Who Is Jesus Christ?
There is no way that I could even begin to describe or tell who Jesus is that would do Him justice, so I will use the words of the Apostle John who knew Jesus personally and who wrote about Him in His gospel.
John tells us that Jesus is God. He was in the beginning with God, and He created all things. He is Life. He is Light. He is equal to God the Father, and He is holy as God is holy. Yet John also tells us that Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us. He became a man like we are, yet He was without sin. He is full of grace and truth. Jesus has made God know to us and He is now seated at the Father's right hand. To know Jesus is to know God.
The New Testament teaches us that Jesus was fully God and fully man. We have a recording of much of His work in the Gospels. Scripture also teaches us that Jesus was perfect. In Him there was no blemish or spot. While on this earth, He lived a perfect life and fulfilled the Law of Moses. When He had completed all the work that God the Father had Him to accomplish, He was sent to a cross to die to be a sacrifice for the sins of His people. On that cross, He carried the burden, the load, the shame, the guilt and the ugliness of our sin. He took death so that His own would not have to experience eternal death. On the third day, after He had laid dead in a tomb, He was raised again to life and is now seated with God the Father in Heaven. He intercedes for His own. There is much more that I could say. He is the Alpha, the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the One who was, and is and is to come, the Almighty. He loves His own.
This Jesus is the One whom the disciples followed, and it is This One, Jesus, Whom the people of Antioch said the disciples were like. Jesus was holy, compassionate, kind, bold to speak the truth, always loving that which is good and right and always hating sin and what it does to His own and world He created. He is the One who wept over Jerusalem longing that they might come to Him and be cared for, though they would not.
To be a Christian is to follow and to love Jesus and all that He represents. It is to belong to Him. It is to be like Him. Next time I will tell you how to come to know this wonderful Jesus, Who is Lord of all the earth.
1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, [1] and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John tells us that Jesus is God. He was in the beginning with God, and He created all things. He is Life. He is Light. He is equal to God the Father, and He is holy as God is holy. Yet John also tells us that Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us. He became a man like we are, yet He was without sin. He is full of grace and truth. Jesus has made God know to us and He is now seated at the Father's right hand. To know Jesus is to know God.
The New Testament teaches us that Jesus was fully God and fully man. We have a recording of much of His work in the Gospels. Scripture also teaches us that Jesus was perfect. In Him there was no blemish or spot. While on this earth, He lived a perfect life and fulfilled the Law of Moses. When He had completed all the work that God the Father had Him to accomplish, He was sent to a cross to die to be a sacrifice for the sins of His people. On that cross, He carried the burden, the load, the shame, the guilt and the ugliness of our sin. He took death so that His own would not have to experience eternal death. On the third day, after He had laid dead in a tomb, He was raised again to life and is now seated with God the Father in Heaven. He intercedes for His own. There is much more that I could say. He is the Alpha, the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the One who was, and is and is to come, the Almighty. He loves His own.
This Jesus is the One whom the disciples followed, and it is This One, Jesus, Whom the people of Antioch said the disciples were like. Jesus was holy, compassionate, kind, bold to speak the truth, always loving that which is good and right and always hating sin and what it does to His own and world He created. He is the One who wept over Jerusalem longing that they might come to Him and be cared for, though they would not.
To be a Christian is to follow and to love Jesus and all that He represents. It is to belong to Him. It is to be like Him. Next time I will tell you how to come to know this wonderful Jesus, Who is Lord of all the earth.
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