Things Written

 

wattog here blogging about the THINGS of God again. Look at this verse I dug up for you this time, it is truly an amazing one!

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. John 21:25

 

 

Now that is an awful lot of things He did, I’d say!

Even though this blogging bit and other online writing seems to be taking over in the literary world, there are still lots and lots of books out there and we know there are many different kinds of THINGS written in these books.  There are books about fictional THINGS; books about governmental THINGS; books about cultural THINGS; books about the THINGS of the rich and famous, etc. . . 

The Holy Bible is the Book of all books and contains heavenly THINGS. . .the THINGS of God.  

As I told you in the first blog, we geologists love to dig, and I just love digging in this new site I found. . .the Holy Bible.

Fascinating Fact: The Holy Bible mentions books.  Here are some of them:

The books of generations, like Adam’s Genesis 5:1 like Christ’s Matthew 1:1

The book of the covenant. Exodus 24:7

The book of the wars of the Lord. Numbers 21:14

The book of the law. Joshua 1:8

The book for our tears. Psalms 56:8

The judgment books. Daniel 7:10, Revelation 20:12

The Lamb’s book of life. Revelation 21:27

I submit to you that, when it’s all said and done, we all are going to want our names written in that last book. . .the Lamb’s book of life.  We know the Lamb is Jesus Christ.  We will discuss why Christ is referred to as the Lamb of God in another blog.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.  John 1:29  

Christ came to this earth to show us the THINGS of His Father, in fact, He was the one that introduced the concept of Creator God becoming ‘our Father’, remember we talked about that some in the first blog. 

Jesus told His disciples.

For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all THINGS that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.  John 5:20  

In this blog I’ve dug up some truly fascinating THINGS written in the Holy Bible that Jesus Christ did while He walked upon this earth.  The THINGS He did demonstrated just Who the Creator of all THINGS is really like, not what people say He’s like or think He’s like.  For this blog, I dug primarily in the gospels because they speak a lot about what Christ did while here on the earth.  What Christ did then, He has always done and will always do.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8  

Like in the first blog, I have shortened the following verses for you, but it would be to your advantage to read the entirety of the text surrounding the verses.  These are just some of the things written that Christ did more than 2,000 years ago as He walked by the Sea of Galilee, the streets of Jerusalem, etc. . .

He told unclean spirits/demons what to do and they obeyed Him Mark 1:25-27

He taught with great authority and wisdom and mighty works were done by His hands Mark 6:2

He healed many different kinds of diseases, and cast out many devils Mark 1:32-34

He sat down with and ate with sinners Mark 2:16-17

He healed a withered hand Mark 3:1-5

He called and ordained 12 men to follow Him Mark 3:14-19

He cast a legion of demons out of one man Mark 5:1-15

He healed a woman who had a blood issue for 12 years Mark 5:25-34

He raised the ruler’s daughter from the dead Mark 5:35-42

He was transformed to glistening glory on a mountain top in front of Peter, James and John Mark 9:2-7

He cursed the fruitless fig tree and it withered Mark 11:12-14,20-23

He overthrew those exchanging money in the temple Mark 11:15-17

He answered hard questions Mark 12:13-34

He pointed out the significance of the widow’s 2 mites Mark 12:41-44

He gave His disciples specific instructions on how to prepare the place to have the Passover; it involved a city, a man and a pitcher of water Mark 14:12-16

He ate the Passover/last supper/first communion with His disciples Mark 14:17-26

He knew which disciple would betray him Mark 14: 42-43

He knew which disciple would deny Him Mark 14:29-30

He prayed for His disciples John 17

He died for our sins, rose again the 3^rd day and was seen of  Cephas, then of the 12 then of over  500 brethren at once, then of Paul  1 Corinthians 15:3-8

He breathed on His disciples, and said to them, receive ye the Holy Ghost:  John 20:22
He turned the water into wine John 2:29

He told the woman of Samaria everything she had ever done John 4:29

He healed a man that had been sick for 38 years John 5:5-9
He fed thousands of people with a little boy’s lunch John 6:5-13

He walked on the water John 6:19-21

He calmed the sea Mark 4:39

He saved the adulteress woman from the accusing mob John 8:3-11

He healed a man who was blind from birth John 9:1-25

He raised a man named Lazarus from the dead, who had already been in the grave for 4 days John 11:1-44

He told of the end times Matthew chapter 24

He overcame temptation Luke 4

He spoke gracious words Luke 4:22

He blessed Simon’s fishing so much the net broke Luke 5:5-6

He perceived thoughts and intents of hearts Luke 5:22

He preached and showed the glad tidings of the kingdom of God Luke 8:1
He freed Mary called Magdalene from seven devils Luke 8:2

In the crowds, He noticed the little man up in the tree Luke 19

He amazed people by showing God’s mighty power Luke 9:43

He forgave a thief Luke 23:42-43

He did all THINGS well  Mark 7:37

Even though Christ performed all of these miraculous and caring THINGS for the people, there were some people that didn’t like all the THINGS he was doing and they were bent on stopping Him.

Christ was rejected of the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes. . .

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful THINGS that he [Christ] did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,  Mark 8:31;  Matthew 21:15  

I submit to you that there are many people still today that do not like the things Christ stands for and are still trying to destroy His reputation.  They are doing the same things they did back then.  Things like:

False accusations Mark 15:3

Trying to trip Him up by asking Him difficult questions Mark 12:13

These tactics are still used today I’d say!  There are hard questions out there, like this one. . . why does God let bad things happen to good people?  That one question alone has kept many away from the kingdom of God I think.  Christians are accused of things like hypocrisy and hate more and more today it seems.  Now maybe some Christians are hypocrites and maybe some Christians do hate, but not all of them, but people are quick to put them all in the same mold, you know what I mean?  What’s worse than that is they spread the hard questions and the accusations all around.  These are the kind of things that deter people from entering into God’s amazing grace. 

Excerpt from the book, An Heir Wears, from the Heir Books series.

I am convinced that THINGS down here on earth reveal to us THINGS about heaven above.  The Holy Bible is the Book of all books and filled with beautiful truths about God’s great love for us, way too many to be put in just one book, except for the Holy Book that is.  Holy God is wise enough to put the truths He wants us to know about life in one Book and He did so when he had His Words written down for us.

For whatsoever THINGS were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. . Romans 15:4  

All Scripture from KJV of the Holy Bible unless otherwise noted