Who is He really?

When it comes to Jesus, the opinions are wide. Some people see Him as God, others say He was simply a good teacher, and still others deny that He ever existed. But all opinions about Jesus  are just that. It is only in the scripture (The Holy Bible) that we find the truth about Jesus. Who is He, what He did, how He did it, and so forth. We base our lives on what the Word of God teaches about Jesus and continues to be at the center of our faith. One of the reasons so many professing Christians are carried away into false doctrines is because they do not know what the scripture says. As born again believers, we know the scripture is truth, and it reveals to us God’s truth about us, our universe and about Himself. Paul who is a servant and apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ writes a letter to the church in Colosse under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God. He does so to both combat false teaching, as well as to teach the Colossian Christians the truth.

I want to us to look at some questions that will help us to understand who He is and what He has come to do. I will break this blog down into several different ones so I will not do all of the questions in this one.

Who is Jesus? “In Him dwells the fullness of God. (Colossians 2:9 out of the Holy Bible). There obviously had been some who had taught that Jesus was a created being, one of many spiritual beings between man and God, each spiritual being, being at a different level depending upon their knowledge. Then more knowledge, the higher up the spiritual being. They taught that the spirit was good but the flesh or body was bad, so they said, God who was perfect goodness, would not and could not dwell in flesh. So they denied the incarnation. Paul refutes this kind of teaching head on. He says that not only did Jesus reconcile us through the body of His flesh, but he states that in Jesus dwelt the fullness of God. Some of the false teachers, who denied the deity of Jesus said that Jesus was a normal mortal man and that God’s Spirit only settled upon Him for a while. Paul says “that the fullness of God dwelt in Him bodily (Colossians2:9). The word fullness is the Greek word from which we get our word “plenitude.” It denotes the totality of divine powers and attributes which reside in Jesus. The word dwell is interesting. It means to permanently reside. In other words these divine attributes that Jesus possessed were not temporary, as some were teaching, they were and are a part of who He was and is.

The Holy Bible teaches that Jesus Christ, God the Son, was born of a virgin, with a human body, and a sinless human nature and that in Him perfect humanity, like existed before the fall, and the totality of the divine nature coexist . Remember, who Jesus is, is the one of the most important issues we will ever face. Jesus was completely God and completely human.

The challenge for each person is for those who really desire to know the truth who Jesus really is, is to seek God in prayer for this to be revealed to each of us.