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Where Is Jesus?
Brian Mashburn
January 8, 2017
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Where's Jesus?
It is a question that I've been asking continually for the better part of my life. Where is Jesus?
In some ways, for me, it has been asked and answered. Yet in other ways, I am still asking it.
It is such a simple-sounding little question. But I have found it to be a living, profound, and exciting one.
If you ask someone in the Baha'i faith, Jesus' body is in the ground somewhere, but his soul is with God, as is the case with all holy men. If you ask a Mormon, he became a god and got his own planet. If you ask a Jehovah's Witness, he has risen, but only spiritually, and he returned in 1914, and now rules the Earth through the Watchtower Society in Pittsburgh. You may get varied answers from Muslims, but many would say he was taken up into Heaven much like Enoch or Elijah. Orthodox Jews would say he died on a cross and his bones are buried somewhere in the Middle East. The answer created by the movie The Da Vinci Code (precursor to the current flick, Inferno) was that Jesus moved to France and had a few kids and then died and was buried there.
And there are legions of other answers.
But what about you? How would you answer the question? If someone came to you and said they were interested in Jesus, and not just historically, but they wanted to find him in every way that he can be found - and they wanted to know him in every way that he can be known - and so they ask you, "where is he?" What is your answer?
Today, we look in the pages of the Bible for its answer. My hope and prayer is that you will test what we find. Go looking for Jesus where the Bible says he is to be found, and see if it is true.