F OUNDATIONS OF THE F AITH. F OUNDATIONS OF THE F AITH Gripping The Sword The Bible- GW Mar Proofs &...

FOUNDATIONS OF THE FAITH


Gripping The Sword The Bible - GW MarProofs & -isms The Trinity - GW

AplAbba Father God The Father - AG May

Saviour not Super-star God the Son

Who ? not What? God the Spirit - GW JulyIn The Beginning Creation - Matt Frost Sept

God's Image Smudged Man - AG OctMissing the Mark Sin - GW NovGod’s Plus Sign The Cross - AG

DecGod's Image Salvaged Salvation - GW

JanGod's People Together The Church - GW Feb Jesus Returns The 2nd Coming - AG Mar Know Who You Believe………………

………………Know What You Believe



The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge

but to change our lives.•Dwight L. Moody

Study 1The Bible


sufficiently understandablebut ultimately incomprehensible

Study 2The Trinity


Study 3God the Father


JesusSaviour…….

....Not Superstar

Study 4God the Son


•Disciples Who is this man that even winds and waves obey Him? Mt 8.27 27 •Crowds : " Who is this? This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee." Mt 21.10•Jesus : "Who do people say I am?" They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets." "But what about you? Who do you say I am?" •Peter : "You are the Christ the Son of the Living God."

Mt 16.16•Pharisees : "See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!" Jn 12.19


•Napoleon : " I founded my empire on force but this man founded his kingdom without violence on love “

•H.G.Wells : " This man is easily the dominant figure in human history. An historian cannot portray the progress of humanity honestly without giving a foremost place to this penniless teacher from Nazareth :

•Vladimir Putin Why did Christ come into the world? To liberate people from sickness, troubles, from death. In its essence, Christmas is a holiday of hope

•Thomas Jefferson Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christian..


Dr James Allan © 1926

All the armies that have ever

marched

All the navies that have ever sailed

All the parliaments that have ever

sat

All the kings that ever reigned put

together

Have not affected the life of

mankind on earth

As powerfully as that one solitary

life


*Some wrong ideas!

* Soppy - gentle Jesus meek mild weak effeminate

* Religious - out of touch wandering hermit long robes

* Revolutionary - leader of a rebel movement outlaw

* Hippie - Love! Peace ! Long hair ! Yo man !

* Super-star - crowds and media attention

* Philosopher - obscure deep sayings and teaching


liar

lunatic

Lord


•Jesus was Pre-Existant - In Heaven before Bethlehem

•John 1:1 John 6:62 John 8:56 John 17:5•1 Cor 8:6 Col 1:16; Col 1:17 Heb 1:2



•Jesus was the Son of David - Hope of the Jews

Luke 1.32 Mt 21.9 John 7. 42

Christ is a title meaning Messiah and Anointed One




•Jesus was the Son of Man - God's Man of Authority

•Mark 8:31 Mark 9:12 Mark 2:10 Mark 2:28





•Jesus was Man - Shared in Human nature

Jn 4.6 Jn 4.7 Mt 4.2 Jn 11.35





•Jesus was Man - Shared in Human nature

•Jesus was God- Used many times

Mk 1.11 Mt 4.3,6 Lk 9.39


•Jesus Is LordEarly Statement Of Belief

•The Jews referred to God as Lord

•Phil 2v5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.NIV


•v7 The Greek word is Kenosis (KENOSIS) What has baffled theologians down through the years as they try to unravel and explain the Kenosis theory is “emptied Himself” of what? Of deity? knowledge ? power ? .

Theology says " ? "

•3rd Century Ebionites said NO to his Divinity

Docetists said NO to His humanity

•4th Century Arianists said Christ was created but most exalted of all Athanasius said Father and Son of one substance

•Others Divine Spirit was in a human body but divine Spirit

Christ had 2 natures

After the Incarnation (birth) Christ was different!


•Devotion says •with Wesley " of all but love “

In trusting wonder we must accept the limitations of our understanding and recognise that

only being fully God and fully man at all times was Jesus able to be the acceptable mediator between

a Holy God and Sinful man for our Salvation.


John Stott " Essentially Christianity is Christ.

The Person and Work of Christ is the rock upon which the Christian Religion is built.

If He is not who He said He is, if He did not do what He said He came to do, the foundation is undermined and the whole superstructure will

collapse.

Take Christ from Christianity and you disembowel it - there is practically nothing left.

Christ is the centre of Christianity all else is circumferential"


What A Saviour !!

Hallelujah!

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