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 Answer:
The Bible tells us
that Jesus is the Messiah, the long awaited Savior.
The Bible tells us that Jesus is God.1
He is the second person of the Trinity,2 being very
and eternal God, of one substance and equal to the Father.
The Bible tells us further that at just the right time he came
into the world and took upon human flesh.3
Being fully God and fully man he became the mediator between God
and man.4 As
mediator and federal head, Jesus redeemed fallen man by living a sinless
life to satisfy the righteous requirements of the law,5 by
offering himself as an atoning sacrifice6 on the cross of
Calvary for sin, and by rising from the dead that those he represented
might have newness of life.7
According to God’s pleasure, purpose and plan,8
Jesus, submitted to, underwent and triumphed through the cross, proving
himself to be God’s anointed and freely providing reconciliation thru
his blood.9 This
gift of God's GRACE is the good news of the gospel.10
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(1)
John 1:1 (NIV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God,
and the Word was God.
(2) Matthew 28:19 (NIV) Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit,
(3) John 1:14 (NIV) The Word became flesh and made his dwelling
among us. We
have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the
Father,
full of grace and truth.
(4) 1 Timothy 2:5 (NIV) For there is one God and one mediator
between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus,
(5) 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV) God made him who had no sin to be
sin for us, so
that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
(6) Romans 3:25 (NIV) God presented him as a sacrifice of
atonement, through
faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in
his
forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished-
(7) Galatians 3:13 (NIV) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the
law by
becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who
is hung
on a tree."
(8) Acts 2:23 (NIV) This man was handed over to you by God's set
purpose and
foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by
nailing him to the cross.
(9) Colossians 1:20 (NIV) and through him to reconcile to himself
all things,
whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his
blood, shed on the cross.
(10) Romans 6:23 (NIV) For the wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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