“This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:11-12

The religious leaders of the first century rejected Jesus as the Son of God and their Messiah and had Him crucified to maintain their own religious system of worship and service to God. They even arrested and persecuted Jesus’ disciples for proclaiming Jesus as the Messiah and Savior.

Today, too, many religious leaders – from pastors to seminary professors to heads of church bodies – set aside Jesus and His doctrine in order to maintain their own doctrine and church bodies. Instead of preaching the truth about man’s sinfulness and proclaiming the salvation God provided in His Son, Jesus Christ, they set aside the true doctrine and turn Jesus into little more than an example of godly living and charity for people to emulate today.

What does the Bible say of all this? It says that Jesus “is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

So, while religious leaders of our day set aside the Jesus of the Bible and seek to build the kingdom of God with their own doctrines and their own worship practices, there is only one way of salvation and it is the salvation God provided for mankind when he sent His only-begotten Son into the world as a man to suffer and die and make atonement for the sins of all and then rise again from the dead.

There is only one way of salvation, and that is through faith in Messiah Jesus and His atoning sacrifice upon the cross for the sins of the world. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (cf. John 14:6).

O gracious and merciful God, grant that I not set aside Christ Jesus, the Son, nor reject the salvation You have provided for all through His innocent sufferings and death on the cross. Grant that I acknowledge my sinfulness and look to Him alone for forgiveness and life everlasting. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

[Scripture quotations taken from the King James Version of the Bible]