Jesus Was a Jew
If you read the Bible, you must know that Mary was the mother of Jesus. She was a young Jewish virgin. His stepfather was Jewish as well, and Jesus was raised in a traditional Jewish home. He observed all of the Jewish feasts and holidays. In His life and His death, Jesus fulfilled all of the promises that His Father God made with Sarah and Abraham and fulfilled the prophecies made elsewhere in the Bible. Because of the sins of Adam and Eve, a blood sacrifice was needed to atone for and cover the sins of mankind. The death of Jesus on Calvary was necessary and His resurrection fulfilled many of the predictions of the Old Testament.
The gift of redemption He offers is free, but just like any gift, the person to whom it was offered must accept it before it is actually theirs. It becomes theirs only when they actually claim it. If a person is offered something then refuses to take it, it isn’t theirs to own.
I was watching the testimony of an Indian Muslim who claims to have been saved by reading the Quran. He was a devout Muslim who studied the Quran. As he did, he noticed that Jesus was mentioned more than fifty times, directly or indirectly by other titles. He said that the actual name of Jesus was mentioned twenty-five times, the Messiah eleven times, and twenty-three times as the Son of Mary. He also noted that Muhammad was only mentioned four times. In his reading of the Quran, he noticed that Jesus was still alive while Muhammad was dead.
He went to his mentor and Imam to ask about the things that he read. When the Imam couldn’t give him the answers he sought, he began to read the Bible. When he did, many of the words surrounding Jesus began to make sense. One thing he mentioned was Jesus was mentioned as the Word. At the very beginning of the book of John it says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.” John 1:1. From that, this once Muslim ascertained that Jesus was more than a just a prophet as the Quran branded Jesus, He was more than a prophet, He was equal with God. The more he delved into the Bible, the more he understood his need for a Savior. It was something that he could not find in the pages of the Quran. It became his testimony that he was directed to Salvation by the words he found in the Quran. Salvation can still be found in this Jew-born Man.