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Why Jesus? Part 3
Why Jesus? Part 3
Three Needs
As we said in Part 2 of this series, aloneness is the single most internal stress factor. Just ask anyone who has had a breakup, a lost job, an impending surgery, a visit to a dentist’s office, a call to go into battle or a dreaded confrontation with someone who has power to do you in. There is no question it is you and you alone that must go through the experience. Fear-laced anticipation forms and spews out all kinds of ominous imaginary outcomes.
If we dare venture into what drives our lives and ask the questions of who I am and why I exist only lonely frustration emerges. As one book title describes it, “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” for which a saddened old Elvis Presley song advises “…go down to the end of Lonely Street, there’s Heartbreak Hotel. I’m feelin’ so lonely baby, I’m feelin’ so lonely, I’m feelin’ so lonely I could die.”
The reason we are alone is because we inherited that condition from Adam and Eve who made a spiritual choice. They chose to live their lives apart from God. The Spirit that bound them to God left them and they discovered that they were not only separated from God, they were separated from each other. What filled the spiritual void in them was what is called sin, which produces an all-consuming spiritual self-centeredness, which is the essence of aloneness. Instead of a sense of oneness with the world of others there came the dread of being alone and its companion fear that made them try to outrun being alone, which they could never do. They were alone and knew it. As generations passed the distance between man and God grew until “Every inclination of a man’s heart was only evil all the time. (Gen.6:5)” As the writer of Ecclesiastes put it, “God made man simple but man complicated it.” Aloneness is truly separation from God and others.
So our first and deepest need is to replace sin and its product aloneness and relief from the fear that is its fuel. You can’t see loneliness but you can feel it. Our need is to face it. That is the beginning of how we understand we are created in the image of God, how we deal with aloneness and become its master instead of it mastering us.
As we said in Part 2 this is the condition Jesus took upon Himself to show God is willing to bring us out of it by coming into our aloneness and taking part in it. The way He overcame aloneness was by faith. Unlike us who are born by lonely people Jesus was born into the flesh by the Holy Spirit through Mary. He believed and trusted His Father in everything He thought and did by the power of the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of Jesus.
Jesus showed us that our second biggest need was for faith in God. The only difference between Jesus’ aloneness and ours is that being born by the Spirit and living faithfully He never sinned. He was faithful to the core. He loved His Father first, only obeyed His Father’s will first and taught others to do the same. While sin conditioned everyone else its temptations could never dominate Him and when He was crucified He defeated the power of sin, death and its aloneness, by His death and overcoming it by His Resurrection.
Jesus showed us our third biggest need. We need to be born again (John 3). We need to be born in the Spirit to be faithful, overcome our aloneness and live for God. While we were born in the flesh we were not born in the Spirit because we inherited separation from God from our parents all the way back to Adam and Eve. We have to be born by the Spirit of God to be restored to Him who is spirit by nature. This is why the Father offers us the ability to be spiritually born by accepting a relationship with His Son who gives the Holy Spirit to restore us to His Father and His Son. As He said, “You must be born from above.”
It is Jesus who redirects us to see things spiritually as He sees them. When we have Jesus we are given a spiritual perspective on everything. We look through His Word to see what is taking place around us. By His Spirit we discern the invisible attitudes and spirits that motivate the world. With His Spirit we can differentiate between good from evil outside of us, sin and its temptations within and with the Lord as our guide, the truth of His Word from the false standards of an evil world. As Paul said, “Now we see through a glass darkly but then we shall see face to face, now I know in part but then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known (1Cor.13:12).”
In Part 4 we’ll look at real needs as opposed to perceived needs and how we meet them. Stay tuned.
Three Needs
As we said in Part 2 of this series, aloneness is the single most internal stress factor. Just ask anyone who has had a breakup, a lost job, an impending surgery, a visit to a dentist’s office, a call to go into battle or a dreaded confrontation with someone who has power to do you in. There is no question it is you and you alone that must go through the experience. Fear-laced anticipation forms and spews out all kinds of ominous imaginary outcomes.
If we dare venture into what drives our lives and ask the questions of who I am and why I exist only lonely frustration emerges. As one book title describes it, “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” for which a saddened old Elvis Presley song advises “…go down to the end of Lonely Street, there’s Heartbreak Hotel. I’m feelin’ so lonely baby, I’m feelin’ so lonely, I’m feelin’ so lonely I could die.”
The reason we are alone is because we inherited that condition from Adam and Eve who made a spiritual choice. They chose to live their lives apart from God. The Spirit that bound them to God left them and they discovered that they were not only separated from God, they were separated from each other. What filled the spiritual void in them was what is called sin, which produces an all-consuming spiritual self-centeredness, which is the essence of aloneness. Instead of a sense of oneness with the world of others there came the dread of being alone and its companion fear that made them try to outrun being alone, which they could never do. They were alone and knew it. As generations passed the distance between man and God grew until “Every inclination of a man’s heart was only evil all the time. (Gen.6:5)” As the writer of Ecclesiastes put it, “God made man simple but man complicated it.” Aloneness is truly separation from God and others.
So our first and deepest need is to replace sin and its product aloneness and relief from the fear that is its fuel. You can’t see loneliness but you can feel it. Our need is to face it. That is the beginning of how we understand we are created in the image of God, how we deal with aloneness and become its master instead of it mastering us.
As we said in Part 2 this is the condition Jesus took upon Himself to show God is willing to bring us out of it by coming into our aloneness and taking part in it. The way He overcame aloneness was by faith. Unlike us who are born by lonely people Jesus was born into the flesh by the Holy Spirit through Mary. He believed and trusted His Father in everything He thought and did by the power of the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of Jesus.
Jesus showed us that our second biggest need was for faith in God. The only difference between Jesus’ aloneness and ours is that being born by the Spirit and living faithfully He never sinned. He was faithful to the core. He loved His Father first, only obeyed His Father’s will first and taught others to do the same. While sin conditioned everyone else its temptations could never dominate Him and when He was crucified He defeated the power of sin, death and its aloneness, by His death and overcoming it by His Resurrection.
Jesus showed us our third biggest need. We need to be born again (John 3). We need to be born in the Spirit to be faithful, overcome our aloneness and live for God. While we were born in the flesh we were not born in the Spirit because we inherited separation from God from our parents all the way back to Adam and Eve. We have to be born by the Spirit of God to be restored to Him who is spirit by nature. This is why the Father offers us the ability to be spiritually born by accepting a relationship with His Son who gives the Holy Spirit to restore us to His Father and His Son. As He said, “You must be born from above.”
It is Jesus who redirects us to see things spiritually as He sees them. When we have Jesus we are given a spiritual perspective on everything. We look through His Word to see what is taking place around us. By His Spirit we discern the invisible attitudes and spirits that motivate the world. With His Spirit we can differentiate between good from evil outside of us, sin and its temptations within and with the Lord as our guide, the truth of His Word from the false standards of an evil world. As Paul said, “Now we see through a glass darkly but then we shall see face to face, now I know in part but then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known (1Cor.13:12).”
In Part 4 we’ll look at real needs as opposed to perceived needs and how we meet them. Stay tuned.
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Comment by Karen Rauch on February 15, 2009 at 6:20pm
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I am so pleased with this study... I am sending it to my son so he can share with others. Thanks for getting this site started.
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Comment by HKHaugan on February 14, 2009 at 10:11pm
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Thanks Martha, I hope everyone reads these comments. ><>W
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Comment by Martha H. McGinnis on February 14, 2009 at 9:42pm
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This is a great lesson...this leads us to know how important for us to treat our Christians friends with the love of Jesus by listen to them and understand that everyone goes though this aloneness with every trial. We can only do this by reading God.s Love Letters to us...As He tells us John 13:34b..Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." To him be the glory and honor,both now and forevermore...martha
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