Religion column written by Dr. Bob Allen:
I find that we are far too familiar with the God that we know very little about. We know about Him, but do we know Him? When He was about the age of thirty, Luke said this about Him:
Luke 3:22 “And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Jesus, and a voice came from heaven, which said, You are my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased”.
Acts10:38, Peter said, ”How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.”
When Jesus came up out of the Jordan He was filled with the Holy Spirit for the first time. It is also the first recorded time the Father called Him, “My Son”. When He was twelve years old and was found in the temple discussing with the elders, He made the statement, ”I must be about my Father’s business”. I can assure you this, His mother never missed a chance to tell Him who He was, and who He would be, but Jesus was not filled with the Holy Spirit at that time.
Up until now, He was The Child born, The Son of Mary, who is the Son of man. When you hear Him called, “the son of man”, that is, The Child born, The Son of Mary.
Rom8:3 “God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh”. Jesus was made like you.
Isaiah 9:6 ”For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” You will need to understand this to know Him better. To know him in his fullness, to love and appreciate Him more.
Luke 4:1 ”And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested.”
Luke 4:2 ”Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered”.
This is Father God’s precious Son with all of the Father’s power, which is the Holy Spirit, in and upon Him. The perfect Spirit of God which was in Adam is back on the earth. Father God Himself is here in human form. His name is Jesus.
2Cor5:19- the apostle Paul said, “That God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.”
This should be a movie. This should be a book. Jesus was led into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the Father, to be tried, and tested by the devil for forty days and forty nights. It was as though He was thrown in the ring with Satan, and with the wild beast! This is a very tense time. I believe this is the greatest battle in the history of the world. Man against the devil for forty days and nights. Good against evil. What makes the story so unique is that Father God had already sent one son, Adam, whom He fashioned and formed, and breathed His own breath into him. The devil beat Adam, in what seems to be one try. Jesus is called the second Adam; now Father God is starting over.
It has been 5,000 years since God had a man on the earth to confront the devil. Since the fall of Adam, until now, there is not one recorded fight in the Bible between the devil and man. When the devil dealt with Job it was by permission from God. Job never put up a fight because he thought it was God dealing with him.
Jesus came out of the wilderness after forty days of temptation by the devil. The devil promised Him the worlds, but Jesus beat him as a man with these words, “It is written.”
1John3:8 “for this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil”.
Jesus is the only man in the history of the world, not fathered by the sinful bloodline of Adam.He has stood the test. He never sinned! He has a perfect, sinless body, and a perfect, sinless blood.
Gen.5:1 “And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness and after his image”. All men upon the earth came out of this sinful bloodline; which is the image of Adam. Actually, that is the reason for the whole “born again” mandate. Only the body of Jesus could be the perfect Lamb of God that could take away the sin of man. He did this on the cross.
If you, my friend die still having the bloodline of Adam, and you failed to get born again, you will go to a burning hell. There is no sinners in heaven. The born again people go to heaven. The old bloodline people go to hell. Every man’s spirit lives for eternity, either in heaven with Jesus or in eternal punishment.
John 3:7 Jesus said, ”Marvel not that I said unto you, you must be born again.”
John1:29 says “Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world.”
2Cor5:21 ” For He hath made Jesus be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”
2Cor5:17 ”Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new”. The blood of Jesus makes you new and white as snow.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” So talk to Him today, will you?
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