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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