Jesus Christ: Celebrating the fountain of life
April 4 2014. By Abi Giwa
Pope Francis acting Christ's injunction that says let the children come unto me for their is the kingdom of heaven
It is the weekend of the Easter celebration. Activities have begun a week earlier with the commemoration of Palm Sunday, in remembrance of Jesus Christ's entry into Jerusalem, much against persuasion of his disciples of the danger involved.
Christ was not the type of man who exercised fears about the unknown. The scripture said Christ knew more than his disciples what awaited him in Jerusalem. And the good book confirmed it that Christ submitted to the travail for humanity's sake, having been ordained as a ransom to save humanity.
At the point of his arrest, Peter was ready to do battle with a spear drawn, cut off the ear of one of the arresting officers, but Christ ordered Peter to shield his sword, replaced the severed ear of the arresting officer and accused Peter of ignorance about what was to happen.
Many other people in Christ's shoes would have used the mysterious power he had to save themselves than submit to travail, humiliation and very painful death on the cross. From the point of his arrest, Christ was whipped, beaten and flogged until it seemed there was no more strength in him to bare continued dehumanization of his physical body. His disciples disappeared into the thin air in fulfillment of a prophesy he had given that they would deny him in the face of trouble.
They denied him. Christ was almost broken physically, but he was intact in spirit. Thus his appearance to his disciples in Galilee on the third day called resurrection paved the way for further meeting at Pentecost and the manifestation of his power and the distribution of same power - called Holy Ghost - to his disciples. After he told them to gather on Pentecost and promised to empower them to continue his work, he went into heaven.
He fulfilled his promise on the Pentecost by delivering on them power to heal the sick, wake the dead, and ability to see dreams, feed the hungry, see visions and prophesy and they began to do marvelous works like Jesus did in his lifetime. This society of disciples were close knit; they brought together all they had and shred them in common and none lacked anything.the friction that existed between the rulers of the land and Jesus Christ continued to exist between his disciples and rulers of the land.
The disciples believe that what rulers of the land have denied them Christ - whom they believe as a fountain of all good things -continued to be source of their needs. The close knit group became a veritable example of the type Utopian existence, where no evil or anything contrary to humanity's well being existed, in comparison to the larger world around them.
It is still how it is today; the larger world is rotten with diverse sicknesses and death, while the small close knit group of believers, and not the modern days' abracadabra of wealth seeking souls who call themselves pastors that they are not, continued to live in agreement to the dictates of Christ and don't experience the evil in the larger world. There are many people still who are heavy laden as in Christ's days and in need of succor. The same way that the world failed to heed Christ's call to the truth, the same way the modern generation has gone its own way.
Many believers say the most important teaching by Christ is his injunction to allow children come unto to him, because unlike adults they have no enemies, don't discriminate and are free from deliberate sins.
Christ was not the type of man who exercised fears about the unknown. The scripture said Christ knew more than his disciples what awaited him in Jerusalem. And the good book confirmed it that Christ submitted to the travail for humanity's sake, having been ordained as a ransom to save humanity.
At the point of his arrest, Peter was ready to do battle with a spear drawn, cut off the ear of one of the arresting officers, but Christ ordered Peter to shield his sword, replaced the severed ear of the arresting officer and accused Peter of ignorance about what was to happen.
Many other people in Christ's shoes would have used the mysterious power he had to save themselves than submit to travail, humiliation and very painful death on the cross. From the point of his arrest, Christ was whipped, beaten and flogged until it seemed there was no more strength in him to bare continued dehumanization of his physical body. His disciples disappeared into the thin air in fulfillment of a prophesy he had given that they would deny him in the face of trouble.
They denied him. Christ was almost broken physically, but he was intact in spirit. Thus his appearance to his disciples in Galilee on the third day called resurrection paved the way for further meeting at Pentecost and the manifestation of his power and the distribution of same power - called Holy Ghost - to his disciples. After he told them to gather on Pentecost and promised to empower them to continue his work, he went into heaven.
He fulfilled his promise on the Pentecost by delivering on them power to heal the sick, wake the dead, and ability to see dreams, feed the hungry, see visions and prophesy and they began to do marvelous works like Jesus did in his lifetime. This society of disciples were close knit; they brought together all they had and shred them in common and none lacked anything.the friction that existed between the rulers of the land and Jesus Christ continued to exist between his disciples and rulers of the land.
The disciples believe that what rulers of the land have denied them Christ - whom they believe as a fountain of all good things -continued to be source of their needs. The close knit group became a veritable example of the type Utopian existence, where no evil or anything contrary to humanity's well being existed, in comparison to the larger world around them.
It is still how it is today; the larger world is rotten with diverse sicknesses and death, while the small close knit group of believers, and not the modern days' abracadabra of wealth seeking souls who call themselves pastors that they are not, continued to live in agreement to the dictates of Christ and don't experience the evil in the larger world. There are many people still who are heavy laden as in Christ's days and in need of succor. The same way that the world failed to heed Christ's call to the truth, the same way the modern generation has gone its own way.
Many believers say the most important teaching by Christ is his injunction to allow children come unto to him, because unlike adults they have no enemies, don't discriminate and are free from deliberate sins.
