When you think of Jesus who comes to mind?
Who He was
or who He is? Was He just a man? Or is He GOD?
Do you
know Him, personally, intimately, spiritually?
Do you
count on Him, trust in Him, seek Him, talk with Him, walk with Him?
Do you
call on His name for everything?
How you
answer with your life is how important is He to you?
If Jesus
to you is just a man, then he is not of importance, if Jesus to you is just a
teacher then he is of no importance in eternity.
C.S. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity writes the
following: “I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish
thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]: 'I'm ready to accept
Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.' That
is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort
of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a
lunatic—on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be
the Devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the
Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for fool,
you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and
call him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense
about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that option open to us.
He did not intend to.”
Jesus undeniably claimed to be God. If He is
not God, then He is a liar, and that would disqualify him from being a prophet,
a godly man, or a good teacher.
There are many attempts to explain away the
words of Jesus, so called “scholars” claim that the “true historical Jesus” did
not say what the Bible attributes to Him. As if they were there listening to
Him teach. While those who wrote the gospels had firsthand knowledge, or the accounts
of Jesus Life were spoken to them by those who did have firsthand knowledge.
Man’s problem is we think we are smarter than
God, that we do not need God, and that Jesus is just someone who if He did
exist, (and there is more proof that He did, than most historical figures) was
nothing more than a good man.
The real question is who are we a created
being, to challenge the authority of God’s word, spoken by the prophets long
ago, fulfilled by the power of God alone, who are we to be questioning what
Jesus did or did not say?
How can a so-called scholar who did not have
any experience with Jesus have greater insight into what Jesus said or did as He
lived among men, taught them, healed them, died for them and then resurrected
from the grave and walked with them again?
The short answer is they can’t.
Jesus is more than we know, but He is all we
need to know.
Jesus is:
God John 10:30, John 8:58
My LORD &
GOD John 20:28
My Maker, Isaiah
54:5
My God
& Savior 2 Peter 1:1
My Hope 1Timothy
1:1
My Brother
Mark 3:35
My Portion
Jeremiah 10:16
My Helper Hebrews
13:6
My
Physician Jeremiah 8:22
My Healer Luke
9:11
My Refiner
Malachi 3:3
My
Purifier Malachi 3:3
My Lord,
Master John 13:13
My Servant
Luke 12:37
My Example
John 13:15
My Teacher
John 3:2
My
Shepherd Psalms 23:1
My Keeper John 17:12
My Freedom
Ezekiel 34:23
My Leader Isaiah
40:11
My
Restorer Psalms 23:3
My
Resting-place Jeremiah 50:6
My
Passover 1Corinthinas 5:7
My Peace Ephesians
2:14
My Wisdom,
My Righteousness
My
Sanctification, My Redemption
My All in
All 1Corinthians 1:30
God’s word says:
1 Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets
at different times and in different ways. 2 In these last days, he has spoken
to us by his Son. God has appointed him heir of all things and made the
universe through him. 3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact
expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After
making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on
high. 4 So he became superior to the angels, just as the name he inherited is
more excellent than theirs. 5 For to
which of the angels did he ever say, You are my Son; today I have become your
Father, or again, I will be his Father, and he will be my Son? 6 Again, when he brings his firstborn into
the world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him. 7 And about the angels he says: He makes his
angels winds, and his servants a fiery flame, 8 but to the Son: Your throne, O
God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of
justice. 9 You have loved righteousness
and hated lawlessness; this is why God, your God, has anointed you with the oil
of joy beyond your companions. 10 And:
In the beginning, Lord, you established the earth, and the heavens are the
works of your hands; 11 they will perish, but you remain. They will all wear
out like clothing; 12 you will roll them up like a cloak, and they will be
changed like clothing. But you are the same, and your years will never
end. 13 Now to which of the angels has
he ever said: Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool? Hebrews 1:1-13 CSB
1 Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and
sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have
taken your stand 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message
I preached to you unless you believed in vain. 3 For I passed on to you as most
important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according
to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. 6 Then
he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time; most of them
are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then
to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one born at the wrong time, he also
appeared to me. 9 For I am the least of
the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the
church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward
me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not
I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11 Whether, then, it is I or they, so
we proclaim and so you have believed. 12
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say,
"There is no resurrection of the dead"? 13 If there is no resurrection
of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised; 14 and if Christ has not
been raised, then our proclamation is in vain, and so is your faith. 15
Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have
testified wrongly about God that he raised up Christ; whom he did not raise up,
if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even
Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is
worthless; you are still in your sins. 18 Those, then, who have fallen asleep
in Christ have also perished. 19 If we have put our hope in Christ for this
life only, we should be pitied more than anyone. 20 But as it is, Christ has been raised from
the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death
came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man. 22
For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ, the
firstfruits; afterward, at his coming, those who belong to Christ. 24 Then
comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he
abolishes all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he
puts all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be abolished is
death. 27 For God has put everything under his feet. Now when it says
"everything" is put under him, it is obvious that he who puts
everything under him is the exception. 28 When everything is subject to Christ,
then the Son himself will also be subject to the one who subjected everything
to him, so that God may be all in all. 1Corinthians
15:1-28 CSB
