Jesus Christ God’s Only Begotten Son

Who was Jesus Christ and what was His purpose?  He claimed that if you had seen Him you had seen the Father.  He claimed that He and His Father were one and He also said before Abraham was I AM. Isn’t that what God told Moses to tell the Israelites if they asked him who had sent him when he went in to tell Pharaoh to let God’s people go, I AM that I Am had sent him.  Read Exodus 3:14, “And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.”

Read what Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

And what about John 1:1-5, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

Now read John 1:14, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

Now read Philippians 2:5-11, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” 

  

After reading all this, and I could add more, but I think you got it, who would you say that Jesus was?

Another question: What was Jesus’ purpose and why was He here?  Well I think there were a few different reasons.  He made this clear when He fulfilled the prophecy that was in Isaiah, read Luke 4:14-21, “And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”

He did proclaim the good news and everything He said was true.  He was sent to proclaim release to the captives and to help the blind to see.  Some were physically blind, and all were spiritually blind.  He also set the oppressed free, those who were burdened and browbeaten, intimidated and oppressed, praise the Lord!  He did all this plus He raised the dead physically, He healed lepers and the lame and the deaf, He brought hope to a nation that had no hope.  

But this wasn’t all that He accomplished.  He came to lay His life down so that He could raise all of us from death to life because we were all dead in our trespasses and sins, totally separated from God, if fact we were all enemies of God with no possible way to get right with Him.  But the Lord God had a plan before the beginning of time and, praise the Lord, it included us and a way that we could be put in right standing with God.  Now that plan would cost God and His Son a great price and much anguish and pain and even separation for a time, but they were willing to pay the price to buy our pardon and this could not be done without the shedding of blood.  Without the shedding of blood there would be no remission or forgiveness of sins.  And this could only be done with a perfect sacrifice, one without spot or blemish.  Jesus, God’s only begotten Son, was the only one that could accomplish this, and He was willing to do it.  No one took His life, He willingly laid it down, knowing what the cost would be, Praise the Lord.  He suffered excruciating pain before He was nailed to the cross.

Now read Isaiah 53:5, “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

Only by Christ’s crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection could we be forgiven of our sins.  Praise the Lord, He was willing to do it so that we could be made right with God by being washed and cleansed by the precious blood of Jesus!!  In that way Jesus became the Savior of all mankind, for any who would repent of their sins and turn from their wicked ways; in other words, if they would have a change of mind and turn to the living Christ, asking Him to be their Lord and Savior!!

There is so much more to say but you can read the Bible for more details!!  I pray that this will be an encouragement for whoever reads it.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you have a super day!!