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

" He that believes in Him (Jesus) is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." John 3:18

Who Is Jesus? Why Did Jesus Come to Earth?

A personal testimony of faith.

Please note: The foundation for the following testimony of faith has been taken from the original God inspired scriptures of the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible.

All here is written humbly, prayerfully, and with full awareness that people's decisions regarding the eternal state of existence of their souls could be made while reading the following testimony.

May God bless you and open your heart to His truth spoken here.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek (Gentile). ( Romans 1:16)

God In Three Persons
The Bible teaches that God is actually three "Persons". This is an infinite mystery of God that the finite mind of man can not understand. The Bible does not teach that there are three Gods, but that there is one God. This one God, however, is expressed in three Persons. There is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

The Second Person of this Trinity is God's Son, Jesus Christ. He is co-equal with God the Father. He was not a Son of God, but the Son of God. He is the Eternal Son of God -- the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, God manifested in the flesh, the living Savior.

The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ had no beginning. He was never created. The Bible teaches that: "The heavens were created by Him" (John 1:1-3).

All the myriads of stars and suns were created by Him. The birth of Jesus Christ that we celebrate was not His beginning. His origin is shrouded in that same mystery that baffles us when we inquire into the beginning of God. The Bible only tells us, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). The "Word" spoken of here refers to Jesus Himself.

About Jesus Christ, the Bible teaches us, "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by Him (Jesus) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist." (Colossians 1:15-17).

That last phrase indicates that He created all things including time and space as we know it and more. All things continue to exist and function because He wills it so.. The Bible again says, "In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same and your years will never end" (Hebrews 1:10 -12).

Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, our Savior
Again Jesus said of Himself,
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end."
He and He alone, had the power to bring man back to God. But would He?
If He did, He would have to come to earth.
He would have to take the form of a servant.
He would have to humble Himself and become obedient unto death.
He would have to grapple with sin.
He would have to meet and overcome Satan, the enemy of man's souls.
He would have to redeem sinners out of the slave market of sin.
He would have to set the prisoners of sin free by paying a price.
That price would be His own life.
He would have to be despised and rejected of men.
He would be a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
He would have to be separated from God.
He would have to be wounded for the transgressions of men.
He would be bruised for their iniquities.
His blood would be shed to atone for man's sin.
He would have to reconcile God and man.
He would be the great Mediator of history.
He would have to be a substitute, the ultimate sacrifice.
He would have to die in the place of sinful man.
All this would have to be done voluntarily.

And that is exactly what happened! Looking down from heaven where He is high and lifted up, through the very time and space that He Himself had created, He saw this planet swinging in space, doomed, damned, bound in the chains of sin, and very worthy of hell.

It gives me great pause when I consider that God may have contemplated our total destruction, feeling perhaps even regret for creating us. He certainly had the power and the right to return us to the non-state of non-existence from which we came.

Then in His mercy, in His love, He saw you and he saw me struggling beneath our load of sin.. He made and announced His decision in the council halls of Heaven. The angelic hosts were awestruck by the depth of His love for we humans. All of heaven bowed in humility as heaven's Prince of Princes and Lord of Lords, who could speak worlds into existence, for our sake chose to throw off His robes of Glory there in Heaven, and become a man here on earth! Was there joy or was there weeping in heaven on that day? How many angelic beings considered that we humans were not worth the life of one angel, let alone that of the only begotten Son of God?

And so it began.

Jesus came to reveal God to men. He told us that God loves us and is interested in our lives. He told us of the mercy and long-suffering and grace of God. He promised us life, the true life, life eternal, life everlasting, life beyond death.

Jesus Christ became a person and walked in a body of flesh and blood in order that He might die (Hebrews 2:14 ). "He appeared so that He might take away our sins (1 John 3:5). The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die so that we might live.

The night Jesus was born Satan trembled both with fury and with fear. Satan tried to destroy Jesus as soon as He was born. When the decree went forth from King Herod ordering the slaughter of all the children, its one purpose was to make certain of the death of Jesus.

The Sinless Son
All the days of His life on earth Jesus never once committed a sin. He is the only man who ever lived who was sinless. He could stand in front of men and ask, "Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?" (John 8:46). He was harassed by the enemy day and night, but they never found any sin in Him. He was without spot or blemish.

Jesus lived a humble life. He made Himself of no reputation. He neither sought nor received honor of men. He was born in a stable. He was raised in the insignificant village of Nazareth. He worked with His hands as a carpenter, a common labor trade of His time. He gathered around Him a humble group of fishermen as His followers. He walked among men as a man; He was one of the people, yet He humbled Himself as no other man has ever humbled himself.

But Jesus taught with such authority that the people of His day said, "No one ever spoke the way this man does" (John 7:46). Every word that He spoke was historically true. Every word that He spoke was scientifically true. Every word that He spoke was ethically true. There were no loopholes, no lukewarm beliefs expressed of spiritual matters (that are so common today among ministers) in the moral conceptions and statements of Jesus Christ. His ethical vision was wholly correct, correct in the age in which He lived and particularly correct in every age that has followed. Every prophecy that Jesus spoke has and will be fulfilled.

Today to some people the teachings of Jesus seem to be but foolishness. Little do they know that even as they utter words of denial of God and of Jesus it is simply and sadly the curse upon them of the unspiritual “natural man”: "But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1Cr 2:14 )

You, oh weak and foolish natural man, the atheist among us, do not be so quick to ascertain yourself as being correct in your shallow assessment that "there is no God". For God Himself in His mercy has chosen to reveal Himself to you, however it is in your pride and self willed arrogance, not in your intelligence, that you have chosen to remain ignorant of the greatest knowledge that man kind could seek after; the knowledge of our meaning, our purpose, our origination, and the ultimate agency that has predetermined our eternal future. In your prideful self-denial of God you are not wise, not standing high and lifted up on your imaginary pedestal of self worship as you so wrongly believe, instead you are but a fool. And those that walk in the wisdom and Spirit of God see your folly, and we weep for the loss of your eternal soul.

Jesus spoke only truth in its purest form.
The words of this blessed person were prophetically true. He prophesied many things that are even yet in the future. Lawyers tried to catch Him with trick questions, but they could never confuse Him. His answers to His opponents were clear, clean-cut, and truthful. There was no deception in His meaning, no hesitancy in His words. He knew all truth, and therefore spoke with quiet authority. He spoke with such simplicity that the common people heard Him gladly. Though His words were profound, they were plain and easily understood by those truly seeking to hear the truth.. He spoke in simple parables to allow better understanding by the common folk of His time. Yet today, unless guided by the Holy Spirit the most knowledgeable and most highly educated people on this planet cannot fully comprehend all that He has said and done. Great is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite. (Psalms: 147:5)

Nothing Jesus ever spoke has been, nor ever will be, proven wrong or incorrect. His words were weighty with meaning and purpose, yet they shone with clarity and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies. He dealt with the great questions of the day in such a way that, from simple to sophisticate, men that were not educated nor highly intelligent had no difficulty in understanding Him. He spoke to the very heart of man.

The Lord Jesus cured the sick, the lame, the crippled, and the blind. He healed the leper and raised the dead. He cast out demons. He quieted the elements. He stilled storms. He brought peace, joy, and hope to the thousands to whom He ministered while on earth.

He showed no sign of fear while among those He taught. He was never in a hurry. He met with no accidents. He moved with perfect coordination and precision. He had supreme poise of bearing. He did not waver or worry about His work. Though He did not heal all the sick, did not raise all the dead, did not open the eyes of all the blind, nor feed all the hungry, yet at the end of His life He could say, "I have finished the work you gave me to do." Here he spoke of the "work" that his father God sent him to do. That work was to secure our salvation. He was successful in accomplishing the will of His father.

He stood before Pilate and quietly said,
"You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above"(John19; 11).

He approached His cross with dignity and calmness, with an assurance and a set purpose that fulfilled the prophecy written about Him eight hundred years earlier: "He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her Shearer's is dumb, so he opened not his mouth" (Isaiah 53:7).

Jesus' defeat of Satan the fallen Angel
Jesus focused His mind, and His will became subservient to His Father's will as He moved supremely, gloriously, and with great anticipation toward the mission that He had come to accomplish. He had come to save sinful men. He had come to appease the wrath of God. To stand in the gap for us poor lost souls on a doomed planet. He had come to defeat the evil one, the rebellious one, Satan, forever. He had come to conquer hell and the grave, of which there was only one way that He could complete the course set before Him. Thankfully for our sake, Jesus had only one plan for His future on earth. Death at Calvary .

His death had been prophesied thousands of years before.
First, in Eden's Garden; and then in sermon, story, and prophecy, the death of Christ was set forth in the ages past. Abraham foresaw His death in the ram that was provided to replace his son Isaac on the altar of sacrifice required of him by God.. The children of Israel symbolized His death in the slaughtered lamb. Every time blood was shed on a Jewish altar it represented Jesus the Lamb of God who was someday to come and take away all sin. David prophesied His death in detail in more than one prophetic Psalm. Isaiah devoted whole chapters to predicting the details of His death.

Here is an interesting point to consider that many today confuse. Some say that Jesus tried to copy the Old Testament sacrifice in His offering of Himself as the ultimate sacrifice to God. This is far from the truth. The reality of it is that the Old Testament requirements of blood sacrifice were in fact all pointing to Jesus. In the Jewish Passover feast then (as now) whether they realized it or not, Jesus was represented by the blood of the innocent sacrificial lamb that was spread on the doorposts to allow the angel of death to pass over their houses. Today as Christians we spiritually apply the blood of Jesus, our sacrificial lamb for forgiveness of our sins, to the door posts of our hearts. And in doing so, death itself cannot hold us (passes over us) and will we live forever in the house of the Lord.

Jesus Christ said that He had power to lay down His life when He said,
"The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep" (John 10:11).

He said again, "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life" (John 3:14, 15). Jesus Christ had faced the possibility of the cross far back in eternity. During all the ages which preceded His birth here on earth, He knew that the day of His death was drawing closer. When He was born of a virgin, He was born with the shadow of the cross darkening His pathway. He willfully chose to take on a human body in order that He might die as our substitute.

Be still for a moment, quiet your mind of the busy life you lead, now allow yourself to picture in your mind's eye the last day of Jesus' life on earth before his death.

The night watches in Gethsemane lighted by the flaming torches, the kiss of the traitor, the arrest, the trial before the high priest, the hour of waiting. The palace of the Roman governor, the journey to the palace of Herod , the rough handling by Herod's brutal soldiers, the awesome scenes while Pilate tried to save Him as priests and people clamored for His blood. The scourging, the howling multitudes, the path from Jerusalem to Golgotha, the nails in His wrists, the spike through His feet, the crown of thorns upon His brow, the sarcastic and mocking cries of the thief at His side, 'You have saved others, now save yourself' as He hung there for six hours.

Do you think He was at the mercy of the Roman soldiers? Do you feel that He was helpless to change what was taking place around Him? Then let me assure you He was not held to the cross by the nails driven through His hands and feet, but by His infinite love for us.

Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. (John 10:17-18)

There He hung between heaven and earth. If we had been present and had been given spiritual eyes, surely we would have seen Heaven's gate opening to receive He who died for us. Having suffered unspeakably for our sake, He voiced only one appeal as to His physical suffering, simply a statement by which He let us know in two words something of the terrible physical pain He suffered when He said, "I thirst."

When Christ died, He died voluntarily. He was in total control of the situation. Jesus could have called down legions of Angels with just one thought. "Do you think that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?" (Mat 26:53)

Jesus was not just a mortal man; He was also God, the One that had created the very earth that His tormenters now stood upon as they gazed with derision at Him.

Consider this; Jesus had given life to the acorn that grew into the tree that became the wooden cross that He now hung on. Also, the nails that pierced Him were made up of iron ore that He had caused to form in the bowels of the planet. He was absolutely and totally in control of His situation; He had planned it while still sitting in the throne room of Heaven before He came to earth. For us to be set free of our guilt-sin, He had to become our sacrifice. Jesus chose not to come down from the cross. He chose to remain on the cross so that all would be accomplished for our sake. He chose the exact moment when He expired. He voluntarily gave up His spirit and even spoke of it at that moment: “And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the spirit. (Luke: 23:46 )

Jesus chose to die for us that we might be forgiven and have eternal life. He is worthy of our praise.

Sinner or Substitute
God demands death, either by the sinner or a substitute. Christ was the substitute! Gabriel and twelve legions of furiously outraged angels hovered on the rim of the universe, their swords of indignation unsheathed. One look of need or of desired assistance from the blessed face of Jesus and they would have swept the angry, shouting multitudes surrounding the cross straight into hell. Again, it was not the spikes that held Him there on the cross; it was the cords of His love for us that bound Him to the cross, more than any spikes that men could ever hammer. "But God demonstrates His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).

For you! For me!
He bore our sins in His body upon that sacrificial cross. Picture Him on the Cross as the blood drips from His wounds, He bows His innocent head, gathering into His heart the awful isolation of separation from God because of the sins of the world. Jesus looked down through history to this very day and saw your sins, and knew that you would be without hope if He failed to die as your sacrifice. Because of His love for you, He accepted upon Himself the guilt for y our sin. As we stand overwhelmed in the presence of His suffering, feeling our own inability to understand or explain, yet with the great sense of His majesty overwhelming us, we hear the last words that pass His lips, "It is finished."

"Finished?" What does He mean "finished", you say? "It is finished" carries the full and explicit intention of ending our fear of death; "Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory? (1Cr: 15:55) “It is finished” spoke of the initiation of our forgiveness. The curtain that separated mankind from God in the Holy Temple on earth, as it also was spiritually in heaven, was now torn asunder. We no longer had to send in earthly Priests to beg God's mercy upon us. We now could approach the throne of God boldly washed in the sacrificial blood of His Son, our new Savior Jesus! "Finished" meant, there was nothing more that needed to be done by Him. For our part, we only need to accept that which Jesus did for us that day on the cross.

But the physical suffering of Jesus Christ was not the worst suffering that He went through. Crucifixion was a common form of execution in Rome in those days. Many men before Jesus had died on a cross. Others had hung suffering on a cross longer than the six hours that Jesus did. Many men before Him had become martyrs.

The truly awful suffering of Jesus Christ was His spiritual death. He reached the final issue of sin, fathomed the very deepest sorrow that man had ever faced, when He cried, Eli, lama sabachthani? "My God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mat 27:46)

This cry was our proof that Christ, becoming sin for us, had died physically, and with it He lost all sense of the Father's presence at that moment in time. Because He now bore our sins God could not allow Jesus to be in His perfect presence. The perfect and Holy One, Jesus, God in flesh, now became sin itself and was totally and completely alone. In the most important hour of mankind's history Christ uttered those words! Proof, given to us by His own words, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" that He truly took upon Himself our sins. For a Holy and pure God could not allow even His own Son to stand before Him while carrying our sins. So God turned away from His only begotten Son, Jesus, there on the cross as He bore our sins. God allowed Jesus to face truth death so that all that had been prophesied would be fulfilled. For Jesus to be literally and truly resurrected from the dead as scripture had prophesied for thousands of years He first had to literally and truly die.

He who knew no sin took on our sins (became sin) and also the punishment due us because of the sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (Galatians 3:13 ; Mark 15:34 ; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

How this transfer of guilt was accomplished man may never know, unless God someday allows us to see the process by which it took place. However, this I do know, Jesus bore my sins in His body upon the cross. He hung where I should have hung. The pains and everlasting torment of hell that were meant for me were in my stead laid upon Him, and now I am able to go to Heaven and receive that reward which is not my own, but is His by every right. All the types, the offerings, the shadows, and the symbols of the Old Testament were now fulfilled. No longer do the priests have to enter once a year into the Holiest Place. The sacrifice is complete in Jesus. “It is Finished”

There was a choice to be made, whether to forgive us of our sins or to destroy us (as we were due). God in His mercy allowed His Own Son to die that we through His blood would have be worthy to continue existing. The blood of Christ that we plead before God causes us to have worth in God's eyes. It is not our sinful flesh, or our corrupt minds and hearts that God's sees with mercy. It is the blood of His Son that gives us worth. Without that sacrificial blood we are worthless.

Now that redemption has been established, all the guilty sinner has to do is believe on the Son, and he can have peace with God. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16 ).

In the death of Christ I see three things:
First, a description of the depth of man's sin. Do not blame the people of that day for hanging Christ on the cross. You and I are just as guilty. It was not the Jews or the Roman soldiers who put Him to the cross -- it was, and is, your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer this death.

Second, In the sacrifice of Jesus I see the overwhelming love of God. If ever you should doubt the love of God, take a long, deep look at the cross, for in the cross you find the expression of God's love. Imagine such a great love as to give up the life of your only son for someone as undeserving as me.

Third, Jesus is the only way of salvation. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man comes to the Father but by me" (John 14:6). There is no possibility of being saved from sin and hell, except by identifying yourself with Jesus. If there had been any other way to save you, He would have found it. If reformation or living a good moral and ethical life, or works, or philanthropy would save you, Jesus never would have needed die. A substitute had to take your place. Men do not like to discuss this. They do not like to hear about it because it injures their pride. It takes all value of self out of the picture.

Many people say, "Can I not be saved by living by the Golden Rule? Or just following the precepts of Jesus? Or living the good and ethical life that Jesus taught?" Even if we could live the life that Jesus taught, we still would be sinners. We still would fail, because not one of us will ever live a sinless life from the time we are born till the time we die. We have all failed to live free of sin, we will continue to fail. We have transgressed, we will continue to transgress. We have disobeyed. We have sinned, we sin, we shall sin. Therefore, what are we going to do about our sin? If we can not break these cursed bonds of sin of our own accord, then what shall we do? There is only one thing to do and that is to bring it to the cross and find forgiveness. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; ( Rom 3:23)

The world will never know peace until it finds it in Jesus Christ.
You will never know peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul, until you stand at the foot of the cross and and accept the salvation offered through Christ by faith. The cross is the secret of peace.

Through the cross is the only way to find peace with God.

"Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through Him" (Romans 5:9). The sacrificial blood of Jesus, the Son of God, changes men's standing before God. It is a change from guilt and condemnation to pardon and forgiveness. The repentant sinner, is completely pardoned through the blood of Jesus Christ. "Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. So how can man condemn those washed in the blood of Christ? Christ Jesus, who died -- and who was raised to life -- is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us (Romans 8:33 -34).

"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7). The key word in this verse is all. Not part of our sins, but all of them. Every lie you ever told, every mean, low-down dirty thing that you ever did; your hypocrisy, your lustful thoughts, your jealousy, your greed, your taking of God's Holy Name in vain, your unforgiving spirit, whether in your heart or in actual deed-- all are cleansed by the death of Christ-- but, ONLY if you accept Him as your Lord and as your Savior.

But this is not the end! We do not leave Christ hanging on a cross with blood streaming down from His hands, His side, and His feet. After His death He is taken down and laid carefully away in a tomb. A big stone is rolled against the entrance of the tomb. Soldiers are set to guard it. All day Saturday, His followers sit gloomily and sadly in the upper room. Two have already started toward Emmaus. Fear has gripped them all. Early on that first Easter morning the three women, Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Salome make their way to the tomb to anoint the dead body. When they arrive, they are startled to find the tomb empty. In the tomb, the women found that there was no sign of having been a departure done in haste, all was orderly, leaving the impression of One Who had leisurely removed the garment of death and ridded Himself of what no longer was due Him. An angel is standing at the head of the tomb and asks, "Whom do you seek?" And they reply, "We seek Jesus of Nazareth." And then the angel gives the greatest, most glorious news that human ear has ever heard:

"He is not here, He is risen." (Mathew 28:6)

Oh thank you Dear God that these words were spoken...

Do you need a contrast to assist you in recognizing the great value of those words spoken by the angel? What would be our poor and miserable lot this day if the angel's message to the women searching for Jesus' body had instead been?

"He is not here, He is dead, his body has been removed and buried elsewhere".

Praise and all glory should be given unto our loving and merciful God, that for our sake He chose to allow Jesus to be resurrected.

The Fact of the Resurrection
Upon that great fact hangs the entire plan of God's salvation for us. Without the resurrection there could be no salvation. Christ predicted His resurrection many times. He said on one occasion, "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matthew 12:40).
As He predicted, He also returned.

A Historian's view.
There are certain laws of evidence which hold in the establishment of any historic event. There must be documentation of the event in question made by reliable witnesses. There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three. It is strange that secular historians will accept thousands of facts for which they can produce only shreds of evidence. But in the face of the overwhelming evidence of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ they cast a (spiritually blind) skeptical eye and hold (un) intellectual doubts. The trouble with these people is that they do not want to believe. Their spiritual vision is so blinded and they are so completely prejudiced that, sadly for them, they cannot accept the glorious fact of the resurrection of Christ on Biblical witnesses' testimony alone.

The resurrection of Jesus meant the following:

First, that Christ was undeniably God. He was what He claimed to be. Christ was Deity in the flesh.

Second, it meant that God the Father had accepted His Son's atoning work on the cross, which was necessary for our salvation. "Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification" (Romans 4:25).

Third, it assures mankind of a fair and righteous judgment. "For as by one man's (Adam) disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one (Jesus) shall many (us) be made righteous" (Romans 5:19).

Fourth, it guarantees that our bodies also will be raised in the end time. "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:20). The Scripture teaches that as Christians, our bodies may go to the grave, but they are going to be raised on the great resurrection morning. Then will death be swallowed up in victory. As a result of the resurrection of Christ the sting of death is gone and Christ Himself holds the keys to death and the grave. He says, "I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades" (Revelation 1:18). And Christ promises those that accept His atoning and forgiving sacrifice that "Because I live, you will live also."

And, fifth, it means that death will ultimately be abolished. The power of death has been broken and death's fear has been removed. Now we can say with the Psalmist,
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4).

Without the resurrection of Christ there could be no hope for the future. The Bible promises that someday "We are going to stand face to face with the resurrected Christ, and we shall have bodies like unto His own body" (1 John 3:2).

There has never been another man, teacher, or preacher of any religious faith that claimed to be God or the son of God and was allowed to continue doing so by God Himself. All other leaders of all other religions accepted that they themselves were but mortal men. Jesus claimed to be the Son of God and to be God Himself. He has never been proven wrong. God allowed Jesus to make this claim then and has continued to allow it today. In fact God is causing the name of Jesus to be heard around the world so that all may find redemption before this age draws to a close.

Jesus is the Son of the living God. Jesus is our only way to approach God for forgiveness of our sins. We cannot stand before God without first accepting the Salvation offered to us through His Son Jesus.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, my personal testimony to my faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and my Savior.

If you have questions that you would like to discuss about the Gospel please contact me by email. I will be very happy to assist you in any way possible to come to know the Love of God.

Love and peace to you all in the blessed name of Jesus.

A brother and fellow servant in Christ, Barry L. Brumfield

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