17/01/2021 - JESUS SHOWS HE IS GOD’S SON

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But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Mark 2:8

Christ showed He was God’s Son when questioning the scribes about why the reasoned within themselves, after He forgave the sins of the paralytic. The truth is that man shouldn’t have any doubt as to the origin of the Nazarene. Now, at all times, while the had their eyes upon Him, the scribes didn’t see anything wrong in the declarations and accomplishments of the Lord. Pay attention: those who don´t surrender before the Most High are actually rejecting the Truth. 

With His behavior, Jesus showed He was one with the Father. We know they are three distinct and separate persons in the Holy Trinity, but only one God. Some say the Most High is the Father and sometimes He is the Son and at other times He is the Holy Spirit. But that´s not true. In Jesus’s baptism in the Jordan, we see all three of them operating together (Matthew 3:16,17). 

The scribes couldn’t understand the divine work, although they knew what Isaiah said about the Messiah: For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). Therefore, they were wrong when they questioned Jesus’s action in the life of the paralytic, who was in that condition for having done something bad. However, he was saved and healed. 

That man heard the statement everybody wants to hear: your sins are forgiven. From that moment on, he believed that if he received the most important blessing, he would also receive the least. That´s the absolute truth. If God placed our sins upon Christ, wouldn’t He also place the diseases and infirmities? Now, we have been healed by His stripes. 

Isaiah spoke about this torture, saying: Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:4,5). Do we have the right or not to claim healing of any evil? 

Why argue about these and other issues, if God was clear when He said that we were healed by Jesus’s stripes? We must preach this message throughout the world. Then, people will understand that Christ is the true Substitute. He came and suffered in our place for us not to suffer. With the death, vivification and resurrection of the Savior, the devil can no longer touch us. We are free!  

Man will never find the Savior somewhere else, only in Scriptures. However, those who hear the Word and believe in it, suddenly decide to receive Jesus as Savior. Thus, the devil can no longer work in that person’s life. In the Lord, we are fully saved, forgiven and delivered.

In Christ, with love,

R. R. Soares