Can Jesus visit you in a dream? If Jesus is God and has all power, then of course Jesus can visit you in a dream. God is no stranger to using dreams to communicate to people in the Bible. Jesus has the capacity of visiting you in a dream.

I’ve heard of people being visited by Jesus in a dream. You hear stories of these dreams leading people of false religions to Jesus. There have been increasing reports of Jesus dreams in muslim communities.

I will not condemn these. If they truly bear good fruit then they must be from God. The disciples wanted to stop a certain man from preaching because they didn’t know who he was. Jesus told them “do not stop him from preaching, whoever is not against you is for you.” If these dreams are bringing people to a genuine faith and relationship with Jesus how could anyone condemn them?

However, and this is a big one, Jesus will only testify to the truth (John 18:37). If Jesus did come to you in a dream you would need to be able to verify His identity by comparing your dream to the truth of scripture.

Jesus would never tell you something contrary to what God has revealed in the Bible. If Jesus visited you in a dream and told you to kill anyone it would clearly be against the law of God. If dream Jesus gave you stock market advice or told you to sleep with someone outside of marriage, you can bet that’s not Jesus. Jesus won’t teach you to be selfish or sinful.

Yes, Jesus can visit you in a dream. However, if you’re a follower of Jesus you have His presence in the Bible and in the Spirit living within you. God has spoken in many ways throughout time. But the greatest revelation of God is the Gospel of Jesus found in the Bible. If you want to know Jesus, you don’t have to have a dream. You can know Him personally through prayer and fellowship in His word.

This is a fun question, eh? I don’t know which of you are out there googling this, but I commend your curiosity! The simple answer is, yes. It appears that Jesus can.

After His crucifiction and ressurection Jesus appeared to a number of His followers. He gave them a commission to go out and make disciples. Then the Bible says that Jesus ascended to heaven. Which is quite an exit!

Acts 1:9-12

I have no hope at all to answer such a question in one chapter. It is something I could write about for the rest of my life, even for a thousand years, and barely scratch the surface of.

However, it is one of the fundamental questions of Christianity. I will give you an answer, but know that it is not the fullest answer to this question.

Jesus died on the cross in order that anyone who believes on Him would be reconciled to God, and begin to know God and enjoy Him forever.

We are both victims and perpetrators of broken law. We are enslaved by evil and malevalence. But, we are also guilty of being evil. Because of these two realities we cannot know God.
This evil keeps us from knowing and being with God. What’s more, it makes us hurt everyone, and everything around us. There is no part of God’s Earth that has not experienced pain and corruption because of men. Mankind is sick. If God had wiped the earth clean of mankind it would only cleanse the Earth of our sickness.

But God had compassion on us. He sent Jesus to take the evil of mankind in His own body (even though He had no sin). When Jesus was on the cross God destroyed all evil. Then Jesus by the power of God, was made alive again.

Jesus now gives anyone, who is fully persuaded by His death and ressurection, the ability to be free from evil. By trusting that Jesus’ death was enough to destroy our sin we can be free from sin. Being persuaded that Jesus came back to life, we are given new life in relationship with God.

Jesus didn’t just die to make you good. Jesus died so that you would be given new life! Life so that you may know and enjoy God forever.

Could Jesus sin? If Jesus was really God could He be tempted to do something evil? Did Jesus have this human experience of temptation?

This is a good question, but it is an easy one to answer! Hebrews 4:15 “ we have a High Priest who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.” Could Jesus be tempted? Not only could he have been tempted, He was tempted! Here’s the kicker, he experienced all temptation and never sinned!

Have you ever been tempted with something you hate? Maybe you’re in a committed relationship and you’re tempted to cheat on your spouse. Maybe you are tempted to cheat at work to get ahead? Lying to get yourself out of trouble, stealing pens or paper from work. Maybe you’ve been tempted to take your own life to escape pain.

Jesus felt all of these temptations. It is comforting to me that Jesus was tempted. He has sympathy for me. He has sympathy for you. Jesus cares for you. You have a high priest who understands your temptation and has overcome them all!

In Hebrews it says Jesus now stands before God defending us, because he knows how hard it is. God has mercy for those who repent of their sin and follow Him.

“If you put a bad apple in a barrel of good apples the rest will soon rot.” I remember reading this when I was a teenager. It was some literature talking about peer pressure or something akin to that. It makes sense I suppose, keep your bad things away from your good things. Keep your dead things away from things that are alive. This was the parenting standard for most of the 90’s and for much of the early 2000’s. Bad kids corrupt good kids. In some way it created an unhealthy protection. Like too much hand sanitizer, kills all the germs and your immune system suffers because it doesn’t develope resistance.
It’s a good thing that Jesus didn’t share this sentiment. He was a good apple in a barrel full of rotten apples. He was something very alive in a dead world. When Jesus arrived on earth it became impossible for Him to avoid relationship with flawed humanity. However, I think this question of ‘who did Jesus hang out with?’ is one of those questions that people use to justify their behaviors. Like a teenager hanging out with a rough crowd in school tells his mom “Jesus was a friend of sinners, so am I.” Or like the progressive Christian 20 something “Jesus was sitting with sinners drinking wine and having a good time.”
There are two stark differences between Jesus sitting with sinners and publicans; and a college student going to a kegger. The difference is the leadership of the Spirit and presence of righteousness. Jesus went to these places because He was led by the Spirit. There was an intentionality to Jesus going to these parties the publicans threw. He didn’t go to “have a good time.” He went to change their lives. He didn’t go to dance, get drunk and play games. He went to heal the sick. He saw the people partying as sick people in need of a healer. If you are making the argument that Jesus was there to have a good time you’ll be hard pressed to find scripture proving that. What you will find in scripture is Jesus teaching and changing lives around Him.
Jesus did hang out with sinners, so that they might experience freedom from sin. Jesus did hang out with those who were dead inside in order to give them life.