Who is Jesus to you? (2)

Apostle Paul writes:

”Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,“

Philippians 3:8-10 NKJV

⁃ The risen Christ 

”God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.“

Hebrews 1:1-4 NKJV

The Jesus of the Bible is not a character or a figment of someone’s imagination. Jesus the son of the Living God is real. In order to have fellowship with Him we have to know Him to relate with him. 

To know Him requires you to believe in His person as the Son of God. 

John 3:16-21 Clearly shows God’s plan for humanity by sending His Son: 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Romans 10:1-4 expands on the pathway to believing. 

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 10:5-11 pretty much sums up the process for believing for anyone who wants to have a relationship with Christ Jesus. 

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) “or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

If you have not really believed on Him then I highly recommend Jesus the Messiah to you. Anyone who has met Jesus has never remained the same. 

Say this simple prayer if you want to be born again and be citizen of the Kingdom of God. 

Say Dear Heavenly  Father, thank you for sending your Son JESUS to the earth for me. I believe Jesus is the Son of God and I confess Him as my Lord and personal Saviour. Thank you for saving me and writing my name in your book of life in Jesus’ name Amen.

Shalom!

Rev. Ron Chiarelli.