WHO IS JESUS?

Who is Jesus?  That is the greatest question you may ever be asked.

It is also the greatest question you will ever answer. 

Who is Jesus to you?

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 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.   John 3:16

When Jesus asked His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” they replied, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” But Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God”  Matt. 16:13–16.

Jesus is the perfect revelation of the nature and person of God.  He is the second person of the Trinity.  He always was with the Father.  He was with God before the creation of the world.  He is divine. He was not created...but through Him the Father created all things and sustains all things.

He left the throne of His Father and became a human being...but He was without sin.  He was born to a virgin.  Jesus was conceived in the womb of His mother, Mary when the Holy Spirit came upon her.  His blood was from His Father, God, thus it was pure and holy.  The miracle of His conception is explained in Luke 2.   As He walked this earth, He healed the sick, raised the dead and delivered the gospel to a world who did not accept Him as Messiah. 

There are so many other things Jesus did. If they were all written down, each of them, one by one, I can’t imagine a world big enough to hold such a library of books.  John 21:25 (the Message)

Because Jesus was Holy and without sin...He was presented to the Father as the perfect sacrifice on the cross.   He was the Lamb provided by God to be sacrificed in the place of sinners, like you and me.  His death on the cross was reserved for the most wretched of all criminals and yet, He was the most Holy Son of God who knew no sin.  They buried Him in a borrowed tomb. Three days later, God the Father, by the power of the Holy Spirit, brought Him alive out of the grave. 

He was seen by many as a testimony to His resurrection.   Forty days after his resurrection, Jesus called his 11 apostles together on the Mount of Olives, outside Jerusalem.  Then Jesus was taken up, and a cloud hid him from their sight. As the disciples were watching him ascend, two angels dressed in white robes stood beside them and asked why they were looking into the sky. The angels said:
"This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." (Acts 1:11, NIV)

By His death on the cross, Jesus redeemed all claims Satan had on man, or the earth, or as an authority of any kind in the heavens.  He bought us back by the shedding of His blood.      

Through faith in Him as the Son of God and confessing Him as Lord with my mouth -  with a sincere belief in my heart, I am redeemed before the Father.  I am justified; made clean through His precious blood. There is no other way to the Father except by Jesus.  There's no other plan for salvation except through the precious blood of the Lamb of God. 

Jesus is my Lord and my Savior.  He is my peace, my provider, and my joy.  At the sound of the trumpet He is coming again to receive all who believe in Him - we will be caught up together to be with Him for all eternity.  We will have no more distress, persecution or oppression.  We will be united with those who have died in Christ.  That event is called the rapture of the church. 

I Corinthians 15:51-57 (the Message)

But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I’ll probably never fully understand. We’re not all going to die—but we are all going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes—it’s over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we’ll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen: everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal. Then the saying will come true:

Death swallowed by triumphant Life!
Who got the last word, oh, Death?
Oh, Death, who’s afraid of you now?

It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three—sin, guilt, death—are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!

Who is Jesus?  Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords.  There is none like Him. 

My answer to the question "Who is Jesus" amounts to less than one drop of water in a vast ocean.  How can I describe Him in all of His fullness with such few words.  I just know that He is worthy to be praised.  He is our only hope.  He is the answer for every problem.  He is the healer for every hurt.

That's Who He is.  Who do you say Jesus is?
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