DO YOU KNOW JESUS
ISA; 9:6--- FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN; AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER; AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELLER, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER, THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
LET US PRAY:
FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRECIOUS WORD. WE ASK FOR YOUR ANOINTING UPON THIS SERVICE. HIDE YOUR SERVANT BEHIND THE CROSS-OF CALVARY AND LET JESUS BE LIFTED UP AND GLORIFIED. HOLY SPIRIT, HAVE YOUR WAY IN THIS SERVICE. OPEN OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS TO RECEIVE WHAT YOU HAVE FOR US TONIGHT. IN THE PRECIOUS AND HOLY NAME OF JESUS WE PRAY. AMEN.
DO YOU KNOW JESUS?
THE WORLD KNOWS OF HIM AND THEY KNOW ABOUT HIM. SOME BY GOING TO CHURCH AND HEARING THE PREACHER OR EVANGELIST SPEAK ABOUT HIM. THERE ARE TELEVISION PROGRAMS ABOUT HIM. YOU CAN READ ABOUT HIM IN THE ENCLYCLOPEDIA.
WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS AS HIS BIRTHDAY. WE CELEBRATE EASTER BECAUSE OF HIS DEATH UPON THE CROSS-. YES, THE WORLD HAS HEARD ABOUT HIM AND KNOWS ABOUT HIM.
BUT, FEW REALLY KNOW HIM.
DO YOU KNOW JESUS?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT HIS BIRTH?
MATT; 1:18, 21-----SAYS: NOW THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST WAS ON THIS WISE; WHEN AS HIS MOTHER MARY WAS ESPOUSED TO JOSEPH, BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, SHE WAS FOUND WITH CHILD OF THE HOLY GHOST. THE JOSEPH HER HUSBAND, BEING A JUST MAN, AND NOT WILLING TO MAKE HER A PUBLICK EXAMPLE, WAS MINDED TO PUT HER AWAY PRIVILY, BUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN A DREAM, 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 CALL HIS NAME JESUS: FOR HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.
ISA; 7:14-----THEREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL GIVE YOU A SIGN BEHOLD A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE, AND BEAR A SON, AND SHALL CALL HIS NAME EMANUEL, WHICH BEING INTERPRETED IS, GOD WITH US.
LUKE; 1:34, 36----THEN SAID MARY UNTO THE ANGEL, HOW SHALL THIS BE, SEEING I KNOW NOT A MAN? AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER, THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE, AND THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST SHALL OVERSHADOW THEE: THEREFORE ALSO THAT HOLY THING WHICH SHALL BE BORN OF THEE SHALL BE CALLED THE SON OF GOD.
THE BIBLE PLAINLY STATES THAT JESUS WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN. CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY GHOST. HE WAS NOT BORN OF MAN. HE DID NOT HAVE ONE DROP OF MAN’S BLOOD IN HIM. HE WAS THEREFORE SINLESS.
HIS CHILDHOOD:
THE ONLY THING THE BIBLE TELLS US OF HIS CHILDHOOD. WAS, AT THE AGE OF TWELVE, AS JOSEPH AND MARY WERE RETURNING FROM JERUSALEM, JESUS TARRIED BEHIND.
AFTER SERCHING FOR HIM FOR THREE DAYS, THEY FOUND HIM IN THE TEMPLE, SITTING IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS, BOTH HEARING THEM AND ASKING THEM QUESTIONS. AND ALL THAT HEARD HIM WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS UNDERSTANDING AND ANSWERS.
JESUS WAS NOT JUST AN ORDINARY CHILD. HE WAS ANOINTED EVEN IN CHILDHOOD.
JESUS HAD A MISSION:
HIS MINISTRY BEGAN WHEN HE WAS ABOUT THE AGE OF THIRTY.
AS THE SON WAS BEING BAPTISED IN THE JORDAN RIVER BY JOHN, THE HOLY GHOST DECENDED IN A BODILY SHAPE LIKE A DOVE UPON HIM, AND A VOICE CAME FROM HEAVEN, WHICH SAID, THOU ART MY BELOVED SON, IN THEE I AM WELL PLEASED. THIS IS A PERFECT PICTURE OF THE TRINITY OF GOD UNITED AS ONE.
AFTERWARD JESUS WAS LED INTO THE WILDERNESS BY THE SPIRIT WHERE HE WAS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL FOR FORTY DAYS
AFTER HIS TEMPTATION HE CAME TO NAZARETH, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY, AND STOOD UP FOR TO READ, AND THERE WAS DELIVERED UNTO HIM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ESAIAS. AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE BOOK. HE FOUND THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS WRITTEN.
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME. BECAUSE HE HATH ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR: HE HATH SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PREACH DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES; AND RECOVERING OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET AT LIBERTY THEM THAT ARE BRUISED, TO PREACH THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.
THE BIBLE SAYS HE CLOSED THE BOOK AND HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THEM:
THIS DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS.
HIS MISSION: WAS TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
TO TEACH HIS DECIPLES AND SEND THEM FORTH INTO ALL THE WORLD TO TEACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE
HE TOLD THEM: GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTISING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST: TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS; WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU: AND, LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD. AMEN.
AND TO ESTABLISH HIS CHURCH, UPON THIS ROCK (REVELATION) I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH; AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.
JESUS HAD A DESTINY:
A DESTINY THAT WAS LAID OUT AT THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH. A DESTINY THAT MEANT A WALK DOWN A ROAD CARRYING THE CROSS HE WOULD BE NAILED TO, TO A PLACE CALLED CALVARY, WHERE HE WOULD GIVE HIMSELF, AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR YOU AND I TO SUFFER A CRUEL DEATH, (EVEN ON THE CROSS)
THE CROWD CRYING RELEASE BARABBAS. PILATE SAYING “WHAT SHALL I DO THEN WITH JESUS WHICH IS CALLED CHRIST, AND THE CROWD SHOUTING CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM.
THE BIBLE SAYS, HE RELEASED BARABBAS UNTO THEM: AND WHEN HE HAD SCOURGED JESUS, HE DELIVERED HIM TO BE CRUCIFIED.
THEN THE SOLDIERS OF THE GOVERNMENT TOOK JESUS INTO THE COMMON HALL, AND GATHERED UNTO HIM THE WHOLE BAND OF SOLDIERS. AND THEY STRIPPED HIM, AND PUT ON HIM A SCARLET ROBE. AND WHEN THEY HAD PLATTED A CROWN OF THORNS, THEY PUT IT UPON HIS HEAD, AND A REED IN HIS RIGHT HAND: AND THEY BOWED THE KNEE BEFORE HIM, AND MOCKED HIM, SAYING, HAIL, KING OF THE JEWS!
AND THEY SPIT UPON HIM, AND TOOK THE REED, AND SMOTE HIM ON THE HEAD. AND AFTER THEY HAD MOCKED HIM, THEY TOOK THE ROBE OFF FROM HIM, AND LED HIM AWAY TO CRUCIFY HIM.
ISA, 53:5 –SAYS, BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES: THE CHASTISEMENT OF OUR PEACE WAS UPON HIM: AND WITH HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED:
1 PET, 2:24 – SAYS, WHO 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.
ISA, 53:6, 7 –GOES ON TO SAY. ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY; WE HAVE TURNED EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN WAY; AND THE LORD HATH LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL.
HE WAS OPPRESSED, AND HE WAS AFFLICTED, YET HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH: HE IS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, AND AS A SHEEP BEFORE HER SHEARERS IS DUMB, SO HE OPENETH NOT HIS MOUTH.
AFTER HE WAS HUNG ON THE CROSS-THE BIBLE SAYS, AND SET UP OVER HIS HEAD, HIS ACCUSATION WRITTEN, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
JESUS WAS PUT INTO THE BORROWED TOMB. SEALED WITH A STONE. AND AFTER 3 DAYS HE AROSE OUT OF THAT GRAVE. THE STONE WAS ROLLED AWAY AND HE CONQUERED DEATH, HELL AND THE GRAVE. THROUGH HIS RESURECTION JESUS OPENED THE DOOR TO HEAVEN THAT WE MIGHT ENTER THERE INTO.
AND THE DOOR HE OPENS NO MAN CAN SHUT.
MATT, 28:1, 7—IN THE END OF THE SABBATH, AS IT BEGAN TO DAWN TOWARD THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, CAME MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY TO SEE THE SEPULCHRE.
AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE: FOR THE ANGEL OF THE LORD DECENDED FROM HEAVEN, AND CAME AND ROLLED BACK THE STONE FROM THE DOOR, AND SAT UPON IT.
HIS COUNTENANCE WAS LIKE LIGHTNING, AND HIS RAIMENT WHITE AS SNOW:
AND FOR FEAR OF HIM THE KEEPERS DID SHAKE, AND BECAME AS DEAD MEN.
AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THE WOMEN, FEAR NOT YE; FOR I KNOW THAT YE SEEK JESUS, WHICH WAS CRUCIFIED.
HE IS NOT HERE; FOR HE IS RISEN, AS HE SAID, COME, SEE THE PLACE WHERE THE LORD LAY.
AND GO QUICKLY, AND TELL HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD; AND BEHOLD, HE GOETH BEFORE YOU INTO GALILEE; THERE SHALL YE SEE HIM: LO, I HAVE TOLD YOU.
MATT; 20:17—JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, TOUCH ME NOT: FOR I AM NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER: BUT GO TO MY BRETHREN AND SAY UNTO THEM, I ASCEND UNTO MY FATHER, AND YOUR FATHER, AND TO MY GOD, AND YOUR GOD.
ACTS 1:9, 11—AND WHEN HE HAD SPOKEN THESE THINGS, WHILE THEY BEHELD, HE WAS TAKEN UP; AND A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM OUT OT THEIR SIGHT
AND WHILE THEY LOOKED STEDFASTLY TOWARD HEAVEN AS HE WENT UP, BEHOLD TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN WHITE APPAREL:
WHICH ALSO SAID, YE MEN OF GALILEE, WHY STAND YE GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN? THIS SAME JESUS, WHICH IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN.
YES; THIS SAME JESUS WHO HAS COEXISTED ETERNALLY WITH THE FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
THIS SAME JESUS WHO WAS CONCEIVED OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE WOMB OF THE VIRGIN MARY;
THIS SAME JESUS WHO HEALED THE SICK
THIS SAME JESUS WHO MADE THE BLIND TO SEE;
THIS SAME JESUS WHO MADE THE LAME TO WALK;
THIS SAME JESUS WHO CAST OUT DEVILS;
THIS SAME JESUS WHO SAVED US FROM OUR SINS;
THIS SAME JESUS WHO DIED UPON THE CROSS AND AROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY;
YES; THIS SAME JESUS WILL RETURN AGAIN IN POWER AND GLORY.
FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS THE CHURCH AS PRAYED MARANATHA, ‘OUR LORD COME”.
IN OUR TIME, SPIRIT FILLED CHRISTIANS STILL OFFER THIS PRAYER, YEARNING FOR THE RETURN OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
FOR AS THE LIGHTNING COMES FROM THE EAST AND FLASHES TO THE WEST, SO ALSO WILL THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.
HE’S COMING SOON CHURCH
DO YOU KNOW HIM?
I DON’T MEAN DO YOU KNOW OF HIM, OR DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HIM.
BUT DO YOU KNOW HIM?
ARE YOU A PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST?
