Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 20.12.1998
Light´s jubilee
God's light is more miraculous than the light of sun. The light which is shining from His face can shine into your heart. To know God personally is the greatest gift that man can get. God became a man in Jesus Christ so that you could know Him.
The birthday of Jesus
Christmas is considered the birthday of Jesus. It is an odd birthday party, because then all other get presents except the hero of the day.
The Magi from the east celebrated the real Christmas, for they gave Jesus their presents. They wanted to ally themselves with the King who was just born. They showed with their presents that they accepted Jesus as their King. They wanted to be in alliance with Him, because they knew what will be the position of the Child.
What present do you give Jesus? Of course nothing, if you consider that He is dead. Jesus is God's present to us. Thanks to God for His gift! If you first receive His present then you can give your own present to Him.
When you receive Jesus as your own Saviour you will notice that He lives. After that you can give yourself to God. This changing of the presents is called becoming a believer. The day when you came to the faith is your real Christmas celebration. Then you were born of God.
Christmas is considered the birthday of Jesus. It is an odd birthday party, because then all other get presents except the hero of the day.
The Magi from the east celebrated the real Christmas, for they gave Jesus their presents. They wanted to ally themselves with the King who was just born. They showed with their presents that they accepted Jesus as their King. They wanted to be in alliance with Him, because they knew what will be the position of the Child.
What present do you give Jesus? Of course nothing, if you consider that He is dead. Jesus is God's present to us. Thanks to God for His gift! If you first receive His present then you can give your own present to Him.
When you receive Jesus as your own Saviour you will notice that He lives. After that you can give yourself to God. This changing of the presents is called becoming a believer. The day when you came to the faith is your real Christmas celebration. Then you were born of God.
Faith and Santa Claus
Has some faith helped you and have you got a gift from Santa Claus? If some faith has helped you, it is as if you got a gift from Santa Claus. In the same way than Santa Claus is not the original donator, a faith doesn't give anything to anybody.
It is just as stupid to believe in Santa Claus as to believe in one's Faith. A gift comes through Santa Claus and through faith also comes something, but from whom? What have you got through your faith? Did you get only some good emotional celebrations? Eternal life comes into you through the faith of Jesus Christ. Why then we hear so much about faith and so little about Jesus, who is the real thing?
When Santa Claus is used, it gives a possibility to hide a donator from a receiver of a gift. In the same way God is hidden from people, when churches emphasize their faith and cults. They have a hard job to keep God and Jesus in hiding. Therefore they willingly emphasize their faith and sacraments that nobody could notice that Jesus exists.
In a sacramental baptism children are vaccinated against knowing God. The booster injection is given in a confirmation school. There they pretend to be true believers that antidotes against God's gospel could be created.
If Christmas is considered the birthday of Jesus, churches in close association with Santa Claus have done their best that the hero of the day is not the center of the jubilee. If they want to offer someone as an ideal image to people they rather bring forth Mary and the saints than Him, in whom "all the fulness of the Deity lives in bodily form." Col.2:9 "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." Rev.4:8
To know God personally is the greatest gift that man can get. It is a very expensive gift. Apostle Paul says: "I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord..." Phil.3:8 If someone knows Jesus even a little, it affects that he considers religious cults rubbish, because in the light of Jesus all things get their real value. Faith is not an end in itself but God is.
The gift is waiting for you! Receive it through the faith that comes from God's word. Don't believe in Santa Claus and in churches, but believe in Jesus. To know Him is more than to own all treasures of the world. I wish that you will get the heavenly infection to the God's call in spite of your immunization.
Has some faith helped you and have you got a gift from Santa Claus? If some faith has helped you, it is as if you got a gift from Santa Claus. In the same way than Santa Claus is not the original donator, a faith doesn't give anything to anybody.
It is just as stupid to believe in Santa Claus as to believe in one's Faith. A gift comes through Santa Claus and through faith also comes something, but from whom? What have you got through your faith? Did you get only some good emotional celebrations? Eternal life comes into you through the faith of Jesus Christ. Why then we hear so much about faith and so little about Jesus, who is the real thing?
When Santa Claus is used, it gives a possibility to hide a donator from a receiver of a gift. In the same way God is hidden from people, when churches emphasize their faith and cults. They have a hard job to keep God and Jesus in hiding. Therefore they willingly emphasize their faith and sacraments that nobody could notice that Jesus exists.
In a sacramental baptism children are vaccinated against knowing God. The booster injection is given in a confirmation school. There they pretend to be true believers that antidotes against God's gospel could be created.
If Christmas is considered the birthday of Jesus, churches in close association with Santa Claus have done their best that the hero of the day is not the center of the jubilee. If they want to offer someone as an ideal image to people they rather bring forth Mary and the saints than Him, in whom "all the fulness of the Deity lives in bodily form." Col.2:9 "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." Rev.4:8
To know God personally is the greatest gift that man can get. It is a very expensive gift. Apostle Paul says: "I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord..." Phil.3:8 If someone knows Jesus even a little, it affects that he considers religious cults rubbish, because in the light of Jesus all things get their real value. Faith is not an end in itself but God is.
The gift is waiting for you! Receive it through the faith that comes from God's word. Don't believe in Santa Claus and in churches, but believe in Jesus. To know Him is more than to own all treasures of the world. I wish that you will get the heavenly infection to the God's call in spite of your immunization.
Let there be light
Light is a wonderful thing. In nature God has tuned life in the certain wave-lengths of the electromagnetic radiation. Light makes plants to grow and produce sugar. The earth teems creatures, which eat the energy of plants. There is no life without light. Therefore it can be said that life represents light. Also the Bible says, "that life was the light of men." John.1:4
Sunlight doesn't create life but it only maintains it. Another light exists which is more than the electromagnetic radiation. In that light all functions of cells have been defined.
Nowadays data is transferred between computers in the light of the light cable. So is it any miracle, if God's light brings with it codes of life? Many honest askers are wondering that where has the seed of life drifted from to the earth.
The Bible announces that the information, which is stored in DNA codes, has come to the earth in the light. When God created the world He said: "Let there be light!" And during the days of that light all was created by God's Word. The Word of God doesn't create life in darkness. At Christmas night He said again: "Let there be light!" And Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem!
That light shined as a star in the sky of the Middle-East but it was not the light of a natural star. Apostle Paul went blind in that light on the road of Damascus. Jesus Christ is not only the Word, but He is also the Light, brighter than the light of the sun. "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world." John.1:3,9
The words of God are like the codes of a computer-program. If that program is executed in the heart of a man, it will start a new process, which can live forever. The words of Jesus are spirit and they are life. They are the source codes of life. If they in your case stay only on the pages of the Bible, they are like a program disk whose images will never be loaded for the use of a processor. The processor of your spirit can only handle the data of spirit.
The Bible without the power of the Holy Spirit is like a computer program in a disk that is not running in a computer. It is needed a device, which reads the data of a disk to the electrical form so that it could be used by a processor. In the same way the Bible is useless to you, if the Holy Spirit doesn't get opportunity to give you its content in the spiritual form.
If your spirit hears His enlightening voice and you open your heart for those words, which He offers you from the Bible, the light of God's Word starts being loaded into your spirit. "For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness', made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ." 2Cor.4:6
Jesus says: "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John.8:12 A lamp will be ignited in the heart, when man becomes a believer of Jesus. In this light God will create new things in the heart of the man. It is not only a new outlook on life, but a new creation.
Where there is not the light of God's Word there is a spiritual darkness. In that darkness there live only boring religious traditions. The Spirit of God maintains the Kingdom of Light in the hearts of believers. It is a herald of the new nature. "Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For He has rescued us from dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves." Col.1:12-13
Jesus Christ is the King of Light. His kingdom is near you. Do not be afraid to step into His light. Although you will be exposed to the shame of your dirtiness, He will wash you clean with the power of His blood! You will be a child of light, white as snow.
Light is a wonderful thing. In nature God has tuned life in the certain wave-lengths of the electromagnetic radiation. Light makes plants to grow and produce sugar. The earth teems creatures, which eat the energy of plants. There is no life without light. Therefore it can be said that life represents light. Also the Bible says, "that life was the light of men." John.1:4
Sunlight doesn't create life but it only maintains it. Another light exists which is more than the electromagnetic radiation. In that light all functions of cells have been defined.
Nowadays data is transferred between computers in the light of the light cable. So is it any miracle, if God's light brings with it codes of life? Many honest askers are wondering that where has the seed of life drifted from to the earth.
The Bible announces that the information, which is stored in DNA codes, has come to the earth in the light. When God created the world He said: "Let there be light!" And during the days of that light all was created by God's Word. The Word of God doesn't create life in darkness. At Christmas night He said again: "Let there be light!" And Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem!
That light shined as a star in the sky of the Middle-East but it was not the light of a natural star. Apostle Paul went blind in that light on the road of Damascus. Jesus Christ is not only the Word, but He is also the Light, brighter than the light of the sun. "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world." John.1:3,9
The words of God are like the codes of a computer-program. If that program is executed in the heart of a man, it will start a new process, which can live forever. The words of Jesus are spirit and they are life. They are the source codes of life. If they in your case stay only on the pages of the Bible, they are like a program disk whose images will never be loaded for the use of a processor. The processor of your spirit can only handle the data of spirit.
The Bible without the power of the Holy Spirit is like a computer program in a disk that is not running in a computer. It is needed a device, which reads the data of a disk to the electrical form so that it could be used by a processor. In the same way the Bible is useless to you, if the Holy Spirit doesn't get opportunity to give you its content in the spiritual form.
If your spirit hears His enlightening voice and you open your heart for those words, which He offers you from the Bible, the light of God's Word starts being loaded into your spirit. "For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness', made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ." 2Cor.4:6
Jesus says: "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John.8:12 A lamp will be ignited in the heart, when man becomes a believer of Jesus. In this light God will create new things in the heart of the man. It is not only a new outlook on life, but a new creation.
Where there is not the light of God's Word there is a spiritual darkness. In that darkness there live only boring religious traditions. The Spirit of God maintains the Kingdom of Light in the hearts of believers. It is a herald of the new nature. "Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For He has rescued us from dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves." Col.1:12-13
Jesus Christ is the King of Light. His kingdom is near you. Do not be afraid to step into His light. Although you will be exposed to the shame of your dirtiness, He will wash you clean with the power of His blood! You will be a child of light, white as snow.
Christmas is a sensational piece of news
For 2000 years great news has been announced about what happened in the beginning of our calendar. God became a man in Jesus Christ. How it was done? If God would explain it, you wouldn't understand even basic concepts. So is anything impossible to God? Yes! "He cannot disown himself." 2Tim.2:13 . He acts always according to His character. He is not a fanciful destiny, but "He is the same yesterday and today and forever." Heb.13:8
If you want at first to know how miracles are done and how they are possible, you try to reach too difficult things. If you want to know why miracles happen, you seek a better knowledge.
Why God became a man? He did it for our sinfulness. God had said: "Who commit a sin, will surely die". All have sinned and are under the judgement of God. He loves us and wants to forgive, but after our sins He cannot only say that "you will not die, so be it, I forgive you." He cannot take back his word, because He is God. His Word is God. Therefore a perfect and sinless sacrificial Lamb was needed. When Jesus died for us, the judgement of sinners was executed in Him. Therefore God can now take back your death-sentence, if you appeal to the sacrifice of Jesus.
You cannot find favour with God, if you take a wanton attitude to sin. Jesus has experienced the judgement of God for your sins and is it you who still continues your sin life and think that it is no matter how I live, Jesus has paid all? A mocker of grace cannot have peace with God!
Your part is to repent your wickedness and let God change your thoughts according to his mind. Great is a peace that Jesus gives to his owns! God's judgement is out of my life. I have peace with Him.
Let it come soon the Kingdom of God's Lamb onto earth! Although you cannot go to the manger to worship Jesus, you can do it there where you are now. He is God on the throne. He sees you and hears your voice when you confess your subjection. Let you have Jesus-jubilee for ever!
For 2000 years great news has been announced about what happened in the beginning of our calendar. God became a man in Jesus Christ. How it was done? If God would explain it, you wouldn't understand even basic concepts. So is anything impossible to God? Yes! "He cannot disown himself." 2Tim.2:13 . He acts always according to His character. He is not a fanciful destiny, but "He is the same yesterday and today and forever." Heb.13:8
If you want at first to know how miracles are done and how they are possible, you try to reach too difficult things. If you want to know why miracles happen, you seek a better knowledge.
Why God became a man? He did it for our sinfulness. God had said: "Who commit a sin, will surely die". All have sinned and are under the judgement of God. He loves us and wants to forgive, but after our sins He cannot only say that "you will not die, so be it, I forgive you." He cannot take back his word, because He is God. His Word is God. Therefore a perfect and sinless sacrificial Lamb was needed. When Jesus died for us, the judgement of sinners was executed in Him. Therefore God can now take back your death-sentence, if you appeal to the sacrifice of Jesus.
You cannot find favour with God, if you take a wanton attitude to sin. Jesus has experienced the judgement of God for your sins and is it you who still continues your sin life and think that it is no matter how I live, Jesus has paid all? A mocker of grace cannot have peace with God!
Your part is to repent your wickedness and let God change your thoughts according to his mind. Great is a peace that Jesus gives to his owns! God's judgement is out of my life. I have peace with Him.
Let it come soon the Kingdom of God's Lamb onto earth! Although you cannot go to the manger to worship Jesus, you can do it there where you are now. He is God on the throne. He sees you and hears your voice when you confess your subjection. Let you have Jesus-jubilee for ever!
The Bible version used in references is NIV