JESUS IS THE CHRIST
When the Lord Jesus was 30 years old, He began to teach and to preach. But when He came to His people, the Jews, most of them did not believe in Him. They did not receive Him as their Saviour. The Bible says, " He came unto His own , and His own received Him not." John 1:11
Is Jesus really" the Christ," The promised Saviour YES, He is! How do we know? We know because the Bible say so.
Now let us look at God's Word and see how Jesus has fulfilled the prophecies concerning the promised Saviour. These prophecies were written many hundreds of years before Christ was born.
**BORN IN BETHLEHEM **
Prophecy: Micah 5:2
"But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."
Fulfillment: Matthew 2:1
" ... Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king..."
** BORN OF A VIRGIN **
Prophecy : Isaiah 7:14
" Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel."
Fulfillment: Matthew 1:18
" Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on the wise: When as His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost."
** HANDS AND FEET PIERCED**
Prophecy: Psalm 22:16
" ...they pierced My hands and My feet."
Fulfillment: Luke 23;33
" And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him..."
** BORE OUR SINS **
Prophecy: Isaiah 53:6
" All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all."
Fulfillment: I Peter 2:24
" Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.."
** FORSAKEN OF GOD**
Prophecy: Psalm 22:1
" My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? Why art Thou so far from helping Me..?"
Fulfillment: Matthew 27:46
" And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying.. My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
**SOLDIERS CAST LOTS OF HIS GARMENTS **
Prophecy : Psalm 22:18
" They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture."
Fulfillment: Mark 15:24
" And when they had crucified Him, they parted His garments , casting lots upon them, what every man should take."
** NOT A BONE BROKEN **
Prophecy : Psalm 34:20
" He keepeth all His bones: not one of them is broken."
Fulfillment: John 19:33
" But when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead already, they brake not His legs."
** REJECTED BY THE JEWS **
Prophecy : Isaiah 53:3
" He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.."
Fulfillment: John 1:11
" He came unto His own, and His own received Him not."
** BETRAYED BY A FRIEND**
Prophecy : Psalm 41:9
" Yea, Mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted , which did eat of My bread, hath lifted up his heel against Me."
Fulfillment: Mark 14:10
" And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray Him unto them ." (see also John 13:21-26)
**SOLD FOR 30 PIECES OF SIILVER**
Prophecy: Zechariah 11:12
" .. they weighed for My price thirty pieces of silver."
Fulfillment: Matthew 26:14, 15
" Judas Iscariot.. said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver Him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver."
**CRUCIFIED WITH SINNERS**
Prophecy: Isaiah 53:12
" ..He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many.."
Fulfillment: Matthew 27:38
" Then were there two thieves crucified with Him, one on the right hand, and another on the left."
** ROSE FROM THE GRAVE**
Prophecy: Psalm 16:10
" For Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption."
Fulfillment: Matthew 28:5,6
"And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye; for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here, for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."
(NOTE: There are many other prophecies in the Bible concerning Christ. Some of them have to do with His Second Coming. These have not been fulfilled as yet, but they will be fulfilled when Jesus comes again.)
What do these scriptures tell us?
They tell us that Jesus is the Christ, the promised Saviour. In this gospel, John makes it clear that Jesus is the Christ. He said,
"And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book:
But these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you might have life through His name." John 20:30,31
WE MUST BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
Over and over the Lord Jesus emphasized one thing-- that men must believe on Him in order to be saved. Jesus said to the Jews of His day, ".. if you believe not that I am He (the Promised Saviour) , you shall die in your sins." John 8:24
Note: Taken from the booklet "The New Life In Christ"
