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For 30 years, Christian leader and spiritual adviser Billy Graham has been offering advice to the thousands of readers who share their problems ...
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What Did Jesus Look Like?
By Billy Graham, Tribune Media Services
Q: What do you think Jesus looked like? I know we don't really know
for sure, but some of the paintings I've seen make Him look meek and
kind of like a sissy, and I don't think that's accurate, do you? --
Mrs. N.K.L.
A: No, I don't think those images are accurate -- not at all. We don't know what Jesus looked like, because no one painted His portrait or sketched His image while He was alive -- but I have no doubt that He was physically strong and courageous.
On one occasion, for example, Jesus took a whip and forcefully expelled from the Temple the merchants who were cynically using it to make money -- which hardly sounds like the work of a meek and mild sissy! (You can read about this in John 2:13-17). Remember also that Jesus was able to speak to vast open-air crowds -- something requiring great physical strength. His intense schedule -- with thousands of people flocking around him almost every day -- also was physically demanding.
More than that, Jesus knew His enemies were waiting for an opportunity to kill Him -- and yet He did not waver or shrink back from the task God had given Him to do. In spite of the danger, He would not be diverted from His calling: "My food ... is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work" (John 4:34).
Don't let some popular image or picture of Jesus mislead you. Instead, see Jesus in your heart as He really is: the Son of God, sent from heaven to die on the cross for our sins. He confronted the devil and all his works -- and the devil lost, for Christ is stronger than Satan. Because of His faithfulness, we now have the hope of eternal life. Is your faith and trust in Him?
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This news arrived on: 08/01/2008
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08-02-2008 06:27
Grandma Gladys wrote:
What Did Jesus Look Like
I think Jesus would have looked something like Billy Graham and I say that respectively. True, you can not compare mere man to God's Son, for only Jesus can save us, but He can lead people like Billy Graham and thousands of others to give the message of His saving pure loveand grace.
My next bithday will be my 70th and ever since I was a child I have known about Jesus and seen pictures and crusifixes of Him.
I have listened to the Rev, Billy Graham on radio, and later watched him on T.V. I gave my heart to Jesus those many years ago as a young teen, listening to the radio when that beautiful hymn, "Just As I Am", was first sung during Billy Graham's altar call. He was young, strong and vibrant then. You could tell in his voice that his message was pure and straight from God! Over the years, I have seen and heard a more gentle side of Graham. Like this Godly, earthly man, I believe Jesus was something like him but a thousand times more so! The gentle, loving Jesus, who said,"Let the little children come unto me and forbid them not." The same Jesus in the temple when they were selling livestock, showed his strong side. The same Jesus that stilled the waters and healed many telling them not to reveal it for His time had not yet come. The same Jesus who prayed while His deciples slept asking, 'if this cup can be taken from me', but finishing, never the less, "may Thy Will be done, not Mine;" and willingly taking all of OUR SINS upon Him, went to the cross to die for us! He and only He, rose again and ascended into Heaven to prepare a place for us. The One and only Jesus, God's only begotten Son who still gently becons us, through the Holy Spirit, to come to Him! Amen
My next bithday will be my 70th and ever since I was a child I have known about Jesus and seen pictures and crusifixes of Him.
I have listened to the Rev, Billy Graham on radio, and later watched him on T.V. I gave my heart to Jesus those many years ago as a young teen, listening to the radio when that beautiful hymn, "Just As I Am", was first sung during Billy Graham's altar call. He was young, strong and vibrant then. You could tell in his voice that his message was pure and straight from God! Over the years, I have seen and heard a more gentle side of Graham. Like this Godly, earthly man, I believe Jesus was something like him but a thousand times more so! The gentle, loving Jesus, who said,"Let the little children come unto me and forbid them not." The same Jesus in the temple when they were selling livestock, showed his strong side. The same Jesus that stilled the waters and healed many telling them not to reveal it for His time had not yet come. The same Jesus who prayed while His deciples slept asking, 'if this cup can be taken from me', but finishing, never the less, "may Thy Will be done, not Mine;" and willingly taking all of OUR SINS upon Him, went to the cross to die for us! He and only He, rose again and ascended into Heaven to prepare a place for us. The One and only Jesus, God's only begotten Son who still gently becons us, through the Holy Spirit, to come to Him! Amen
08-01-2008 13:53
normajun wrote:
jesus look like
Just look at yourself.In Genesis 2, God made man into His image and likeness.If you choose to be good, then you look good!Looks are deceiving, though.God sees our hearts, and only Him sees and knows everything!Jesus mother is the most beautiful woman , an immaculate holy, pure being!God is perfect, immaculate, HOLY, divine.Put them together, and you got a perfect human!that is JESUS!Noone compares with HIM, Amen!What a perfect model for humans to follow! Thank we our God, our beautiful and wonderful God!
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