May I Present Jesus (Part 3)

Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, that

we might be able to equip you to understand how you might be the

offensive one in your battle against those forces that are

unseen. It's important to understand

what the Bible says about Jesus Christ.

I mean he after all, he is the the author of the Scriptures.

That he is a theme of the scriptures.

He's the subject of the scriptures.

We must understand who He truly is and we are studying John's

gospel. And John's gospel is all about

declaring and describing the deity of Christ our Lord.

John has taken one verse, one phrase from one verse in the Old

Testament and expanded on that phrase.

That verse is found in Isaiah chapter 35.

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Isaiah chapter 35, the prophet is giving hope to Israel, and he

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tells them in verse #2 of chapter 35 that one day they

will see the glory of the Lord. They will see His Majesty on

display. And then in verse #3 he says,

when you do, you'll be encouraged.

Those who are exhausted will be encouraged, and those who are

feeble will be strengthened. So when you see the glory of the

Lord, encouragement comes to those who are exhausted, to

those who need strength. It comes because you see the

glory of the Lord. And then he says this in verse

#4 say to those with anxious hearts, do you have an anxious

heart this morning, a troublesome heart, one that's

always worried and uncertain. Say to those with anxious heart,

take courage, fear not. Behold your God will come.

And that's the phrase that John has taken.

Behold your God in order to describe and declare to us the

deity of Jesus Christ. He says, behold, your God will

come with vengeance. The recompense of God will come,

but he will save you. Our God is a Savior.

That's who He is. He is the only Savior.

There is no other one. It's so it's imperative that you

know who He is. And the first 5 verses of John's

gospel equip you to defend, to declare, and to describe the

deity of Jesus Christ our Lord unlike any other portion of

Scripture in the Bible. So we are taking our time in

going through the 1st 5 verses. In fact, we're taking one verse

a week. And I kind of calculated that

out. If we continue doing one verse a

week through 21 chapters, which contains 879 verses, it will

take us 17 years to get through John's gospel.

That is if we preach on it every single day or every single week

of the year. 52 * a year without ever taking a break.

Well, you know as well as I know it's we're not going to take one

verse every single week, but the first five are very important.

If you were with us in our study of the book of Genesis, we spent

four weeks on in the beginning, in the beginning, God, four

weeks because it sets the tone for everything in the

Scriptures. You needed to understand that

one phrase. Well, here we are breaking apart

first John, or excuse me, John 1 verses one to five that you

might come to grips with the the understanding of the true

identity of the Christ. Because you see, that's, that's

the ultimate question, right? Who, who is Jesus?

That's the only question that ever matters.

That's why two weeks ago we took you to the first day of the

Passion Week of Christ, that triumphal entry day on Monday,

where the Greeks came and asked a question, Sir, we wish to see

Jesus because that's what matters.

And then on Wednesday of that week, that Passion Week, we took

you there last week, after Christ had been asked all kinds

of questions, he then turns the table on the religious

establishment and asked them a question.

Whose son is the Christ? Is he son of man?

Is he son of God? Is he son of David?

He asked them that question. Well, this morning, by by way of

introduction, I want to take you to Friday of Passion Week in the

wee hours of the morning, sometime between 12:00 AM and

3:00 AM. It happens at that time because

the cock would crow at 3:00 AM in the morning, and Peter's

going to have to deny the Lord three times before that happens.

So sometime in the wee early hours of what we commonly call

Good Friday, Christ has been taken captive.

They came and took him from the Garden of Gethsemane and they

took him to go through 4 trials. The first one was it was with

Annas. Annas was the father-in-law of

Caiaphas. They took him there first

because Caiaphas had to gather all of the Sanhedrin around in

his house. After he left Anna's Anna's

house, he went to the House of Caiaphas and he was there that

he might be put on trial. And of course was an illegal

trial because they were not to try anyone at night.

And the whole purpose of the Sanhedrin was not to take a

life, but to save a life. But they weren't interested in

saving the life of Jesus. They wanted to get rid of Jesus.

So in Matthew's gospel, the 26th chapter, we see in verse #58

that Peter follows from a distance.

That that's a sermon in and of itself.

Because you never to follow Jesus from a distance.

You're to follow him up close and be as near to him as

possible. But Peter follows from a

distance and that is the beginning of his downfall in his

denial of the Lord Jesus. He's, he's in the courtyard of

the House of Caiaphas. And those of you who have been

to Israel with me, you, you understand the setting and you

understand where the house is. And in conjunction with the

Kidron Valley and the, the, the Garden of Gethsemane and you

understand the courthouse set up.

And Peter was able to see the trial happening within the House

of Caiaphas. And so they bring in some

witnesses that they might bring a charge against the Christ.

But the witnesses are inconsistent.

The witnesses misunderstand all that that Jesus had done and all

that Jesus had said. But in in the midst of all of

the false accusation, Jesus sits there majestically, completely

silent. He, he stands there in all of

his integrity, all of his veracity, all of his dignity,

all of his humility, and never says a word.

Because you see, when you're innocent, you have nothing to

defend. And he was completely innocent

of all charges. So Caiaphas will speak, and

Caiaphas says in verse #62 The high priest stood up and it said

to him, Do you not answer? What is it that these men are

testifying against you? But Jesus kept silence, and all

that did was goad Caiaphas. All that did was infuriate

Caiaphas, you see, because when you don't defend yourself,

people are furious. They, they, they are looking for

all kinds of ways to accuse you of wrongdoing.

But Peter tells us that when he was reviled, he said nothing.

He could say that because he was there.

He watched it, He knew exactly how his Lord would respond, and

that's how he did. But Jesus kept silent.

By this time Caiaphas is so infuriated that these are the

words he speaks in verse #63 He says, I adjure you, I charge you

underoath by the living God, that you tell us whether you are

the Christ, the Son of God. Now that statement right there

tells you something. It tells you that the Jewish

nation believed that the Messiah would actually be the Son of

God, that the Messiah would be equal in position to the God of

the universe. People always ask to Does a

Jewish nation believe in the divinity of the Messiah?

Caiaphas did. Are you the Christ?

Are you the Son of God to which Jesus said to him you have said

it? I like Mark's account.

Mark says all Jesus said was I. Am those two Greek words a go a

me that John uses 8 different times in his gospel to prove

that Jesus Christ is the God who spoke to Moses from the burning

Bush in Exodus chapter 3. Jesus says I am.

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Nevertheless, Jesus says, I tell you hereafter you will see

Caiaphas, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand

of power and coming on the clouds of heaven.

Jesus takes 2 messianic passages from the Old Testament, one from

Psalm 10 verse #1 the one he used just two days earlier on

Wednesday of that week with the religious establishment.

A lot of them were there in the House of Caiaphas.

So he uses Psalm 110 verse #1 and Daniel Chapter 7 verse #13

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both. Every Jew understood to be

Messianic, that the Son of man would come in clouds of great

glory, because Daniel and his vision saw saw one like a son of

man. And yet it was God who was

coming in great glory, and He will sit at the right hand of

power, the right-handed judgement from Psalm 110, a

position of equality with the true and living God.

You asked me if I am the Christ. You asked me if I'm the Messiah.

You asked me if I am the Son of God.

I got news for you, Caiaphas. One day you will see me judging

you, not you judging me. Incredible statement.

To which verse 65 the high priest tore his robes and said

he has blasphemed. What further need do we have a

witnesses? Behold, you have now heard the

blasphemy. What do you think the answer he

deserves death. Then they spat in his face and

beat him with their fists, and others slapped him and said

prophecy to us, you Messiah, who is the one who hits you.

Do you know that all those who reject Christ as Messiah, the

Son of God, actually spit in the face of Jesus?

They slap him, they mock him because they refuse to believe

the obvious. You see, they were in a quandary

because they had already attributed everything that Jesus

did to Satan. They they had already attributed

all of his miraculous work to Him being of Beelzebull.

They were copying a rock and a hard place.

And so here Jesus comes to them and tells them exactly who he is

and exactly what he will do. So John says in his gospel, many

other signs did Jesus do, but these are written that you might

believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of

God. This is why John writes his

gospel. Behold your God, stand in awe.

This is your God. You must see him as he is

accurately described, as he is accurately seen in the gospel.

And so John shows to us and says, behold #1 his eternality.

Behold #2 his personality, behold #3 his deity, behold #4

his vitality, and behold #5 his invincibility.

And that's the outline, the five point outline of the 1st 5

verses of John's Gospel. John chapter 1.

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So as we go through this and open up to what the word of God

says and I, I, I will do all I can with all of my power and

with all the ways I can say it to describe to you and declare

to you the deity of Jesus Christ our Lord.

But in all of that, I will never ever be able to convince you.

I cannot do that. Only only the God of heaven can

do that. I can't.

I'm good. I'm just not that good.

You see, only God can do that. That's why when Peter describes

Christ as the Messiah, the Son of the living God, Jesus said

flesh and blood man did not reveal that to you, but my

Father in heaven, he revealed it to you.

See, Peter understood the identity of the Messiah because

the Father revealed it to him. And the only way you're going to

believe what John says is that the Father reveals it to you.

Now the reason I preach it is because faith cometh by hearing

and hearing by a word about the Christ.

Romans 10/17 right and God works in conjunction with the word of

God. How shall they hear without a

preacher, right? So Paul says in Romans chapter

chapter 10. And how beautiful are the feet

of those who who bring the good news.

And so we have to preach the truth.

We have to put it out there so people can hear it.

But I cannot convince you that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of

God. But these things were written so

that you might believe, and God will use his word to impact your

life. That's why Paul would say I am

not ashamed of the gospel, for the gospel is the power of God

unto salvation. To the Jew 1st, and also to the

Greek, the power of salvation is the gospel.

It's, it's not my ingenuity, it's not my illustrations, it's

not my alliteration, it's none of those kind kinds of things.

It is the word of the living God working in conjunction with God

Himself to bring conviction to your soul.

So my job is just simply to take you to the Scriptures, open the

sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, and show you

how your senses can be sharpened and how they can be tuned to

know the truth about Jesus Christ our Lord.

So John says, behold your God. John, chapter one verse #1.

In the beginning was continuously the word, the

eternality of the sun and the word was continuously with God

or face to face with God. So the eternal word was face to

face with the eternal God, helping you understand the try

you nature of God. I mean the word Trinity.

I know it's not in the Bible. We probably shouldn't even use

that word. The best word to use is try

unity. It's better than Trinity.

Try unity. One God manifested himself in

three distinct persons, and here John introduces us to two of

them. Because the word, that which is

eternal, was face to face with the eternal God.

And then he says, and the Word was God.

So you move from his eternality to his personality to his deity.

Notice what it doesn't say. It doesn't say the Word was a

God. Although the New World

translation, the Jehovah's Witness translation, inserts the

indefinite article there, there is no indefinite article in the

original language. So it's just something says the

word was God. Notice it doesn't say that the

word was the God. Now that would be true, but

that's not what John says, which is so important to understand

the word was God. When the definite article is not

used before the noun, it describes the essence, the

substance, the quality and nature.

In other words, the word in essence, the word by nature.

The word in substance is God. In fact, the original language

says God was the Word. So we read it.

The word was God, but the original says God was the word.

Explain to us the fact that this word verse 14 would become flesh

and dwell among us. The in fleshman of the word, the

incarnation of the word, Christ becoming man.

The Word was God, very God of very God.

Not a God, not the God, simply God.

Jesus was not simply the revealer of God, but God himself

revealed. Did you get that Jesus didn't

come just to reveal God, but he actually was God revealed in the

flesh, the deity of Christ and full equality of Christ with the

Father is the one non negotiable element of Christian faith.

This is non negotiable. This is not up for debate.

This is absolute truth. The word was God.

And John of course will go into great detail explaining to us to

those IM statements to hearing the words of Thomas when he says

in John chapter 20, my Lord and my God in Christ never said, oh,

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she got it wrong. No, because He was right.

Absolutely right. In fact, just let me arm you

with some verses that will help you understand, because when you

talk about the deity of Christ, you must understand it in four

ways, OK? The deity of Christ is revealed

in His name, reaffirmed in His attributes, reinforced by His

works, and ratified when He is worshipped.

You must understand that it's a very simple way of understanding

how to explain the deity of Christ, that Christ is actually

God in the flesh. Why is this important?

Isaiah told you. For the feeble you will be

encouraged. For the weak you will be

strengthened. Why?

Because you will see the majestic glory of the Lord.

So behold your God for when you see Him for who He is,

everything changes. Everything does.

Because everything about your life is related to one person,

the Lord Jesus Christ. Once you know Him, once you

understand Him, once you come to believe in Him, everything else

changes. Any other change outside of that

knowledge, outside of that encounter, is a superficial kind

of change and will not last. Maybe a week or two or three or

4, but it will not last. True change happens when you are

in Christ. For if any man be in Christ, he

is a brand new creation. Old things are passed away.

Behold, all things have become new.

Everything is about the identity of Christ.

That's why John is so so keen on these first 5 verses by way of

introduction that you might understand the true nature of

the Messiah. Notice the Bible says these

words in Philippians 2, that Jesus existed in the form of God

equal with God. Colossians 2.

Verse #9 Paul says, for in him all the fullness of deity dwells

in bodily form. In Romans 95 Paul refers to

Christ as God blessed forever, and he was one.

Verse #8 The Father says to the Son, your throne, O God, is

forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter

of His Kingdom. Peter in second Peter chapter 1

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says this. And mark this down.

Simon Peter, a bond servant and the apostle of Jesus Christ to

those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours by the

righteousness of the God and Savior Jesus Christ.

That same phrase is used in Titus chapter 2 verse #13 and

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there is a rule in Greek grammar that's used over 250 times in

the New Testament and it's always the same.

It never varies and here is the rule when the definite article

the precedes the first noun and not the second noun, and they

are separated with the conjunction and the two are

always equal without exception in the New Testament.

So whoever God is the God, that God is the Savior, and that

Savior is Jesus Christ. It's irrefutable in the New

Testament. And so you can go through

different passages of the Old Testament.

I won't take you to all of them, I'll take you to one of them.

But in First Corinthians 2 verses 78, Paul's First

Corinthians 278, Paul says you crucified the Lord of glory.

Well who's the Lord of glory? Psalm 24/7 and 10 tells us that

the Lord of glory is the Lord of hosts who is the King of glory.

And Psalm 24 is a messianic Psalm.

So when Paul is speaking to those in Corinth, he is saying

that the Jews crucified the Lord of glory.

The Bible says in in Acts 3 verse 14 and 15 Peter says, but

Acts 3:14

you denied the Holy One and the just and asked for a murderer to

be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life whom God

raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

So Peter calls Jesus the Holy One.

Isaiah chapter 48 verse #17 says thus says the Lord your

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Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

I am the Lord your God. So you see the deity of Christ

is revealed in His name in Zechariah chapter.

I'm sorry, Jeremiah 23 verse #6 Jeremiah prophesied that the

Messiah would be called the Lord Yahweh of righteousness.

So whoever the Messiah is, he is the Lord of righteousness.

But, but there's one verse in the Old Testament that I love to

hang my hat on because it's so powerful.

It's found in Isaiah chapter 44. Isaiah 44 verse #6 And if you're

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talking to a Jew, if you're talking to a a Jehovah's

Witness, if you're talking to a Mormon, if you're talking to a

Muslim, if you're talking to a Hindu, I don't care who you're

talking to, take him to Isaiah 44 verse #6 because the Bible

says thus says the Lord. Remember when Lord is all in

caps it's it's yave over 6000 times.

It's used in the Old Testament. It speaks of the Lord who spoke

to Moses from the burning Bush. It's the name of God that the

Jews refuse to pronounce. So he says.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer,

the Lord of hosts. If you're talking to a Mormon,

they will tell you that the first Lord is Yava and the

second Lord is Adonai because it refers to an earthly Lord.

And it is true that Adonai can refer to an earthly Lord, but it

doesn't mean it only refers to earthly Lord.

But the problem is the second Lord is not Adonai, it's Yava.

So you have two Yava's, you have two Lords.

How can you have two Lords? How can you have a Lord who is

the king, A king of of glory or the king of Israel, and another

Lord who is Yabe Savio? Well, the Jews got around that

after the death of Christ, of course.

So in the Jewish Old Testament they translate it this way.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, the King of Israel, and their

Redeemer, the Lord of hosts. But you see, grammatically you

cannot do that. They should know that because

you can't take a third person singular pronoun, and it's

translated there. It's his, it's irrevocable, it's

irreplaceable. It's very clear.

The Lord is the King of Israel and He has the Redeemer, and

that Redeemer is Yahweh Sabiath, the Lord of hosts.

That's who He is. If you turn over to Isaiah 47,

it says this in verse #4 our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts.

That's true. The Lord of armies, Yabe

Sabeoth, is the Redeemer. Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts,

is His name, the Holy One of Israel.

So whoever the Redeemer is, he's the Lord of hosts, and the Lord

of hosts is the Holy One of Israel.

And we read to you earlier in the book of Isaiah that the Holy

One of Israel is the Lord God of Israel.

And then over in Isaiah 54 verse #5 it says these words for your

husband, Isaiah, speaking to Israel.

Your husband is your maker, your fashioner, whose name is Yabe

Sabaya, the Lord of hosts, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of

Israel, who is called the God of all the earth.

So the Redeemer is the Lord of hosts.

The Lord of hosts is the Holy One of Israel.

The Holy One of Israel is your God.

Again exemplifying and explaining the deity of Christ,

that the Redeemer, the Savior, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

God's Messiah is the Lord of armies.

He is your Savior. There are so many verses, but

when you want to explain the deity of Christ, you must

explain the fact that His deity is revealed in His name.

His name is His character, His nature.

It's reaffirmed in His attributes.

As. God is on the present, Jesus is

on the present. As God was omnipotent, Jesus is

omnipotent. As God is omniscient, so Jesus

is omniscient. As the God of Israel is called

Yabe Sabeoth, so his his his Redeemer called Yabe Sabeoth,

the Lord of hosts. So the deity of Christ is not

just revealed in his name, it's reaffirmed in his attributes.

It's ratified when he is worshipped.

And he made it very clear Jesus did that.

No one should worship God, but no one should worship him but

but God alone I should be. In Matthew chapter 4 he talks

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about the fact that you should only worship God alone.

And yet Jesus received worship indicating that he is God in the

flesh. But but #4 the deity of Christ

is is reinforced by his his works.

And that leads us to the next point.

Not only is He seen in His eternality, and not only is He

seen in His personality, His deity, but His activity or His

creativity. What's the next verse say All

things came into being through Him, the Father.

Listen carefully. Was the architect of creation.

Jesus was the agent of creation. You must understand that verse

10 of John One says he was in the world and the world was made

through him and the world did not know him.

So Jesus is the agent of creation.

If he brings all things into existence, that means he existed

before all things came into existence, declaring his

eternality that he existed before all things.

That's why Colossus 115 It says he is the image of the invisible

God, the first born or the preeminent one of all creation.

For by him all things were created both in the heavens and

on earth, visible and invisible, whether Thrones or dominions or

rulers or authorities, all things have been created through

him and for Him. So in order to create all

things, to bring all things into existence, you had to exist

before all those things came into existence.

Speaking of His eternality and He created all things, the Bible

also says in First Corinthians chapter 8 verse #6.

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There is but one God the Father, from whom are all things, and we

exist for Him, and 1 Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things,

and we exist through Him. Same thing.

The Father was the architect behind creation, and Jesus was

the agent by which creation came into existence.

All things came into being through Him.

This speaks of His activity, his creativity.

In other words, He is the Creator.

Now, why is that important? Because that is the first

doctrine of the Bible. In the beginning.

God, what's the next word? Created.

That's how God introduces himself to the world in the

beginning. God not loved in the beginning,

God not mercy, although he's all that in the beginning.

God and His grace. Although he is graceful, the

very first way that God introduces Himself is as

Creator, designer, the fashioner of everything.

So the Bible says in Psalm 19 verse #1 The heavens are telling

of the glory of God. The heavens, when the sun rises,

when the sun shines, when the sun sets, it is declaring to you

the glory of God. It is showing you the presence

of God. If there is a design, there is a

designer. If there's a creation, there is

a Creator, and their expanses, declaring the work of His hands.

day-to-day pours forth speech. day-to-day, from sunrise to

sunset, day after day after day, the heavens continue to pour

forth speech. They continue to speak and night

to night reveals knowledge. This is why the world hates God.

This is why the world is so against God, because the Bible

says very clearly that which is known about God is evident

within them, Romans 119 because God made it evident to them.

In other words, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against

all unrighteousness, because men suppress the truth.

What's the truth? There is a Creator and you see

what you see because the Lord who's the Creator allowed you to

see his creation. And day-to-day there is a speech

that is taking place in the ears of everybody whoever existed

that screams. There is a God screams it.

For since the creation of the world, verse 20 of Romans one,

his invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature

have been clearly seen. Not vaguely seen, not partially

seen, clearly seen being understood.

That or excuse me, being understood through what has been

made so that they are without excuse.

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or

give thanks. But they became feudal in their

speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the

glory of the incorruptible God for an image of the in the form

of corruptible man and the birds, and the four footed

animals and the crawling creatures.

The world hates the Creator, but This is why God introduced

himself this way. Why is there an evolution

creation debate? It's really not a debate, it's a

closed deal. But they debated anyway, right?

Because they refused to believe in a creator.

Why do you think abortion is as bad as it is?

Because those people who kill their babies deny the Creator.

That's why. See that which is born in you,

That's what conception is. We think the birth of the baby

is when the baby comes out. Oh no, that's wrong.

For the Bible says in Matthew chapter one that which is born

in you is the Son of God. At conception was the birth of

the child or this the child that was that was born at conception.

That's why the Bible says that which is born in you when you

conceive, that is the birth. You just happen to see the

results of the birth nine months later.

But the birth happens at conception.

But you see, they refuse to acknowledge God as God and so

they feel like they can kill their unborn babies because they

don't recognize that they are truly born babies and that God

had fashioned them in the womb. Psalm 139 and all their days

were ordained before there was even yet one of them.

Because God is the Creator, the Maker, the fashioner of

everything. He is fashioning that child in

the womb and that abortion is the way it is because of Romans

chapter one. They suppress the truth.

They know there's a Creator and they know.

Don't you think for one one minute that a woman who aborts

her child does not know that God created that child in her womb?

Because Romans one says that she suppresses the truth, she knows

the truth and she will not subject herself to that truth.

Why do you think there's a transgender issue?

Male and female created he then have you not read that?

So Jesus says, have you not read male and female created he?

Then there's no debate about transgenderism.

But because all those people who claim that know the truth, they

suppress the truth. They deny the truth because they

do not want to be held accountable to the creator of

the world. But don't ever think that all

those unbelieving pagans out there who do not want to submit

to Christ do not know what they are doing.

They know exactly what they are doing because Romans one tells

us, Psalm 19 tells us. And that's why John says because

of him, all things came into existence.

He's the creator. This is his creativity, this is

his activity. This is who the Son of God is.

Behold your God. He says in the beginning God

created the heavens and the earth.

Why? Why is this important?

Because once you understand God as the Creator and Maker and

fashioner of your life, you will submit to Him as Lord and King

and follow Him. The Bible is so clear on all

these issues and John says, behold your God, understand his

eternality, understand he's a person, his personality.

Understand that that that he his deity, his God in the flesh,

understand his creativity, his activity, that he is the creator

of all things. And then he says these words in

John 1, which are so very, very important.

In him was the life and the life was the light of men.

And by the way, which he will ultimately say that this light

enlightens every man who comes into the world, every unbeliever

has been enlightened by this light who is life.

And we'll pick that up next week.

Let's pray. Father, we thank you, Lord, for

today. It is so important that we

understand who you are. You've allowed us to spend time

in the Word of God, stretching our minds, taking us through

various scriptures to understand the true identity of the

Messiah. We, we are a blessed people.

My my prayer, Father, is that you would open the hearts and

minds of all who are here, and they would, they would see you

for who you are, and they would follow you and serve you and

understand you. They would embrace the Messiah,

the Christ, the Son of God. So, Lord, we thank you for our

time. There's one here who does not

know you. May today be the day of their

salvation. They may walk with Christ, the

true life, the true light, the true Lord, the true Lion, the

true Lamb, the true Liberator of life.

Until you come again. Lord, we thank you in Jesus

name, Amen.