{"id":3661,"date":"2015-01-14T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2015-01-14T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T08:36:03","slug":"who-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2015\/01\/14\/who-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cTherefore, God elevated Him to the place of highest honor and gave Him the name above all other names\u201d <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/116\/php.2.9.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">Phil.2:9<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThat at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in the heaven and on the earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father\u201d<\/em> <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/116\/php.2.10-11.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">Phil.2:10-11<\/a>. Back in the day, Sunday was evangelism time for my wife and I; this was even before we became Pastors. After church, we would visit our friends that don\u2019t know <!--more-->Jesus just to win them to Christ. On one of such days, we picked a friend of mine who is deep into the occult [astral travel and all those things]. While we were there a conversation started and he began to argue about Jesus. He was saying so many things but when he said that Buddha, Mohammed, and Jesus are all great teachers, something on the inside of me began to turn. I became agitated and I told him to stop it immediately. Do not ever place Jesus on the same pedestal with Buddha or Mohammed or Krishna. My wife was trying to get me to calm down, she could see that I was getting worked up because I couldn\u2019t take it. For some people, they wouldn\u2019t bother if you abuse them but if you abuse their mother, they would not take it. For me, say whatever you like but don\u2019t abuse my Jesus. So I said to him, \u2018You do soul travel? Why is it that at the mention of the Name of Jesus every knee bows? You know that don\u2019t you?\u2019 He agreed and said it is because Jesus has risen above\u2026 He is a greater master. I said in fact right now I want to prove to you that Jesus is alive. At that point I was not sure whether to say \u2018Father smite him with blindness\u2019 or \u2018make his right hand paralyzed\u2019. Some people need to see God\u2019s power otherwise they won\u2019t believe. But at this point, my wife prevailed on me. So I apologized to him for being brash. The truth is, we were there to represent the love of God not to fight world war three. That was years ago, I wouldn\u2019t do that now. The point is this, if you abuse Jesus, He is able to fight for Himself. I can tell you about Jesus but I won\u2019t fight for Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jesus is I Am! <em>I am Alpha and Omega, the One who is<\/em>. A lot of people accept Jesus as the Alpha and they accept Him as the Omega. They know that He is the God of the past and the God of the future, but they struggle with the Jesus of the now. They struggle with the resurrected Christ [<a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/116\/rev.1.8.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">Rev.1:8<\/a>]. He is <em>I Am<\/em> \u2013 the God of now! When Moses asked the Lord who he should say sent him, the Lord answered, \u201ctell them I AM that I AM sent you\u201d. You see, Jesus is not just the God that was [the I was that I was]; He is not just the God that will be [the I will be that will be]; He is the God that is. He is the I Am and that is very comforting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prayer [song]<\/strong>: Behold Him there the risen Lamb,\u2028My perfect spotless righteousness,\u2028The great unchangeable I AM,\u2028The King of glory and of grace. One in Himself I cannot die.\u2028My soul is purchased by His blood My life is hid with Christ on high,\u2028With Christ my Savior and my God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTherefore, God elevated Him to the place of highest honor and gave Him the name above all other names\u201d Phil.2:9 &nbsp; \u201cThat at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in the heaven and on the earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jesus","category-truth-vs-error"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}