Even when we become mature Christians, we continue to grow in
the Lord. As we grow in the Lord we become more mature Christians. When we
are born again we usually begin our spiritual journey as little children.
But
he
was wounded
for our transgressions; he was
bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every
one to his own way; and the lord hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all... For He
was cut off (killed) from the land of the living; for the transgression
of my people He was
stricken". (Isaiah 53:5,6,8)
Then released he Barabbas unto
them: and when he had scourged
(whipped)
Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
(Matthew 27:26) A scourge
was a Roman implement for severe physical punishment. It consisted of a
handle with about a dozen leather cords with jagged pieces of bone or metal at each end to make the blow more painful and effective. The victim was tied to
a post and the blows were applied to the bare back and loins and sometimes
to the face and bowels. The flesh was cut in several places by each blow.
So hideous was the punishment that the victim often fainted and some died
under it. It was designed to get confessions and secrets from victims,
but what could they get from an innocent sinless one
(Acts 22:24-25)?
Flogging was permitted by the law up to
40 stripes
(Deuteronomy 25:3). Jews reduced this to 39 stripes
(2 Corinthians 11:23-25).
If the
scourge
used on
Yeshua
had
12 thongs
and
He
was hit even
39 times
this would make 468 stripes. If some struck in the same place and cut
deeper each time one can see how His body,
because of the intense hatred back of each blow, was marred more than any
other man's!
(Isaiah 52:14).
Without God there is no hope for
mankind! It is obvious that man is separated from God
when we view the ever-worsening situation in the world today. That
is why
God
sent
Yeshua, the Messiah, Who came to deliver us from our sins
and to bring us into a new life
in Him.
Did you know that you have found the
Messiah who said: "Do not think that I came to abolish the law or
the prophets;
I did not
come to abolish, but to fulfill!" (Matthew 5:17)?
...In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same
was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without
Him was not any thing, made that was made. In Him was life and the life
was the light of men. (John 1:1-4) The Word refers to Yeshua or Jesus Christ
and proves
His
Pre-existence. He is an eternal Being as are also
the Father
and
the
Holy Spirit.
They make up the Divine Trinity. Not only was the Word
with God, but He was God and always will be as much
Divine
as the other two Members of the Trinity.
He
is the
Alpha and Omega,
the
Beginning and the End; the First and the Last! The Holy Spirit Himself overshadowed the Virgin
Mary and placed within her womb the seed of the Father God.
This child would be a sinless, perfect, immortal creation brought about by
a miracle of
God
and the response of this pure virgin.Jesus Christ
The same yesterday, and today, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8)
...Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was,
I AM.
(John 8:58)
Also a clear explanation of who Messiah Yeshua,
Jesus Christ
is, you will find in Isaiah 53!
Messiah Yeshua,
Jesus Christ
will come again to the earth - personally, visibly and bodily - to
consummate history and the eternal plan ofGod.
Today Messianic Jews are
seeking to put the Messiah back within His biblically Jewish context. Messianic Judaism is
a spiritual renaissance, a revival,
a return to the faith as the Messianic Jews had in the first-century,
unencumbered by the traditions of men. It is a return to a pure and simple
faith based upon having a living, vibrant and personal relationship with
the God (G-d)
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob through the Messiah Yeshua. The real issue Messianic
Jews must recognize is not whether it is Jewish to believe in
Yeshua,
because the Jewishness of Yeshua is historically unquestionable. The real issue at stake here is
whether Yeshua is truly the Messiah or not. If
He
is, then it is the most Jewish thing in the world to believe in
Him!
If He is not the Messiah, then we should not follow
Him.
There is only one way to find out and that is to go back into the Jewish
Scripturesourselves and study the Messianic
prophecies.
According to the Jewish Scriptures,
the Messiah was to come twice:
The
first time
to suffer and die.
The
second time to usher in the Messianic era of peace upon the earth.
There is no other way to
reconcile with a Holy God or escape eternal judgment, God's wrath,
except through the propitiatory sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the
Living Sonof God and
the shedding of His innocent blood!
In thePerson of Yeshua
Ha-Mashiachor Jesus Christ,
there are two natures, human and Divine,
each in its completeness and integrity. They are distinguishable but
indivisible; also that He is fully man andfully God! It
is this sinless union of theDivineand human natures that qualify Him to bethe only sacrificialMediator
between God and man.Godtaking on
Himselfhuman flesh! Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the
form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was
made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he
humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even
the death
of the cross. (Philippians 2:5-8) Yeshua or Jesuscould do
nothing of Himselfin all His
earthly life. Heattributed
all
Hisworks, doctrines,
powers, etc. to the Fatherthroughthe anointingof the Holy Spirit!
Isaiah
the Prophet(Isaiah 42:1-7;
Isaiah 61:12-2)speaks ofMessiahreceiving
Hispower to
manifest divine acts by the anointingofthe Holy Spiritand not by
retaining His own former natural attributes and powers. Is it necessary
for God to be
anointedwith the Holy Spiritto do whatHe
is naturally
capable of doing? If it became necessary to anointYeshua or JesusduringHisearthly life,
then it proves Hedid not
retainHisformer glory
and attributes whichHehad from all
eternity when HeemptiedHimselfto become
like men in all thingsHedid not claim
the attributes of God, but only the anointingofthe Spiritto doHisworks. Hisexaltation tooriginal gloryand the
highest place underGod the Fatheris proof of
Hislowest
humiliation and earthly limitation short ofbeing Godby nature!
Jesus, the one
and only Son of God,
came to earth and lived a perfect sinless life. He
was crucified even though
He was completely innocent. He
received the punishment that we deserved.Hewas the
perfectsacrifice;
Hewas put into
our place and took onHimself the
sentence of death that should have been
ours! For we all have sinned, and
come to short of the (original) Glory of God (Romans 5:8)
The blood of God's
Sonwould pay for sins
complete!His precious Bloodwould satisfy the demands of justice and
provide a basis for one-for-all forgiveness! Forever and ever!
You also can be saved,
today! By repenting and asking Him
for forgiveness from your sins. He is in full compassion
waiting to forgive you. It doesn't matter what you have done your past,if you cry out to Jesus for forgiveness,
He will not
reject you. The word "repent" literally means "to turn away from." (Go into a
totally other direction!) (Change your mind; Meta noyi) You need to look at your
life, admit and confess that you are a
sinner, genuinely desire to turn your back from a
sinful life, and ask
Jesus to forgive you. If you do this,
He will to
forgive you and also not remember your errors anymore.
The Divine Covenant Promise is going to work
over you life also!
Jesusdid not, however,
remained dead! After three days,Herose from the grave
and later ascended
into heaven. Hewill return for all those who are trusting inHimas theirSavior!
The Divine New
Covenant Promise is going to work in your life also! Jesus Christ the Messiah (Yeshua)
is our High Priest
in Heaven! He is interceding for us with the Father in Heaven. The Holy
Spirit is interceding also,
when we lift up our devoted prayers to heaven! But Christ
being come an High Priest
of good things to come, by
greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with
hands, that is so to say, not of this building (Hebrews 9:11)
Wherefore God
also hath highly exalted Him,
and given Him
a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord,
to the
glory of God the Father!
(Philippians 2:9-11)
Yeshua
Messiah or
Jesus Christ
is an theanthopic Person - "the G-D - Man"!
He is unique in being only one Person, yet having two complete natures, -human &
Divine-! To understand how these two natures are united and function in the
Person of Yeshua
or Jesus
goes beyond human comprehension. However there are certain things in the
Scripture
explicitly or implicitly teaches about this hypostatic union.
Yeshua Messiah
is a Divine - human Person added a human nature (Not a human person) in the
incarnation. There is continuity of person - the Person who was the Divine
pre-existent logos is the same Person that is
Jesus, the Christ! Yeshua
or Jesus
is not 'humanized' Deity or 'Deified humanity', but one eternal Person Who now
has two full, integral natures that are united, but not mixed!
Yeshua
or
Jesus
was conscious of both natures even as
He
functioned as one Person. (Speaking about
Himself He
used "I"
or "Me"
not "we" or "us"!) The hypostatic union eliminates separate, independent
personal subsistence of either nature. They function together. Emphasis should
be on the one Person, not on trying to divide the activities of the the two
natures. However, the two natures retain their own properties and effect the
other!
Yeshua
or Jesus
had the full measure of the Holy Spirit, without any limitation and it could
flow through Him!
He could have the Spirit without measure, because His body wasn't mortal. He
could be tempted in all points like we are, because He has a human nature also,
but He
was like Adam, the first human, before Adam
sinned.
Adam's and so
Yeshua's body was
neither mortal nor immortal.
Yeshua
or Jesus
couldn't be killed until
He
made sin for us
(John 10:18)
Any one who failed or reject
to affirm Yeshua's
humanity and Deity is being deceived and displays
the spirit of the
anti-christ.
His personal profession of to be an 'Christian - faith' is than only
hypocritical!
Thesacrifice of Christ on the cross, His death
and resurrection,
marked the beginning of the age ofthe New
Covenant. The Old Covenant
showed mankind, what they ought to do, but it did not change their hearts so
that they would want to live God's Way.
TheOld Covenantalso had sacrifices that coveredsins,
which are NOT taken away! But... the New
Covenantprovided for aperfect sacrifice(Messiah Himself), that
would takesinsaway and provide eternal
forgiveness!The Covenant commitmentsthat God has made throughout history are all aboutYeshua, the Messiah, Jesus Christ!
Through faith
in our only Savior,
we can experiencethe New Covenant Promiseof full forgiveness of our sins.
By trusting Him
daily, not only on our Sunday-meeting, and staying close toHim, we are going to
experience the Divine transformation of our hearts and motivations.(2 Corinthians 5:17)Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus Christ is the
one, whose
death and
resurrection
marked the beginning ofthe New Covenant age, and Whose
coming again will see us transformed and blessed in eternity! It is a Divine
process bythe Holy Spirit!
So we become more and more with a character likeYeshua, the Messiah, Jesus Christ
Himself! Also the Prophet Jeremiahwas
predicting aNew Covenant.
(Jeremiah 31:31-34). This is
the Covenant, that I will
make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put My laws into
their hearts, and in their minds I write them; And their sins and
iniquities, will I remember no more. Now where
remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
(Hebrews 10:16, 17, 18) (See also Colossians 2:14-17)
Therefore if any man be in Christ,
He is a
new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are
become new. And all things are of God, Who had reconciled us
to Himself by Jesus Christ,
and had given us the ministry of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:17, 18)
TheCovenant of redemptionis still God's
provision in theAtonement,
foreordained in eternity! The true Christian does not
permit anything in his life which is ungodly and
un-Christ-like In view of the fact that we do
not know any man after the flesh, not even
Messiah Yeshua, the Christ, it is vain for
any man to profess relationship with Christ
according to the flesh, while he is unchanged
in heart and life and dead in trespasses! Both
outward and inward sin
must pass away or one cannot claim to be in
Christ! The spirit, nature, and power of sin the old man, which is nothing
more nor less than the spirit, nature, and power of the devil working in men of
disobedience. All of the unclean thing; demonic,
moral, and physical uncleanness must be cleansed
from body and spirit if one wants the fulfillment of the promises of 2 Corinthians 6:16-18! (See also at Strongholds
for to know more about "the old man") Having therefore these promises, dearly
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all
filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting
holiness in the fear of God. (2 Corinthians 7:1)
God was in Christ, reconciling people to
Himself!
God does not impute sin
to those who have confessed and are reconciled to Him
(Romans 4:7-8). God has committed to the reconciled the word of reconciliation. God has made the reconciled ambassadors for
Christ
to reconcile others! (2 Corinthians 5:20; Romans 5:10). God made Christ a sin-offering, that man might become righteous!
(2 Corinthians 5:21).
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be
upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)
1. Wonderful, a miracle; a marvelous thing; wonderful. (Isaiah 29:14; Exodus 15:11; Psalm 77:11-15; 88:10-12; 89:5;
119:129;Daniel 12:6; Isaiah 9:6; 25:1) 2. Counselor. Advise; consult; to deliberate; guide. This name
expresses the idea that He
is
the Supreme Counselor—the One Who
is qualified to give counsel and advice to all created beings!
3. The mighty God. Powerful; Mighty; Champion; Chief, Almighty; the
Strong One! It literally means the Mighty Almighty, or the conquering God. One
of many places where the Messiah
is called "G-d"! (Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1; 20:28;
Romans 9:5; 1 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 1:8; 1 John 5:20)
4. The everlasting Father; the Father of Eternity; the Planner of
the ages; and Father of all time!
(Hebrews 1:2)
It does not mean that Yeshua or
Jesus the Messiah is the one known as God, the Father, the first person of the Trinity, for He
is another person! He is the second Person of the Godhead! (See more in the
doctrine of the “Trinity”!)
5. The Prince of Peace—the
Peaceful Prince. He shall promote and increase His government and peace without
wars!
(Isaiah 9:6; 2:2)
The
LORD thy
God will raise
up unto thee a
Prophet
from the midst
of thee, of thy
brethren, like
unto me; unto
him ye shall
hearken
The 15th
prophecy inDeuteronomy
18:15;
fulfilled in
Yeshua
Messiah /
Christ:Acts
3:22-26; Jn.
4:25;
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He is
the Creator of the Universe, Galaxies or Space. There was, there is and
there shall be no end of His creations!
Without God there is no hope for
mankind! It is obvious that man is separated from God
when we view the ever-worsening situation in the world today. That
is why
God
sent
Yeshua, the Messiah, Who came to deliver us from our sins
and to bring us into a new life
in Him.
Did you know that you have found the
Messiah who said: "Do not think that I came to abolish the law or
the prophets;
I did not
come to abolish, but to fulfill!" (Matthew 5:17)?
The
believer should seek to know all he can understand, appreciate,
and experience the importance of,
the
Person, ministry and
work
of the Holy Spirit,
as revealed in
the Word
of God!
Jesus, the one
and only Son 
The Divine New
Covenant Promise
