Get to Jesus

“And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them. Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.”

Mark 2:1-4 NKJV

Get to Jesus.

No matter where you are in life, high in peace or knowing strife.

Growing wise or throwing dice, deep in cries or sweet relief.

Get to Jesus.

He’s the reason that a being’s even breathing

He’s the breath we need so breathe Him, every step we take we need Him.

Gotta have Him, sinner’s saved and healed and saints forever kept.

All the fullness of The Father, He’s the starter, He’s the rest.

Why do we need to Get to Jesus?

1. Be Reconciled to God

“Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.”

II Corinthians 5:18-19 NKJV

“Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.”

Genesis 3:22-24 NKJV

The facade of religion is broken in relationship. Being reconciled to God and knowing Him is the greatest blessing of salvation. We cannot get to The Father unless we get to Jesus first, and when we do, we are fully and completely forgiven and restored to Him. Knowing Him is everything.

““Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”

Matthew 7:21-23 NKJV

2. He gives we receive.

Salvation, Forgiveness, Healing, Redemption, Freedom, Rest, Power, Love, Sound Mind, Peace, Provision, Authority and Satisfaction. These are several of the things that we freely receive by God’s grace in Christ Jesus. When we put our faith in Him, He comes to live inside of us, giving us an abundant life that is abundantly full of all of these attributes. When Jesus gives, we receive an eternal inheritance.

“That is why he is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.”

Hebrews 9:15 NLT

“as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,”

II Peter 1:3 NKJV

3. We’ve received we give.

“These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”

Matthew 10:5-8 NKJV

What we have establishes what we give. We must have to give and when we give we have. God’s grace is cyclical. He deposits into us, we deposit into others, God is glorified as we bear much fruit, and then we are refreshed to begin the cycle all over again.

““I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

John 15:5 NKJV

“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,”

Acts 3:19 NKJV

Go Boldly,

Joshua David Brawner

The Word, The Pen, and The Mic