Jesus

His Words and Deeds

Alexander Anteyi

• Publisher: URLink Print & Media, LLC
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781647536183
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

JESUS: HIS WORDS AND DEEDS are for all people. It is about life. Jesus is unique. He is perfect. There are no idle words in His speeches. He boldly declares: "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life."(John 6: 63). Also, He authoritatively and provocatively states: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." Wow! Where does that leave the sceptics? This book reveals how Jesus dealt with His critics in the past and how He will deal with everyone in the future. Jesus teaches how to score big with God in spite of human nature - David, Josiah, Hezekiah and Asa.

Jesus' words and actions reveal His heart and character. They bless and impact wisdom. It is to be treasured because it reveals the purposes and solutions to life's problems. It challenges the reader to abandon tradition

PART 1

Planning and Laying the Foundation

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:6.

As for you, my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts.

It is always important to include God in planning. King David, in giving the divine plans of the temple to Solomon, charges, “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.”26

The divine plan of salvation was given to God the Son, Jesus Christ. To achieve His mission three key actions had to take place:

The Love Ministry (leading to His death by crucifixion and resurrection) The Word Ministry

The Deeds Ministry

In laying the foundation, this section deals with God the Father, His word (Jesus), the Holy Spirit, man, and the world. It will also give an overview of the written Word: the Bible.

I pray to God the Father that His Holy Spirit may give you, the reader, wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus demonstrated in His words and deeds. Amen.

The Love Ministry

Love ministry originates and flows from God to humankind. God is love. Love is of God, and love is from God. This is divine love. Human beings are central to His love and this created world. This divine love does not need the action of humankind. Divine love is unconditional, sacrificial, and ever giving. Also, God is love that expresses compassion.

Jesus said, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”27

“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18).

“For God so loved the world that He gave …”28 Whom did He give? He gave His one and only Son, Jesus Christ. Why did He give? He gave to meet a need. Man needed God, and He gave to restore the broken relationship caused by Adam and Eve’s sin. It is an unselfish love. Love is the heart of the gospel message and the mission of Jesus Christ. He has come from God to save and restore the broken relationship caused by Adam and Eve’s rebellion (the original sin). In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve failed to adhere to God’s word when Satan questioned it. The deceiver targeted Eve and planted seeds of doubt in her mind. How? Satan questioned God’s word and substituted his own lies, and

Eve accepted them. Satan even offered Eve deity status, saying, “You will be like God.” Adam and Eve did not hold on to God’s word and plunged their descendants into sin leading to death.

In contrast to Adam and Eve’s disobedience, Jesus kept every word of God centuries later when Satan tempted and offered Him “all the kingdoms of the world” (Matthew 4:8). In fact Jesus used the word of God as a weapon to resist Satan’s overtures.

God’s unique, loving actions involve the gift of Jesus. He always acts in love. He loves the individuals, His people (Israel), and the believers (the church). His love transforms human love.

The Two Mothers Love

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

The account of two mothers in 1Kings 3:16-18 can also be viewed as an illustration of true love. There is a story of two female prostitutes who kept a public house. According to the first woman they lived tog ther in the same house alone. These two women delivered baby sons within three days of each other. The second woman’s son died in the night because she lay on him, and, so she swapped him with the first woman’s living child.

When the first woman discovered this in the morning, a dispute arose between the two, so the first woman appealed to King Solomon to get her living child back. Appearing before the king, both women were vehement in claiming the living child. Giving his verdict, King Solomon called for a sword and said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other.” The first woman said to the king, “O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him.” But the second woman contender said, “Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.” The king ordered that the living child be given to the first woman because she was the true mother. This was a difficult case because there were no witnesses and it was one person’s word against the other’s. King Solomon needed special insight (wisdom) to uncover the true facts. A true mother cries with tenderness and compassion for her child - “O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him.”29

God gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, because of His divine compassionate love. In proclaiming His name to Moses, God said, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”30 This became a standard statement of faith for the Jews. The self-existent, self-sufficient God is revealing His nature and glory to the world through Moses. He is the great Lord, full of mercy and compassion, abundant in loving kindness and truth. This could be the deepest expression of God’s character, or nature.

Jesus demonstrated His love at the grave of Lazarus. Listen to this—“Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. And He said, ‘Where have you laid him?’ They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept[italics mine]. Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”31

Imagine the scene at the graveside of any loved one who has died and was buried for four days. Jesus wept is an amazing part of the above passage. It declares His humanity. Bringing Lazarus back from the dead after four days in the grave can arguably be considered His greatest miracle. It declares His divinity too. Jesus wept out of love. They were tears of compassion and tenderness of heart. This incident backs up His claims of love. He is also the giver of a new spiritual life.

Further on in the same book of John, in chapter 15, verse 9, Jesus declares, “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.” He is the object of the Father’s love, and we are the object of His love.

The Law of Christ

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1. Planning and Laying the Foundation
• Part 2. History
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• The Author
• Bibliography
• Endnotes