Jesus The Cross For The 21 St Century (birth, Life, Ministry, Death, And Resurrection Of Jesus Christ).

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Jesus the Cross for the 21 st century (birth, Life, Ministry, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ)

In the gospels of Luke and Matthews, the holiday of Christmas is described as the day on which Jesus Christ was born. Although both of these accounts differ from each other in so many other aspects but they agree on the fact that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea during the kingdom of King Herod the Great, his mother Marry was married to a person whose name was Joseph he was descendant of Kind Davis but he was not the biological father of Lord Christ because his birth was basically a divine intervention. It is a fact that the life of Lord Jesus did not commence just like the life of all other individuals at the time of his birth but he came into this world from an existent condition in order to complete a particular function. Matthew in his Gospel introduces the arrival of Jesus Christ with these words " A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham. In his introduction, the names of David and Abraham must be mentioned and it was quite significant because to these two God gave some particular unconditional and eternal covenants which determined the course of the history of the entire Isreali state. Although the date of birth of Christ is not mentioned in any of the Gospels some of the prominent scholars assume the date of birth to be between 6BC and 4 BC, having said that the historical proofs are quite ambiguous to permit a definitive dating. As these dates are, mentioned in the historical gospel of Mathews and Luke, therefore, t is said that indeed Christ was born between these dates. Therefore Christmas is celebrated around the globe in order to celebrate the day Christ was born (HISTORY, 2019).

Most of the life incidents that are known about the life of Jesus Christ are given by canonical Gospels which are written by Luke, Matthews and John. Although these biographies are not in the modern sense but they account with allegorical intent. In these gospels as well very little is written and known about the early life of Jesus Christ. From these biographies, one thing is clear that from a very young age he was keenly involved in teaching the word and wisdom of God. When he was 12 years old he was found in a temple sitting right next to the midst doctors and he was not only listening to them but also asking questions from them. And all the people who were present there at that time were surprised by his wisdom and also understanding with which he was asking the questions (Biography, 2019).

When Jesus Christ was 30 years old he entered into public awareness. The Baptists named John did preach about the coming of a Messiah thus preparing for the Jesus ministry. John baptized Jesus Christ, and when Jesus used to preach at the time of his baptism, all the doors of the heaven used to open and spirits used to descend on him in a bodily form like a dove and also a voice came from the heaven that you are my son whom I love the most and I am quite pleased from you. After this particular time, Jesus went into the wilds for a brief time of prayers and fasting in order to prepare for his ministry. When he was in that period evil used to come and distract him with some temptations but he used to control all of the temptations and focus on the task thus giving a vast message that temptations are timely only and that can be controlled quite efficiently. After that, he began to spread the message of repentance and among all his followers he chose 12 men and with those twelve men he worked quite closely, where he taught them everything in detail and quite intensely than the rest of the population. Later these 12 men were known as the twelve disciples. All the teachings and messages of Jesus challenged and also encourage those followers who heard and tried to understand them, while some of the population were only entertained and others were angered by the message of Jesus. In this entire course, Jesus performed many miracles of healing and also restoration and also miracles just to teach a lesson to the people. Throughout this period Jesus guided the lost ones towards the real and right path, through his teaching Jesus conquered death and also grave for all those people who trusted him and also believed in his teachings (Klaus).

The death and also the resurrection of Jesus Christ are two of the most important events in the history of human beings because the Jesus death became the basis for the entire human race to become a basis for the eternal salvation. Jesus was basically arrested in the gardens of Gethsemane, then he endured a total of six trials, three of the trials were taken by the Jewish leaders and rest of the three trials were taken by the Roman leaders (Pentecost, 2016, page 54). During the trails he was mocked and also beaten, the Pilate did try to compromise with the religious leaders by beating Jesus but this also was not enough to satisfy them so he was crucified. He was beaten and mocked by the soldiers and then he was dressed in a purple rob. He was the crucified in Golgotha, once he was crucified then the sky turned dark for almost three hours. Death of Jesus in itself is a two-fold and that is why it is hard to wrap a person mind around. His death was done only to lose a spiritually dead world to God (Death of Jesus).

It is a Christian belief that once Jesus was crucified he was raised by God from his death. Without this particular belief, the idea that God saved grace by raising Jesus Christ will be destroyed forever. He was raised from the dead then he confirmed the thought that he was actually the Son of God and also hos work of salvation and redemption. The resurrection was basically a real and also bodily raising or lifting Jesus Christ body from dead. The resurrection of Jesus is important because without it there would be no churches because once Jesus was arrested and death all the disciples were hopeless and some of them even ran away, it is only the idea of resurrection that guided the people and united them and later it became one of the most important movements of the history. The resurrection of Jesus is the message to all the mankind that Jesus is not dead but he is raised by the God and also his message of justice and righteousness will prevail in the entire world one day.

Work Cited

“Death of Jesus.” AllAboutJesusChrist.org, www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/death-of-jesus-faq.htm.

Biography. (2019). Jesus Christ. [online] Available at: https://www.biography.com/people/jesus-christ-9354382 [Accessed 10 Apr. 2019]

HISTORY. (2019). Christ is born?. [online] Available at: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/christ-is-born [Accessed 10 Apr. 2019].

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Pentecost, J. (2016). The words and works of Jesus Christ. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.