by David Brown

Created on: April 24, 2010   Last Updated: April 26, 2010

Change is a word that has been in the media more so than ever in the past couple of years.  It is attached to political campaigns, to religious groups believing that a person can be changed one at a time and change is something that is connected to a financial term.  However, we are looking at the title, changing the world, one person at a time and we have to look back nearly two thousand years ago to see how one person changed the world through His teaching, through His love for the Father in Heaven and through His love for His fellow man.  No doubt that who I am speaking of here is Jesus Christ, My personal Lord and Savior and the Messiah.

For thousands of years since the beginning of time, man has done everything for himself.  It was the survival of the fittest, say some.  However, God was not going to let this continue.   With Adam, the first man, He could not change the world.  Adam committed the first sin and in a special way, the world was going to change.  However, God was going to swiftly put an end to this.  With Noah, who was in good favor with God, God had him make an ark large enough for animals and for his family.  He said that he needed to build the ark because the people had fallen from grace with God and that he was going to wipe them out and make a change.  Noah was startled by this but he listened to God and built the ark.  Then God brought a large flood upon the world and all had died except for Noah and his family and pairs of every animal that existed on earth at the time.

Now, comes the interesting time in the Bible.  Moses was born a Jew, hidden among the Egyptian women, then was sent off by the Egyptian King to live in a town called Midian.  Later, Moses, after meeting God on holy ground through a burning bush, was told to go back to Egypt so that God’s Chosen People, the Hebrews could be freed from bondage and slavery and sent into the desert for 40 years until they were given their right of passage into the Land of Milk and Honey, Israel.  This is when they became the Israelites.  Through the many miracles of God (the ten plagues) and the bravery of one man, Moses, the Hebrews were released by the Egyptians and went to wander in the desert for 40 years, later to enter the Land of Canaan.

Time was moving on.  Then one winter night in Israel, a baby boy was born in a stable (the manger).  He was born of the Virgin Mary.  He came to earth because the people, God’s Chosen People were having a problem with their faith and following God’s Commandments.  He came to earth as this baby boy and His name was Immanuel, God With Us.  An angel reported the coming of the Lord to Joseph and Joseph would call Him Jesus Christ.  For nearly 33 years, Jesus would walk the earth with the people committing many incredible miracles (walking on water, curing a man of blindness, raising the dead, etc.) and teaching the Law of Moses in a much different way.

Jesus came to save the people of earth by a great sacrifice – He was crucified on the Cross on Mt. Cavalry after being beaten and scorned.  He sacrificed Himself for the entire human race so that it could live a sinless and pure life and live like He did, a perfect life.  He went to the cross so that the people no longer have to offer the same animal sacrifices they did in the Old Testament.  So, one man at a time was the world changed.  Jesus, three days after the crucifixion, rose from the dead and went to Heaven to be once again with His Father.  All those who came to be with Him and know Him would have eternal life with Him in Heaven.

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