Jesus

Jesus

“In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.  (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)  
And everyone went to his own town to register. 
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.  
He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.  
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born,  and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” 
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived. 
Luke 2:1-7,21.

I am a Christian I believe the above passage from the Bible. The birth of Jesus was a birth that changed the world. You can deny the birth ever happened, but you cannot deny that Jesus had a lasting impact on the history of the world.
The Roman and Greek gods and demigods have long since passed into history. They have had no lasting effect on society.
Yet Jesus, this Child born in Nazareth, born in a back water village of the Roman empire far from Rome’s capital, has had influence that has lasted to this day. His message, a message of Love for God, one’s neighbours, and even one’s enemies, is a message unsurpassed from any writing coming from the ancient world.
His claim to be the Son of God and the Christ, for his day was to say the least a dangerous claim. Yet he did and many believed him both then and now.
The French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte said of him,
“I know men and I tell you, Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour, millions would die for him.” 
This Jesus of Nazareth is no myth. He is the Son of God. You can deny it but that does not change the fact.
He came to this earth to meet you where you are at.
Charles R. Swindoll wrote,
“Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship.”
When God created man he gave him the ability to choose, knowing full well that man might choose to stray from what God had intended for him.
Man chose to stray. But God did not give up on man, instead he chose to reach down to offer man the chance to reconcile to Him.
The apostle Paul wrote,
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” 
Romans 5:8.
Jesus offered us a choice saying,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
                                                          John 3:16-18.
The choice is always yours do you believe in Jesus and all he taught, or not?
Think about it.