Who is Jesus?

             This past Sunday, our minister asked the question:  who is Jesus?  As I thought about it this week, several things came to mind.  Some religions think He was a great prophet.  Another religion thinks He was a blasphemer.  Some skeptics say He was just a good man, and other cynics say He is just a prop for weak-minded individuals who need someone to lean on. 

            I say that none of those opinions matter.  What counts is who each of us says Jesus is.  That is a very personal question that we each must answer for ourselves.  For me, there is not one single answer to that question.  Rather, I have a multitude of answers that point to not only who He is but what He is in my life. 

            My answer begins with He is God!  He is a vital part of the sacred Trinity.  As John puts it, He is God who became flesh (John 1: 1), and Paul describes Him as God taking on the nature of a servant so that He could go to the cross for our sins (Phil. 2: 6 – 8).  Knowing that God loves us so much that He was willing to become a man for the sole purpose of saving us is almost more than our feeble minds can comprehend, but that doesn’t make it any less true. 

            As God, Christ is my Sovereign Lord (I Corinthians 8: 6).  He is my Redeemer (Isaiah 63: 16), the only one who could pay the price for my sins and set me free from death (John 3: 16).  He is my friend that sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18: 24).  He is my advocate before the Throne (I John 2:1). He is my Teacher (John 13: 13), my Deliverer (Romans 11: 26), and He is my King Eternal, Immortal, and Invisible (I Tim. 1: 17).  He is my Master (Colossians 4: 1).  He is Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6).

I have no doubt who Jesus is!  He is my personal Savior and I hope that He is or will be yours as well.  The Scripture makes it very clear that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no one comes to the Father, except through Him (John 14: 6).  There will come a day when every knee will bow before Him (Romans 14: 11).  The only question is whether you will bow voluntarily, rejoicing at the presence of your Savior, or will you bow involuntarily because you failed to recognize who He really is. 

Who is Jesus?  That’s a question you must answer for yourself before God answers it for you.

Philippians 2: 5 – 11

I Timothy 1: 17

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