Jesus was fully man and he was fully God.

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To the average human mind and with our frail capabilities, it is hard but not impossible, to understand how a person can be fully God and fully man, possessing both set of characteristic at the same time. But Jesus was both. There are some things that are outside the realms of human understanding, but this is not one of those things. In order to understand this concept we must understand two things: we must first understand that what is impossible with man is totally possible with God and we must isolate the characteristics of God and the characteristics of man and see if they can be contained in the same entity.

What does it takes to be fully man. A man is comprised of several characteristics and they are:

1.     a body of flesh

2.     an emotional state

3.     a fallen nature (capable of being tempted)

4.     easily hurt disposition

5.     the ability to feel physical pain

6.     was born

7.     live on earth

8.     be subject to all the things that man is subject to

In the case of Jesus the Christ, he had all of these characteristics that constitute a man; but most of all he was subject to the things that man are subjected to.

Now the next question we must ask ourselves is what constitutes God, in this case not just any god, but Yahweh the one true Creator and sustainer of the universe and all there in.

Perfection is what constitutes Yahweh. Yahweh is perfect in every aspect if his existence every attribute that He has is perfection personified.

·         He is perfect in righteousness,

·         He has all and perfect power: even the power from the sun and the power that his arch enemy has is his.

·         Perfect in justice

·         perfect in Mercy

·         Perfect in Grace

·         Perfect in love

·         He is the perfect warrior

·         Perfect in peace

·         Perfect in knowledge (knows everything there is to know about everything)

·         Perfect in wisdom (knows the perfect application of everything)

·         Perfect in being (he was not corrupt in body)

In other words, Jesus was God and he possessed Godly perfection; yet he has all of the characteristics of man. He had the complex broken nature of man in a defile broken body as all man is born with. It is important to note that Jesus Christ never defile his body, but the defilement of his body was simple the consequence of being man. This is the reality of this situation, here we have a perfect God, who from the beginning of eternity have existed in the presence of perfection; now, he is forced to exist for thirty three and a half years in a defile host: MAN.

So we can say that Jesus possessed all of the characteristics of Yahweh and he also possessed all of the characteristic of man: in other words he was the perfect paradox.

1.     He was the High and the low at the same time, (fully God and fully man)

2.     He was the perfect and the defile simultaneously, (He had the perfection of God living in a defiled body of man)

3.     He was the good and the bad. (he had the good nature of God and the Bad nature of man)

4.     he had the perfect and the imperfect within him (he had the perfection of God and the imperfection of man's body)

5.     He was powerless yet all powerful. (like having money that you commit not to spend; he had the power of God but was restricted by choice to the capabilities of man)

6.     He was everlasting yet he had an end. (he will live forever yet he had to die)

there are many more characteristic that clearly speak to the nature of Jesus the Savior that are paradox to man but are in the realms of ordinary to the almighty God: Yahweh.

Another thing we can safely say, is that Jesus came as Adam left, with a sinful nature and body but he left as Adam came with a glorified nature and body. This is so for the simple reason: Jesus never violate the laws of God. With this accomplishment Jesus owned the right to have his sin tainted body that he had to put on when he became man to be daily transform into the sinless body that Adam once had.

You may be unanswered questions such as:

1.     Did Jesus every used his Godly powers? What about all of the miracles?

2.     Did Jesus ever suffer sexual temptation?

3.     Why Jesus did come into the world?

4.     Can I live as Jesus lived?

If they were addressed you may click on the topics and you can find answer to your unanswered question. Of ask your questions in the comment section and I will address them.

Forgiveness

Matthew 5:22-25 KJV

But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remembers that thy brother hath offend you; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Agree with your adversary quickly,

The path to self-forgiveness is a long one; it is even a longer road to forgive the ills that was done to you. Before we can get to that point, there is some personal awareness that must first take place. This awareness is the spirit of Yahweh operating in our consciences. We must come to realize that our actions were:     

 1. Wrong
2. It affected someone negatively
3. We have to seek forgiveness from Yahweh God
4. We have to make restitution and restoration. That is we must have a desire to correct that wrong, if it is possible or apologize for our action and the effects such actions may have caused.

Our first confession must be done to Yahweh God; this should be done in fervent prayer and should entail: 

1. a full confession of the entire violation. 
2. Express to Yahweh a genuine sorrow for what you did.
3. Make a commitment to Yahweh not to violate the victim or anyone else in that manner ever again.
4. Ask Yahweh for forgiveness. Yahweh is the only one who has the power and authority to forgive offenders. Yahweh is the only one from whom forgiveness should be sought.

When we confess our wrongs, we must first make the acknowledgement of the wrong and we express a genuine sorrow for what we have done.

The last part of the process appears to be the most difficult. This is so even though we have the self-realization and had admitted to Yahweh that which we have done wrong; however when it is time to approach our victims we become fearful and apprehensive.

Many are now residing in hell because they were too proud to face and apologized to their victims.

We as children of the promise, have to put our hurt and pride away, go to our victims and admit our wrong without making excuses for:

A. Our actions against them
B. Let them know you are aware that your actions hurt them
C. Let them know you are sorry for what you have done.
D. That you are sorry for the pain your actions may have caused
E. That you commit never to do such to them or anyone else for that fact.

It is selfish to ask the victim to forgive you. Forgiveness is a lengthy process that takes time; but more so, it is for the benefit of the victim. Too often we expect people to complete a process that takes years in an instant because we have made peace with our wrong doing. We then expect the injured party to do the same because we accomplish such; this approach is selfish and insensitive. When we were battling with our guilt, the victim has hurt, guilt and other emotion and traumas to overcome

If at any time you have that overwhelming desire to be forgiven by the Victim (s) it may be you have not yet come to terms with your actions. You may have to go back on your knees to seek the peace only Yahweh and his son Jesus can give.

We must not forget that forgiveness benefits those who have the responsibility to forgive, not necessarily those who were allegedly forgiven. If the victim forgives he benefits in more ways than spiritual, if he does not forgives he suffers physically, emotionally, spiritually etc. and harboring such resentment and hate can impact in other areas of the victim’s live (family live, marriage life, professional life and social live).

It is important that you first deal with the guilt that is associated with your actions before you approach your victim. You must be reassured that Yahweh have already forgiven you and you have already forgave yourself, it is only then, you can move to the next stage of making restitution and restoration for your wrong.

This may be a public admittance that you have wronged the victim (s) a genuine expression of Sorrow for your actions or lack thereof, a commitment not to do such again to the victim or any other, and a willingness to reasonable make it up to them in a manner that will help the victim. Remember I said reasonable.

If you are confident that your motives are right and Yahweh have already forgiven you, then it matters not who holds a grudge.

Some people are of the opinion that there is no real forgiveness, if the relationship was not restored to its original state. The person who was wronged can offer forgiveness but choose not to continue  in or with the relationship of any kind with the offender. I must say here, there is nothing wrong with that. Each person have a responsibility to them-self to provide  for their  personal, mental, physical and other protection and they have a right to determine what course of action is best to employed to maintain such personal safety.  

A prophet's call to Yahweh's people

My fellow believers, I come to you, not one bearing a message laced with his personal opinion or ideals, but one under divine instruction, bearing a message from the one true and living God: Yahweh, a message that was sanctified in the blood of his son Jesus Christ.

Give ears to this message you ministers of religion and you leaders of the counsel of Christian. Yahweh is God and his judgment is sure and swift.

For centuries Yahweh has been our God and for centuries the people have freely washed themselves in the blood of Jesus Christ. In recognition and acknowledgement of this fact, our fore parents placed Yahweh in everything and place. He was embedded in the constitution and in the schools, our laws and in the court house etc.  

Unfortunately, we have take Yahweh’s blessing for granted; as a result. We have ignored the almighty God, his words, his will and his standards. Yahweh’s blessed people have turned their backs in him and have allowed evil to inhabit their heart and mind; we have replaced the fruits of Yahweh’s Holy Spirit with the thorns of Evil. We have allowed thievery, whoredom, homosexual practice, violence, murder, dishonesty to high jack the heart, mind and life of our people.

Consequently our ability to make sound, moral, ethical and rational decisions have been corrupted, we delight in associating with evil; our ability to choose wisely has also fail and as a result we have choose men of low and ill repute to lead our community. These men now controls our government, our social societies, our commercial entities even our churches. We are following in the path of the famous biblical twin cities Sodom and Gomorrah. Like our communities the people of the famous twin city once loved, respected, served and honored Yahweh.

The biblical book of Isaiah, in the first chapter of this book, Isaiah 1: 10-14, the prophet was recounting Yahweh’s effort to save the defile cities. After a while and like the people of our community the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were living a double life.  They were performing the rituals that Yahweh instructed and on the other hand they were intentionally violating his laws and statues.

Isaiah 1: 12-15 Yahweh told the people of Sodom and Gomorrah like our people today: Don’t come to me, I don’t want your defile worship; I will close my eyes to your worship and withdraw my ears from your prayers.

Today we are now experiencing the reward of our rebellion; we have corrupt governments, hypocritical religious leaders, economical hardship, rampant violence, injustice and agricultural pestilence. Now compare the present event of our community with the impending judgment as outlined in Isaiah 1: 15, 20-25, 28, 30 & 31 Judgment that was prescribed for Sodom and Gomorrah as a result of their open rebellion against the creator: Yahweh.  

Yahweh wants us to return to Jesus and give our hearts to him.  It is time to forget about the demonic promises of grandeur made by those who hate righteousness; promises that have seen our physical, social, financial, economical and spiritual condition grow worst by the day. These are the same powered dreams for which we have turned our back on Yahweh, the same wasted promises that cause us to forsake our morals, disregard our principles; abandon professional ethics, traded our integrity and sold our honesty. Let us not forget that Yahweh is our protector and our provider he is our God and we must love, respect, honor and treat him as such.

Conspiracy in God’s church.

In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John the four books of the Holy Bible that detailed the life of Jesus we see how far certain church leaders would go to have their own way. We must never forget that Jesus Christ the righteous Son of God was not betrayed by heathen; he was not denied by infidels; he was not conspired upon by members of the Gentiles community and his rejection did not come at the hands of members of an opposing nation with whom Israel was at war.  But Jesus’ suffering and final demised came at the hands of the leadership of the Church, his Church. Mathew 26:3-4, 27:1, then the chief priest, the Scribe, and the elders of the people got together at the palace of the high priest Caiaphas, and consulted how they can kidnap Jesus and secretly kill him. Here we have the leaders of the church who were to be the conscience of the community, plotting to spill innocence blood, plotting to murder Jesus.

 

These “religious leader” went into the community to solicit the paid service of the communities’ members; who were enticed to break God’s law (to bear false witness) to destroy the very God they loved and served daily; the very God they were responsible for teaching the nation to love also: Jesus Christ.

 

Eventually their conspiracy worked and the leaders of religion were successful in causing a miscarriage of Justice. With the use of fabricated evidence, they caused the eventual conviction and execution (crucifixion) of Jesus Christ; even though they knew they were wrong and Jesus was innocent of the charges. Even after all they did, instead of repenting and confessing their wrongs, they thicken the plot by offering bribes to the soldiers to lie about Jesus’ resurrection.

 

Because of rough “spiritual leaders”, who put their own selfish ambition above the spiritual needs of Yahweh’s people and the will of the almighty God, an entire nation was led to defiled their souls with the unjust spilling of Jesus’ holy blood. This was manifested when the “Religious Leaders” convinced and had the bulk of the population voted to pardon and spare the life of a convicted murderer: Barabbas and demanded the execution of Jesus Christ. Here we see the so-call men of God conspired to have Jesus arrested, they conspired to have Jesus killed, they conspired to keep Jesus dead, and they conspired to keep his resurrection a secret.

 

Unfortunately, today there still exist men and women among us, working in the ministry to save souls that have the mentality of the religious priest, the scribes and the elders of the people who conspired to secure the suffering and the death of our Lord and Savior: Jesus Christ. In Matthew 7:15, Jesus himself warned his people to “beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves”. (Wolf in sheep’s clothing) and in verse 16, of Matthew 7: Jesus further warns that you should know them by their fruits.

 

Paul also saw the danger and he said in his letter: Philippians 1:15, He said some preach Christ out of envy and strife. And verse 16 he went on to say, the former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambitions. We must never forget that our leaders will lead us somewhere, they may lead us to the cross of Jesus Christ and eventually into heaven or they may lead us away from Christ’s cross and eventually into everlasting fire.

 

Thos cost of your soul is too high, for grown men and women who were blessed with the wisdom and intelligence of Jesus Christ to take their salvation for granted, to sit idly and blindly follow the dangerous direction of a leader who is  moved by personal ambition and not by the spirit of the Holy God.

Setting the wrong example

Cry aloud spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression the house of Jacob their sins. Isaiah 58:1.

All through earth’s history, the people of Yahweh, strayed from the principles the Creator give to live by; at times we make a conscious decision to satisfy the desires of the flesh; as a result we fell into open rebellion against our Creator. At other times, we become victims of the ease and conveniences; while others become busy with the work of the Lord that they neglect to maintain and develop their personal relationship with Jesus. When we neglect out relationship with our redeemer, our communication with him become blurred and our ability to make sound spiritual decision is severely hampered. Unfortunately; when such things happen, we are the last person to know.

In Matt. 21: 12 - 13, the local merchants crowded the courtyard of the temple with their tables of trade. Each table was strategically position to help worshipers with the daily temple sacrifices and offerings. The services these men of trade provided was an essential one, it took every excuse an individual may come up with, not to perform the appropriate sacrifice, present the appropriate offering at the appropriate time. The services provided by the men of trade were not bad or wrong, as a matter of fact; such services were essential to the community. Although such service helped Yahweh’s chosen people to comply with his command as it related to sacrifices and giving offerings; the location they choose to carry out their trade desecrated the temple of the Almighty God.

Like the moneychangers in Jesus' day, we must be careful that our good intention and the vital service we provide are not at the expense of desecrating God’s holy law. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; this is Yahweh’s command. The Sabbath day is an opportunity for us to pay tribute and recognized Yahweh as the awesome CREATOR that he is. But what is holiness as it relates to Sabbath keeping? Jesus in his quest to lend clarity to this subject asked: “which of you having a lamb that falls into a pit ‘on the Sabbath day’ will not retrieve it”, then he declared; “it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day:” Matt. 12: 10 - 12, Mark 3: 2 – 4. However, this principle is not applicable across the board. It is good to tackle those critical needs and perform those vital Christian services to our fellow men whose needs may have just arisen or those needs we have just learn of. It is a desecration of Yahweh God’s holy Sabbath, if we consciously neglect to perform those known act of Christian service, because it was not convenient to do so during the six days of work, wherein the Lord God have provide for us to do such.

We must learn from the mistakes of Israel and be careful that in our efforts and enthusiasm to be different that our actions do not misrepresent the King of kings. If we ought to be effective; our “witness” must be clear and free from contradictions. We cannot afford to become stumbling blocks in the way of the people we are attempting to serve but most of all, we must never risk compromising the standards and principle of Yahweh, by sending the wrong messages to our target community.

We must always keep in the forefront of our consciousness, the fact that we are not independent contractors in the salvation of lost humanity; therefore, we should not allow ourselves to become neglectful in our rush to do the work of the lord. We must always proceed carefully and prayerfully, never forgetting that we are co-laborer with Jesus Christ for the salvation of lost souls. We ought to always listen attentively, follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and the reveal will of Yahweh. We must never forget the Holy Spirit will never lead us against the will of Yahweh, or upon the gray or ambiguous areas of Yahweh’s words thus enticing us to betray our consciences.

In such cases, the Holy Spirit will find applicable and practical way of teaching willing heart, the spiritual lessons we need to learn. Although we do not know what tomorrow holds, there is one thing we can be sure of: if Yahweh leads us into the valley of uncertainty, there could be only one outcome: victory for his faithful children.

Some will have us to believe; faithfulness is demonstrated in how loud we can shout the word but true faithfulness is exhibited in how well we live the word. It is with living that we become effective witnesses for the cause of Christ. To the unbeliever, our words are like a gentle wind that cools the soul, but an unambiguous exhibition of a godly life lived, is like an invitation into the very presence of the Almighty God himself.

 Prepared, designed & © Allan H. Palmer

 

Can you ask for anything more?

Pain and hard times reminds Yahweh's children that there are consequences for every bad action; it also gives us an appreciation for Yahweh's blessings. It is Yahweh's wish that we prosper and be in good health but we must first be unconditionally faithful to him to reap the reward.

Very often we create barriers and stumbling blocks in our own way, preventing our loving and generous father from bless us with his bounties and although Jesus have been giving us favor we don't deserved he want to shower us with even bigger, more valuable gifts, but we must be faithful.

We must be faithful to his, laws, his every word not because of what we can get or what he can give to us, but because we acknowledge that he loves us and wants only the best for us and will stop at nothing to ensure we are the best and have the best.

Can you ask for anything more?

 

There is someone especially for me

Each of us have buried within us a burning desire to love and to be loved, this is the beginning of personal fulfillment. Too often we mistakes lust and infatuation for love; unfortunately. When we do this, we put the things in place to facilitate broken hearts which cause tremendous psychological distress.

We truly cannot give love to or received love from anyone until we have learn to love and accept the love of El Shaddai (God the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit). It is useless for anyone to give love to anyone who have not experienced the love from the creator and love him in return.

We must always keep in mind that Yahweh knows us and he has the ideal person waiting for us, he has prepared someone special just for me.

Unfortunately the creator also has the happiness and welfare of your potential partner to protect also. It will be unfair for the Almighty Creator to reward our unfaithfulness, so it is important that we prove ourselves worthy of the gifts Yahweh has in place for us.

if we choose our life partner before Yahweh gifted us with the special one whom he prepared for us, he can teach the willing couple how to love each other and in turn they will received the greatest pleasure that can be derived. With God all things are possible.

You can conquior your distractions

It is so easy to become distracted from the things that are important to us, such as our relationships with Yahweh, our ideals in and the qualities our potential mate should possess, occupational goals, etc. These goals and more can easily be unintentionally placed on the back burner; the sad thing is, we may never remember to get back to them until it is too late, causing our life to take a turn for the worst and we may never get back on track in achieving our goals.

Distraction comes in many subtle ways, disguised as harmless, controllable events that we have control over, events that slowly grow on us, taking up more and more of our thought and time until it becomes a major part of your life. We then become too occupy with the unimportant until our subtle distraction (s) changes our priority and replaces our goals.

It may begin with an unguarded thought, a thought we fail to bring into subjection to our values and the moral standards we hold dear, a harmless conversation which pleases the senses, a conversation that we indulged in just a little, a visual that appeal to the carnal nature that can easily lead to even greater distractions, blinding us from the important things, our goals.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2, 12-13 KJV

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them.

We need to be focus on Jesus Christ the solid rock, the holy son of Yahweh. We ought to make him number one in our life and we will never ever again lose sight of what is important to us again.

Think before you act

 

Think about the act of creation, where the almighty Yahweh, the only true God, created the universe; made a creature with his own hands. That creature was made from the most common thing available: dirt. After which he breathe breath into him & man was perfect, in mind, body, soul and in relationship with his creator: Yahweh. Impressive, isn't it?

 

Would you like to know what was more impressive than creation? what was more impressive than creation was the effort, the time, the planning, the sacrifice; the pain, the lost, the perfect timing and the love that made the plan of salvation huge success.

 

Here we have an all powerful God, that made some creatures that were less powerful, than the least of the angels, less beautiful, than the least of the angel, less important to his (Yahweh's) worship than the least angel, we were not even given the ability to fly as angels can but the common souless birds could. Human Kind was the least in every way of Yahweh's intelligent creatures.

 

When the Creator God, His Son, and His Holy Spirit came together, and used everything they had by investing it in the redemption of human kind; by the virtue of that act, every repentant sinner, who was redeemed, was transformed into the most valued of Yahweh's creators and each lost soul is the most valuable waste there is, or ever will be.

 

O how Yahweh, O how Jesus, O how Yah's Spirit must have love you and me. For Yahweh gave his only Son, and His Son Give His Life what more could they do. O how they love me and you.

Who are you?

 

 

Who are you? What is your purpose on earth? Why you are not yet dead?

 

These are three questions each of us should answer. Please note, you are a very important person; you are so important that the son of the almighty Yahweh, the creator of the universe and everything in it: Jesus Christ, died in your place.

 

What! Do you understand what that means? No one has anything on you. Even if a person has 3 or 4 or 5 PhDs, even if they have all the money in the world, all the fame, etc. they have not achieve anything that you cannot achieve if you are faithful to Yahweh, his son Jesus Christ and faithful to their mission for you and the world.

 

Your purpose in life is to spend each day, each hour, each minute of each day, in humble worship to the Almighty Yahweh in Jesus' name. Your job, and other vocation means nothing unless you have the presence of mind to do as Job did. Job loved the lord his God (Yahweh) and hate even the very thought of evil. The only reason you are still alive today is because Yahweh wants for you to experience the awesome, glory and ecstasy that is associated with praising him and his Son: Jesus Christ in spirit, in truth and in love.

 

May the almighty Yahweh, bring you and I into a greater union with him in his holy Son Jesus Christ's name.

Yahweh's desire for you

Did you know that Yahweh love every one of the creatures in nature so much that he pays particular and detail attention to each one of them. The awesome Creator Yahweh ensure the most insignificant of creature is fed and protected every day and every minute of the day. A leaf do not fall from a tree unless Yahweh instructs it to do so.
 

 

Look at that tree any tree, now look on the ground, choose one leaf, Yes Yahweh knew where that leaf is, and when it fell from the tree. Now think of a forest and the trillions of trillions of leaves on the forest floor and he knows about each of them.

 

Did you know that Yahweh loves you more than all of nature combined? Do you know that Yahweh has an overwhelming desire to do for you much more than you desire for yourself. He want to make you happy and; contented, he want to provide for your every need, fulfill your dearest fantasies, make manifest your hearts desires, but you have got to allow him to do it, and do it his way. Our input will only get in the way and mess things up. That is love.

Why worry?

We are often worried about the things we cannot control. We forget that we serve a God who is willing to take care of all of our needs, our wants and our desire; he want to take care of our biggest problems be it relationship, illnesses, financial, occupational, religious, etc.

Worrying doesn't change our situation, or provide solutions to the difficulties that confronts us, but worrying only make us tense and stressed. It is Yahweh's desire that we prosper and be in good health. So put your life and all of your problems in Yahweh's hands and watch him work for you.

While we wait on Yahweh's fulfillment of our desires, be brave, and courageous, get up and face your fears and problems knowing that you have the victory over your difficulties, because all is in the hands of the all-powerful all loving God Yahweh and his son Jesus Christ.