Colossians 2:9
King James Version
9 For in him dwelleth
all the fulness of the Godhead
bodily.
Who was JESUS?
What was He called to do?
What did His ministry consist of?
Who called Him to do this sacred work?
Who better to tell us than JESUS Himself:
Luke 5:32
King James Version
32 I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance.
The Messiah's ministry as prophesied in the Old Testament:
Deuteronomy 18:15
King James Version
15 The Lord thy God
will raise up unto thee a Prophet
from the midst of thee, of thy brethren,
like unto me;
unto him ye shall hearken;
Isaiah 61:1-3
King James Version
61 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;
because the Lord hath anointed me
to preach good tidings unto the meek;
he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison
to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all that mourn;
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,
to give unto them beauty for ashes,
the oil of joy for mourning,
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
that they might be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord,
that he might be glorified.
And as JESUS communed with GOD, the Father:
John 17:2-3
King James Version
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh,
that he should give eternal life
to as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal,
that they might know thee the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
John 17:4
King James Version
4 I have glorified thee on the earth:
I have finished the work
which thou gavest me to do.
John 17:6-8
King James Version
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men
which thou gavest me out of the world:
thine they were, and thou gavest them me;
and they have kept thy word.
7 Now they have known
that all things whatsoever thou hast given me
are of thee.
8 For I have given unto them the words
which thou gavest me;
and they have received them,
and have known surely that I came out from thee,
and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John 17:12
King James Version
12 While I was with them in the world,
I kept them in thy name:
those that thou gavest me I have kept,
and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition;
that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:14
King James Version
14 I have given them thy word;
and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world.
John 17:17-19
King James Version
17 Sanctify them through thy truth:
thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world,
even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself,
that they also might be sanctified
through the truth.
John 17:20-23
King James Version
20 Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me
through their word;
21 That they all may be one;
as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us:
that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me
I have given them;
that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me,
that they may be made perfect in one;
and that the world may know that thou hast sent me,
and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:24
King James Version
24 Father, I will that they also,
whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am;
that they may behold my glory,
which thou hast given me:
for thou lovedst me
before the foundation of the world.
John 17:26
King James Version
26 And I have declared unto them thy name,
and will declare it:
that the love wherewith thou hast loved me
may be in them, and I in them.
In a revealing verse, apostle John tells us more:
John 21:25
King James Version
25 And there are also many other things
which Jesus did,
the which, if they should be written every one,
I suppose that even the world itself could not contain
the books that should be written.
Amen.
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