وجبـــــــة روحيـــــ(†)ــــــــــة يوميـــــــــة

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III




God Alone Redeems and Saves the Human Race
The Holy Bible explicitly testifies to this. It is written in the Book of Psalms: "None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him...
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave" (Ps. 49:7,15). David the Prophet repeats the same meaning when he says: "Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, bless His holy name!.. who forgives all your iniquities... who redeems your life from destruction" (Ps. 103:1-4). And the Book of Isaiah the Prophet confirms this matter in more than one testimony. It is written: "Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: 'I am the First and I am the Last; besides Me there is no God " (Is. 44:6), Therefore the Redeemer is This One God who is the Lord of hosts who is the First and the Last. Isaiah the Prophet repeats the same thing and says: "As for our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel" (Is. 47:4) and: "Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel 'I am the Lord your God"' (Is. 48:17). And God says: "For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand..' says the LORD and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel" (Is. 41:13,14).

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III



The Virgin Mary attributed salvation to God and said: "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior" (Lk. 1:46). St. Paul the Apostle said: "God our Savior" (Titus 2: 10), and: "The kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared' (Titus 3:4). And Jude the Apostle concludes his Epistle with the same testimony, saying: "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen" (Jude 24,25).

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III



Salvation is attributed to God alone, as is explicitly stated by God Himself. "And you shall know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides me" (Hos. 13:4); "Have not I, the Lord? And there is no other God besides Me, a just God and a Savior, there is none besides Me" (Is. 45:2 1), and: "I, the Lord, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob" (Is. 49:26); (Is. 60:16).

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III



The sin in which the first man fell and in which every man falls is a sin against God because it is disobedience to God, and lack of love and respect towards Him. But rather it is rebellion against His kingdom and resistance to the work of His grace and His Holy Spirit, as well as being a lack of faith. That is why David the Prophet says in his Psalm: "Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight" (Ps. 51:4). That is why the righteous Joseph withheld from sinning, saying: "How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" (Gen. 39:9)

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III


All human beings sinned: "They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt, there is none who does good, no, not one" (Ps. 14:3). The wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23), and "thus death spread to all men, because all sinned' (Rom. 5:12).

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III


Only God is Infinite. Therefore He Himself had to take flesh and become the Son of Man in order to replace man and "to be the propitiation for the whole world' (1 Jn. 2:2).

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III


This propitiation was effected by the Lord Jesus Christ to save the whole world. If He were not God, His propitiation would be utterly invalid because His propitiation derived its infinity from Him being Infinite God, of whom the Apostle said: "In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Col. 2:9)..

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III

Christ Is the Only Savior and Redeemer of the World

At the Annunciation, the angel said that Christ the Lord would be called Jesus, "for He will save His people from their sins" (Matt. 1:2 1). Yet His salvation was not for His own people only, for He said: "I did not come to judge the world but to save the world' (Jn. 12:47). And it was said of Him: "This is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world' (Jn. 4:42). And He said of Himself that He "has come to save that which was lost" (Matt. 18:11), and the whole world was under the penalty of death.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III


Christ came to save mankind from sins. It is written that "He will save His people from their sins" (Matt. 1:21). St. Paul the Apostle said: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief" (I Tim. 1: 15), that He "gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed" (Titus 2:14), and that He "has redeemed us from the curse of the law" (Gal. 3:13).

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III


Christ offered a complete and everlasting salvation.

St. Paul the Apostle said that Christ, the High Priest, "is also able to save to the uttermost" (Heb. 7:25) and that "He became the Author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him" (Heb. 5:9). That is why the Apostle wondered, saying: "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation!" (Heb. 2:3)

Therefore, to sum up, Christ came a Redeemer and a Savior and a Propitiator to save all the people of the world from their sins, and to redeem them from all their iniquities and from the curse of the Law. He offered an everlasting salvation to the uttermost.