WHO IS JESUS?

A brief summary:

John 1:17-18:17-18: For the law [Torah – God’s instructions] were given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah. No man has seen God [Yehovah] at any time; the uniquely begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

How did Jesus declare the Father [Yehovah]?

Hebrews 1:1-5: God, who in many ways and in many manners, in time past spoke unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, because of whom [God’s anointed one] indeed He [Yehovah] made the ages; who [Jesus] reflected the brightness [outshining] of His [Yehovah’s] glory and the exact reflection of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when he had by himself borne our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance [promise made to Abraham that his “seed” would receive] obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels did He say at any time, you are my Son, this day have I begotten you.

John 1:29: John saw Jesus coming toward him the next day and said: “Look, this is the Lamb of God [Yehovah] who takes away the sins of the world.”

John 3:16-17: For God [Yehovah] so loved the world, that He gave His uniquely begotten Son, in order that whosoever believes on him should not perish, but have age upon age lasting life. For God, did not send the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

John 5:22-24: For the Father [Yehovah] does not judge any man/woman, but has committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who has sent him. Truly, truly, I say unto you, he that hears my word, and believes on Him that sent me, has age upon age lasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but has passed from death unto life [spiritual life now and age upon age lasting life when we are resurrected].

John 3:35-36: The Father [Yehovah] loves the Son, and has put all things into his hand. He that believes on the Son has age upon age lasting life: but he that does not believe on the Son shall not experience age upon age lasting life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

John 5:24-26: Truly, truly, I say unto you, he that hears my word, and believes on Him that sent me, will have age upon age lasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life [spiritual life]. Truly, truly, 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.

Note these very important in John verses 27-29: For as the Father [Yehovah] has life in Himself; and He has given to the Son to have life in himself; And has also given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all who are in the graves shall hear his [Jesus] voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life [age upon age lasting life as glorified men and women]….

John 6:40: And this is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone who sees the Son [spiritually], and believes on him, will have age upon age lasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. [Yehovah has given that ability and authority to His son Jesus]

Wow! Do we understand that our God and Father [Yehovah] has given our elder brother Jesus to have life in himself and the authority to execute judgment as His agent? Also, we see in John 6:40 that Jesus has the power [because he has life in himself] to resurrect us at the last day [when he returns in the clouds and we rise up to meet him in the air!

Now that I have mentioned that Jesus was and is God’s [Yehovah’s] Agent, I should give you a definition of what that means:

Now according to the Jewish Law of Agency, the agent fully represents the one on whose behalf they are acting, so that the two are identified in a sense as one and the same person.

The Jewish Law of Agency is expressed by these words: “a person’s agent is regarded as the person himself.” And that is why Jesus told the Pharisees, “I and the Father are one”.

Note: John 12:44-45, 50: Whoever believes in me does not only believe in me but also in the One who sent me. The one who looks at me is seeing the One who sent me… I know that what He commands results in age upon age lasting life. Whatever I say is what the Father told me to say.”

Now the question that we as disciples of the lord Messiah should ask ourselves is when we go forth preaching and publishing the good news message Yehovah our God gave to Jesus to give to us; are we acting as his agents? The answer is yes!

Notice: 2 Corinthians 5:20: Now then we are ambassadors for the Messiah, as though God [Yehovah] did beseech you by us: we pray you in the Messiah’s stead, be you reconciled to God.

Here Paul is saying that we as ambassadors of the Messiah are also acting on behalf of our God in beseeching people to be reconciled to God! So when we are acting as one’s who have been sent forth as ambassadors of the Messiah Jesus we are also acting not only as his agents; but also as agents of his Father and our Father Yehovah.

So that being said do we truly realize that when we speak forth the good news (gospel) message that our God Yehovah gave to Jesus to be preached to the world, we are acting as agents of the lord Jesus, so that what we say, is as if he were saying it, according to the Jewish Law of Agency! What a grave responsibility to the bondservants of Yehovah to speak the truth!

Now we all know that we cannot act as the agents of the lord Messiah properly without being enabled to do so by the indwelling power of the Spirit of our God and Father and of the lord Jesus in us.

We need to draw upon the indwelling power of our God [Yehovah] and our Messiah Jesus to carry out what they have commissioned us to do.

Note: John 14:20: At that day you shall know that I am in my Father and you in me, and I in you. That day began on the day of Pentecost for all Jesus disciples, for all that are in him to this day!

Note: John 14:23: If a man loves me, he/she will keep my words: and my Father will love him/her, and we will come unto him/her, and make our dwelling place in him/her.

What an awesome responsibility has been given to us to act as the agents of our God and Father Yehovah and the lord Messiah Jesus

Now, these words that Paul spoke have deep meaning for us now:

1 Thessalonians 2:12: … that you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto His kingdom and glory.

1Corinthians 3:16, 17: Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? …. for the sanctuary of God is holy, and such are you.

1 Corinthians 6:19: Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit that is in you, which you have from God? And you are not your own [indeed, we are bought and paid for by the blood of the lord Jesus];

2 Corinthians 6:16: And what agreement has a sanctuary of God with idols [things the people of the world lust after]? For we are a sanctuary of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk-in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Who is Jesus? He is the one who has given us all that we have need of to enter into age upon age lasting when His God and Father Yehovah sends him down to take his place on the throne of David at Zion! He voluntarily became a sin offering sacrifice completely committed to doing his Father’s will.

Notice: When the men came to take Jesus to the High Priest what Jesus says: Matthew 26: 51-54: And behold, one of them [Peter] that were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and smote the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear. Then Jesus said unto him, Put up your sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword. Or do you not think that I can beseech my Father, and He shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? [to deliver him from the crowd who came to take him, prisoner]

Note: verse 54: How then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? [What was taking place was according to the plan of God that began with Genesis 3:15, and was being carried out at this time, i.e. “he [Satan] shall bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:15: I will make you and the woman hostile toward each other. I will make your descendants [Satan’s] and her descendant hostile toward each other. He will crush your head [at the White Throne Judgment, when Satan is cast into the lake of fire and destroyed], and you [Satan] will bruise his heel [cause him to be crucified].”

Who was Jesus? He was the second man created by His God and Father Yehovah in the womb of Mary. He was the one who carried out the commission Yehovah gave to him to fulfill, and in doing so he preached the message of the good news of the coming kingdom of God and relayed to the people all the words God gave to him to give to them to hear and obey!

Note: [Isaiah 61:1-2] Luke 4:18-20: The Spirit of the Lord [Yehovah] is upon me because He anointed me to preach good news to the poor: He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives [from the bondage of sin], and recovering of sight to the blind [giving them a spiritual understanding of God’s word], To set at liberty them that are bruised [to physically heal those who were sick], to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord [Yehovah] [When Yehovah will establish His Kingdom on this earth]. And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, today has this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

The lord Messiah Jesus by his sin-offering sacrifice has made it possible for us to become new creations in him when we die to self and enter in the waters of baptism and come out in newness of life!

Romans 6:4: We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as the Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

2 Corinthians 5:17: Wherefore if any man/woman is in the Messiah, he/she is a new creation: the old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new.

To be new creations in the Messiah Jesus means that we are members of the New Humanity that our God and Father has had in mind for men/woman since Adam’s rebellion! The New Humanity will enter into the new age to come that will take place after the White Throne Judgment when all those who are a part of the New Humanity. Wo are now new creations in the Messiah will enter into the new age which will consist of a new heavens and a new [renewed] earth. Only those who are immortal glorified men and women will be allowed to enter.

Note: 1 Corinthians 15:42, 50, 53-54: So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 50 Now, this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Note what Jesus has made us to be now:

1 Peter 2:9: But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

How are we a holy nation?

Romans 11:7-27: Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election [those who committed their lives to Yehovah and lived according to His will, kept His word] has obtained it, and the rest were blinded (According as it is written, God has given them [Israel] the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see [understand spiritual things], and ears that they should not hear [understand the revelation of Yehovah]; unto this day). And David said, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and recompense unto them: Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

I say then, Have they [Israel] stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. But if some of the branches be broken off, and you [non-Jews], being a wild olive tree, are grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree [a type of Israel]; Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you [referring to the olive tree – Israel]. You will say the branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also not spare you.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God [Yehovah]: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, IF you continue in His goodness: otherwise you also shalt be cut off.

And they [Israel] also, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into the good olive tree [Israel]: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Ephesians 2:1-22: And you has He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our condict in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with the Messiah, and has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in the Messiah Jesus: That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us because of the Messiah Jesus. For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God [Yehovah]: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

For we are His [Yehovah’s] workmanship, created in the Messiah Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. Wherefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcised by those who are called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time you were without the Messiah, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God [Yehovah] in the world:

But now in the Messiah Jesus, you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of the Messiah. For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of two one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the stake, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both [Jew and Gentile] have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints [holy ones of Israel], and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus the Messiah himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto an holy sanctuary in the lord: In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

Revelations 5: 6-10: And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Angels [Spirits] of God, sent forth into all the earth. And he came, and he takes it out of the right hand of Him [Yehovah] that sat on the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sing a new song, saying:

Worthy are you to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for you were slain, and did purchase unto God with your blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and made them be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon earth.

As John’s gospel message says in chapter 20: 30-31: And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God [Yehovah]; and that believing you might have life through his name. Amen.

Finally, the Lord Jesus has made it possible for us to enter into the Holy of Holies, where God's throne of grace is located when we pray to our Father Yehovah.

Notice: The High Priest of Israel could only enter the Holy of Holies (inner sanctum) once a year on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, to burn incense and sprinkle sacrificial animals blood to expiate his own sins and those of the people.

Notice: Hebrews 4:16: Let us, therefore, draw near with openness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help [us] in time of need.

What an amazing privilege to be able to come before our God and Father in prayer presenting our thanksgiving and love for Him and making requests for His help in time of need. We are not limited to once a year, but can enter the throne of grace anytime we pray! Yehovah desire that His saint - holy ones draw near to Him and communicate with Him as their God and Father. What an amazing privilege we have been given as the slaves of god, the sons of God, and the priests of God. Amazing Grace indeed!

In my own small way, my hope is that what I have written and quoted from God’s word will lead you to have life in the name of the lord Messiah Jesus.