Acts 13:22-23, 26-27, 32-33, 39, 46-47 NIV “After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’ “From this man’s descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised. “Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent. The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. “We tell you the good news: What God promised our ancestors he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: “ ‘You are my son; today I have become your father.’ Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us: “ ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”” https://bible.com/bible/111/act.13.22-46.NIV

Paul’s testimony and preaching continued to proclaim that Jesus is the Messiah, the promised King and Savior that God made known to Israel through the prophets for their salvation. Their interpretation of those prophecies was not a salvation from death and sin but from the bondage of foreign rule and dominion. Israel wanted their land back, but God was promising Himself to occupy our hearts and to bring us to a new land on a new earth when all those whom He has chosen have been reconciled to Him. Israel rejected Jesus as Messiah and King from the household of David, even as they do to this day. It is this Jesus, Whom Christians believe is the promised Savior, proven by His resurrection from the dead. The salvation people need is from death, for all die because all have sinned against God. The salvation people need is from eternal condemnation because no one is righteous. All have rebelled against God, and no one is capable of appeasing God through good works. This is why all people need a savior, so God came to earth in Jesus the Savior to die for all people as punishment for the sins of all people and to appropriate to all the people who come to Him for salvation, pardon from sin, appropriating to them His perfection that He lived when He lived among us as one of us in Jesus the Savior. The gift of God is eternal life forever in His Promised Land, a recreated heaven and earth where death and rebellion, sin, and poverty of any kind no longer exist. The gift of God is not the restoration of earthly prominence but of His presence restoring us to a relationship with Himself, guaranteeing our presence with Him forever. We must be saved from this body of death we are all trapped in because we are all born sinners. Only one Savior exists, Who lived a perfect life, was crucified for sin, ours, not His, and was raised from the dead, proving His sacrifice was accepted, and His promise to us is true.