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be the everlasting Father and the Principality or Master of Peace (5. Mark 1:15) The man Jesus Christ began His ministry upon turning 30 years of age, which falls in line with the Mosaic law. (see Numbers 4)

Jesus is the way, the Truth, the Life. No one comes to God but by Him

In the Gospel of John, in the 14^th chapter and the sixth verse, Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  This makes sense when you realize that Jesus Christ is “the Father” incarnated in a human body.

Jesus Christ did many miracles including raising the dead, healing all manner of sicknesses and diseases and casting out and delivering people from devils and evil spirits.  Isaiah 35:4-6 clearly shows who Jesus actually is: "Behold, your God… he will come and save you." This passage goes on to say that when God comes, the eyes of the blind would be opened, the ears of the deaf would be unstopped, the lame would leap, and the tongue of the dumb would speak.  Jesus applied this passage of Scripture to Himself in Luke 7:22 and, of course, His ministry did produce all of these things. (6. The Oneness of God)

The way Jesus taught to be saved

Jesus taught that a person must repent and be born again to be saved. (7. Mark 16:16-17) He went on to explain that you must be born of the water which is baptism or immersion in water, which He exemplified, and also born of the Spirit which the Bible explains is to receive His Holy nature or Holy Spirit; and that signs would follow those who believed, such as speaking in other languages supernaturally. The Greek word used in these Scriptures is "baptizdo" which means to immerse or submerge in water.  Furthermore, Jesus Christ promised that He would go to prepare a place for us. (John 14:2) and that He would not leave us comfortless, (John 14:26) Jesus Christ said that He came to earth so that our joy could be full and to manifest the Father to us.  The man Christ Jesus became the sacrifice required by God’s plan to redeem mankind unto Himself.(8. Act 20:28) This is the gospel or good news.  The good news is the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  To obey the gospel (2 Thessalonians 1:8) there must be a death (repentance), a burial (baptism), and a resurrection (in filling of the Holy Spirit) which then gives us the power to overcome our own sinful nature, and live a life pleasing to and separated unto God.(9. 1Cor 15:1-4 )

Jesus started the church (the 'ecclesia' which means 'the called out ones, separated or holy unto God')

Jesus said in Matthew 16:18 that upon this 'rock' (the original Greek word meaning the very foundation or bedrock), He would build His church and that the gates of hell would not prevail against it.  The rock was the truth that Peter had just declared that Jesus was the son of God (which meant to a one God Jew, God manifested in flesh). This is expounded upon in the book of the Acts of the Apostles when Peter, who was given the keys to the Kingdom by Jesus Christ, explains the fact that those who had just received the Holy Spirit were the fulfillment of the prophecy on Joel (Joel 2:28-29)  Peter then further explained the 'born again' plan of salvation as being repentance, (death to self-will while enthroning God’s will) baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission or forgiveness of sins (buried with Him in Baptism: Rom. 6:4), and the receiving of the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Resurrection) He went on to say that we must also save ourselves from being a part of the sinful world system that we are in. (Holiness & Separation from the world)(10. Acts 2:38-40)