The Victory of Christ in His March
The victory of Christ in His message is divided into stages in His life, from His birth to His death on the cross and His resurrection from the dead.
The first stage: His formation in the womb of His pious mother, Mary, who was full of grace and blessing from the Spirit of God, and His birth, was hidden from the knowledge of Herod’s whereabouts. His transfer with His parents to Egypt in order to escape the massacre of children ordered by the criminal Herod and His return with them to Nazareth after the death of Herod.
• The second stage: His upbringing and growing up with holy parents who lived their lives in the path of theology to consecrate God and serve the society. And they gave Jesus proper love and care.
• The third stage: His lack of personal interest in the demands of a temporal life and the acquisition of the material for comfortable living.
• The fourth stage: His choice and decision to sacrifice His life to save the world from its sins and preach the kingdom of God in which the straight path, Love, light, truth and free life are against slavery, injustice and murder.
• The fifth stage: His challenge to the fear and cruelty of the corrupt moral rule of the Romans and those who opposed Him in Israel, like the scribes, the Pharisees, the chief priests, the elders of the synagogues and the idolaters.
• The sixth stage: His love equally for all people, even His opponents, regardless of colour, race and physical appearance and He granted them forgiveness and tolerance.
• The seventh stage: He founded His church, was its first shepherd and chose Peter from among His disciples to be the invincible rock in its foundation and handed him the keys of Heaven and Earth to be its faithful shepherd, to bind and dissolve as he pleased with the grace of the Holy Spirit.
• The eighth stage: He was the first to recommend and called in the history of mankind, the idea of establishing the Charity giving to help the poor and needy. This idea is a jewel of the jewels of the essences of humans’ work, the love of God and the service of humanity.
• The ninth stage: He carried the cross with confidence and challenged death courageously, because He had confidence and faith in the Spirit of God and His victory over evil, moral corruption, hatred, delusion and murder and expected the coming of a new life in which a human lives with dignity.
• The tenth stage: liberating the human being from weakness and fear, enlightening his mind with light, the light of knowledge and righteousness, consolidating faith in himself and his honest work, embracing respectful Love and freedom, achieving brotherhood among peoples, rejecting violence, terrorism, killing and slavery, encouraging sound work and cooperation, preserving truth and achieving peace.
Excerpts from the book: ‘Is God a Lie or Are We? Certainly We Are!’
Author: Jamil Elias Kabalan
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