WHY DID GOD HAVE TO KILL HIS SON? (4 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: John 3:16-17
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Why Did God Have To Kill His Son? (4 of 4)
Series: Answers For Joe
Jeff Strite
John 3:16-17
OPEN: Dick Van Dyke once told a story about a preacher who was showing his 4-year-old son a picture of Jesus. But the man didn't want his son to get the wrong idea and so he said: ''But son, that's not really Jesus. It's just an artist's impression of Jesus.''
The boy looked closely at the picture and then he looked up at his dad and said ''Well, it certainly looks like Him.''
There have been numerous paintings of Jesus down thru the ages.
There is a European Jesus (we showed pictures of each Jesus painting),
and a Black Jesus,
and a Hispanic Jesus,
and an Oriental Jesus,
and of course... there's the Jewish Jesus - which He actually was.
But no matter how Jesus is portrayed in art, we still have no idea EXACTLY what He looked like. Of course, that really doesn't matter, because IF it mattered the early church would have painted His image on everything in sight, and the Bible would have given us a detailed description of what He looked like (which it doesn't).
And that's because - it's not what Jesus looked like that matters.
It's what Jesus DID that matters.
John 3:16 says that ''God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son (Jesus), that whosoever should believe in Him might not perish but have everlasting life.'' Or, as Romans 5:8 says it: ''God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.''
You see, that's the picture that Scripture paints of Jesus - The Son of God, born to die on a cross for our sins.
Or, as Joe Scott put it in his video: ''There was absolutely no reason for my 10-year-old self to doubt that there was a God. That He loved me. And that He gave His Son's life so that everything I'd ever do would be forgiven.''
That's the image that 10-year-old Joe Scott had in his mind, and that's how he saw Jesus. But as he grew older, things got more complex for him, and he eventually got ...
Series: Answers For Joe
Jeff Strite
John 3:16-17
OPEN: Dick Van Dyke once told a story about a preacher who was showing his 4-year-old son a picture of Jesus. But the man didn't want his son to get the wrong idea and so he said: ''But son, that's not really Jesus. It's just an artist's impression of Jesus.''
The boy looked closely at the picture and then he looked up at his dad and said ''Well, it certainly looks like Him.''
There have been numerous paintings of Jesus down thru the ages.
There is a European Jesus (we showed pictures of each Jesus painting),
and a Black Jesus,
and a Hispanic Jesus,
and an Oriental Jesus,
and of course... there's the Jewish Jesus - which He actually was.
But no matter how Jesus is portrayed in art, we still have no idea EXACTLY what He looked like. Of course, that really doesn't matter, because IF it mattered the early church would have painted His image on everything in sight, and the Bible would have given us a detailed description of what He looked like (which it doesn't).
And that's because - it's not what Jesus looked like that matters.
It's what Jesus DID that matters.
John 3:16 says that ''God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son (Jesus), that whosoever should believe in Him might not perish but have everlasting life.'' Or, as Romans 5:8 says it: ''God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.''
You see, that's the picture that Scripture paints of Jesus - The Son of God, born to die on a cross for our sins.
Or, as Joe Scott put it in his video: ''There was absolutely no reason for my 10-year-old self to doubt that there was a God. That He loved me. And that He gave His Son's life so that everything I'd ever do would be forgiven.''
That's the image that 10-year-old Joe Scott had in his mind, and that's how he saw Jesus. But as he grew older, things got more complex for him, and he eventually got ...
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