern Cross was so vivid on the dark night that even I could pick it out of the bundle of stars.   It was truly a magnificent sight!
The scriptures tell us of an even more magnificent cross - The cross of Christ.  When we look at the stars, we see the handiwork of the Creator;  but when we look at the cross, we see the Creator dying for His creation.
{Hebrews 12:2} calls us to "LOOK unto JESUS!
The Author!   The Finisher! of our Faith (the evidence of things of truth that are hoped for, and the substance of things of the truth  not yet seen or fully come to pass) Who for the Joy that was set before Him He endured the Cross, despising the shame
and Has sat down at the right hand side of the Throne of God."

The wonder of Calvary's cross is that while we were still in our sins, our Saviour died for us {Romans 5:8).  Those who place their trust in Christ are now reconciled to God, and He navigates them through life {2 Cor 1:8-10}.
Christ's sacrifice on the cross is the greatest of all wonders!

When I survey the wondrous cross,
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride, - Watts

Christ's Cross provides the only safe crossing in to Eternity for us all.

THE STONE THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE HEADSTONE

The Ignorance of the Expert
"The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes." Psa_118:22-23

Had it been others who had rejected this stone, there would be no reason for surprise. The man in the street can scarcely be expected to be an authority on stones. If my watch gets out of order, I would never dream of taking it to the shoemaker. If I did and he made a mess of it, I would have only myself to blame. I naturally take it to the watchmaker who has been studying watches since he was first apprenticed and who, in this particular business, is an expert.
The notable thing is that these builders who refused this stone were all experts. Stones were (if I might put it so) their bread. Daily they handled nothing else but stones. They were supposed to know everything about them. And yet these experts—these carefully trained specialists—had the witness of their folly facing them every time they passed the finished Temple. There, high up in the chief place of honor, was a stone they had condemned as useless. It was not hidden deep in the foundations. It was exalted so that every eye could see it. Someone had come along and had detected what none of the trained specialists had found—and the stone was now the headstone of the corner. Thus we see the important fact that specialists can be very blind occasionally. Experts, who give their nights and days to things, may sometimes miss the thing that matters most. All which, to dull, unlearned folk, is often so exceedingly astonishing that they can only say, "This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes."

An Expert May Miss All That Matters
That ignorance of the expert is one of the common facts of life. It's a common saying that the more one knows about a thing, the more he knows that he doesn't know. I think it is the Sadhu Sundar Singh who tells of an Indian friend of his who was an expert botanist. He could tell you all about the daffodil and give you an exact description of it. Yet when daffodils were brought to him as a gift once, he entirely failed to recognize them. He had never seen them growing in their beauty. That man was an accomplished botanist; he was an expert in his chosen science; he had mastered the orders and the genera and was an authority on habitats. Yet of the one thing that really matters in the daffodil springing up from our wintry soil, he was more ignorant than any English girl.
So men may know the planetary movements and never have felt the wonder of the stars. They may have mastered all the laws of rhythm, yet never been haunted by the spell of poetry. I am not disparaging the expert any more than I would the grammarian of Browning. Advancing knowledge always needs the specialist, and our indebtedness to him is boundless. I only wish to suggest that not infrequently the expert loses the forest in the trees, and somehow misses all that really matters.

The Power of the Book
I venture to think that, with peculiar force, this applies to the study of the Bible. Sometimes those who know most about the Bible know least of the living power of the Book. It would be impossible to put in words our debt to the exact study of the Bible. To multitudes it is a new book altogether as the result of a sane and sober criticism. Yet there are times when one profoundly feels how a man may be an expert in the Scriptures and yet miss the only things that really matter. One may discuss the problem of the Pentateuch, and do it with all the learning of the specialist; one may have mastered all that can be known of the relation of the Synoptic Gospels, and yet the Bible, the living word of God in its convicting and transforming power, may remain unto his heart as a sealed book. Sometimes there is an ignorance in experts far deeper than the ignorance of untrained people. They are like the Sadhu's Indian botanist who failed to recognize the daffodil. And all the time the poet and the child, ignorant of the elements of botany, may be enthralled and conquered by its loveliness.
There is something more needed by the Bible than any exactitude of knowledge. The Bible only yields its inmost secret when deep begins calling unto deep. That is why some poor unlettered woman may have a far truer grasp of what the Bible is than the specialist who is versed in all its problems. It has found her and made her glad. To her it is a word to rest on. It has proved itself a light unto her path and never fails her in any hour of need. And all this is so wonderful to her that like the psalmist, she can only say, "This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes."

Christ Rejected by the Experts
We see the same fact with fullest clearness when we recall how Jesus was rejected. "He came unto His own," says John, "and His own received Him not." Now had the common folk alone rejected Him, we could scarcely have wondered at their doing so. For the common folk were looking for a king, and Jesus was not their idea of a king. The strange thing is that Jesus was rejected not by the common folk, but by the Pharisees—and the Pharisees were Messianic experts. They were specialists in the doctrine of Messiah. They were considered as knowing everything about Him. Night and day they had studied the Old Testament with a zeal that was little short of heroism. Yet when Messiah came they failed to recognize Him though they had given many a learned lecture on Him, just as the Sadhu's learned Indian friend failed to recognize the daffodil.
The stone was not rejected by the passers-by. The stone was rejected by the builders—by the experts, the specialists in stones, the men who were held to know everything about them. When our Lord selected that great saying and deliberately applied it to Himself (Mar_12:10), was He not sounding a warning down the ages that sometimes the experts may be wrong?

JESUS CHRIST was foretold - A "capstone" was either a crucial stone used to secure the foundation or a keystone used as the primary stone in an arch.   According to this psalm, a rejected stone became the chief building block in God's building plan.   New
Testament Christians with their sensitivity towards Jesus' rejection and their certainty of His significance saw this as a reference to
Jesus.   There are at least six direct references to v22 in the New Testament (Matt 21:42; Mk 12:10; Lk 20:17;  Act 4:11; 
Eph 2:20;  1 Pet 2:7.)

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.  Watts

Christ's cross provides the only safe crossing into eternity!

I will take the cup of salvation,

Psa 116:13  I will take up the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of the LORD.

 Psalms 116:13
I will take the cup of salvation,.... Or "salvation's" (n); not the eucharistic cup, or the cup in the Lord's supper, which the apostle calls "the cup of blessing", 1Co_10:16; though some so think, and that the psalmist represents the saints under the Gospel dispensation; nor the cup of afflictions or martyrdom for the sake of Christ; being willing, under a sense of mercies received, to bear or suffer anything for his sake he should call him to; as knowing it would be a token to him of salvation, and work for his good: but rather an offering of praise for temporal salvation, and for spiritual and eternal salvation; in allusion to a master of a family, who at the close of a feast or meal, used to take up a cup in his hands, and give thanks; see Mat_26:27; 

and call upon the name of the Lord; invocation of the name of the Lord takes in all worship and service of him, public and private, external and internal; and particularly prayer, which is calling upon the Lord in the name of Christ, with faith and fervency, in sincerity and truth: and the sense of the psalmist is, that he would not only give thanks for the mercies he had received, but continue to pray to God for more; and this was all the return he was capable of making. 






For he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him- Heb 11:6

They that die in faith, die in Christ: they that die in unbelief, die in sin; and this is a dreadful dying

John 8:24 
I said therefore unto you,.... Because they were from beneath, and of the world, and discovered an earthly, worldly, carnal, yea, devilish disposition, in their conduct towards him: 

that ye shall die in your sins; this He had said in John_8:21, and now repeats it, and confirms it by the following reason: 

for if believe not that I am he; the everlasting and unchangeable I am, the true God, God over all, blessed for ever; the eternal Son of God, God manifest in the flesh, really made flesh, and become incarnate; the true Messiah, the only Saviour of sinners; the one and only Mediator between God and man; the Head of the church, prophet, priest, and King, and the Judge of quick and dead; as also the light of the world he had declared himself to be: these are things that are necessary to be believed concerning Christ; indeed, carnal and unregenerate men may believe all these things; the devils themselves do, and tremble at them; but then they, and so unconverted men, have no faith in them, with an application of them to themselves: true faith in Christ deals not with Him in a general way, but in a special regard to a man's self; it is a seeing of Christ for a man's self; it is not an implicit faith, or a believing Him to be what He is, merely upon report, but upon sight; it is a going out of the soul to Christ, a renouncing its own righteousness, and a trusting in Him alone for life and salvation; it is with the heart, and from it, and is unfeigned; it works by love to Christ, and his people, and is attended with the fruits of righteousness, and a cheerful obedience to the commands and ordinances of Christ. Though perhaps no more than a general faith is here intended, for want of which, and their rejection of Jesus, as the Messiah, the Jews suffered temporal ruin; and had they but believed that Jesus was the Son of God, and true Messiah, they had been saved from that temporal destruction which came upon their nation, city, and temple; but not believing this in a general and notional, way, they perished, as is here threatened: 

ye shall die in your sins; in which they were, being defiled with them, guilty before God for them, under the power of them, and liable to punishment for them; and so they remained, and did remain, and were yet in their sins, even until death, when they died in them, and for them, not only a corporeal, but an eternal death: for dying in their sins, these would be found upon them, and they would be charged with them, and must be answerable for them, and consequently endure the punishment of them, which is the second death. Dying in sin, and dying in Christ, are two widely different things. They that die in faith, die in Christ: they that die in unbelief, die in sin; and this is a dreadful dying; see Jos_22:20, where the Targum paraphrases it, "and he, one man", (or alone,) לא מות בחוביה, "did not die in his sins".

WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS!

What a friend we have in Jesus
All our sins and griefs to bear
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer.

O what peace we often forfeit
O what needless pain we bear
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer.

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

Can we find a friend so faithful
Who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy-laden,
Cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Saviour, still our refuge,
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

Do Thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer;
In His arms he'll take and shield thee,
Thou wilt find a solace there.