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Jesus was
brought up in Nazareth of Galilee, that’s why He is called the Nazarene. When
Jesus was about 30 years old, He came from |
After
Jesus was baptized, He was anointed with the Holy Spirit and then He was led
up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty
days and forty nights, and when those days had ended, the devil came to Him
and tempted Him in order to cause Jesus to sin, but Jesus firmly resisted the
devil, who (when he had ended every temptation) departed from Him until an
opportune time. Then Jesus began to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom in the cities
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Then they
handed Him over to Pontius Pilate, the governor of |
But the
third day God raised Him from the dead for our justification, and He appeared
to His witnesses; He ate and drank with them and talked with them after He
arose from the dead. Between His death and His resurrection, Jesus, by the
Spirit, went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient,
when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark
was being prepared. The resurrection of Jesus Christ was a bodily
resurrection, which means that He took back His body
with which He had died, for when Jesus appeared to His disciples after His
resurrection the body with which He appeared to them had the nail marks in
the hands and in the feet. However that body was immortal, glorious and
powerful. Jesus Christ is the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. |
Forty days
later Jesus was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of the
Father. He is still there, where He makes intercession for us because He has
become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. He, because
He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood,
therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God
through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. |
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The Christ of God
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Jesus of
Nazareth is the Christ of God, that is, the Anointed One of God, of whom
Moses in the law, and also the prophets wrote, who was to come into this
world to die for our sins and to rise for our justification. Here are some of
the biblical predictions, concerning the Christ of God, which were fulfilled
in Jesus of Nazareth. |
He was
born in Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, just as the prophet Micah had said; He
was born of a virgin, just as the prophet Isaiah had said; he grew up and was
brought up in Nazareth that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophets ‘he will be called a Nazarene’; when he was about thirty years old He
was anointed with the Holy Spirit and began to preach the Gospel and to heal
the sick so that the words of the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled; He spoke
to the crowds in parables that it might be fulfilled what was spoken by the
prophet Asaph; He committed no sin nor any deceit was in His mouth, just as
the prophet Isaiah had said; He was hated without reason and He was betrayed
by one of His disciples, just as it was written in the Psalms; two robbers
were crucified with Him, one on the right and another on the left, so that
what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled; not one of His
bones was broken so that the words of David might be fulfilled; the roman
soldiers divided His garments among them and cast lots for His tunic, so that
the words of David might be fulfilled. He bore our sins, just as the prophet
Isaiah had said. His body was placed in a tomb which belonged to a rich man,
just as the prophet Isaiah had said; but the third day He rose from the dead
and a few weeks later He ascended to heaven at the right hand of the Father,
so that the words of David might be fulfilled. |
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The Son of God
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Jesus of Nazareth
is the Son of God who, before He took the form of a bondservant and came in
the likeness of men, existed from all eternity in the form of God with God
the Father in heaven. Therefore when we say that Jesus is the Son of God we
don’t mean that there was a time when He did not exist and then God created
Him. Jesus was God before He came down from heaven, and He remained God in
the days of His flesh, for He forgave people of their sins and He was
worshipped. On several occasions He confirmed that He was God, on one of them
He said: “Before Abraham was born, I AM”. It pleased the Father that in Jesus
Christ all the fullness of the Godhead should dwell. |
The Son is
at the right hand of the Father and all the angels of God, as well as all the
saints who are in heaven, worship Him. This confirms that He is God and He
will be God forever. Therefore He is worthy to be worshiped like the Father,
and we who are His disciples worship Him. To Him be
the glory now and forever. Amen. |
The Son of Man
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Jesus of
Nazareth was a real man. However He was born without sin that He might die on
the cross for our sins. Being a real man, He needed to eat, to drink, and to
rest. He needed also to be anointed with the Holy Spirit. Being a real man,
He was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. He rejoiced in the
Spirit, but He was also exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Jesus Christ
felt pain in His body when He was scourged, when He was struck on the head
and in the face, and when He was nailed to the cross. While He was hanging on
the cross, blood and water came out of His body. |
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The Lord
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God made
Jesus of Nazareth not only Christ but also Lord. Therefore He is Lord of all.
Because He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even
the death of the cross, God has highly exalted Him and given Him the name
which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and
that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God the Father. |
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The prophet
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Jesus of
Nazareth is the prophet about whom Moses spoke to the Israelites, saying:
‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your
brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. And it
shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly
destroyed from among the people”. He, being the prophet of God, spoke the
words of God, no man ever spoke like Him. He
predicted many things, among which there are many events which will happen
before His second coming. |
Jesus
Christ, therefore, is the prophet raised up by God in the last days and in Whom
a man must believe to be rescued from the coming wrath of God. |
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A warning
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If anyone
comes to you and tells you that Jesus Christ did not exist before He was
conceived in the womb of his mother, or that He was not born of a virgin
(because God the Father united Himself with Mary), or that He did not come in
the flesh, or that Jesus also sinned sometimes, or that He got married, or
that He was not the Christ, or that He was not God, or that He was the Son of
God by adoption, or that He took on the nature of Satan, or that He was born
again, or that He is at once the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit; or
that He did not feel pain when He was flogged and crucified, beware of such a
person and avoid him, for he is a deceiver. |