I grew up thinking Jesus Christ was just a form of profanity. I heard the name of Jesus a lot around the farm and at school.
In my senior year of high school, I was introduced to Jesus as my Lord and my God. He flooded my heart with His mercy and agape love.
- I have seen Jesus several times in visions and dreams, promising me that He would always be with me wherever I went. He has kept that promise over the past 70 years in many different ways.
- I have seen healings in the Name of Jesus.
- I have seen demons respond with fear and obedience to the Name of Jesus.
- I have seen His presence fill hospital rooms with peace and faith calming the anguish of grieving hearts gathered around a dying loved one.
- I have seen His protection in times of danger when I have called out the Name of Jesus.
- I have experienced answers to government leaders as He promised in Luke 12:12, as His Holy Spirit quickened words to my mind and tongue.
Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, Muslims, Seventh-day Adventists, New Agers, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christian Scientists, Wicca, Unificationists, all say that Jesus was not Divine nor the true Son of God.
He was a great teacher, equal with the angels, or he was Michael, a Christ idea, a guru, an ascended master, a spiritual model, an elder brother of men and angels, and that He went into India to seek His own salvation and to learn mystical truths. He did not die for our sins. He did not rise from the dead. He is not coming back for a church. He will come back at the end of time to rid the world of all non-Muslims or non-Jehovah Witnesses. You have Christ divinity inside you as you seek to enlighten your mind and heart to experience all things as positive and full of love.
- Peter said, “You are the Messiah. The Son of the Son of the living God.” (Matthew 16:16)
- Jesus said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” (John 14:9)
- Paul said, “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” (Colossian 2:9)
- John said, “On His robe and on His thigh He has a name written: King of kings and Lord of lords.” (Revelation 19:16)
C.S.Lewis said:
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish things that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg or else he would be the devil in hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
What we are lacking today is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
Until you spend time with someone, you cannot know what they really are inside their hearts. How much time do preachers and saints spend alone with Christ today?
Wesley, Simeon, Welch, among many other old-time preachers spent from two to ten hours in prayer before walking to the pulpit to deliver a message from the Word of God.
There is a need for those who believe Jesus as the only way to eternal life to lift up His Name in prayer and praise continually as they perform the activities of their daily lives.
The world uses His name every day in foul language. New Agers and Eastern followers invoke a “Christ spirit” in their meditations. Muslims invoke the moon-god Allah five times a day. All deny His divinity as the Son of God and the only way to the Father.
It is time for those of us who know who He really is to proclaim it daily in our prayers and testimony.
Who is Jesus Christ to You?
If you die today, where will you spend eternity? Do you know that you will see your Lord Jesus Christ with your sins forgiven?
Can you say with Thomas that Jesus is, “My Lord and my God!”
It is time to call upon His Name, asking Him to forgive your sins and to empower you to keep His teachings. (Acts 2:38, Acts 16:30)
