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![]() He redefined acceptance, paying attention to those on the fringes of life. Love was the main focus of Jesus’ ministry on earth. His sacrificial love redefined the human understanding of the word. It was out of love for us God sent His Son, and love that compelled Christ to accept the fate of the cross. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 There’s just no other way.” - Greg Gilbert, “Who is Jesus?” 5 Things to Know about the Life and Ministry of Jesus “Once you begin to understand that Jesus is in fact God, and that he is in a unique and exclusive relationship with God the Father, you also begin to understand that if you want to know the God who created you, then you need to know Jesus. “I am the way, the truth and the life.” John 14:6.“I am the resurrection and the life.” John 11:25.“I am the good shepherd.” John 10:11-14.“I am the light of the world.” John 8:12 John 9:5.There are seven statements in his gospel in which Jesus, Himself, tells us who He is: ![]() The Gospel of John recorded more than just the events of Jesus’ life, revealing more of who He was. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:1-5 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. Through him all things were made without him nothing was made that has been made. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The salvation that was expected in the Old Testament is exhibited in the Gospels and then explained in the rest of the New Testament.” -, “Jesus Through the Bible.” He is now seated at the right hand of the Father, where He will remain until He returns, a time which only God knows. He walked the earth for 33 years living a sinless life, was crucified, died, was burried, and rose from the dead. He chose to come to earth, according to God’s great plan to restore and redeem His people, who throughout the Old Testament, failed to keep His laws due to the fallen and sinful nature put in place when Adam and Even succumbed to the devil’s temptation in the Garden of Eden. Jesus represents one person of the Triune God, God’s only Son. “The cross is as central to living the Christian life as it is to entering into it.” - Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology Who Is Jesus? The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” ( Galatians 2:20). Paul significantly stated, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. Crucifixion is also defined as unjust treatment or persecution, aptly defining what it often costs us in this life to follow Christ. Jesus’ death on the cross symbolizes the Christian call to “take up our cross” daily and choose God each day by the power of the Holy Spirit. While a crucifixion was an execution, it was also a humiliation, by making the condemned as vulnerable as possible. Sometimes the legs of the criminals are broken to speed up the process, but Christ was pierced in the side and determined to be dead already so His legs were not broken. He was given a crown of thorns, beaten along the way, mocked and humiliated. The crucifixion Jesus endured was even more brutal than the typical punishment for criminals. Crucifixion is a death sentence, a nailing or tying of the hands and feet to a wooden beam and being left to hang there until death by exhaustion or asphyxiation.
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