While many are quick to admit they believe in the “baby Jesus,” most people today are in total ignorance as to their need of a Saviour. To simply believe in the coming of Christ into the world is a far different thing from actually trusting the One sent from God as Saviour. Many boastfully say that they do not know what they need to be saved from! Well, dear friend, you need the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour because by nature, by choice, and by practice you are a CORRUPT SINNER in the sight of a HOLY GOD. In other words, you need to be saved from your sins! God’s HOLY WORD declares this: “The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” (Psalm 14:2-3) “Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.” (Psalm 39:5) “Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” (Psalm 51:5) “The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.” (Psalm 58:3) All of these verses from the Psalms plainly declare that man is totally depraved and doomed to “the righteous judgment of God.” (Romans 2:5) God does not owe salvation to any man; He is under no obligation to save one sinner. How can a condemned criminal expect to escape the stern justice of a judge in a court of Law, knowing he is guilty of breaking the law? So it is with the sinner before the bar of God. The sinner is indeed “speechless” before the broken law of God. The law strikes the sinner down, and the rebel sinner cannot lift himself up. Condemned! Yes, condemned by the law and the Lawgiver: “For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.” (Galatians 3:10) It was for this very purpose that Christ Jesus came to this earth. He came to “save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21)
