In today’s Part II devotion on the uniqueness of our Lord, my friend, Michael Neveu, shares one more unique quality of Jesus and an exciting conclusion.
3. Jesus Is Unique Because of What He Still Claims.
Jesus does not simply offer advice. He claims authority over reality.
This bothers modern people. We prefer a Jesus who gives emotional support but never issues commands. A therapeutic Jesus. A pocket Jesus. A Jesus with soft lighting who validates our nonsense and never touches the idols we keep under the bed.
That Jesus does not exist.
The real Jesus says, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). That is either arrogance, insanity, or truth. There is no polite middle category we can gesture to, with relief, where Jesus is merely a wise teacher who got carried away during the divine exclusivity section. Nah. Sorry.
Hebrews 1:1–3 says God has spoken finally in His Son, who is “the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature.” First Timothy 2:5 says, “For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.” Acts 4:12 says there is salvation in no one else.
That sounds intolerant to a world that confuses love with unlimited agreement. But truth is not hatred. If the bridge is out, the loving man blocks the road. If the diagnosis is fatal, the good doctor tells the truth. If sin is real, judgment is real, death is real, and eternity is real, then a vague spiritual compliment will not save anyone.
Jesus does not interrupt us to humiliate us. He interrupts to rescue.
He interrupts our self-made religion.
He interrupts our shame.
He interrupts our pride.
He interrupts the lie that we can save ourselves if we just become spiritual enough, moral enough, disciplined enough, or publicly likable enough to fool God.
We cannot. So, He came.
Conclusion.
Why is Jesus “all that” anyway?
Because He is the only one who is fully God and fully man. The only sinless Savior. The only crucified and risen Lord. The only mediator between God and humanity. The only King who conquered by sacrifice. The only Shepherd whose voice cuts through human static and calls the dead to life.
John Stott called Him incomparable. Piper called us to see and savor Him. Sproul pointed to His supremacy. Graham preached Him as God in flesh. Tozer adored Him as the living Christ. But the final witness is Scripture itself: “In Him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17).
Not most things. All things.
Including you, on the days you feel like loose wires and unpaid bills with a pulse.
Jesus is not all that because Christians say so. Jesus is all that because without Him, all that remains is sin with better vocabulary and pretty script, death with better lighting, and humanity trying to climb into heaven on a ladder made of fog.
Holy Water take-away:
Jesus is not one voice in the room. He is the Word that built the room, entered the room, bled on the floor, walked out of the grave, and now asks what exactly we plan to do about that.
Pastoral sources: John Stott, The Incomparable Christ; Timothy Keller, Jesus the King; John Piper, Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ; Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, “What makes Jesus different from all the other religious leaders who ever lived?;” R.C. Sproul, “The Supremacy of Christ;” A.W. Tozer, Jesus: The Life and Ministry of God the Son.