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Another Jesus?

Matthew 9:35 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Matthew 12:15 But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.

Matthew 14:14 And when Jesus went out, He saw a great multitude, and He was moved with compassion for them and healed their sick.

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

Is this the Jesus you know?

The Jesus presented in Scripture went about doing good and healing all oppressed by the devil.

There’s no indication of where Jesus went about and did anything bad or sought to cause pain and grief to anyone.  Jesus did not even do anything in retribution to His enemies and those who hated Him.

Jesus appeared to one of His enemies named Saul on the Damascus Road and rescued and converted Saul.  Saul became Paul and is now noted as one of Christ’s great apostles.

Jesus even healed the servant of a Roman Centurian!  That was uncommon compassion.

If Jesus was willing and demonstrated this kind of compassion and mercy towards many who did not even follow Him, what might He have in store for those who are His and love Him?

I find it difficult to think that Jesus would want bad things for His own but offer good things for others.

That strikes hard as a contradiction and would lead me to think I regard Him incorrectly.  That would mean I have looked to another Jesus other than the one I have revealed to me in Scripture.

I do not wish to have any conflicts in my thinking and believing with regard to Jesus and how He is presented to me in the Scriptures.  I want to believe in and follow the Jesus revealed to me consistently by the Scriptures.  I trust that is your heart as well.

Jesus loves you!  Jesus still heals!  Jesus still delivers!  Most importantly, Jesus still saves!

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