Joel M Bradshaw

 41So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, 42“He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”–Matthew 27

Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. (Isaiah 59:1-2)

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” (Luke 19:10)

…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. (Romans 3:23-25a)

1. If Jesus saved himself, he couldn’t save anyone else.
2. Sin separates you from God. God chose to solve that problem on the cross of Jesus.
3. You are either trusting in Jesus alone for your salvation or you are not.

When I read these Gospel passages, I sometimes ponder how I might have responded. The better focus is considering how I respond now. How about you?–JMB