This is how the birth of Jesus happened and the Messiah, came to earth: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit... In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David...And the virgin's name was Mary...And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the LORD is with you!”...But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be...And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God...And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you shall call His Name Jesus...He will be Great and will be called the Son of the Most High...And the LORD God will give to Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”...
So Jesus was born to a virgin named Mary and the Holy Spirit in a small village named Bethlehem...He was humbly born in a stable, because there was no room for the family in the inn in this small village of Bethlehem...Being born of the Spirit of God He would have Divine Power with Infinite Knowledge, yet He was born with no reputation, and took upon Himself the form of a Baby, then a Child, and then grew in the likeness of a Young Man...
As a Young Man at the age of twelve, as was the custom of His parents, He we taken to Jerusalem to observe the Passover...He knew God's Word at a very early age in life...In the Temple of God, this Young Man, this Child was teaching Old Testament Scripture...During this time, He was inadvertently left behind at the Temple of God...A full day after they began their journey home, Joseph and Mary realized that Jesus was missing...They had assumed He was somewhere in their entourage and maybe with someone who was travelling with them...Mary and Joseph returned to the Temple in Jerusalem and there He was sitting and talking to the Jewish teachers asking them probing questions to the teachers...The teachers and everyone listening to Him was in awe of His knowledge of Scripture...He even had wise answers for the Jewish teachers...
Jesus would always dwell among us in Grace and Truth and Forgiveness...As Jesus grew He remained humble despite His knowledge, His Power, and His Divinity...He is the Son of God with this Eternal Knowledge, He has the ability to do miracles, and has Divine Power...Yet as He grew, He was also mortal and susceptible to human frustrations, hunger and pain...He would see and fully experience the challenges and sorrows of a human life...Because of His Divinity, He gets us...He knows each of us and understands us perfectly...He knows what each of us go through...
John the Baptist came to the place where Jesus would begin His Ministry...John preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”...This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight paths for Him.’”
John the Baptist would baptize Jesus...Then Jesus left for the wilderness...So before Jesus began His ministry, He fasted in the wilderness for forty days...Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil...He was tempted by the devil and overcame His temptations...After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry...The tempter came to Him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”...Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”...Then the devil took Him to the holy city and had Him stand on the highest point of the Temple...“If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down...For it is written: “‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’.”...Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the LORD your God to the test.’”...Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor...“All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”...Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan!...For it is written: ‘Worship the LORD your God, and serve Him Only.’”...Then the devil left Him, and angels came and attended Him...
After that Jesus chose Twelve Disciples to follow Him...Then He began a ministry...He would give His first called the Sermon on the Mount...A Sermon like no other...His Sermon flips the world upside down...And if one thought the Ten Commandments were difficult to follow, His Sermon on the Mount furthers and advances the Ten Commandments into even more difficult commands and teachings...There is much and Great Wisdom in His Sermon on the Mount...
Jesus during His ministry would humbly heal the sick, give sight to the blind, help the lame walk again, heal lepers, and even bring the dead back to life...He was always reminding everyone that all His work was done because of God's Authority...God gave Him authority to do the things He did...He was always doing God's Will and praying to God, whom He called His Father...
And yet everything Jesus did for the Good and did humbly...He did great miracles, and the Jewish Teachers and Sanhedrin watched and listened to Him and could not recognize who He was...They wanted Him dead because of what He was saying and doing...They considered His Words and Works a blasphemy of God...He called God His Father, and He walked around forgiving people of their sins...His opponents thought only God could forgive sins...They could not see His Special Relationship with God...They could not see He never sinned...They could not see that God had given Him this Authority...Everything He did was to glorify God...They could not see that He did NOT fall short of the Glory of God...
Jesus in all His Good Works and Words, we see that He is the Perfect Example of God...He taught mercy, faith, love, and forgiveness...He teaches us that we should always be ready to forgive others not just once or twice, but forgive those as a part of our lives and our lifestyle...
Jesus had the Perfect Ministry...And these things are what Jesus did in His life...His opposition wanted Him dead...After He raised a friend named Lazarus from his death, they plotted to kill Him...So they made up a charge of blasphemy and had the Roman leading officials arrest Him...The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Him so that they could put him to death, but they did not find any...Many testified falsely against Him, but their statements did not agree...Then some stood up and gave this false testimony against Him: “We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands.’”...Yet even then their testimony did not agree...Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, “Are you not going to answer?...What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?”...But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer...Again the high priest asked Him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”...“I AM,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”...The high priest tore his clothes...“Why do we need any more witnesses?” he asked...“You have heard the blasphemy...What do you think?”...They all condemned Him as worthy of death...Then some began to spit at Him; they blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said, “Prophesy!”...And the guards took Him and beat Him...
Jesus was tried before a Roman named Pilate...Jesus stood before the governor Pilate, and the governor asked Him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”...“You have said so,” Jesus replied...When He was accused by the chief priests and the elders, He gave no answer...Then Pilate asked Him, “Don’t you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?”...But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge—to the great amazement of the governor...Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd...At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus Barabbas...So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?”...For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him...While Pilate was sitting on the judge’s seat, his wife sent him this message: “Don’t have anything to do with that Innocent Man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of Him.”...But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed...“Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor...“Barabbas,” they answered...“What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked...They all answered, “Crucify Him!”...“Why?...What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate...But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify Him!”...When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd...“I am innocent of this Man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”...All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”...Then he released Barabbas to them...But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified...The soldiers were mocking Jesus...Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around Him...They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head...They put a staff in His right hand...Then they knelt in front of Him and mocked Him...“Hail, King of the Jews!” they said...They spit on Him, and took the staff and struck Him on the head again and again...After they had mocked Him, they took off the robe and put His own clothes on Him...Then they led Him away to crucify Him...As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross...They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”)...There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it...When they had crucified Him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots...And sitting down, they kept watch over Him there...Above His head they placed the written charge against Him: this is jesus, the king of the jews...Two rebels were crucified with Him, one on His right and one on His left...Those who passed by hurled insults at Him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself!...Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”...In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked Him...“He saved others,” they said, “but He can’t save Himself!...He’s the king of Israel!...Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him...He trusts in God...Let God rescue Him now if He wants Him, for He said, ‘I AM the Son of God.’”...In the same way the rebels who were crucified with Him also heaped insults on Him...From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land...About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”)...When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling Elijah.”...Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge...He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink...The rest said, “Now leave Him alone...Let’s see if Elijah comes to save Him.”...And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He gave up His Spirit...At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom...The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open...The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life...They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people...When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely He was the Son of God!”...Many women were there, watching from a distance...They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for His needs...Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons...Always forgiving, Jesus said before He was placed on the Cross, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”...And they divided up His clothes by casting lots...So Jesus would forgive those who were about to kill Him and did kill Him on the Cross...By dying on the cross He becomes our Savior...He saves us from our sins...Jesus was also called Immanuel (which means “God with us)...God is now with us...God's Holy Spirit is with us...
For mankind, Jesus death on the cross is the Greatest Thing to happen, yet it involved His death...And though it was the worst thing thing for Jesus - to die...It is the best thing that could happen for us...Jesus atonement for our sins with His death, is something we cannot do...Our goodness falls very short of the Glory of God...Jesus' Goodness reaches God, because He always has followed God and always does God's Will...So Jesus has put a caveat in St. Paul's statement for the wages of sin is death...The caveat is that after our death we will rise again and be with our Savior and His Father in heaven...Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life...Jesus defines eternal life as this: And this is life eternal, that we might know the Only True God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent to earth...God so LOVES the world, that He gave His Only Son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life with Him and His Son...