Did God become man?

KNOW Jesus Christ really is the Messiah, would you be interested in having a personal relationship with Him?

Did God become man? "Is Jesus Christ really the Messiah?"

To say 'Happy Easter" or not to say Happy Easter" seems to be the hot issue! Once again Jesus Christ is the focus, almost 2,000 years since His death, burial and resurrection. Jesus Christ is still center-stage. You know, whether you say BC and AD or not, everything still dates backs to the birth of Jesus Christ. Why do some still deny His virgin birth, deity and resurrection? Could it be that they don't want to be accountable to a Holy God? Is it that their morality dictates their theology? Why was Jesus crucified for claiming to be God? If Jesus is who He claimed to be, God, naturally He is the only way to Himself. The questions of the ages are still, "Did God love us enough to come in person?" "Is Jesus Christ really the 'fullness of the Godhead bodily' or is He just another prophet and teacher?" "Is He God incarnate, demonstrating His love for us or the greatest liar that ever lived?" "If we do invite Christ into our hearts, do we have the fullness of the Godhead inside?"
Col.2:9-10 "For in Him the whole fullness of Deity, the Godhead, continues to dwell in bodily form -- giving complete expression of the divine nature. 10 And you are in Him, made full and have come to fullness of life -- in Christ, you too are filled with the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and reach full spiritual stature, And He is the Head of all rule and authority -- of every angelic principality and power."

The Apostle John wrote the gospel of St. John, in the New Testament, in order to make it very clear what Jesus claimed and who He claimed to be. His purpose was to persuade us of the deity of Jesus, the Savior of the world. God so loved us that He became man and demonstrated His incomparable love (chapter 3) so that whoever would believe in Jesus could have eternal life. John wrote that Jesus was not only the Word speaking creation, in the beginning, but that Jesus was and is God here and now.

The most important questions ever asked were, "Who is Jesus? Why did Jesus come? Why did Jesus have to die? and Why do we need Him?" READ John's gospel to find the answers to these questions. Jesus didn't just say that He was a god, or a way, that He taught the truth, or demonstrated life better than anyone else. Jesus said,

I AM the bread of life - who sustains you (chapter 6)
I AM the light of the world - who enlightens you (8 and 9)
I AM the door for the sheep - who protects you (10)
I AM the good shepherd - who guides you (10)
I AM the resurrection and the life - who gives you eternal life (11)
I AM the way, the truth and the life - the way to Myself, God (14)
I AM the true vine - the source of all fruitfulness (15)

He didn't just come to be an example of how to perform better or to teach us to do right; He said I AM the way, the truth and the life! On the cross, He demonstrated His love and His authority over nature, disease and death itself. That's what I want! I choose to follow the only one claimed to be life and who is still alive!

I would choose Jesus even if there were another way, because I want to be forgiven, to be loved and accepted unconditionally, to be healed and to have eternal life. Eternal life is a new past and a new future. Even if reincarnation were a viable option, I can't earn my way to Heaven with perfect behavior, no matter how many chances I am given. Jesus came to offer us life, died in our place and demonstrated that He has conquered death for us.

Jesus demonstrated His divinity, love and power, over and over, because He wants to be in relationship with us. He changed water into wine (chapter 2), healed a man's son (4), healed a lame man (5), fed the 5,000 miraculously (6), walked on water (6), healed a blind man (9), and raised Lazarus from the dead (11) etc. etc.

People understood who Jesus was claiming to be. That's why He was accused and tried for claiming to be God. He didn't deny it because He was/is God. Many testified that Jesus was God: John the Baptist, Andrew, Nathaniel (chapter 1), the blind man (9), Martha (11), and even doubting Thomas (20). Peter said, "You are the Christ ... ." Even the Samaritans, who cared nothing for Jews, also agreed that Jesus is the Messiah (4). A Roman soldier, at the cross, said, "Surely this was the Messiah!" Jesus was and is the Savior of the world (4, 11, 12).

Many religions claim to have great leaders, but we have confidence that Jesus proved His deity and demonstrated His ability to give us eternal life. He said the Father is in Him and He is in the Father (chapters 10, 14), He came from God (16), He was sent by God (6, 11, 17), He is the Son of God (6, 11, 20) and that He and the Father are one (10). He said if you have seen me, you have seen the Father!

Jesus Christ fulfilled over 300 Old Testament prophecies concerning His birth, life, death and resurrection. The odds of anyone else ever fulfilling these prophecies are incredible. For one person to fulfill even 48 of these prophecies, the number becomes staggering --1 chance in 10 to the 157th power (1 with 157 zeros after it). Add to that the 250 other prophecies and it becomes impossible for any other person except Jesus to ever fit that particular sequence of time and events.

In the book of 1 John, toward the end of the New Testament, our Father God has assured us that we can be sure who Jesus is, that life is in Jesus and that we have the life if we have Jesus. Inviting Jesus to be our Lord and God guarantees life here and for eternity.

1 John 5:11-13 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. NIV

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Have a wonderful life!

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