The man Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, many things.
He was a great preacher whose words, such as the Sermon on the
Mount, still seize human imagination two thousand years later.
He was a healer who worked great miracles, healing the sick, bringing
sight to the blind, making the lame to walk again, and even raising
the dead.
He was a troublemaker whose criticisms of the powerful and wealthy
were matched by his compassion for the weak, vulnerable, and outcasts
of society.
He was crucified on a Roman cross as a danger to the Empire as
"King of the Jews." This was no accident, because . . .
Jesus was sent by God to die on purpose as the Lamb who takes
away the sin of the world by taking upon himself the divine curse
of God's wrath.
He is the one whom God raised from the dead after three days in
the grave, and who now rules heaven and earth and is present with
his people through his Spirit.
He is the one who will one day return, to bring both judgment
and mercy.
He is the Christ, the Jewish Messiah: the one to whom dozens of
prophecies in the Old Testament point, the fulfillment of all
of God's promises to Israel.
He is the divine Son of God. The one and only God-Man.
This man, Jesus Christ, God in human flesh, died for your sins
and ours, in order that we might be saved from sin and judgment
by believing in him. By his sacrifice, Jesus brings us, by God's
design, into a supremely satisfying joy in God that is beyond
anything we can imagine. That's good news. It's called the gospel.
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