What is Christianity?
| Christianity is about God reaching out his hand in friendship to mankind. Christians believe that the whole world and everything in it was created by God. God is a personal being, a living God who is three, yet one: Father, Son and Spirit, just as we human beings have body, mind and soul! (see the Trinity).
The Bible says God created people in his image, to love him. Yet every person has rebelled against God and sinned. Yet instead of turning his back on us, God became a man, Jesus, who most scholars believe was born about the year 4 BC and lived among us. He taught a message of love throughout Palestine but public opinion turned against him and he was executed as a young man.
He died because of us - the death that we should have died. He was crucified on a cross, but he rose from the dead, and now calls us to trust him, to love him and to repent of our rebellion. If we do this, then we our relationship with God becomes restored and we will live forever with God.
Many non-Christians may think that being a Christian is about belonging to a particular church or following a certain set of rule. Most Christians however would agree that at its root, being a Christian means to be in a living relationship with Jesus.
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January, 17 - Daily Devotions
January Scripture Portion: Genesis 1 - Leviticus 3 including the book of Exodus.
Chapter 49 continues Jacob's last message and his dying blessing. He assembled his twelve sons together to prophesy of their tribal future. The prophecy, covered in verses 3-27, covers the entire sweep of Israelite history--past, present, and future. The prophecy concerning Reuben (verses 3 and 4) and Simeon and Levi (verses 5 and 7) characterized the nation of Israel until the Messiah 's advent. Judah (verses 8-12) pointed to the period when our Lord was on the earth. Zebulun (verse 13) and Issachar) verses 14 and 15) portrayed Israel, a trading people scattered among the nations. Verses 16-18 suggest apostate Israel during the reign of the Antichrist. Gad (verse 10), Asher (verse 20) and Naphtali (verse 21) portray the Godly Jewish remnant of the Great Tribulation, and then Joseph (verses 22-26) speaks of the second advent of Messiah , and Benjamin of the rod-of-iron righteous rule of the King in the Kingdom Age.
The deaths of Jacob and Joseph are recorded in chapter 50. Jacob was buried in Canaan, the land God had given him. He did not belong to the world or to Egypt. Joseph was buried in Egypt, but as we read the Book of Exodus we will see that Moses took Joseph's remains from Egypt when the children of Israel left there.
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