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He taught that He was the Son of God. (Matt. 11:27, Luke
10:22, Matt.21:33-46)
Jesus repeatedly spoke of God as His
Father. Matt. 7, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, etc.)
Jesus claimed deity and to have all
authority on Heaven and earth. (Matt. 28:18)
Jesus claimed to have power to forgive
sins. (Matt. 9:6)
Jesus allowed Himself to be worshipped as
God. (Matt. 14:33 and John 20:25-28)
Jesus said that He was from Heaven. (John
5:17-18)
Jesus claimed that He should have the same
reverence that God has. (John 5:23)
He said He would raise all humans from
the grave and judge them. (John 5:27-28)
He promised to give eternal life to all
who would trust in Him. (John 6:47)
Jesus alone never failed to please
Father God and never sinned. (john 8:46)
He said He would also come to earth a
second time. (John 14:1-3)
Many witnesses verified that Jesus
actually claimed to be the Christ the Son of God, such as John
the Baptist, Peter, Thomas, Philip, Nathaniel, Martha and the Centurion.
There are many proofs that Jesus Christ
actually rose from the dead.
He foretold His own resurrection, that
on the third day He would be raised. (Matt. 16:21)
His enemies guarded His body with 16
armed guards so that no one could say that a "swooned Christ"
moved the stone and so that the disciples could not steal His body.
Jesus appeared to many witnesses after
His resurrection, over a
period of six weeks: to certain women, Mary Magdalene, Peter, Cleopas
and another disciple, to the ten disciples assembled together, to the
eleven a week later, to several disciples at the Sea of Galilee, to the
disciples and 500 witnesses at once on an appointed mountain in Galilee,
to James, and to the Apostles in Jerusalem immediately before His
ascension from the Mount of Olives.
His resurrection is the only reasonable
explanation of the beginning of the Christian Church. Half of
Peter's sermon in Acts 2:14-36 dealt with proofs of the resurrection.
The resurrection is the only explanation
of the complete transformation of the disciples and their willingness
to not only live for Him but to give their lives rather than to deny Jesus Christ.
Finally, the witness of the Apostle Paul
and the radical transformation of his life, from persecutor to preacher of
the Gospel, can only be explained by a vision of the resurrected Christ.
Only Jesus Christ offers to forgive us,
to give us His righteousness, eternal
life, a new past, a new present and a new future. He alone replaces our
old degenerate nature with a divine new nature. God is not willing
for any one of us to perish, but has come to take our punishment onto
Himself and to offer us eternal life through Jesus Christ.
To accept Jesus, as Savior and Lord, is
not just giving mental assent to His claims. John 1:12 says that
we must believe and also receive Him in order to become the children of
God. Jesus promised that He is standing of the door of your heart
and knocking and if you would invite Him in, He would actually come into
you to live and abide forever. (Rev. 3:20, John 15) We must
not only believe on Him with our minds but also with our hearts,
confessing Him as our own Savior and Lord. Would you like to have a
more intimate
personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
If you could know
for sure that you could have a more personal relationship with the God of
the universe, would you be interested?
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