Know My Voice V: The Jesus You Never Met

By Rev. Dr. John Diomede

Most people don't realize that there is more than one Jesus. Which Jesus should we seek. The King of the Jews? The Christ? The Messiah? The Prophet? The Mystic? The Son of God? The Son of Man? The Man? The real Yeshua of Nazareth is in there somewhere. The answer can only come directly from the Holy Spirit. This book will overturn some of the tables of the establishment and challenge you to exercise you freedom to meet the Jesus you never met.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Proisle Publishing Services
• Release date: Oct 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781959449218

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Know My Voice V

The Jesus You Never Met

by

Rev. Dr. John Diomede

Copyright © 2022by Rev. Dr. John Diomede

ISBN: 978-1-959449-21-8

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My Sheep Know My Voice

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. (Joh 10:27-28 NIV)

Introduction

In your interactions with others, have you ever had a conversation about a third party whereby that individual was described with certain personality strengths or weakness, only to find out the opposite upon meeting them? Throughout one’s life there can be an innumerable number of times when a reputation was nothing akin to meeting the actual person. It has happened to all of us. Getting to know someone takes interaction with that person, and even then, people surprise us. We live in a technological time, and we have the opportunity to observe people from afar off, for example, on television, thru emails, texting or via the internet. These instances may provide some insight into a person but, as you will agree, people are complex. And sometimes, these instances can be deceiving. This writing hopes to highlight a path to meeting Jesus of Nazareth, the Jew, the person, the mystic, the prophet, the Messiah, the friend, the King and the Lord. You cannot meet him thru religion, religious practice, or religious organizations. We have the biblical narratives of Jesus, but this is simply a doorway to the person. An introduction if you will. Reading the bible can help you gauge how resolute you are about meeting him, but it is only part of the process. Do you really want to meet Jesus? Volume reading of the bible is futile. Relational reading is paramount. My writing is simply an attempt to encourage you about engaging the King of the Universe in the type of relationship that arises from interaction, not word of mouth. None of us want to be judged on hearsay. I know that Jesus wants you to give him that same chance. Seek to meet Jesus as presented by his Holy Spirit to you directly. This is the Jesus you never met. You will be interacting directly¹ with his person². An attitude that is helpful when you read the bible is that you should inquire of it³ because, via the Holy Spirit, the words live. The bible speaks because the Holy Spirit is its author. Yes, you can meet Jesus! Seek him, wait for him, and experience him in a personal relationship presented personally to you and solely for you. Learn from and embrace him as friend and Lord. Each chapter of this book contains information that may present some answers but, it also will raise some questions. It may even present some information that you consider irrelevant. Don’t believe that voice. There is much presented about Israel’s history and Jewish people. One needs to consider this information because Jesus is a Jew from Israel. Jesus values family and culture. And because we are like him, that is why these aspects of life are valuable to us also. Additionally, we Kingdom Citizens possess spiritual familial and cultural qualities that make us all his offspring⁴. We are his family! As the material comes, please keep reading because it is my hope that by the last chapter, I would have sufficiently covered the answers to most questions.

The Jesus of The Bible

In both Judaism and Islam, Jesus is presented at least as a holy man, certainly a prophet and possibly as a son of God. In Christianity, a generic denominational overview would make him The Messiah, The Christ, The Son of God, The son of man, The prophet, High Priest, King (of the Jews) and God incarnate. Each one of these terms is accompanied by some existing understanding as interpreted by each denomination, religion, and a host of organizations, both religious and secular. But like you and I, Jesus wants to be understood as who he is thru a real relationship. And reality only exists as each of us meets it, interacts with it, and accepts it for ourselves, under our own rules and according to our own perception. And keep in mind, you have not yet established rules for reality you have not yet met. That said, if you are one of those people who believes, at least in part, the biblical account, you would accept that Jesus rose from the dead and is sitting at the right hand of God the Father. Therefore, it could be possible to meet, interact with and accept the reality of a relationship with him. If you are one of those individuals who questions or does not accept all biblical history then, if interested, you must seek out the most accurate picture of the life of this man and come to some real understanding on your own of who he was as a human. Either way, more seeking and searching must take place or you will continue to believe someone else’s reality. Why? The problem that exists for both groups of people I mention above is that the bible has been around so long and interpreted so exhaustively that for most people there is nothing more to learn. But if you will entertain that the words live then, this is a beginning.

What has been the existing process of understanding and learning about Jesus of Nazareth? There is a biblical account of Jesus but most, if not all, writers did see, meet, or interact with this Jesus. The writers left us information from their