Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 18.11.2011
Turn to God!
Life is in Jesus Christ. Therefore turn to Him.
Only through Jesus
Nobody can meet God except via Jesus Christ. Many are speaking about God as their Father, though they don't speak in the Spirit of Jesus. Only Jesus can call God his Father because He is the Only Son of God. We can be God's children or sons only in Jesus Christ and through Him.
You can turn to Jesus as you are, as a sinner and evil. But you can turn to God the Father only as dressed with Jesus. If you try to come near to God the Father in your own name, you will be left without a response. Jesus is the only Mediator between God and men.
Jesus taught the Lord's Prayer for His, not for all people. If you feel yourself to be sinful, pray to Jesus. If you feel to be righteous in Jesus, pray to God the Father. So - if only Jesus was manifested in you, God the Father would get joy from you!
Nobody can meet God except via Jesus Christ. Many are speaking about God as their Father, though they don't speak in the Spirit of Jesus. Only Jesus can call God his Father because He is the Only Son of God. We can be God's children or sons only in Jesus Christ and through Him.
You can turn to Jesus as you are, as a sinner and evil. But you can turn to God the Father only as dressed with Jesus. If you try to come near to God the Father in your own name, you will be left without a response. Jesus is the only Mediator between God and men.
Jesus taught the Lord's Prayer for His, not for all people. If you feel yourself to be sinful, pray to Jesus. If you feel to be righteous in Jesus, pray to God the Father. So - if only Jesus was manifested in you, God the Father would get joy from you!
Calls to the conversion
God is waiting for our conversion to Him as the response to His call. Often we also realize that some of our experiences are God's speech to us. Adversities, diseases or accidents can cause us to think about our evil deeds. We understand that they warn us about the coming judgment of God.
God calls us to turn away from evil. The most people have rejected God's call and have not turned to Him but have become angry with Him. God said: "I overthrew some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning; Yet you have not returned to Me, says the LORD." Am.4:11
God has helped many who have turned to Him in their trouble. He have saved from troubles or healed from diseases. From this many have judged themselves to be in the favor of God, as though without the Mediator. However nobody has ever reached peace with God without a sin offering. When the Almighty helps His enemies who are in trouble, it doesn't mean that the hostility would be removed. He does good to everybody.
Many don't understand to turn to God to be saved from the judgment of God. They only turn to Him for receiving blessings and help for their worldly needs but not for being saved from their sins. They willingly take advantage of God, but they don't repent their evilness. Therefore they keep their hearts far from Him.
God is waiting for our conversion to Him as the response to His call. Often we also realize that some of our experiences are God's speech to us. Adversities, diseases or accidents can cause us to think about our evil deeds. We understand that they warn us about the coming judgment of God.
God calls us to turn away from evil. The most people have rejected God's call and have not turned to Him but have become angry with Him. God said: "I overthrew some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning; Yet you have not returned to Me, says the LORD." Am.4:11
God has helped many who have turned to Him in their trouble. He have saved from troubles or healed from diseases. From this many have judged themselves to be in the favor of God, as though without the Mediator. However nobody has ever reached peace with God without a sin offering. When the Almighty helps His enemies who are in trouble, it doesn't mean that the hostility would be removed. He does good to everybody.
Many don't understand to turn to God to be saved from the judgment of God. They only turn to Him for receiving blessings and help for their worldly needs but not for being saved from their sins. They willingly take advantage of God, but they don't repent their evilness. Therefore they keep their hearts far from Him.
The Gospel calls to turn to God
God the Father gave His only Son as the sin offering for us. Jesus loved His Father and was obedient to His will and carried the judgment of our sins on the cross. For this reason God the Father exalted His dear Son above everything and gave Him all power. Therefore you have to pray to Jesus Christ as one true God. If you don't honor Jesus as God, you don't honor God the Father as one true God.
This message calls you to turn to Jesus. You can come as you are and receive Jesus into your heart as He is. If you are obedient to Jesus, you will not stay as you are. Experience Jesus and you will be changed!
Many have the testimony that they were converted to Christians, but who has the testimony that he was converted to Jesus? The Bible doesn't even know about a conversion to a Christian. Always when the Bible speaks about a conversion, it means turning to God.
"And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord." Ac.11:21 "I declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance." Ac.26:20
The mainstream Christianity has made a pope, priests and pastors to act as mediators to whom people turn. They claim to be mediators between men and the Mediator. If someone of them is a servant of God, he proclaims the conversion to Jesus and not a conversion to himself or to his church.
Jesus is the only Mediator. His own are only signposts to Him - also then when He speaks in His own.
God the Father gave His only Son as the sin offering for us. Jesus loved His Father and was obedient to His will and carried the judgment of our sins on the cross. For this reason God the Father exalted His dear Son above everything and gave Him all power. Therefore you have to pray to Jesus Christ as one true God. If you don't honor Jesus as God, you don't honor God the Father as one true God.
This message calls you to turn to Jesus. You can come as you are and receive Jesus into your heart as He is. If you are obedient to Jesus, you will not stay as you are. Experience Jesus and you will be changed!
Many have the testimony that they were converted to Christians, but who has the testimony that he was converted to Jesus? The Bible doesn't even know about a conversion to a Christian. Always when the Bible speaks about a conversion, it means turning to God.
"And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord." Ac.11:21 "I declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance." Ac.26:20
The mainstream Christianity has made a pope, priests and pastors to act as mediators to whom people turn. They claim to be mediators between men and the Mediator. If someone of them is a servant of God, he proclaims the conversion to Jesus and not a conversion to himself or to his church.
Jesus is the only Mediator. His own are only signposts to Him - also then when He speaks in His own.
Believed and turned to
Jesus lives in His people. Therefore turning to those who belong to Jesus can also be turning to God. However Jesus doesn't appear in us to everyone who comes to us. That was so also in the case of Jesus when He was on earth. Not everyone who came to Him met God in Him. He said to those Jews who had come to Him: "You are not willing to come to me that you may have life." Joh.5:40
Many have believed in Jesus so that they have come only to believers but not to Jesus. In this way they have not received life but only a religion. Woe to them! Why don't they want to come to Jesus?
Jesus did not accept everyone's faith who came to Him. He accepted as His own only those who came to Him drawn by God the Father. However He called Judas Iscariot to be His apostle although He knew that Judas had come to Him from a wrong motive. Those believers who don't see God in Jesus will lose their faith.
A person, who believed in Jesus but turned only to believers, became a convert to Christianity. Instead he became a true Christian, who believed in Jesus and turned to Him.
Jesus lives in His people. Therefore turning to those who belong to Jesus can also be turning to God. However Jesus doesn't appear in us to everyone who comes to us. That was so also in the case of Jesus when He was on earth. Not everyone who came to Him met God in Him. He said to those Jews who had come to Him: "You are not willing to come to me that you may have life." Joh.5:40
Many have believed in Jesus so that they have come only to believers but not to Jesus. In this way they have not received life but only a religion. Woe to them! Why don't they want to come to Jesus?
Jesus did not accept everyone's faith who came to Him. He accepted as His own only those who came to Him drawn by God the Father. However He called Judas Iscariot to be His apostle although He knew that Judas had come to Him from a wrong motive. Those believers who don't see God in Jesus will lose their faith.
A person, who believed in Jesus but turned only to believers, became a convert to Christianity. Instead he became a true Christian, who believed in Jesus and turned to Him.
Why don't they turn?
If you don't want to turn away from your evil thoughts, words and deeds, you also don't want to turn to God. You don't turn to Jesus because you want to sin. However regardless of what you want - He suffered on the cross also the judgment of your sins. - If you watch this vision, your love of sin will die. If you refuse to watch your own sin in the sufferings of Jesus, your love towards sin will remain.
Because most people steadfastly love sin they refuse to adopt the cross work of Jesus to bring eternal life to them. Therefore many believers have started to proclaim worldly blessing given by Jesus instead of His cross work. In this way they believe to smuggle the offence of the cross into the hearts of people.
The sacrifice of God on Golgotha is the heavenly call into eternal life. Worldly gifts of God cannot give us that call. Thus the wisdom, with which these believers try to win souls to Jesus, is not from God. Rather the opposite! Woe to them who believe only for this life. "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable." 1Co.15:19 Judas Iscariot believed in Jesus only in the hope of worldly blessings. Therefore he finally was pitied more than all other people.
If it is promised becoming a good man, peace of mind, health and economy success, that message people want to hear and willingly receive it. Life of man can be changed by power of many kinds of motives. If worldly success is the motive of turning to Jesus, it gives birth to Judases. If the motive of the turning is to receive peace with God, it gives birth to His own.
God's love, which was manifested on Golgotha, is able to cause you to want to turn away from your evil to God. If only you let the gospel of God come deep enough into your heart, it will wake up your will. It will burst into bloom in your heart like a most beautiful flower that very soon will change to fruit of God's goodness. Then Jesus will live in you and you receive grace to call God your Father.
If you don't want to turn away from your evil thoughts, words and deeds, you also don't want to turn to God. You don't turn to Jesus because you want to sin. However regardless of what you want - He suffered on the cross also the judgment of your sins. - If you watch this vision, your love of sin will die. If you refuse to watch your own sin in the sufferings of Jesus, your love towards sin will remain.
Because most people steadfastly love sin they refuse to adopt the cross work of Jesus to bring eternal life to them. Therefore many believers have started to proclaim worldly blessing given by Jesus instead of His cross work. In this way they believe to smuggle the offence of the cross into the hearts of people.
The sacrifice of God on Golgotha is the heavenly call into eternal life. Worldly gifts of God cannot give us that call. Thus the wisdom, with which these believers try to win souls to Jesus, is not from God. Rather the opposite! Woe to them who believe only for this life. "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable." 1Co.15:19 Judas Iscariot believed in Jesus only in the hope of worldly blessings. Therefore he finally was pitied more than all other people.
If it is promised becoming a good man, peace of mind, health and economy success, that message people want to hear and willingly receive it. Life of man can be changed by power of many kinds of motives. If worldly success is the motive of turning to Jesus, it gives birth to Judases. If the motive of the turning is to receive peace with God, it gives birth to His own.
God's love, which was manifested on Golgotha, is able to cause you to want to turn away from your evil to God. If only you let the gospel of God come deep enough into your heart, it will wake up your will. It will burst into bloom in your heart like a most beautiful flower that very soon will change to fruit of God's goodness. Then Jesus will live in you and you receive grace to call God your Father.
The Bible version used in references is NKJV