We at JacLyn Enterprises think we have the answer to the need for a book that gives its readers more than a cursory study of the life of Jesus. Titled The Life of Christ in Five Phases, Fourth Edition, the book delves more deeply into who Jesus was, what were His reasons for doing the things He did and what His relationship was to the Father and the Holy Spirit. At the same time it is targeted to the average person, not necessarily to the learned theologian – to him reading these thoughts would be like feeding Pablum (a bland food for babies) to an adult.
Below are two snippets of text taken from The Life of Christ in Five Phases:
1. The Identity of the Holy Spirit
Jesus, in His last discourse with His disciples, said, "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Counselor, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees Him nor knows Him, [note the following] for He dwells with you and will be in you." (John 14:16, 17 - RSV).
If the Counselor (Comforter‑KJV) was then dwelling with the disciples, it must have been Jesus Himself who would come back, after leaving the earth in bodily form, to dwell in them as the Holy Spirit. It could not have been one of the disciples. Jesus then makes it clearer to them: "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."
2. Crucified!
The soldiers laid the cross flat on the ground and made Jesus lie on it, His arms stretched out along the cross beam on either side. Jesus knew what was coming and no doubt His flesh did draw back, but not in a literal sense. With no hesitation, except that caused by His broken physical condition, He positioned Himself on the cross. An unnamed soldier who should forever live in infamy took a spike and hammer and viciously drove the spike through one of Jesus' outstretched hands. To the soldier it was as though the hand were a block of wood he was fastening to the cross. It was not so with Jesus. The pain flashed up His arm and into His whole being. Then they nailed the other hand with the stabbing pain again accompanying it.
Next, they nailed Jesus' feet to the cross with the same unconcern by the soldiers and the same cruel pain suffered by Jesus. They thus impaled the Lord of glory on all the outrages and abominations of fallen man. They lifted this mighty God and this broken Man upon the tree so that He was hanging, a tragic and repulsive sight, between heaven and earth where He was accepted by neither. Here was this accursed and innocent Man, hanged for all the world to see as a sort of invective that mankind hurled in the face of God Himself! And still God let them live in their sin and madness
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