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Who Is Christ, The Son Of God? by daughters13: 7:34am On May 19
WHO IS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD?
Before this world was created, God lived in heaven with His Son, Christ. After the rebellion of Adam and Eve, humanity did not only die physically, humanity also died spiritually and became spiritually separated from God.
However God decided to redeem humanity and He sent His Son (Christ), down to this world in order to make humanity spiritually clean again.

CHRIST, "THE ONE–MAN RESCUE PARTY"
Yes! God’s Son was physically here in this world. Similar to how your soul was first born in heaven after which you incarnate into human flesh as soon as you are conceived in the womb; the Godly spirit of Christ who has been in heaven with God before the world was created also incarnated into human flesh and He was born in Bethlehem.
Christ came to this world to reconcile humanity with God, preach the word of God, create the Christian church, bear witness to the truth and to be the sacrificial lamb that saves humanity.

CHRIST "THE RECONCILER"
Reconciliation of man with God was made possible through the incarnation of Christ as a human. The incarnation of Christ (God) into a human (a creature that rebelled and an inferior creature He created) is a proclamation of God’s reconciliation with humanity.

AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE TO CREATE UNITY
If two families are engaged in a quarrel, one way of uniting the two families is to arrange a marriage between the two families. For example, a groom from the first family will marry a bride from the second family and by so doing, the bloodlines of the two families will become mixed together and the two families will forever be united. Similarly, Christ is the groom provided by God to come for His bride, the church.

CHRIST, "THE PREACHER"
Christ preached the word of God whilst in the world and He fulfilled His mission to create the Christian church.

CHRIST PREACHED ABOUT LOVE AND GENEROSITY
Christ preached about the need for us to show love and generosity not just towards our close family members but towards everyone. ”Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:39). Christ also preached about the need for us to love God our Father. ”Thou shalt love the Lord thy God will all thy heart, and with all your soul and with all thy mind” (Matthew 22:37).

CHRIST PREACHED ABOUT REPENTANCE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
Christ preached about the need for repentance. Christ told us to repent from our sins because sin separates us from heaven. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17)

CHRIST’S WARNING ABOUT SIN AND HELL
Christ warned us about the consequences of sin, Matthew 5:30 states “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go to hell”.

Here Christ wants us to know the severity of hell and what better way to do this than to figuratively say “cut off the hand that makes you sin”? Matthew 10:28 states “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell”


CHRIST TOLD US TO HOLD LOOSELY, THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD
In Matthew 6:19-34, Christ implied that we should not prioritize seeking the things of this world and this means you should not worry about worldly desires like having money, having houses, having cars and the rest. Instead, Christ told us to focus only on working for the church, seeking righteousness and seeking salvation. “But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33).

CHRIST, "THE HEALER"
With His cleansing power, Christ performed miracles and some of these include:

• Raising a dead man back to life (Luke 7:11-–17)
• Making the blind to see (Matthew 9: 27-–31)
• Feeding over five thousand people with only five loaves of bread and two fishes (Matthew 14: 15-–21)
• Healing of the dumb (Matthew 9: 32-–33)
• Healing of the deaf (Mark7:31–-37)
• Healing of the leppers (Mark 1:40-–45)

CHRIST, THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB
In the Old Testament, the Israelites who found favor with God were told by God to repent and show remorse for their sins by giving away some of their livestock to the priests of God (Levites) as a form of sacrifice. Similar to how a court judge will order you to pay a fine for an offence you committed, God instructed the Israelites to pay for their sins by offering animals.

An offering in the form of a sheep or cow was enough to pay for the individual sin of a man; but how many cows, sheep or fowls are sufficient to pay for the sin of Adam and Eve? The blood of how many cows, sheep or fowls could have reconciled humanity with God? There are not enough cows in this world to pay for the sin of Adam and Eve, neither are there enough sheep or fowls.

Only the blood of God’s Son (Christ) is powerful enough to wash away the sin of Adam and Eve. For humanity to be fully reconciled with heaven, the blood of Christ had to be shed as a form of sacrifice. In order to fulfill His mission of redeeming humanity and in order to fulfill His mission of taking the power of death from satan in hell, Christ voluntarily offered His flesh to be sacrificed on the cross. His blood that was shed on the cross washed away the sin of Adam and Eve and opened up the gates of heaven to humanity.

After His flesh died on the cross, the bible states that the soul of Christ descend into hell to minister to those that were there and to set the captives free. On the third day after the death of the body of Christ on the cross, He was raised from the dead by God. God has promised us that you and I will also be resurrected into heaven after we die if we believe in Christ.

“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)

IT IS THE NAME OF CHRIST THAT RAISES YOU UP AFTER YOU DIE
John 6:38-40 states:
38. For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me
39. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that all of which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

THE BLOOD OF CHRIST HAS PAID FOR THE SIN OF ADAM AND EVE, BUT YOUR INDIVIDUAL SIN SEPARATES YOU FROM GOD
God’s grace has reconciled you with heaven and all you need to be saved is to believe in Christ. Believing in Christ is not just a belief in your heart that Christ died for you; believing in Christ means that we should live like Christ did. Living like Christ did means that we should flee from sin. Christ has stated that your individual sin can make you unfit for heaven, therefore you should use your free will to pursue good and not evil.

Culled from the Progeny of Lucifer
www.progenyoflucifer.org

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