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BY: CHAPLAIN LARRY HINES
SCRIPTURE READING:
HEBREWS 1:8-10
BUT UNTO THE SON HE SAITH. THY THRONE, 0 GOD, IS FOR EVER AND EVER: A SCEPTRE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE SCEPTRE OF THY KINGDOM. THOU HAST LOVED RIGHEOUSNESS, AND HATED INIQUITY; THEREFORE GOD, EVEN THY GOD,HATH ANOINTED THEE WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE THY FELLOWS. AND, THOU, LORD,IN THE BEGINNING HAST LAID THE FOUNDATIONOF THE EARTH; AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKSOF THINK HANDS. KJV
FOR THE BELIEVER, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW ABOUT JESUS ~ CHRIST. THE SCRIPTURES REVEAL DETAILS WE SHOULD BE ACQUAINTED WITH CONCERNING OUR LORD AND SAVIOR. THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO WHO CHRIST IS.
SERMON
QUESTION: Is JESUS BODES SON? HOW MUCH AUTHORITY DOES HE HAVE?
HEBREWS 1:5 a FOR UNTO WHICH OF THE ANGELS SAID HE AT ANY TIME, THOU ART MY SON, THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE? AND AGAIN, I WILL BE TO HIM A FATHER, AND HE SHALL BE TO ME A SON? KJV
COLOSSIANS 1:15-16 NWHO IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE: FOR BY HIM WERE ALLTHINGS CREATED, THAT ARE IN HEAVEN, AND THAT ARE IN EARTH,VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THEY BE THRONES. OR DOMINIONS. OR PRINCIPALITIES. OR POWERS. ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM, AND FOR HIM. N KJV
COLOSSIANS 1:19 a FOR IT PLEASED THE FATHER THAT IN HIM SHOULD ALL FULNESS DWELL. NKJV
HEBREWS 1:2-3 NHATH IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN UNTO US BY HIS SON. WHOM HE HATH APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS. BYWHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS; WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY. AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON. AND UP HOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER. WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS} SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH.N KJV
1 PETER 3:22 NWHO IS GONE INTO HEAVEN. AND IS ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD; ANGELS AND AUTHORITIES AND POWERS BEING MADE SUBJECT UNTO HIM.N KJV
QUESTION: WHAT WAS JESUS ORIGIN?
COLOSSIANS 1:17 NAND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS. AND BY HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST. N KJV
JOHN 17:5 NAND NOW. 0 FATHER. GLORIFY THOU ME WITH THINKOWN SELF WITH THE GLORY WHICH I HAD WITH THEE BEFORE THE WORLD WAS. N KJV
JESUS AS WELL AS THE FATHER AND HOLY SPIRIT EXISTED BEPRIOR TO THIS UNIVERSE BEING CREATED. SCRIPTURE DOES NOT REVEAL THEIR ORIGIN.
QUESTION: WHAT WOULD BE THE PURPOSE OF JESUS STEPPING OUT OF HEAVEN TO VISIT MAN ON PLANET EARTH?
SO THAT SINNERS MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH HIM.
1 JOHN 3:5 NAND YE KNOW THAT HE WAS MANIFESTED TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS; AND IN HIM IS NO SIN.N KJV
1 PETER 2:24A NWHO HIS OWN SELF BARE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE} THAT WE. BEING DEAD TO SINS. SHOULD LIVE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS: BY WHOSE STRIPES YE WERE HEALED NKJV
TITUS 2:13-14 NLOOKING FOR THAT BLESSED HOPE. AND THE GLORIOUS APPEARING OF THE GREAT GOD AND OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US. THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM US FROM ALL INIQUITY. AND PURIFY UNTO HIMSELF A PECULIAR PEOPLE. ZEALOUS OF GOOD WORKS.H KJV
QUESTION: DID JESUS COME TO EARTH?
JOHN 1:14 HAND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH. AND DWELT AMONG US. (AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY. THE GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER.) FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. N KJV
MATTHEW 1:20-21 ABUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS.BEHOLD} THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN ADREAM. SAYING. JOSEPH. THOU SON OF DAVID. FEAR NOT TO TAKE UNTO THEE MARY THY WIFE: FOR THAT WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS OF THE HOLY GHOST. AND SHE SHALL BRING FORTH A SON' AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS: FOR HE WILLSAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.N KJV
JESUS WAS BORN TO A JEWISH VIRGIN NAMED MARY. LUKE 2:7. 11, 31
JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM. IN JUDEA. (THE LAND OF ISRAEL). MATTHEW 2:1
KING HEROD HAD FOUND OUT ABOUT JESUS AND HIS COMING KINGDOM REIGN. SO HE HAD ORDERED ALL BABIES IN,THE REGION 2 YEARS AND YOUNGER, KILLED. IT WAS THE KING S DESIRE TO DESTROY JESUS AND STOP HIS KINGSHIP THAT HAD BEEN PROPHESIED. THE FOOLISH KING HEROD DID NOT UNDERSTAND THIS WAS NOT TO BE A EARTHLY KINGDOM RULE. TO ESCAPE DEATH. JOSEPH AND MARY TOOK BABY JESUS TO EGYPT. MATTHEW 2:3-8. 13-14. 16.
AFTER KING HEROD DIED. JESUS AND HIS FAMILY MOVED BACK TO ISRAEL AND LIVED IN A TOWN CALLED NAZARETH. MATTHEW 2:19-21
AFTER JESUS GREW UP. JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHED JESUS'S MINISTRY IN. JOHN 1:4-7. 15
AT JESUS BAPTISM--A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAID, THOU ART MY BELOVED SON; IN THEE I AM WELL PLEASED. LUKE 3:22 KJV
JOHN BAPTIZED JESUS AT THE AGE OF THIRTY. LUKE 3:21-22
JESUS BEGAN HIS MINISTRY AT AGE THIRTY.
QUESTION: WHAT WAS JESUS' MINISTRY WHILE ON EARTH?
FOR APPROXIMATELY THREE AND A HALF YEARS. JESUS MINISTRY TOOK PLACE IN A 200 SQUARE MILE AREA.
HE STARTED OUT WITH TWELVE MEN. THEN SENT OUT SEVENTY' THEN HAD FIVE HUNDRED FOLLOW HIM.
JESUS WENT AROUND THE TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF ISRAEL. TEACHING AND PREACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES. HE WAS HEAL ING THE SICK, CASTING OUT DEMONS. FORGIVING SINS, AND HELPING THOSE WHO WERE IN NEED.
DESCRIBING HIS OWN MINISTRY. JESUS SAID. nTHE BLIND RECEIVE THEIR SIGHT' AND THE LAME WALK. THE LEPERS ARE CLEANSED. AN-D THE DEAF HEAR. THE DEAD ARE RAISED UP. AND THE POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM. N MATTHEW 11:5 KJV
HE WAS A TEACHER. PREACHER, HEALER, MIRACLE WORKER, AND SUPERNATURAL WORKER WHO CONTROLLED NATURE. HE WALKED THOUGH SOLID MATERIALS' BECAME INVISIBLE TO PEOPLE, AND ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS BEFORE MULTITUDES OF WITNESSES.
QUESTION: DID EVERYONE WHO SAW JESUS'S MIRACLES AND HEARD HIM SPEAK} BELIEVE IN HIM?
MANY OF THE PEOPLE WERE AMAZED AND MANY CAME TO BELIEVE TN HIM. MARK 7:37. JOHN 2:23
JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWISH LEADERS WHO WERE JEALOUS OF HIM. THEY SET HIM UP TO BE KILLED.
MATTHEW 27:1-2 NWHEN THE MORNING WAS COME. ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE TOOK COUNSEL AGAINST JESUS TO PUT HIM TO DEATH: AND WHEN THEY HAD BOUND HIM. THEY LED HIM AWAY. AND DELIVERED HIM TO PONTIUS PILATE THE GOVERNOR. KJV
MATTHEW 27:18 n FOR HE KNEW THAT FOR ENVY THEY HAD DELIVERED HIM. N KJV
AFTER JESUS WAS ARRESTED, HE APPEARED AT SIX TRIALS BEFORE HE WAS CRUCIFIED. THERE WERE 3 RELIGIOUS AND 3 CIVIL TRIALS.
3 RELIGIOUS TRIALS--- BEFORE ANNAS JOHN 18:12-14
BEFORE CAIAPHAS MATTHEW 26:57-68
BEFORE SANHEDRIN MATTHEW 27:1-2
3 CIVIL TRIALS------- BEFORE PILATE JOHN 18:28-38
BEFORE HEROD LUKE 23:6-12
BEFORE PILATE JOHN 18:39. 19:6
QUESTION: WHY WAS IT NECESSARY FOR JESUS TO DIE?
CHRIST WILLINGLY LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR ALL SINNERS.
MATTHEW 20:28 HEVEN AS THE SON OF MAN CAME NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO, BUT TO MINISTER. AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE A RANSOM FOR MANY." KJV
G0D THE FATHER WOULD ACCEPT NOTHING LESS THAN A PURE SACRIFICE FOR THE SINS OF MAN. CHRIST WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD PROVIDE THAT PURE SACRIFICE TO COVER MAN'S SIN.
QUESTION: HOW DID JESUS DIE?
JESUS WAS MOCKED AND TORTURED BY ROMAN SOLDIERS AND THEN
PUT TO DEATH ON A CROSS OUTSIDE HIS BELOVED CITY OF JERU
SALEM. MATTHEW 27:27-31, 35
QUESTION: WAS JESUS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE HAD DONE SOMETHING WRONG?
NO. JESUS LIVED AN ABSOLUTELY PERFECT LIFE. 1 PETER 2:22 23 WHO DID NO SIN! NEITHER WAS GUILE FOUND IN HIS MOUTH: WHO. WHEN HE WAS REVILED. REVILED NOT AGAIN; WHEN HE SUFFERED. HE THREATENED NOT; BUT COMMITTED HIMSELF TO HIM THAT JUDGETH RlGHTEOUSLY, KJV
ALL THE CITY OF JERUSALEM WITNESSED JESUS CRUCIFIXION.
WHILE JESUS WAS BEING CRUCIFIED. NATURE REACTED.
EVENTS AT THE CRUCIFIXION:
DARKNESS CAME FROM 12 NOON UNTIL 3 PM. MATTHEW 27:45
THE TEMPLE CURTAIN TORE FROM THE TOP DOWN TO THE BOTTOM. MATTHEW 27:51
AN EARTHQUAKE TOOK PLACE DURING HIS DEATH. MATTHEW 27:51
TOMBS BROKE OPEN AND THE BODIES OF MANY HOLY PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN DEAD. WERE RAISED TO LIFE. THEY APPEARED IN JERUSALEM AFTER JESUS WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD AND THEY APPEARED TO MANY. MATTHEW 27:52-53
A ROMAN MILITARY OFFICER (IN CHARGE OF 100 MEN) AND HIS GUARDS SAID. HTRULY THIS WAS THE SON OF 60D!H MATTHEW 27: 54B. KJV
QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENED TO JESUS BODY AFTER HE DIED?
A RICH MAN PROVIDED A BURIAL PLACE FOR HIM.
MATTHEW 27:59-60 AND WHEN JOSEPH HAD TAKEN THE BODY. HE WRAPPED IT IN A CLEAN LINEN CLOTH. AND LAID IT IN HIS OWN NEW TOMB} WHICH HE HAD HEWN OUT IN THE ROCK: AND HE ROLLED A GREAT STONE TO THE DOOR OF THE SEPULCHRE, AND DEPARTED. KJV
A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS (THE BEST OF THE DAY) WERE ASSIGNED TO GUARD THE TOMB. ON PENALTY OF DEATH. THEY WOULD BE KILLED IF THEIR CHARGE CAME UP MISSING. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 16 SOLDIERS ASSIGNED TO GUARD THE SEALED TOMB. AFTER JESUS WAS DISCOVERED MISSING. THE SOLDIERS AGREED TO LIE IN ORDER THAT THEIR LIVES MIGHT BE SPARED.
QUESTION: DID JESUS'S BODY STAY IN THE GRAVE?
NO. AFTER THREE DAYS. JESUS AROSE FROM THE GRAVE. MATTHEW 28:2-5
MATTHEW 28:6 "HE IS NOT HERE: FOR HE IS RISEN. AS HE SAID. COME. SEE THE PLACE WHERE THE LORD LAY. n KJV
ACTS 2:24 HWHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP, HAVING LOOSED THE PAINS OF DEATH: BECAUSE IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE THAT HE SHOULD BE HOLDEN OF IT." KJV
POINT: ALL CHRISTIANITY STANDS AND FALLS ON CHRIST BEING WHO HE SAID HE WAS. RISING FROM THE DEAD. DOING ALL HE DID WHILE ON EARTH, AND ASCENDING INTO HEAVEN.
JOHN 21:25 AND THERE ARE ALSO MANY OTHER THINGS WHICH JESUS DID, THE WHICH, IF THEY SHOULD BE WRITTEN EVERY ONE] I SUPPOSE THAT EVEN THE WORLD ITSELF COULD NOT CONTAIN THE BOOKS THAT SHOULD BE WRITTEN. AMEN. KJV
QUESTION: WHAT DID JESUS DO AFTER HE AROSE FROM THE GRAVE?
FOR FORTY DAYS HE STAYED ON EARTH TO PROVE TO HIS FOLLOWERS HE WAS ALIVE. ACTS 1:3 HTO WHOM ALSO HE SHEWED HIMSELF ALIVE AFTER HIS PASSION BY MANY INFALLIBLE PROOFS, BEING SEEN OF THEM FORTY DAYS, AND SPEAKING OF THE THINGS PERTAINING TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.H KJV
CHRIST REVEALED HIMSELF TO MARY MAGDALENE AND OTHER WOMEN AT THE TOMB AND ELSEWHERE.
JESUS REVEALED HIMSELF TO THE DISCIPLES' LATER TO THE FIVE HUNDRED.
JESUS REVEALED HIMSELF TO HIS HALF-BROTHER JAMES AND PETER.
IN ALL. JESUS REVEALED HIMSELF TO PEOPLE 11 DIFFERENT TIMES.
NOTE: THE LIVING BIB\LE INDICATES CHRIST REMAINED ON EARTH AFTER HIS RESURRECTION FOR AT LEAST THREE REASONS. THEY WERE:
1. TO VERIFY HIS RESURRECTION BY MANY APPEARANCES AND TO STOP THE MOUTHS OF SCOFFERS WHO WOULD DENY THE MIRACLES.
2. TO INSTRUCT HIS DISCIPLES IN THE GREAT TRUTHS OF SCRIPTURE CONCERNING HIS LIFE AND MINISTRY.
3. TO PREVENT FALSE TEACHERS AND SEDUCING SPIRITS FROM SUBVERTING THE FAITH OF THE APOSTLES IN THE SCRIPTURES AND TO PAVE THE WAY FOR THE HOLY SPIRITS WORK OF CONFIRMATION WHEN HE CAME TO ASSUME HIS TASK; HE WOULD ALSO REMIND THEM OF ALL CHRIST' HAD SAID. JOHN 14:26
QUESTION: AFTER FORTY DAYS. WHAT HAPPENED?
LUKE 24:51 'AND IT CAME TO PASS. WHILE HE BLESSED THEM, HE WAS PARTED FROM THEM, AND CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN.H KJV
EPHESIANS 1:20-21 HWHICH HE WROUGHT IN CHRIST, WHEN HE RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. AND SET HIM AT HIS OWN RIGHT HAND IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES' FAR ABOVE ALL PRINCIPALITY. AND POWER. AND MIGHT. AND DOMINION. AND EVERY NAME THAT IS NAMED, NOT ONLY IN THIS WORLD. BUT ALSO IN THAT WHICH IS TO COME. KJV
QUESTION: DID JESUS APPEAR AFTER HE HAD BEEN GLORIFIED IN HEAVEN?
YES. HE APPEARED ON FIVE OCCASIONS.
STEPHEN SAW THE RESURRECTED CHRIST BEFORE HIS MARTYRDOM. ACTS 7:55-56
CHRIST APPEARED TO PAUL ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS. ACTS 9:3-6
CHRIST APPEARED TO PAUL IN THE TEMPLE WHEN PAUL WAS TOLD OF HIS COMING PERSECUTION. ACTS 22:17-21
CHRIST APPEARED TO PAUL WHILE HE WAS IN PRISON IN CAESAREA. ACTS 23: 11
CHRIST APPEARED TO THE APOSTLE JOHN IN CONNECTION WITH THE WRITING OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. REVELATION 1:12-20
QUESTION: WHAT IS JESUS DOING NOW?
JESUS IS INTERCEDING FOR US AND PREPARING A PLACE FOR US.
HEBREWS 9:24 FOR CHRIST IS NOT ENTERED INTO THE HOLY PLACES MADE WITH HANDS. WHICH ARE THE FIGURES OF THE TRUE; BUT INTO HEAVEN ITSELF, NOW TO APPEAR IN THE PRE-SENCE OF GOD FOR US.' KJV
JOHN 14:2 HIN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS: IF IT WERE NOT SO. I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. n KJV
QUESTION: IS JESUS GOING TO STAY IN HEAVEN?
JOHN 14:3 AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. I WILL COME AGAIN. AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM. THERE YE MAY BE ALSO. KJV
NO. SOME DAY HE WILL RETURN AGAIN AND TAKE US TO HIMSELF
POINT: WITH ALL THIS PROOF AND EVIDENCE ABOUT WHO JESUS WAS, HOW CAN ANYONE NOT BELIEVE HE IS WHO HE SAID HE WAS?
JESUS SAID IN JOHN 17:4,6 HI HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH: I HAVE FINISHED THE WORK WHICH THOU GAYEST ME TO DO. I HAVE MANIFESTED THY NAME UNTO THE MEN WHICH THOU GAYEST ME OUT OF THE WORLD: THINK THEY WERE, AND THOU GAYEST THEM ME; AND THEY HAVE KEPT THY WORD. n KJV
IN CONCLUSION:
THROUGH JESUS, 60D SHOWED US HIS PLAN FOR OUR SALVATION:
JESUS' SAID: I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE: NO ONE COMETH UNTO THE FATHER, BUT BY ME. JOHN 14:b KJV
FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: IT IS THE GIFT OF 60D: NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST.H EPHESIANS 2:~-9 KJV
THAT IF THOU SHALT CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH THE LORD JESUS. AND SHALT BELIEVE IN THINK HEART THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. THOU SHALT BE SAVED. FOR WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVETH UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION. FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.H ROMANS 10:9-10.13 KJV
JESUS SAID---BEHOLD' I STAND AT THE DOOR. AND KNOCK: IF ANY MAN HEAR MY VOICE. AND OPEN THE DOOR. I WILL COME IN TO HIM. AND WILL SUP WITH HIM. AND HE WITH ME. REVELATION 3:20 KJV
SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND' CALL YE UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR: LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY. AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD. AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON. ISAIAH 55:6-7 KJV
ALL THAT THE FATHER GIVETH ME SHALL COME TO ME; AND HIM THAT COMETH TO ME I WILL IN NO WISE CAST OUT. JOHN 6:37 KJV
INVITATION
WILL YOU SEEK JESUS TODAY FOR YOUR SOUL'S SALVATION?
REPENT OF YOUR SINS, ASK CHRIST TO COME INTO YOUR HEART
IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU HAVE NOT BEEN LIVING RIGHT, WILL YOU LET CHRIST NOT ONLY BE THE SAVIOR OF YOU, SOUL. BUT THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE? {REMEMBER} YOU WILL STAND BEFORE HIM AND ANSWER FOR HOW YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE AS A CHRISTIAN.
SUGGESTED READING: JOSH MCDOWEL'S BOOK EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A VERDICT.
WRITTEN AND PROVIDED BY: CHAPLAIN LARRY HINES 1987
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