"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is
none other name under heaven given among men, whereby
we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).

There are many famous names in the history of
religious thought -- names such as Mohammed, Buddha,
Confucius, Joseph Smith, among a host of others. Each has a
multitude of followers who pay homage to his name.

But there is only one name that saves eternally, the
Lord Jesus Christ. The words of our text were spoken by
the apostle Peter. In his epistle, John also stresses this fact:
"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son
of God hath not life" (I John 5:12). The apostle Paul
wrote that all those "that obey not the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ . . . shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord" (II Thessalonians 1:8-9).

This exclusivity necessarily results from the fact that
there is only one God and Creator of all men, and that all
men have rebelled against Him. God Himself has become
Redeemer and Savior, dying for the sin of the world and
rising again. There can, therefore, be no other Savior than
God Himself.

The Lord Jesus repeatedly stressed this truth. "I am
the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me" (John 14:6). "He that believeth on Him is
not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God" (John 3:18). "If ye believe not that I
am He, ye shall die in your sins" (John 8:24).

It is urgent, therefore, that anyone desiring
forgiveness of sin and eternal salvation come to God through
Jesus Christ. "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting
life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life: but
the wrath of God abideth on him" (John 3:36). HMM