Friday, August 10, 2012

Healing hands and beyond

Healing hands and beyond
Every day there are some thoughts coming to my  mind regarding God. What do we know about Son of God Jesus Christ?
Most churches show his pictured body on the cross as if he was still there and that his ministry finished there and nothing else more happened.
Do we realize he is not there any more? He was risen about 2000 years ago, witnessed by so many alive after his death. The only one person that experienced supernatural coming back to life after being killed and dead for 3 days.  Ok, there was also one more man named Lazarus who experienced resurrection but risen by whom? exactly by Jesus Christ!
Well, let’s look at this;   if any pharmaceutic company announced that they came up with a miracle pill to keep people from dying, let me guess, everybody would be crazy to get it!  Wouldn’t they?  If there came a doctor skilled in any possible healing abilities, including healing all existing birth defects; blindness, deafness, any possible skin disease, mental retardation with also ‘ magic’ abilities of raising people who died to life, wouldn’t he  be known  and looked for by  all the  people? What’s different about Jesus?  That’s what the  people were able to witness  about 2000 years ago.
Luke 13;32  says    ” Pay attention; Today and tomorrow I am driving out the demons and healing people and on the third day I will reach my goal.”
What did Jesus mean by   “On the third day I will reach my goal”?    The main purpose of him wasn’t just to come as a doctor but to die for many  to pay the death penalty for us, who,  according to God,  would be awaiting  it.
Romans 6;23 says;   ” For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is  eternal life in Christ Jesus  our Lord.”
For many people  Jesus’ life  is  limited only  to  dying on the  cross and they don’t realize what is it all about. No hope, no understanding of the magnificiant event that took place there. The whole history of mankind is changed by that event. There is forgiveness of sin,     there is   a promise  of eternal   life as real as Jesus  showing up alive after being killed!   If not the cross , the whole world would be  subject to God’s judgment, there would be no hope, no forgiveness,  no promise  about eternal life.  John 6;47 says;        “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in me, has everlasting life.”
If you only perceive Jesus as a  famous historical person or a ‘victim’ of bad people, see his majesty described in Revelation 1;12-18
” I turned around to see who was speaking to me, and when I had turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks,and in the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment  down to foot and girt  about the paps with a golden girdle.  His head and his hair were white like a wool, as white as snow. And his eyes were as a flame of fire.  And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned  in a furnance; and his voice as the sound of many waters.”(…)
V. 17   ” And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand  upon me,  saying unto me;
‘Fear not,I am the first and the last. I am he that lives and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore, and  have the keys of hell and death.”
You can see his power when he stopped Saul on the way to Damascus;
Acts 9;3   “  As`he ( Saul) journeyed , he came near Damascus and suddenly a light shone around him  from heaven, and he fell to the ground and heard voice saying unto him;” Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me? And he said;  ‘ Who are you, Lord? Then, the  Lord said; ‘I am Jesus who you are persecuting.”  In verse 9.  we read that afterwards  Saul was three days without sight.
You can also imagine Jesus calming  down the rough sea and the wind, and the wind and sea did what he said. You can imagine  him walking on water and see his majesty in his second coming;  Matthew 24; 30-34
” Then the sign of  the  Son of  man will appear in heaven and then all the tribes of the earth  will mourn, and they will see the Son of  Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
You can see  Jesus  as the one before whom all knee will bow  down { Philippians 2;10}
Picture Him as the one who is in  authority of judging all man.   John 5;22  says   ” For the Father judges no-one but has committed all judgement to the Son.”
Imagine Jesus as the one who is given all authority on earth and heaven  { Matthew 28;18}
The one before whom all angels bow down { Hebrews 1;6}
The one who will deny you before His Father in heaven, if you deny Him before men.  The one who will confess you before His  Father who is in heaven, if you confess Him before man. { Matthew 10;32-33}
He is the one who knows all your thoughts, knows your past, the one before whom you can’t hide.
What an authority!
He is the one by whom you can ‘escape’  God’s judgement  by accepting Him as  your Lord.
The one in whose hands lays your destiny.
His  promise is real.  In  John 5;24 He says :   “Most assuredly,  I say to you,  he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent me, has everlasting life and  shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”

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