IF NOT JESUS CHRIST, THEN WHO?

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When the Lord Jesus Christ used five barley loaves and two fish to feed five thousand men not counting women and children (Matthew 14:13-21), the people were so stunned by this miracle that they wanted to make Jesus king by force but the Lord left the place without their notice (John 6:14-15).

The people still looked for the Lord Jesus because they wanted more of such miracles. However, when they had found Him, He told them something else that stunned them - that His body was real food and His blood was real drink and whoever ate His body and drank His blood would have eternal life and He would raise such person up on the last day (John 6:51-56).

When the people heard this, many of them stopped being Jesus' disciples and left because they felt the teaching was too difficult to follow (John 6:60, 66).

Rather than call them back to offer explanations since He meant what He said, the Lord Jesus asked His Apostles if they too wanted to leave to which Peter responded in John 6:68-69, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the Words that give eternal life. And now we believe and know that You are the Holy One who has come from God."

Dear friend, the Apostle Peter's words are instructive and if you are yet to give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, there is need to meditate on this Word of God. Peter and the other Apostles had stayed long enough with the Lord Jesus both in His public and private life.

They had seen and witnessed everything the Lord did during His public ministry and they had come to understand His person and had come to believe that indeed the Lord Jesus was the Messiah who had the Words of eternal life.

For anyone to come to understanding of an event, the person must study it in detail and seek all facts to come to that understanding. Without doing this diligently, it is difficult and erroneous to speak of that event since one is not abreast of the facts.

This is one of the reasons the disciples of Jesus Christ left when He gave them a new teaching. They were in too much of a hurry and missed the mark unlike Apostle Peter and others who knew better and stayed with Jesus.

The Lord Jesus Christ said something significant in John 6:65 "This is the very reason I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father makes it possible for him to do so."

As a Christian and follower of Jesus Christ, we must seek to understand His ways and teachings and ensure to obey it.

The reason for this is so we can be armed with information that would help us navigate through this life successfully and when we depart the world, we would earn the reward the Lord Jesus has promised to His disciples, which is eternal life.

Unfortunately, there are people, whom as the Lord Jesus Christ said, come to Him in repentance to earn salvation but because they do not seek His ways and teachings, fall along the way, backslide and go back to a life of sin and unrighteousness.

Jesus said in John 6:63, “What gives life is God's Spirit; man's power is of no use at all. The Words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit."

We find Jesus' Words of God's life-giving Spirit in the Holy Bible. A Christian must diligently study the Word of God in the bible and pray for the Holy Spirit to give understanding and also obey His teaching. Then shall the Christian have good success as the Lord has promised (Joshua 1:8) and will be able to ask for anything of God in Jesus' Name and receive it (John 15:7-8).

The question to ask now is, if not Jesus, then who? Anyone who does not follow the Lord Jesus Christ is living a very dangerous life.

Why do I say so? The Lord Jesus Christ answers as seen in His discussion with the Pharisees in John 8:42-44 "If God really were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and now I am here.

I did not come on my own authority, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to My message. You are the children of your father, the devil, and you want to follow your father's desires.

From the very beginning, he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies."

Dear friend, you have seen yourself from God's Word that anyone who is not following the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is following the devil, even if the person claims contrary.

Therefore, all who want eternal life must have Christ Jesus in them, by their words and deeds. Anything short of this is pure deceit and would make satan or the devil very happy because he wants souls to perish forever with him and his demons in hell.

Jesus Christ came to die for our sins to reconcile mankind to God to get into heaven in eternal life. The only time available for anyone to believe this, repent sincerely and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour is NOW, for tomorrow or later may be too late.

I urge you as always to make up your mind for there is no gain in not following Jesus Christ. There is great gain in following Jesus - the ONLY SOURCE OF ETERNAL LIFE.

God bless you as you heed His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.


Gabriel Ama.

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