How is Jesus portrayed to you physically?  One might say it doesn’t matter… and for the sake of why He came… His physical attributes really do not matter.  But when His true physical attributes have been modified…  a falsehood has now become someone’s truth… and many believe on that truth which has conditioned one’s heart a certain way not realizing that there is a set up for a big let down.

John 10:10 (KJV)

¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:….

The thief is Satan. And he is attempting to steal, kill and destroy anyone by any means necessary. His ultimate goal is to destroy your soul and use you to facilitate in destroying the souls of those you have influence over.

The manifestation of the enemy’s progress referred to in John 10:10 can be seen in these areas:

1. sexual immorality
2. impurity and debauchery
3.  idolatry and witchcraft
4.  Hatred
5. Discord
6.  Jealousy
7.  fits of rage
8.  selfish ambition
9.  Dissensions
10.  Factions
11.  Envy
12.  Drunkenness
13.  Orgies

Manifestations are simply what you can see which tells you what is leading someone in the spirit realm (behind the scenes). These 13 areas are identified in Galatians 5:19-21 and if folks are acting on them… they are truly being led by Spiritual wickedness. Satan does not discriminate in who he is attempting to destroy. He will use whoever is a willing vessel to do his bidding with the ultimate goal of getting as many as he can by any means necessary.

Therefore, spiritual wickedness is found in people who are positioned at different levels of this dark world.

Ephesians 6:12 (KJV)

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

To understand what is written in John 10:10 and then see the enemy’s manifestation of his work as Paul wrote, inspired by the Holy Spirit, in Galatians 5:19-21… and to hear from the Holy Spirit through Paul related to what is working behind the scenes in Ephesians 6:12 through WILLING vessels who have embraced wickedness… one has to come to a place to understand the enemy is REAL… and if He can get your heart to embrace any wickedness and act on it… He is well on his way to destroying that soul. In order to get a person’s heart to embrace his way, he will spin the situation to make a lie a truth and then spin the real truth as a lie… as their hearts are conditioned to hate the real truth and embrace the real lie as a truth. The sheep are unaware of this deception and many die everyday unaware of what is taking place. The enemy has conditioned many to hate the truth, unknowingly, while passionately moving forward in the lie as their truth. So when the truth is presented… the REAL TRUTH will be reviled because it is viewed as a lie from the pit of Hell. In other words, a person’s heart has been hardened due to deception… and a heart that is unwilling to accept God’s truth… is on the opposite side of God.

The mind is now moving forward based on a lie as it’s truth… thinking it is doing the will of thy Father… all the while not realizing the father the heart is chasing after is the one who deceived him to begin with.

John 8:44 (KJV)

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Back to the first question at the very beginning. What if Jesus does not LOOK like what has been portrayed to you? What if He looks like, the region in where he was born and his family traveled as they blended in with the rest of those in that region? What if Jesus looked like the images many have come to revile in their hearts because the media said you should? What if the narrative that is being played out is truly a narrative launched by spiritual wickedness with the main goal found in the first half of John 10:10?

You see… it does matter… not for the physical/carnal reasons others may try to state. But God’s truth and How we view His truth determines if we are walking with Him… or on the opposite side of Him. If Jesus true physical identity does not look like what you have been conditioned to believe… and He truly resembles what you have been conditioned to revile… will you still follow the WAYS of Jesus and consider Jesus LORD over your life? That’s the HEART question many must ask themselves. Will you follow the Lord if the Lord does not look like you? So when talking about the skin color of Jesus, it really does not matter based on why He came… and then IT DOES MATTER if it prevents you from receiving what He died for.

1 John 4:20(KJV)

²⁰ If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Matthew 22:36-40 (KJV)

³⁶ Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

³⁷ Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

³⁹ And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

If the enemy can get you to revile the skin tone of a human being, then you will have a hard time following Matthew 22:33-36. If you can’t follow the first two commands… then 1 John 4:20 pretty much sums it up for that person. And that person, unwilling to accept the truth when it is presented, will continue to walk in a spirit of hatred which is opposite of God’s love. If you can not love fellow human, then you can not love a God you have not seen. It is a matter of the Heart.