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Our Father Who Art In Heaven, please take Your day and use us, Your humble servants, for Your Good and Perfect Will. Father, help to engrain Your Knowledge and Truth in us so we may, when confronted with doubt or naysayers, properly “Defend The Faith.” Finally Father, give us the Grace and Peace Only found in You and in Your Son Jesus Christ, Our King and Messiah. We ask You this with open hearts, minds, and willing spirits in Yeshua, Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Good morning Brothers and Sisters. Today is our last review, then on to the new. Continuing in our series “Defending The Faith,” today let's take a look into three divine facts about Our King, Savior, and The Only Person To Ever "Get It Right," Yeshua, Jesus Christ. Our Father made sure and left us all the verification of His Mighty Son any of us will ever need. If you have ever wondered, "is it all true?," I encourage you not only continue in this series with us, but also to keep looking beyond just this series of devotions, because I have no doubt you will come to the same conclusion so many of us have... Jesus Christ is King. God Bless everybody and have a wonderful divine Yeshua-Filled Day! Without further delay, here are 3 divine facts about Yeshua, The Son Of God and Our Eternal Savior. - Defending The Faith Part 2: 3 Divine Facts About Yeshua, Jesus Christ, The King of Kings “Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the Salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to DEFEND THE FAITH that God has entrusted once for all time to HIS HOLY PEOPLE.” Jude 1:3 1.) Yeshua, Jesus Christ, Is The Most Written About, Studied, and Influential Person Who Ever Walked The Face of The Earth. Yesterday I shared how I open up my conversations about God with an interesting Bible Fact. Again, put into perspective, one begins to understand the immeasurable and unmatchable impact The Bible and Yeshua, Jesus Christ, have had on, and in, the world. Just in case some of you missed the opening I use for "3 Divine Facts About The Holy Bible," I will include it here bc it usually precedes my statement about Jesus. The opening to my conversations about God, The Bible, and Jesus go hand in hand, so here is my customary opening for them all: If God Wrote a book, what would it be? Probably the best selling book in the history of the existence of man... it is. And if God Had A Son, who do you think He would be? Probably the most written about, most influential, and most studied man in the history of the existence of man... He Is. This really goes hand in hand with our previous devotion on facts about The Bible. It being a fact that The Bible is the most accurate book in history, it would only make sense that we recognize Jesus, for He is indeed called The Word of God, the same name given to The Holy Bible. One doesn't have to search to far on the internet to get confirmation of this. If you are a believer, it is apparent the infinite reaching breadth and scope of Jesus's life and ministry, but even if you aren't a believer it is nearly impossible to intelligently argue against. Not only have more books been written about Yeshua Our King, Jesus, than any other person in history by far (and this is excluding The Bible), but one only needs to look to His critics to confirm this, and His Influence on this world. Traditionally most all media sources are critical of The Gospel, including Time Magazine, but that can't stop them from reporting The Truth on this matter. Check out this extensive study conducted by Time Magazine on the most influential people in History... Who is Number One? You guessed it... Christ The King: https://ideas.time.com/2013/12/10/whos-biggest-the-100-most-significant-figures-in-history/ 2.) Following Yeshua's (Jesus's) Resurrection From The Dead, He Appeared To A Multitude Of Eye Witnesses as Proof Of His Existence and Historical Accuracy Since we have established The Bible as The Most Accurate Body of Historical Writing on the face of the earth, I think we have to begin here. Just in The Bible Alone we have 7 weeks worth of eyewitness testimony. After His resurrection alone, Jesus appeared to hundreds and possibly thousands of people. Recorded in The Bible, after His resurrection, He once appeared to 500 at one time (1 Corinthians 15:6). Hard to have 500 people hallucinate the same thing, as a matter of fact, it's just not arguable. Going further than just The Bible, we have a number of historians that reported on Jesus, including Josephus, Tacitus, and many others. In court cases the strongest evidence one can have is an eye witness. The more witnesses, the stronger the case. In the case of Our Savior... His Case is "iron clad." In The Bible we are told that "on the testimony of two or three witnesses everything shall be established (2 Corinthians 13:1 among other places)." I think Our Father was doing just a little more than establishing His Son with the large number of witnesses... He was writing it in Stone (pun intended). This is indeed a truly amazing and indisputable fact about The Son of God. 3.) Yeshua (Jesus's) Followers Were Scared, In Hiding, and Had Immense Fear of Death By Roman Torture After His Death and Burial. What Is The Only Thing That Can Change Men's Hearts From That Kind of Fear? Belief and Resurrection of Their Master, The Messiah. It has been established by many psychologists, behavioral specialist, and other professionals that the 180 degree change in attitude Yeshua's followers displayed is guaranteed proof of not only Jesus's Ministry, but also iron clad evidence of His Resurrection. One doesn't have to be a professional to figure this Truth out. What could change a bunch of hiding and scared people fleeing from a death sentence, not only to come out of hiding, but to also boldly speak out in front of all their persecutors? Well, I think seeing Your Master "in the flesh" after hundreds of people, including some of them, witnessed His death would do it. Just let this sink in for a minute... Those same scared and fleeing men and women suddenly had such a conversion that not only did they come out publicly unafraid, but were willing to all die in the face of opposition. Not only were they willing to die, but willing to die in extraordinary ways of torture... and never give up His Name. The disciples are recorded as: being boiled alive, skinned, decapitated, being clubbed, being sawed in half, and stoned among other various tortures throughout their ministries, following Christ's Resurrection. John is the only one who was not killed, but he was boiled in hot oil. Wow, Praise God Our Father for the numerous proofs we can see about Our Lord and Savior Yeshua, Jesus Christ, Living, Dying, and Coming Back To Life... For Us! These are just 3 of the many, amazing, and life changing facts about Yeshua, Jesus Christ Our Savior, or as some of us believers like to appropriately call Him, The King. Once again, I think it very strange that we don't learn this history in our schools and for this simple fact: this information all comes from the most accurate and credible history book on the face of the earth. Nonetheless, with just these 3 facts we should all take a moment to reconsider our trust in The Son of God, Yeshua, Jesus Christ. I believe the whole world should as well. Tomorrow we will continue with more “Fire Bread” in our series “Defending The Faith Part 3,” but today let’s wrap-up with The Word of God. There are many, many verses in The Bible that speak about Our Messiah's amazing Life, Instruction, and Resurrection, today let's conclude with these 3: Jesus Christ, Yeshua, Died: “And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree.” Acts 10:39 NKJV Jesus Christ, Yeshua, Rose From Death: “But you denied the Holy One and The Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of Life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.” Acts 3:14-15 NKJV Jesus Christ, Yeshua, Is Alive After Conquering Death: “They were still talking about it when — there He was, standing among them! Startled and terrified, they thought they were seeing a ghost. But He said to them, “Why are you so upset? Why are these doubts welling up inside you? Look at My Hands and My Feet — it is I, Myself! Touch Me and see — a ghost doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you can see I do.” Luke 24:36-39 CJB
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