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[excel]

All the pictures I've seen of Jesus showe him as having a darker then white face.
I haven't a clue what color he is.

I do know this.
God said ALL are created EQUAL! AMEN!
All that follow Jesus repenting of their sins abiding in Jesus will be together praising God in heaven.

So it wouldn't matter if God was orange with red stripes.

[thrifty]

John 19:19-21
Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

20. Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.

21. So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, "The King of the Jews", but that He said, "I am King of the Jews."

22. Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

Then Paul...

Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law a Pharisee;

3:4-8
Paul counted his impeccable pedigree as rubbish (v8), even though he could boast in the rite of circumcision (v5), in his race (v5), in his religion(v.5), in his record of persecuting the church (v6) and in his righteous life (v6).
Ryrie

On another note :)

Matthew 20:16
"So the last shall be first, and the first last."

John 7:24
"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."

1Peter 2:19
For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.

Titus 2:7-8
In all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified,

sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

Isa 26:4
"Trust in the LORD forever, For in GOD the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock.

Isa. 30:15
For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said,
In repentance and rest you shall be saved,
In quietness and trust is your strength."
But you were not willing.

1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

Joel 1:3
Tell your sons about it,
And let your sons tell their sons,
And their sons the next generation.

Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained,
But happy is he who keeps the law.

And Psm. 23:4

These are some verses that I like that I wrote down in my Bible from a book by Rosa Parks called Quiet Strength.

There was this black lady at my church who is/was? the oldest African American alive. A few years ago my church honored her for her 100th birthday with a tribute and some books. She liked to read, and it was said, from the pulpit, she attended church faithfully. She lived in a rest home, was in a wheel chair, and had part of her leg removed. BUT she could get up, get dressed and get to church. (Unlike many of us who are lazy the pastor said) LOL At any rate she said she wanted to live until Jesus returned. :)

After church I wanted to meet this lady. I gave her the book, and asked her if she could remember Rosa Parks. She shook her head no. Her grand-daughter was all excited and said, "Oh GRAMMA, Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks.

My new friend was born and raised in Texas. Her next goal was to learn how to swim and go in the swimming pool. I immediately understood why, and asked her if she ever went in the water when she was young? She shook her head "No." I explained to her grand-daughter that WOMEN were not allowed to swim years and years ago, only men. She sat there in her wheel chair shaking her head up and down yes, yes.

We visited for some time and they had to get going. It was an honor to meet and get to visit with such a Christian women as her. I don't know if she's still alive or gone to be with the Lord.

At any rate Jesus was a Jew. King of the Jews.

[thrifty]

Is Jesus the Messiah?

zambia I'm going to get technical on ya, :)

Zechariah 14:9 says the LORD (Jehovah) shall be king over all the earth. Is Jesus Jehovah, this Jesus who died for sinners?

In Matthew 1, we have the genealogy of Jesus Christ through Joseph. Don't miss verse 11! It may be one of the most important verses in the New Testament. Who is Jeconiah? In the Old Testament he is known as Coniah. During his captivity in Babylon, the Babylonian king renamed him Jehoiachin. Why do we care?

It is important because Joseph is in the bloodline of King David through Coniah and in Jeremiah 22:30 Coniah is cursed. He is declared childless, meaning no seed of his shall ever sit on the thrown of King David. Coniah had seven sons, but they and their posterity all carried the curse. During Coniah's lifetime the Jews were taken off into captivity and have not had a king since.

If we could go to Israel in Jesus's day and ask educated Jewish Pharisees or scribes who their king is, they would say they don't have one. We could answer, "But I thought the Jews had a king. You had many kings in the past. If you had a king today, who would it be?"

If these scribes and Pharisees searched the records they could have traced the kingly line to man named Joseph, who was the legal father of Jesus. They would have to admit if Israel had a king in Jesus' time, it would have to have been Joseph, but the curse on Coniah still applied. Joseph was only royally entitled to the throne.

In the providence of God, Joseph fell in love with a girl name Mary and asked her to marry him. Luck? Not at all! Was there any descendant of King David legally entitled to the throne of Israel? Tracing the genealogy of Mary beginning in Luke 3:23, the line from King David goes down through Nathan to Heli. However, Heli had no sons, only daughters. One was Mary.

Joseph and Mary were engaged when he realized she was with child, he thought he shouldn't marry her, but God told him to, for her child was conceived of the Holy Spirit. He was to call her son Jesus, because he would save his people from their sins. (Matthew 1:18-25) In Hebrew, Jesus means "Jehovah is salvation."

In the infinite wisdom of God, Joseph, who was royally entitled to the throne of King David, is engaged to a young woman, a virgin, who is legally entitled to the throne. But Joseph is cursed, and all his children would carry the same curse.

Because Jesus Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, the curse does not apply. He was not of the seed of Joseph, but Joseph was Jesus' legal father, so Joseph passed his legal right to the throne to Jesus. Mary passed her royal right to the throne to Jesus.

In the Jewish economy, the father could choose whom to give the birthright to, as David chose Solomon instead of Amon, his firstborn. Joseph had this right by adoption, and he chose Jesus. So by the process of adoption, Joseph passed his legal right to the throne to Jesus, but the curse did not apply, because Jesus was not of the seed of Coniah! Jesus was entitled legally and royally to the throne of Israel and he had no children.

So, the right to the throne ended in a man named Jesus! He was crucified on a hill outside of Jerusalem. There is no one alive today who is entitled to the throne of Israel except Jesus!

Again and again Scripture declares Jesus is God. Jesus states in John 10:30, "I and the Father are one." Jesus is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15.

Isaiah 44:6 (NIV) states: "This is what the LORD says- Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God." In Romans 10:9 we read, "if you confess...'Jesus is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Scripture is emphatic that Jesus Christ is God, Jehovah and the Messiah!

By Doris Mataya.
From the book..Current Issues in the Light of Scripture