2018 Jesus-1 - His Identity

One God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is a Tribune God. 

God the Father is Spirit and must be worshiped in the Spirit

God the Son is the exact representation of the Father (He is the Eternal Word, Jesus the Christ, our Creator, and Savior) in Him all life exists!

God the Holy Spirit is God in us

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The Eternal Word

John 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

God’s Supreme Revelation

Hebrews 1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Colossians:

Preeminence of Christ

Colossians 1:9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

Reconciled in Christ

19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

2.42 billion people in our world call themselves Christian but when you observe the world there is a noticeable lack of love of one another.  During Jesus's First Advent He gave us a new commandment which is:

John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

It is this love that makes Christians stand apart from the world and it is how the world knows who we are and will ask us what is the secret to our joy; hopefully our answer will lead the questioners to salvation.

The obvious lack of love in our world leads me to question whether all those claiming to be Christian have an understanding of the basis of their proclaimed faith.

Dark times of deception are coming in 2018 and if you do not understand who you are in Christ you will be deceived and possibly lost during the forthcoming events.

It is my prayer and hope that this series of posts beginning with Jesus-1 will enable all to avoid the deception coming on the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

Mark 13:22 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

2 Peter 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;