May I Present Jesus (Part 2)

Take your only offensive weapon, the Sword of the Spirit, and

turn with me to the Book of Matthew.

Say, wait a minute, I thought we're in the Book of John.

We are. But I'm going to introduce to

you John one one to five by taking you to the Wednesday of

Passion Week. Last week we introduced to you

John 1 by taking you to Monday of Passion Week, because Monday

was a day of recognition. Monday was a day of coronation.

It was a day of the triumphal entry in which our Lord wrote

into Jerusalem. It was also a day of compassion,

for there he he wept over the city.

The next day, Tuesday, would be a day of indignation in which he

would come and he would curse the fig tree and he would

cleanse the temple. But on Wednesday, Wednesday was

a day of instruction. Wednesday was a day of

confrontation. Wednesday was a day of

questions. You see, by the time you come to

Wednesday, the religious leaders, their animosity had

grown to such a high level, they could no longer stand even the

the sight of Jesus, let alone the name of Jesus.

We shared with you last week that in John chapter 12, they

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were so angry with one another because they were unable to keep

people from following Jesus. That had been their mission for

a few years now. But now you come to Wednesday of

of Passion week and they are furious with what is happening

with the Lord. After all, the day earlier he

came and, and cleanse the temple, their holy place.

And so they were thinking of ways to trap him, thinking of

ways in which they could, they could draw the people away from

the Lord. And so the Herodians gathered

together, the Sadducees gathered together and the the Pharisees

gathered together to formulate questions to stump Jesus.

So the Herodians come first and they they ask a question that

deals with things politically. Then the Sadducees come and they

ask a question dealing with things theologically.

And then the Pharisees come and they ask a question dealing with

things spiritually. And of course Christ answers

them all perfectly. They are dumbfounded.

But then you come to a place where the Lord is going to turn

the tables on the religious establishment.

He's now going to ask them a question, and the question he

asks is the only question that matters.

The question he asks is the most important question ever asks of

man. He knows that.

And so he's going to ask them a particular question.

And in giving the question, it's almost as if it's a, a final

message, a a final invitation to them.

Because within the realm of the question and within the realm of

the answer to the question is the answer to their eternal

destiny. And so he is going to ask them a

question in terms of a final message, a final invitation to

all those who are as rejecters. They might somehow come to a

place of redemption. So you find this question in

Matthew's Gospel, the 22nd chapter, the 41st verse.

It says now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus

asked them a question. Now this is the the final

question. This is the last question that

he asks and there will be no more questions asked of Jesus

after this one. So this is the last question of

his earthly ministry. He's asking it, but no one, as

we'll see in a few moments, will dare to ask him any more

questions. So he has them together and he

says, What do you think about the Christ?

Whose Son is he? That question is the only

question that matters, for how you answer that question will

determine your eternal destiny. You get it wrong, your soul will

be damned forever. You get it right, your soul will

be in glory forever. So it's important that you get

the answer right. The question is, whose Son is

the Christ? In other words, who is the

Christ? Who is the Messiah?

That's the question. And you will note the answer

comes rapidly. It comes quickly because you

see, the religious establishment want to let the people in the

crowd know that they are smart, that they know the answer to

Jesus's question. He knew the answer to their

questions. They want to say that they're on

equal par with Jesus and they can answer just as quickly and

as rapidly as he did. So it says they said to him,

David's, that's right, that's correct.

That would be a right answer. It would be an incomplete

answer. It would be a deficient answer,

but yet it would be a correct answer because the Messiah would

be the Son of David. That's true in the Old Testament

taught that over and over again. Second Samuel Chapter 7, Psalm

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89, Amos Chapter 9, and the list goes on and on and on that the

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Messiah would be the Son of David.

They are willing to recognize the humanity of the Messiah, but

not recognize the divinity of the Messiah.

So the question would always be, did the Jews know that the

Messiah would be divine? Does the Old Testament prove

that the Messiah is God? Well, we told you last week,

Isaiah 9 his name should be called El Gabor, the mighty God.

He's also the everlasting Father or the father of eternity.

Micah 5 verse #2 He's from everlasting to everlasting.

Jeremiah 23 verse #6 says he's going to be called the branch,

which is the Lord of righteousness.

So the Old Testament clearly taught that the Messiah would be

divine, the Messiah would be God.

But when they answer the question, the answer only

partially, not completely. They answer that yes, the

Messiah will be the sun of David.

So now what Christ does is very unique because he's going to

take a passage of Scripture from the Psalms, the Psalm that's

quoted the most in the New Testament.

All three gospels quoted. Hebrews quotes it twice.

Stephen quotes it or Peter quotes it in Acts chapter 3.

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It's quoted by Paul in First Corinthians chapter 15.

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It's Psalm 110. The most quoted Psalm in the New

Testament is a Messianic Psalm. And every Jew without exception

would know Psalm 110 was messianic.

They would know that. And so Christ is going to take

the Scriptures, the word of God, and he's going to explain to

them the Messiah. Listen to what he says he said

to them. Then how does David in the

Spirit, queen of Mark's Gospel in the Holy Spirit, meaning

under divine inspiration? David is going to speak under

divine inspiration by the Holy Spirit of God.

Then how does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I put your

enemies beneath your feet. If David then calls him Lord,

how is he his son? It's brilliant question.

He's got them in a quandary because they're willing to admit

that the Messiah is humanly the Son of David, but not divinely

the Son of God, and yet their scriptures taught very clearly

that the Messiah would be divine.

He has them between a rock and a hard place.

He asked them, how can this possibly be So he's going to

quote from the Old Testament and he says simply, the Lord Yave

said to my Lord Adonai. Now Adonai refers to an earthly

Lord, but not always. But we know who Yave is.

He's the Lord God of Israel. So when you read the Hebrew, it

says Yahweh, the Lord said to my Adonai Lord.

But the Greek Septuagint translates it Curious Lord both

words. Every time Yahweh is translated

into the Greek in the Old Testament, without exception,

it's always translated curious every single time.

And so in the Greek it says the Lord curious said to my Lord

curious, meaning that the Lord is divine, David's Lord is

divine, very, very important to understand this.

And so he says, sit at my right hand.

That's a, that's a, that's a place of equal position, equal

authority, because it speaks of the equality of the sun until I

put your enemies beneath your feet.

A total execution or subjugation of his enemies.

If David then calls him Lord, how?

How is he a son? You see, everybody around them

knew that Jesus was the son of David.

They knew that in fact, the Pharisees never argued the point

that Jesus was the descendant of David.

They couldn't because the genealogical records that were

kept in the temple would prove that he was a descendant of

David through Joseph because of Solomon, and instead of David

through Mary because of Nathan, his other son.

So physically and legally, he was a descendant of David.

He is a son of David, but is he the son of David?

Is he the Messiah? That's the question.

And you have the two blind men in Jericho who cry out to him.

Have mercy on us, son of David. You have the two blind men in

Galilee say the same thing. Have mercy on us, Son of David.

You have the Canaanite woman who begs for mercy from the Son of

David. We have on Monday the crowds

yelling hosanna to the Son of David.

So we had the crowds recognizing that Jesus is the Son of David.

He is their Messiah. So they think so.

They hope he is. But they reject him a few days

later because he doesn't pull off politically what they think

he needs to pull off and militarily what they think he

needs to pull off in order to relieve them from Roman

oppression. And so here is the Lord turning

the tables on the Pharisees and asking them the all important

question. Whose son is the Christ, the

Messiah, David's Son, Right? Sorta.

But you got to get the fact that he's also the Son of God.

He is Lord, He is King. He's not even talking

specifically about himself, although he is.

He's specifically speaking about Old Testament prophecy because

David says this before the son is born.

David says this prophetically. David is saying the Lord said to

my Lord prophetically. See.

So he's giving a prophecy about the coming Messiah, calling his

son Lord, calling his son God. Notice what it says next.

It says no one was able to answer him a word, nor did

anyone dare from that day on to ask him another question.

Remember the last invitation of the Bible, Revelation chapter

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22. The last invitation given by God

centers around the same theme, the identity of the Christ.

Revelation 2216 I, Jesus and the root and offspring of David.

I Jesus am the source of David's life in line.

And I, Jesus am the son of David's life and line.

The bright morning star. The invitation centers around

the identity of the Messiah. Because you see, when you give

an invitation to people, you must explain to them who the

Messiah is. That's why John says many other

signs did Jesus do that were not recorded in this book.

You see, the Pharisees had seen all the credentials of the

Messiah. They could not deny any of the

miracles that Jesus had performed.

They had seen all the miracles. They could not deny them.

So John comes along and John 20 and says many other signs did

Jesus do that are not written in this book, but these were

written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the

Messiah, the Son of God. That's why John wrote his

gospel. Now remember all the Gospels

uniquely write about one phrase in the Old Testament and then

expand that phrase we talked about two weeks ago.

Let's see if you remember Matthew.

Matthew writes specifically about a phrase in Zechariah 9

verse #9 which says behold your king when he comes into

Jerusalem on the backside of a donkey.

Behold your king. So what does he do?

His whole gospel is about the royalty of the Messiah.

And then you come to Mark's gospel and Mark takes one phrase

from Isaiah 42, one that says, Behold, my servant.

And John's whole gospel is centered around the servanthood

of the Messiah, emphasizing the humility of the Messiah.

And then you come to Luke's gospel and Luke takes one phrase

from Zechariah chapter 6, verse #12 which says behold a man.

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And Luke expands on that whole phrase, emphasizing the humanity

of the Messiah. Then you come to John's Gospel.

In John's gospel, he takes one phrase from the book of Isaiah,

the 34th chapter, Behold Your God.

And he takes 21 chapters and unfolds for us the fact that the

Messiah is God. This is so important to

understand. You need to grasp all this

because the, the, the, the, the way the Spirit of God puts

everything together in such a marvelous and such a miraculous

kind of way. Help us understand the true

identity of, of the Son of David, the, the Son of God.

So you come to John's gospel and John's whole theme is behold

your God. This is God in the flesh.

That's why he says in in John chapter one verse #1 in the

beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word

was God. He was in the beginning with

God. All things came into being

through him and apart from him nothing came into being that has

come into being. In Him was life, and the life

was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness

and the darkness did not comprehend it.

May I present to you Jesus and all of us splendor and all of us

glory and all of his beauty, because that's what John does.

John is like the the Holy of holies of New Testament books.

John is, is is all about presenting God and, and, and in

John chapter 17, you, you have that high priestly prayer where

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deity is communicating with deity, the intimacy between the

Father and the Son. There there is no more holier

book in the New Testament than John's gospel because it

portrays to us, presents to us the beauty of the living God.

Now the whole Bible is about the Lord.

The whole Bible presents to us the Christ, but John's gospel,

unique and that it is, presents to us the beauty of the Lord.

Behold your God, Isaiah 714 Emmanuel, God with us John 114

the word became flesh. That's that's the Christmas

story in one sentence. The word became flesh.

God with us over in Luke's gospel, Luke chapter 1, it says

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as the Angel speaks to Mary, verse 31 and behold, you will

conceive in your womb and bear a son to the name of Jesus.

He will be great and he will be called the Son of the Most High

and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

He will reign over the House of Jacob Forever.

This Kingdom will have no end. Mary said to the Angel.

How can this be since I am a virgin?

The Angel answered said to her. The Holy Spirit will come upon

you, and the power of the Most High will over shadow you, and

for that reason the holy child shall be called the Son of God.

Behold your God. So John says these things are

written that you might believe over 90 times.

John uses the word believe because the essence of salvation

is believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Do you believe in who he is? Do you believe in the identity

of the Messiah? Do you believe that he is Son of

God, Son of man? Do you believe in the humanity

and the divinity of Christ? He is the God Man.

He's 100% God, He's 100% man. He is 200% of something.

You can't comprehend that. Neither can I because our mind

only goes to 100%. But he's 200% of something, 100%

God, 100% may not 50% God and 50% man.

No, He's 100% man, 100% God. He is God in human flesh.

So as I present to you Jesus, I present him to you in five

different ways. Number one, His eternality #2

His personality #3 His deity #4 His vitality and #5 His

invincibility. Those are the 1st 5 verses of

John chapter one. Last week we covered his E

eternality. In the beginning was the word.

In the beginning was the word. Now understand this was is the

imperfect tense of Amy of the verb to be.

So you can read verses one and two this way.

In the beginning was continuously the word and the

word was continuously with God, and the word was continually

God. That's literally how it reads

the word Amy, a very important word.

Why? You know, if you've been with us

long enough that we take you all the way back when Christ talks

about the fact that he is the great I am, right, ego.

Amy is the Greek translation of those four Hebrew consonants

that make up the name of God in Exodus chapter 3 when Moses

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asked who shall I say sent me? And the Lord God of Israel says,

tell him that I am sent you. Tell them to be sends you tell

them that the eternal being sends you.

That's his memorial name. His memorial name, students

around his eternality. He always is because He always

was and always will be. The eternal nature of God is

important. Why?

Because Jesus said in John 824, Unless you believe that I am,

unless you believe that I am eternal being, you will die in

your sins. Do you have to believe in the

eternality of God to be saved? Answer Yes.

Yes, you must believe in the eternal nature of the living

God, that He is a God who is and was and always will be.

You cannot deny the eternality of God because that's who He is.

Unless you believe that I am, I am continuous, I am eternal.

You will die in your sins. Unless you believe that I am the

God who spoke to Moses in Exodus chapter 30, Exodus chapter 3,

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from the burning Bush, you will die in your sins.

I am the God that's always being.

That's who I am. And so John says in the

beginning was continuously the Word.

In other words, before the beginning, When did the

beginning begin? Good question.

Genesis one verse #1 in the beginning, God.

So in the beginning, in the beginning God had already

existed. He was existing continuously.

In the beginning was the creation of time and space.

If you're not a part of time and space, you are preexistent.

You exist before time and space. If you exist before time and

space, that means you are eternal.

So before the beginning began, the word always continuously was

and is. That's the point, the eternality

of God. This is crucial to understand.

Now listen to this, this is so good.

In the beginning was the Word. Now why did he use the word?

Why did he say in the beginning was Jesus?

That would be pretty simple, wouldn't it?

In the beginning was the Son, SON?

Why didn't he say that? Why did they say in the

beginning was the word Lagos? Why?

Why would he do that? Well, he's going to appeal to

the Jewish mind. He's going to appeal to the

Greek mind. He's going to appeal to those

who are engaged philosophically, the Greeks.

He's going to appeal to those who are engaged theologically.

The Jews, OK. To the Greeks, Lagos was an

entity. It was a impersonal force.

To the Greeks, they believed if there's a creation, then there

was a cause to the creation, but the cause was a personal force,

an impersonal force, not some person.

So they named it Lagos. And John comes along and says, I

want you to know that from the very beginning, before time ever

began, the Lagos existed. The Lagos was there and the

Lagos really is a person because the Lagos became flesh and dwelt

among us. To the Jewish mind, the Lagos

was the revelation of God. It was the word of God Speaking

of the authority of God, the authenticity of God, the

reliability of God, the veracity of God.

So to the Jewish mind, Lagos spoke about the word itself, how

the word was an expression of God.

That's the only way he knew God was when God spoke.

So that's how they came to understand who God was.

So God would give revelation. God would speak because no man

has seen God at any time. So when God would speak, he

would exhibit himself. He would explain himself that

that's why way back in Exodus chapter 34, as you recall, when

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Moses said I want, I want to see your glory.

And the Lord said I can't let you see my glory and live.

But the Lord did say this. He said in verse #5 of chapter

34 of Exodus. The Lord descended in the cloud

and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the

Lord. So Moses is calling upon the

name of the Lord. He wants the Lord to show

himself. Then the Lord passed by in front

of him and proclaimed. God said something, He

proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, compassion, gracious so to

anger, and a bounty, and loving kindness and truth.

Who keeps loving kindness for thousands?

Who for gives iniquity, transgression and sin?

Yet he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.

Visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on

the grandchildren to the third and 4th generations, Moses made

haste to bow down, bow low toward the earth and worship.

He worshipped based on what was said, not based on what he saw.

The Lord God proclaimed his glory, the Lord God spoke his

glory. So that's how Moses then would

bow and worship him, because he bowed under the authority of

God's revelation. So to to a Jew, the Lagos was

the revelation of God. To the Jew, the Word of the Lord

is the expression of God to man and Jesus Christ is God speaking

to us. Jesus Christ is the fullest

revelation of God. That's why the Word became flesh

and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory, we beheld His beauty,

we beheld the, the, the, the, the person of God expressed in

Jesus Christ who is the exact representation of the Lord.

And so that's why he uses the word.

In the beginning was the word in the beginning was Lagos telling

the Greeks, listen, the Lagos is not an impersonal force.

It's truly an individual. It's a person.

It's it's God in the flesh telling the telling the the

Jewish audience that Jesus Christ, the word is the complete

and full revelation of his glory.

And John would say we beheld that glory.

We're able to see the person of God.

So important to understand what John is conveying to us.

Revelation 1913 Jesus Christ returns his name, and by that

name he is called the Word of God.

That's his name, the word of God.

In other words, it's, it's like when Jesus comes again, he's

also called faithful and true because his word is faithful,

His word is true. And so when it, when it, when he

comes again the second time and his name is the word of God,

it's as if he is saying, I told you already, I told you

everything about my presence. I told you everything about my

first coming. I told you everything about my

second coming. I am the word of God.

The inspired word is the Incarnate word and the Incarnate

word is the inspired word. You must take them both the same

because the Incarnate Word gives us the inspired Word and

therefore John says in the beginning was the Word and the

Word is God. He's God in the flesh.

In the beginning there always existed the Word.

Before time and space were created, the Word was in

existence, speaking about the pre existence of the Word, the

eternality of the Word. So John presents them first of

all in the beauty of his eternality.

Second of all, he presents them in the beauty of his

personality. Listen very carefully to what

the Bible says next. In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

Twice it says that the Word was in the beginning with God.

When the beginning began, the eternal 1 already existed.

He existed outside of time and space because he's a creator of

time and space. So in the beginning the Word

existed as God, and he existed with God.

So the Word existed eternity past as God, as the eternal God,

and the eternal God existed with the eternal God.

Speaking of the triune nature of God, that God is 3 and 1.

Here you have two of them. He is 3 and 1.

He is 1 God. That manifests Himself in three

distinct persons. And John, for the very outset

only speaks not just of His, his eternality, but of His

personality, that He is unique and distinct person.

He is one of three very important to understand that for

instance, in the beginning God, this is one one word for God is

Elohim. The I am ending means that it's

plural, but it doesn't say in the beginning God's.

It says in the beginning God right created the heavens and

the earth. But note this.

The Bible says in Justice 126 let us make man in our image.

Why doesn't God say let me make man in my image?

He says let us make God in our image.

Why? Because God is in a relationship

with himself. Who is God speaking to?

Who is God speaking to in the beginning God, let us make man

in our image. In fact, tell me in your Bible

to the book of Titus, Titus chapter one, first one, listen

to what it says. Paul, a bond servant of God and

an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God

and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness

in the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie,

promised long ages ago or promised before time began.

Let me ask you a question. Who did God make a promise to

before time began? He didn't make it to the angels

because they weren't created yet.

They were created somewhere between Genesis 11 and Genesis

12. Man wasn't created to day 6.

So who did God make a promise to?

Before time began? God made a promise.

Who did he make a promise to turn over to?

Second Timothy one, Second Timothy one verse #9 it says

God. God saved us and called us with

a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His

own purpose and grace. Which was granted us in Christ

Jesus from all eternity, or the exact same phrase in Titus one

verse #2 before time began. So God had a purpose before time

began, and in that purpose He made a promise.

But who did He make the promise to before time began?

In the beginning was the Word, the eternal Word of God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the eternal Word existed

with the eternal God. He was face to face with God.

Speaking of the equality of the nature of God the Son and God

the Father. Face to face means equal.

So you have the proof of the triune nature of God beginning

in John's gospel, because these things are written that you

might believe in who Jesus Christ is.

He's the second person of the triune nature of God.

In the beginning was the eternal word that always existed, that

was not created during time and space, because He was the one

who created time and space. So he had to be eternal, and He

existed with God. The eternal God existed with the

eternal God. Speaking of the eternal nature

of the God, speak of the fact that Jesus is God in the flesh.

This is so important to grasp. Why?

Because people will deny the deity of Christ.

They will deny the reality of the Messiah in the true identity

of the Messiah. And that's why I think I told

you a couple weeks ago, every cult has a Jesus, right?

But Christianity doesn't have a Muhammad.

Christianity doesn't have a Joseph Smith.

Christianity doesn't have Buddha, right?

But every cult has Jesus. They have a Jesus.

He's a prophet. He's a good man.

But they have a Jesus. Why?

Because Satan is a master of disguise, master of deception.

He wants to draw you away from the true Jesus.

But only Christianity has the true Jesus, the one who existed

before time and space, the eternal God himself.

That's who he is. And so the Bible is very clear

about the eternality of God. The Bible is very clear about

the personality of God. He existed with God.

All that to say is that God was in a relationship with himself

before time began. And the whole plan, the whole

purpose, was to redeem a bride for a son.

The whole plan of redemption wasn't conjured up after the

fall. The whole plan of redemption,

the whole plan of the cross, wasn't something that God

made-up because of sin. No, it was all a part of the

plan. It was all a part of Plan A from

the very beginning, before time began in the eternity past.

Our names are written in the Lamb's book of Life in eternity

past, before time ever began. Think about that.

God had a purpose and a plan to redeem a bride for his Son.

And in that redemptive process, you, me, and those who believe

in the Lord Jesus Christ, we've become a part of that bride.

That's what the Bible says. If you confess with your mouth

Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him

from the dead, you will be saved.

Why? Because one day every knee will

bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Jesus Christ is yave, the God of Israel.

Every tongue will confess that. So when Christ gathers these

religious leaders together, they're they're already gathered

together around him and the multitude is gathered there on

the Temple Mount. He asked them the only question

that matters, whose son is the Christ?

Do you understand him as Son of David and Son of God, or just

Son of David? Do you see the Son of David as

divine as the Lord that existed before time began?

Because David would speak prophetically before the Son was

ever born, calling him Lord under the inspiration of the

Spirit of God. That's the only question that

matters. I don't know why you're here

today. I don't know what brought you

here today. I don't know who dragged you

here today, but you're here today.

You're here today for one specific reason that you would

hear John one verse one and verse 2.

Next week we get to verse 3. But the important thing is that

the Lord wants you to know his identity.

That's why we entitled the sermon, May I Present Jesus.

You need to know who Jesus is because without Him you're lost.

With Him you have life. And so you need to understand

the identity of the Christ and the Lord Brought you here today

to hear the sermon on the eternality of the Son, the

personality of the eternality of that Son who stood face to face

with the eternal God as eternal God.

Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal God?

Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of David?

Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah of Israel, the

Messiah of God? Do you believe in who Jesus

Christ is? Told you last week, there are so

many people who preach another Jesus, but not the true Jesus.

Here we present to you the true Jesus of the Scriptures.

My prayer is that everyone of you would know him personally,

intimately, because he's forgiven you of your sins.

He's wiped them all away, and you stand righteous before him.

Let's pray together. Father, we thank you for today.

We thank you for Your word, the truth of it, and how it is.

You make it so clear and obvious to all of us.

Lord, our prayer is that we would take your word and apply

it to our lives. And for everyone who is here

today, Lord, please I pray for their eternal destiny.

If someone is here and does not know you, may today be the day

of their salvation. May your spirit do it's

convicting. Work in their hearts that they

might come to saving faith. And for those who do know you,

Lord, arm them with the truth of your word.

So when they come across people who deny your deity, who deny

your eternality, who deny your veracity, they would be able to

take them to the scriptures and say this is what the word of the

Lord says. You've given us the sword, the

sword of the Spirit, which is our offensive weapon.

May we use it for the glory of your name until you come again,

as you most surely will in Jesus name.