Jesus

Who is Jesus? It is the central question. The crucial question. The all-defining question. The question every person must first find an answer to. Is He the One Who He claimed to be? Is He the Origin, the Bearer, and the Destiny of the universe? Or is He an impostor? In the first case, every person should embrace Him immediately. In the second case, His followers should be eradicated root and branch. He claimed to be eternal life, the eternal "I Am," the only way to God.

Strangely enough, few draw either conclusion. At Christmas, the world commemorates the birth of the Christ Child, who descended to us from heaven. But from January onward, everything returns to normal. Don't we know what pretensions the Christ Child had as an adult?

Is He God, revealed in the flesh, who died for our sins and rose again for our justification? Then every person should flee into His arms to escape eternal judgment. That this judgment is very real is evident from the enormous sacrifice He Himself made to save us from it. Apparently, it was necessary; otherwise, He would not have had to take that almost impossible path.

However, if He were merely a deceiver, then millions in this world are on the wrong track, wasting their time and energy and dragging others into their deception. Then the deception should be demonstrated once and for all.

Many propose a middle way as an escape between these two extremes: Jesus, like many other sages, was a great teacher, and we can learn much from Him: not to worry about tomorrow, to love our enemies, to treat others as we would like to be treated, and so on. But was that His intention? To show the world the right path with wise words?

Undoubtedly, He gave the world the opportunity to choose the right path. But the world was unwilling. "He was in the world, and the world knew Him not. He came to His own, and His own received Him not." It was precisely those who had all the information about his coming in their scriptures, the Jews, who rejected him and had him executed by crucifixion.

Therefore, Jesus' message goes far beyond simply "the right path for the world." If Jesus' words contain any wisdom—and everyone who knows these words fully agrees about that—then Jesus convincingly demonstrated that the world is lost. The cross to which the world condemned Him means that the world itself has been judged and that no human being is capable of following "the right path."

But humanity's despicable act, which irrefutably demonstrated its total loss, was used by Him to save that same humanity, or at least, those who place their trust in him. And that last point is the core. The message of an incorrigibly evil world and a Creator Who descended to it to save it is unique to Christianity. Jesus is the core of that message.

Jesus compared Himself to “the stone the builders rejected” that “had become the cornerstone.” The rejected Jesus claims to be the foundation of something entirely new, which God has been building for two thousand years and of which everyone who believes in Him is a part.

Isn't it of great importance to discover whether Jesus and His message are truth or a lie?

In His Name

"Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything, He will give it to you in My name. Until now you have asked nothing in My name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full."

Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as it is in heaven, so also on earth. Father, only through the hand of Your Only and Beloved Son will Your name be hallowed, Your kingdom come, and Your will be done in heaven and on earth. For to Him alone has been given all authority in heaven and on earth. For only He possesses the knowledge, the wisdom, and the perfect love to carry out Your will. Only He is worthy to take the scroll and break its seals. For He was slain and redeemed us by His blood from every kindred, tongue, people, and nation.

Only He has the potential to establish Your kingdom and completely overcome all the powers that have resisted it for so long. We know that this victory must pass through the deepest valley of tears in history. But how else would the scriptures of the prophets be fulfilled? Father, the time has come. We see it in everything around us. The time of His victory and glorification is fast approaching. As in heaven, so on earth—His glorification, Your will.

He prayed to You on the night that He was betrayed and He presented His will to You: 'that they whom You have given Me may be with Me, so that they may behold My glory which You have given Me'. Father, You glorified Him shortly after His suffering, but this prayer of His has remained unanswered. Father, in the garden, which He entered shortly after praying about His glory, He completely submitted to Your will, however heavy it was for Him.

He then endured the deepest conceivable humiliation for our sake and for the glory of Your name. Father, please hear His prayer now and send Him so that He may transport us to the Father's house and we may behold Him in His glory, the glory He had with You before the world was. It is the great desire of His heart, and of ours as well. Therefore, we pray to You in His name that He may bring us into His glory so that He can then devote Himself to preparing for His great revelation to the ever-darkening world. Amen.