2022
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Fellowship Project: Blog Posting
After you watch the video and read the study notes below, answer these questions here:
1. Talk about how Jesus still loves you just the same, and He’s loved you before you were born.
2. How can we misrepresent Jesus Christ by our culture and religious views that aren’t Biblical? How would Jesus respond and act? How would He deal with certain situations we’re faced with?
3. Pray with one another and open up the opportunity for people to give their lives to Jesus if they haven’t accepted Him in their hearts.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
—Hebrews 13:8
DISCUSSION:
God is always the same, He never changes. Jesus’ personality never changes. If you were to meet Jesus on the earth, in Jerusalem, in the Kingdom of Heaven, or if you met Him right now, there is no difference in the way He is now compared to the way He was before. He’s the same. He never changes. There are many different religions, denominations, and people that misrepresent Him. He told me to encourage people and tell them the truth about Him and the Father because He’s being misrepresented.
He said, “We're not doing any of these terrible things that are happening in the world, and we have nothing to do with that because of the way we are in this dispensation.” He said, “We're in the Church age.” What that essentially means is that He's ministering by the Spirit, the harvest is coming in, and the Spirit is building up the body. That's what He said we're doing. We're building up the body and bringing unity and maturity to the body of Christ. Then He said, “We're also, ministering to the world through the body and bringing them in like the harvest.”
That's what the Holy Spirit is doing. That's what Jesus is doing in His body. He's the head, and then He has His body on the earth, and the body is being built up by the Spirit through the gifts of the Spirit and the Fivefold ministry of the church. Then, the ministry of the body is to bring in the harvest. He said, “We're being misrepresented, we're not killing, stealing, and destroying or bringing disease.” He told me “I've come to give you life, and life more abundantly.”
PEOPLE MISREPRESENT WHO JESUS IS
In America, what we do sometimes through our culture is make Jesus out to be a certain way, and it’s not the way He is at all. We accommodate Him into our culture, but the Jesus that I met in person when I was on the other side, wasn't the way my culture had portrayed Him. The Reformed Presbyterian Church where I was trained, never talked about the born-again experience. There were other denominations I was involved with that also had different views, but when I met Jesus, He was just like the Bible. He quoted Himself and quoted scripture to me for 45 minutes. He showed me many different things that are happening in the Spirit, but He was constantly quoting Scripture.
In my book, Heavenly Visitation, I go more in-depth about what I've shared, and I haven't shared everything. I don't know if I ever will, but that book will give you enough for this lifetime. I realized that He is what He says He is. What He says and who He is as a person are the same thing.
Our Bible here is written in English. In the Gospels, whenever Jesus speaks, it is written in red. Even in the book of Revelation, when John is quoting Jesus, it's in red letters. That's only with our English version. Jesus quoted Himself for 45 minutes to me and some of the things that He said I had to look up. I had been to Bible school. I had a bachelor’s degree in theology, and then I got a two-year degree in theology above that, and now I have my Doctorate. Everything He spoke was from the Bible, and I realized I didn't know everything about the Bible.
I decided that for my life after this experience with Jesus I would find Him in the Word and read it and get to know the Bible in a better way. Jesus explained some things that are so simple that we miss them. Culture, religion, and leaders interpret Him a certain way. We’ve seen it in the Catholic Church when the Pope made a statement and said that there are many ways to God, but Jesus explained and said, “I am the Way, I am the Truth, and I am the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” He said, “I'm the only way to the Father. You can't get to the Father except through me.” Jesus is the only way to the Father. There aren't any other religions, and there are no other ways to God except through Jesus Christ. If a person is preaching the Gospel, then he will be preaching that Jesus is the Way. He’ll be preaching from John 14:6-7. “From now on you will realize that you have seen Him and experienced Him, to know me is to know the Father.”
Jesus said, “I am the door.” He said this to me in person, and I said, “Yes, I know you're the door, you said that in the book of John.” He said, “Well, you don't go anywhere on the earth unless it's through me. You have to walk through me anywhere you go.” I realized that I wasn't 100% committed to Him and that I had to make some adjustments. Jesus stays the same.
When I encountered Him for 45 minutes on the operating table, He was just as strong as He appeared to be in the Bible with me. He was just as adamant about who He was and how everything works. He never once asked me for my opinion or discussed anything about what I thought. He was telling me, "This is the way that things operate, and here's how you can operate in the Spirit. Here's how you can get your prayers answered. Here's how you can walk in the Spirit and hear from me."
There are so many things that He showed me. I was so excited. Then, He told me I was coming back, and I realized that He was teaching me how to walk in the earth realm by the Spirit. I didn't catch that He was preparing to send me back and I didn’t think He was going to.
Since Jesus is just like His Word and He never deviates from the truth of who He is, how does that create a hunger in you and cause you to want to know more of Him and devote your time to Him?
When I experienced Jesus in person, He was the same person that I experienced when I read the Gospels. When I read John chapters 14-17, I can get a good dose of Jesus. I'm getting a good reference point on how things work. If all I had was John 14 through 17, I could finish out this life just fine concentrating on those three chapters because what’s written in there is enough for my life. Even though I enjoy Paul and I need all his letters and live in the Epistles continually, Jesus never changes, and if He tells you something, two years from now, or if He visits you He's going to say the same thing.
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