Jesus, the only way to God
Jeanie Shepard says she has dedicated her life to serving God, and being an example of the love of Christ. As a passionate Bible teacher, committed to inspiring and encouraging people to live their best lives now, to face their fears, and to grow stronger in the holy things of God, she believes that no other religion teaches the depth or seriousness of sin and its consequences.
We are afraid we can not agree with that, because in this world of many religious groups we can find more than one religion where the followers look at good and evil. After man came to get knowledge of good and evil that knowledge went from one to an other generation and even non-religious people thought about people going bad, what in Christendom is called sinning.
she also writes
No other religion offers the infinite payment of sin that only Christ could provide. {The Only Way}
Sculpture – head of Jesus Christ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
When she means “Christ” the Kristos or Messiah delivering people she is again missing the promise to and the believe of the Jews, and in some aspect also the Muslims. Jews and Muslims look also to the Messiah. In the Islam it is also taught that Ishi/Jesus will come back and that at his return he shall come to judge the living and the dead. For the Jews, they too wait for their Messiah to come, though for them, we do agree, they look (perhaps) for an other person than we and Jeanie Shepard are looking for. Many of them shall be surprised to find out that rabbi Jeshua is really that promised one from God.
With the writer of JSM Grow in God’s Word we too believe we should look to that Christ, though her idea of that Christ is not the biblical view nor our view. She considers that Christ to be God having come to the earth and having done as if he died, because God can not die and is an eternal Spirit. Though she says to
believe we are saved by God’s grace through faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ. {The Only Way}
she contradict in a certain way what she says, because she does not seem to accept the personality Jesus Christ. This is a general problem with a lot of people who call themselves Christian. Instead of accepting the words of Jesus Christ and the Words of his heavenly Father they prefer to believe the human doctrines and to make Jesus into their god.
Such idea undermines the position of Jesus Christ, the man who is called by the Word of God to be the son of man and the son of God.
We all should know that God is bigger than anything that we go through; but that He is also greater than Jesus. Rabbi Jeshua knew very well his position and never claimed to be God, but made it very clear where he was standing, not able to do anything without God.
Christians should take those words of Jesus at heart. They should believe that Jesus, the sent one from God, his heavenly Father works in him and still works today. Christians should understand Jesus his position, being under God, even not able to do anything of himself. Jesus like all the people who saw the miracles could see what God the Father did. It is this God of Abraham Who authorised rabbi Jeshua, Christ Jesus, to do all these things. For all that Jesus does is done by the Power of God.
Because of God having given the authority to speak and act in His Name, this son does together with the Elohim Hashem Jehovah out of love for mankind. Everything Jesus did was out of love for God Whose Will he wanted to do, and not his own will (which he would have done when he is God). First Jesus was lower than angels, but after his ransom offering he was made higher, though God always stays the Most High.
This Most High Eternal God is the Father Who loves His only begotten beloved Son and shows him all the things that He does, and He will show him greater works than these that we may marvel. For as the Father raises up the dead and gives them life; even so God His son gives life unto whom he will. Therefore we should take heed and look at this sent one from God who may judge the living and the dead and is at the moment seated at the right hand of God (and not on God‘s throne) to be a mediator between God and man. For the Father judges no man but has committed all judgement unto the son that everyone should honour the son, even as they honour the Father.
We should take the Words of God, given in the Holy Scriptures very serious. In the New Testament we are warned that he that does not honour the son does not honour the Father Who has sent him, plus that believe in him is important for man’s salvation.
Jesus also warns the people around him that those who hear his words and believes Him (Jehovah God) that sent him (Jesus Christ, the Messiah) has eternal life and shall not come into judgement but has passed from death unto life. But you could also read this as an implication that the ones who do not want to believe God and Jesus their words shall not pass from death to life and shall not be able to enter the small gate of the Kingdom of God.
First of all we should have to look up to the One Who sent Jesus, secondly we should look at the one sent by God. For as the Father has life in Himself, so has He given to the son to have life in himself and has also given him power and authority to execute judgement because Jeshua (Jesus Christ) is Son of man and the son of God in whom we should put our hope.
“17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
18 Therefor the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, “Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do; for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 20 For the Father loveth the Son and showeth Him all things that He Himself doeth; and He will show Him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. 21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom He will. 22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son, 23 that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father who hath sent Him.
24 Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth My Word and believeth in Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. 25 “Verily, verily I say unto you, the hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself, 27 and hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. 28 Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice 29 and shall come forth—they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. 30 “I can of Mine own self do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father who hath sent Me.
31 If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. 32 There is Another that beareth witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesseth of Me is true. 33 “Ye sent unto John, and he bore witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man, but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light, and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given Me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of Me that the Father hath sent Me.” (John 5:17-36 KJ21)
We may not let our mind being filled with false human thoughts, but should listen to the Word God has given us. We may also not let our heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid, by wondering what others might think if we do not follow the mainstream or do not take part in the many human traditions.
The Bible teaches that there is no other way to salvation, but through Christ. Jesus is the way to God and the path to eternal salvation for those who believe in him. No one comes to the Father except through the son, and Jesus is the only begotten son of the Father. He is the only acceptable sacrifice by which man’s sins are forgiven.
“”For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16 KJ21)
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23 KJ21)
All people should come to hear what Jesus has taught. He left the earth but he shall come again unto us. Those who accepted Jesus for what or who he is and love him, there can be rejoicement because they know and believe that Jesus went unto the Father, and not to himself or to take back his place as God; for his Father is greater than himself (Jesus Christ). Christians also should tell others about this son of man who is the son of God, and not a god-son, that the world may know that Jesus does not love himself but loves the Father; and as the Father gave him commandment, even so does Jeshua (Jesus Christ).
“27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, ‘I go away and come again unto you.’ If ye loved Me, ye would rejoice because I said, ‘I go unto the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 30 “Hereafter I will not talk much with you, for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in Me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, as the Father gave Me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.” (John 14:27-31 KJ21)
When you believe those things, then you should be able to accept and believe that
Through Jesus everyone who believes is set free from every sin; (Acts 13:38-39; 1st John 2:12). Sin has a penalty that must be paid, if not through the shed blood of Jesus finish work on the cross,
not that
the only other option is the eternal torment in hell’s unquenchable fire. {The Only Way}
because by dying all payment is given for the sins done. God does not want any other payment and tells us that when we die it is finished.
Though we may not forget that
To receive the free gift of eternal salvation, we must look to Jesus alone. We must place our trust in the finished work of the cross as our payment for sin and in his resurrection.
Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved; (Acts 4:12).
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Preceding articles
Irminsul, dies natalis solis invicti, birthday of light, Christmas and Saturnalia
Entrance of a king to question our position #2 Who do we want to see and to be
Marriage of Jesus 2 Standard writings about Jesus
Marriage of Jesus 8 Wife of Yahweh
Marriage of Jesus 10 Old and New Covenant
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Additional reading:
- Do you believe in One god
- Sinning because being a sinner
- God of gods
- Attributes to God
- Jehovah God Almighty greater than all gods
- The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
- Jesus begotten Son of God #6 Anointed Son of God, Adam and Abraham
- Jesus begotten Son of God #9 Two millennia ago conceived or begotten
- Jesus begotten Son of God #10 Coming down spirit or flesh seed of Eve
- Jesus begotten Son of God #11 Existence and Genesis Raising up
- Jesus begotten Son of God #12 Son of God
- Jesus begotten Son of God #13 Pre-existence excluding virginal birth of the Only One Transposed
- Jesus begotten Son of God #15 Son of God Originating in Mary
- Jesus begotten Son of God #16 Prophet to be heard
- Jesus begotten Son of God #17 Adam, Eve, Mary and Christianity’s central figure
- Jesus begotten Son of God #19 Compromising fact
- Jesus begotten Son of God #20 Before and After
- Nazarene Commentary Matthew 3:13-17 – Jesus Declared God’s Son at His Baptism
- The meek one riding on an ass
- For the Will of Him who is greater than Jesus
- In the death of Christ, the son of God, is glorification
- Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 4
- God has not destined us for wrath
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #18 Fulfilment
- Believing what Jesus says
- Follower of Jesus part of a cult or a Christian
- Preparing for the Kingdom
- Blindness in the Christian world
- If we, in our prosperity, neglect religious instruction and authority
- For those who believe Jesus is God
- For Getting to know Jesus
- That everyone may honour the Son and sent one from God
- Blinkered minds
- Philippians 1 – 2
- After darkness a moment of life renewal
- As Christ’s slaves doing the Will of God in gratitude
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Further reading
- Trying to explain Sin
- Sins are destructive.
- Sinning less will not save you from hell
- Sinning has consequences!
- Commentary for Nitzavim
- You Have Eternal Life
- Failing as a Christian
- “Looking For Jesus” – “Dead Works”
- (Part 2) Can A Christian Lose Their Salvation?
- When salvation comes: context
- October 24 – Jesus And Me
- 31st Sunday of the Year – The Lord comes to seek and save what was lost
- Daily Bread – Take Heed
- Don’t Wait!
- Sermon Recording- We’re Off to See the Wizard (Psalm 115; Exodus 20)
- Justified!
- Instantly Healed, Saved and Baptized
- Professing But Not Born Again
- Reblog: Professing But not Born Again
- To Be A True Christian Will Cost You
- 5 Dangers For Young Men
- A New Life of Righteousness
- The Power to Change
- A Psalm of Praise . . . .
- Grace
- saved to serve
- Finding Strength
- Truth; a Treasure to share…
- Lighthouse
- Let a man receive the truths of the doctrines of the Grace of God and he will say, “God has saved me”
- Time…
- Oct 22, 2016 Stay at the Ready, Soon you’ll see Him coming in the clouds, I will shake the Heavens and the Earth, Many are still stubborn and proud to ask Jesus to forgive them, They will find out the hard way but it will be TOO LATE, Repent while you’re still on Planet Earth
- Breathe in, out!
- Not Sure
- The Reckoning
- October 21, 2016 – cannot enter
- God, the Word of God, and humanity. Also, iPhones. (Reading Athanasius)
- Knowing and Understanding the Times!
- It’s All About Him!
- Salvation – He [Jesus] entered Jericho and was passing through it
- Day 294 Covered By The Robe Of Righteousness
- Blind trust in rumors will cause you to lose God’s salvation of the last days
- He’s Calling Out
- From Lost to Found
- Day 12: Are you ready?
- How Vulnerability Can Bring Us Beyond Ourselves
- The Wheels are Turning
- Meditations on TULIP, Part three
- Who I Am, Alone
- Heaven’s Delight
- The Deification of Man
- Prosperity or Poverty–God’s Opinion
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