Identity of Christ
Stephen Whitney
Matthew 22:41-46
Who is Jesus Christ? Throughout history there are many different views about who the person called Jesus Christ really is because he was not like anyone who ever lived before or has lived since.
Eastern Mysticism - Jesus is one of a long line of ''Masters'' who came to realize over time that they were divine.
Jehovah's Witnesses - Jesus is the first son that God created.
Mormonism - Jesus is a spirit child of God created before man.
Islam - Jesus was a great prophet equal to Abraham and Moses.
Liberal - Jesus became the Son of God at his baptism and the divine nature was on him until he died on the cross.
Popular - Jesus was a moral teacher who left us an example to follow by caring about the needs of others.
C.S. Lewis - ''A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd 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.''
Background :15-40
Paying taxes :15-22
The Pharisees continually plotted how they might trap Jesus in what he said so they might accuse him of evil and wrong.They hated him for breaking their laws about the Sabbath.
:17 They asked Jesus if it was right to pay taxes or not.
:18 Jesus was aware of their evil motives in trying to trap them.
:21 Jesus gave them what has become a classic statement:''Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.''
Greatest commandment :34-40 They asked him another question about which was the greatest of the over 600 commandments in the OT thinking they could once again trap him into saying something wrong.
:37 Once again Jesus gives what has become a classic statement, ''You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your m ...
Stephen Whitney
Matthew 22:41-46
Who is Jesus Christ? Throughout history there are many different views about who the person called Jesus Christ really is because he was not like anyone who ever lived before or has lived since.
Eastern Mysticism - Jesus is one of a long line of ''Masters'' who came to realize over time that they were divine.
Jehovah's Witnesses - Jesus is the first son that God created.
Mormonism - Jesus is a spirit child of God created before man.
Islam - Jesus was a great prophet equal to Abraham and Moses.
Liberal - Jesus became the Son of God at his baptism and the divine nature was on him until he died on the cross.
Popular - Jesus was a moral teacher who left us an example to follow by caring about the needs of others.
C.S. Lewis - ''A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd 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.''
Background :15-40
Paying taxes :15-22
The Pharisees continually plotted how they might trap Jesus in what he said so they might accuse him of evil and wrong.They hated him for breaking their laws about the Sabbath.
:17 They asked Jesus if it was right to pay taxes or not.
:18 Jesus was aware of their evil motives in trying to trap them.
:21 Jesus gave them what has become a classic statement:''Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.''
Greatest commandment :34-40 They asked him another question about which was the greatest of the over 600 commandments in the OT thinking they could once again trap him into saying something wrong.
:37 Once again Jesus gives what has become a classic statement, ''You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your m ...
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