Jesus… Son of Man – He was our example!

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Satan wants us to see Jesus’ life here on earth as a far-fetched lifestyle that we could never come into today. He wants you to see Jesus’ life here on earth as 100% God and had no man. However, scripture is clear that Jesus was God (the Word) and He took on the nature of man (flesh):

John 1:1,14, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”

It is true that Jesus was God’s son, but it’s also true that He was living a man’s life down here on earth. In Hebrews 2:9, God’s Word tells us that Jesus was made a little lower than the angels while He was here on earth:

“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels…”

Jesus was our example

If I asked you the reason Jesus went about healing all who were oppressed of the devil, what would you say? Would you say, “He did those things because He was the son of God!”? Would you be shocked if I said you were wrong? Let’s take a look at Acts 10:38, where it tells us how Jesus went about doing these good things:

“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.”

If Jesus could go about healing all who were oppressed of the devil, because He was anointed with the Holy Ghost, then we today should be able to go about doing the same things!

Many don’t believe that we can do the things that Jesus did, because He was the Son of God, but the Word of God tells us differently:

John 14:12, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

The weaknesses He experienced here on earth

Jesus wasn’t born as wise as He could be. Jesus didn’t know everything the moment He came out of the womb. Did you know that there was actually a time when Jesus Himself was growing in wisdom?

Luke 2:52, “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature…”

Contrary to what many may believe, there were even things that Jesus did not know while He was here on earth either:

Mark 13:32, “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”

Scripture is even clear that the Father would speak to the Son and show Him things. If the Son already knew these things, then He would not be claiming in the below scripture that the Father hath shown Him:

John 15:15, “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”

This makes it so evident that the Father and the Son are two distinct persons in the Godhead!

I believe Lester Sumrall once said that Jesus was even manifesting some of the gifts of the Spirit while here on earth, including the discerning of spirits and the word of knowledge. Different times, Jesus would know the names of demon spirits when casting them out:

Mark 9:25, “When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.”

But another time when Jesus was confronting a demonic spirit, He asked the demon for it’s name:

Mark 5:9, “And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.”

Why would Jesus ask the demon for it’s name, if He already knew? It doesn’t make sense. I believe it is very helpful at times to ask demons for their names. It gives us an idea of what their function is, how they got there, and what other demons may be residing in the person.

Jesus also had weaknesses, and the man part of Him was asking the Father to allow His death on the cross to pass over Him:

Matthew 26:39, “And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”

Why was He the son of man? He was our example!

God’s Word is clear that Jesus was our example, and our lives here on earth are to be conformed to His image and likeness:

Romans 8:29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

Jesus wants us to be going about doing the same things that He Himself was here on earth doing. He was our example! He was healing the sick, so He sent us fourth to heal the sick. He was casting out demons, so He sent us fourth to cast out demons!

Mark 16:17-18, “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

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18-y-o’s brutal murder stuns Gregory Park residents
Bright 18-year-old was working to pull her family out of poverty, but someone slashed her throat
BY INGRID BROWN Observer senior reporter [email protected]
Friday, April 20, 2012

EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Amelia Pitterson had only just made the down payment on a plot of land as a step closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of relocating her mother from the Train Line squatter settlement in Gregory Park, St Catherine to a proper home of their own.
Having studied many nights by the light of a cellphone to pass nine CXC subjects at age 16, ‘Chevel’, as she was affectionately called, was extremely excited at the prospect of beginning a business administration degree at the University of Technology (UTech) this September. She was convinced that only a proper education would break the chain of poverty for her family.
PITTERSON… described as a good, decent and brilliant girl
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But Pitterson will never fulfil any of those dreams as her throat was savagely slit by an attacker in her one-bedroom board house in the Portmore community, only hours before she would have left for work at the Bank of Jamaica where she held an administrative position.
One neighbour said he heard a commotion in Pitterson’s room sometime after 2:00 am on Thursday, however he got no response when he shouted to her if everything was okay.
However, it was sometime after 7:00 am yesterday when an older sister, who lives in one of two other houses in the yard, went to find out why Pitterson had not yet left for work and stumbled on the body clad only in a towel and underwear.
Today, her mother Natalie White-Walker is left only with the many life lessons her daughter taught her and the motivating words that constantly brought tears to her eyes as she relived the memories of one she described as “my promising child”.
“She was a honest and positive child who always gave me hope when it seems hopeless,” White-Walker said with a blank stare. “She always say ‘Mammy, we can’t live like this for much longer. We have to move from here and I will have to be the one to break this poverty curse’.”
White-Walker recalled her daughter going to school many days without lunch money and studying by the light of a cellphone when they did not have any electricity.
“We used to walk and sell together and she used to say ‘Mammy, mi tired; you a go mek me shoes pop off, that is why me a go study hard that we don’t always have to do this’,” White-Walker recalled.
Having gained nine subjects, she said her daughter was initially employed at the BOJ for three months, but this was later extended to six months, then two additional years.
It was this determination and optimism which the Jonathan Grant High School past student imparted as she often encouraged her mother to excel at a hospitality management course she had started at UTech.
“She used to tell me how to answer the questions and teach me how to not have a mind block against Maths, and now she was so excited that it was her time to go to UTech, but now she can’t go,” she said, with the tears flowing.
The duo would constantly visit the Housing Agency of Jamaica to enquire about their chances of securing a plot of land and had received the good news last week, after several trips, that they had qualified for property in Burke’s Field, Old Harbour.
Having secured the down payment, White-Walker said Pitterson and her stepfather immediately went to work designing the family’s dream home.
“She draw the house and say she and her sister going to be over this side and me and her stepfather over the other side and she want me to have a little pastry shop out front,” she recalled.
However, Pitterson did not get a chance to visit the land, relying only on the pictures her mother captured on her cellphone.
Yesterday, stunned residents in this community gathered at the gate to Pitterson’s yard to lament the tragic end to the neighbourhood’s bright star who everyone described as a “good, decent and brilliant girl who did not allow the community men to become fresh with her”.
White-Walker constantly wiped the tears that spilled uncontrollably from her eyes as she relived the final moments she spent with her daughter on Wednesday night.
She told the Jamaica Observer that, as was usual, she had gone to visit her daughter but this time it was to tell her of a dream she had the night before.
“I tell her that in the vision she was on a train and it was about to crash and I end up being the one who had to bank the train, but when it come to a stop the coach that she was in break off and all the look me looking fi her ah couldn’t find her,” she said.
“She turned and ask me if in the vision she was safe and I say ah don’t know.”
White-Walker said she however could not shake the premonition that something terrible was about to happen and that she needed to visit her church immediately to pray.
But after being unable to find someone to accompany her there, the mother said she instead went to her house in Newlands, Portmore where she sat and read her Bible.
After all, she was to have had an early start as Pitterson needed her to come by the house yesterday to bake some more products which she (Pitterson) normally sold at her workplace.
But before White-Walker could head out early yesterday morning, she got the devastating news that her daughter’s life had been snuffed out along with all of the dreams and hopes the family had in her.
“I know she would come to be something great because I just see the height she was going, but I am so sorry she couldn’t reach it,” the mother said as she clung to her daughter’s pillow.
Many of the community children, who came by to look at the blood-stained floor, were often helped with their homework or taken to church by Pitterson.
“Right now, she have a School-Based Assessment Test that she helping a girl to work on because she was always like that — willing to help others,” the mother said.
White-Walker said when she went through the trauma of watching her son’s leg being amputated after being accidentally shot by the police, it was Pitterson who had given her hope.
“When me lock up in me house ah cry, she come in and say “get up Mammy, God ah God and Him won’t let him die’, and so she is always giving me hope and being there for me and I wasn’t there to help her,” she lamented.

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