The voice of God

God comes so quietly to Abraham and promises him a son. God makes Himself known to Elijah by a still  small voice  He calls young Samuel  late  night  in the quietness.  He also says " Be still and know that I am God".
He calls no attention to Himself . There is no  voice blaring from heaven over a huge loudspeaker. God sends a message to a teenage girl that she will have a baby  and that she will name him Jesus. The Savior is born and then his ministry is in small forgotten country  in the small corner next to  a Roman empire. He has time for women and children and lays his hands on miserable people who live in  dirty places. He is telling us that the Kingdom of God is like a hidden treasure. He who wants God will have to desire to find Him. Jesus does not come marching down the streets with bands playing, flying flags, dressed in the king's clothes, waving to a jubilant crowd. He does not come marching in the front of legions of angels to impress us with His strength.
He rebukes the evil spirits who recognized Him as the Holy One of God  and tells them to be quiet. He is not showing off.  Jesus never tries to  impress anyone with Himself.
He has lots of power people never had seen before, He heals every sickness, raises the dead ones to life, orders the storm and wind to calm down, comes in God's authority to forgive  sin. He is somebody. He is the king. He knows the truth. If anyone was to brag about himself , He should be the first one to have the  right to, yet  He does not blow a trumpet before Him.

Even His brothers said "Leave here and go to Judea, where your followers can see your miracles!  You can’t become famous if you hide like this! If you can do such wonderful things, show yourself to the world!" John 7; 3-4
Why is He so humble ? As a King He had a right to enter Jerusalem on a horse, but no... He rides a donkey. He doesn't choose  influential theologians but very simple people to be His apostles. He is not a nationalistic deliverer. Not the one  how most Jews imagined. He is not throwing lightnings to show His power. He is not going to enforce His rule over anybody. His message is righteousness and peace. Why is He not coming to demonstrate His power like many expected of the Messiah?
Then we would only admire Him for His power and we would admire Him in a crowd. As`somebody already said" We would only wave to Him. We could never get close to Him. But the thing we need is to be recognized." Not to have a Savior to admire from the distance but to get close to Him and have a personal relationship with Him. Otherwise we would be lost in the crowd. Religious people whose life was only their 'religion'  but not close relationship with God  wanted Him to show powerful signs in order to believe Him that He is the Messiah. Jesus refused. That was not the way. 

He said " Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." Matthew 11;29

 You have to humble yourself to come to God. He is opposing the pride. He doesn't want to impress you with miracles but wants your faith!
He doesn't want  you   just to watch Him in the crowd but  to be close to Him. He wants to be your   personal Savior!

He shows utter humility at the end of His life. He takes the cross to die on.  " He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter."
He doesn't protest when Roman soldiers come after Him, He doesn't try to run away or deliver Himself from the cross. He hears the others saying;

"You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!" Matthew 27;40

He does not open his mouth. We would think it is a weakness. Jesus does not submit because He has no other way out.

" Don't you realize that I could appeal to my Father and He would at once send Me more than twelve legions of angels to defend Me?"

 He also said about his life; "No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again."
John 10;18

Somebody said " He dies to save the world  that does not want to be saved. He forgives sins and yet a few want to be forgiven. He brings a peace that continually will be abused."
 The world still doesn't care much what happened  on the cross and  doesn't feel the need to be forgiven. We tend to rely on  ourselves. But if we could save ourselves the cross would not be needed.  Jesus wouldn't have to come to deliver us.
 We say, we have no time for Jesus, we have our own business. We forget He is the author of life. You are not living out of your own power- even if it seems so to you. Your life is in God's hands.
  God gave  all the judgement all to His Son. And His Son could say "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" Matthew 28;18
Jesus is the One who will call your name either to everlasting life with Him or  to pitiful judgement and  death.

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live." John 5;25
v.28 "Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice "

If you ever wondered how you could hear God and make your life right with Him, come to the cross. " God's forgiveness  is a very costly gift. A gift which cost Him unimaginable pain and anguish a gift which cost Jesus unbearable  suffering and death." He gave Himself for you!

Christ- the One in charge

“Christ- the One in charge”
As` we study the Bible we  read that Jesus Christ is the subject of  this book  from Genesis 3;15 to Revelation 22;21
This Jesus of Nazareth has been the object of more speculation than any other person in the history of man. The name of Jesus Christ  springs spontaneously  from the lips of all kind of people, from the priest to the any upset person that is using His name to curse. “Even when Jesus is rejected as an object of faith, he is chosen as an object of derision.”
Why it is like that?
The battle is truly spiritual – it is about discovering or suppressing  His true identity. The battle with high stakes for mankind. Finding His true identity allows us to come to Him and trust Him and acknowledge Him as our Lord, which results in being saved from God’s judgement. Having  His false identity  -will keep us away from Him and His word  and  from trusting Him  It will keep us away from receiving His forgiveness and the truth that we can be saved.  ” 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 judgement , but has passed from death into life.”
It is a great promise but by many  Jesus is  still  under appreciated. A  man that died on the cross and that is the end of the story. No power no meaning for your life.  But He is much more than this. We will find out in this study- what the Bible says  He is  and what does it mean to know His true  identity. How much do we know Him and realize all the greatness? Are you able to see Him for whom he is? Let your knowledge about Jesus Christ not limit itself only  to His earthly life. We should  also be aware  of  His glorious exaltation by God and the authority over all things  that Father gave Him.
Let’s have a  quick Bible’s overlook;
Jesus Christ as the One in charge over everything;
“Jesus came and spoke to them; All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” Matthew 28;18
The Bible says that  Father  put Jesus in charge over everything. That means all what the Father would be doing, Jesus is in charge doing.
He gave Him authority  as a judge;
 John 5;22 ” For the Father judges no one but committed all  judgement to the Son.”  v.27 “  And has given Him authority to execute judgement also because He is the Son of Man.”
The only mediator to God, the way of communication with God; ultimate representative of God;
Hebrews 1;1-2a “God spoke at various times  and  in various ways to the fathers  by the prophets, has in the last days spoken to us by His Son.”
People wish they would see God, but it is not about seeing how He looks like, the same way it is not enough to know somebody by seeing only his/her picture.  God wants us to  know His character, His heart and nature, and that nature was manifested  all in His Son. God’s heart and will was manifested  in his Son’s life in everything  that He  said  and did.  He was saying and doing what God himself would be saying or doing, that way ( when one of his disciples said; ‘show us the Father’) Jesus  could say; ‘ Whoever has seen me, has seen the Father.” John 14;9
He could also say the following;
” The Father who dwells in Me does His works”  John 14;10
” All that the Father has is mine”   John 12;45
” Most assuredly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself , but what He sees the Father doing,  for whatever He does, the Son also does in likewise.” John 5;19
He has the authority to be honored as the Father;  John 5;23
” That all should honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father.”
The One who has the power to raise the dead ones; John 5; 21
“For as the Father raises the dead  and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.”
v.28  ” (…) for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves  will hear His voice.”
John 6.44 “No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6;47″  Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in Me, has everlasting life.”
The only way to God:  John 6;45
“It is written in the prophets ‘ And they shall all be taught by God’ . Therefore everyone who has heard  and learned from the Father, comes to Me.”
John 14;6 ” I am the way, the true and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Me.”
The One with the authority to forgive  sin;  Luke 5;24
“But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins, He said to the man who was paralyzed ; ‘ I say to you , arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
The One as the image of the invisible God; Colossians 1;15
Hebrews 1;3a ” The Son is reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint  of God’s very  being and He sustains all things by his powerful word.”
Exalted above all name;
Philippians 2;9  “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name  which is above every name.”
Authority to be worshiped  ” That at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of those in heaven and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,and that every tongue should confess  that Jesus Christ is  Lord to the glory of God the Father.”  
Heir of all things, all things created through Him and for Him;
(..) whom He has appointed as heir of all things, through whom  also He made the worlds.” Hebrews 1;2
“For by Him all things were created  that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones  or dominions or principalities  or powers.
All things were created through Him  and for Him.” Colossians1;16   
Jesus wanted people to find His true identity by coming to God. He wasn’t yelling  out; Do you know who I am? I am a Son of God! This was not the way to know Him.  To truly know Him always depended on coming to God, so that God Himself would reveal Jesus  to us.
One time Jesus asked His disciples; “And who do  believe I am?” and Peter  said ” You are the Son of the living God.”  Not only was it a correct answer but Jesus also said that it  is the Father in heaven  who revealed it to Peter.”
And who  is Jesus   for you?
And if you think that people can use His name as a curse and keep rejecting Him and get away with it; the Bible has the answer to that.
John 12;48 ” He who rejects Me, and does nor receive my words, has that which judges him, the word that I have spoken  will judge him in the last day.”
You can choose to serve the great Lord and have everlasting life in Him.  The battle is spiritual, you can win it- by accepting  Jesus as your Lord and Savior! He doesn’t have to be an unknown historical hero but your real mighty Lord.