Jesus Christ is the one, appointed from God the Father, who came to this earth to save all the people from their sins. This was prophesied long ago by the prophets in the bible’s old testament, of one who would be coming into this world to suffer and die for us, and to be resurrected three days later. Isaiah 7:14 states, ‘Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.’ Jesus came into the world. Luke 9:56 tells us, “For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” Jesus Christ came for us because without him people would not be saved/born again and would spend eternity in hell without him because of the broken relationship created between man and God the Father, because of Adam and Eve. More than seven hundred years before Jesus was born, Isaiah 53 was written, and this book prophesied about Jesus and his suffering. He came to die and then rise again to defeat death and sin for each one of us. He desires to give each one of us a brand new life here on earth and to spend eternity with him after our death. A life for all eternity being with God!

God the Father sent his son Jesus Christ, God incarnate (embodied in flesh in human form), to come into the world for us. God has given us his holy and perfect Word (the Bible) because of his great love for us and so we would have his direction plan for our lives in this gravely fallen world. John 1:1 says, ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ John 1:4 states, ‘In him was life; and the life was the light of men.’ God and his word are inseparable. The bible is powerful and full of truth!

Jesus’s resurrection is proof that Christ is who he said he was… the Son of God. Who else could die and rise again for us? In John 2:19 Jesus says, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” Jesus was speaking of his death and resurrection three days later. The resurrection tells us that we too, can have that hope that we will rise again after our death and be with him if we are born again/saved believers. In John 3:3 Jesus states, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Our souls are immortal, our bodies are not. 1 Cor. 15:22 says, ‘For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.’ 1 Cor. 15:44 in part states, ‘…it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.’ The Apostles being eyewitnesses, hid after Christ’s death, fearing for their lives. But after Jesus’s resurrection, he appears to them, and they boldly start proclaiming God’s Word. In Luke 24:39 Jesus states, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” After Christ’s resurrection and his appearance to Paul on the road to Damascus, Paul has a conversion experience and does a total 180 degree turn around. Instead of killing Christians as he had been doing (he was then called Saul of Tarsus before Jesus got ahold of him and Jesus renames him Paul), he starts defending the very Gospel of Jesus Christ. The bible tells us of Jesus’s resurrection and his appearance to many after he is resurrected. He shows himself to Mary Magdalene, various other women, Peter, the Apostles (once without Thomas and later to them all), to over five hundred believers at once, James, and Paul (Saul of Tarsus).

Jesus Christ is the bridge between God and man given to all people from God the Father. What bridge? Listen, without him alone we as man have no opportunity to be connected to God again in a restored relationship. Sin in the world cut that off to us and sin must be atoned for. Jesus gives us this amazing and free gift, which is himself, so we can be reconnected in a real relationship with God. He gives us this free gift, that is alone your gift from him to you, absolutely free for the taking if you will believe all that he’s said he’s done for you. His birth, death, and resurrection all done for you.

Can you believe it, that Jesus gives us this gift of himself?! I am still amazed by all of this just as I was at the beginning of when I became a born again believer myself. Even after forty-five years of walking with him, it’s truly still as fresh and new as it was when I first believed. We can be truly thankful for him and his word. What happiness and what joy, knowing he did this for us. Since Jesus did this for you why don’t you come just as you are right now and believe/trust in what he did for you? Dying on the cross and rising again three days later, don’t you desire fullheartedly to repent (turn from) of all your sins, asking him to give you a brand new life and tell him how you feel?

It says in John 14:6 ‘Jesus saith unto him,’ “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

In John 15:13 Jesus tells us, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

Jesus Christ is the new covenant where all people are given the opportunity to receive him. The new covenant was originally given to only Israel but after Christ’s death and resurrection God by his grace alone allows Gentiles (anyone not a Jew) to be able to have the new covenant as well. His sacrifice on the cross and his resurrection given for every single person’s sins in this world: past, present, and future, has replaced the old covenant. The old covenant was a sacrifial system that required strict obedience to the Mosaic Law, but only temporaily removed sins and the people continually broke it. Thus the continual blood sacrifices of animals had to be made. There could be no coming into God’s presence themselves in that time unless you were the high priest for the Jewish people or one that God chose to speak to and that we read about in the Bible like Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, Abraham, etc. By his coming into the world, and by his death and resurrection, he provides grace for those who desire and will come to Christ. And he provides the purification and cleansing for their sins. Thus this new covenant spoken of in the old testament by different prophets tells us there will be true believers from the Gentiles along with some Jewish people now who will receive this new covenant, but at a future unknown time from now, Israel then will have the opportunity at Jesus’s coming in the future to receive him if they haven’t. But we who are living now need him before this life is done folks! Don’t wait for no one knows what tomorrow will bring. …Sins turned as white as snow from his forgiveness, and cleansed from guilt to have freedom and true life in Christ. And knowledge of an everlasting life with him? Nothing is better!

Whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, Jesus is coming back one day!