If Jesus has changed, then He has forgotten to tell us - Reinhard Bonnke

                                 

Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke posted this on his official page, Monday, November 14, 2016. Read the piece below and be encouraged.

Jesus said, “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me because He has anointed Me.” He is the “Anointed One” of this new dispensation. That is exactly how the first Gospel preacher, the Apostle Peter, understood it. He told his audience (the first Europeans to hear the Gospel), that: “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38). The expression “the Anointed” is the same as “Christ.” To say, “Jesus Christ” is to say, “Jesus the Anointed One.” Was He anointed only while He was here on earth? If so, we should not call Him “Christ” any more. But if He is the same, then He is still the “Anointed One” today. That is what He is, exactly as is said of Him in Hebrews 13:8: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Not “Jesus” alone, but “Jesus Christ, the Anointed One.” This is also what we read in John 1:33: “Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit remains with Him, which is why He still baptizes in the Holy Spirit. This was an important point in Peter’s first sermon in Acts 2:36: “God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.” Peter’s preaching was after Jesus’ death and ascension.

Following that instance in Acts, right throughout the New Testament to Revelation, Jesus is called “Christ” in every major book. Six times in the first ten verses of the first chapter of 1 Corinthians, the emphasis is on “the Lord Jesus Christ.” And in the same epistle, Paul said: “For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).

Just as He is still our crucified Lord, He is still our Anointed One. If Jesus no longer delivers, no longer heals, no longer saves, no longer casts out demons, no longer baptizes into the Spirit, then we have a Jesus who is no longer “Christ,” for that is the very meaning of the title and name “Jesus Christ.” He is “the same, yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).

If He has changed, then He has forgotten to tell us. But we have no evidence for any such thing! Hallelujah! Are you encouraged?