Because He Loved Us

Sharon Williams

Description

In a Pew Research Center, survey conducted in 2018 and 2019, showed that 65% of American adults described themselves as Christians when asked about their religion; however, this is down 12 percent in just the past decade.
It is being felt that the world is changing rapidly and moving away from its Christian roots. In order to keep the roots in America firmly established, there was a need felt to write about the ministry of Jesus and how everything came together centuries ago and continues to change lives today. Like the tiny mustard seed, Christianity started with Jesus and his followers. Today it is the leading religion stretching into the entire Western hemisphere, most of Europe, much of sub-Saharan Africa, and even small parts of Asia.
From a tiny seed of perspective truth into a number one religion, it should be an interest to everyone of the journey taken by Christ during the time he walked upon this earth as man and God.

Sujets

• Inspirational
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religión
• Spirituality
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 16 janvier 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669805618
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Because He Loved Us
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sharon Williams
 
Copyright © 2022 by Sharon Williams.
 
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2022900167
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978-1-6698-0560-1

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CONTENTS
When Jesus Walked upon Earth
How Could God Be Described?
Two Divine Births
Jesus during His Youth
A Love for Child and Parent
Jesus at the Beginning of His Ministry
Baptism of Jesus
Jesus Selects His Disciples
The Wedding
The Temple Cleansing
A New Beginning and the Close of Another
The Samaritan Woman
Ministry of Jesus in Galilee
Jesus Goes to Capernaum
Paralytic Man descended through roof
Jesus Heals Paralytic on the Sabbath
The Sabbath Controversy
Sermon on the Mount
John the Baptist’s Imprisonment
The Woman Who Washed the Feet of Jesus with Her Tears
Doubt of Jesus’s Ministry
Parables Spoken from the Sea of Galilee
Jesus Heals the Daughter of a Synagogue Leader
Disciples Sent out for the first time
First Follow Jesus
Jesus Feeds 5,000
Jesus Walks on the Water
Temple Sermon: True Life in Jesus
Jesus and the Syrophoenician Woman
Jesus feeds a second crowd
The Son of Man Is Given Dominion
The Transfiguration
October’s Feast of Tabernacles
Jesus Teaches in the Temple
The Seven “I Am” Messages
Opposition of Jesus
Parable as a Method of Teaching
Words of Wisdom
A Sign of the Times
The Raising of Lazarus

When Jesus Walked upon Earth
Believing in God and having faith is the greatest gift in life. Jesus has always been the most influential man to walk on earth. Foremost, he was not only a man but also the son of man through God, his Father.
When we take the time to enjoy nature, there is nothing more beautiful than all the creativity that goes into the various imaginable life-forms. This is not a coincidence but a sure proof of an intelligence beyond our understanding. The vastness of the oceans and the height of the mountains are just as breathtaking as the beauty in the fall with the colored leaves or the rich green in the spring. Each spring brings hope that what seems lifeless now has the promise of new energy, new life. All of this and more shows that God made this earth for man, and the beauty he instilled through his creation reflects his love for mankind.
Our planet is a miracle that took millions of years to become perfect for man. A small moon that is exactly right for the earth. The earth that is just the right distance from the sun. The planets in our immediate solar system acting as our defense against meteorites. All of this increases the assurance to sustain life on earth.
In physics, regarding string theory, at the subatomic level, vibration produces energy, and everything, however dim it may appear, has an energy field. To comprehend a better understanding, scientists have turned to mathematics and calculated this balance to make sense of the heavenly bodies with their gravitational pull, dark matter, or quantum physics.
But who created these forces? How did they come together and work in such harmony? There is an intelligence and mighty power for which we know very little about and yet it lives within us. This source knows us better than we do and still loves us.
When we look around, we are reminded that all we see did not just happen to be; nothing on such a grand scale is by chance. God is three in one and the creator of all that we see. He knows each of us by our name. He knows you and me personally. Yes, there is logic and reasoning behind the creation to make sense of what we perceive, but we are just beginning to realize how little we know. Therefore, by God’s power and word alone, the world was created.
We are all meant to see his glory, but our choices determine how we may do that. Each of us brings different social backgrounds, education, personality, and character flaws. God takes the differences in each to display his will, according to his plan.
This book is about a man who was both human and God. This factual story begins with an older couple to whom God had promised that they would bring a male child into the world, and he would have a significant importance for the coming Messiah. This conception of birth occurred several months before a young virgin girl would conceive and soon give birth to the redeemer of the world. In history, women were treated mostly as property and had a status just above a slave. But this story is about her son and the way he changed man’s thinking and principles. Jesus’s life is written in this book mostly by the order in which they occurred and through the eyes of his disciples who followed him, learned from him, and in turn, found deep unconditional love in the process.
The disciples were ordinary men with character flaws, but they were seeking the prophesied messiah who would free them from the oppression of the Roman Empire. However, that was not God’s plan. Jesus came in the body of a man free of sin and with a spirit of God only to free them of their sins.
The four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written to testify of events that transpired during the three years of Jesus’s ministry. However, we could go back to the beginning because there was a time in which man (Adam) sinned and our problems began. But the life of Jesus is best understood, if we look at these events in the order they occurred and in the frame of God’s time.
 
How Could God Be Described?
This story is about the life of Jesus to inspire you and bring you to know the only one, who is always by your side here and beyond. His name is powerful enough to have influenced mankind since the beginning, and he does this with pure love, having an interest in the affairs of mankind.
It is best to stop and take some time and question the quality of your faith and ask yourself how you would rate the sincerity of your relationship with God. It is important to remember that we have one brief life, and the sincerity of our relationship with our creator is needed more today than ever before. Faith is necessary for us to grow spiritually in our belief and is manifested by our words and actions.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Hebrews 11:3 KJV
Since our belief can fluctuate, causing us to take the wrong direction, we cannot rely on our senses or capabilities to determine what is real as this may be our initial mistake. Although we have never seen God, a new recent Gallup poll showed that 89 percent of Americans do believe in God at various levels.
We know that the infinite God has influenced mankind since he formed the dust and gave it breath, yet we have never seen the image of God. There is a knowing deep within us that neither our eyes have seen, nor we have ever touched, but it permeates within our soul.
If we try to imagine God, even then our language will be insufficient. For if the answer were available, we would be fitting God into our way of thinking, resulting in restraints of who he is and limiting the vastness of his being. We do know that God is spirit and can be at multiple locations. An example may be that while watching over his followers on earth, he can also be in another galaxy. Since God is spirit, he is not made of matter and therefore has no physical limitations. Jesus told his disciples:
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
John 1:17–18 KJV
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