According to the Bible and the prophecies He was/is Immanuel…God came here to be one of us! He was a human for the life that He lived while He lived with His human parents. Was He God? Yes, He was and is God the Son. He laid His divinity down and became one of His creations, the people that He loved and still loves more than His life.
While He was here in the flesh of mankind He felt everything that we feel during our lives. He felt hunger, thirst, sadness, weariness, love and anger. Yet He did not sin in all of His human feelings. He did this not because He had to but because He LOVED us! This is the same reason that He died on the cross and rose again on the third day! I pray that anyone who needs a Savior will seek to know Him while there is time to call on Him and then answer His call that comes back to us. He wants to know you, even though He already does. He wants to be involved in your life daily so please don’t push His call away like some telemarketer.
What is the god that nearly every person has problems with? We usually think it is pride, money, or “things” that all of us seem to have or covet because others have. Likely, selfishness is the god that we serve more than any other. I don’t mean that we are selfish in our dealings with each other, I mean that we are selfish in our service to Jesus. We are “working for Jesus” to elevate ourselves in the eyes of others. We are living as Pharisees in this modern world. The same “religious fakes” that Jesus said seven woes to because they were doing things and teaching people their ways and not God’s ways.
As the church, we should be working for God and His purposes and not for our own enrichment and personal gain. Do what you can for others, tell people about Jesus but don’t do it so others can see you do it. Allowing others to see your “work” for God is the same thing the Pharisees were doing on the streets when they fasted so others knew that they were fasting. Pray for others and the church so the message of salvation will be told inside and outside the building.
Unfortunately in the world we live in right now there are less than five percent of Christians who truly possess the salvation that they profess. God wants many more to come to Jesus for their salvation but few will truly find the path that leads to Him. I pray for every person who reads this post to seek Jesus as your Savior. Give your life and your heart to Him and live in His Presence every day in prayer and meditation on His Word. It will take some effort and it won’t be an easy path to follow but the reward will be fantastic! Far above what this world can offer.
Direct quotes from the Old Testament in Matthew:
1:22-23 Isaiah 7:14 (virgin birth)
2:5-6 Micah 5:2 (born in Bethlehem)
2:14-15 Hosea 11:1 (called out of Egypt)
2:16-18 Jeremiah 31:15 (murder of the innocents)
4:13-16 Isaiah 9:1-2 (lived in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali)
8:16-17 Isaiah 53:4 (healing the sick)
10:34-36 Micah 7:6 (His truth will cause division)
11:9-10 Malachi 3:1 (John the Baptist)
12:18-21 Isaiah 42:1-4 (obscure start to ministry)
13:14-15 Isaiah 6:9-10 (spiritually blind will miss the truth)
13: 34-35 Psalm 78:2 (speak in parables)
15:6-9 Isaiah 29:13; Malachi 2:2 (man-made rules of religious leaders)
21: 4-7 Zechariah 9:9; Isaiah 62:11 (entering Jerusalem on a donkey)
21:15-16 Psalm 8:2 (triumphal entry)
27:3-10 Jeremiah 32:6-9; Zechariah 11:12-13 (betrayed for 30 pieces of silver)
If Jesus only fulfilled these prophecies, we would have solid proof that He is the Messiah. But He did much more than prove Who He was when He came the first time. Jesus is our Savior, King, and Creator and He is coming back…likely much sooner than most people think. In today’s world, most people don’t think He was real and if they do believe that He is Who the Bible says He is, they’re not sure what to do with that information.
God provided the sacrifice to pay for the sins of man, and humanity in general, but most of the world doesn’t want to believe the Truth of God’s Word. Everyone seems to want to “create” their own “god” that is comfortable and acceptable to them. The problem with this is…we are created in His Image and His creation shouldn’t create a god in their image. That is given as a commandment! The first commandment!
We have been given His grace and mercy, neither of which we deserve but because of His love for us, we have received them in abundance. I pray that anyone who is looking for a Savior will read these scriptures and seek Jesus to be your Savior. I don’t believe the world will have to wait much longer to have the proof of God’s existence because the church will soon be gone. I can’t give you dates or years but with everything that is happening in and around Israel, the prophecies in Ezekiel and in the first few chapters of Revelation are about to come true.
