flourish, we need to put God before anything or anyone and let Him be the driving force in your
life.
Our ethics and morals will be guided by God and this will create an emotional and mental
foundation on which we can build our spiritual lives. Because of the temptations, this created the
fall of humanity. The consequences of the fall is pain in childbearing,
woman will desire a
husband who rules over her, there will be hard labor over the land, humans will eat the plants
from the land, there will be thorns and thistles on the land that man must labor over, man will
work hard and will eat the food he labors over, upon death man will return to the ground as dust.
Jesus
God sent us his only begotten son to be born from a virgin. Jesus is mostly spoken about in the
four Gospels of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke John. These gospels show the life and
the work of Jesus. The ministry of Jesus begins when John the Baptist announces the coming of
Jesus and baptizes him.
“
John the Baptist is an enigmatic character in the New Testament but his
role is vital for understanding the ministry of Jesus.” (Turner, 2010)
Jesus can do the things that
God can do because he is human and fully divine and spreads the word that God is good and is
real in his teachings and ministry.
Jesus is described in the book of John 1:14 as the word who
has become flesh. “
The Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his
glory,
the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace
and truth.”
In
his parables he is giving explanations of the Kingdom of Heaven, and are revealing the secrets of
the kingdom, especially in his Sermon on the Mount, which reveals the Lord’s Prayer.
“When
Jesus taught us how to pray, he used communal language: “Our Father.” In these two words Jesus
defined our relationship to God, as his children; and our relationship to each other, as siblings
and co-equals.”
(Jay, 2017)
“Although Jesus’ message was anticipated by the people of his day,
the Gospels also indicate that is conflicted with their expectations. The disappointment people
