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If you were at a friend’s house for
Thanksgiving dinner and found a dead cockroach in your
stuffing, what would you do?
You discover your wonderful one year old baby is, because
of a mix up at the hospital, not really yours? Would you want to exchange the child to correct
the mistake?
If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt
anyone you choose, would you use it? If so, who would you use it
on?
Your house, containing
everything you own, is on fire; after
saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to make a final dash and save
one item. What would it be?
If you were to die tonight with no opportunity to
communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not
having said to someone? Why
haven’t you said it yet?
It’s late at night and no one is
around and you hit another car
slightly damaging it,
would you leave a note and offer to pay for the
damage?
If you could know the
precise date of your death,
would you choose to
know it?
If you knew that one year from today, you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are living now? If so, what
would you change?
Socrates was considered wise, not because he knew
all the answers, but because
he knew how to ask the right questions.
(Chuck Swindoll)
LIFE’S MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION –
WHO IS JESUS?
Jesus asked his followers, “Who do people say the
Son of Man is?” They answered, “Some say you
are John the Baptist.
Others say Elijah, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” Then Jesus
asked them, “Who do you say I am?” . Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the
living God.”
Jesus answered, “You are blessed, Simon because no person taught you
that. My Father in heaven
showed you who I am. (Matthew 16:13-17 – New Century
Version)
Legend
Lunatic
Liar
Lord
IS JESUS REALLY GOD?
Before the world began, the Word was there. The Word was with God, and
the Word was God. He was there with God in the
beginning.
Everything was made through him, and nothing was made without him . . .
No one has ever seen God.
The only Son is the one who has shown us what
God is like.
He is himself God and is very close to the Father.
(John 1:1-3, 18 – Easy To Read Version)
Long ago God spoke in many different ways to our fathers
through the prophets, in visions, dreams, and even face to face, telling them
little by little about his plans.
But now in these days he has spoken to us through his Son to whom he has given
everything and through whom he made the world and everything there is.
God’s Son shines out with God’s glory,
and all that God’s Son is and does marks him as God. He regulates the universe by the mighty power of his
command. He is the one who died to cleanse us and clear
our record of all sin,
and then sat down in highest honor beside the great
God of heaven. (Hebrews 1:1-3 – Living
Bible)
Christ was truly God. But he did not try to remain equal with God. Instead he gave
up everything and became a slave, when he became like one of us. He obeyed God
and even died on a cross.
Then God gave Christ the highest place and honored his name above all others.
So at the name of Jesus everyone will bow down,
in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. And
everyone will openly agree, “Jesus Christ
is Lord!”. (Philippians 2:5-10 – Contemporary English
Version)
No one can see God, but the Son is exactly like God. He rules over everything that
has been made. Through his power all things were made:
things in heaven and on earth, seen and not seen . . .
Everything was made through him and for him. The Son was there before
anything was made. And all things continue because of him. He is the head of the body, which is the church.
He is the beginning of everything else.
And he is the first among all who will be raised from
death. So in everything he is most important. God was
pleased for all of himself to live in the Son.
And through him,
God was happy to bring all things back to himself again— things on earth and things in heaven. God made peace by using the blood sacrifice
of his Son on the cross.
(Colossians 1:15-20 – Easy To Read Version)
Creation
Revelation
Demonstration
Exaltation
Jesus Christ claimed to be God
Jesus said, “My Father is still working all the time so I am working also.” The Jews tried
all the more to kill Him,
not only because He had worked on the Day of Rest, but because He had also
called God His Own Father. This made Him the
same as God. (John 5:17-18 – New Life
Version)
Jesus Christ died a sacrificial death
Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we’re in by
offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins. God’s
plan is that we all experience that rescue.
(Galatians 1:4 – The Message)
Jesus Christ rose again
I gave you the message that I received. I told you the
most important truths: that Christ died for our sins, that
he was buried and was raised to life on the third
day, as the Scriptures say . . .
We tell everyone that Christ was raised from death . . . if
Christ has never been raised, then
the message we tell is worth nothing. And your faith
is worth nothing. (1 Corinthians 15:3-4, 12, 14 – Easy To Read
Version)
Jesus Christ alone can bring us to God
Christ suffered for our sins once for all time. He never
sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to
God. (1 Peter 3:18 – New Living
Translation)
And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no
other name under heaven that has been given among people by which we must be
saved
[for God has provided the world no alternative for salvation]. (Acts 4:12 –
Amplified Bible)
Jesus said to him, “I am the [only] Way [to God] and the
[real] Truth and the [real] Life;
no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
(John 14:6 – Amplified Bible)
He wants all people to be saved and to know what is
true. There is one God. There is also only one man
who can open the way between God and all people.
That man is Christ Jesus. He gave his life to set all men free. (1 Timothy 2:4-6 – World
English Bible)
Let’s Pray