"Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David _a
Saviour_, which is Christ the Lord." We learn to know Christ as our
Saviour, to meet Him on Mount Calvary, to look on Him as the bleeding
Lamb of God, before we know Him as our Redeemer, Deliverer, and
Shepherd. Now, looking round upon this vast assembly, I, who do not
know the hearts of the people, cannot know whether you can say that
Christ is your Saviour. There are many, I trust, who can say this, and
who rejoice in His salvation; while, without being uncharitable, I am
afraid there are many who know nothing personally of Jesus as their
Saviour.
He is offered to every one of you to-day as a Saviour; "God gave Him
up freely for us all," that we all through Him might be saved. If you
are belonging to this world, I can prove that you have a Saviour. If
you belonged to some other planet, such as the moon or any of the
stars, then I could not say a Saviour was offered to you; for it is
not revealed whether the people of these distant worlds, even if they
are inhabited, require salvation or not. But this I know, that every
man on this globe has a Saviour offered him.