The Message

In the World today many of the "religious" associate themselves with an individual who lived on this world in the past or even in the present. What is more important in GOD's Plan relative to any true prophet or saint--the messenger or the message?

Suggested by: RLC

John 16:7 - King James Version - Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

This statement made by Jesus was of some confusion to those who heard it, but it reveals a truth that most today overlook Why didn't Jesus just remain on this planet and continue to teach after his resurrection? Having a teacher who demonstrated perfect understanding through miracles should remove all doubt as to the Truth he spoke for a much larger portion of the world. What if he continued to live from generation to generation--never aging--and if anyone attempted to kill him, their attempt could just be as though nothing even happened? This should convince those who were reluctant to believe in him. We would have a world completely united behind one all-powerful living being.

Instead we have a world full of different beliefs, and the majority do not even believe Jesus to be the person he said he was to those closest to him. Most of his followers appear to have a view of him similar to the one described above--according to the flesh. Unfortunately, this is the very view that GOD has attempted to prevent. It is a self-serving view and is focused on how the person or object of that view can satisfy a self-serving desire. This is a very difficult view to eliminate from our belief system since the self-serving view is the way we tend to view all things in this world before we believe in GOD or Jesus. When we begin to believe in GOD and Jesus as the one sent by GOD, we tend to only change the object(s) of our self-serving view. This is Satan's final trap! Matthew 7:22-23 is likely to be the final result if that view remains. We really need to understand the Truth revealed in such Bible verses.

Wait a minute! How else can we view Jesus if we do not view him as a living person who once walked this planet teaching and performing miracles? Well, it is okay to view Jesus in this way because it is true, but we must realize that Jesus, the individual who was sent by GOD and lived as described in the Bible, is not anyone's savior. Jesus's message, though, is everyone's savior if it is lived. His message is a way of life, and Jesus's life on this planet was a living allegory of what happens in all of us as well as a demonstration of the resulting way of life. If an unbeliever in Jesus--through ignorance or cultural circumstances and belief systems--grows in his way of life, then that person is as much a Christian as a believer who grows in his way of life.

It is the message that is more important than the messenger. As important as Jesus was to GOD and the world, the message, revealed through him, was much more important. In no way does this view reduce the sacrifice made by Jesus. His sacrifice only magnifies the importance of the message.

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