Following the Wrong Jesus

During my witnessing tonight I met a young woman named Jaquesha (I've probably spelled her name wrong). She was fundamentally confused about Jesus, yet said she was following Him. I pray that she meets and follows the true Christ.

When we first asked her what she believed, she said that she believed in heaven and that she would go there because she did what she was supposed to do - she went to church and tried to do what was right. She had heard about Jesus, but said that she did not believe that He was God. I asked her who she thought Jesus was but she did not have an answer.

I shared with her that we all deserve hell because of our sin, and that doing what we are supposed to do does not cancel the death sentence on our heads. We are still guilty. However, I explained that Christ paid our fine in His life's blood on the cross if we have faith in and follow him. She said that she did have faith in Christ. In response, I reminded her that she did not believe Christ was God, yet the Bible clearly teaches Christ was divine (e.g., Christ accepted the Apostle Thomas' worship when he stated Jesus was "my Lord and my God." - John 20:28)

I questioned Jaquesha about how she could follow Christ if she did not know who He was. To flesh this question out, I asked her what she would do if I asked her to follow a woman named "Jane." Of course, she could not follow Jane because she does not know who Jane is. To follow Jane, she must know who Jane is. It's the same way with Christ. If you claim to follow Christ, you must know who Christ is.

Part of this fundamental knowledge is that Jesus is divine and worthy of worship. Following a Jesus who is not God is not following the same Jesus who said "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but by Me." (John 14:6) Seeing Christ as divine and worthy of worship is one of the evidences of being saved. You no longer see Christ as boring, but you see him as the most magnificent Being worthy of all praise and honor and glory.

I asked Jaquesha to think closely about what I said and gave her a pocket-sized addition of the gospel of John. I asked her to read it to learn about Jesus so that she could follow the right Jesus, God in human flesh.