Why Is Jesus relevant to you today?
We have seen in previous blogs that Jesus really did exist and that, if resurrected He really is who He claimed to be. But still, so what? So what if some bloke came back to life 2000 years ago.
The answer is simple - He has been appointed by God as judge. You will give an account to Him for all your life, and He will judge you..
In most cases, we don't need to worry about religion because, if any of them are true, then most of them are true because they all say stuff like "we all worship the same God anyway" and "religions are like rivers, in the same way all the rivers lead to the ocean, so all the religions lead to God". Also, they all basically teach this life is part of reincarnation. Live well now, you get a better life the next time round. So, with most religions you just need to be good.
But if Jesus is who he calmed to be - everything changes. Jesus (and the Apostles) claimed that He was the ONLY way to God. All other attempts utterly fail.
Acts 4[12] Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
Basically, the Bible teaches that God created us to live forever. After this life our soul departs from our body - leaving our body to decay. But where does our soul go? It goes to await judgment.
The Bible teaches we will all be judged. We naturally hate this idea, we think, "what kind of God 'judges'". We think of God as judgmental.
But it is good and really important that God does judge. If God does not judge, then Adolf Hitler, the wicked who are rich, powerful and greedy who exploit the poor - get the same reward as your average Joe Who is just trying to get on in life. It means the murderer, rapist and child abuser that never got caught gets clean away with it! In the end, it makes life utterly absurd.
But there is a judge, so no-one really gets away with anything. Everyone of us will give an account to God.
This is why we need salvation. You see, I'm glad Adolf Hitler won't be getting away with anything, and I'm glad the exploited children of our world have the hope of a new life with God forever on a new earth without sadness, suffering and sorrow. But I'm not glad I will be judged, because that is bad, bad news for me.
You may be wondering what I have done that is so bad? Well, lots of things actually. But there are four things we all need to know.
1) God will judge us by His standard, which is perfection.
2) God will not sweep a single failing or sin under the carpet - He will be perfectly and precisely just, punishing every sin without exception.
3) God judges us, not only only on what we have done but also on our thought life - yes, every imagination and fantasy, violent, sexual, greedy etc - because God says that it is what we are on the inside that is who we really are.
4) God will judge us against His most important Law which is "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all Your soul, All your mind and all your strength".
This means we have all utterly failed the judgement already! But worst of all is our rejection of Jesus our Saviour.
You see, God sent Jesus to deal with the problem of our sin and guilt before God. Jesus has dealt with it! This is good news because it means we can all know total forgiveness and a new life that pleases God. Jesus is now establishing as King of God's Kingdom and right now Jesus is in the process of recruiting people to it.
Here's the deal, if you want, you can be part of His Kingdom - you can come back to Him with Jesus as your Lord, God and King. But you don't have to. However, if you reject Jesus and His Kingdom in this life - your decision carries over into eternity. This means you will be shut out of God's kingdom forever, the Bible calls this hell.
This is why Jesus is so important and relevant to all people now. Jesus is not just some silly little fairy-tale, and God is not to be treated with contempt like a salesman. There are eternal consequences to the decision you make about Jesus now.
Wanna know more. Look out for my next blog.
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