Jesus has the biggest heart for humanity. He loves people; both men and women and especially children. We would be hard pressed to find another with a greater love for us and concern for our well-being than He. It was through Jesus all of us were made.
For those of you who don’t understand, let’s paint you a picture. Remember back to when your kids were little. I want you to imagine standing behind them and teaching them how to write their name and form their letters or how to stand a domino up on a table so they don’t knock them all over, or even teaching them to throw their first ball. If you can see that image in your head, then you have seen what it looked like when YHWH and Jesus were creating the Earth we see today. No, I am not saying Jesus was a little boy. What I am saying is His father was teaching Him how to build and create.
The Arrival of Jesus
Jesus was here before anything in creation was started; to hate Jesus is to love death. Hating Jesus means you don’t understand His role in all of this. Historically prior to going before the Almighty an animal had to die. The spilled blood put a shield between the Father and the individual praying. This gave God the opportunity to look at the person without them dying. Using this system caused a problem; God’s blameless animals were losing their life because of humanity’s choice. This was not what He wanted. However, the time had to be right for Jesus to come down.
YHWH’s Question
Let’s make sure you really understand this next point. Yahweh asked “Will no one go and take their place?” It was Jesus who said “I will. I will take their place.” Don’t be a fool right now and think “No one asked Him to.” I want to address that because I probably hear that comment about 8 -10 times per week. A baby doesn’t ask their parents to change their diaper, does that mean you leave them in a messy diaper and let them be hurt? If a sick person doesn’t ask to be fed, does that mean you leave them starving? The ridiculousness of that statement is without explanation. Parent provide for their children! We protect those who can’t take care of themselves.
Contrary to our arrogant thoughts, and yes, every single one of us has them; we are not capable of taking care of ourselves. We can only handle our immediate sphere. If we can touch it, we can do something about it. Jesus knew our limitations and our inability to grasp true reality along with how easily we’re swayed by our emotions and senses. We were designed to feel. We were NOT designed to be controlled by what we feel.
Jesus’ Intercession
Day in and day out Jesus stands before His Father fighting for us. When things in our life are their darkest, suddenly a surprise appears and we are ok and moving forward. Then there are times when nothing appears and our worst fears surface. This doesn’t mean Jesus wasn’t interceding; it means you needed to see the fear you held so tightly to, was not as big as your mind made it out to be.
Too often people think there is a lot Jesus didn’t live through. Not so. Let’s deal with these in order:
Adultery
“Jesus never had to face adultery. He was never tempted by a woman.”
Good fathers raise their daughters and sons right. You won’t find a good father tempted by his daughter. If she were to do something inappropriate he (the father) would correct her. You are Jesus’ child, we are not sexual (in the sense of that word) to Him. Remember true adultery doesn’t involve physical contact.
How Jesus Stood Against Adultry
Adultery, as defined today; is a newer definition. The original definition of the word was to be unfaithful to one’s ruler or leader. To find this you will have to go back before the 1800’s. Remember, words change in definition over the centuries. Jesus faced adultery for 40 solid days. The question He had to answer was: “Will you be faithful to YHWH?” He passed the test. Be faithful to your spouse but remember we are first faithful to YHWH. The only person qualified to guide us without question is Jesus.
Jesus’ Free Gift to Us
If you are going to question his love for you then the real question you want to ask is what is your struggle with His gift to us? Jesus’ sacrifice gave us a free gift. That gift is the freedom to go before the Father and speak directly to Him through the blood sacrifice of Jesus. It is because of His choice we have a chance at salvation. We have to change the way we see this.
The craziness of this world does not affect the power of the Father and the Son. These two are allowing YOU to have no excuse for your bad behavior. If we chose not to follow them, that is our choice. But it will not be because we were ignorant. It was a deliberate willful decision. Jesus gives you the opportunity to make a choice. He says ‘I lay before you, life and death blessings and curses. Choose ye life’. He wants each and every one of us to be on the new earth.
The Children of Perdition
As parents, we know when our kids simply aren’t going to make it. Not every child becomes rotten because mom or dad did something to them. There are kids who become corrupted because of their narcissism. Relentlessly pursing their wants this group turns away from sound reason and end up hurt.
The story of the prodigal son illustrates this beautifully: The son wanted to go out on his own. He went to dad and said give me what’s mine and dad said ok. The boy left with tons of money, as we all know, when the money ran out so did the friends. No one was there when he was eating the pig slop to stay alive. It was at that point, he came to his senses and returned home.
There is another side of this story and one we see a great deal of today; that’s when our children never come to their senses. This is how lost our children are today. Many of them don’t want to return. When it doesn’t work out for them, they want to prove their parents wrong; thus pushing themselves further down the wrong path to prove they were right. These kids give no thought to the damage done when the wrong road never turns right. Jesus will continue to woo them and they will continue to rebel.
Jesus told us the children of perdition, these rebellious children, were to be the last generation before the end. When the final heart has turned to Him and no others will be saved that is when all things will be made right and this world ends.
The Name of Jesus
Jesus is the only name that can save a soul. Remember, you don’t have to believe in gravity but it WILL still have an effect on you. Too many of you are walking around talking about how you can believe in whatever you want and there will be no ramifications with it. The problem with that philosophy is NOTHING outside of Jesus is going to save you from your troubles. Things don’t work out because you are “lucky” or because you are a great planner. They work out because even when you don’t believe He is interceding on your behalf.
Jesus and the Demons
The only name that makes demons squirm is the name of Jesus. Jesus is the ONLY power capable of stopping a demon in his tracks. They fear that name more than anything in the world.
In recent years there has been a rash of ghost hunter shows. These shows depict people inviting demons to come into their bodies. Here in the real world when you invite a demon in, you give them access to you, your family and your entire genealogical line. This is not ok.
The Truth of Ghosts
Ghosts are not real; universal law does not allow people to get caught on this plain. That is great Hollywood. Demons can take on the form of people and make one think that is what they are. Jesus is the only name with the power to stop the lies of the enemy. One of the all-time greatest movie lines is “This is Constantine, John Constantine” There is NEVER a time a demon fears a person. You have no power in yourself to thwart the enemy, they will win every time.
Jesus walks up to a demon and tells him to depart and he must leave. Get this even with Him the demons talk back. They don’t move the first time He talks. This is not a lack of power, this is the rebellion of a child. He created the spirit sons too.
Every time we think Jesus has no power we are wrong in our assumption! Jesus has all power and authority in this universe; every knee WILL, one day, bow before Jesus the King. Those who choose to fall on Him will be saved! While those who hold tight to their pride and refuse to change their ways willingly WILL be ground to dust. Evil is not allowed to stand and it can only have power for a short while before it will never be seen again! Have to run…see you later gator.
