Main Idea:  The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the Lord’s exclusive plan to save sinners.

The Centrality of the Cross and Resurrection to God’s Plan for Salvation

• 1–4 “And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
  • Acts 3:12–21
  • John 2:19–22
• 5–10 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.
  • 1 Corinthians 2:2
  • 1 Corinthians 15:19–22

The Cornerstone of God’s Plan for Salvation

• 11  This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.
  • Matthew 21:42–44
  • 1 Peter 2:4–8

The Claim of Exclusivity in God’s Plan for Salvation

• 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
  • John 14:6
  • 1 Timothy 2:5, 6
  • 1 John 5:11, 12

So What?

• Have you called on the name of the Lord to be saved?
  • Romans 10:9–13