Quotes About Jesus

The lesson here is, the way of truth is a very narrow path. Jesus was the Word made flesh. He spoke the Word of truth because He was truth. So when he began to explain to his disciples what had to come to pass in order that man's redemption could be attained, he was speaking God's truth. But when Peter reacted as he did, he was using his five senses and was going directly against the revealed Word of truth. Thus he was stepping off the narrow path and into error.

Baptism is the sacramental doorway into the Church established by Jesus Christ. It removes our innate condition of original sin, washes away all actual sin and their effects, infuses sanctifying grace, illuminates with God's own presence, and incorporates the one baptized into the Body of Christ.

We should regard work not just as a platform for ministry—work is ministry, and we are stewards put in charge until Jesus comes back, a fifth column who infiltrate a world stained by sin, acting as salt that preserves the way of Christ and light that leads broken people out of darkness.

Interviewer: In terms of the wider mythology for your world, do we detect Christian influences? Pat: What it has is the archetype of the self-sacrificing god. But honestly, by the time Jesus did that, it was old news. A bunch of people did it before Jesus—and, to be fair, some people did it better

Perhaps to satisfy my curiosity, my mother enrolled me in Sunday school. We were taught by rote, Bible verses and the words of Jesus. Afterward we stood in line and were rewarded with a spoonful of comb honey. There was only one spoon in the jar to serve many coughing children. I instinctively shied from the spoon but I swiftly accepted the notion of God. It pleased me to imagine a presence above us, in continual motion, like liquid stars.

The pluralistic spirit of the age challenges the very raison d'etre of mission in a globalized world. If Jesus is not the only way, how does that affect our desire to go to dangerous, difficult places and into hardship situations? In the face of global pluralism, the church must proclaim Jesus Christ with theological integrity, critical contextualization and countercultural preaching.

These personal relationships make it more difficult to make generalized statements about who is in "spiritual darkness" and who is not, especially when many of our neighbors are nicer and more moral than some who call themselves Christian. Therefore, many North Americans, even those who call themselves followers of Jesus, conclude that all religions are fundamentally the same.

When Jesus told John the Baptist, "Perform this baptism on Me," John the Baptist replied, "Yes Sir, I will do so.

When Jesus Christ started His public ministry, the very first work accomplished by Him was the work of taking-on all our sins by receiving baptism in the Jordan River.

Through the last High Priest called John the Baptist, who was the representative of all humankind, Jesus took-on all the sins of all people.

These Words of Jesus speaks the Truth that God put John the Baptist here as the representative of all of humankind, and also had him baptize Jesus. As Jesus was bearing witness of John the Baptist He said, "Why did you go out into the wilderness?

sins completely by understanding and believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Jesus has enabled us to realize why He had to be baptized by John the Baptist, and because His baptism, He had to shed His blood by dying on the Cross. It is only when we reach this correct understanding of the gospel Truth that we can truly be saved and become God's own people.

All our sins, those committed in our childhood to those committed in adulthood and to the day we die, were completely passed onto the body of Jesus and were condemned. It is because all our sins were

When Jesus walked toward John the Baptist the day after He was baptized, John the Baptist bore witness by saying to the people, "Please take a look at Him. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. You people, take a look at Him! He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." Because he had passed-on all the sins of humanity onto Jesus by the baptism, he was able to bear witness personally to the fact that Jesus was the Savior.

John the Baptist who was described by Jesus like this bore witness to Jesus also by confirming, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"(John 1:29) It was John the Baptist who bore witness of Jesus by confirming, "Look! Jesus took away all the sins of the world, and He is none other than the Son of God;

Because in A.D. 30, Jesus took-on the sins of the world completely by receiving baptism from John the Baptist, John the Baptist pointed out Jesus the next day and said

Jesus personally bore witness to the fact that John the Baptist passed-on all the sins of the world onto Him. The Words in Matthew 11:12 bear witness that the sins of the world that being, all the sins of mankind were been passed onto Jesus by John baptizing Jesus.

In addition, John bore witness to the fact that he had passed-on all the sins of the world by baptizing Jesus. In other words, through his witness, John the Baptist made us know about the salvation through the atonement for sins.

As the representative of all mankind - John the Baptist was the one who passed the sins of the world onto Jesus by baptizing Him.

sacrificial offering that would make the sins of this world disappear and being baptized by him, Jesus fulfilled the prophesy about

Only in this form could the prophecies of the Old Testament be fulfilled, and it becomes possible for us to believe in God in the proper way. Because the High Priesthood is something set eternally by God, the sins of the world had to be passed-on through the baptism given to Jesus

Priest. In like manner, Jesus accepted all the sins of this world 'once and for al'l through the baptism

It Is Clear That John the Baptist Was the High Priest Who Was Entitled to Baptise Jesus by Laying His Hands on Jesus' Head to Atone for the Sins of the World

John the Baptist carried out the priesthood of passing-on the sins of humankind onto Jesus, who was sacrificial Lamb of God.