- Feb 12
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Read the February 2025 issue of THE HUB from One Hope Outreach here.
Dear friends and partners:
It is great to be alive in 2025. We have never passed this way before but it is a good time to count our blessings and continue to serve the Lord Jesus Christ with all of our being. A great big thank you for your love, prayers and financial support as we work together in God’s kingdom business. In addition to our current media outlets. On February 1st, 2025, 8:30 A.M. One Hope Outreach began broadcasting it’s Church Without Walls segment on Now TV, a streaming broadcast that can be received on Roku, Apple TV and other outlets.
We are excited about working in the great fields of harvest and look forward to what more God has in store for 2025.
Who do you say that Jesus is?
13 Now when Jesus came to the district of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of man is?" 14 They told him, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." 15 He said to them, "And who do you say I am?"
Matt 16:13-15 (MOFF)
Some say He was a perfect man, the son of Zechariah and that He was not born of a virgin and was not the son of God. Others say before He lived on Earth, he was Michael the archangel and was not God. Some say He is separate from God the Father and that He was created as a spirit being by the Father and Mother in heaven. Still others say He was not the Christ but displayed the Christ idea, that Christ means perfection, not a person. Others contend that He was a man who had Christ consciousness and that “Christ” is a state of perfection in every person. He is considered by some as a spiritual teacher who taught love and compassion. Then there are others who say He is not one true God, was not and is not a Savior but rather a spiritual model and that He did not physically rise from the dead, but rose to a higher spiritual dimension. Some say His death did not atone for sins and He did not rise from the dead. These are all belief statements of eight different cults or religions that exist in our world today
Biblical Christianity declares Jesus to be Co-equal with God the Father and the Holy Spirit and is the second person of the Trinity. He has always existed and will never cease to exist and will forever reign as Lord and King over all dominions. He is the only way to the Father, eternal life and salvation. He was born of a virgin and lived on earth as a man for approximately thirty-three and a half years. He died on a cross according to God’s plan, as full sacrifice and payment for our sins. He rose from the dead physically, immortal on the third day after crucifixion. For forty days He was seen by more than five hundred eyewitnesses. He was touched by human hands and ate meals with His followers. He physically ascended to heaven as eyewitnesses watched Him rise from the earth and disappear into the clouds above. Jesus will come again visibly and physically at the end of the world’s age to establish God’s kingdom and judge the world.
The apostle John, in his gospel account identifies Jesus Christ as the source of all spiritual life and light for the one that believes.
The life of Jesus is the light that penetrates, overcomes and conquers the darkness. This life and light of Jesus removes the ignorance of the consequence of sin from the life of those who believe on Him. The Bible further says the person that refuses to believe is spiritually blinded by Satan.
“3 Even if my gospel is veiled, it is only veiled in the case of the perishing; 4 there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.” 2 Cor 4:3-4 (MOFF)
What about you, who do you say Jesus is? If you desire to know God, you must look to Jesus, He is the exact representation of God the Father. He is waiting on your prayer appeal to heaven to make Himself known to you.
-Marvin Smith