It is hard for us
to believe that
Jesus ever
laughed or
smiled......

His purpose was
serious and
great but there
were many
happy and
pleasing
moments.

Jesus had to know early in His life that

God's plan for Him was in the scriptures.

The word reveals that He studied them

carefully. Even His continual speaking

of Moses and the prophets, what they

had said and had written was of great

importance to Him.

He knew what Isreal was expecting in

their Messiah 'an earthly king who would

lead them in this world' but that was not

what His Father had in mind.

His Father saw a world that was lost and

perishing needing a way back to himself.

At the time Jesus lived in Nazareth He
did not have the fullness of the Spirit.
But continually in communion with His
heavenly Father.

He often went to the mountains and
desert to be with His Father.

Jesus knew from the time He was a
child that he was from heaven and that
he had a great purpose here on earth.

The book of Isaiah must have shown
Him much about himself and his part
in God's plan from the beginning up to
now.

Jesus' character was formed by many
of the circumstance and events of his
life. But there was one thing not
accounted for.

There was a part of His personality
that wasn't given to Him by his
surroundings. It was the spiritual
aspect.

His body was entirely human but His
spirit was not. His awareness of His
Father was not like that of others.

He is "the only begotton Son of the
Father".

The fullness of truth, the reason for
His mission, and how it would be
accomplished, had to be worked out.

Jesus was to become the Resurrection
and the Life.

It was our Father's will that Jesus
experience and take part of all the
sorrows of the human race. This also
included the greatest enemy of all,
death.

But one day he would conquer
and destroy this enemy and it's power
forever.

Jesus was made sin for us. He took our
sins, yours and mine, so He had to take
the judgment that would have been ours.

Salvation then is finished forever. He
completed it for us so we wouldn't have
to.

All we have to do is accept what he did.
"BECAUSE I LIVE, YE SHALL LIVE
ALSO" John 14:19

God has done every thing possible to
bring us to eternal life. Are we going to
receive what He did for us or are we
going to reject it??

We as humans are not complete so we
must have a Saviour.

Not everyone will receive His call to
repentence.

But whether He is accepted or rejected,
every human's future is settled forever.

Unless we are born of the spirit, we can
not enter the kingdom of God. There
has to be a great change in our natures.

"....the assembly

of the wicked have
inclosed me: they pierced my hands
and my feet." Psalms 22:16

This portion of prophecy in Psalms
describes death that only he could
fulfill as Daniel 9:26's prophecy that
the Messiah was to be "cut off, or
killed".

Many in those days thought he was
going to set up an earthly kingdom.

But prophecy told he was to die!

These prophesies were told almost
a thousand years before fulfillment.

" Know therefore and understand, that
from the going forth of the command-
ment to restore and to build Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the Prince shall be
seven weeks, and threescore and two
weeks: the street shall be built again,
and the wall, even in troublous times.
And after threescore and two weeks
shall Messiah be cut off, but not for
himself: and the people of the prince
that shall come shall destroy the city
and the sanctuary; and the end thereof
shall be with a flood, and unto the end
of the war desolations are determined."
Daniel 9:25 &26


Daniel prophesied, inspired by the Holy
Spirit, 500 hundred before Jesus was
born, what was going to happen.


Jerusalem was to be rebuilt. And predicted
the exact time of Jesus' birth.

"Therefore the Lord himself shall give
you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel." Isaiah 7:14

The prophet Isaiah predicted 800 years
before it happened that Jesus would be
born of a virgin.

He was born of the Holy Spirit, not of
man, He was the Son of God. It was the
only way He could be our Savior.

Jesus' birth was not only

foretold many years before;

so was the place he was to

be born...Bethlehem.

"But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though

thou be little among the thousands of

Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth

unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;

whose goings forth have been from of old,

from everlasting." Micah 5:2

Circucumstances sent Mary and Joseph

from their home in Nazareth to the little

town of Bethlehem where he was then

born to fulfill this prophecy.

When Jesus was resurrected, He had
a new body. It was not just a spirit.
It was similar to his other body because
it had the nail and spear marks. They
knew his voice. He could eat and walk.

John 20:26-28 "And after eight days
again his disciples were within, and
Thomas with them: then came Jesus,
the doors being shut, and stood in the
midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Then saith he to Thomas, reach hither
thy finger, and behold my hands; and
reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into
my side: and be not faithless, but
believing. And Thomas answered and
said unto him, My Lord and my God."

This new body he had was able to
adjust to both worlds. It adapted to
physical laws but wasn't limited to them.
He walked through locked doors and
seemed to go distances quickly. I was a
heavenly eternal body.