Episode 1 => Sent by God?
Nearly everyone toady has heard of Jesus Christ. His influence on history has been greater than that of any other human. Indeed, the very calendar used in the most part of the world is based on the year he is thought to have been born! As the world book Encyclopedia says. “Dates before that year are listed as B.C., or before Christ. Dates after that years are listed as A.D., or Anno Domini (in the year of our lord).”
So Jesus was not an imaginary person. He really lived as a man on earth. “in ancient time even the opponents of Christ never doubt the [actual existence] of Jesus,” notes the Encyclopedia Britannica. So just who was Jesus? Was he really sent by God? Why is he so well known?
Episode 2 => Why He Came to the Earth
Explaining why he had come to earth, Jesus told the roman governor Pontius Pilate: “for this I have been born and for this [purpose] I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth.” (John 18:37) but what particular truth was Jesus sent to the earth to make known? First, truths about his heavenly Father. He taught his follower to pray that his father name is “hallowed,” or held only. (Matthew 6:9, King James Version) and he prayed: “I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me.” (John 17:6) Also, he said: “I must declare the good news of the kingdom of God, because for this I was sent forth.”—Luke 4:43.
How important to Jesus was this work of making known his Father’s name and kingdom? He said to his disciples: “my food is for me to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.” (John 4:34) Why did Jesus consider God’s to be as important as food? It was because the kingdom of heaven is the means by which God will fulfill his wonderful purposes for humankind. It is this kingdom that will destroy all wickedness and will clear Jehovah’s name of the reproach that has been brought upon it. (Daniel 2:44; Revelation 21:3, 4) so Jesus never held back from making God’s name and kingdom known. (Matthew 4:17; Luke 8:1; John 17:26; Hebrews 2:12) He always spoke the truth, whether it was popular or not. He thus provided an example that we should follow if we want to please God.—1 Peter 2:21.
Yet, to make it possible for us to gain everlasting life under the rule of God’s kingdom, Jesus had to pour out his lifeblood in death. As two apostles of Jesus said: “We have been declared righteous now by his Blood.” “The blood of Jesus [God’s son] cleanses us from all sin.” (Roman 5:9; 1 John 1:7) so an important reason why Jesus came to earth was to die for us. He said: “The son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister and to give his soul [or, life] a ransom in exchange for many.” (Matthew 20:28).
Final Episode => Why Jesus Performed Miracles
Jesus is well known for the miracle he performed. He had deep feeling for people who are in trouble, he was eager to use his God-given power to help them. For example, a person with the terrible diseases leprosy came to him and said: “if you just want to, you can make me clean.” Jesus “was moved with pity, and he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him: ‘I want to. Be made clean.’ ” and the sick man was healed!—Mark 1:40-42
Consider another bible scene, and imagine Jesus’ tender feeling for the people described: “then great crowds approached him, having along with them people that were lame, maimed, blind, dumb, dumb, and many otherwise, and they fairly threw them at his feet, and he cured them; so that the crowd the crowd felt amazement as they the dumb speaking and the lame walking and the blind seeing, and they glorified the God of Israel.”—Matthew 15:30, 31.
That Jesus really cared about these suffering persons and truly wanted to help them can be seen by what he next told his disciples. He said: “I feel pity for the crowd, because it is already three days that they have stayed with me and they have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away fasting. They may possibly give out on the road.” So Jesus, with just seven loaves and a few little fish, miraculously fed the “four thousand men, besides women and young children.”—Matthew 15:32-38.
Yet the miracles Jesus performed were of only temporary benefit. People that he healed developed physical problems again. And those he resurrected from death later died again. But Jesus’ miracles proved that he was sent forth by God, that he was really God’s son. And they proved that, with God’s power, all human problem can be solved. Yes, they showed on small scale what will take place on earth under the kingdom of God. At that time the hungry will be fed, the dead will raised! And never again will sickness, death or any other troubles cause unhappiness. What a blessing that will be!—Revelation 21:3, 4; Matthew 11:4, 5.
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