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God is our Saviour.

1. He is a seeking Saviour. Were a king to enter a city he would expect and receive honour and applause. But the world would be astonished if instead of asking to be shown the principal buildings of the city, the king were to say to the mayor, "Now let me go to your poor men and women who need my kingly help and sympathy: it gives me no pleasure to look on your splendour while I know your back slums are crowded with the miserable and degraded." Ah, no king ever did this except the One who was crowned with thorns, and whose throne was a cross.

2. God is a gracious Saviour. He not only loves His friends, but He dies to save His enemies.

3. God is a truthful Saviour. His word may be relied on. No man yet, so far as I have been able to learn, ever trusted God and was lost.

4. He is a loving Saviour. A mother who has a crippled child, from whom all other people draw away and shudder because of its distorted face, will hug her babe to her breast and rejoice because she has love for it. Now, like a mother, God is our loving Saviour, not because there is anything good in us, but because His heart contains love for us.

5. The Lord is a powerful Saviour.

6. God is our present Saviour. He saves now.

7. God is our everlasting Saviour. If He were not able to "keep us" I should doubt, and you would fear; but we rejoice to know that God is our ever lasting Saviour.

(W. Birch.)

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KJV: For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

WEB: For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;