There Are Many Ways To God Series

Is He a liar? The man who is known for His moral teaching was immoral, Himself? It’s an option. Another option is, He was crazy. If you are taking notes, He’s a lunatic. He’s like, you should lock Him up. Put Him in a mental hospital. I like the story about the mental hospital that was surrounded by a wooden fence to keep everybody safe, and there was a hole in the fence with a sign on the outside that said, “Don’t look in the hole.” And this guy was walking by, and he saw the sign, and he heard a guy on the other side of the fence going, “Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen, thirteen, thirteen, thirteen,” and the guy was going, “What is that guy doing? There’s a sign that says, ‘Don’t look in the hole,’ “ and he, “Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen,” and finally, the guy just … curiosity got the best of him, so he looked in the hole and the guy on the other side poked him right in the eye and just started laughing. He goes, “Ah.” The guy on the other side of the fence is going, “Fourteen, fourteen, fourteen.” I hadn’t really worked all day, but I keep trying and I think maybe I’ll get lucky.

Maybe, maybe Jesus was a lunatic. He was crazy. You think about David Koresh, Jim Jones, Marshall Applewhite, and others who had kind of a messiah complex. They believed to be God, or the messiah, or some sort of deity. They all had a history of disturbing behavior. And, you think about Jesus, the most loving, most generous, most perfect person. He was either a liar, or He was a lunatic. We have one option left. If you are taking notes, and that is this, He is the Lord of all. He is Lord of everything. Why is it today that a lot of people don’t have a lot of respect or admiration, or worship for Jesus? I think a lot of the reason is because a lot of people don’t understand who He was. I think a lot of guys look at Jesus and think, “Well, that’s a guy I could beat up,” and first of all, I don’t think he could. Secondly, they’ll see Jesus as kind of this poor effeminant Galilean peasant, and I want you for a minute to not just think about the pictures that we’ve painted of Him, but I want you to think about who the Bible says He is when He returns. The apostle John, when he was exiled on the isle of Patmos, had a vision of the returning Christ. I want to see if this is a person who demands your respect, more so, your reverence, more so your worship and your devotion. Let’s look at how it’s described. Revelation 19:11, John says, “I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on a white horse and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty, and on his robe and on his thigh he has the name written …” What is that name? All of our campuses, say it out loud. The name is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” One more time. His name is “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.”