Without Me you can do nothing.

I am coming to You, Father.

Thou hast given Me power over all flesh.

All power in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

This is the Messiah's testimony about Himself; testimony in words, fully and abundantly confirmed by His works.

Never in the history of the world has any man spoken with such power and authority as Him. And never from time immemorial has any man manifested such powerful deeds as Him.

Not an angel, not a man, but the Son of God and God from God. For if He had been an Angel, would the great Archangel Gabriel, the commander of the Angels, have come down from heaven to announce His birth? And if He had been a man, would John the Baptist, the greatest of men born of women, have been His Forerunner and servant?

A Voice from Heaven

Rejoice, O Theodoulos! Rejoice and be glad, for Immanuel has appeared, God from God, the true Messiah and Savior of men. Not an angel, not a man, not of the perishable seed of man, but seedlessly born of God and the Most-Pure Virgin Mary in the underground cave of Bethlehem. The only seed at His birth was the pure and holy word of God, and the only power at His conception was the power of the Holy Spirit.

He said He had come down from heaven. And people only from heaven expected help and salvation.

He also said that He was the door. And for centuries, people have been groping their way through the labyrinth of life in search of the door to a better life.

He also said that He was the resurrection; that He will raise Himself up when sinners kill Him, and raise up all who believe in Him and love Him.

He also said that He had conquered the world, that He had seen Satan fall from heaven like lightning into hell. And the world needed a Conqueror of evil, falsehood and violence, which came from Satan and acted through people.

He also said that at the end of time, at the end of the drama of human history, He would come again, in power and glory, to gather the living and the dead, to separate them from each other, and to proclaim the final, righteous Judgment upon all. And the righteous will go to eternal bliss, and the unrepentant sinners will be thrown into eternal torment.