by Robert Searles

Created on: September 18, 2008

CHRIST DEFAMED

It is sad but true that we live in a world where instead of love, peace, and harmony prevail, there is avarice, deceit, and slander. It is difficult to know sometimes just who we can trust or who will betray us. In this dog eat dog world which holds to the philosophy of the survival of the fittest, when one is lifted up to a higher degree of importance, another comes along to put him down, and to destroy his credibility and to ruin his reputation so as to make himself look better.

In this sin cursed world, some people would rather cling to and believe a lie rather than to adhere to the truth. Many try to twist the truth to exalt their own ego.
The old testament prophet Jeremiah warned us of this very thing. He said: "Take ye heed every one of his neighbor and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slander. And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity." Jeremiah 9: 4,5.
When our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was on earth, the religious leaders of his day tried to disqualify him and defame him, and they tried to persuade the multitudes to be swayed by their slander. Because he spoke the truth and said that he was the son of God, come down from heaven to bring light and salvation to a world of lost sinners, they accused him of being a blasphemer. "Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, he hath spoken blasphemy, what further need have we of witnesses? Behold now ye have heard his blasphemy." Matthew 26: 65.
There are religious leaders today who try to picture Jesus as some kind of a pervert or blasphemer. They try to take away from him his claim of deity by denying his virgin birth and bodily resurrection. Sinners who are lifted up with pride and arrogance want to put Jesus in the same category as themselves, claiming, at best, that he was just another prophet or good man, but the fact of the matter is: Jesus Christ, the divine son of God was not just another prophet, or angel, or good man, but he was and is God in human flesh dwelling among men.
There were those in Jesus day who thought themselves to be religiously superior to other human beings. They boasted of their good works and adherence to the old testament laws. They refused to fellowship with others who were different from themselves in their beliefs and practices. When Jesus came on the scene, he openly

• 1
• 2
• Next Page >>