Greatness of Jesus - God's Gift

A.   Overview

 

Jesus is the centerpiece of the New Testament. The New Testament focuses on the life, ministry, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus the Christ (Messiah, the Anointed One).[1] The chronology of the New Testament falls into two parts: the life of Jesus the Christ (Messiah) and the apostolic age where Jesus’s apostles and disciples spread His Good News.

Jesus’s life on earth was so brief – a thirty-years. Yet, Jesus was the most powerful and amazing person ever lived because He was God in human flesh! Jesus is the image of the invisible God and the fullness of God lived in Jesus.[2] He reflected the very image, nature, character, and glory of His Holy Father – the living LORD God of heaven and earth.[3]

The name Jesus is the Greek various of the Hebrew name Joshua, which means God is salvation. Sinners feel Jesus’s saving and cleansing touch, and they are never the same! When anyone accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior, Jesus creates a new life and new set of values with our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit of God.[4] Jesus is God’s atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only our sins but also for the sons of the whole world.[5] Only Jesus turns God’s wrath away from our lives and takes away our sins through faith in His precious blood.[6] Jesus is our Advocate, Way, and Mediator with His Holy Father as He speaks, intercedes, and pleads our case to His Father in our defense for our sins.[7]

Significantly, Jesus is the Son of the living God and the long-awaited Messiah (Christ, the Holy One of God) promised by the Old Testament prophets that has come into the world from heaven.[8] The living LORD God confirmed Jesus’s identity as His Son and called everyone to listen and obey Him at Jesus’s baptism and Transfiguration.[9] The living LORD God made His Son Jesus both Lord and the Christ (Messiah).[10] The living LORD God was in His Son Christ Jesus reconciling the world to Himself.[11]

 

Jesus came into the world incarnate (human-flesh) to reveal His Holy Father to the world and save the world from our sins.[12] In the Old Testament times, the living LORD God spoke through His holy servants the prophets and His obedient prophets proclaimed His message to the people.[13] In the last days, the living LORD God has spoken through His Son, Jesus whom He appointed the Heir and Authority of all things.[14] The Sovereign LORD God has given His Son Jesus all authority over the entire human race – every man and woman on the earth and over every principality and power.[15] Jesus is BOTH Lord and God.[16] All of creation comes from Jesus because He is Life and the Way.[17] Like His Holy Father, Jesus is the Great I AM, Light, and Savior of the world – Jews and Gentiles alike.[18]

 

B.   Jesus and Creation

 

Although Jesus is the centerpiece of the New Testament, Jesus has absolute existence as He is eternal and existed since the beginning of all creation and at the foundation of the world.[19] In other words, Jesus has always been in existence! Before Abraham existed, Jesus was living and One with the Great “I AM” – the true and living LORD God of heaven and earth.[20]

 

Jesus is the supreme and eternal Firstborn Son of all creation.[21] As the Firstborn Son, Jesus was with His Holy Father and the Holy Spirit at creation to create the heavens and the earth.[22] In the beginning, the living LORD God created the heavens and the earth.[23] The Holy Scriptures are clear: All creation is assigned to the Trinity – God the Father, God the Son – Jesus, and the Holy Spirit of God.[24] Jesus is the living Word of God (Logos) and the eternal Son of God who was with His Holy Father and the Holy Spirit creating the world.[25] The Greek Bible translation of John 1:1 reads the Word (Logos) was with God, and God was the Word.[26] Jesus existed in the beginning with the true and living LORD God of heaven and earth.[27]

 

The true and living LORD God of heaven and earth created and made all things on heaven and earth through His Son, Jesus, and without Jesus nothing could be made nor created.[28] In other words, Jesus the Word created everything, and nothing exists that Jesus did not make.[29] Jesus was in the beginning with God as Jesus is the Beginning of the creation of God.[30] Through Jesus, the living LORD God created and holds the universe together.[31] God – the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit holds the world all together.[32]

 

C.   Jesus and the Old Testament

 

The Holy Scriptures make clear that Jesus was active in the Old Testament history before His incarnation (coming in human flesh) in the New Testament.[33] Jesus existed before Abraham and Moses, and Abraham and Moses saw Jesus’ glory.[34] According to the Apostle Paul, Jesus led Israel’s great Exodus from Egyptian slavery and during Israel’s wilderness wandering.[35] Many biblical scholars believe Christ Jesus revealed Himself in the Old Testament to the faithful in the visible form as the Angel of the LORD, the Angel of God, or the Angel of the covenant.[36] The Angel of the LORD guided Moses and Israel leaving Egyptian slavery and during their wilderness wandering.[37]

 

The New Testament writers sees the Old Testament Exodus story as reenacted within Jesus’s life and ministry. In Jesus, God “dwelt” (literally “tabernacle”) amongst His people and revealed God’s glory.[38] Like Israel, Jesus went into Egypt and then came out fulfilling the pattern of Israel.[39] The Last Supper was the Passover meal of Exodus where Jesus become the spotless Passover Lamb of God.[40] As the Passover Lamb of God, Jesus’s death and blood protects us from God’s wrath as Jesus gave His life as a ransom to save and cleanse us from our sins.[41] Jesus described His death as the exodus (departure) (Greek exodos) that He would accomplish at Jerusalem.[42] Believers of Jesus experience the Red Sea with our baptism.[43] In the book of Revelations, believers of Jesus sing the Son of Moses and the song of the Lamb.[44]

The Old Testament proclaimed Jesus and overflowed with predictions about the Messiah, His Light, and salvation as the Righteous One.[45] The prophet Isaiah glimpsed at Christ Jesus’ glory in Isaiah 6:1-5.[46] Even more, Moses in the Law, all the Old Testament prophets, and the Psalms wrote about Jesus the Messiah and His coming suffering, death, and redemption.[47] Importantly, David foresaw the coming Messiah in his many Psalms, and he called the Jesus the Messiah his Lord.[48] Jesus was the goal of the Old Testament prophets as the Old Testament writings pointed to Him.[49] For centuries earlier, the Old Testament prophets predicted the LORD would come and care for His flock.[50] The Old Testament prophets called the Coming One the Messiah, and the Messiah would be a Shepherd and Ruler from King David’s family line.[51] The Old Testament Jews waited for their Messiah-King from David’s family line to come and lead God’s people.[52]

In the Old Testament, David was considered Israel and Judah’s greatest king. David was a king selected and anointed by the living LORD God of heaven and earth to lead His people.[53] The living LORD of Heaven’s Armies took David from tending sheep in the pastures of Judah, and He selected David to be leader (prince, ruler) of His people.^[54] David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned Israel and Judah for forty years.[55] David courageously led and shepherded the LORD’s people Israel and Judah as king. During his reign, David gave fairness, kindness, and goodness towards all his people, and he kept the ways of the LORD and encouraged others to do the same.[56] Thus, David took his place in the roll call of faith as a great person after the LORD God’s own heart who obeyed His will.[57]

 

Likewise, the living LORD God made an everlasting covenant (promise) with David that He would make an eternal house for him — a dynasty of kings or Kingdom that would continue forever from one of his sons from his body.[58] The LORD God’s great promise to David looked back to Jacob’s promise to his son Judah, which means “praise,” that a scepter (or king) would never depart from Judah’s family.^[59] Even more, the LORD God’s great promise to David looked back to Balaam’s vision of seeing a great Star from Jacob and a Scepter (or King) rising out of Israel that will exercise dominion.[60] The Old Testament writers held onto the LORD’s great promise (covenant) that He made with David, and they predicted a good, wise, just, honest, and moral Messiah-King and Priest would come from David’s family line and lead the people as their Righteous LORD and King forever.[61]

 

The Jewish people believed the coming Messiah-King would reign and rule the people with justice, goodness, and humility.[62] In addition, the coming Messiah-King would be called the Righteous Branch from the Root of Jesse and God’s Servant, and He would build the Temple of the LORD and be called Son of God.[63] Importantly, the Old Testament writers predicted a great King from David’s family line would not only rule the Jewish people but the entire world.[64] The Old Testament writers and the Jewish people looked forward for the Sovereign LORD God’s faithful Shepherd (Ruler) from David’s family of Judah that would come and shepherd, love, and care for God’s united people and lead them to worship and obey the living LORD God.[65]

 

D.  Jesus Is the Christ (Messiah)

 

Much of the New Testament was written to convince the Jewish people but also the Gentiles (non-Jews) that the promised Messiah predicted by the of the Old Testament prophets had finally come in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth.[66] The New Testament writers declares that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Jewish Messiah (Christ) from King David’s family line and Jesus fulfilled Old Testament prophecy as the Anointed One of Israel.[67] When anyone opens the New Testament to study the life of Jesus, the reader notices the Gospel writers and others identify Jesus as the Son of David and the Messiah.[68] Matthew opened his Gospel with Jesus’s identity as the Son of David and the Son of Abraham.[69] Jesus’s titles as Son of David of the tribe of Judah and the Son of Abraham linked Jesus to the Old Testament and the Abrahamic covenant and Davidic covenant.[70] During His public ministry, Jesus was called the Son of David.[71] The Apostle Paul declared that Jesus is an Israelite (Jew) and the Christ, and importantly a descendant of the patriarchs – Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.[72] From Abraham, Israel, and David came Jesus, who is God’s promised Savior of the world.[73] In fact, Jesus declared to the Jewish leadership that He was the Great I AM from Exodus and the promised Messiah (Christ) predicted by the prophets.[74] At Caesarea Philippi, Simon Peter – one of Jesus’s apostles – made one of the most foundational statements of the Christian faith about Jesus: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”[75]

Moreover, the Apostle Paul and many other early disciples of Jesus devoted their lives exclusively to preaching and testifying to the world that Jesus was the long-awaited promised Messiah (Christ) that brings salvation as predicted by the Old Testament.[76] Importantly, these same disciples of Jesus testified and taught to EVERYONE that they must turn to God found in Jesus with REPENTANCE, turn away from darkness, and have faith and obedience in Jesus Christ with their whole heart.[77] The Apostle Paul’s teaching and missionary journeys to the early church was to convince Jews and Gentiles like that Jesus is the promised Messiah and to assure everyone that they can find salvation and forgiveness through repentance and faith in Jesus.[78] Sadly, Satan (the evil one) and his evil disciples deny that Jesus is Lord and Messiah (Christ).[79]

In the New Testament, the word Messiah translates the Greek word for Christos or Christ, which means Anointed One.[80] Messiah (Hebrew term) and Christ (Greek term) both mean Anointed One or Holy One of God.[81] Christ is Jesus’ title and not Jesus’ list Name.[82] For the Jews, the Messiah was the same as “Son of God.”[83]

Jesus of Nazareth is the long-awaited Messiah of the Jewish expectation that has come into the world.[84] Christ Jesus is the Jewish Messianic Hope and Savior of the world.[85] Jesus’s good works and deeds while on earth bore witness that He was the long-awaited Messiah and Son of the living God, and His Heavenly Father was living and working within Him.[86]

 

In general, the term Christ is the most political Messianic term or title of the Jewish people. For the Jews, the Christ meant a military conqueror, like King David, that would come and rescue Israel from Roman bondage. In the first century, the Jewish people had been waiting for a leader like King David to redeem and deliver them from their enemies and usher in an era of peace and prosperity for God’s people.[87] This Messianic Hope came from 2 Samuel 7:11-16 where the LORD God promised King David an eternal kingdom.[88] The Jewish people believed the Christ would be a military conqueror like King David.

 

However, Jesus prevented His disciples and others to disclose His identity as the Christ during His public ministry.[89] Jesus invoked the Messianic Secret with His disciples and others who saw His miracles so they would not disclose His identity as Christ and Son of God.[90] Jesus prohibited the use of the title Christ with His coming of God’s Kingdom to prevent the people from expecting Him to be a political and military Messiah who would gain their national freedom. Moreover, the Roman government that ruled Israel during Jesus’s public ministry would not have tolerated nor allowed the crowds calling Jesus King and Messiah.

 

Jesus’s coming was not to overthrow the Roman government. Instead, Jesus taught He was the Messiah that came as a Suffering Servant in fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy.[91] Throughout Jesus’s public ministry, Jesus informed His disciples that He had come to suffer many things, be rejected by the Jewish religious leaders, be killed, and after three days rise again from death to bring salvation.[92] Jesus’s first coming was to suffer as predicted by the Prophet Isaiah as the Suffering Servant and give His life as a ransom for many and not to lead a rebellion against Rome.[93] However, at Jesus’s second coming He will come as King of kings and LORD of lords to defeat all forces of evil.[94]

 

E.   Jesus’s Birth and Family Life

 

The life of Jesus the Jesus turns around three important events: His birth, baptism, and crucifixion. The long-awaited Christ came to earth in the fullness of time established by the living LORD God.[95] The living LORD God is sovereign and providential, and He allowed Christ Jesus’s birth at just the right time by ordering Caesar Augustus to call for a universal registration and census.[96] Augustus’s universal registration required everyone to return to one’s own hometown.[97] Joseph lived in the city of Nazareth located in the Galilean region, but he returned to the city of David, which is Bethlehem because he was of the house and lineage of David.[98] At this time, Mary accompanied Joseph to Bethlehem because she was Joseph’s betrothed wife and Mary was pregnant with Jesus.[99] Because of the living LORD God’s sovereignty and providence, Christ Jesus was born in Bethlehem – the city of David – as predicted by the Old Testament prophet Micah.[100]

 

Before Jesus came to earth, the Old Testament prophets Isaiah and Malachi predicted the Sovereign LORD would send His messenger to prepare the way before the LORD – the Messiah, who is the Messenger of God’s covenant.[101] John the Baptist was the LORD’s messenger! John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus the Messiah’s great arrival.[102] As predicted by the prophets, John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah to announce the Lord Jesus’s coming.[103] John the Baptist had the distinct privilege of introducing and revealing the truth of Jesus to Israel as the Chosen One of God.[104] All four New Testament Gospels tells of John the Baptist’s ministry before the arrival of Christ Jesus’s public ministry.[105]

 

According to the Gospels, Jesus was born some time before the death of Herod during the reign of Roman Emperor Augustus.[106] Josephus, the Jewish historian, affirmed that Herod died around 4 BC. Therefore, several biblical scholars believe Jesus was born between 6 BC and 4 BC. Jesus was born in Bethlehem (southern Israel) in the city of David, as predicted by the Old Testament prophet Micah.[107]

 

Jesus’s birth was celebrated and announced by the heavens. First, a miraculous bright morning star appeared in the heavens that was witnessed by the wisemen (also known as Magi) from the East.[108] Jesus’s star was predicted by the Old Testament prophets.[109] Then, heavenly angels singing in a chorus appeared in the sky to lowly shepherds watching over their flock in the fields by night.[110] The wisemen and shepherds all went to Bethlehem as announced in the heavenlies and worshipped Jesus the Savior and Son of God.[111] At Jesus’ birth, the holy angels announced Jesus’ titles: Savior, Christ (Messiah, Anointed One), and Lord (Yahweh, or God).[112] As Savior and Lord, Jesus was worship as God.[113]

 

After Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem, Jesus’s parents – Mary and Joseph – presented their firstborn Son Jesus at the Jewish Temple 40 days after His birth as required by the Law.[114] This date meant the wisemen or Magi from the Eastern lands came at least six weeks after Jesus’s birth.[115] After Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt to keep Jesus’s safe from Herod’s senseless and ruthless massacre of Jewish babies to find the true King of Israel.[116] The time Jesus and His earthly parents spent in Egypt is unknown. After Herod’s death, Mary and Joseph returned to the land of Israel and came to live in the smalltown of Nazareth located in the Galilean region in northern Israel.[117] So, Jesus lived briefly in Egypt and then grew up during His early years in Nazareth.[118]

 

Jesus grew up and lived in a small town called Nazareth located in Galilee with His earthly parents, Joseph and Mary.[119] Galilee was in the northern region of Israel (Palestine), and this region included a mixture of Jews and Gentiles.[120] In the Holy Bible, Jesus is sometimes called Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus the Nazarene.[121] When Jesus lived, Nazareth was a small town with a negative or bad reputation at this period.[122] Nazareth was Joseph and Mary’s hometown; however, Joseph was also a descendant of King David.[123]

 

In the Holy Bible, Jesus is called son of Joseph.[124] Jesus was thought to be the son of Joseph.[125] Joseph was Jesus’ legal, though not Jesus’s natural, father.[126] Joseph was married to Jesus’ mother Mary.[127] The Holy Bible declares that Jesus is the Son of the living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth – Yahweh.[128] The birth of Jesus was natural through Mary, who was a virgin.[129] However, Jesus’s conception was supernatural by the Holy Spirit of God.[130]

 

Jesus was a descendant of Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and King David.[131] Joseph was a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and King David.[132] Joseph was a carpenter and scholars believe Joseph taught this trade to his son Jesus.[133] Significantly, Jesus’s genealogy included men and Gentile women with some unsavory pasts including Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba – Uriah’s wife.[134] Taken together, Jesus’s genealogy demonstrate God’s ability to work with all sorts of people.

 

Likewise, the Gospels declare that Jesus had other brothers and sisters.[135] The Holy Bible names Jesus’s brothers as James, Joses (Joseph), Judas, and Simon.[136] Many biblical scholars believe the New Testament books James and Jude were probably written by His half-brothers – James and Jude. Jesus’s brother James was very active in the early church after Jesus’s death and ascension to heaven.[137]

 

F.   Jesus Is the Good Shepherd

 

Jesus is the Good Shepherd of His Church, and He ALWAYS loves and cares for His sheep as He is our Provider and Shelter.[138] The prophet Isaiah wrote of a beautiful prediction of the LORD gathering His lambs in His arms, carrying them in His bosom, and gently leading them into good pasture.[139] Moreover, the prophet Ezekiel predicted the LORD God would send His Shepherd-King to feed and lead His people and give them peace.[140] The New Testament writers revealed Jesus as the Good Shepherd and Messiah predicted by Ezekiel from King David’s family line.[141]

 

Jesus’s All-Powerful Father sent and appointed His Son Christ Jesus as the Chief and Great Shepherd of His sheep.[142] Jesus rules and protects His sheep, and His faithful sheep listens, follows, and obeys Him as their Ruler and Protector.[143] In fact, Jesus’ sheep (disciples) knows their Shepherd, and they listen to His voice and follow Him.[144] Jesus calls His own sheep by name, and He leads, provides food and shelter, and guides them in life.[145] As the Good Shepherd, Jesus graciously gave His life to save His sheep.[146] Jesus leads everyone that believes and trusts in Him into real life, peace, safety, healing, and salvation.[147]

 

Like God the Father appointed His Son Jesus as Shepherd, Jesus has commissioned and called His disciples to continue His good work to feed, teach, and take care of His sheep.[148] Most importantly, Jesus calls His sheep that follow Him to depart from evildoing, iniquity, and sin.[149]

 

G.  Jesus As Prophet

 

Jesus is the great and final Prophet of God predicted by Moses and the Old Testament prophets.[150] Moses in the Law (Torah or Pentateuch) and the Old Testament prophets wrote about the coming Messiah and the great Prophet that we must listen and obey.[151]

 

Many Jews expected the Prophet and the Messiah (Christ) to be two distinct persons.[152] Initially, some Jews thought that Joshua was the Prophet predicted by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15. Joshua led Israel into the Promised Land after Moses’ death.[153] Moreover, some Muslims believe Deuteronomy 18:15 refers to the coming of Muhammad. However, the Christian view unites the long-awaited Messiah (Christ) and Prophet into the one Person of Jesus.

 

In the first century, Jews of Palestine (Israel) considered Jesus the long-awaited great Prophet and Messiah predicted by Moses after seeing Jesus’s many miraculous signs and deeds.[154] As Jesus’ continued His earthly ministry, the Jewish crowds called Jesus, “the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”[155] In the book of Acts, both Peter and Stephen clearly identified Jesus as the fulfillment of this prophecy from Deuteronomy 18:15.[156] Jesus’s apostles and Roman political officials thought Jesus was Elijah, Jeremiah, or like one of the prophets of long ago.[157]

 

Because of Jesus’ faithfulness and obedience, Jesus suffered like the other Old Testament prophets.[158] For example, Jesus felt the bitterness, sadness, and sorrows like the prophet Jeremiah.[159] Like Jeremiah, Jesus wept over Jerusalem, and Jesus was rejected by His hometown of Nazareth.[160] Both Jeremiah and Jesus were “lambs” led to the slaughter.[161] Jesus was the sacrificial Passover Lamb for our sins.[162]

 

H.  Jesus Is the Son of God

 

The New Testament writers declare that Jesus is God, and He is the Son of the living LORD God of heaven and earth.[163] Therefore, Jesus is to be worshipped and praised as our God.[164] One of the most familiar designations for Jesus is Son of God.[165] Jesus called Himself the Son of God during His teaching and public ministry.[166]

 

The Gospel writer John wanted to present Jesus as the Great “I AM” – Yahweh, who had come from His Father in heaven.[167] Jesus is One with His Father – the Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth – with perfect unity, essence, and nature.[168] Jesus’ good works and deeds while on earth bore witness that He was the Son of God and His Heavenly Father was living and working within Him.[169] Jesus is God with us – Immanuel, and He is blessed forever.[170] The living LORD God of heaven and earth is One with His Son Jesus in perfect unity, essence, and nature.[171] Jesus is the Great “I AM” – Yahweh, who had come from His Holy Father in heaven.[172] Even more, Jesus is the very radiance of God’s glory that He received from His Holy Father at the creation of the world.[173]

 

The Gospel writers noted that Jesus was the beloved Son of God.[174] At Jesus’s birth, the holy angel Gabriel confirmed that Mary would conceive the Holy Child of God.[175] Then, the living LORD God from His glory cloud confirmed that Jesus was His beloved Son at Jesus’s baptism.[176] Later at Jesus’s Transfiguration, the living LORD God announced again from His glory cloud that Jesus was His beloved Son that He was pleased, and we must obey and listen to Jesus.[177] The writer of Hebrews calls everyone to fix our whole hearts and minds on Jesus.[178] The disciples of Jesus witnessed Jesus’s glory at the Transfiguration.[179] Then at Caesarea Philippi, Jesus’s disciples responded to Jesus’s question of His identity and the disciples confirmed that Jesus is the Son of the living God and the Messiah of God.[180] Jesus declared to the Jewish religious leaders at His trial that He was Son of God, and everyone would see Him one day coming in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.[181] The Gospel of Mark opened His Gospel with Jesus’s designation as the Son of God.[182] Importantly, Mark’s Gospel closes with the climatic confession of Jesus’s identity as God’s Son by the Roman centurion.[183] The Gospel of John presented Jesus as the unique and only begotten Son of God, who is “God” and the long-awaited Messiah (Christ) predicted by the Old Testament prophets.[184] Then, John closed his Gospel with a declaration that Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God.[185] More importantly, Jesus’s sacrificial death on Calvary’s Cross and resurrection from complete death affirmed that He is Son of God.[186]

 

Undeniably, Jesus’ good works and deeds while on earth bore witness that He was the Son of the living God, and His Heavenly Father was living and working within Him.[187] Jesus was powerful in both word and good deeds because the fullness of God existed within Jesus – God the Father and the Holy Spirit lived within Jesus.[188] Throughout His public ministry on earth, Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, and brought hope of a new life because the Holy Spirit’s power (“dunamis”) was working within Jesus.[189] Jesus healed all that were suffering with sickness, afflictions with various diseases and pains, epilepsy, and paralysis, and He broke the power of the devil and demons because the Sovereign LORD God was within Him.[190] Moreover, the winds and waves obeyed Jesus and evil demons were silenced at Jesus’s word.[191]

 

The people of first century Palestine including John the Baptist, Nathanael, Peter, the blind beggar, and Jesus Himself affirmed that He is the Son of the living God.[192] Jesus’ baptism brings Him into this role and identity as God’s beloved Son.[193] The Most High God appointed His Son Jesus to rule an eternal Kingdom and that Kingdom will be over all nations of the world.[194]

Indeed, Jesus is the Son of the living LORD God that came into the world from heaven.[195]

 

I.     Jesus Was Human

 

Jesus was fully human with a human nature.[196] The New Testament writers presented Jesus as a historical person and a human being that lived during the Roman governance of Israel’s lands. The Gospel and other New Testament writers include Roman leaders and events in their writings to date the chronological events of Jesus and His apostles.[197]

 

The Incarnation of Jesus (coming into the world as a human) is at the heart of Christianity and the New Testament. Jesus undeniably existed in a true human body on earth. As a human, Jesus had a human genealogy as a descendant of Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Israel (Jacob), and David.[198] Moreover, Jesus was born a Jewish boy to a human mother, Mary.[199] He had a human birth, and He was conceived in Mary’s womb.[200] Jesus’ human birth affirmed His humanity as He was born as all human babies were born.[201] The birth of Jesus was natural through Mary, who was a virgin.[202] However, Jesus’s conception was supernatural by the Holy Spirit of God.[203] Thus, Jesus was both fully Man and fully God – the God-Man – united in His Body.[204]

 

Jesus had a natural human body with hands and feet, and He grew and became strong.[205] As He grew older, Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man.[206] The Holy Scriptures reveal that Jesus never married. For the first thirty years of His life, Jesus lived a human life and worked as a carpenter.[207] Jesus was known in His hometown as a carpenter’s son because Jesus’s human father Joseph was a carpenter.[208] Likewise, the Gospels declare that Jesus had other brothers and sisters.[209] The Holy Bible names Jesus’s brothers as James, Joses (Joseph), Judas, and Simon.[210]

 

In every respect, Jesus’s body was just like that of any other human.[211] Jesus was heard, seen, and touched in human flesh.[212] Moreover, Jesus became tired and weary, thirsty, hungry, tearful, sorrowful, tested, and tempted.[213] Jesus had a full range of human emotions because He had a human soul.[214] Jesus was amazed and marveled, agonized, and suffered with sorrow and pain like all humans.[215] Thus, Jesus experienced hunger, anxiety, doubt, disappointment, and surprise just like humans.[216] Significantly, Jesus was tempted in every way just as we humans.[217] This means that Jesus also faced every single type of temptation that humans face. Because Jesus suffered when He was tempted, Jesus is able to help us when tested and tempted.[218] Even more to the point, Jesus was able to die like other humans.[219] Notably, Jesus rose and resurrected from the dead in a physical human body.[220] Because Jesus lived as a human, He fully understands our experiences, pains, and struggles.[221] The Book of Hebrews stresses that if Jesus had not experienced human weakness, temptation, and pain, He would not be qualified to help humans go through their own human limits and struggles.[222]

 

However, the Holy Bible states clearly that even in His humanity Jesus did not sin and He was sinless.[223] Jesus lived a perfect human life! He obeyed His Heavenly Father in everything, even to the point of giving His life on Calvary’s Cross for our sins.[224] Jesus was an obedient and humble Servant of His Father – the living LORD God.[225] Even more, Jesus lived a life of complete and wholehearted obedience, faithfulness, and service to His Heavenly Father – Yahweh.[226] The New Testament portrays Jesus as a Man who went about doing good and helping others in need because the fullness of God was with Him.[227] Jesus never lied, cheated, coveted, disobeyed His Father, committed adultery, murdered, nor did He commit any of the many other sins noted in the Old Testament.[228] Jesus did not yield to Satan’s temptations and, in fact, He resisted and defeated evil because He knew and obeyed His Father’s commandments.[229] Indeed, Jesus is the Word of God that became human flesh.[230]

 

None of the four Gospel writers (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) offered a physical description of the earthly Jesus. However, the prophet Isaiah teaches in his Suffering Servant prophecy about Jesus that there was nothing beautiful or majestic in the physical appearance of Jesus while on earth.[231] The people who saw Jesus considered Him an ordinary man. Jesus was fully human in every way, but He was also God.[232]

 

J.   Jesus Is Son of Man

 

Throughout the New Testament Gospels, the “Son of Man” it is used eighty-three times in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) and at least thirteen times in John’s Gospel. By using the title Son of Man rather than Christ (Messiah), Jesus was able to avoid suggesting that His mission was political in nature. “Son of Man” was Jesus’ favorite reference to Himself.[233] When Jesus referred to Himself, He most often used the title Son of Man.[234] At times, Jesus used “Son of Man” to refer to Himself as the representative of humans.[235]

 

The background to Jesus’s use of the title “Son of Man” is Daniel 7:13-14. In the book of Daniel, the “Son of Man” is presented as coming in the glory cloud (having a human form) to the Ancient of Days – the Sovereign LORD God.[236]  Moreover, the prophet Daniel sees the Son of Man receiving great glory, power, and everlasting dominion and Kingdom so that all peoples and nations serve and worship Him.[237] Moreover, the holy people of God will share in the Son of Man’s Kingdom over all people and nations.[238] Jesus understood Himself as the Son of Man described in Daniel’s prophecy.[239] The Most High God has given His Son Jesus all authority and all power to rule the nations.[240]

 

As the Son of Man, Jesus is now the stairway or ladder between heaven and earth.[241] The Holy Scriptures teaches that Jesus is the only stairway to the living LORD God of heaven and earth.[242] Jesus is the Door and the Way into His Heavenly Father’s gracious and abundant life now and for all eternity.[243] In fact, Jesus is God’s grace.[244] Jesus is the Vine from heaven that connects all people to His Father, the living LORD God of heaven and earth.[245] In other words, Jesus is the Bridge to the true and living LORD God of heaven – His Father.[246] For there is one God and one Mediator or go-between God and humankind, and His Name is Jesus Christ.[247] Jesus unites and reconciles God and humankind through His death on the Cross, and He makes peace with His Father.[248] As God’s only begotten Son, Jesus is the only way to God’s salvation, safety, and mercy.[249] Without Jesus, no one can be connected to the living LORD God of heaven and earth and His fruitful grace.[250] Jesus is the only path to salvation with God for there is no other name under heaven given to humankind by which we can find salvation and peace with God.[251]

 

K.   Jesus Is the Passover Lamb of God

 

Jesus is the Passover Lamb and God’s final sacrifice that takes away the sins of the world.[252] The Holy Bible teaches that Jesus generously and voluntarily gave His perfect life as a final sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross for the world so that we could be made holy, pure, and righteous through faith in Him.[253] On Calvary’s Cross, Jesus became sin and cursed as God’s Passover lamb so that we are made righteous and holy through faith in Him.[254] The living LORD God sent His only begotten Son Jesus as His gracious gift and Passover Lamb to save the world from sin so ALL PEOPLE can repent and turn from Satan’s darkness and evildoing.[255] The living LORD God loves the world, and He wants everyone saved by repenting of sin and coming to Him and His Son Jesus as Savior.[256]

 

This title of Jesus as the Lamb of God is an important title throughout the Holy Scriptures. In one sense, the entire message of the Holy Bible can be summed up in Jesus’ title as the Lamb of God.[257] Some biblical scholars see within this title Lamb of God as Jesus’ Presence throughout the Holy Scriptures. First, Jesus is the Lamb given to Abraham as a substitute for Isaac.[258] Second, Jesus is the sacrificial Lamb that was killed daily in the Tabernacle.[259] Additionally, Jesus is the sacrificial Lamb of God predicted by the prophet Isaiah, and He has become the eternal and atoning sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins.[260] Also, Jesus is the spotless Passover Lamb of God, and His precious blood protects and rescues us from the LORD’s wrath and plagues.[261] Importantly, Jesus is the Lamb of God, and only Jesus is worthy to open the scroll sealed with seven seals of Revelation.[262]

 

As the Passover Lamb, Jesus is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and the sins of the whole world as His precious blood ran from His body.[263] Jesus the Lamb was slain from the creation of the world so we can have life NOW and for all eternity through faith in Him.[264] Most important, Jesus is the Lamb worthy of all our praise and worship like His Holy Father.[265]

 

L.   Jesus Is Savior

 

Jesus is the Savior of the world, and the promised Savior of Israel.[266] Salvation for the world was Jesus’s worldwide mission.[267] The Sovereign LORD of heaven and earth sent His Son Jesus to be the Savior of the world.[268] The name Jesus means Savior, and Jesus’s Name is related to the Hebrew name Joshua.[269] At Jesus’ birth, the holy angels announced Jesus’ titles: Savior, Christ (Messiah, Anointed One), and Lord (Yahweh, or God).[270] Indeed, Jesus is our Savior and Chosen One of God.[271] Jesus came into the world to seek and to save the lost and give His life as a ransom and rescue to save others.[272]

 

Jesus is the Author and Captain of Eternal Salvation.[273] Salvation is found only in Jesus and no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to humankind to find salvation, recovery, and deliverance.[274] Through faith in Jesus, we are saved and protected from the living LORD God’s wrath, judgment, and condemnation.[275] The living LORD God sent His beloved Son Jesus to earth to save ALL PEOPLE in the world from Satan’s destruction of sins and evil.[276] Truly, Jesus is the only path to the living LORD God’s grace, mercy, and salvation as He is the Author of Salvation.[277]

 

Even more, the Sovereign LORD God sent His Son Jesus to announce the Good News of peace with Him through His Son Jesus, who is Lord of all.[278] Through faith in Jesus, everyone receives salvation (healing), righteousness, changed hearts and lives, peace with God, and forgiveness for their sins.[279] Acceptance and faith in Jesus brings peace and reconciliation with His Father and entrance into God’s Kingdom as family.[280] The living LORD God is One with His Son Jesus, and He reconciles and forgives the world’s sins through His Son Jesus.[281] Faith in Jesus means trust, reliance, belief, commitment, obedience, allegiance, and confidence in Jesus as Lord of our life because Jesus is trustworthy and faithful.[282] Without faith in Jesus, it is impossible to please God.[283]

 

The Holy Scriptures calls EVERYONE to love and trust Jesus and obey Jesus’s commands as Jesus is the only way to the Sovereign LORD God and His grace, forgiveness, and mercy.[284] The Sovereign LORD God promised to bless all nations of the world through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel), and His promise was fulfilled in His only begotten Son, Jesus.[285] Jesus is the long-awaited Deliverer (Coming-One) sent from His Holy Father to accomplish His salvation for the world.[286] Everyone that accepts Jesus becomes Abraham’s seed and more importantly, a member of God’s household.[287]

 

The Holy Bible declare that through faith and belief in Jesus we receive grace upon grace, forgiveness for our sins, and a declaration of righteous before the living LORD God.[288] The Sovereign LORD God’s salvation from sins and membership into His family are now available to ALL PEOPLE – Jews and non-Jews (Gentile) who place their hope and faith in His Son, Jesus.[289]

 

M.  Jesus Is the Light and Life

 

Jesus is the Light and Life of the world.[290] In Jesus was life, and His life gave light to all humankind – both men and women.[291] Jesus is the Author of Life, Bread of Life, and Giver of Life as He holds the keys to life and death.[292] The prophet Isaiah saw Jesus’s glorious Light in the Old Testament.[293] The Gospel writer John called Jesus the bread or manna of God that came down from heaven who gives nourishing and abundant life.[294] Jesus gives new life and a rebirth for those who believe and look to Him in faith as Lord.[295] Jesus is the Lifegiving Spirit.[296]

 

Both God the Father and Jesus have and give life and light to the world as One.[297] Like His Father – the Sovereign LORD God, Jesus is the Light and Life of the world.[298] Jesus is the radiance and brightness of God’s glory and the exact representation of God’s being.[299] The apostles of Jesus saw Jesus’s light and life.[300] Even more, the Apostle Paul personally saw the great Light of Jesus on the Damascus Road.[301] The living LORD God sent His Son Jesus as a Light to shine in this dark world so that all who put their trust in Him will no longer remain in Satan’s darkness but live in His gracious Light.[302] Satan cannot overtake Jesus’s Light.[303] Jesus’ great light shined through the darkness, and the darkness could NEVER conquer, quench, nor accept Jesus’ light.[304]

 

Jesus is the great Light, the Day, and Sun of Righteousness predicted by the Old Testament prophets that came from heaven with healing rays, righteousness, and peace.[305] The Holy Scriptures call Jesus the great and glorious Daylight, Morning Dawn, and Sunlight in the beginning of creation, and He shines like His Father – the Sovereign LORD God.[306] Jesus has NO darkness within Him as He is good and separated from darkness of the Night.[307] One day, the New Jerusalem will need no sun or moon because the glory of God will give the city light, and this light is the Jesus the Lamb.[308] Darkness and the Night are all associated with the Evil One – Satan and Satan’s evil minions.[309] Satan is the god of this world and those who reject Jesus as Lord.[310] Jesus is NOT the sun because the living LORD God created the sun on the fourth day.[311] The Holy Scriptures are clear: God forbids the worship of all the forces of heaven — the sun, moon, and stars as these are just created things and NOT the Creator.[312]

 

The Holy Bible teaches that Jesus gives real and abundant life to everyone that obeys and follows Him as Lord.[313] Through faith in Jesus, WE FIND TRUE, ABUNDANT, SPIRIT-FILLED, and a RESTORED LIFE both NOW and for all ETERNITY because Jesus is the Author and Savior of Life.[314] This is the testimony, that God gives us life now and eternal life, and this life is through faithfulness and obedience to His Son, Jesus.[315] Truly knowing and understanding the living LORD God and His Son Jesus mean accepting, obeying, and faithfully depending upon the Father and His Son Jesus as LORD.[316] Everyone who believes and obeys Jesus has everlasting life and light from God.[317] Followers of Jesus are called to walk daily in this new life and light.[318]

 

Even more, we are saved from God’s wrath and judgment through faith in His Son, Jesus.[319] Whoever has the God’s Son Jesus has life; whoever does not have Jesus does not have life but God’s wrath and judgment.[320] This is the way to the real and eternal life: knowing and believing in the Heavenly Father – the one and only true living God – and His Son Jesus as the Christ sent from His Father.[321]

 

N.   Jesus and the Church

 

The Resurrected Jesus is the Head, Cornerstone, and Savior of His Body – the Church.[322] Jesus is Lord and Savior of the Church.[323] In fact, Jesus gave up His life for the Church to redeem and make the Church holy, sanctified, and washed by His blood and the cleansing of God’s word.[324] Believers of Jesus become members of Jesus’ Body – the Church.[325]  Everyone that accepts Jesus becomes members of His body, Abraham’s seed, and more importantly, a part of God’s household with all blessings.[326]

 

Moreover, the Church is the Israel of God (new people of God) and the living LORD God’s holy priests and treasure.[327] In Jesus, the living LORD God has brought peace and united Gentiles and Jews and men and women into one body – the Church.[328] One of the key themes of the New Testament is that the living LORD God has now incorporated Gentiles (non-Jews) into the people of God and Abraham’s seed through faith in His Son, Jesus.[329] Jesus is the new Bethel, and the new Israel because He is the house where the LORD God lives.[330] Likewise, Jesus is God’s new Temple that gives everyone peace, grace, and access to the LORD God through faith in Him.[331] Through our faith and obedience in Jesus, the people of the church are God’s Temple where the Holy Spirit of God lives and abides.[332] The living LORD God promised to live and dwell amongst everyone that loves and obeys Him and His Son Jesus.[333]

 

O.  Jesus Is the Great High Priest

 

The most satisfying of the list of names and titles of Jesus is His declaration as our Great High Priest.[334] The book of Hebrews develops this theme extensively. The writer of Hebrews uses the story of Melchizedek from Genesis 14:18–20 as a precedent for Jesus.[335] Melchizedek was a type of king and priest appointed by God.[336] Just as Jesus is eternal, there is no record of a beginning or an end to Melchizedek’s priesthood and kingship.[337]

 

As our Great High Priest, Jesus offered Himself as the Perfect and Final Sacrifice for our sins, and then He continually brings faithful believers near to His Father – the living LORD God.[338] Animal and blood sacrifices are no longer required by the living LORD God because His Son Jesus became the final and perfect sacrifice for human sins.[339] In the Old Testament, every priest would stand ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which could never take away sins.[340] Moreover, the high priest in the Old Testament went before the LORD God once a year to plead for forgiveness for the people’s sins on the Day of Atonement.[341] Jesus is holy and without sin.[342] Because Jesus is sinless and holy, He has no need like human high priests to offer sacrifices daily, first for His own sins and then for those of the people.[343] Jesus is the FINAL and once for all sacrifice when He offered up Himself to God for the sins of the world.[344] Jesus entered the Most Holy Place in heaven, and He offered, not the blood of goats and calves, but His blood to His Father – the living LORD God – as the final and superior sacrifice for the sins and redemption of the world.[345] Jesus is the Redeemer.[346]

 

The book of Hebrews teaches that Jesus passed through the heavens and appeared in the Presence of His Father as our Perfect Sacrifice, and He ended for all time the need for any further sacrifices.[347] When Jesus died on Calvary’s Cross and offered Himself as the Perfect Sacrifice for human sins, the curtain or veil in the Temple that closed off the Holy of Holies was torn in two from top and bottom thereby giving all believers of Jesus access to God in heaven.[348] Jesus has given all true believers access to God by faith so they can continually draw near to God’s presence without fear but with confidence.[349] Moreover, all believers of Jesus are sanctified, set apart, and made holy through faith in Jesus’s sacrifice for sins.[350] Jesus died for all of us – the godly and ungodly so that we will die to our sins and turn to His Holy Father.[351] Jesus is the faithful and merciful High Priest that made propitiation for the sins of people.[352] Even more, Jesus became our atoning sacrifice before His Father – the living LORD God.[353] Therefore Jesus is able to save from the uttermost everyone that draws near to His Father through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for us.[354]

 

As our Perfect High Priest, Jesus continually leads believers into His Father’s Presence so that we no longer need a Jerusalem Temple nor a special priesthood to stand between God and humans. Jesus is the Mediator and Redeemer between humanity and His Father, the living LORD God.[355] Believers of Jesus have peace and reconciliation with the living LORD God.[356] Jesus continually prays and intercedes with His Father for all believers.[357] In other words, Jesus continually lives in the Presence of His Holy Father to make requests and petitions on the behalf of believers. In the Old Testament, Moses was mediator between God and Israel.[358] Moses spoke to God on Israel’s behalf when Israel had sinned.[359] Now, Jesus fulfills the mediating role as the all-sufficient Savior, Advocate, and Mediator between God and human beings.[360]

 

P.   Jesus Is Lord

 

One of the clear messages of the Holy Bible is the declaration that Jesus is Lord of all.[361] The Lord Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords like His Holy Father – the living LORD God of heaven and earth.[362] The New Testament announced that Jesus is both God and Lord, and He has always existed as King.[363] The early believers of Jesus declared that Jesus is Lord, and they call for others to worship and honor Jesus as Lord in our hearts.[364] Jesus’s authoritative teaching, healing of diseases, power over nature, and raising the dead revealed Jesus was Lord.[365]

 

Jesus’s title as Lord revealed His sovereignty over the church and all the earth, like His Holy Father.[366] The living LORD God has given His Son Jesus all power and authority on heaven, all the earth, and all nature.[367] Even more, the living LORD God has exalted His Son Jesus and given Jesus the Name which is above every name so that EVERYONE should confess that Christ Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.[368]

 

Our declaration and confession of Christ Jesus as Lord is the ONLY way to God’s salvation (life, healing, restoration, peace, and redemption).[369] Importantly, our confession that Jesus is Lord also means we must OBEY Jesus and His teaching.[370] Anyone that does not trust and obey Jesus does not enter God’s Kingdom and receive eternal life.[371] Jesus’s teaching comes from His Holy Father, and Jesus fully obeyed His Father’s commandments.[372] Jesus taught that wholehearted obedience to His Holy Father and His commandments lead to life, salvation, and blessings.[373]

 

Obedience to the living LORD God and His commandments mean changing our ways and turning away from lies, hate, envy, prejudice, obscenity, wickedness, and evil doing – which are all actions of Satan.[374] The living LORD God has called everyone to REPENT and TURN from Satan’s dark deeds, wrongdoing, dishonesty, division, and wickedness and TURN to His goodness, light, love, truth, and faithfulness.[375] God’s wrath comes upon the disobedient and those who carry out and follow the evil deeds, lawlessness, and the pathways of Satan.[376] Jesus declared that not everyone that calls Him “Lord, Lord” will enter into God’s Kingdom but only those who does and obeys the will of His Holy Father in heaven and does not practice lawlessness, evildoing, and sin.[377] As we obey and follow the living LORD God and His Son Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes into believers’ lives and hearts to help believers obey and the Holy Spirit cleanses, strengthens, and sanctifies our hearts and lead us into truth.[378]

 

Q.  Jesus and the Kingdom of God

 

The primary focus of Jesus’s ministry was the announcement and declaration of God’s Kingdom.[379] Jesus came from heaven to earth to show us the way and lead us into His Father’s Kingdom.[380] Jesus called EVERYONE to seek FIRST the Kingdom of God and God’s righteousness, goodness, lovingkindness, truth, faith, and peace above all else.[381] Righteousness, goodness, lovingkindness, truth, faith, and peace describe the living LORD God, and He wants everyone to follow His ways.[382] Furthermore, Jesus called for God’s Kingdom to come and to always seek for God’s will to be done.[383] In God’s Kingdom, we are saved from the evil one.[384] Jesus knew that seeking His Holy Father and His Kingdom FIRST leads to life, peace, resource, and happiness.[385] Likewise, Jesus called His disciples to preach and proclaim the Good News (also known as Gospel) of the Kingdom of God throughout the world.[386] The Apostle Paul was committed to announcing to the world the Gospel of the grace of God and God’s Kingdom.[387]

 

The Kingdom of God is from everlasting to everlasting and will never be destroyed.[388] God’s Kingdom is the power and glory forever.[389] The living LORD God is the everlasting God and true King of all the heavens and earth.[390] The Kingdom of God means the reign and rule of the living LORD God is present throughout the world.[391] One day the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.[392]

 

Jesus is the clearest expression of the reign and rule of the LORD God and His Kingdom. In Jesus’ coming, the Kingdom of God came because the reign and rule of God was present in Jesus’s Person.[393] Jesus’s life, teaching, and deeds revealed the Kingdom of God’s present reality in Him.[394] Everyone in Israel experienced a foretaste of God’s Kingdom through Jesus and His disciples’ teaching, preaching, and healing.[395] Inside God’s Kingdom is healing, salvation, and peace. During His public ministry, Jesus revealed the reign and rule of God’s Kingdom through His authoritative teaching, and His power and authority over sickness, disease, and Satan.[396] Jesus conducted tours throughout Palestine and outlaying cities with His teaching about the Kingdom of God and His healing ministry over sickness, disease, and evil.[397]

 

In His Father’s Kingdom, Jesus taught we can receive salvation, healing, and peace NOW and for eternity.[398] The living LORD God’s promise to bless and heal all nations through Abraham was fulfilled in Jesus because Jesus makes the blessings of God’s Kingdom available to EVERYONE – Jews and Gentile who places their wholehearted faith in Him.[399]

 

With Jesus’s coming, the Holy Spirit returned, and the Spirit of God was once again active in Israel.[400] The Spirit of God was active in Israel with Jesus and the prophet John the Baptist as the Spirit worked through Jesus and John the Baptist’s ministries. Jesus brought God’s glory back to earth as predicted by the prophet Ezekiel.[401] In the Old Testament, God’s glory departed Israel and Jerusalem because of the people’s continual sins and wickedness.[402] The fullness of God’s Spirit was seen in John the Baptist – Jesus’s messenger and then in Jesus. The prophet John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of the Old Testament prophet Elijah to announce Jesus’s coming, and John called for EVERYONE to REPENT and produce good deeds and fruit.[403]

 

The expression Kingdom of God occurs mostly in the Synoptic Gospels – Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The Gospel of John and the letters (epistles) of the New Testament refer to the Kingdom of God but in different language, using phrases such as eternal life or salvation. Jesus’ teaching about the Kingdom of God was often conveyed through parables or comparisons taken from various phases of nature or human life.[404] In the New Testament, the Gospels use the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God interchangeably, but both phrases mean the living LORD God’s reign and rule over all the heavens and earth.[405]

 

The Kingdom of God means the rule and reign of God that is already present throughout the world but also the future Kingdom at Jesus’ second coming at the end of the age.[406] During His teaching ministry, Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is a future reality at His second coming to earth but also a present reality through our repentance, righteousness, and faith in Him.[407] Jesus’s first coming to earth did not include the triumphal victory so longed for by the Jews.[408] Instead, God’s Kingdom with Jesus’s first coming arrived secretly like leaven, quietly like a mustard seed, like hidden treasure, and as a small pearl of great value concealed in one's pocket.[409] Jesus promised that one day He will return in His Father’s fiery glory on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory with the holy angels of God.[410] As Jesus returned to heaven in God’s glory cloud, God’s holy angels promised Jesus’s disciples that one day Jesus will return in God’s glory cloud with His holy angels.[411] Many people have questioned and asked when will Jesus return to earth. Jesus taught that only His Father knows the day and hour that He will return to earth.[412] Throughout the church’s generations, believers have cried, “Come, Lord Jesus!”[413] Jesus promised His rewards and crown of righteousness who have faithfully obeyed and followed Him as their Lord.[414]

 

Jesus’s first coming fulfilled many but not all Old Testament’s promises of the prophets.[415] When Jesus returns, ALL the promises of the Old Testament prophets will be fulfilled! The final judgment of evil, the establishment of justice, and the elimination of disease, poverty, and death will find their ultimate fulfillment with Jesus’s return in His glory cloud at His second coming.[416] At His second coming, Jesus taught He will judge the world, and everyone will have to stand before His judgment seat.[417] His Father – the living LORD God – has ordained Jesus to be the Judge of the living and the dead.[418] The Holy Bible promises that workers of sin, darkness, lawlessness, and evildoers will not enter God’s Kingdom.[419] However, Jesus promised the righteous and those who obey His Father’s commandments will see the Kingdom of God.[420] Jesus must rule as King and Judge until He has defeated and destroyed all evil enemies, the last of which is death; and then He will deliver the Kingdom to God the Father.[421]

 

Jesus came to earth to invite ALL PEOPLE into God’s Kingdom through repentance (turning from sin) and faith in Him.[422] Through our repentance and faith in Jesus, we can experience the blessings of God’s Kingdom NOW and experience as greater blessing when He returns.[423] Our faith in Jesus fills believers with God’s glory and love NOW so believers can be one and united with God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and adopted into God’s family.[424] Everyone experiences spiritual rebirth from heaven and entrance into God’s Kingdom through faith in God’s Son, Jesus.[425] God – the Father, the Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit – is One, and He wants everyone to be united with Him as One.[426] Christ Jesus died and suffered for our sins to reconcile and bring His sheep safely into His Father’s Kingdom.[427] Our wholehearted obedience and love of the living LORD God and His commandment to humbly love one another as well as seeking goodness and righteousness lead to life and entrance into God’s Kingdom.[428] Jesus taught that we are to ALWAYS depend upon and trust in Him and His Father to enter God’s Kingdom.[429]

 

In His public ministry, the central focus of Jesus’s ministry was the announcement of God’s Kingdom.[430] Jesus called EVERYONE to REPENT by wholeheartedly turning away from their evildoing and believe His Gospel message to enter God’s Kingdom.[431] Jesus’s message of REPENTANCE (turning) from sins and wholeheartedly turning to the living LORD God with FAITH and OBEDIENCE is the same message of the holy prophets.[432] Remarkedly, one of the key messages of the book of Revelation is REPENTANCE – turning from sin and turning to the living LORD God with faith and obedience.[433] The book of Revelation shows the LORD God’s desire not to inflict His wrath on people, but rather His desire to bring all people to obedience and repentance so they can enter His Kingdom.^[434] Only the living LORD God can save, deliver, and protect us, and not money, any government, nor military force.[435] RETURN TO THE LORD GOD!

 

In fact, Jesus called for everyone to pray that His Holy Father will keep us from Satan – the evil one.[436] Jesus called EVERYONE out of Satan’s kingdom with his dark and evil deeds into God’s Kingdom which is light, mercy, forgiveness, truth, and goodness.[437] God’s Kingdom is light, and Jesus has called everyone to walk and imitate His light, love, and goodness.[438] Darkness and evildoing leads to death.[439] After Jesus returned to heaven, Jesus’s disciples continued His message of repentance.[440] Jesus’s disciples called EVERYONE to REPENT by turning from sin, wrongdoing, and wickedness and turning to God with all goodness and light to enter the Kingdom of God.[441]

 

For God’s Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, and everyone who serves Christ Jesus in righteousness, peace, and joy are acceptable to God and approved by everyone.[442] Without peace, righteousness, and holiness, no one will enter God’s Kingdom and see the LORD.[443] The living LORD God has called ALL PEOPLE to trust in Him with a loyal heart, do good, and walk blameless for His glory.[444] Jesus and His disciples proclaimed that evildoers and sinful will not inherit and enter the Kingdom of God. Everyone that indulges and does sexual sins, fornication, adultery, hate and division, idolatry, witchcraft, male prostitutes, homosexuality, thieves, greedy, drunkards, cheaters, murders, liars, or abusers will not inherit and enter God’s Kingdom.[445] Those who do such evildoing, dark deeds, and wickedness are children of Satan, who is a LIAR and murderer.[446]

 

During His public ministry, Jesus described those who will enter God’s Kingdom. Amazingly, Jesus’s ancestor King David previously described who the living LORD God welcomes into His Kingdom.[447] According to the Lord Jesus, His Father welcomes those who are humble, merciful, forgiving, peacemakers, righteous, workers of good, and pure in heart inside His Kingdom.[448] Everyone who loves the LORD God and do good and righteous works are welcomed inside the Kingdom of God because they are children of goodness and the light.[449] Those who walks in goodness walks in the Light of God and not in Satan’s darkness.[450] The LORD God rejoices in those who follow and do His fairness, goodness, and love in the world towards others.[451]

 

R.   Jesus and Heaven

 

The Holy Bible teaches that the Resurrected Jesus lives in the heavens, and He is seated at the right hand of His Holy Father.[452] Sometimes Jesus stands at the right hand of His Holy Father when He receives His holy servants into heaven.[453] After Jesus endured suffering on Calvary’s Cross for the sins of the world, Jesus sat down at the right hand of His Holy Father in heaven.[454]

 

Jesus is One with His Father – the Most High God, Yahweh.[455] Importantly, Jesus is filled with His Father’s glory and grace.[456] The living LORD God has set His Son Jesus over His Kingdom with all His power, authority, and dominion.[457] Therefore, Jesus has all power and authority on heaven and earth, and He is King and Head of the church.[458] God the Father appointed Jesus as King and Heir of all things and given Jesus all authority on heaven and on earth as Lord.[459] Therefore, Jesus deserves all respect and allegiance as God.

 

In heaven, Jesus represents and cares for the needs of His believers before the Throne of His Father – the living LORD God of heaven and earth.[460] One day Jesus will return to earth with the holy angels of God in the glory cloud.[461] Jesus’ second coming to earth is one of the major truths in the New Testament teaching and the leading theme of Revelation.[462] At His second coming, Jesus will return from heaven to judge the world and finally destroy ALL evil from the earth.[463] Jesus predicted at His second coming He will come in His Father’s fiery glory on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory with His angels.[464]

 

S.   Jesus As Teacher and Rabbi

The Gospel message, particularly the Gospel of Mark, emphasized Jesus as Teacher. The words “Teacher,” “teach” or “teachings,” and “Rabbi” are applied to Jesus more than thirty-nine times in Mark’s Gospel.[465]  Throughout Jesus’ public ministry, Jesus was custom to teaching the people.[466] As Jesus was teaching, the congregation was astonished and amazed at His teaching.[467] Jesus taught and spoke His Father’s words and commandments.[468] Jesus’s teaching spoke life.[469]

 

In first-century Palestine, many people called Jesus Rabbi or Teacher, including respected Jewish leaders, like Nicodemus.[470] For many in first-century Palestine, Jesus was only considered a Jewish Rabbi or Teacher.[471] Jesus’s disciples called Jesus “Rabbi.”[472] During Jesus’ public ministry, Jesus taught with authority and power unlike any other Jewish teachers because Jesus spoke and taught God’s Words.[473] The crowds in first century Palestine were astonished at Jesus’s teaching for Jesus taught the people as one having authority not as the Jewish scribes.[474]

 

Jesus was powerful in both word and good deeds because the fullness of God existed within Jesus – God the Father and the Holy Spirit lived within Jesus.[475] Everyone who heard Jesus teach were amazed and astonished at His understanding and wisdom as He taught with authority.[476] Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit of God, who gave Jesus divine wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.[477]

 

Importantly, Jesus taught and spoke with power and authority.[478] Like Moses and many other true prophets of the living LORD God, Jesus spoke God’s Word without compromise.[479] Jesus’s teaching is His Father’s commandments.[480] Notably, Jesus’s Name is the Word of God.[481] Jesus obeyed and spoke the words and commandments of His Father – the Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth.[482]

 

T.   Jesus and the Holy Spirit

One of the clear messages of the New Testament is that the Holy Spirit was upon Jesus. The Sovereign LORD God gave His Son Jesus the Holy Spirit without measure and without limit.[483] Jesus the Messiah (Christ) was filled with the Holy Spirit of God as predicted by the prophet Isaiah.[484] The prophet Isaiah predicted Jesus the Messiah’s anointing by the Holy Spirit of God with all wisdom, knowledge, healing, and understanding.[485] Indeed, Jesus is the source and foundation of all wisdom.[486] Jesus is the Divine Logos or wisdom of God.[487] As He grew older, Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man.[488]

 

With the opening of the New Testament, the outpouring of God’s Spirit came with John the Baptist, who was filled with the power and spirit of the prophet Elijah, and then Jesus’s miraculous births by the Holy Spirit with Mary – Jesus’s mother.[489] The New Testament establishes that Jesus’ true Father was Yahweh – the living LORD God of heaven and earth, and Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit.[490] The birth of Jesus was natural through Mary, who was a virgin.[491] However, Jesus’s conception was supernatural by the Holy Spirit of God.[492] Later, the Holy Spirit of God anointed Jesus at His baptism and empowered Jesus to accomplish His role as the Messiah of God.[493]

 

Many people often ask, “Who is the Holy Spirit, and how can I receive the Holy Spirit?” The living LORD God is Spirit and invisible as He has no body, no physical nor measurable form.[494] The Holy Spirit is the very Presence of the living God in the world.[495] God’s Spirit is everywhere and omnipresent because He fills the heavens and earth with His glorious Spirit.[496] The LORD God Almighty reveals His Spirit through the natural world by the winds, the clouds, thunder, lightning, heavenly rains, and the living water.[497]

 

The Holy Spirit is part of the One God, who exists in Three Persons – God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Spirit.^[498] The Triune God also known as the Trinity and the Godhead – God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Spirit – are One in essence and nature.[499] Thus, the living God is Three in One and One in Three. The Holy Spirit of God is One with God the Father and God the Son – Jesus.[500]

 

The Holy Trinity was visible at Jesus’s birth. The virgin Mary conceived Jesus in her womb by the Holy Spirit of God; therefore, Jesus is called the Son of the Most High God.[501] Moreover, the Holy Trinity was visible at Jesus’s baptism, where God the Father spoke from His glory cloud and the Spirit of God descended upon Jesus – the Son of God – like a dove.[502] Moreover, the Holy Trinity has existed since creation.[503] All creation is assigned to the Trinity – God the Father, God the Son – Jesus, and the Holy Spirit of God.[504] God the Father was with His Son Jesus (the living Word of God or Logos) and the Holy Spirit creating the world and breathing life into humanity.[505] The Holy Spirit is the breath of life.[506]

 

In the Old Testament times, the Spirit of God came upon individuals to empower them for God’s purpose and service.[507] Moreover, the Spirit of God was upon Israel in the wilderness.[508] True prophets of God are filled with the Spirit of God.[509] Many Jews believed the Spirit of prophecy departed with the last Old Testament prophet. However, the Old Testament prophets predicted God’s Spirit would return and God would pour out His Spirit on ALL PEOPLE – Jews and non-Jews (Gentiles) – with the coming of His Messiah – the Anointed One of God.[510] Because of Jesus’s complete and final sacrifice for sins, the Holy Spirit of God indwells in all believers of Jesus, as promised by Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the other Old Testament prophets.[511]

 

With the open of the New Testament, John the Baptist predicted and announced that Jesus the Messiah would baptize and pour out the Holy Spirit of God.[512] John the Baptist proclaimed that Jesus’s baptism with the Holy Spirit would bring a fiery cleansing of sin within believers’ hearts and minds and make us holy by the Holy Spirit of God.[513] Before returning to heaven, Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit of God on everyone who believe and obey Him and His Holy Father to guide, help, and comfort.[514] Jesus’s baptism with the fiery Holy Spirit came at the Day of Pentecost.[515] The Holy Spirit is called the Promise of God that was poured out on believers at Pentecost from God the Father through His Son Jesus.[516]

 

The Holy Bible declares that Jesus received the Holy Spirit from His Holy Father – the living LORD God of heaven and earth.^[517] Then, the living LORD God and His Son Jesus graciously give the Holy Spirit to everyone – Jews and Gentiles – who REPENTS (turn from their sins and evildoing) and believes Jesus.^[518] Everyone who REPENTS (turn from their sins and evildoing) and turn to God found in His Son Jesus receives the Holy Spirit.[519] The Holy Spirit of God comes to ALL faithful and obedient believers of the living LORD God and His Son Jesus who have repented of sins.[520]

 

The Holy Spirit brings believers a new life and heart from heaven above through faith in the living LORD God and His Son Jesus.[521] God the Father and His Son Jesus graciously give a new life and rebirth from heaven through faith and repentance of sin both NOW and ETERNITY.[522] Everyone who believes and obeys Jesus receives salvation, adoption into the living Sovereign LORD God’s family, and new spiritual life from heaven through the Holy Spirit of God, and the living Sovereign LORD God becomes our guaranteed Abba Father.^[523]

 

Jesus is the Lifegiving Spirit because Jesus is the Author and Savior of Life.[524] The coming of God’s Holy Spirit in a person’s life and heart through repentance and faith in Jesus marks the beginning of salvation and new birth from heaven.[525] Jesus baptizes and fills everyone who believes in Him with the cleansing and purifying fire of the Holy Spirit.[526] Through faith in Jesus, WE FIND an ABUNDANT, SPIRIT-FILLED, and a RESTORED LIFE both NOW and for all ETERNITY.[527] This is the testimony, that God gives us life now and eternal life, and this life is through faithfulness and obedience to His Son, Jesus.[528] Without faith in Jesus, it is impossible to please God.[529]

 

When we follow and obey the living LORD God and His Son Jesus, then God places the Holy Spirit inside our hearts and minds, and God takes away any unclean, evil, and tormenting spirit from our lives.[530] Love and obedience of God and His Son Jesus bring a clean and good spirit.[531] Believers of Jesus are saved, made righteous by God, and united to Him.[532] Moreover, through faith in Him, Jesus fills believers with God’s glory and love NOW so believers can be one and united with God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.[533] God – the Father, the Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit – is One, and He wants everyone to be united with Him as One.[534] The living LORD God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world to Himself.[535] Whenever anyone accepts and trust Jesus and His message, that person also receives the Holy Spirit and oneness with God – the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit.[536] Through faith in Jesus, everyone has peace, reconciliation, and access to the living LORD God of heaven and earth, and we receive His mercy, righteousness, grace, and His Holy Spirit.[537] In addition, believers receive salvation (healing and safety), changed hearts and lives by God’s Holy Spirit, peace with God, and forgiveness of our sins through Jesus.[538]

 

In the Holy Bible, the Holy Spirit is called the Helper, the Comforter, and Truth.[539] The Holy Spirit of God helps believers during testing, trials, and tribulations because the Holy Spirit is God’s Comforter and Helper.[540] Moreover, the Holy Spirit helps believers in their weakness and guides believers in their prayers to heaven.[541]

 

Furthermore, the Holy Spirit anoints and abides within believers of Jesus and teaches believers the truth about God the Father, His Son Jesus, and the Law of God.[542] The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, and the Spirit of Truth confirms through the Gospel message and existence of God the Father and His Son, Jesus.^[543] In addition, the Holy Spirit is the power of God, and this power confirms the truth and existence of God the Father, His Son Jesus, and the Gospel message.^[544] The Holy Spirit is the power of God that empowers followers of Jesus to proclaim the Gospel message to the world.[545] Similarly, the Holy Spirit enables and empowers the church with gifts to grow and leads the church in worship.[546]

 

Likewise, the Holy Spirit guides and changes our hearts so that we live in ways that pleases God and fulfill the God’s Law.[547] By the Holy Spirit of God, the living LORD God and His Son Jesus transforms our lives and transform believers into the image and nature of God with ever-increasing glory.[548] The Holy Spirit is the power of God that transforms and renews a person’s heart and mind through faith and obedience in Jesus and His teaching.[549] The Holy Spirit teaches believers God’s commandments and then helps believers obey God’s commandments from within.[550] The Old Testament prophets predicted the living LORD God would teach everyone by His Holy Spirit.[551] The Lord Jesus also taught our obedience to His and His Father’s commandments bring the Holy Spirit, and He and His Father come to dwell and live inside our hearts and lives.[552]

 

Because God is holy, the Holy Spirit of God will not tolerate nor disregard sins, disobedience, and evildoing.[553] According to the Apostle Paul, the Lord Jesus did not give us the Holy Spirit of God and His grace so believers can live a life of orgies, drunkenness, witchcraft, worshipping other gods – idolatry, anger with fits of rage, envy, jealousy, arrogance, fornication, factions, and division.[554] By nature, humans and their hearts are sinful and wickedness.[555] The Law of God written on stone tablets were unable to change humanities’ inward heart sinfulness and wickedness.[556] However, the Holy Spirit of God comes through our faith in Jesus that changes our inward hearts and guides believers in ways that pleases the living LORD God.[557] God’s Spirit guides and helps believers of Jesus to fulfill and obey His Law in its true sense and intent.

 

Additionally, the Holy Spirit empowers believers of Jesus to live in newness of life and to serve the living LORD God with joy in His Kingdom NOW and the Kingdom’s fullness at Jesus’ Second Coming. The Holy Spirit is believers’ internal moral compass because He warns and leads believers away from sin, evildoing, and Satan’s wickedness.[558] Even more, the Holy Spirit of God fills believers of Jesus with wisdom, power, peace, and revelation.[559]

 

The Holy Bible calls believers to be continually filled with the Holy Spirit of God.[560] The Holy Spirit is the transforming power of God to transform believers of Jesus into God’s likeness and image and then empowers believers to produce good fruit.[561] The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These good fruits are the character and nature of the living LORD God.[562] The living LORD God and His Presence are holy and good, and He calls His people to be holy and good.[563]

 

As we follow and obey Jesus, the Holy Spirit helps, strengthens, and leads believers of Jesus away from selfishness, evildoing, and sinfulness and lead into all goodness, love, and joy.[564] In other words, the Holy Spirit leads believers to obey the Law of Christ – love and care for one another.[565] Those who place their faith in Christ Jesus has the power of the life-giving Holy Spirit living within their hearts and minds that frees and delivers them from the power of sin that leads to death.[566] The Holy Spirit sanctifies, baptizes, and cleanses believers of their sins and gives believers a new life and heart.[567] The Holy Spirit is the pure living water and fire from heaven that cleanses and sanctifies believers’ hearts and minds through their faith in Jesus.[568]

 

Through faith in Jesus, the living LORD God places His love inside our hearts through His Holy Spirit.[569] The Holy Spirit of God pours God’s love into our hearts and reminds believers that they are loved by the living LORD God and His Son Jesus.[570] The Holy Spirit is a gift of joy, comfort, and peace from heaven given to all faithful and obedient believers of Jesus that seek Him.[571] Through faith in Jesus, the fullness of God and His peace live in believers through the Holy Spirit and they are saved from destruction.[572] 

 

U.  Jesus and His Other Titles

The New Testament is filled with many other titles and designations for Jesus. Incredibly, the opening chapter of the Gospel of John gives Jesus’s many important titles from His disciples: the Word of God or the Logos (see John 1:1, 14), God (see John 1:1), Creator (see John 1:3), Light (see John 1:7), only begotten God (see John 1:14, 18), God’s grace and truth (see John 1:14, 16), Lamb of God (see John 1:29, 36), the God’s Chosen One or the Elect One (see John 1:34), Son of God (see John 1:34, 49), Rabbi (see John 1:38, 49), Messiah (see John 1:41), the One whom Moses wrote about in the Law and whom the prophets also wrote (see John 1:45), King of Israel (see John 1:49), and finally Son of Man (see John 1:51).

 

The Apostle Paul calls Jesus the Beginning and the Firstborn over all creation.[573] Jesus is both the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, like His Heavenly Father.[574] Both the living LORD God and His Son Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega and the Beginning and the End.[575] Moreover, the Apostle Paul noted that Jesus is the very nature and image God, and the fullness of God lived in Jesus.[576] According to the Apostle Paul, everything came through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and we find life through Him.[577] Moreover, the Apostle Paul called Jesus the Last Adam that obeyed the living LORD God’s commandments and in everything unlike the first Adam.[578]

 

Everyone on the side of truth accepts and obeys Jesus as Lord and King because Jesus is the Truth (integrity, honesty).[579] Jesus is the Word of Life, and He is the Apostle and Great High Priest.[580] Importantly, Jesus is the Logos and wisdom of God.[581]

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[1] Messiah (a Hebrew term) and Christ (a Greek term) both mean “Anointed One.” See e.g., Matthew 26:63-64; John 4:25-26.

[2] See e.g., 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6; Colossians 1:15, 19; Colossians 2:9-10; Hebrews 1:2-3.

[3] See e.g., John 1:1-2, 14, 18; John 10:30, 38; John 12:45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:11, 21-22; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Hebrews 1:3; 1 John 5:20.

[4] See e.g., 1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17.

[5] See e.g., John 1:29; John 3:16-17; Romans 3:25; Titus 3:5; Hebrews 2:17; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10.

[6] See e.g., Colossians 1:13-14; Hebrews 9:26; 1 John 1:7; Revelation 1:5.

[7] See e.g., John 14:6; Hebrews 7:25; 1 John 2:1.

[8] See e.g., Matthew 1:1:17; Matthew 16:16; Matthew 14:33; Mark 8:29-30; Mark 14:61-62; Luke 2:11; Luke 9:20; John 3:2, 31; John 6:68-69; John 11:27; John 20:30-31; Acts 5:42; Acts 9:20, 22; Acts 13:27, 32; Acts 17:2-3; Acts 18:5, 28.

[9] See e.g., Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 17:5; Mark 1:10-11; Luke 3:22; John 1:34; John 3:35-36.

[10] See e.g., Luke 2:10-11; Acts 2:36.

[11] See e.g., Romans 5:10-11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-19.

[12] See e.g., Matthew 1:21, 23; Mark 10:45; John 1:14, 18, 29; John 4:24; Hebrews 2:17-18; 1 John 4:14-15.

[13] See e.g., Numbers 12:6-8; Deuteronomy 4:5; 1 Kings 18:1-3; Isaiah 1:11-23; Jeremiah 7:25.

[14] See e.g., Matthew 11:27; Matthew 28:18; Luke 10:22; John 3:35; Ephesians 1:20-23; Hebrews 1:2-3.

[15] See e.g., John 3:35; John 13:3; John 17:1-2, 6; Acts 10:42-43; Acts 17:31; Romans 8:38-39; Philippians 2:9-11; Colossians 2:10.

[16] John 5:18; John 14:9-11; John 20:28; 1 John 5:20; see also Isaiah 9:6-7; Acts 2:36; Hebrews 1:10.

[17] See e.g., John 1:3-4; John 14:6; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 1:2; 1 John 5:11.

[18] See e.g., Isaiah 43:3; Luke 2:10-11, 32; John 1:9; John 4:42; John 8:58; John 12:46-47; Acts 5:31; Acts 13:23; Acts 26:23; 1 John 4:14; Revelation 1:8.

[19] See e.g., Micah 5:2; John 1:1-3, 15, 30; John 17:5; 1 John 1:1; 1 Peter 1:20.

[20] John 1:2, 18; John 4:26; see also Exodus 3:14-15; Exodus 6:2-3; John 8:58; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:21-23; Colossians 1:15, 19; Colossians 2:9-10.

[21] See John 1:3; Colossians 1:15-17; Hebrews 1:6, 10-11. 

[22] See Genesis 1:1-3; John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16-17.

[23] See e.g., Deuteronomy 10:14; Nehemiah 9:6; John 1:1; Acts 14:15; 1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 14:7.

[24] See e.g., Genesis 1:2; Genesis 2:7; Exodus 20:11; Psalm 33:6; Psalm 104:30; John 1:1-3; Acts 4:24.

[25] See e.g., Genesis 1:1-3; Psalm 33:6; Isaiah 55:11; John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 1:2-3; 1 John 1:1; 1 John 5:20.

[26] John 1:1; see also 1 John 5:20.

[27] John 1:2; see also Genesis 1:1-3; Revelation 1:4-5, 8, 17.

[28] John 1:3, 10; see also Colossians 1:16-17.

[29] See e.g., Hebrews 1:2.

[30] John 1:2; see also Genesis 1:1; Revelation 3:14.

[31] See Hebrews 1:2-3, 6, 10.

[32] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; John 1:1-3; John 5:18; John 10:30, 38; John 12:44-45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:11, 21-23; Colossians 1:17; 1 John 1:1; 1 John 5:7.

[33] See e.g., Luke 24:27; John 1:3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:8-12.

[34] See e.g., Luke 16:29-31; John 5:45-47; John 8:56-58; John 12:41; Hebrews 11:13, 26.

[35] See e.g., 1 Corinthians 10:1-10; Jude 1:5.

[36] For centuries, biblical scholars have debated the identity of “Angel of the LORD.” Many biblical scholars believe this Angel of the LORD is the Second Person of the Godhead (Trinity) – Jesus the Messiah (Christ). Other scholars believe the Angel of the LORD is a Theophany or a self-manifestation of the living LORD God. However, other scholars believe the Angel of the LORD is a spokesman or messenger for the living LORD God. In Hebrew, “malʾach” means “messenger.” In the Old Testament times, the Angel of the LORD appeared several times as the “Presence” of God. The Angel of the LORD appeared to the slave girl Hagar (see Genesis 16:7-14; Genesis 21:17-21), Abraham (see Genesis 18:1-19:1; Genesis 22:11-18), Jacob (see Genesis 31:11, 13), Moses (see Exodus 3:1-6), the ancient Israel during their Great Exodus from Egyptian slavery (see Exodus 14:19-20; Exodus 23:20-33; Numbers 22:22-27, 31-35; Judges 2:1-4), Joshua before the fall of Jericho (see Joshua 5:13-15), the poor farmer Gideon (see Judges 6:11-23), Samson’s parents (see Judges 13:3-22), Daniel and his three friends – Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (see Daniel 3:19, 24-25, 28; Daniel 6:22), and prophet Zechariah (see Zechariah 1:11-12; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 12:8). According to the book of Acts, the Angel of the LORD gave the Law of God to Moses at Mount Sinai (see Acts 7:38, 53).

[37] See e.g., Exodus 3:2; Exodus 14:19; Exodus 23:20-23.

[38] John 1:14; cf. Exodus 40:34-38.

[39] See Matthew 2:14-15; cf. Hosea 11:1.

[40] See Exodus 12:5-13, 17-20; Matthew 26:17-30; Mark 14:12-26; John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:19-20.

[41] See e.g., Matthew 20:28; Matthew 26:28; Mark 10:45; John 3:16-17, 36; Revelation 1:5.

[42] See Luke 9:31.

[43] See e.g., Romans 6:3-4; Colossians 2:12.

[44] Revelation 15:3-4; cf. Exodus 15.

[45] See e.g., Genesis 3:15; Deuteronomy 18:15-18; Psalm 110:1; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 11:1-5; Isaiah 42:1-4; Isaiah 49:6; Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Isaiah 61:1-2; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Ezekiel 34:23-24; Micah 5:2; Zechariah 9:9-10.

[46] See John 12:41.

[47] See e.g., Genesis 3:15; Genesis 12:3; Genesis 49:10; Numbers 21:9; Numbers 24:17; Deuteronomy 18:15-18; 2 Samuel 7:12-16; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 40:10-11; Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Isaiah 61:1-2; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Ezekiel 34:23-24; Daniel 7:13-14; Daniel 9:24-27; Micah 5:2; Zechariah 9:9-10; Zechariah 12:10; Malachi 3:1; Luke 24:27, 44-45; John 3:14; John 5:45-47; Acts 7:52; Acts 9:22; Acts 10:43; Acts 26:22-23; Romans 1:2-4; Romans 3:21; 1 Peter 1:10-11.

[48] See e.g., Psalm 16:10; Psalm 22:18; Psalm 23:1-6; Psalm 110:1; Matthew 22:41-45; Luke 20:42-44.

[49] See e.g., Luke 24:27, 44-47; John 5:39-40; Romans 1:2; Romans 3:21; 2 Peter 1:19-20. For a summary of the great Exodus and Israel’s wilderness wandering, read Moses’ summary at Numbers 33:1-56 and Deuteronomy 1:6-4:40. Also, a good summary of the Old Testament and the faithfulness of God are found at 2 Kings 17:7-23, 2 Kings 21:10-16, Nehemiah 9:1-38, Daniel 9:4-19, Acts 7:1-53, and Acts 13:16-45.

[50] See e.g., Ezekiel 34:11-16, 23-24, 31; Micah 5:2-4; Zechariah 11:7.

[51] See e.g., Jeremiah 30:9; Ezekiel 34:23-24; Ezekiel 37:24-25; Hosea 3:5; Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:2.

[52] See e.g., 2 Samuel 5:1-3; 2 Samuel 7:12-16; Psalm 23:1; Jeremiah 23:3-6; Ezekiel 34:11-16, 23-30; Ezekiel 37:22, 24-25; Micah 5:2, 4; Matthew 2:2, 6.

[53] See 1 Samuel 13:14; 1 Samuel 16:1-12; 2 Samuel 6:21-22; 1 Chronicles 17:7; Psalm 89:20.

[54] See 1 Samuel 16:1, 11-13; 2 Samuel 7:8; Psalm 78:70-71. The living LORD God Almighty sends poverty and wealth, and He humbles and exalts. The LORD God can raise up the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap and seat them with princes with honor. For the foundations of the earth are controlled by the LORD GOD (see 1 Samuel 2:7-8).

[55] 2 Samuel 5:4-5; 1 Kings 2:11; 1 Chronicles 11:2-3; 1 Chronicles 29:27-28; see also Numbers 4:3, 23, 35; Luke 3:23.

[56] See e.g., 2 Samuel 8:15; 2 Samuel 9:1, 7; 2 Samuel 22:21-28; 1 Chronicles 18:14.

[57] See Acts 13:22-23; Hebrews 11:32.

[58] See e.g., 2 Samuel 7:11-12, 19, 27; 2 Samuel 23:5; 1 Chronicles 17:10-15; Psalm 132:11-12; Psalm 89:3-4, 28-29; 35-37; 2 Chronicles 6:16; 2 Chronicles 7:18; Isaiah 55:3; Jeremiah 33:17.

[59] Genesis 49:10; see also Genesis 35:23; Isaiah 11:1, 10; Micah 5:2; Revelation 5:5. Jesus is called “the Lion from the tribe of Judah” (see Revelation 5:5).

[60] Numbers 24:17, 19; see also Matthew 2:2; 2 Peter 1:19; Revelation 22:16.

[61] See e.g., 2 Samuel 7:12-16; 1 Chronicles 17:10-15, 17, 25-27; 1 Chronicles 2:9-13; Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 30:9; Jeremiah 33:14-22; Ezekiel 34:20-24; 1 Corinthians 1:30.

[62] See e.g., Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 32:1; Zechariah 9:9-10.

[63] See e.g., 1 Chronicles 17:11-14; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Zechariah 3:8; Zechariah 6:12-13; Mark 1:11; Luke 1:31-33; Hebrews 1:1-5.

[64] See e.g., 2 Samuel 7:12-16; 1 Kings 2:4; Psalm 89:3-4; Psalm 132:11-12; Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 11:1, 10; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Ezekiel 37:24-25; Micah 5:2.

[65] See e.g., 2 Samuel 5:1-2; Psalm 23:1; Jeremiah 23:3-6; Ezekiel 34:11-16, 23-30; Ezekiel 37:21-28; Hosea 3:4-5; Micah 5:2-4; Matthew 2:6; John 10:11-16; Revelation 7:17.

[66] See e.g., Matthew 16:16, 20; Mark 1:1; Luke 9:20-21; John 20:30-31; Acts 8:37; Acts 9:20, 22; Acts 18:28.

[67] See e.g., Matthew 1:1, 6, 17, 20; Matthew 16:16; Mark 14:61-62; Luke 1:32-33; Luke 2:10-11; Luke 3:15-16, 31, 33; Luke 9:20; John 1:41, 45, 49; John 4:25-26, 49; John 6:69; John 11:27; John 20:30-31; Acts 9:20, 22; Acts 13:26-38; Acts 17:2-3; Acts 18:5, 28; Romans 1:2-4; Galatians 4:4; Revelation 5:5; Revelation 22:16; cf. 2 Samuel 7:12-16; 1 Chronicles 17:10-15, 17, 25-27; Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 11:1-5; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Jeremiah 30:9; Jeremiah 33:14-22..

[68] See e.g., Matthew 1:1, 16-17; Matthew 16:16; Luke 2:4; John 4:25-26; John 7:42; John 11:27; Romans 1:3-4.

[69] Matthew 1:1; see also Revelation 5:5; Revelation 22:16.

[70] See e.g., Genesis 12:3; 2 Samuel 7:12-16; Isaiah 11:1, 10; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Zechariah 6:12.

[71] See e.g., Matthew 21:9; Luke 18:38-39; Romans 1:3.

[72] See e.g., Romans 9:5.

[73] See e.g., Matthew 1:1, 6, 21; Luke 2:10-11; John 4:42; Acts 4:11-12; Acts 5:31; Acts 13:22-23, 26, 32-37; 1 John 4:14.

[74] See e.g., Matthew 26:63-64; Mark 14:61-64; Luke 22:67-70; John 4:25-26; cf. Exodus 3:14-15; Romans 1:2-4.

[75] Matthew 16:16, 20; Mark 8:29; Luke 9:20; see also Matthew 1:1, 16-17; Mark 14:61-62; John 4:42; John 11:27; Acts 5:31.

[76] See e.g., Luke 9:20; Luke 24:27, 44-47; John 6:69; Acts 2:36; Acts 5:42; Acts 9:19-22; Acts 17:3; Acts 18:5, 28; Acts 20:21; Romans 3:21-23.

[77] See e.g., John 14:21; Acts 20:21; Acts 24:24; Acts 26:15-18; Colossians 2:5.

[78] See e.g., Acts 9:20, 22; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:38-39; Acts 16:30-31; Acts 18:5; Acts 26:15-23; 1 Corinthians 15:3-8.

[79] See e.g., 1 John 2:18-19, 22; 1 John 4:2-3; 2 John 1:7.

[80] See Matthew 1:17.

[81] See Matthew 1:1, 16-17; John 1:41; John 4:25, 29.

[82] See e.g., Matthew 1:16.

[83] See Matthew 26:63-64; Mark 14:61-62; Luke 22:67-70.

[84] See e.g., Matthew 1:1, 16-17; Matthew 16:16; Mark 8:29-30; Mark 14:61-62; Luke 2:10-11; Luke 9:20, 22; John 1:41; John 4:25-26; John 6:68-69; John 11:27; John 20:30-31; Acts 2:36; Acts 3:20; Acts 5:42; Acts 9:20, 22; 1 John 5:1. For a summary of the Old Testament and the works of God, read the book of King’s summary at 2 Kings 17:7-23 and 2 Kings 21:10-16, Nehemiah’s summary at Nehemiah 9:1-38, Daniel’s summary at Daniel 9:4-19, Stephen’s summary at Acts 7:1-53, and Paul’s summary at Acts 13:16-45.

[85] See e.g., Luke 3:15; John 4:22; Acts 13:23; Romans 1:3-4; Romans 9:4-5; 1 John 4:14-15.

[86] See e.g., Matthew 1:23; Matthew 11:4-6; Matthew 16:16, 20; Luke 24:19; John 3:2; John 5:36-37; John 8:29; John 10:25, 30, 36-38; John 14:9-11, 20; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38.

[87] See e.g., Matthew 1:16-17; Luke 1:68; Luke 2:38; Luke 3:15; Luke 24:19-21; John 1:19-20.

[88] See also Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 11:1-5; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Ezekiel 37:24-25.

[89] See e.g., Matthew 16:20; Mark 1:34; Mark 3:11; Mark 8:29-30; Luke 4:41; Luke 9:20-21.

[90] See e.g., Matthew 8:4; Matthew 16:20; Mark 1:34, 44; Mark 3:11-12; Mark 5:42-43; Mark 7:35-37; Mark 8:29-30; Mark 9:9, 26, 30; Luke 4:41; Luke 9:20-21.

[91] See Isaiah 52:13-53:12.

[92] See e.g., Matthew 16:20-21; Mark 8:31; Mark 9:30-31; Mark 10:33-34, 45.

[93] See Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Matthew 20:28; Mark 8:31; Mark 10:45.

[94] See e.g., Revelation 1:5; Revelation 11:15; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16.

[95] See Galatians 4:4.

[96] See Luke 2:1-2.

[97] See Luke 2:3.

[98] See Matthew 1:20; Luke 1:27; Luke 2:4.

[99] See Luke 1:27; Luke 2:5.

[100] See Micah 5:2; Matthew 1:25; Matthew 2:1-6; Luke 2:6-7, 11. City of David is called Jerusalem and known as Zion (see 1 Kings 8:1; 2 Chronicles 5:2).

[101] See Isaiah 40:3-5; Malachi 3:1.

[102] See e.g., Matthew 3:1-3; Matthew 11:10; Mark 1:1-4; Luke 1:76; Luke 7:27; John 1:23; Acts 13:24-25.

[103] See Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 11:14; Matthew 17:10-13; Mark 9:11-13; Luke 1:17.

[104] John 1:7, 15, 19, 31, 34; John 5:33; John 10:41; John 20:30-31; see also Matthew 3:3; Luke 1:17, 76-77.

[105] See Matthew 3:1-11; Mark 1:1-8; Luke 1:76; Luke 3:2-16; John 1:6-7, 15, 19-35.

[106] See Matthew 2:1; Luke 1:5; Luke 2:4-7.

[107] Matthew 1:1, 16-17, 21-23; Matthew 2:1-2, 5-6; Luke 2:4-7, 10-11; see also Micah 5:2.

[108] Matthew 2:1-2, 9-10; see also Revelation 22:16.

[109] See e.g., Genesis 49:10; Numbers 24:17.

[110] See Luke 2:8-14.

[111] Matthew 2:9-11; Luke 2:15-20; see also Matthew 14:33.

[112] See e.g., Matthew 1:21, 23; Luke 2:10-11; Acts 2:36; Acts 13:23.

[113] See Matthew 2:2, 8, 11.

[114] See Luke 2:22-24; cf. Leviticus 12:1-8.

[115] See Matthew 2:1-12.

[116] See Matthew 2:2, 13-18.

[117] See e.g., Matthew 2:19-23; John 1:45-46.

[118] See Matthew 2:1, 4-6, 13-15, 19, 23; Luke 4:16; John 1:45-46.

[119] See Matthew 1:16; Matthew 2:23; Mark 1:9; John 6:42.

[120] See e.g., Matthew 4:15-16

[121] See e.g., Matthew 2:23; Matthew 21:11; Matthew 26:71; Mark 10:47; Luke 24:19; John 18:5, 7; John 19:19; Acts 2:22; Acts 4:10; Acts 10:38; Acts 22:8; Acts 24:5.

[122] See John 1:46; John 7:52.

[123] See Matthew 1:20; Luke 1:26-27; Luke 2:4; see also 2 Samuel 7:12-16.

[124] See e.g., John 1:45; John 6:42.

[125] See Luke 1:27; Luke 4:22; Luke 3:23.

[126] See e.g., Matthew 13:55; Luke 4:22; John 6:42.

[127] See e.g., Matthew 1:18-19, 25; Matthew 13:55; Luke 3:23; John 1:45-46; John 6:42.

[128] See e.g., Matthew 14:33; Matthew 16:16; Matthew 17:5; Mark 1:1; Luke 1:31-35; Luke 3:21-22; Luke 4:1, 18-19; Luke 22:70; John 20:30-31; 2 Peter 1:17.

[129] See Matthew 1:20-25.

[130] See Matthew 1:18, 20; Luke 1:31-35.

[131] See e.g., Genesis 12:3; Genesis 22:18; Matthew 1:1-2, 6, 16-17; Luke 3:31, 34, 38.

[132] See e.g., Matthew 1:1, 16, 20.

[133] See Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3.

[134] Matthew 1:3, 5; cf. Genesis 38:11-30; Joshua 2:1-21; Ruth 4:13, 17-22; Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25. Tamar, a Gentile, tricked and seduced her father-in-law Judah and then bore Judah illegitimate twins (see Genesis 38). Rahab, another Gentile woman, once worked as a prostitute (see Joshua 2, 6). Ruth, also a Gentile woman, grew up a pagan (see Ruth 1 – 4). Then, Bathsheba who was Uriah’s wife committed adultery with King David (see 2 Samuel 11 – 12).

[135] See e.g., Matthew 12:46-47; Matthew 13:55-57; Mark 3:31-35; Mark 6:3; Luke 8:19-21; John 7:2-4.

[136] See Matthew 13:55-56; Mark 6:3.

[137] See e.g., Acts 12:17; Acts 15:13; Acts 21:18; 1 Corinthians 15:7; Galatians 1:19; Galatians 2:9, 12.

[138] John 10:11, 14-16; see also Psalm 23:1; Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 53:5-6; Ezekiel 34:11-12; Hebrews 13:20; 1 Peter 2:25; 1 Peter 5:4; Revelation 7:17. Some of the greatest people named in the Bible were shepherds by occupation: Abel, the patriarchs – Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Moses, and David, to name a few (see e.g., Genesis 46:32-34; Genesis 47:3; Exodus 3:1). Also, the Heavenly Father used shepherds as His first evangelist to announce His Son Jesus’ birth (see Luke 2:8-9, 15-20).

[139] Isaiah 40:11; see also Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:4-7; John 10:9-10.

[140] See Ezekiel 34:23-24; Ezekiel 37:24-28.

[141] See e.g., Matthew 1:1; Luke 1:32-33; John 10:11, 14-16; Romans 1:3-4; 2 Timothy 2:8; Hebrews 13:20-21; Revelation 22:16.

[142] John 3:35; John 5:36-38; John 6:29; John 10:28-29; John 17:2, 6, 9, 12, 24; see also Hebrews 13:20-21; 1 Peter 5:4.

[143] John 10:3-5, 27-29; see also Micah 5:2, 4; Matthew 2:6; 1 Peter 2:24-25.

[144] John 10:3-5, 14, 16, 26-27; see also Matthew 7:21-23.

[145] John 10:3; see also Luke 19:5; John 1:42; John 6:35-40, 47-51.

[146] See e.g., John 3:16; John 10:15, 17-18; John 15:13; Hebrews 2:9.

[147] John 1:4; John 3:15-18, 31, 36; John 10:9-11, 14-16; John 16:33; see also Psalm 23:1; Isaiah 40:11; Acts 4:12.

[148] See e.g., Matthew 28:18-20; John 10:29; John 21:15-19; Acts 20:28-31; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 1 Peter 5:1-4.

[149] See e.g., 2 Timothy 2:19; 1 John 3:5-6, 8-9.

[150] See e.g., Luke 24:19; John 1:45; John 6:14; John 7:40; Acts 3:18-26; Acts 7:37.

[151] See e.g., Genesis 49:10; Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Matthew 17:5; Luke 24:25-27; John 5:45-47; Acts 10:43; Acts 26:22-23.

[152] See e.g., John 1:20-21; John 7:40-41.

[153] See e.g., Numbers 27:18; Deuteronomy 34:9; Joshua 1:1-9.

[154] See e.g., Luke 7:16; John 4:19, 25-26; John 6:14, 19; John 7:40-41; John 9:17; Acts 3:21-24.

[155] See Matthew 21:11.

[156] See Acts 3:22-24; Acts 7:37.

[157] See e.g., Matthew 16:13-16; Mark 6:15; Mark 8:27-28; Luke 9:7-9, 18-19.

[158] See e.g., 1 Kings 19:3-18; Jeremiah 11:18-19; Jeremiah 18:18; Matthew 27:27-31, 35; Luke 11:47-52.

[159] See e.g., Jeremiah 8:21.

[160] See e.g., Jeremiah 11:18-23; Mark 6:1-6; Luke 4:16, 28-30.

[161] See e.g., Isaiah 53:7; Jeremiah 11:19; John 1:29.

[162] See e.g., John 1:36; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 4:14.

[163] See e.g., Isaiah 9:6; Matthew 3:17; Matthew 16:16; Matthew 17:5; Matthew 28:20; Mark 1:1; Mark 8:29; Luke 1:31-35; Luke 9:20; John 1:1-3, 14, 18, 34, 49; John 5:18-19; John 6:68-69; John 14:9-11, 20; John 11:27; John 17:5; John 20:28, 30-31; Acts 8:37; Romans 9:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6; Colossians 1:16-19; Colossians 2:9-10; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:1-3, 8; 2 Peter 1:1; 1 John 5:20.

[164] See e.g., Hebrews 13:20-21; 2 Peter 3:18; Revelation 5:6-10, 12-14; Revelation 7:9-10.

[165] See e.g., Matthew 26:63-66; Matthew 27:43, 54; Mark 14:61-62; John 20:30-31; Acts 9:20; Romans 1:4.

[166] See e.g., Mark 12:6; Mark 13:32; John 5:19-27; John 9:35-37; John 10:36; John 11:4; John 19:7.

[167] See e.g., Exodus 3:14-15; John 6:35; John 8:12, 24, 28, 58; John 9:5; John 10:7, 9, 11, 14; John 11:25-26; John 13:19; John 14:6, 9-12; John 15:1, 5.

[168] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; John 5:17-19; John 10:30, 33, 38; John 12:45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:11, 21; Colossians 1:15, 19; Colossians 2:9-10; Hebrews 1:1-3.

[169] John 3:2; John 5:30, 36-37; John 8:29; John 14:10-11; John 10:25, 30, 36-38; see also Matthew 11:4-6; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38.

[170] See e.g., Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; John 5:18-19; Romans 9:5; Titus 2:13-14.

[171] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; John 1:1-5, 14, 18; John 5:17-18; John 10:30, 33, 38; John 12:45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:11, 21.

[172] See e.g., John 6:35; John 8:12, 24, 28, 58; John 9:5; John 10:7, 9, 11, 14; John 11:25; John 13:19; John 14:6, 9-12; John 15:1, 5.

[173] See e.g., John 1:14; John 17:24; Hebrews 1:3.

[174] See e.g., Matthew 11:27; Matthew 12:18; Matthew 14:33; John 11:27.

[175] See Matthew 1:18, 20; Luke 1:31-35.

[176] See Matthew 3:16-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:33-34.

[177] Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:34-35; 2 Peter 1:17; see also Deuteronomy 18:15, 18.

[178] See Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 12:1-2.

[179] See Luke 9:32.

[180] Matthew 16:16, 20; Mark 8:29-30; Luke 9:20; see also Matthew 1:1, 16-17; Mark 14:61-62; Luke 2:10-11; John 4:42; John 11:27; Acts 5:31.

[181] See Mark 14:61-62; Luke 22:69-70.

[182] See Mark 1:1, 24.

[183] See Mark 15:39.

[184] See e.g., John 1:1-3, 14, 18, 34, 41; John 3:2, 15-16, 36; John 4:25-26; John 11:27.

[185] See John 20:30-31.

[186] See e.g., Matthew 27:54; Mark 15:33-39; Mark 16:6, 19; Romans 1:3-4.

[187] See e.g., John 3:2; John 5:36-37; John 8:29; John 14:10-11; John 10:25, 30, 36-38; see also Matthew 11:2-6; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38.

[188] See e.g., Isaiah 11:2; Isaiah 42:1; Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 11:2-6; Mark 1:10-11, 22-23; Luke 3:21-22; Luke 24:19; John 1:32-34; Acts 10:38.

[189] See e.g., Matthew 4:23-25; Matthew 9:18-26, 35-36; Matthew 11:2-6; Matthew 14:14, 35-36; Matthew 15:30-31; Mark 1:23-28, 30-34; Mark 2:3-12; Mark 5:24-34; Mark 6:2, 32-40; Luke 7:11-17; John 5:6-9; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38.

[190] See e.g., Matthew 4:23-24; Matthew 8:16; Matthew 14:14, 35-36; Matthew 15:30; Mark 1:35; Mark 3:10; Mark 6:55-56; Mark 7:31-37; Luke 8:26-39; Acts 10:38.

[191] See e.g., Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 1:23-28; Mark 4:39-41; Luke 4:40-41.

[192] See e.g., John 1:34, 49; John 5:25; John 6:69; John 9:35, 38; John 10:36; John 20:30-31.

[193] See e.g., Matthew 3:16-17; John 1:32-33.

[194] See e.g., Hebrews 1:2–10; Revelation 1:5; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16.

[195] See e.g., John 3:2, 16, 31; John 6:14; John 11:27.

[196] See e.g., John 1:14; Romans 8:3; Philippians 2:7-8; Hebrews 2:14, 17-18; Hebrews 4:15.

[197] See e.g., Luke 3:1-2; Acts 12:1; Acts 18:12.

[198] See Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 1:32, 69; Luke 3:23-38; Romans 1:3-4; 2 Timothy 2:8; Revelation 22:16.

[199] See e.g., Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-27, Luke 1:31-35; Romans 9:4-5; Galatians 4:4.

[200] See Matthew 1:18, 20, 25; Luke 2:1-7.

[201] See Luke 2:6-7; Philippians 2:6-7.

[202] See Matthew 1:20-25.

[203] See Matthew 1:18, 20; Luke 1:31-35.

[204] See e.g., Isaiah 53:3; John 1:1-3, 14, 18; John 10:30, 38; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6-7; 1 Timothy 2:5.

[205] See e.g., Matthew 26:12; Luke 2:40; Luke 24:40; Romans 8:3; 1 John 4:2-3.

[206] See e.g., Luke 2:52; Colossians 2:2-3.

[207] See Mark 6:3.

[208] See Matthew 13:55.

[209] See e.g., Matthew 12:46-47; Matthew 13:55-57; Mark 3:31-35; Mark 6:3; Luke 8:19-21; John 7:2-4.

[210] See Matthew 13:55-56; Mark 6:3.

[211] See e.g., Luke 24:39; Philippians 2:7-8; Hebrews 2:17-18.

[212] See e.g., John 1:4, 14; John 19:38-40; 1 John 1:1; 1 John 4:2-3, 14.

[213] See e.g., Isaiah 53:9; Matthew 4:1-2; Luke 19:41; John 4:6-7; John 11:33-35; John 19:28-30; Hebrews 4:15.

[214] See Matthew 26:38; Luke 23:46.

[215] See e.g., Matthew 8:10; Mark 14:32-42; Mark 15:34; Luke 12:50; Luke 22:40-46; Hebrews 2:17-18; Hebrews 5:7-10; 1 Peter 3:18.

[216] See e.g., Mark 2:15; Mark 14:33; Luke 2:40; Luke 7:9; Hebrews 2:9, 17; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 12:2.

[217] See Hebrews 4:15.

[218] See e.g., Romans 6:6–7; Colossians 2:13–14; Hebrews 2:18.

[219] See e.g., Matthew 27:50; Luke 23:46; Luke 24:46.

[220] See Luke 24:39-42; John 20:17.

[221] See e.g., Luke 22:28; Hebrews 4:15.

[222] See Hebrews 2:17-18; Hebrews 4:15-16; Hebrews 5:2, 7-9.

[223] See e.g., 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 2:21-22; 1 John 3:5.

[224] See e.g., Matthew 26:39, 42; John 14:31; John 15:10; Romans 5:19; Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 3:1-2; Hebrews 5:7-9; Hebrews 12:1-2.

[225] See e.g., Matthew 12:17-21; Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45; Philippians 2:6-8.

[226] See e.g., John 5:30; John 6:38.

[227] See e.g., Matthew 9:36; Mark 1:41; Mark 8:2; Luke 23:19; John 3:2; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38.

[228] See e.g., John 12:49-50; John 15:10; John 18:38; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22.

[229] See e.g., Matthew 4:1–11; Luke 4:1-13.

[230] See e.g., John 1:1-3, 14; Romans 8:3; 1 John 4:2-3; 2 John 7.

[231] See Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 53:2-3.

[232] See e.g., Isaiah 9:6; Matthew 3:17; Matthew 16:16; Matthew 17:5; Matthew 28:20; Mark 1:1; Mark 8:29; Luke 1:31-35; Luke 9:20; John 1:1-3, 14, 18, 34, 49; John 5:18-19; John 6:68-69; John 14:9-11, 20; John 11:27; John 17:5; John 20:28, 30-31; Acts 8:37; Romans 9:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6-7; Colossians 1:16-19; Colossians 2:9-10; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:1-3, 8; Hebrews 2:17; 2 Peter 1:1; 1 John 5:20.

[233] See e.g., Matthew 10:23; Matthew 13:41; Matthew 16:27; Matthew 19:28; Matthew 24:27, 30, 37, 44; Matthew 25:31; Matthew 26:64.

[234] See e.g., Matthew 12:8, 32; Matthew 13:37; Matthew 16:13; Matthew 20:28; Matthew 24:30; Matthew 25:11; Matthew 26:64; Mark 8:31; Mark 13:26; Luke 9:56, 58; Luke 19:10; Luke 17:26, 30; Luke 21:27; John 12:34

[235] See e.g., Matthew 8:20; Matthew 11:19.

[236] Daniel 7:9, 13-14; see also e.g., Matthew 16:27-28; Matthew 24:30; Matthew 26:64; Mark 14:61-62; Luke 22:69-70; Revelation 1:7; Revelation 14:14.

[237] Daniel 2:44; Daniel 7:14; see also Isaiah 9:6-7; Micah 4:7; Matthew 28:18; John 3:35-36; Philippians 2:9-11; Colossians 2:10; Revelation 11:15.

[238] See e.g., Daniel 7:22; Matthew 19:28; Luke 22:28-30; 1 Peter 2:5, 9-10; Revelation 1:6.

[239] See e.g., Matthew 24:30; Matthew 25:11; Matthew26:24; Mark 8:38; Mark 13:26; Mark 14:61-62.

[240] See e.g., Matthew 28:18; John 3:35; John 13:3; John 17:2; Ephesians 1:20-22; Philippians 2:9-10.

[241] See e.g., Romans 5:1-2; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12.

[242] See e.g., John 1:51; John 3:13; John 14:6; John 15:1-5; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; 1 Timothy 2:5.

[243] See e.g., Psalm 28:8-9; John 1:51; John 3:3-8; John 10:7, 9-10; John 11:25-26; John 14:6; Hebrews 10:19-20.

[244] See e.g., John 1:14, 16-18.

[245] See e.g., John 15:1-5, 9; John 16:27-28, 30.

[246] See e.g., John 1:51; John 3:13; John 14:6; 1 Timothy 2:5.

[247] See e.g., 1 Timothy 2:5-6.

[248] See e.g., Romans 5:1-2; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 12:24.

[249] See e.g., John 1:18; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 4:16.

[250] See e.g., see John 14:13; John 15:4-7, 16; John 16:23; Colossians 1:19-20.

[251] See e.g., Matthew 1:21, 23; John 6:27; John 14:6, 27; John 16:33; Acts 4:10-12; Romans 5:1-2; Romans 10:9-13.

[252] See e.g., Exodus 12:5; Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 26:63-64; John 1:29, 36; John 19:14-18; Acts 8:32; 1 Corinthians 5:7; Galatians 1:3-4; Ephesians 5:2; Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 9:24-28; 1 Peter 1:19-20; 1 Peter 2:24-25; Revelation 5:6.

[253] See e.g., Isaiah 53:3, 6; Matthew 20:28; John 10:11, 14-15, 17-18; John 17:19; Acts 3:18-19; Romans 1:17; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 30-31; 2 Corinthians 5:17, 21; Titus 2:13-14.

[254] See e.g., Isaiah 53:6, 9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; 1 Peter 2:24.

[255] See e.g., Matthew 1:21; Luke 5:31-32; John 1:1-3, 14, 18, 29, 36; John 3:15-18, 36; John 4:42; Acts 5:31; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 3:5; 1 John 4:14

[256] See e.g., Matthew 4:17; John 3:16-17; John 13:1; John 14:21, 23; John 16:27; Romans 8:35-39; 2 Peter 3:9.

[257] See e.g., Exodus 12:3; Isaiah 53:7; John 1:29, 36; Acts 8:32; 1 Peter 1:19-20; Revelation 5:6.

[258] See e.g., Genesis 22:6-8, 11-14; John 19:17-36.

[259] See e.g., Exodus 29:38-41.

[260] See e.g., Isaiah 53:7-8; Mark 15:24-25; John 19:17-18; Acts 8:32-35; Hebrews 9:12-14; 1 Peter 1:19; Revelation 5:5-14.

[261] See e.g., Exodus 12:3-5, 7, 12-13, 21-23, 27, 29, 46; Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-8; John 1:29, 36; John 3:36; 1 Corinthians 5:7.

[262] See e.g., Revelation 5:1-7.

[263] See e.g., John 1:29, 36; John 3:16-17; John 19:34; 1 John 2:2.

[264] See e.g., John 10:10; Acts 2:23; 1 Peter 1:19-20; Revelation 13:8.

[265] See e.g., Revelation 4:8-11; Revelation 5:6-14.

[266] See e.g., Matthew 20:28; Luke 2:11; John 3:16-17; John 1:29, 49; John 4:42; Acts 4:10-12; Acts 5:31; Acts 13:23, 32; 1 John 4:14; Jude 1:24-25.

[267] See e.g., Matthew 1:21; John 4:42; Acts 5:31; Matthew 28:18-20.

[268] See e.g., Matthew 1:21; Luke 2:11; John 1:14, 29, 36; John 3:16-17; John 4:42; John 12:47; Acts 5:31-32; Acts 13:23; 1 John 4:14.

[269] See Matthew 1:21.

[270] Luke 2:10-11, see also Matthew 1:21; Acts 2:36.

[271] See e.g., Luke 2:11; John 1:34; John 4:42; Acts 5:31; 1 John 4:14.

[272] See e.g., Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45; Luke 19:10; John 12:47; Philippians 2:7; Titus 2:14.

[273] See e.g., Hebrews 2:10; Hebrews 5:9.

[274] See e.g., Acts 4:10-12; Acts 15:11; Acts 16:30-31; Romans 3:24; Romans 11:14; Ephesians 2:5-8.

[275] See e.g., John 3:36; Romans 8:1.

[276] See e.g., Matthew 1:21; Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45; Luke 19:10; John 1:29, 36; John 3:14-18; John 12:47; Titus 2:13-14; 1 Peter 2:24-25; 1 John 3:8; 1 John 4:9, 14-15.

[277] See e.g., John 1:51; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 10:9-13; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 5:9.

[278] See e.g., Luke 2:13-14; Acts 10:36; Romans 5:1-2, 10-11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-19.

[279] See e.g., Luke 24:47; John 3:15-17, 36; John 5:14, 21; John 6:47; John 10:10; John 16:33; Acts 4:12; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:23; Romans 5:1-2, 17-19; Romans 6:23; 1 Corinthians 15:22.

[280] See e.g., Isaiah 53:11; Mark 10:45; John 1:12-13; Acts 13:34-36; Romans 5:10-11, 16; Romans 10:9-13; 2 Corinthians 5:18-21; Galatians 3:26-29.

[281] See e.g., John 10:30, 38; John 12:45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:11; Romans 3:21, 24-25; 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, 21.

[282] See e.g., Acts 10:36; Romans 10:12.

[283] See e.g., Hebrews 11:6.

[284] See e.g., John 14:1, 6, 15; John 15:9-10, 12, 14, 17; Acts 4:10-12; Acts 10:43; Ephesians 2:18; Hebrews 4:16.

[285] See e.g., Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 18:17-19; Genesis 22:17-18; Genesis 26:2-6; Matthew 1:1, 16-17, 21, 23; Luke 1:31-35; Acts 3:25-26; Galatians 3:8, 16.

[286] See e.g., Matthew 1:21; John 1:29, 36; John 6:14.

[287] See e.g., John 1:12-13; Galatians 3:29; Ephesians 2:19-22.

[288] See e.g., Isaiah 53:11; Jeremiah 31:34; John 1:16; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:38-39; Galatians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:17.

[289] See e.g., Matthew 1:21; John 1:12-13, 29; Galatians 3:26-29; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 Peter 2:24.

[290] John 1:4-5, 9; John 4:14; John 8:12; John 9:5; see also Isaiah 9:1-2; Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:6; Luke 2:32.

[291] John 1:4-5; see also Genesis 1:3; John 11:25-26; 1 John 1:5; 1 John 5:11-12.

[292] See e.g., John 1:4; John 3:15-16, 36; John 4:14, 36; John 5:21; John 6:27, 33, 35, 39-40, 47-48, 50-51, 53-54; 68; John 8:12; John 10:10, 25, 28; John 11:25-26; John 14:6; Acts 3:15; Acts 5:31-32; 1 Corinthians 15:22, 45; Revelation 1:18.

[293] See e.g., Isaiah 9:1-2; Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 60:1-3, 19-20.

[294] See John 6:35.

[295] See John 3:3-8, 14-17.

[296] See e.g., John 5:21; 1 Corinthians 15:45.

[297] see Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Psalm 36:9; Psalm 104:2; John 5:26; John 10:30, 38; John 11:25; John 17:2-3, 11, 21; Colossians 3:4; 1 Timothy 6:13-16; 1 John 1:1, 5.

[298] See e.g., Psalm 104:1-2; John 1:1-5; John 8:12; John 9:5; John 12:46; John 14:6; 1 Timothy 6:16.

[299] See e.g., John 1:14; John 17:5, 22, 24; Hebrews 1:3.

[300] See e.g., 1 John 1:1-4.

[301] See e.g., Acts 9:3-5; Acts 22:6-8; Acts 26:13-15.

[302] See e.g., John 1:4; John 3:19; John 8:12; John 9:5; John 12:35-36, 46.

[303] See e.g., John 1:5; John 3:19

[304] See e.g., John 1:5; John 3:19-20; John 8:12.

[305] See e.g., Isaiah 9:1-2; Isaiah 42:6-7; Isaiah 49:6; Isaiah 53:5; Isaiah 60:1-2, 19-20; Malachi 4:2; Matthew 4:14-16; Luke 1:78-79; Luke 2:32; Matthew 17:1-2; Acts 26:22-23; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8; 2 Peter 1:19; Revelation 1:16.

[306] See e.g., Genesis 1:3-5; Habakkuk 3:3-4; Matthew 17:2; Luke 1:78-79; John 1:5; John 8:12; 2 Corinthians 4:4-6; Revelation 22:5.

[307] See e.g., Genesis 1:3-5; 1 John 1:5-7; John 12:46.

[308] Revelation 21:23-24; Revelation 22:5; see also Isaiah 60:19-20; 1 Timothy 6:16.

[309] See e.g., John 3:19-21; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 5:11, 13; Ephesians 6:12.

[310] See e.g., 2 Corinthians 4:4.

[311] See e.g., Genesis 1:14-19; Deuteronomy 4:19.

[312] See e.g., Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 17:3; 2 Kings 17:16; Isaiah 40:26; Romans 1:24-25.

[313] See e.g., John 1:4-5; John 10:10-11, 27-28; John 11:25-26; John 17:3.

[314] See e.g., John 1:4-5; John 3:15-16; John 4:14; John 5:21; John 6:39-40, 44; John 10:9-10; John 11:25; John 14:6; John 20:30-31; Acts 3:15; Acts 4:12; Acts 5:31; 1 Corinthians 15:22.

[315] John 1:4; see also John 17:3; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:11.

[316] See e.g., Jeremiah 9:23-24,

[317] See e.g., John 3:16, 18, 36; John 6:47-48.

[318] See e.g., Ephesians 5:8, 14-15; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8; 1 John 1:5-7.

[319] See e.g., John 5:24; John 6:47.

[320] See e.g., John 3:15-16, 18, 36; John 6:47; 1 John 5:11-12, 20.

[321] See Jeremiah 10:10; John 5:44; John 17:2-3; John 20:30-31; Romans 16:27; 1 Timothy 1:17; 1 John 5:20.

[322] See e.g., Psalm 118:22; Matthew 21:42; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:10-12; Ephesians 1:22-23; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 5:23-26; Colossian 1:18; Revelation 1:5.

[323] See e.g., Matthew 28:18; Acts 2:36; Acts 10:36; Romans 14:9; Philippians 3:20; Ephesians 1:22-23; Ephesians 5:23-25.

[324] See e.g., John 15:3; John 17:17; Acts 20:28; Ephesians 5:2, 25-27, 29; Colossians 1:22.

[325] See e.g., Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:27-28; Ephesians 2:20-22; Ephesians 5:30.

[326] See e.g., John 1:12-13; Acts 3:25-26; Galatians 3:26-29; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Timothy 3:15.

[327] See e.g., Deuteronomy 7:6; Romans 2:28-29; Galatians 6:16; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:5, 9-10.

[328] See e.g., Romans 5:1-2, 10-11; Romans 8:32; 2 Corinthians 5:18; Galatians 3:26-29; Ephesians 2:14-22; Ephesians 3:6, 12.

[329] See e.g., John 1:12-13; Romans 5:1-2; Galatians 3:26-29.

[330] See e.g., John 1:14, 16; Colossians 1:19; Colossians 2:9-10.

[331] See e.g., Ezekiel 37:26; Zechariah 6:12-13; John 2:19; John 14:6; Romans 5:1-2, 10-11; Ephesians 2:18-20; Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 4:14-16.

[332] See e.g., Ezekiel 37:26-28; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21-22; 1 Peter 2:5, 9-10; Revelation 3:12.

[333] See e.g., Leviticus 26:3, 12; John 14:21, 23; John 17:3, 21-23.

[334] See e.g., Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 3:1-2; Hebrews 5:5-7, 10; Hebrews 6:20.

[335] See Hebrews 5:5-7, 10; Hebrews 7:1-10.

[336] See Psalms 110:4; Hebrews 7:1–19.

[337] See Hebrews 7:1-3.

[338] See e.g., Hebrews 4:14-16; Hebrews 5:5-7; Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 9:11-12, 26.

[339] See e.g., Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 7:25-28; Hebrews 9:12, 24–28; Hebrews 10:1–2, 10–14; Hebrews 13:12; 1 Peter 2:24.

[340] See e.g., Numbers 28:1-3; Hebrews 10:11.

[341] See e.g., Leviticus 16:1-34.

[342] See e.g., 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 7:26; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 1 Peter 2:21-22.

[343] See Hebrews 7:26-27; Hebrews 9:7, 24-25; Hebrews 10:11-12.

[344] See e.g., John 1:29, 36; Hebrews 7:26-28; Hebrews 9:26-28; Hebrews 10:12-14; 1 Peter 2:24-25.

[345] See e.g., Mark 10:45; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 9:12-14, 22, 24-28; Hebrews 10:4; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 1:5; cf. Exodus 12:5; Leviticus 16:16-19.

[346] See e.g., Luke 1:68; Luke 2:38.

[347] See e.g., Hebrews 4:14-16; Hebrews 5:5-7; Hebrews 6:19–20; Hebrews 9:11-12, 24-28.

[348] See Exodus 26:31-33; Matthew 27:51; Luke 23:45; Hebrews 10:19–22.

[349] See e.g., John 14:6; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12.

[350] See e.g., Hebrews 10:10, 12, 14-18.

[351] See e.g., Romans 4:25; Romans 5:6-8; Romans 8:32; 1 Peter 2:24-25.

[352] See e.g., Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 3:1-2; Hebrews 4:14-15; Hebrews 5:1-10; Hebrews 6:19-20; Hebrews 7:11-10:18; Hebrews 13:8-13.

[353] See e.g., Romans 3:25.

[354] See e.g., Hebrews 4:14-16; Hebrews 7:25.

[355] See e.g., John 1:51; John 14:6; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 9:15.

[356] See e.g., John 14:6, 27; John 16:33; Romans 5:1-2, 10-11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-19; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12.

[357] See e.g., Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25.

[358] See e.g., Exodus 20:18–21.

[359] See e.g., Exodus 32:9-14.

[360] See e.g., Romans 8:34; Hebrews 2:10; Hebrews 5:9; Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 9:24; 1 John 2:1.

[361] See e.g., Luke 1:43; Luke 2:11; Acts 2:36; Acts 10:36; Romans 10:9; Romans 14:9; 2 Corinthians 4:5.

[362] See e.g., Deuteronomy 10:17; Matthew 2:2; John 1:49; John 12:13, 15; John 18:37; 1 Timothy 6:15; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16.

[363] See e.g., Luke 2:10-11; John 1:1-3, 14, 18; John 12:13; John 14:9-11; John 17:5; John 20:28; Romans 9:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8; 1 John 5:20.

[364] See e.g., John 20:28; Acts 2:36; Romans 10:9-13; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Philippians 2:11; 1 Peter 3:15.

[365] See e.g., Acts 10:36; Romans 10:12.

[366] See e.g., Psalm 45:6, 11; Psalm 110:1-2; Isaiah 45:21-25; Acts 10:36; Romans 8:38-39; Ephesians 1:21-23; Philippians 2:9-10; Hebrews 2:7.

[367] See e.g., Matthew 28:18; Mark 4:41; John 3:35-36; Acts 5:31; Romans 14:9; Hebrews 1:2-3, 6-12; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16.

[368] See e.g., John 13:13; Romans 10:9; Romans 14:9; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Philippians 2:9, 11.

[369] See e.g., John 13:13; John 14:6, 27; John 16:33; Acts 16:30-31; Romans 10:9, 13; 1 Corinthians 8:6.

[370] See e.g., John 3:36; John 14:15, 21, 23.

[371] See e.g., John 3:3, 36.

[372] See e.g., John 3:34; John 12:49-50; John 14:10, 24, 31; John 15:10.

[373] Deuteronomy 28:1-14; Deuteronomy 30:15-20; see also Leviticus 26:3-13; Proverbs 2:3-5; Proverbs 3:1-2, 7-10; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Matthew 19:17-19; Luke 8:11-12, 15, 21; Luke 10:25-28; John 6:28; John 14:15, 21, 23-24; John 15:9-10, 14; 1 Corinthians 7:19; James 1:21-22; 1 John 2:3-5; 1 John 3:22-24; 1 John 5:3; 2 John 1:6; Revelation 22:14.

[374] See e.g., Acts 26:15-20; 2 Corinthians 7:1, 9-13; Ephesians 5:3-5; Colossians 3:5-9.

[375] See e.g., Proverbs 3:3-7, Ephesians 5:1-2, 8-12; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-6.

[376] See e.g., Matthew 7:13-14; Luke 13:24; Romans 1:18; Ephesians 2:2-3; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6.

[377] See e.g., Matthew 7:21-27; Luke 6:47-49; Luke 13:24-27; Romans 12:1-2; 1 John 3:4-8.

[378] See e.g., John 14:15-21, 23-24, 26.

[379] See e.g., Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 4:43; Luke 8:1; Luke 9:11.

[380] See e.g., John 3:16-17; John 5:36, 38; John 6:29, 57; John 8:42; John 17:3; John 14:6.

[381] Matthew 5:6, 20; Matthew 6:33; See also Genesis 17:1; Genesis 18:19; Jeremiah 9:23-24; 1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Timothy 2:22.

[382] See e.g., Numbers 14:18-19; Nehemiah 9:17, 31; Psalm 86:15; Psalm 103:8; Jeremiah 9:23-24; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2.

[383] See e.g., Matthew 6:9-10; Luke 11:2.

[384] See e.g., Matthew 6:13; John 17:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; 2 Timothy 4:18; 1 John 5:18.

[385] See e.g., Isaiah 26:3-4; Isaiah 55:1-3, 6; Amos 5:4, 6; Matthew 5:6; Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3; John 3:15-17; John 10:10.

[386] See e.g., Matthew 10:7-8; Matthew 24:14; Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 9:2; Luke 10:9-12; John 20:21.

[387] See e.g., Acts 20:24-25; Acts 28:23, 30-31; Romans 1:16-17; 2 Timothy 4:18.

[388] See e.g., Psalm 45:6; Psalm 93:2; Lamentations 5:19; Daniel 2:44; Daniel 6:26-27; 1 Timothy 1:17.

[389] See e.g., 1 Chronicles 29:11-13.

[390] See e.g., Isaiah 40:28; Isaiah 66:1-2; Jeremiah 10:10; Daniel 4:34; 1 Timothy 1:17; Revelation 4:2-3.

[391] See e.g., Exodus 15:18; Psalm 10:16; Psalm 29:10-11; Isaiah 6:5.

[392] See e.g., Revelation 11:15.

[393] See Matthew 4:17, 23; Mark 1:14-15.

[394] See e.g., Matthew 4:23; Matthew 9:35-36; Luke 24:19; John 3:2; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38.

[395] See e.g., Matthew 4:23-25; Matthew 10:7-8; Matthew 11:5-6; Luke 7:22.

[396] See e.g., Matthew 4:23-25; Matthew 7:28-29; Matthew 11:4-5; Matthew 12:28; Mark 1:14-15, 22-27, 30-34, 39-42; Mark 5:1-20; Luke 4:18-19; John 2:10; John 10:9-11; John 14:30-31.

[397] See e.g., Matthew 4:17, 23-25; Mark 1:38-39; Mark 6:6; Luke 4:18-19, 40-44; Luke 8:1; Mark 6:55-56.

[398] See e.g., John 10:10; John 16:33.

[399] See e.g., Matthew 9:20-22, 35; Luke 9:56; John 3:3-8, 14-18, 36; John 6:47; John 10:10; John 12:47.

[400] See e.g., Matthew 3:11-12, 16-17; Luke 1:31-35, 41-42.

[401] John 1:14; John 12:41; see also Ezekiel 43:1-5.

[402] See e.g., Ezekiel 11:2, 6, 12, 22-23.

[403] See e.g., Isaiah 40:3; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 3:1-2, 8, 11; Matthew 11:13-14; Matthew 17:10-13; Mark 1:4; Luke 1:17; Luke 3:3, 8; Acts 19:4.

[404] See e.g., Matthew 13:3, 34-35; Mark 4:33-34; John 16:25, 29.

[405] See e.g., Isaiah 66:1-2; Jeremiah 10:6-7; Jeremiah 51:15-19.

[406] See e.g., Psalm 10:16-18; Psalm 29:10; Matthew 24:1-51; Mark 14:25; Acts 1:6-8.

[407] Matthew 4:17; Matthew 24:29-31; Matthew 25:31-32; Luke 11:20; Luke 13:28-29; Luke 17:20-21; see also 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

[408] See e.g., Luke 24:18-21.

[409] See e.g., Matthew 13:31-33, 37-46; Luke 13:20-21.

[410] See e.g., Daniel 7:13-14; Matthew 16:27-28; Matthew 25:31; Matthew 26:64; Mark 8:38; Mark 13:24-27; Mark 14:61-62; Acts 1:11; Revelation 1:7-8; Revelation 22:7, 12, 20.

[411] See e.g., Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9-11.

[412] See e.g., Matthew 24:36; Matthew 25:13; Acts 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2; 2 Peter 3:10-11.

[413] See 1 Corinthians 16:22; Revelation 22:20. This prayer asking the Lord Jesus to come is a prayer of the Aramaic-speaking church and means “maranatha” for “Our Lord, come!”

[414] See e.g., Matthew 24:46-47; 2 Timothy 4:8.

[415] See e.g., Matthew 4:13-17; Luke 4:17-21; Acts 13:27-29.

[416] See e.g., Matthew 13:41-43; Matthew 25:31-46; Mark 14:61-62; Revelation 21:1-22:5.

[417] See e.g., Matthew 13:47-50; Matthew 25:31-46; Romans 2:16; Romans 14:10-11; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 2 Timothy 4:1, 8, 18.  Remarkably, Matthew 25:31-46 is the New Testament’s only picture of judgment day.

[418] See e.g., Matthew 28:18; John 5:22, 27; Acts 10:42; Acts 17:31.

[419] See e.g., Psalm 15:1-5; Psalm 24:3-5; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 25:41; Luke 13:27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:19-21; Revelation 21:7-8; Revelation 22:15.

[420] See e.g., Matthew 5:3-12; Matthew 19:17-19; Luke 6:20-23; Revelation 22:14.

[421] See 1 Corinthians 15:24-27.

[422] See e.g., Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:14-15.

[423] See e.g., Matthew 4:23-25; John 10:10; Colossians 1:12-13; 2 Peter 1:10-11.

[424] See e.g., Luke 9:26; John 1:12-13; John 14:20; John 17:1-3, 21-26; 2 Corinthians 5:17-18; Galatians 3:26; Colossians 1:19-20; 1 Peter 5:4.

[425] See e.g., John 3:3, 5; 15-18, 34, 36.

[426] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; John 17:2-3, 21-23.

[427] See e.g., Romans 4:25; 2 Corinthians 5:15, 17-19; 1 Peter 3:18.

[428] See e.g., Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 30:6; Matthew 5:3, 10; Matthew 22:37-40; Mark 12:28-34; Luke 6:32, 35; John 13:34-35; John 15:10-12.

[429] See e.g., Habakkuk 2:2-4; Luke 6:20; Romans 1:16-17.

[430] See e.g., Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 5:32.

[431] See e.g., Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 13:3-5; Luke 15:7, 10; Luke 24:46-47; John 5:14; John 8:11; Acts 3:25-26.

[432] See e.g., Psalm 51:17; Isaiah 55:1-3, 6-7; Jeremiah 4:1; Ezekiel 18:30-32; Hosea 14:1-2; Joel 2:12-13; Matthew 3:2, 8; Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3, 8.

[433] See e.g., Revelation 9:20-21.

[434] See e.g., Revelation 2:5, 16, 22; Revelation 3:3, 19.

[435] See e.g., Psalm 33:8-12, 16-17; Psalm 44:4-6; Proverbs 10:27, 29-30; Proverbs 21:31; Hosea 14:3, 7, 9.

[436] See e.g., Matthew 6:13; John 17:15

[437] Matthew 5:7-8, 14-16, 23-24; 48; Luke 6:27, 35-36; see also Romans 13:10.

[438] See Ephesians 5:1-2.

[439] See e.g., Romans 6:23.

[440] See e.g., Acts 2:36-38; Acts 3:19; Acts 20:21; 2 Peter 3:9.

[441] See e.g., Matthew 3:3, 8; Acts 17:30; Acts 26:20.

[442] Romans 14:17-19; see also Romans 12:18.

[443] See e.g., Psalm 34:14; Matthew 5:8-10; Hebrews 12:14.

[444] See e.g., Genesis 17:1; Genesis 18:19; Deuteronomy 18:13; Psalm 37:3-5; Isaiah 56:1-2; Hosea 12:6; Habakkuk 2:2-4; Micah 6:6-8; Matthew 5:3-10, 13-16; Romans 12:9-10; Galatians 6:9; Ephesians 2:10; Hebrews 10:24; Hebrews 13:16.

[445] See e.g., Psalm 1:5-6; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, 17-20; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:3-5; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:15.

[446] See e.g., John 8:44; 1 John 3:4, 8, 10, 12, 15; Revelation 12:9.

[447] See Psalm 15:1-5; Psalm 24:3-6; Psalm 51:17.

[448] Matthew 5:3-10, 14-16, 20; see also Psalm 15:1-5; Psalm 24:3-5.

[449] See e.g., Matthew 13:37-38; 1 John 3:7, 9.

[450] See e.g., 1 John 2:7-10.

[451] See e.g., Exodus 34:6-7; Isaiah 1:17; Psalm 51:1; Isaiah 61:8; Jeremiah 9:24; Micah 6:6-8; Micah 7:18; John 13:34-35; Romans 13:8-10.

[452] See e.g., Psalm 110:1; Mark 16:19; Luke 22:69; Colossians 3:1; Hebrews 1:13; Hebrews 8:1; Hebrews 10:12-13; Hebrews 12:2.

[453] See e.g., Acts 7:55-56.

[454] See e.g., Hebrews 12:1-3.

[455] See e.g., Matthew 27:54; Mark 15:39; John 5:19, 36; John 10:30, 38; John 12:45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:11; John 20:30-31; 2 Corinthians 5:19.

[456] See e.g., John 1:14; John 12:41; Hebrews 1:3.

[457] See e.g., John 5:22; Matthew 28:18-20; John 3:35; Ephesians 1:20-21; Philippians 2:9-11; 1 Peter 3:22.

[458] See e.g., Matthew 2:2; Matthew 27:37; Matthew 28:20; Acts 2:36; Ephesians 1:22; Ephesians 4:15-16; Colossians 1:18; Revelation 1:5.

[459] See e.g., Matthew 11:27; Matthew 28:18; John 13:3; Acts 2:36; Acts 10:36; Romans 10:9, 12; Hebrews 1:2.

[460] See e.g., 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 4:14-16; Hebrews 7:25; 1 John 2:1-2.

[461] See e.g., Matthew 16:27; Matthew 24:30; Matthew 25:31; Mark 14:61-62; 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

[462] See e.g., 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10.

[463] See e.g., Matthew 25:31-34; Matthew 28:18; John 5:22, 27; Acts 10:42; Acts 17:31; Revelation 20:7-15.

[464] See e.g., Daniel 7:10, 13-14; Matthew 16:27-28; Matthew 25:31; Matthew 26:64; Mark 8:38; Acts 1:11; Revelation 1:7.

[465] See e.g., Mark 1:21-22; Mark 2:13; Mark 6:2; Mark 10:1; Mark 11:18; Mark 14:49.

[466] See e.g., Mark 10:1.

[467] See e.g., Mark 1:21-22; Luke 2:46-48; Luke 4:32; John 7:46.

[468] See e.g., John 12:49-50; John 14:24, 31; John 15:10; John 17:8.

[469] See e.g., John 6:63, 68; John 12:49-50.

[470] See e.g., Mark 10:51; John 3:1-2; John 4:31; John 6:25; John 9:2.

[471] See e.g., Mark 10:51; John 4:31; John 6:25; John 9:2.

[472] See e.g., Matthew 23:7-8; John 1:38, 49; John 20:16.

[473] See e.g., Mark 1:21-22; Mark 6:1-2; Luke 4:22; Luke 5:1; John 7:15.

[474] See e.g., Matthew 7:28-29; Matthew 13:53-54; Mark 1:22.

[475] See e.g., Isaiah 11:1-2; Isaiah 42:1; Matthew 3:16-17.

[476] See e.g., Matthew 7:28-29; Matthew 13:54-56; Matthew 22:33; Luke 2:39-40, 45-47; Luke 4:22; John 7:46.

[477] See e.g., Isaiah 11:2; Isaiah 42:1; Matthew 3:16; Matthew 12:18; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; Luke 4:18-19; John 1:32-33; Acts 10:38.

[478] See e.g., Mark 1:21-22, 27.

[479] See e.g., Exodus 4:15-16; Exodus 7:1-2; Deuteronomy 18:18; Jeremiah 1:9; John 3:34; John 8:27-30; John 12:49-50; John 14:24; John 17:8, 14.

[480] See e.g., John 14:24, 31.

[481] See e.g., John 1:1, 14; Revelation 19:13.

[482] See e.g., John 8:27-30; John 12:49-50; John 14:24, 31; John 15:10; John 17:8, 14.

[483] See e.g., John 3:34-35; Acts 10:38; Romans 1:3-4.

[484] See e.g., Isaiah 11:1-2; Isaiah 42:1-4; Matthew 3:16; Matthew 12:17-18; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; Luke 4:18-19; John 1:32-33; Acts 10:38.

[485] See e.g., Isaiah 61:1-2; see also Luke 4:18-19.

[486] See e.g., Isaiah 11:1-2; Matthew 7:24; 1 Corinthians 1:24, 30; Colossians 2:2-3.

[487] See e.g., John 1:1-5; Colossians 2:2-3; Hebrews 1:2.

[488] See e.g., Luke 2:52; Colossians 2:2-3.

[489] See Luke 1:15, 17, 31-35, 41-42.

[490] See e.g., Matthew 16:16; Luke 1:31-35; Luke 4:18-19; John 20:31; Acts 10:38; Romans 1:3-4.

[491] See Matthew 1:20-25.

[492] See Matthew 1:18, 20; Luke 1:31-35.

[493] See Matthew 3:16-17; Mark 1:9-12; Luke 3:22; Luke 4:1, 18-19; John 1:32-33.

[494] See e.g., John 4:24; 2 Corinthians 3:17; 1 Timothy 1:17; 1 Timothy 6:16.

[495] See e.g., Psalm 139:7; Isaiah 66:1-3; Jeremiah 23:24-25; John 4:24; Acts 17:24.

[496] See e.g., 1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 72:19; Psalm 139:7-12; Isaiah 6:3; Jeremiah 23:23-25; Amos 9:2-4; Acts 7:48-50; Acts 17:24; Revelation 1:8.

[497] See e.g., Psalm 18:9-14; Psalm 19:1-6; Psalm 104:30; Isaiah 44:3; Ezekiel 37:9-10; John 4:14; John 7:37-39; Acts 14:17; Romans 1:19-20.

[498] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Isaiah 44:8; Isaiah 45:21; Matthew 6:9; Matthew 16:16; John 1:1-5; John 20:21-22; 28; John 20:30-31. To discover more about the Holy Spirit and His works, read John chapters 14 through 16 and Romans 8.

[499] See e.g., Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 12:4-6; 2 Corinthians 13:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14; 1 Peter 1:2.

[500] See e.g., John 1:1; John 10:30, 38; John 12:45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:11; 1 John 5:7.

[501] See Matthew 1:18, 20, 23; Luke 1:27, 31-35.

[502] See Matthew 3:16-17; Mark 1:9-12; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:32-33

[503] See e.g., Genesis 1:1-5.

[504] See e.g., Genesis 1:2; Genesis 2:7; Exodus 20:11; Psalm 33:6; Psalm 104:30; John 1:1-3; Acts 4:24.

[505] See e.g., Genesis 1:1-3; Genesis 2:7; Psalm 33:6; Isaiah 55:11; John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 1:2-3; 1 John 1:1; 1 John 5:20.

[506] See e.g., Genesis 2:7; Job 33:4.

[507] See e.g., Exodus 31:1-5; Exodus 35:30-31; Numbers 11:24-25; Deuteronomy 34:9; Judges 3:10; 1 Samuel 10:6, 10; 1 Samuel 16:13-14; Ezekiel 11:5.

[508] See e.g., Numbers 24:2; Isaiah 63:11.

[509] See e.g., 1 Samuel 10:6, 10; Nehemiah 9:30; Micah 3:8; Zechariah 7:12; 2 Peter 1:21.

[510] See e.g., Isaiah 32:15; Isaiah 44:3; Ezekiel 11:19-20; Ezekiel 36:26-27; Ezekiel 39:29; Joel 2:28-32; Zechariah 12:10. Messiah (a Hebrew term) and Christ (a Greek term) both mean “Anointed One.”

[511] See e.g., Jeremiah 31:31-34; Jeremiah 32:39-40; Ezekiel 11:18-21; Ezekiel 36:24-27; 2 Corinthians 3:3.

[512] See e.g., Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16-17; John 1:26, 33.

[513] See e.g., Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16-17; Acts 1:5; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 30; 1 Thessalonians 4:7-8.

[514] See e.g., Leviticus 26:3, 12-13; Deuteronomy 31:6; John 7:38-39; John 14:15-17, 21, 23, 26; Acts 11:16-17.

[515] See Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4, 8; Acts 2:3-4, 14-21, 33, 36.

[516] See e.g., Luke 24:49; John 14:16-17, 26; Acts 1:4-5; Acts 2:1-4, 33.

[517] See e.g., Acts 1:4-5; Acts 2:33.

[518] See e.g., Mark 1:8; John 3:3-8; John 14:15-21, 23-24; John 15:4-5; Acts 2:38; Acts 5:32; Acts 11:15-18.

[519] See e.g., Acts 2:17-18, 38; Acts 10:44-45; Acts 11:16-18; Acts 15:8-9.

[520] See e.g., John 15:26; Acts 2:38-39; Acts 5:32; Acts 11:15-17; Acts 15:7-9.

[521] See e.g., John 3:3-8; Romans 8:10-11; 2 Corinthians 3:16.

[522] See John 1:12-13; John 3:3-8, 14-17; John 10:10; Acts 5:32; Acts 10:44-48; Acts 11:15-18; Acts 19:2; Romans 8:9-11; 1 John 4:15-16.

[523] See e.g., John 1:12-13; John 3:3-8; Acts 5:32; Romans 5:5; Romans 8:9, 14-17; 2 Corinthians 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Galatians 3:2-5; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 John 4:15-16.

[524] See e.g., John 5:21; Acts 3:14; 1 Corinthians 15:45.

[525] See John 3:3-8, 15-16, 36; John 6:47; John 7:37-39.

[526] See e.g., Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16; John 1:33; Acts 1:5; Acts 2:3-4, 33.

[527] See e.g., John 1:4-5; John 3:15-16; John 4:14; John 5:21; John 6:39-40, 44; John 10:9-10; John 11:25; John 14:6; John 20:30-31; Acts 3:15; Acts 4:12; Acts 5:31; 1 Corinthians 15:22.

[528] John 1:4; see also John 17:3; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:11.

[529] See e.g., Hebrews 11:6.

[530] See e.g., 1 Samuel 16:13-14; Mark 1:41; Luke 6:18-19; John 14:15-17, 21, 23-24; John 15:3-6, 26; Romans 5:5; Galatians 4:6; Galatians 5:22-23; Titus 3:4-6.

[531] see e.g., Mark 5:1, 5-8, 15; Acts 2:33; Acts 5:32.

[532] See e.g., Romans 1:16-17; Romans 10:4-6, 9-13; 2 Corinthians 5:17-19; Galatians 5:5; Galatians 6:12.

[533] See e.g., Luke 9:26; John 14:20; John 17:1-3, 21-26; 2 Corinthians 5:17-18; Colossians 1:19-20; 1 Peter 5:1, 4.

[534] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; John 17:2-3, 21-23.

[535] See e.g., 2 Corinthians 5:19.

[536] See e.g., John 17:20-26.

[537] See e.g., Luke 2:14; John 1:14, 16-18; Romans 5:2, 11-12; 2 Corinthians 5:18; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 4:14-16; Hebrews 10:19.

[538] See e.g., Luke 2:14; Luke 24:47; John 14:15-18, 26-27; John 16:33; Acts 4:12; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:23.

[539] See e.g., John 14:17, 26.

[540] See e.g., Romans 5:3-5; Philippians 1:19-21.

[541] See e.g., John 16:26; John 16:7; Romans 8:26.

[542] See e.g., Jeremiah 31:33-34; John 1:14, 17; John 14:6, 15-17; John 16:13; 1 Corinthians 2:12-13; Hebrews 8:10-11; 1 John 2:27.

[543] See e.g., John 4:24; John 14:6, 17; John 15:26-27; John 16:13-15; 1 Corinthians 2:6-16.

[544] See Romans 1:16-17; 1 Corinthians 1:18, 24; 2 Corinthians 3:17.

[545] See e.g., Acts 1:8; Acts 4:13, 29, 31

[546] See e.g., 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:12.

[547] See e.g., Galatians 5:22-23; Romans 8:5-14.

[548] See e.g., 1 Corinthians 3:18.

[549] See e.g., John 6:63, 68; Romans 1:16-17; 2 Corinthians 3:6, 17-18; 2 Corinthians 5:17.

[550] See e.g., John 14:26; 1 Corinthians 2:13; Philippians 2:12-13.

[551] See e.g., Isaiah 54:13; Jeremiah 31:33-34; John 6:44-45.

[552] See e.g., John 14:15-17, 20-24; John 15:10; 12; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 4:4-6, 12-13; 1 John 5:2-3, 7.

[553] See e.g., Genesis 6:3; 1 Samuel 16:13-14

[554] See e.g., Romans 6:1-2; Galatians 5:19-21.

[555] See e.g., Ecclesiastes 9:3; Jeremiah 17:9-10.

[556] See e.g., Romans 7:1-25.

[557] See e.g., Romans 8:5-14; Galatians 5:22-25.

[558] See e.g., John 16:8; Romans 8:1-4.

[559] See e.g., John 16:33; Ephesians 1:17-20; Ephesians 3:16-19; Philippians 4:19.

[560] See e.g., Ephesians 5:18.

[561] See e.g., Romans 8:29; Galatians 5:22-23.

[562] See e.g., Exodus 34:5-7, Numbers 14:18; 2 Chronicles 30:9; Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 86:15; Psalm 103:8; Jeremiah 9:24; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2; James 5:11.

[563] See e.g., Exodus 3:5; Exodus 15:11; Exodus 19:5-6; Leviticus 11:44-45; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:7, 26; Joshua 5:15; 2 Chronicles 5:13; Psalm 51:11-12; Psalm 106:1; Isaiah 6:3; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Peter 1:15-16; 1 Peter 2:9-10; Revelation 4:8.

[564] See e.g., Romans 6:6, 14, 20, 22; Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 5:13, 16-26; James 1:25-27; 1 Peter 2:16-17.

[565] See e.g., John 13:34-35; John 15:10, 12; Galatians 5:6, 14; Galatians 6:2.

[566] See e.g., Romans 8:2-3.

[567] See e.g., Acts 22:16; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 30; 1 Corinthians 6:11.

[568] See e.g., John 4:14; John 7:37-39.

[569] See e.g., Romans 5:5; Titus 3:5-6.

[570] See e.g., Romans 5:5; Romans 8:35-39.

[571] See e.g., John 14:27; John 15:11-12; John 16:7, 33; Acts 2:33; Acts 5:31-32; Romans 5:1; Philippians 4:6-7.

[572] See e.g., John 3:15-17, 36; John 16:33; Romans 8:14-17; Romans 10:9; 1 John 4:15.

[573] See e.g., Colossians 1:15, 18.

[574] See e.g., Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 48:12; Revelation 1:4-5, 8; 17; Revelation 2:8; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:12-13.

[575] See e.g., Revelation 1:8; Revelation 2:8; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:13.

[576] See e.g., 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6; Colossians 1:15, 19-20; Colossians 2:9-10; Hebrews 1:3.

[577] See e.g., 1 Corinthians 8:6.

[578] See e.g., Matthew 26:39, 42; John 12:49-50; John 14:31; John 15:10; Romans 5:12-21; 1 Corinthians 15:45; Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 5:8.

[579] See e.g., John 1:14, 17; John 10:16, 27; John 14:6; John 18:37; 1 John 5:20.

[580] See e.g., John 1:1; Hebrews 3:1; John 1:1; 1 John 5:11, 20; Revelation 19:13.

[581] See e.g., John 1:1-5; Colossians 2:2-3; Hebrews 1:2.