(Ver 1.2)  This is Part 2 in the series of advanced Bible Study lessons discovering the real Jesus of the Bible.  These studies also spend time countering the myths of the false Jesus taught in many churches today.  If you have not read the first lesson in the series I might suggest that you go and start with reading “Part 1“.  There are a number of things taught about Jesus from the Bible that are clearly fabricated by Satan to discredit the real Jesus found in the Bible.  In my last lesson on the real Jesus, I discussed a poor Jesus vs. a Jesus with money.  I know I did not fully cover the subject, but I gave you some key scriptures that are very important to note when discussing the subject.  I believe that Satan wants to portray the Jesus of the Bible as a homeless man who owned nothing and then he tries to use this image to imply that the followers of Jesus are never supposed to rise higher than their master the teacher.  So if Jesus owned nothing Christians are supposed to own nothing and I do not follow that religious philosophy simply because that is not the Jesus of the Bible.   I believe there are many scriptures in the Gospels that dispel the fact that Jesus owned nothing and I gave you many of these for your consideration.  Please do not accept anything that I teach without you seeing it in the Bible.  Verify everything that I say using your own Bible to confirm it.  This is the only way that you are insured that someone is not deceiving you.

Today I want to attack another myth taught in many churches using the truth in the Bible.  These churches teach that Jesus came to the earth as God in His full omnipotent Godhead power and they claim that He proved it by demonstrating to us countless miracles and supernatural signs like speaking to the wind and waves and walking on water to name a couple of prominent examples.  I am going to start this discussion with a scripture that you probably do not associate as being important to this subject of Jesus’ omnipotence found in the book of Acts:

Act 10:38  How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

So I will not debate that Jesus was God in the flesh, if you do not know this already you should go read and study your Bible to find this for yourself.  I have written about it in other Bible lessons, if you want to go read them.  This verse in Acts is very clear, yet totally ignored by those who profess an Omnipotent Jesus theology.  Omnipotent means “all powerful” capable of doing anything in His full Godhead strength.  Was this the Jesus of the Bible when he was born in a manger and grew to be a man?  If it was why did God have to anoint Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and Power?  This verse implies that if God had not anointed Jesus, he would not have been able to heal anyone.  It clearly says that it is the spiritual anointing power that healed the people and not the man Jesus of Nazareth.  If Jesus is God in the full manifestation of omnipotence there is no need for any anointing, is there?  If you do not see this, you do not know how to read.  It just isn’t that difficult to see.

Do you know what “Christ” means?  Jesus is called the “Christ” in the Bible.  This is the Greek word for a Hebrew word translated as “Messiah” in the Old Testament.  Do you know what “Christ” means?  What is the definition of the word “Christ”.  This word “Christ” means “anointed”, to rub or smear with oil.  When David was anointed to be King by Samuel he poured oil over David’s head (1 Sam 16:13).  This was an outward symbolic representation for an internal spiritual process that was taking place.  This is also what happened to Jesus.  Do you remember when Jesus was baptized in the river Jordan by John the Baptist and the Holy Spirit in the form of Dove descended from heaven? (Mat 3:16)  This was God anointing Jesus of Nazareth the man with the Spirit of God and Power that we just read about in Acts 10.  So why was it necessary for God to descend from Heaven if the Spirit of God was already in the body of Jesus in full omnipotent power?  I hope you are seeing the problem with the erroneous teaching of many ignorant people in the church.  Let’s verify this belief based upon the words of Jesus himself:

Luk 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Here we have Jesus speaking to the people in the temple.  Jesus opens the scroll and finds the place it is written about Him in Isaiah 61:1 and He begins to read.  “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me”.  In this verse Jesus is claiming using prophecy what we just observed in the Baptism of John.  This claim was given that the Holy Spirit had descended upon him from the heavens in the form of a dove to rest.  Jesus is very clearly stating that God has anointed him to do certain things and He begins to list these things that He is anointed by God to do.  So if Jesus could do everything using full omnipotent deity power, Jesus must have lied and He did not need to read a verse about being anointed, does He?   I thought God could do anything, especially an omnipotent God in full Godhead power.  I hope you are beginning to see the falsity of what many try to teach you on the internet and in some churches.  It is absolutely critical to see and understand the real Jesus so that you can understand the real you.  God used this anointing power throughout the Old and New Testaments to give His power to men.  God still anoints people to do things today in the world.  But, my lesson is not about God’s anointing on us, it is about why it was necessary for God to anoint Jesus so let’s continue.

There are many things in the Bible that are difficult to explain with a single lesson because there are more than one inter-related subjects to also discuss or we do not understand what is being taught.  In the Gospels we find that Jesus went around and healed many people but, what was the “determining factor” for why some got healed and some did not.  First let me ask you did you know that Jesus did not heal everyone that was sick?  I will prove this to you as I go.  Was it God’s choice on who to heal and who to leave sick, lame and crippled or was there other factors involved that we do not yet understand?  The Bible says very clearly that God does not show “favoritism”.

Lev 19:15  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Act 10:34  Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

Jas 2:9  But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

Does God ask people to do things that God does not do Himself?  I don’t think so, if it is a sin to respect one person over and above another, then God commits sin if he heals one person and does not heal another.  So we clearly have a problem, when reading the Gospels, since Jesus did not heal everyone.  So there must be another factor that can explain this situation and not leave us confused.  Do you recall when Jesus was walking in Mark 5 with one of the rulers of the synagogue named Jairus?   Jesus was on the way to his house to heal his daughter and there was a very large crowd of people following Jesus and touching Him.  In this chapter is an incredible story within a story.  Why is everyone touching Jesus on every side?  Was Jesus just a man with rock star status to them or were they all after the healing Power that Jesus told everyone that He was anointed with?  You are going to have to make up your own mind why people are touching Jesus, because the Bible does not directly tell us.  However, while everyone is touching Him and He is walking to the house of the sick girl, a woman with an issue of blood comes up and forces her way through the crowd and touches the hem of His garment.  Jesus stops and turns and asks a very funny question for an omnipotent and omniscient God to ask, “Who touched me?”.  Was this a blunder by Jesus or did He not know who it was that touched Him after all the disciples said “Master the crowd is touching you on every side”.   In other words the disciples see people touching Jesus everywhere, but they did not understand what just happened and only Jesus and this one woman knew what just transpired.  However it is clear that Jesus felt the power leave but did not know where the power went based upon the question.

So I am going to make a longer story a shorter story for the sake of time.  The woman with the issue of blood feels the power of God go into her and heal her and Jesus feels the power of God go from Him and heal her, and yet Jesus does not know who it is that got healed.  Why is this?  It only make sense if you understand the Bible correctly, otherwise it is just a point of confusion.  Jesus we have seen was anointed by God with the Holy Ghost and Power (Acts 10:38).  Jesus told us that the Holy Ghost had anointed Him in Luke 4:18.  We also saw the Holy Ghost descend upon Jesus like a dove in Matthew 3:16.  So we have 3 witnesses that say that Jesus was anointed with the Spirit of God.  So Jesus had the power of God clearly upon Him with the anointing.  But what was it that caused one woman in the crowd of hundreds to receive this power while the others did not?  That is a very important question to understand the answer to.  Fortunately Jesus gives us the answer:

Mar 5:34  And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

Jesus gives us the answer to the million dollar question of why this woman received her healing and the hundreds of others who touched Him did not.  Jesus said that the determining factor was her “faith”.  So now we have a new problem what is “faith” and why did she have it and the others did not.  Since that is not my primary subject, I’m not going to get into that fully in this lesson today.  What I want you to see is that yes Jesus had Anointed Power, but that this power was only accessed by one woman with her individual “faith”.  So apparently it was not all up to sovereign God in what happens in the world, is it?

My primary subject today is the myths concerning Jesus’ deity power, so I’m going to continue with teaching on this line of thought and leave “faith” to another day.  I told you earlier that Jesus did not heal everyone and we clearly saw an example of this with the crowds touching Him in Mark 5 with only one woman getting healed.  So now I’m going to show you a much stronger witness to the fact that Jesus was not God in His omnipotent power on the earth.  If you continue reading in the book of Mark you will find starting in chapter 6 verse 1 that Jesus is said to come into his own country.  This is the home of Jesus, the place where He lives in a house like I showed you in the last lesson in this series.  He enters into the synagogue and begins to teach the people and the people automatically begin to question, him saying where did He get this wisdom?   You see all of these people saw Jesus grow up and watched Him from a time of a child and knew Him and his family intimately.  Why is Jesus teaching the people?  I think people who do not understand “faith” don’t understand that before healing comes, teaching comes first.  Jesus would always teach the people from the Bible, that God has anointed Him to heal and if they believed it, they could be healed and if they did not believe it they could remain as they were.

Mar 6:4  But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

Jesus is the prophet in this verse that is without honor in his home city.  The people were too intimately familiar with Jesus and His natural life to allow the new “anointing” to work.  These people let the old natural Jesus influence who He was to them today.  Little did they know that this was the Messiah spoken of in their Bible.  These people let their ignorance rob them of the blessings of God.  They did not know He was born in Bethlehem and they did not know His father was God.  They just assumed they knew him and they made the wrong conclusions.  This is one of the greatest danger that many people face today.  I see this attitude in and out of church.

Mar 6:5  And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

The Bible does not say that Jesus would not do any mighty works there; it literally says it was impossible for Jesus to do any mighty supernatural healings in this setting.  In other words, no blind people came again seeing, no crippled people walked again, no deaf people could hear, nothing occurred but Jesus laying His hands on a few minor sick people to be healed.  So obviously the Omnipotent Jesus was on vacation during this chapter of the Gospels or people just ignore the real Jesus to make up their fictitious version of Him.  You can clearly see that Jesus was not omnipotent in this verse or He would have been able to heal everyone regardless of what they believed.

Mar 6:6  And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.

When Jesus saw their unbelief He was amazed.  So what is the opposite of “faith” that got the woman healed in the chapter before this one?  You can see that the woman with the issue of blood believed what she heard and these people in the Jesus home town did not believe.  That is probably the most important thing that I will teach today, but that is not my primary subject, so I will continue.

What I have demonstrated to you is a version of Jesus that the Bible depicts as being the real “Emanuel” God with Us!  This was a man who was God, but clearly was not God in His full Godhead power.   Do you understand that it would be impossible to kill the man Jesus if He was here in His full Godhead power?    If Jesus was the omnipotent God in person on this planet no would have been able to crucify Him and no one would be saved today.  It is very clear to me that God stripped Himself of His divine powers when He choose to manifest on the earth as a human being like you and I.  I am going to end this lesson on this note about the resurrection of Jesus.  Did you know that after Jesus was raised from the dead He never did any more supernatural signs or wonders here on the earth?  Jesus walked the planet after being raised from the dead for nearly 40 days and never did one single supernatural act to prove His divine nature.   I mean why didn’t Jesus appear to everyone that just crucified Him and say look I told you so?  You see after Jesus was raised from the dead He was again the omnipotent God.  But then He told His disciples “that all power in both heaven and in the earth had been given to him”(Mat 28:18).  So why is it that people teach that Jesus already had all power before He was crucified if Jesus said it was given to Him after being raised from the dead?  Can’t you read and see that Jesus said this power wasn’t fully given to Him until after He was raised from the dead?  You cannot have it both ways!  Jesus had to be a man with human limitations before the crucifixion and then the power was returned back to Him after His resurrection or you just have to ignore more parts of the Bible that do not agree with your ridiculous fantasy.  If Jesus had all power before His crucifixion then there is nothing to give to Him after His resurrection and Jesus is a liar.   Wow, I don’t know if you really understand the things I teach or not, but it would be great if you did!  God Bless!

If you would like to continue reading in this series of lessons about the Myths of Jesus in the church you may proceed to “Part 3“.