Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 15.01.2011
Those who belong to Jesus Christ
Today Jesus lives in His glorious body on the throne of God, but also in His own by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ lives
The Bible doesn't tell what Jesus looked like outwardly, when He was on earth. Instead it tells in the first chapter of the Revelation book how He looks today in His glorious body.
It is well known how Jesus was dressed when He was living on earth, but now He doesn't look like that any more. Today He is the high priest who is dressed in a rope reaching down to His feet and with a golden sash round His chest. Today He leads His own from His heavenly place. He takes care of His congregations that live on earth and holds in His hand their servants. His envoys act all over the world.
The Bible doesn't tell the hair color of Jesus during the time He was on earth, but it tells that today His head and hair are white like wool, as white as snow. Also the Bible doesn't tell the eye color of Jesus when He was on earth, but it tells that today His eyes are like a flame of fire. He sees everything and the fire of the holy love in His eyes sanctifies His own and judges His opponents.
The Bible tells that Jesus looked like an ordinary human being when lived on earth, but today He looks like God. His feet are like bronze glowing in furnace, and His voice is like the sound of rushing waters. His feet glow truth, which encourages His own to walk in truth, and will crush those who walk in lies.
The Bible doesn't tell what kind of a face Jesus had when He was in His mortal body, but it tells that today His face is like the sun shining in all its brilliance. In the same way as the sun keeps our planet alive with its light Jesus keeps alive His Church when His own are looking at His face in their spirit.
Jesus Christ is the glorious Lord! He has all authority in heaven and on earth. Happy is he who is allowed to be His own. He says to His own: "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death." Re.1:17-18
The Bible doesn't tell what Jesus looked like outwardly, when He was on earth. Instead it tells in the first chapter of the Revelation book how He looks today in His glorious body.
It is well known how Jesus was dressed when He was living on earth, but now He doesn't look like that any more. Today He is the high priest who is dressed in a rope reaching down to His feet and with a golden sash round His chest. Today He leads His own from His heavenly place. He takes care of His congregations that live on earth and holds in His hand their servants. His envoys act all over the world.
The Bible doesn't tell the hair color of Jesus during the time He was on earth, but it tells that today His head and hair are white like wool, as white as snow. Also the Bible doesn't tell the eye color of Jesus when He was on earth, but it tells that today His eyes are like a flame of fire. He sees everything and the fire of the holy love in His eyes sanctifies His own and judges His opponents.
The Bible tells that Jesus looked like an ordinary human being when lived on earth, but today He looks like God. His feet are like bronze glowing in furnace, and His voice is like the sound of rushing waters. His feet glow truth, which encourages His own to walk in truth, and will crush those who walk in lies.
The Bible doesn't tell what kind of a face Jesus had when He was in His mortal body, but it tells that today His face is like the sun shining in all its brilliance. In the same way as the sun keeps our planet alive with its light Jesus keeps alive His Church when His own are looking at His face in their spirit.
Jesus Christ is the glorious Lord! He has all authority in heaven and on earth. Happy is he who is allowed to be His own. He says to His own: "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death." Re.1:17-18
The Christ's
When Jesus was here as a man those who believed in Him were called His disciples. Later when He already was exalted to heaven, those who believed in Him got to be called Christians. Outsiders of the Church of Jesus gave disciples this appellation. Nowadays many are called Christians though they are not Christ's.
Did the disciples start to call themselves Christians? Surely some adopted it, but it is not good to name oneself with the names given by outsiders. It is better to use the name that God gave because it gives us the right identity.
In the Old Testament it is prophesied that those on whom God pours His Spirit will say about themselves that I am "the LORD's". In the New Testament the same is said in these forms: "who belong to Christ Jesus" and "Christ's". "LORD's" is the same as "Christ's" because Jesus Christ is LORD.
"One will say: 'I am the LORD's '." Isa.44:5
"For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward." Mr.9:41
"I am the good shepherd; and I know my sheep, and am known by my own ." Joh.10:14
"There stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve." Ac.27:23
"Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. Ro.8:9
"If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. " Ro.14:8
"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? " 1Co.6:19
"In Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His comming." 1Co.15:22-23
"If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ's, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's." 2Co.10:7
"If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." Ga.3:29
"Those who are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." Ga.5:24
"Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: 'The Lord knows those who are His ', and, 'Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity'." 2Ti.2:19
Jesus has paid the price for all people, so that they could become His own. In practice most refuse to become His own. However even today Jesus roams through the slave market of sin and wants to redeem people from the slavery of sin. If only someone wants to be bought to be His own, He has by which to pay.
Many would like to be free from the slavery of sin but they also would like to be free from the dominion of Jesus. They regard belonging to Jesus as a matter limiting their freedom and therefore they keep fighting against sin with their own strength. They have not believed that it is good to be under the dominion of Jesus. He has promised: "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." Mt.11:30
When Jesus was here as a man those who believed in Him were called His disciples. Later when He already was exalted to heaven, those who believed in Him got to be called Christians. Outsiders of the Church of Jesus gave disciples this appellation. Nowadays many are called Christians though they are not Christ's.
Did the disciples start to call themselves Christians? Surely some adopted it, but it is not good to name oneself with the names given by outsiders. It is better to use the name that God gave because it gives us the right identity.
In the Old Testament it is prophesied that those on whom God pours His Spirit will say about themselves that I am "the LORD's". In the New Testament the same is said in these forms: "who belong to Christ Jesus" and "Christ's". "LORD's" is the same as "Christ's" because Jesus Christ is LORD.
"One will say: 'I am the LORD's '." Isa.44:5
"For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward." Mr.9:41
"I am the good shepherd; and I know my sheep, and am known by my own ." Joh.10:14
"There stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve." Ac.27:23
"Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. Ro.8:9
"If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. " Ro.14:8
"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? " 1Co.6:19
"In Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His comming." 1Co.15:22-23
"If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ's, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's." 2Co.10:7
"If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." Ga.3:29
"Those who are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." Ga.5:24
"Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: 'The Lord knows those who are His ', and, 'Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity'." 2Ti.2:19
Jesus has paid the price for all people, so that they could become His own. In practice most refuse to become His own. However even today Jesus roams through the slave market of sin and wants to redeem people from the slavery of sin. If only someone wants to be bought to be His own, He has by which to pay.
Many would like to be free from the slavery of sin but they also would like to be free from the dominion of Jesus. They regard belonging to Jesus as a matter limiting their freedom and therefore they keep fighting against sin with their own strength. They have not believed that it is good to be under the dominion of Jesus. He has promised: "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." Mt.11:30
Jesus appears in His own
Today Jesus lives in His glorious body on the throne of God but also in His own through the Holy Spirit. He manifests Himself in His own as commonly as God the Father manifested Himself in everyday life of Jesus for 2000 years ago. "As He is, so are we in this world." 1Jo.4:17
The portion of His own is to be similar to Jesus when He was a man in flesh, not less nor more. To be less would mean we continue to sin and to be more would mean we appear like God.
The Holy Spirit is in the heart of a believer as the guarantee that he belongs to Jesus. Just therefore He causes in us this confession: "Jesus Christ owns me." The death and resurrection of Jesus opened to us the access to His possession.
The world faces Jesus in His own, if they are obedient to the Holy Spirit. Jesus told this when He said to His disciples as follows: "'As the Father has sent me, I also send you!' And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit.'" Joh.20:21-22
Everyone who is Christ's is an envoy of Jesus in this world. In the past God the Father appeared to the world in Jesus. In the same way Jesus now appears to the world in His own. God the Father appeared to the world when Jesus did no wrong but lived according to the goodness of God. In the same way Jesus appears to the world when His own do no wrong but live according to the goodness of Jesus.
Many wait to see miracles to be able to believe in God. They want to see sick persons to be healed and fire coming down from heaven, but they don't care about the greatest miracle. The greatest one is, when a human being does no wrong any more but lives according to the will of God. This miracle appears in those who belong to Jesus and annoys wrongdoers, because it causes guilty conscience in them.
He who is Christ's doesn't lie, kill, steal, fornicate nor commit adultery. He is not proud, nor greedy nor selfish but humble, generous and diligent for the benefit of others. He rejoices at truth and forgives those who wronged against him. Out of love to God he is ready to obey the will of God also when it means denying his own will and suffering.
To be aware that I belong to Jesus is the key factor to enabling the Holy Spirit to cause God's goodness in me. The other factors of my identity can occupy my consciousness so much that they suppress the influence of the Holy Spirit on me. Everything I append to these words "I am" moulds my identity. I am Christ's and everything else, what I am, let it be through Him.
I am neither a Protestant nor a Pentecostalist, nor am I a charismatic person nor a melancholic, nor am I a fundamentalist nor a rightist, nor am I good nor wise, but I am Christ's. It does good to us to have an identity crisis, because then we can say "I am not" and so remove from our ego the old identity that wants to sin.
Today Jesus lives in His glorious body on the throne of God but also in His own through the Holy Spirit. He manifests Himself in His own as commonly as God the Father manifested Himself in everyday life of Jesus for 2000 years ago. "As He is, so are we in this world." 1Jo.4:17
The portion of His own is to be similar to Jesus when He was a man in flesh, not less nor more. To be less would mean we continue to sin and to be more would mean we appear like God.
The Holy Spirit is in the heart of a believer as the guarantee that he belongs to Jesus. Just therefore He causes in us this confession: "Jesus Christ owns me." The death and resurrection of Jesus opened to us the access to His possession.
The world faces Jesus in His own, if they are obedient to the Holy Spirit. Jesus told this when He said to His disciples as follows: "'As the Father has sent me, I also send you!' And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit.'" Joh.20:21-22
Everyone who is Christ's is an envoy of Jesus in this world. In the past God the Father appeared to the world in Jesus. In the same way Jesus now appears to the world in His own. God the Father appeared to the world when Jesus did no wrong but lived according to the goodness of God. In the same way Jesus appears to the world when His own do no wrong but live according to the goodness of Jesus.
Many wait to see miracles to be able to believe in God. They want to see sick persons to be healed and fire coming down from heaven, but they don't care about the greatest miracle. The greatest one is, when a human being does no wrong any more but lives according to the will of God. This miracle appears in those who belong to Jesus and annoys wrongdoers, because it causes guilty conscience in them.
He who is Christ's doesn't lie, kill, steal, fornicate nor commit adultery. He is not proud, nor greedy nor selfish but humble, generous and diligent for the benefit of others. He rejoices at truth and forgives those who wronged against him. Out of love to God he is ready to obey the will of God also when it means denying his own will and suffering.
To be aware that I belong to Jesus is the key factor to enabling the Holy Spirit to cause God's goodness in me. The other factors of my identity can occupy my consciousness so much that they suppress the influence of the Holy Spirit on me. Everything I append to these words "I am" moulds my identity. I am Christ's and everything else, what I am, let it be through Him.
I am neither a Protestant nor a Pentecostalist, nor am I a charismatic person nor a melancholic, nor am I a fundamentalist nor a rightist, nor am I good nor wise, but I am Christ's. It does good to us to have an identity crisis, because then we can say "I am not" and so remove from our ego the old identity that wants to sin.
To be transformed into the likeness of your owner
Who are you? What are you? What is the identity that you obey when you make decisions? Does the fact that Jesus owns you dominate your consciousness so much that it causes you to act according to His will?
God wants to give you an identity crisis helping you to agree with this fact: "I am nothing!" Being in this state you can face God, for "God has chosen the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are." 1Co.1:28
When Jesus says to your spirit, "you are mine", then you are allowed to pass from death into life and from insignificance to real being. Then you will get mercy to experience: "I belong to Jesus Christ." Don't allow anything, how humanly highly esteemed it may be, to take away this happiness from you.
He cannot influence on us if we don't give room for Him in ourselves. He doesn't purify our ego by force. If we put away values and attitudes we inherited from this world, we have denied ourselves and taken up our cross and are able to follow Jesus.
We have to take the same attitude toward Jesus as He had toward His Father. Jesus did nothing in His own name but what He did, He did in His Father's name. He says: "I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him who sent me." Joh.6:38
Because I am Christ's I am not in this world for my own will but I am here for the will of Jesus. This attitude comes from the new identity: "I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ." Whatever other thing I am, also it demands me to fulfilled, if I don't deny myself.
He, who has been allowed to experience what does it feel like to fulfill his identity in Jesus, knows how much better it feels than making one's own dreams come true. When Jesus had fulfilled the will of his Father, He said: "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work." Joh.4:34 Living according to the will of Jesus tastes good. It is good and healthy food.
Only that, what I am by the grace of God in Jesus Christ, is valuable. I have been raised with Christ. I live because He lives!
Who are you? What are you? What is the identity that you obey when you make decisions? Does the fact that Jesus owns you dominate your consciousness so much that it causes you to act according to His will?
God wants to give you an identity crisis helping you to agree with this fact: "I am nothing!" Being in this state you can face God, for "God has chosen the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are." 1Co.1:28
When Jesus says to your spirit, "you are mine", then you are allowed to pass from death into life and from insignificance to real being. Then you will get mercy to experience: "I belong to Jesus Christ." Don't allow anything, how humanly highly esteemed it may be, to take away this happiness from you.
He cannot influence on us if we don't give room for Him in ourselves. He doesn't purify our ego by force. If we put away values and attitudes we inherited from this world, we have denied ourselves and taken up our cross and are able to follow Jesus.
We have to take the same attitude toward Jesus as He had toward His Father. Jesus did nothing in His own name but what He did, He did in His Father's name. He says: "I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him who sent me." Joh.6:38
Because I am Christ's I am not in this world for my own will but I am here for the will of Jesus. This attitude comes from the new identity: "I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ." Whatever other thing I am, also it demands me to fulfilled, if I don't deny myself.
He, who has been allowed to experience what does it feel like to fulfill his identity in Jesus, knows how much better it feels than making one's own dreams come true. When Jesus had fulfilled the will of his Father, He said: "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work." Joh.4:34 Living according to the will of Jesus tastes good. It is good and healthy food.
Only that, what I am by the grace of God in Jesus Christ, is valuable. I have been raised with Christ. I live because He lives!
The Bible version used in references is NKJV