(The life of our Savior) Embarking on total Truth. Chapter 1.3

The life of our Savior, with my reflections

The preparation years (click for outline of study)

The way it is!

There is something that can never change, ever. That thing is truth; truth will always be truth forever and false will all always be false.

We as humans in our everyday actions and words project and think what we want about truth. Our opinions are truth. Our statements about someone else is truth, our comments about someone else is truth. This false hood of truth is dangerous and truly destroys people, families and lives.

It’s amazing to me seeing people’s lives and my own and how people accept Truth or don’t, furthermore either care about it or don’t. Let’s relate it to a big issue right now in America, the Law, Police, you have to obey them, if a cop tells you get out of your car and sit on the sidewalk and you think in your mind, this cop pulled me over for nothing, I wasn’t doing anything wrong, this police officer just hates me because of whom I am. In reality you were speeding and have a tail light out and by the way your car smells like booze and or weed. The truth is you broke the Law, but we see things how we want to see it.

Ground breaking statement here, (this shocked me and still does daily when I get angry); our anger in any situation is 100% because something didn’t go our way! Period! (This is a spiritual preview, a free sneak peek)

Everything for us is physical, and this is very very dangerous!!

This is the way it is!

Time (physical) is something that we as humans have wrapped up into seconds and minutes that we can see. Our whole life in the 21^st Century is wrapped up in what we can see and touch.

Since I was young boy I was into competing and playing sports, there had to be a winner. I had to find out who was the best, sports was big in my life, as I still enjoy sports today, some might say still too much. But it’s all put into perceptive for me now.

The truth is all that matters (so I thought I knew what truth was), and the truth is, who is the best?

I’m right and you’re wrong!

You do stupid things, I do everything the right way.

That is truth, are you better than me or is it I’m better than you?

I really have always cared about the truth (again we know the truth makes us feel good, but what we will see is that we are not clear on what True Truth is, yet!). So looking back and seeing the stuff that never stuck with me is very interesting, it’s like even in a foggy world of media there was something keeping the real truth deep down inside. Things that destroy our lives are not true but they feel like it at times, arguing, bitterness, hate, greed, jealousy, they are false. Along with Drugs, etc. are a lie; they don’t make you feel better. Satan wants us believing the lie, not the Truth.

Truth!

My sports teams are better than yours, which is the truth!

I can do, think and say what I want!

I don’t care!

It’s my life, this is very true but in the end we will be a disaster, and it’s a lie because of what happens to you and your life when you do and act like this.

I can think like this but in reality is it actually truth?

So I thought this was all truth and life was mine to grab and take ahold of and it would be truth!

So I would truly have a good and happy life.

Wouldn’t I?

Fell on my face fast, after hearing this!

I recall talking with a dear friend and coworker after I had watched the Passion of Christ and he told me to read the book of John in the Bible first. Recall I had went and bought a Bible after watching that movie because I had to see what this stirring and burning feeling in my soul was all about.

Little did I know, but I was about to embark on total Truth.

The apostle John starts his Gospel off with “In the beginning was the Word.”

What does this mean, in the beginning was the Word? Furthermore when was the beginning?

God is Spirit and Truth period; everything we know about in this world starts and ends with God. He is a supernatural being that we can’t even comprehend. When people hear this type of stuff that don’t believe in God they roll their eyes and say please, give me a break. But at some point in our lives we have to find out for ourselves, not listening to others and surely not judging God based on what we think we see Christianity as.

Let’s ponder John’s opening to his letter, a man who walked with Jesus, God in the flesh. We are talking about a life with meaning and a life that has purpose, one that relies on something bigger than humans. A life that lives in light, one of pure Joy, not one that lives in the dark under belly of this crooked world.

The world is false in regards to what the world promises us.

So as we look at the first 5 verses of John’s letter what is the point.

God is so much Truth just as the Bible itself. God, Jesus, the Word and the Holy Spirit are one. The Good News of the Gospel and everything in the Bible holds all we need to know about to have a great life and purpose (it’s not a rule book, period, it’s bigger than that, if you stay along you will see). It tells us what the Creator has done for us and what He still wants to do for us.

So the Bible is so much about love and truth that Jesus walked this earth in the flesh to show us God is the Word and who He really is.

The Word and Truth are like your name and your social security number.

 

 

A preview of who Jesus really is:

John 1:1-5

In the beginning the Word already existed The Word was with God and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.

John is telling us in his prologue, Jesus Christ, the preexistent Word incarnate. Recall that John put a lot of stuff in his letter about Jesus that the others didn’t have, this was a ground breaking statement to show us more and deeper about the Truth.

God is and has always been, Light is life and darkness is not. Furthermore the Word has been since the beginning.

We see Luke open his letter which can give us the understanding that he took his letter very serious, he just didn’t write his letter about Jesus in a weekend. Remember Luke was a Doctor.

 

 

Luke 1:1-4

 Many people have set out to write accounts about the events that have been fulfilled among us. They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples. Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write a careful account for you, most honorable Theophilus, so you can be certain of the truth of everything you were taught.

Luke was talking about everything from the beginning of John the Baptist and Jesus walking this earth and laying down His life. Recall he wrote this letter about 30 years after Jesus life.

Luke also understood how big it was to gets down the blood line of Jesus after examining God’s promises of the coming Messiah with specific prophecy. Now Luke said in the opening to his letter that he read the others writings and looked into everything, so he knew that Matthews writings were geared towards the Jews and showed Jesus coming through Solomon’s blood line (which we will cover next), so Luke got down in his letter the whole genealogy from Jesus other side which was Mary and through Nathan’s blood line. This can be found in Luke 3:23-38.

Matthew opens his letter to the Jewish reader (right of the bat, showing this Jesus is the person foretold), in chapter 1 verse 1 Matthew says, “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Matthew goes all the way to verse 17 of chapter 1 giving the blood line through Solomon which was King David’s son. Again to show the Jews his blood line through their historic past.

A preview of who John the Baptist is:

So before we go into more detail about Jesus, there is a big turn for a little bit that God had foretold and that was written in Malachi the last letter in the Old Testament. This last letter in the Old Testament was written 430 years before John the Baptist was born.

Malachi 4:5-6

5 “Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord arrives. 6 His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers.

The apostle John again much different than the other writers goes deep spiritually about this person that was going to come before Jesus, that was going to be a messenger about repentance. This is a very important word, and this was John’s main message. This word is a big word even for us today. We will find out as we go along.

Repentance= changing one’s mind. Turning around, going away from ourselves/own actions and going towards God.

The apostles John’s first 18 verses talk about spiritual substance in referring to Light and darkness and God being the Word, Truth.

We are talking a look at John’s letter first in regards to John the Baptist because he goes deep in regards to understanding that the world was full of darkness at this time (just like now), and John is trying to show his reader that the world we live in is spiritual, our very souls, are very being is a soul. You either do good things or bad things; Light or darkness is consumed and/or produced.

The other 3 letters will all have something on John the Baptist’s life in more physical detail of his life.

 

John 1:6-18 (Apostle John’s letter)

6 God sent a man, John the Baptist, 7 to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. 8 John himself was not the light; he was simply a witness to tell about the light. 9 The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him. 11 He came to his own people, and even they rejected him. 12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. 13 They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.14 So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son. 15 John testified about him when he shouted to the crowds, “This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Someone is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before me.’” 16 From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.