Jesus
As you can see, we have started sharing, in another section, testimonies of what some people experience when they venture into the faith. If we started with a testimony that we call "conversion", it is not the only thing that we experience.
Personally, I can already tell you that I have seen and experienced miraculous healings, which should not have happened. I have seen people living deliverances from demonic possession - and no, it does not happen in exorcism sessions as you can see in the movies, but through prayer. I’ve also experienced situations that wouldn’t be normal for anyone, things that shouldn’t happen, and my articles are full of them.
I have summarized the story of Jesus many times, I will never get tired of it. It is beautiful and it offers eternal life. Man is looking for a way not to die, but I found it. And it goes far beyond the body (Philippians 2:20 - 21), it is my soul that will live for eternity. So, sincerely? I have no worries. So let's go :
Jesus Christ came to Earth when mankind lived in disgrace and shame that we cannot imagine; when God's chosen people, whom He had set apart to love them, lived in oppression by the occupying Roman Empire. It was just over 2000 years ago. He did not appear on Earth in fully adult form, He did not invent anything to be known.
On the contrary, He was born, through a woman whom you probably know by the name of the “Virgin Mary” - before she married and had other children - and of the Holy Spirit , a part of God. He was raised by Marie and Joseph, a carpenter, and probably grew up with His brothers and sisters. It was at the age of 30 that He began to manifest himself to the general public as the Son of God, but that doesn't mean that He hadn't done anything special before. You would think of the fact that He taught Jews in a temple, but I'm pretty sure there were other facts that weren't mentioned.
Between 30 and 33 years old, He did miracles, going from healing to the resurrection of the dead, without forgetting the multiplication of food, the delivering people of demonic spirits and more or less everything that I quoted when I started this article.
But, if His life had been so simple, between you and me, I would NEVER have followed him. So you have to know that too: He was persecuted for the simple reason that what He said did not please everyone, He saw people doing abominations in the temple of God, he was mocked and despised, misunderstood. The fact that He spends time with Romans, Jews who accepted the works of the Romans in order to impoverish Israel, people that the Bible describes as having “bad lives”, fishermen - therefore people who are not necessarily rich - couldn’t have helped much. It is further assumed that He lost His father, since, unlike His brothers and His mother, he is no longer mentioned very early in the Gospels.
But that’s not where it ends. He was betrayed by one of His closest friends, He was wrongly accused of having made threats against the Roman Empire and of having confronted the authorities. All because He presented His identity: The King of the Jews. The religious of His time therefore forced the Roman authorities to condemn him to death after a very important holiday for the people: the Passover, which symbolizes the actions that God had taken long before to deliver Israel from the Egyptian oppression.
So He was crucified. A dreadful, unjust and humiliating death. Why? Because He agreed to die, to be a perfect sacrifice, for the glory of God and to allow us to come closer to God by offering to be saved by His grace. Why not be down? Because He loves us so much that He chose to die for us in order to give us eternal life in heaven, with Him.
And to show us that He truly reigns and that nothing has more power than Him, after three days, when the body is supposed to start to mold and decay, He rose, spoke to several human beings and was raised to heaven before his disciples.
This is the Jesus that I love, that I serve and that I adore. Just like many others. I aspire is to be like Him. The God in whom I believe calls you today. Paul in Romans 8:35 asks “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or hunger, or nudity, or danger, or the sword? ”. The state in which you are is not too catastrophic or too bad for the love of God to reach you. Jesus can help you, whether you have questions, concerns, or wrongdoings on your own, He can help you. And He wants to help you. Because He loves you.
With all of my affection,
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