(Written by Brother Ray Leonard) You will read things you’ve never read before.
Many are familiar with what the Gospels say about Jesus, especially Christians, and they are eternally grateful because the life it has in it has changed their lives for the better.
It has also prepared them to live with God forever in His Eternal Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace.
There are other religions that do not necessarily know much about the gospel.
Then, there are some religions which forbid their followers from reading the Gospels and so avoid them.
But there are others that are not only curious about reading the gospel, but something within them tells them that they are extremely important and that they need to know about them and need to respond to them.
Even more interesting is that many who have been taught against Jesus the prophet, the Christ, have had amazing encounters with him in Dreams and Visions. He is truly alive, and truly life itself. Many have seen Him in pure white robe, in pure white light. He speaks with authority and commands attention. He speaks life to dying souls, and is like cool pure water to the thirsty.
The word ‘GOSPEL‘ means ‘GOOD NEWS‘. It refers to the ‘GOOD NEWS PERTAINING TO JESUS THE CHRIST. JESUS AS LORD AND SAVIOR.
There are four parts (or books) to the ‘GOSPELS’, which are, the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These were prime witnesses of Jesus and His ministry and there is an uncanny, beautiful and perfect harmony in these four books that make up the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
These writers saw first hand the miracles of Jesus, and heard His words of life, that have continued to bring life, healing, salvation, the healing of relationships, the casting out of demons, the turning of hearts of hate into love, and ‘BRINGING ETERNAL LIFE TO EVERYONE WHO WOULD BELIEVE ON HIS NAME, AND RECEIVE HIM AS LORD AND SAVIOR.
That something within you that’s been drawing you to read the Gospel, is the Spirit of the Living God.
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He it is that’s drawing you to know more about it, because it will change your life for the good more than you ever thought anything could possible change it.
Jesus Christ is Life and in Him is Life Eternal. God is not only life, but God is love. Jesus is the light of the world. He says in (John 8:12) “I am the light of the world. He that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life”.
JESUS IS THE CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. In John 14:6 Jesus said, “I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER, BUT BY ME”.
Listen to what Jesus Christ says about loving and treating others in the gospel of (Matthew 5:43-48) “You have heard that it was said, ‘you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so you may be sons of Your Father which is in heaven.
“For He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even (your enemies) and gentiles do the same.
Since the fall of man in the beginning in his rebellion against God, mankind has been pursuing his own sinful way, becoming more sinful, evil, cruel and hating more as the centuries have come and gone.
He is hopelessly lost and is walking in dense darkness. Humanity is blind to the truth, and the Devil and all his demons are driving them on, and downward toward the very pits and flames of hell.
The Apostle Paul tells us in (Romans 3:23) “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Being justified ‘freely by His grace’ through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus”.
(Romans 6:23) “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
In (Matthew 22:37-40) Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the First and Great Commandment. And the second is like unto it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang (depends) all the law and prophets”.
(John 1:1-14) “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the ‘WORD WAS GOD’. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in darkness and the darkness does not overcome it.
“There was a man sent by God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light. So that through Him, all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that lights everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came to His own (Jewish people) and His own received Him not.
BUT, AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM HE GAVE POWER (THE RIGHT) TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD. Children not born of natural descent, or of human decision or of a husband’s will, but born of GOD. We have seen His glory, the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father, ‘FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH“. This scripture is talking about none other, than JESUS THE CHRIST.
This is just a sample of what the Gospel and the New “Testament has to say about Jesus. READ IT FOR YOURSELF AND BE AMAZED. LET IT BRING YOU TO IT’S FULLNESS AND LET IT BRING YOU TO THE LIGHT.
We read in the gospel of Mark 2:1-12 that Jesus healed a paralyzed man.
JESUS RAISES A DEAD GIRL BACK TO LIFE, AND HEALS A WOMAN SUFFERING MUCH FOR 12 YEARS WITH AN ISSUE OF BLOOD and went to many doctors and spent her life’s savings and was only getting worse (Mark 5:21-43)
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Jesus also said, “I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. HE THAT FOLLOWS ME, SHALL NOT WALK IN DARKNESS BUT SHALL HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE”. (John 8:12)
Jesus Christ is the only Savior and the door by which we enter into eternal life, and this is in and through the Lord Jesus, our Savior and King.
(Acts 4:12) “There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus”
(John 3:16) “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”.
JESUS IS THE RESURRECTED CHRIST. HE IS ALIVE TODAY, AND IS ALL POWERFUL. HE CAN AND WILL DO FOR YOU TODAY WHAT HE DID FOR THOSE HE SAVED, HEALED, AND DELIVERED 2,000 YEARS AGO.
ASK HIM FOR WHAT YOU NEED NOW, THANK HIM FOR IT, AND EXPECT TO RECEIVE IT. RECEIVE YOUR MIRACLE TODAY!
TO GET SAVED AND BORN-AGAIN, PRAY THIS PRAYER.
Dear God, I know I am a sinner, and I desire that you forgive me of all my sins. I repent of them now. Jesus, I know that you died on the cross and shed Your blood for my salvation.
Jesus, come into my heart and save me now. I renounce Satan, his power, his works, and his influence over me in Jesus name.
Lord, you said in Your Word (Luke 10:19) “Behold, I give you power to trample on serpents and scorpions (demons), and over all the power of the Devil, and nothing shall by any means hurt you”.
My friend there is no other name, god or goddess (all other names are actually demons), that the devil and his demons will run from in terror except the ‘MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS‘. They are totally subject to His name.
Let me interject right here, Dear Reader, it is a serious and fearful thing to take the Holy Name of God or the Holy Name of Jesus and use it as a curse word, because that breaks the ‘THIRD COMMANDMENT’, which says, “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in Vain”.
God says, “He will not hold you guiltless, but He will pronounce you guilty and pass the eternal death sentence on you (me, or anyone else), unless we repent of that sin and stop doing it. We are guilty and the sentence of death is passed on us all who violate it, or any other commandment, ‘UNLESS WE REPENT’, not with just words alone, but action.
HELL IS THE DESTINY AND DESTINATION OF US ALL, BECAUSE WE HAVE ALL BROKEN MANY, IF NOT ALL THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. THAT’S WHY JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS. His dying for our sins was His great mercy toward us. He died to pay the heavy debt of sin that we owed but were incapable of paying, because it was impossible for us to pay such a debt that our sin incurred.
But when we repent and come to Jesus as our Lord and Savior, He legally can forgive us because He died for our sins in our place, and rose again for our justification, and when we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, he grants us the gift of eternal life, and He comes to live in our hearts forever.
That means you should not use God’s name in an empty fashion, in a trivial way. Worse yet, it angers God greatly when we use His name in a vile and unholy way, such as to ask God to damn someone. Be very, very careful here. God is holy and His ‘NAME’ is to be reverenced and honored.
If you break that commandment or any other commandment, you are guilty before God and condemned in His court of law, and He is absolutely just, and never makes mistakes, because He is perfect in every respect, and in every way. He also knows all things and every detail of our lives. He knows every thought and deed that we’ve ever thought or done, so we can’t hide anything from God.
We must come to Him and repent and change our thinking and stop sinning the sins we used to commit, then God will forgive us and save us.
He is merciful and will forgive if you repent. To repent means you are sorry for that sin and you ask for God’s forgiveness and you stop taking His name in vain, and then ask Jesus into your heart. Even if you are a Christian and you defile His Holy name, you must still repent and stop it, or you will ‘GO TO HELL’.
Now back to the subject we were talking about. Demons tremble and are terrified of Jesus, but just His name alone, causes a fearful shaking in their domain. They don’t even like His name mentioned. “They don’t like to have to speak His name when commanded to, because it tortures them. Wicked spirits will tell you that His name causes a violent shaking in their kingdom. His name brings down fire upon them and burns them with an unquenchable fire.
Some people, even reading this may have an unexplainable rage rise within them as they read this. Or have an angry voice tell them to stop reading this.
THAT IS A DEMON INSIDE THAT DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS WONDERFUL SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, WHO ALONE CAN SAVE YOUR SOUL FROM SIN AND GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE.
JESUS WILL GIVE YOU A HAPPY AND PEACEFUL LANDING ON THE SHORES OF HEAVEN WHEN YOUR TIME COMES. YOU NEED TO COME TO JESUS AND CAST THAT DESTROYING DEMON OUT OF YOU. YOU CAN, YOU KNOW.
Again, let me repeat this scripture. Jesus said in the gospel of Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give unto you power to tread (trample under foot) serpents and scorpions (different kinds of demons) and all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you”.
See how much the Lord cares for you? He loves you enough to deliver you from the power of Satan and give you eternal life in receiving Jesus Christ alone, as your Lord and Savior. What more could you or I ask for?
Now, continuing with our subject. Demons hate the name of Jesus and what His power does to them.
I’ve heard them scream when His name was mentioned, and of course, they scream when they are cast out and commanded to the very pits of hell by the servants of the Living God in Jesus Name.
Dear Reader, others have tried to exorcise demons from people (cast them out) using the names of the gods of other religions and the demons laugh in the face of those so ignorant to try it.
It has been tried over and over again, and in every case it has failed. BUT JESUS NEVER FAILS, AND HIS NAME NEVER FAILS.
This next scripture even records the attempt of seven Jewish exorcists (not true followers of Jesus) who thought they could cast out this powerful spirit using the name of Jesus that Paul preached. It’s needful to understand that casting a spirit out is not a formula, it is not a lucky charm.
If you don’t really know Jesus Christ or you don’t belong to him, the name of Jesus will not work for you. It only works for believers. His name does not work like magic.
The name of Jesus only works through a relationship with Him. It works when we know this living Jesus who has saved us and leads and guides us. He gives us His authority which is the greatest authority in all this world.
(Acts 19:11-20) “And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches. Seven sons of a Jewish Hi-Priest named Sceva were doing this.
But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know and Paul I recognize, but who are you? And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them so they fled out of that house naked and wounded”. These particular Jews did not know Jesus, nor were they a part of His kingdom.
These evil spirits were so powerful they overpowered seven men and they fled away naked and wounded. Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ (who was a Jew) Knew God and was an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, and through His name had great authority over the most powerful of demons.
No demon could stand before him, because He was a child of God and chosen as an apostle sent by God and he used the authority of Jesus Christ against the demons that he cast out.
Listen to this next very powerful scripture that tells about the mindset and power of Jesus Christ and that He, as our example, should cause us to follow it.
And in following it, by so doing, we will carry and manifest His power and authority over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt us.
(Phil. 2:5-11) “Let this mind be in you which also was in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Wherefore, God also has highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, ‘AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER”.
Dear Reader, If you need Jesus’ help to set you free from demon power, He’s looking at you in love. If you’ve given your heart to Him, He puts His loving arms around you and says, “I will help you, I will deliver you, and I will give you peace.
If you are troubled with evil spirits pray this pray from your heart. Look to Jesus, come to Him, and give your life to Him.
Dear Lord Jesus, I confess You as my Lord, Savior, and Deliverer from the ‘powers of darkness’. Deliver me from every oppression of the Devil. Deliver me from all his attacks and all his control on my mind, over every sickness of my body, and over his many attempts to destroy every good and proper relationship in my life.
I am no longer yours, Satan, nor under your power. I have given my life to Jesus who is my Lord, and is Lord over you. In Jesus name, leave me now.
I COMMAND YOU TO LOOSE YOUR HOLD OVER ME IN THE MIGHTY, MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AMEN.
Thank You Lord for setting me free in Your precious name. And thank you Jesus for saving my soul.
By now, if you have a believing heart, it is burning within you, and you recognize that Jesus alone has the words of eternal life.
(John 3:16-20) “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life….For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.
Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the judgment that light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed….But whoever does what is true comes to the light so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.
Dear Reader, the power of the Gospel will save and transform the whole world from the beginning of time to the end of time. God’s only requirement is that we believe the gospel and receive Jesus Christ into our lives as Lord and Savior.
Part of that process is repenting of our sins, and in doing so we are sorry enough to completely stop our sinning, walk away from our old sinful life, and walk with God in the Spirit and not in the flesh.
Salvation and conversion means to love God enough to obey His commandments, and then allow God to baptize us (you) with a mighty baptism in the Holy Spirit and with fire.
(John 14:21) Jesus said, “He that has my ‘COMMANDMENTS’ and ‘KEEPS THEM’ he it is that ‘LOVES ME’, and he that loves me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him, and manifest Myself to him”.
That very scripture, captured my heart when I was a teenager. I was a Christian and knew Jesus Christ personally. I had a living encounter with Him and a born again experience.
The very thought that Jesus was not just a name and person of long ago, on a printed page, but Deity that would make Himself real to me was what my heart longed for.
That Scripture told me how much more I could know Him and we could commune back and forth, and I would be talking to the very Author of Life, and the Creator of the Universe.
And I could know His wonderful saving grace in ways that would make my love for Him increase exponentially.
(Acts 1:8) This is how the disciples were to be equipped, and this is where the Lord was telling His disciples they would go. Jesus told them, “And you shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you and you will be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth”. AMEN.
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