Was Jesus Christ a Blessing to Us

By Dr. Damian Iwuala

This powerful book shares profound scriptural insight on Jesus Christ and how He was a blessing to us. It helps us to discover Gods plan for our lives by renewing our mind, changing our thoughts, and encouraging us to live a disciplined life to the fullest. In this powerful book, you will discover the life of Jesus Christ, its impact to mankind, and overcoming challenges of life. This book will encourage you to have more passion pursuing Jesus Christ, help you understand the application reformation of Jesus Christ, and also inspire you to find more fulfillments in your life. If you dont like your current situation, you can change your world with the word of God. God used His faith to frame the world with His word; we can frame our world with the word of God. Your life has a divine purpose and destiny. Do not allow your past to control your future. You will never change or conquer what you refuse to confront. The readers of this book will find great encouragement in their faith in the Son of God, fully understanding and appreciative of Jesus Christ our Savior and in conjunction of our God the Father. May Gods grace and mercy be poured out on anyone that reads this book. He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8). For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 20, 2009
• ISBN: 9781462834334

Dr. Damian Iwuala

About the Author Dr. Damian Iwuala is an educator, entrepreneur, and an author. He has earned a doctorate in business administration and taught at the college level for several years. Dr. Iwuala attributes the success of his life to his reliance on the word of God. He is married to Genevieve Iwuala, and they are blessed with five children. To contact the author write: Dr. Damian Iwuala P. O. Box 3028 Desoto, Texas 75123-3028 Others Books By Dr. Damian Iwuala Was Jesus Christ a Blessing to Us! Scripture Promise

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PART 1

The Creation of the Universe

CHAPTER 1

Beginning of the Creator of the Universe

The Bible begins with God, and so we must begin with Him. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, Let there be light; and there was light (Genesis 1:1-3).

The Lord God formed a man’s body from the dust of the ground and breathed into it the breath of life. And the man became a living person. There was creative power that flowed out of the mouth of God; we’re created in the image of God and His likeness. Adam admitted eating the fruit God commanded him not to eat. As a result of sinning, Adam and Eve died spiritually and physically. All humans share their fate and return to the dust of the ground from which they originally came. By a single act of rebellion against God, Adam and Eve had declared their independence. They had challenged the right of the Almighty God to teach, guide, and direct their steps, exercising authority and power over their own lives. The consequences of their action bring about death, pain, sorrow, problems throughout humankind. Adam gave man’s authority over to Satan. Jesus got the authority back from Satan. Jesus Christ came into the world to be light and save us from sins. If you believe in Him, you can be reconciled to your creator today and can look forward to living with Him in everlasting life. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it (Exodus 20:11). In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that were made. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him (John 1:1-3, 10). For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life, for God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved (John 3:16-17). God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord (1 Corinthians 1:9). For all the promises of God in Him are yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us (2 Corinthians 1:20). But the word of the Lord endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you (1 Peter 1:25). For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be (Mark 13:19).

God is the creator of the universe that has all the power, all knowledge coming to the ones He created to make Himself known to them. This process took place over two thousand years ago. God became one of the creatures He made—man, flesh that He may access and communicate with us in the best way possible. Our need is not only physical need, but also spiritual need; we are created to have fellowship with God and be obedient to His commandment. Our greatest need is to have eternal life. It should not be what we can gain in this world, but what we can do to satisfy our soul and do the will of our Father in the heavens. We are not good; some may think they are, but none of us are good as compared to the standard of God. Since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse (Romans 1:20). For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. The creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now (Romans 8:19-22). By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible (Hebrews 11:3).

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is no other (Isaiah 45:18). My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand up together (Isaiah 48:13). For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones (Isaiah 57:15). And to make all people see what the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ (Ephesians 3:9). He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, which is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence (Colossians 1:15-18). You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things, and by your will they exist and were created (Revelation 4:11). And swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer (Revelation 10:6).

Consequently, God is infinitely and eternally creative and will never stop creating things. Every newborn baby and every new thing in nature is a new creation of God. As we experience in life, every new moment is the development and creativity of God. God is always training, developing, teaching, renewing, and creating our lives. When everything else began, God was already there. He has created all things, and for His honor and delight, they were created. We should obey God’s commandments, practice them, and align with God’s works to earn eternal life. We should keep heaven in our eye and the earth under our feet. Our feeling and thought have a new creation of God flowing into our consciousness. All existence depends on God and is derived from God. It is not important for us to understand all the mechanics of how God created the universe. But it is vital for us to recognize everything He created by respecting and obeying His commandment.

CHAPTER 2

Disobedience to God

Disobedience is the act of refusing to obey, insubordination. When God talks about disobedience, He is talking about voluntary sin. Man was made and given dominion over the earth; Satan came to Eve in the garden to deceive her. She took of the garden’s fruit and ate and gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. As a result of Adam and Eve disobeying God’s command, sin was brought to the world. Sin entered into mankind and spread to the offspring of all people. God Almighty is righteous and holy; He had to judge them for their disobedience. God is a loving god; He had to do something to reverse the separation of sin that took place to his creatures. Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water (1 Peter 3:20). For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of the eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them as example to those who afterward would live ungodly (2 Peter 2:4-6). For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you, they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all (Romans 11:30-32). In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Thessalonians 1:8). Every one of them has turned aside; they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good. No, not one (Psalms 53:3). The Lord preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy (Psalms 145:20). See! Your house is left to you desolate. For I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ (Matthew 23:38-39).

God cannot stand sin; He disciplines those that continue to disobey Him from the beginning and throughout all the ages. God always gives us enough time for repentance. God’s discipline comes after He used all the merciful processes at His disposal. God does not measure obedience or disobedience like we do. We do look on the outward appearance while God looks on the heart. We cannot judge one another, only God examines our obedient-disobedient hearts.

CHAPTER 3

God’s Covenant

A covenant is a binding contract or agreement between two or more parties. God’s covenant promises to humankind as revealed in scriptures with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and the new covenant of the Messianic Age. These covenants with people fall under the covenant of grace; God makes a covenant with the elect and promises them salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.

This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day (John 6:39). I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world (John 17:9, 24).

Covenant with Adam

Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die (Genesis 2:15-17).

Covenant with Noah

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth; It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth. And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth" (Genesis 9:1, 11-17).

Covenant with Abraham

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed (Genesis 12:3). God said to Abraham: As for you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant (Genesis 17:9, 14).

Covenant with Moses

Moses wrote all the words of the Lord.

And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. Then he took the Book of the covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words (Exodus 24:4-8).

The Lord said to Moses, Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments (Exodus 34:27-28).

Covenant of David

I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn to My servant David (Psalms 89:3). When your days are fulfilled, and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever (2 Samuel 7:12-16).

New Covenant

The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more (Jeremiah 31:31-34).

By so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant (Hebrews 7:22). Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant (Hebrews 13:20).

God is our Redeemer and our Father; because of His mercy and grace, we are redeemed. The way of life is by faith in Jesus Christ. The eternal covenant is the covenant of redemption, which is the agreement between the Father and the Son, giving the Son as the head and redeemer of the elect.

PART 2

Jesus Christ Came into the World to Die and Save the World

CHAPTER 4

Reasons Why Jesus Christ Came

1.   Jesus Christ came into the world to save man, world, sinners, and life.

      For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (John 3:16-18).

2.   Jesus Christ makes it possible for the righteousness of the law to be fulfilled and enables us the power of the Holy Spirit.

      For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:3-4).

3.   Jesus Christ came into the world to seek and save the lost.

      For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10).

4.   Jesus Christ came into the world to call sinners to repentance.

      When Jesus heard it, He said to them, Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance (Mark 2:17).

5.   Jesus Christ came into the world to be a divider of men.

      Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law (Matthew 10:34-35).

6.   Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptances, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief (1 Timothy 1:15).

7.   Jesus Christ came into the world to teach, minister the true purpose of life, and give Himself a ransom for many.

      Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28).

8.   Jesus Christ came into the world to do the will of His Father.

      For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me (John 6:38).

9.   Jesus Christ came to finish the work of the Father.

      I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do (John 17:4).

10.   Jesus Christ was sent by His Father.

      Jesus said to them again, Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you (John 20:21).

11.   Jesus Christ was Savior of the world.

      We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world (1 John 4:14).

12.   Jesus Christ came to reveal God the Father to man.

      No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him (John 1:18).

13.   Jesus Christ came into the world to preach the Good News about the kingdom of God.

      He said to them, Let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also, because for this purpose I have come forth (Mark 1:38).

14.   Jesus Christ came into the world to be a light in the world.

      I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness (John 12:46).

15.   Jesus Christ came into the world to bear witness to the truth.

      Pilate therefore said to Him, Are You a king then? Jesus answered, You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born and for this cause I have come into this world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice (John 18:37).

16.   Jesus Christ came into the world that we might have life and have it more abundantly.

      The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John 10:10).

17.   Jesus Christ came into the world to judge the world.

      Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those