Three Important Qualities Of Christ's Life

Ever since Jesus was born, he has always been perfect. There have

never been any flaws that had to do with him. He had many different

characteristics and qualities that were unique about him including holiness,

purity, faithfulness, mercifulness, grace, righteousness, love, integrity,

divinity, and courageousness. There is nothing that is more powerful than

that of the triunity, which consists of God the Father, God the Holy Spirit,

and God the Son. This report deals mostly with God the Son, which is Jesus.

Jesus has all these qualities and we are supposed to be following in His

footsteps. Most Christians try as hard to have these great characteristics,

but there is no possible way that we could achieve such a goal. It is

impossible for humans to reach that goal. It says in the Bible "For

everyone falls short of the glory of God.". That right there is enough

proof to show that we are not worthy of his presence.

God is of the Spirit. He is not made of matter and mind, and he does

not possess a physical nature. Some think that God is that of a human.

There is no possible way that this could be, because in John 4:24 Jesus

speaks "God is spirit, and those who worship him just worship in spirit and

truth.". Even though Jesus had flesh was of the Spirit he still did have

matter. He had flesh which is matter. In this flesh was very important

qualities. God still possesses all of these qualities even though He does

not have flesh. These characteristics would fit for either God the Father,

God the Son, or God the Holy Spirit. They all work in the triunity and

have these qualities even though one might display it in a different manner

than the other.

In the thirty-three years of Jesus' life, He had three very important

characteristics that are something we all should try and follow: Loveliness,

Faithfulness, and Forgiveness.

Very often when people think of Love, they think of Jesus. In John

4:8,16 it says that God is love. This is a paraphrase but it is still

stating something that is very important. That verse shows that Jesus had

(and still does) mercy and compassion for us. Another verse that shows that

God's love as apparent is John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he

gave his only begotten son that who believes in him will not perish but

have everlasting life.". He has so much love for us that he even gives us

life. He could just let us Christians live our own life but, He helps us

out with His great grace.

Grace is part of the whole effect of God's love. Basically what grace

is, is way that God deals with us. It has nothing to do with what we

deserve or basis of merit, but it is giving out by how much we need. God

deals with them according to his goodness and generosity. That seems

similar to benevolence, but it isn't. Jesus' grace is really shown in the

New Testament. In Exodus 34:6 it says "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful

and gracious...". In Ephesians 2:7-9 it says, "For it is by grace you have

been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of

God-not by works, so that no one can boast. In those verses it is saying

that God is allowing us to be saved. He doesn't have to save us; He could

just let us all go to hell, but he gives each and everyone of us a chance

to accept Him. The list goes on and on of different verses in the Bible

that shows us of God's grace. God's grace is related to the Mercy that He

gives us too.

Jesus' mercy was his loving, compassion, tenderheartedness. He has a

very tender heart toward the needy. That is the kind of mercy that Jesus

has for ALL of us. We are supposed to fear God and Jesus and then they

will pity those who fears them. If they did not pity us and have mercy on

us we would not be alive. They would have let us die by now. They cannot

stand to be in the sinning world that we live in. They would just do away

with us if they didn't care about us. Because of all of this care He has

for us I feel that we need to have faith in Him.

If God is really to be true and we believe that He is, then His faith

in us has been proven. He is all powerful and He would never do something

that could proven not to be true. Jesus had faith in us in many ways. His

father has one big example of faith. this example was the time in which

Abraham was to sacrifice his son Isaac on the alter. God said that he

(Isaac) would be very important in years to come. First of all Abraham

didn't believe that a son would be sent to him, and one was. Abram didn't

have faith in God but God had faith and said that a child would come, and a

child did come. Now that he was on the alter God relieved Abraham from

killing his son by having a sheep walk by in which he was commanded to

sacrifice instead of the son. Abraham showed a lot of faith in God by

believing Him that he was right in what he was doing. I think that that

was a very brave thing by Abraham to do. He must have had all the faith

that you can in God, because in a situation like that I don't know what I

would do. If we believe and have faith in God and Jesus we will be

forgiven of our sins, in which is another great quality of Jesus.

"But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared." (Psalm

130:4). If you believe in the Bible that verse should let you know that

Jesus and His father does forgive us. "O'Isreal, put you hope in the Lord,

for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption."

(Psalm 130:7) I feel that both of those verses are very strong in their

speaking of forgiveness. The Lord will forgive us of all of our sins

whenever we ask for forgiveness. This is all because of when Jesus died on

the cross for our sins. He took all of the sins of the world upon Him at

that time. If He wouldn't have been crucified we would not ever be able to

go into heaven because we would always have sin with us. Jesus cannot be

in the presence of sin now that he has resurrected and is back in heaven.

When our sins are forgiven they are completely forgotten. They are thrown

as far as the East is from the West.

All of these qualities that I have talked about are very important but

there are many more. There are numerous characteristics of Jesus. These

three that I spoke of where just some of the ones that I felt were very

important. I am not saying that there are ones that aren't important, I

was saying that these were three that were very important to me. As you

can see, these three qualities were things that were very apparent in His

life.

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