A quick note

A quick note,

Here is what I believe is the most important message the world needs.

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 Jesus said

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;

 I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” 

                                                                                         John10:10

2

Jesus said,

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, 

that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,

 but to save the world through him.  

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, 

but whoever does not believe stands condemned already

 because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”. 

                                                                                            John 3:16-18

3

The Apostle Paul wrote,

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—

and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—  

not by works, so that no one can boast. 

                                                                     Ephesians 2:8,9

4

The Writer of Hebrews wrote,

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for 

and certain of what we do not see. 

                                                                                 Hebrews 11:1

“And without faith it is impossible to please God,

 because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists

 and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.’

                                                                                               Hebrews 11:6

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Jesus said to Martha

“Jesus said to her, 

“I am the resurrection and the life. 

He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;  

and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. 

Do you believe this?”

“Yes Lord” she told Him, 

“I believe you are the Christ the Son of God, who was to come into the world,” 

                                                                                                                 John 11:25,26

The above are quotations from the bible that I believe everyone needs to consider irrespective of who they are.
Christianity to my knowledge is the only faith in the world that claims God the creator of the universe came into the world to show mankind the way to heaven.
I know to some this concept is hard to believe but it is at least something each individual needs to think about.
C. S. Lewis said,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” 
                                                                                C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
The decision is yours.
Please think about it.

Jesus

Jesus

There are people today who say Jesus is a myth. To say Jesus is a myth is a kin to believing the earth is flat and if you sail far enough you’ll sail off the edge.
No credible historian will say Jesus is a myth. Jesus changed history. Myths don’t change history.
Kenneth Scott Latourette, former President of American Historic Society
In A History of Christianity wrote,
“It is evidence of His importance, of the effect that He has had upon history and presumably, of the baffling mystery of His being that no other life ever lived on this planet has evoked so huge a volume of literature among so many people and languages, and that, far from ebbing, the flood continues to mount.”
“As the centuries pass by, the evidence is accumulating that measured by its effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet. The influence appears to be mounting.”
“No other life lived on this planet has so widely and deeply affected mankind.”
                                                                                               Kenneth Scott Latourette,
One man who had exceptional insight into Jesus was not a Christian. He was a Jew working as an historian for the Romans shortly after the death and resurrection of Jesus. His name, Flavius Josephus, he became a Pharisee at 19, later commander, of the Jewish forces in Galilee. Captured by Romans and attached to their headquarters. He was born: 34AD.
Josephus wrote,
“Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ, and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first, did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians so named from him are not extinct at this day.”
                                                                                      Flavius Josephus
Note here Josephus said Jesus rose from the dead and that he won over both Jew and Gentile. That, “he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.”
Jesus is a very real person no one can deny that. The question is who do you believe Jesus to be. Jesus himself said,
 “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” 
                                                                                                                                              John 14:6.
 “I and the Father are one.” 
                                            John 10:30.
For Jesus to say that He was equal to the father was a crime punishable by death at the time. In fact John 10:31 one says,
“ Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him,”
                                                                            John 10:31.
Jesus was well educated with respect to the scriptures. In his early teens he was found by his parents in the temple listening to the wise men and asking questions of them (Luke 2:46-52) Luke 2:47 recording
“Every one who heard him was amazed at his understanding and answers.”
                                                                                                                        Luke 2:47
C. S. Lewis said of Jesus,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” 
                                                                                         C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
Therefore the choice is yours dear reader. Who do you think Jesus is?
Please think carefully about it.

Faith

Faith

“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” 
                                                                                                                      Hebrews 11:1
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
                                                                                                          Hebrews 11:6.
Where is your faith?
Matthew records,
“When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help.  
“Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering.” 
Jesus said to him, “I will go and heal him.” 
The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.  
For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 
When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those following him, “I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith...
Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! It will be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.” 
                                              Matthew 8:5-13.
The incident shows how much the Roman Centurion respected Jesus. He truly believed Jesus could do all he said he could do.
The centurion probably had heard and may have even saw Jesus performing miracles. Either way this man had faith that Jesus could heal his servant without even entering the same room as the man.
He believed Jesus only had to say the words and the man would be healed.
As Christians today do we have such faith?
How strong is you faith?
One survey among church goes found there was a significant percentage who go to church that do not believe in the divinity of Jesus. They believe in the historical Jesus but not the fact that Jesus is God incarnate.
It is easy to believe in the historical Jesus. Records of Jesus exist both inside and outside the bible. All credible historians be they Christian or non-Christian have no doubt there was a great teacher named Jesus.
Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (37—100 AD), aka Joseph ben Mattathias, is one of the most important writers of antiquity. He records Jesus as doing amazing deeds.
But Jesus is more than just a man. Jesus is God incarnate, God in the flesh. This is where faith comes in. It takes faith to believe Jesus is in fact the Son of God.
Do you believe He is?
Think about it.