Who is Jesus, really?

Yes. Jesus is God who came in human form, lived without sin, died for our sins and rose again. Loving God and loving Jesus are the same thing.

Jesus said no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). His death pays for our sin; accepting Him as Lord is how that payment becomes ours.

No. One sin is enough to separate us from a holy God, and no amount of good deeds pays for it. Heaven is a free gift through Jesus: on a scale of 1 to 10 you are either a 10 in Christ or a 1 without Him.

No. He is the hospital, not the reward for getting well. Come today as you are; He changes you over time.

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0:00Welcome back to the Adam Redeem podcast. Yes, we have a name. Thank the Lord. Last time if you watch my previous podcast, we did not have a name. I believe God was going to give it to me in the perfect timing and he did as he always does. He spoke through a sister in Christ of mine. Just a great idea. It I was looking for something that would honestly have a double meaning and speak to my own relationship with Christ and give the glory and honor to God. And that's exactly what I believe this name does. To explain it, basically everybody knows Adam and Eve. They've heard of them at least. Adam was the first man and human to be created in this

0:46earth by God and Jesus is called the last Adam. Because what the first Adam broke, the last Adam fixed and redeemed. So that's the main reason for the name of the podcast. And the second reason is my name is Adam and it also kind of illustrates how God has redeemed me and changed me and did wonderful things in my life as well. So I just love the name. I'm just so happy to have a name. But yeah, in the first podcast God really put it strongly on my heart to just begin recording. There was no time to waste. And so I did. But yeah, we have a name

1:31now and yeah, I'm just I'm super excited to finally make all the branding and everything for for the podcast and all the different platforms. So So that's that. Today we're talking about Jesus. Who is he? How does he have any relation to God? Why should I care about him? He is just a curse word that we use. He's made fun of on TV, in movies. Who is this guy? He's become kind of a joke in our culture. Um, maybe you believe in God, maybe you have a relationship with God, but you don't understand this this Jesus guy. How does he have anything to do with your life? And how can he help you in any way?

2:17Well, first off, if you believe in God and you love God, then you love Jesus, too, because Jesus is God. As we discussed in the first podcast, when the fall of man happened, and we sinned against God, God removed himself from us. And this whole story of our life and what the Bible talks about is God bringing us back to him. That's the purpose of this life is the sin that we committed to bring us away from God is something that needed to be settled. It was uh a penalty that needed to be paid. And we were going to pay that

3:03penalty. Someone had to. We committed the crime. Every time we gossip, every time we lie, every time we lust, every time we cheat, steal, fornicate before marriage, any type of sin. There's There's many sins in the Bible. There's many things that bring us away from God. Many things that we were not created to do, but we've chosen to do out of the free will that God has given us. Those things needed to be paid for because God is not only our father, but he is a just judge. If he did not have a justice system, how could he be a good father? In our own life, our father, a good father that

3:50we may have, maybe you didn't grow up with father, maybe you did. But everybody knows that a good father corrects their children and teaches them which way to go instead. Just the same way our heavenly father does the same. So, in that way, there had to be a penalty for the sin that we commit. Because not only is he a good father and a good judge, but he also loves us and he's holy. And because he's holy, he has to separate himself from unholiness. And every time we sin, we are unholy. We become more unholy in his sight. So, as the Bible says and we discussed before, the wages of sin is death. That means when we sin, even just one

4:36sin, the Bible says if we committed one sin, we've broken all the laws. And that deserves death. Eternal death is separation from him for eternity. That is what hell is. And he does not want to be away from us. He loves us dearly. And all he wants is to bring us back to him. And so he could let us pay that penalty, which we deserve. This creation of his rebelled against him. He could easily just say, "I don't need these people anymore. I don't need these children. I'll make more. I'll do whatever I want. I'm God. I can do anything I want." But no, he loves us so much that he wants to bring us back to him. So, that's what he's doing. And that's who Jesus is.

5:22And I said is and not was because he's living. God basically limited his powers and came to Earth, his own creation, as a human with the same ability that he had as God, and lived amongst us. The reason he did that, yes, he wants to be with us, but he wants to be with us in heaven, in holiness, but he can't do that. So, he came here as a human amongst his people that rebelled against him and reviled him. And he lived a perfect life for 33 years, never sinned. And he himself took the penalty for us. He went up on that cross, and he took every sin that I've committed, every sin

6:09that you've committed, every sin that was ever committed and will be committed, on that cross as taking the punishment for his his love, which is you and I, so that we could be blameless in his sight and live with us once again in heaven. So, this if you believe in God, you might as well believe in Jesus because Jesus is God. He's just a different form of God. He just came here to be with his people and take the punishment for us. And that's something we all need to know. It also give us as God knows, cuz he created us, we relate to things that we understand.

6:54Like, that's the reason we watch movies, we watch TV shows, and we can relate to the things in them sometimes, and we we like it. That's why we watch these things. In the same way, God knows that living this life, we will not see him cuz he separated himself from us. But giving us himself in human form gives us something for us to relate to. A person that looks like us, a person that came here, a person and God at the same time, came here and experienced everything that we could have ever felt, so that we can't say when we look at God, "God, you don't know how this feels. You don't know the pain I'm going through. You don't know the loss I've suffered. You don't know the questions I have.

7:39These people make fun of me. I can never get my finances right. I struggle with this. I struggle with that. God coming here as Jesus gives us no reason to ever say those things to him. Because he lived it. This God who came here amongst the people in the earth that he created, turned our backs on him and hated him. Jesus lived a perfect life for 33 years. He lived from birth to 30 years old in anonymity. And and 30, he got baptized by John the Baptist and he started his ministry where he went out to the world. He recruited his disciples. He did miracles all over the place and then he died on

8:26the cross and resurrected the third day. In those 30 years he lived just a normal life. He was a carpenter. He had brothers and sisters, the Bible says. He just lived as Jesus the carpenter guy. Lived a quiet life. So he faced in those 30 years things that we face on a daily basis. Then to bring it to the extreme when he got baptized and started his ministry the most persecution you can imagine came against him. People hated him. People accused him. He stood on things that weren't typically fought for in those times. He went against the Pharisees which were

9:11a group of of religious people that were very stuck to the Old Testament and believed in one way and that was it. And Jesus stood up against them and called them liars and brood of vipers and flipped tables and did all these things that no one in that era really was doing and he got a lot of hate for it. And just as he talked about to the disciples, we are to love our enemies and bless our enemies, and pray for our enemies. And that's exactly what he did. He gave us a demonstration of how we are supposed to live our lives. So, not only was he here ready to die on the cross for us to bring us back to him in heaven, but he also gave us a demonstration and

9:57a friend and and someone to look up to and and want to be like and should be like throughout our life once we accept him as our lord. We are to live more like him. We are to see the things that he said and do the things that he said. And he did them. He didn't just tell us, he did them in the word. These things happened. And we are called to do the same things. As he got spat on and insulted and hated by his own creation. Think about that. His own creation. He created these people and they are spitting on him and hating him and accusing him of things and putting him to death. This God, this man lived a perfect life, never sinned, never did anything wrong to anybody, and

10:42his own creation killed him. How much more are we going to be persecuted when we are not like him. We are not perfect. We are not holy like he is. Think about it. If you If you were God and you created these things and they turned their back on you, that's enough already to say, "I don't know about these things. Maybe this is a mistake." But instead, he redeemed us. On top of that, he came into this world and lived amongst the same people that turned their backs on him. And they were turning on him even in in right in front of them. They were reviling him.

11:27They were hating on him. This is what God dealt with, and he still loves it. That's how his love cannot be measured. How many of us can do that? How many of us can be around anyone that we can't stand at times, that bother us, that insult us behind our back, that that just annoy us? We can't even do that. This God knows everything about us, every thought we've had against him, everything we've done against him, every time we've turned our back on him, and he still lived amongst us to redeem us and die for us the most brutal death you could ever imagine. That's how much he loves us. We can't even comprehend how much he loves us. We can't even comprehend it. Now, on top of him just, of course, being God, maybe you knew that, maybe you didn't.

12:12Why else does this have anything to do with your life? Why does this matter to you? Why should it matter to you? No matter what, no matter how tough you are, no matter what kind of shell you put on or a mask in front of others, no matter what you've been through, no matter how great you have it right now, no matter what, at the end of the day, deep inside, every single one of us wants to be loved. That's it. You can lie in my face and say that's not true, but that's a fact. We all want to be loved. Now, why is that? In this life we have money, we have sex, we have drugs, we have alcohol, we have attention, we have fame.

12:57We have all these different things that we think are going to fill our heart, fill our soul. But, why do these things still leave us empty? You hear it from all the celebrities. They could have fame and fortune and a beautiful Maserati and a nice house and still they say that something is missing. They're not happy. Why is that? I used to love J. Cole. I stopped listening to secular music since I started following Christ. Um that took a little while to to stop doing, but I used to love J. Cole, and one of his biggest songs, and one of my personal favorites, is called Love Yours. And the whole song talks about how you can have the biggest house, the biggest

13:45car, the nicest car, the most beautiful wife, but there's always going to be a nicer car, a bigger house, a more beautiful wife. There's always going to be something better to chase after. And he talks about you're never going to be happy until you love yours, until you love what you have, and you're thankful for it. And still he talks about that he doesn't have that that thing, like he always talks about it in his live shows. Trust me, guys. You can want what I have, but I'm telling you it's not all you think it is. It's because we were all created to have communion and love and a relationship with our creator. We were born to have that, and if we do not have that, there is something missing.

14:30There is something There's a hole in our heart missing from that love for our God. Why do you think that everyone who accepts Christ and really lives for him and and and gives their life to him, people call They're called born again, right? They're called born again Christians. Oh, those are the crazy Christians. No, those are the Christians that have felt the love of God in their hearts, and have given their life to him, and they have nothing but peace and joy from loving him. That is what following Christ and having a relationship with him is like. And I've been following Christ now for about, I'd say, 5 or 6 years. It took me years into knowing him and truly giving my life to him to feel

15:15that full love in my heart. And now I don't feel like I need anything. I mean, as I said in the first podcast, I don't need people's approval anymore. I used to. I wouldn't be doing this if this was the old me. But now, even though I know all my friends and family are going to see this, I don't really care cuz I love God and he's calling me to do this, so I'm going to do it for him. When you have God's love and you have a life with him, you don't need anything else. He He's the living water. He's the well of of your heart and your soul and your spirit. He's everything you need. The Bible says, like Paul says, "Whether I have little or have much, I have all that I need." He is satisfied.

16:00Whether I stand on the mountains and I'm rich and famous and have all these things or I have nothing and nobody, but I have God. I have everything I need. Because truly, he is all we need. Now, you may ask yourself, can we love God and not love or need Jesus? Well, God and Jesus gave us that answer. In John 14:6, he says, "Jesus told him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will also know my Father. From now on, you do know him and have

16:45seen him." To be able to reach heaven and be with God, we must accept Jesus. Why? Why do we need to do that? Why can't we just love God? It's the same person, you said, right? Because I mentioned Jesus died on the cross for our sins. And that's the only thing separating us from God is the blemishes on us from the sin that we've committed. So, we need this atonement for our sins. We needed Jesus. We still need Jesus. We will always need Jesus. So, the way that we need to be able to access what Jesus did for us is to accept him as our Lord.

17:30To confess with our lips that Jesus Christ is Lord. And he has been risen from the dead for our transgressions, for our sins. And then we may have eternal life. That is what he asked us to do. He does not require us to go and give to the poor, and be a good person, and just do nice things for people, and never complain. Yes, he wants us to do those things. And that is what we are called to do once we accept him, because we now want to please him, and the Holy Spirit fills us, and nudges us to do these things. But, to be with God, to be deemed holy once again in his

18:17sight, we need to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior. We need to confess that, and repent from the sins that we've committed. We need to humble ourselves. We need to admit that we need you, God. We need you, God. We don't know everything. We don't have all the answers. And that's what he All he's asking us to do is to accept him, and give our life to him. And we may have eternal life with him, with the God of the universe. How beautiful is that? And because he's died for us, and because we've accepted him as our Lord and Savior, this is how God now views us. Where before he viewed us as stained and marred by our own sins,

19:04he now says in Isaiah chapter 1 verses 18, "Come, let's settle this," says the Lord. "Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they are crimson red, they will be like wool." As soon as we accept Jesus, the blood of Jesus covers us in God's eyes. And he sees us as white as snow. He doesn't see what we've done. He doesn't see the sins we've committed. He doesn't see the lust we've had, the the stealing that we've done, the lying that we've done, the the hatred for others that we've committed, anything that we've done that goes against God is forgiven and forgotten. God does not keep a record of wrongs. Bible says, "Love is patient, love is

19:50kind." And among other things, it says, "Love does not keep a record of wrongs." So, if God is love and we are to love that same way, that means that God has forgotten the record of our sins when we accept Christ. We are perfect. He looks at us the same way he looks at Jesus. How crazy is that? No matter what we've done. The Bible even says, when Jesus hung on that cross, there were two thieves next to him on crosses next to him. They were all hung up there ready to die. Both those thieves started talking to Jesus. One of them said, "Do not forget me when you enter heaven.

20:36I know who you are, basically." He recognized this was a son of God next to him. And he was not worthy to be up there next to the son of God. This thief was saying this. And then the other thief next to him said, you know, "What are you talking about? Like, you don't know nothing, da da da." Jesus, what does he respond to the first thief? He says, "Surely, you will be with me in paradise." This guy next to him did everything wrong. So much so that he's on a cross dying for sins that he's committed, for wrongs he's committed against the Roman police or whatever he's done. And this dude, he didn't get baptized. He didn't give to the poor. He didn't say

21:21the Hail Mary or the Our Father. No, he recognized who God was and he accepted him in his heart for who he was and asked and repented of what he had done. That is what we are called to do and that gives us eternity with God. Just as he said to this thief who did nothing but wrong in his life, he said, "Surely you will be with me in paradise." And Jesus was about to be in paradise and that thief was coming right behind him. We all have the same opportunity. Do not wait until tomorrow. Do not wait until next week. Do not wait until you think that I need to do better. I need to fix myself first and then I can come to God when I feel good. When I feel like I deserve to be

22:06in church or I deserve to be talking to him. No, that's a lie from the pits of hell. That is a lie. He is the hospital. He is the one that will fix you. He is the one that will heal you. He is the one that wants to receive you. None of us deserve to be in his presence. That's why he came here as Jesus. So, do not let anything stop you from coming to him today. Today. Not tomorrow. We don't know when our last day is going to be. Whether you're 15, whether you're 45, whether you're 82, it doesn't matter. You do not know when your last day is going to be. People die at every age all the time.

22:51Today is the day of salvation. That is what the Bible says. Today, come to God. All who are weary and burdened, come to to and I will give you rest, Jesus says. He will give us everything our heart needs, everything we are craving in this world. We must come to him. Do it today. I beg of you. You will be changed forever. Now, I just want to tell you that just because you come to Christ, let's say you come to Christ today, does not mean that every single thing that you struggle with is going to be gone right now. Yes, God may deliver you from certain things. He has with me. He's delivered me from a lot of things, but it was not all the second I accepted him.

23:37It is a gradual process of being refined and becoming sanctified and holy like him. And it will endure for all the days of our life. We are to every single day try to be more like Christ, and he will help us with that with the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is for another episode. We'll get into that. But, the best thing I could ever say to you or ask of you or give you as a gift is the good news. And the good news is a God in heaven loves you so much so that he died for you and that you could have eternal life with him and have a wonderful life living with him here

24:22and being born again. And you can do that today. It's a free gift. It was already paid for. And a question that's been going around a lot lately in the the Christian circle is when talking to an unbeliever asking them on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being I would go to heaven right now to one being no way I'm going to get into heaven. If you died today, if you died right now, where would you go? Would you go to heaven or not? And a lot of people will answer with a six or a seven. You know, they want to think that, you know, they don't want to be too full themselves where, you know, I'm perfect. So, I'm not going to give me a nine or a 10, but

25:07you know, I still think I'm a good person. I still think I help people. I still think I do good things. You know, but I'm not perfect. So, you know, six or seven, maybe, maybe a five. If you answer anything but a one or a 10, you do not understand who God is and what he did for us through Jesus. Through himself. If you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, you get the free gift of salvation, of heaven. So, you're a 10. If you didn't, you're a one. That's it. There's no in between. Everyone thinks it's what we do. It's what we we've accomplished. It's It's It's how how good of a person have I been in this life. It's not that. We've all not been up to God's standards.

25:52And he knows that. He created us and he knew this is going to happen. The Bible says that he knows the beginning from the end. So, that means when he created you and I, he knew what we were going to do. He knew we would fall. But he already had this plan set apart for when this would happen. He knew what he would do for us to show us his love, his great love for us. So, when we accept him, we will be with him in paradise. There's a lot that comes after that with getting to know him, just like any relationship. When you go on a date with somebody, you don't know how they are at first. You get to know them over time and you get to love them more and more over time. It's the same with our relationship with Christ. We accept him out of faith,

26:37out of repentance for what we've done. We must repent when we accept him. Admit the wrong we've done and turn away from it. Repenting is turning away from the sin we've committed. And because of our repentance and our of him, now we are in communion and relationship with him. Now we get to know him more through his word, through what he does in our life, through what he reveals about himself to us. He'll show up all throughout your life. He'll show up as you're reading his word and learning about him. He'll show up as you experience miracles in your own life, as you learn more and more, as you see more and more. I mean, I followed him for a couple years before I saw some crazy things that I already thought I knew everything

27:22about God. I had been following God for 2-3 years and I thought I knew everything about him. I thought I I knew my word. I thought I was around godly people. I didn't need a church, all this. I was good. And then God revealed to me there's so many levels to this. There's so many things to learn that he will reveal. Knock and the door will be opened to you. Seek and you will find. Everything that we could ever need is with him. He provides for me. He protects me. He guides me. He shows me where to go. He gives me peace. He gives me joy. He gives me more than I could ask for. Cuz truly, when you get to know him, all you need is him. You realize this. All you need

28:07is him. And then he still gives you more on top of that. It's just like icing on the cake. You already have everything in him, but he gives you more cuz he loves you. He's a father. He wants to give good things. The Bible says our earthly fathers, though some may be more wicked than others, they have sinned also as we have sinned and they are not holy and perfect like God. And how many of us will go to our earthly father and ask for a fish and they give us a stone? How much more will our heavenly father want to give us good things? Now, what does that mean? Basically, these people who are imperfect like you and I our earthly father, if you ask them for something out of

28:52love they would likely try to give you something good like you've asked for. If you ask for a fish, why would he try to give you a stone? Cuz at the end of the day you are his child. Why would your earthly father want to give you a knock not something good? And this is someone who's not perfect. How much more will our heavenly father want to give us good things? He does. Trust in him and he will give you an amazing amazing life. It may not be what you expected to be. It may not be what you think it is right now. Cuz a lot of us crave the things of this earth. They crave fame, fortune. All these things that are never going to solve any problems for

29:37us. Seek what truly fills your heart, which is a relationship with God. A relationship with Christ. It will change you forever. I'm telling you. So that being said, I'm going to wrap it up here. Want you guys to know if you got anything out of this podcast that Jesus will change everything in your life for the better. Accepting him is the best thing you could ever do. And do not wait. Do it today. Do it right now. I'm promising you will not regret this decision. He has done more than I could ever ask for and I'll explain it over the course of all the podcasts I will do on this channel and

30:22just speak about the goodness of God. And I'm only one person and I have many testimonies. Every other Christian I know, brother and sister, they have their own testimonies that they can give. And at some point I'm going to have on guests and they can give those testimonies. And you can have your own. Because when you accept Christ, he will do mighty things in your life through you and for you and with you cuz he loves you. Thank you for joining me and I'll see you again next Monday. So I'm just going to end with prayer. I just want to thank you, Lord, for this wonderful podcast. I thank you, Lord, for the name for this podcast. Thank you for giving it meaning, giving me meaning, and giving me this platform, Lord, to speak to your to the people that you love so dearly, that

31:08you're trying to draw to yourself. I pray, Father, in your mighty name, Lord, that you would speak to the hearts, Lord, of those that are listening. And I pray, Lord, that if you even touch one heart through this channel, Father, that it would be worth it, Lord. And I just pray, Lord, that you would bring them to yourself. Help them to know you. Reveal yourself to them through visions and dreams and signs and wonders, through your word, through other people. Lord, whatever it may be, Lord, you know how to get their attention. I pray, Father, that you would show them how much you truly love them. And how they don't have to be perfect, Lord, to come to you. How you know the sins we've committed and you still call us. You still chosen us. You still love us. You still want us. Help us to know that, Father.

31:53Help us to truly know that you are the hospital. You are the great healer. And it's not anything we can do by ourselves. We are all imperfect from the sin that we've committed from the beginning of time with Adam and Eve. And that's why you came here as Jesus to redeem what Adam has broken. And I thank you, Lord, that through this channel, Lord, we can we can show people how good you are. I thank you, Lord, and I love you, Lord, and I thank you for every single person watching. And I pray this may grow for your glory and not mine. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Thank you all.