RESURRECTION/LIFE (5 OF 7)

Resurrection/Life (5 of 7)
Series: The Right Now Jesus - I Am Statements
Steve Wagers
John 11:25


''I AM for Our Spiritual AUTHORITY''

5 Perspectives of Life
Materialism: PROVIDE Yourself
Epicureanism: PACIFY Yourself
Humanism: PROMOTE Yourself
Hedonism: PLEASURE Yourself
Fatalism: PITY Yourself
Bible: PREPARE Yourself

There lived a very cautious man
Who never laughed or played.
He never risked, he never tried;
He never sang, or prayed.

And one day, he passed away
His insurance was denied.
For since he never really lived,
They claim he never died.

A person may not live - but they WILL DIE! (Heb. 9:27)
Not ready to LIVE until they are ready to DIE!

Wiersbe: ''To the Christian, life is not merely a physical condition or a social experiment; it is a person, and that person is Jesus Christ.''

Jesus not only raises dead sinners to life - He will raise dead saints to life one day.

Bread of Life - I AM for our APPETITE
Light of World - I AM for our AWARENESS
Door - I AM for our ACCESS
Good Shepherd - I AM for our ASSURANCE
Resurrection/Life - I AM for our AUTHORITY

His HUMANITY is EXEMPLIFIED!

FEELINGS He EXPERIENCED (3,35)

Anthropormorphic - Human attributes given to Deity
Jesus ''heard, saw, loved, cried'' - We see Jesus as SON of MAN!

(Heb. 4:15) ''He is touched with the feelings of our infirmities''

He knows what we FACE - FIGHT - FEEL

FEAR He ENCOUNTERED (19-20)

Mary - WORSHIPPING - at His FEET
Martha - WORRYING - on His NERVES

''went out to meet him'' - ANXIOUS/AFRAID/ALARMED

His DEITY is MAGNIFIED!

Humanity - Son of MAN
Deity - Son of GOD

LIVING in the PAST (21)

CIRCUMSTANCES often CLOUD our view of CHRIST

LOOKING to the FUTURE (24)

Jesus stepped out of PAST/FUTURE to PRESENT - ''I ...

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