The Real Picture Of God (3)

We started with the fact that 'God has been misread and misinterpreted by so many people because No one has ever seen Him' and then we also established last week that 'the revelation of Jesus is the real picture of God'

And today we will be raking it further by beginning to see together who Jesus presented himself to be

I want you to be open minded for now and permit me to present to you the real picture of God through Jesus Christ.

Not the religious Jesus, but the real Jesus who walked along the dusty streets of Jerusalem and upon the raging waters of the Galilee.

He was the one whom the sick, the poor, the sinful, the outcast instinctively gravitated to and felt at ease with.

He was God in the flesh(incarnation) and He manifested His love for us in several ways

In His presence,those who are imperfect didn't feel fearful of Him OR sense judgment or condemnation from Him.

The Pharisees were critical,fault finding, legalistic, pretentious, bigoted and most of all,Ignorant

They made loud claims about their piousness for God,and yet when they stood in the presence of God Himself,they were too self occupied to recognize Him.

#SoSad

Good news:

You don't have to be religious before you can access God.

In fact the less religious you are,the better

The real Jesus didn't come to bring a new religion.

I think I need to dwell more on this

Christianity is not a religion. 

So our focus as Christians should be preaching religiosity.

One of the mistakes some of us make when we go for evangelism is that we are always presenting Christianity as a religion and in the process the person we are preaching to starts comparing His or her religion with Christianity.

And like I shared last week,I know about a few religion and I can tell you religion hasn't succeed in making any man to reach God. Religion is man's way of reaching God, but no man has successfully done that.

That is why God decided to reach out to us by Himself

Glory!

Also,  the real Jesus didn't come to the earth to be served and waited up,He came to serve and serve He did.

He created the universe with one command and orchestrated the paths of each planet do that none would collide.

He has every right to demand service from those He created,yet he supplied service. 

He kneeled at his disciples feet and washed their feet's

And these are some of the parts that only few people talk about.

It's high time we begin to reveal the real picture of God by preaching Jesus and not religion

Christianity is all about Jesus.

The gospel is Jesus nothing - nothing

The real picture of God that was revealed through Jesus is actually far from the judgmental, fault finding and condemning God many has portrayed him to be

Luke 4:

18

KJV:The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

19

KJV:To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Jesus read these verses before He started His ministry

I have read this portion of the scripture several times. In fact those that know me very well will know it's one of my favorite. I will hardly lead a prayer meeting without quoting it. 

But not too long ago was when I found out that Jesus was quoting from Isaiah, and that wasn't even the amazing part but.

Isaiah 61:

1

KJV:The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

2

KJV:To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Jesus didn't finish the portion he was reading from

20

KJV:And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

He stopped somewhere!

And then He closed the book

I want to compare those scriptures and make us to see something together

Verse 19 of luke 4 says 

"To preach the acceptable year of the Lord"

And then Jesus closed the book

But in Isaiah 61: 2, where He was quoting from

It didn't stop there,something's followed that sentence

"...and the day of vengeance of our God... "

So why did Jesus stopped there?

That's a topic for another day.

But let me just say this to us,

Stop where Jesus stops,don't add to what He didn't add to. 

People have used the "The day of vengeance" part to make promote fear in the heart of people. 

Please have this at the back of your mind

"Any part of the bible that you read or someone preaches and it promote fear in your Heart,please take your time to check that portion all over"

If Jesus has come for vengeance or to condemn the world,I doubt if some people would have had the chance to get close to Him not to talk of getting healed or whole again.

Love is who He is.

And every of His ways and acts in the new testament proves that.

If you hear anything otherwise then please check it yourself

Next week we will continue as we see Jesus first and consecutive miracles and we take the scriptures from one chapter to the other.

Please take your time to read through.