Who Is This Jesus And What Has He Done? Series

October 22, 2017

Morning Worship

Text: Luke 19:10

Subject; The Foundation Series Part 3

Title: Who is This Jesus and What Has He Done?

This is week 3 in our foundation series. My focus during this series is to take you through the fundamentals of the Christian faith and help you to be able to explain what you believe. In the process I hope to help you think of some things a little differently or at least approach them from a different angle.

This book is God’s word! Can we all agree on that? It was fully inspired by the Holy Spirit and there is nothing here that we have to worry about coming from some off the wall “prophet”. Holy men of God spoke as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

And this book, since it has come directly from God through willing vessels who wrote accordingly, tells us everything we need to know about who God is… God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit!

This week I want to share with you about Jesus – Who He is and what He has done.

And that is clearly stated in one simple verse from Luke 19:10 (NKJV)

10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

I believe this is God’s word…

I believe it is for me…

I accept it as mine…

I will appropriate it to my life today…

We know that He is the second Person of the Holy Trinity – the Son of God. As you read through the New Testament you see where Jesus was either called the Son of God or He himself declared that He was God’s Son.

You know that there are those who call themselves atheists who say they don’t believe in the existence of God. But rarely do people deny the existence of Jesus. They recognize Him as an actual historic figure who walked the face of the earth. The debate occurs with the discussion of who Jesus really was.

Almost every major world religion will tell us that Jesus was a great teacher or a prophet or a perfect example of godliness. Yet none of them take into consideration what the bible says about who Jesus is.

To begin with, in our defense of what we believe, we have to look at what the scriptures say about Jesus and what He himself has declared. One of the clearest passages we have that tells us of the divine nature of Jesus is John 1:1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Verse 2 explains to us that the “Word” was a person. 2 He was in the beginning with God. And now, let’s jump down to verse 14. 14 And the Word became 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. If you take into consideration that John, who wrote this gospel, was a disciple of Christ, we easily come to the conclusion that John was talking about Jesus. So under the anointing of the Holy Spirit John says that Jesus was God who came to earth as man.

Again, we see the proclamation of another disciple, Peter in Matthew 16:16

16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Did Jesus correct Peter? Did He want others to know the truth?

17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

It was these confessions that others made about Jesus being the Son of God that got Him into trouble with the religious leaders of His time. John 10:29-33

29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

30 I and the Father are one.”

31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,

32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”

At this point, did Jesus try to correct them? Do we ever see Jesus attempting to make others believe that He was just a good man, a great teacher, or a prophet?

Jesus Himself confessed it as true. He never claimed anything that He couldn’t back up with scripture and with His actions. John 14:11, 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.