Who is Jesus? (1 of 17)
Series: John: Who is Jeus
Collin Wimberly
John 1:1-18
CIT -John presents Jesus as the preexistent God, who became a man with a mission to redeem humanity.
Proposition: Christians today need to understand who Jesus is in order to know Him and to follow Him.
INTRODUCTION: Identity theft is a huge problem in our world today. A couple of examples.
ILLUS: Malcolm Byrd was sitting at home in 2003 when police officers came to his home and arrested him on a warrant for cocaine possession. Though eventually his name was cleared, Byrd learned that a criminal had used his name when he was arrested. He spent some time in jail before finally being released.
Ferdinand Demara
This daring serial imposter used medical books to fudge his way through surgeries he performed onboard a ship during the Korean war, impersonating Dr. Joseph Cyr. Prior, he had faked his death and even went AWOL under a friend's name when in the Army.
However, the greatest act of identity theft in history occurred over 2000 years ago. Since his death and resurrection, Jesus has been referred to as
A Great Man
A visionary teacher
A great moral example
A complete fraud,
And one of my favorites, an Alien astronaut marooned on earth.
Knowing who is Jesus is the most important question that anyone could ask.
The apostle John answers this question for us in the first 18 verses of his gospel.
He will define who Jesus is by writing about his Divinity, His Ministry, and His humanity
I. THE DIVINITY OF JESUS - VS. 1-5
Divinity is the state of being divine. To be divine is to be God. To say that Jesus is divine is to say that He is God.
John uses The Word when speaking of Jesus. The Logos - In the OT the Word, the Logos was God's powerful self disclosure.
Ps. 33:6 - By the Word of the Lord, the heavens were made. . Psl. 107:20 - He sent forth His Word, and healed them, and delivered them from destruction.
Christ is the Logos, the Word ...
Series: John: Who is Jeus
Collin Wimberly
John 1:1-18
CIT -John presents Jesus as the preexistent God, who became a man with a mission to redeem humanity.
Proposition: Christians today need to understand who Jesus is in order to know Him and to follow Him.
INTRODUCTION: Identity theft is a huge problem in our world today. A couple of examples.
ILLUS: Malcolm Byrd was sitting at home in 2003 when police officers came to his home and arrested him on a warrant for cocaine possession. Though eventually his name was cleared, Byrd learned that a criminal had used his name when he was arrested. He spent some time in jail before finally being released.
Ferdinand Demara
This daring serial imposter used medical books to fudge his way through surgeries he performed onboard a ship during the Korean war, impersonating Dr. Joseph Cyr. Prior, he had faked his death and even went AWOL under a friend's name when in the Army.
However, the greatest act of identity theft in history occurred over 2000 years ago. Since his death and resurrection, Jesus has been referred to as
A Great Man
A visionary teacher
A great moral example
A complete fraud,
And one of my favorites, an Alien astronaut marooned on earth.
Knowing who is Jesus is the most important question that anyone could ask.
The apostle John answers this question for us in the first 18 verses of his gospel.
He will define who Jesus is by writing about his Divinity, His Ministry, and His humanity
I. THE DIVINITY OF JESUS - VS. 1-5
Divinity is the state of being divine. To be divine is to be God. To say that Jesus is divine is to say that He is God.
John uses The Word when speaking of Jesus. The Logos - In the OT the Word, the Logos was God's powerful self disclosure.
Ps. 33:6 - By the Word of the Lord, the heavens were made. . Psl. 107:20 - He sent forth His Word, and healed them, and delivered them from destruction.
Christ is the Logos, the Word ...
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