May I Present Jesus (Part 1)

Take your Bible and turn with me, if you would, to the Gospel

of John. And as you're turning there, as

we begin to embark on the first few verses of John's gospel, I

want you to turn with me to John chapter 12, John chapter 12.

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When you come to the 12th chapter of John, you are at the

very end of Christ's public ministry.

When you come to chapter 13, He enters his private ministry with

His men. But in John chapter 12 you have

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the triumphal entry where everyone is praising His name

and taking off their garments and putting them down on the

ground, saying to Him, Hosanna, glory to God.

In the highest, there is a whole bunch of people following the

Christ. After all, it's Passover and

everyone's moving in that direction anyway.

Except for the fact that Jesus had just raised Lazarus from the

dead. So that would include all kinds

of curious people to understand who this Jesus is.

And so they would be among the thousands, maybe even millions,

following Christ into Jerusalem. And as He goes into Jerusalem,

of course there are those in the city who are coming out to greet

Him during that entry time into Jerusalem, which would cause the

Pharisees to say these words in verse #19 of John 12.

So the Pharisees said to one another, you see that you are

not doing any good. Look, the whole world has gone

after Him. That they began to accuse one

another of not doing their job. Look what's happened.

The whole world has gone after him now.

Now, Please note that doesn't mean everybody in the world,

because nobody in Egypt was going after him, nobody in Rome

was going after him, nobody in Syria was going after him,

nobody in Syria was going after him, nobody in Macedonia or Ki

were going after him. The Pharisees are speaking in

terms of generalities. All kinds of men from the world,

all kinds of people from the world have gone after him.

It doesn't mean that every person in the world was going

after Jesus. That's like saying when John the

Baptist was baptized in the Jordan, when it says that all of

Jerusalem came down to be baptized by John and the Jordan,

that doesn't mean that every single person in the city of

Jerusalem was coming down to be baptized by John in the Jordan.

It's a statement that talks about distinction.

And so the Pharisees are are speaking in in, in hyperbole.

Look at all these people following him.

John knows that and uses a particular illustration to speak

of some of the Greeks, some of the Gentiles, those who had

converted to Judaism and therefore they were following

the Christ. John uses this illustration.

He's the only one who does it, says the verse 20.

Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to

worship at the feast. These then came to Philip, who

was from Beseda of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, Sir,

we wish to see Jesus. Now stop right there, Sir.

We, we wish to see Jesus. Now, there is no record of the

fact that they ever saw Jesus. There's no record that they ever

spoke to Jesus. But John is helping you to

understand the desire of people to see the true Jesus Christ.

These people had a passion. They had to drive to come face

to face with the living God and you got to stop right there and

you got to ask yourself the question is, is is that is that

us did did you come this morning to to see Jesus?

Most people go to church to see other people.

Some people go to church to be seen by other people, but do you

come to church to truly see the true and living God?

Do you come to see the Christ and all of his glory?

John's whole gospel is about that.

Somehow you might believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the

Christ, the Son of God. That's the whole purpose of his

writing. The whole doctrine of

Christology is wrapped up in John's gospel.

It's a study of the Christ. Who is he and these Greeks had

come from, who knows where, to just get a glimpse of Jesus, to

somehow get a conversation with Jesus, to somehow be introduced

to Jesus, which always makes us wonder why we are here.

Thus the title for today's sermon.

May I present to you Jesus, John 1, verses 1 to 5.

John 1:1–5

Because when you come, I want you to see only Jesus.

That's all that matters. That's the only motive for going

to church. Every other motive is a wrong

motive. The right motive is I want to

see Jesus, I want to hear about the Lord.

I want to come to know about the Lord.

So at the outset, I must warn you that there are many

churches, not just in America but all around the world, that

introduce to people the wrong Jesus.

Just because you go to a church doesn't mean they're going to

introduce you to the right Jesus.

That is very important for us to understand.

I'm afraid that people don't really take into consideration

where they go to church, but you should because if you go to the

wrong church, you're going to be introduced to the wrong Jesus.

And if you get Jesus wrong, you'll get your destiny wrong.

You must know the right Jesus. That's why John says we write

these things, that you may know that Jesus is the Messiah.

Can you go to heaven and not believe that Jesus is the

Messiah? Answer no, because you got it

wrong. Jesus.

He is the Messiah that was prophesied in the Old Testament.

Can you go to heaven and not believe that Jesus is the Son of

God? No, you can't.

You must believe in the true identity of the Jesus that John

explains to us in his gospel. This is absolutely crucial, so

much so that Jesus would say these words in Matthew's Gospel

in his very first sermon, Matthew 7 verse #15 Beware of

the false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but

inwardly are ravenous wolves. At the very beginning of the

ministry of Christ, and he preaches his sermon, the Sermon

on the Mount, he gives a warning about false prophets.

It was so clear that the apostle Paul would say these words in

Acts chapter 20, verse 28. Be on guard for yourselves and

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for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you

overseers to shepherd the Church of God, which he purchased with

his own blood. I know that after my departure

savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock, and

from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse

things to draw away the disciples after them.

Therefore, be on the alert, remembering that night and day

for a period of three years. I did not cease to admonish each

one of you with tears. Paul knew that there will be

many who will rise up from within the church after his

departure that would draw people away from the true gospel.

So Peter would say these words, and his second epistle, Second

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Peter, chapter 2, verse #1. But false prophets also arose

among the people, just as there will also be false teachers

among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies,

even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift

destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their

sensuality and because of them the way of the truth will be

maligned. And in their greed they would

exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is

not idle and their destruction is not asleep.

So Peter, even with more fervency, would talk about

people who would deny the true Master, the King of Kings.

So Jude would say these words in verse three of his epistle.

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write to you

about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to

you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which

was once for all handed down to the Saints.

For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were

long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly

persons who turned the grace of our God into licentiousness and

deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.

So Christ warns about false prophets and false teachers.

Paul recognizes that after his departure they're going to come

from within, and they did in the Church of Ephesus.

And Peter would warn about these false teachers.

Jude would say, the warning's over, they're here, they've

already risen among you, and they deny truly the only Master,

our Lord Jesus. John, who wrote 3 epistles after

the Gospel, these epistles written some 50 years after the

resurrection of our Lord, said these words.

John second, excuse me, second John verse #7 For many deceivers

have gone out into the world. Those who do not acknowledge

Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, this is the deceiver and

the Antichrist. Watch yourselves that you do not

lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full

reward. Anyone who goes too far and does

not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God and the

one who abides in the teaching. He has both the Father and the

Son. If anyone comes to you and does

not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and

do not give him a greeting, for the one who gives him a greeting

participates in his evil deeds. See, John knows that there are

people who are deceivers, they're called antichrists.

They are those who are against the Christ.

He would say in His first epistle in First John, chapter

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2, verse #18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard

that Antichrist is coming, even now many Antichrist have

appeared. From this we know that it is the

last hour. They went out from us, but they

were not really of us, for if they had been of us, they would

have remained with us, but they went out so that it would be

shown that they all are not of us.

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

I have not written to you because you do not know the

truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the

truth. Who is the liar but the one who

denies that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ?

This is the Antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the

Son. Whoever denies the Son does not

have the Father. The one who confesses the Son

has the Father also. Again, the warning, because the

New Testament is replete with the same warning.

Satan is a master of disguise. In fact, Paul tells us in Second

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Corinthians Chapter 11, he says these words in verse 14.

No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an Angel of

light. Therefore, it is not surprising

if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of

righteousness. Who's in will be according to

their deeds. And then he says earlier in 2nd

Corinthians 4, verse 3, even if our gospel is veiled, that is

veiled to those who are perishing.

In this case, the God of this world, who is Satan, has blinded

the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the

light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of

God. Satan's whole purpose is to

blind the minds of people so they do not recognize that Jesus

is God. He denies the deity of Christ,

and every false gospel denies the deity of Christ.

That's why the question who is Jesus is the most important

question you need to have. You need to get that part right.

If you missed that one, you've missed the whole thing because

the gospel is the center of the good news about the Christ.

So you must get Jesus right. John would say this in first

John 4. Beloved, do not believe every

spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God,

because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Now think about this. This is 50 years after the

resurrection of the Christ. We're 2000 years down the road

from that. And John is saying there are

many Antichrist, there are many false teachers in his day.

Think about how many there are in this day.

So many of them. So he says, test the spirits,

test the message and the messenger, examine them closely.

Listen with a critical ear, look at them with a critical eye.

Make sure that you examine the genuineness of their message,

the genuineness of the man in which they present.

For is it the true Jesus? Because if it's a different

Jesus, it's a different gospel. If it's a different gospel, it's

satanic and it's damning. So you need to get Jesus right.

So he says this. By this, you know, the Spirit of

God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in

the flesh is from God. And every spirit that does not

confess that Jesus is not from God.

This is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have

heard that is coming, and now it is already in the world.

It's already here, it's everywhere.

And you know what the unfortunate thing is, is that

there are countless people, millions of them all around the

world going to churches that deny the true identity of Jesus.

Let me give you a few examples. There is this movement in

Pentecostalism called the Oneness Pentecostals.

There are 25,000,000 that claim to be a part of that

denomination. 25,000,000 that are a part of the Oneness

Pentecostal movement. One of the greatest proponents

is a man who just retired from his ministry.

His name is TD Jakes, I'm sure you've heard of him.

The Oneness Pentecostal movement believes in what was old called

the Sabelianism. Modern day term is Modalism.

It denies the triune nature of the living God.

It denies that God is 3 and one. It denies that God is self,

existent self or the the God is Co eternal coexistent right as

one supreme God. Modalism says that God is 1, but

he takes on various forms at different times.

So if he wants to be the Father, he can be the Father.

If he wants to be the Son, he can be the Son.

If he wants to be the Spirit, he can be the Spirit.

But it denies the true nature of the living God.

And so if you're a part of the Oneness Pentecostal movement,

you are hearing the gospel about the wrong Jesus.

You got 25 million people on their way to hell and they don't

even know it because they got Jesus wrong.

It's so important to hear this, to know this.

The Word of Faith movement, 90% of everyone in the charismatic

Pentecostal denomination, 90% of them are of the word faith

movement. The word faith movement is all

about signs and, and wonders and miracles and, and healings and,

and all of those extracurricular things.

They're really into all that. And their leaders, the most

prominent leaders, deny the deity of Christ.

People like Creflo Dollar and people like Benny Hinn, people

like Kenneth Copeland, all those men deny the deity of Christ.

So you have 90% of the people in this movement who hear about a

different Jesus. That is very, very alarming.

In fact, listen to what Creflo Dollar says.

MacArthur in his book Strange Fire quotes these men.

This is where I got the quotes from.

Creflo Dollar says that if Jesus came as God, so he's already

denying that Jesus is God. If Jesus came as God, then why

did God have to anoint him? Jesus came as a man, that's why

it was legal to anoint him. God doesn't need anointing, he

is anointing. Jesus came as man at age 30 and

God is now getting ready to demonstrate to us and give us an

example of what a man with the anointing can do.

So he denies the deity of Jesus that Jesus in all reality is God

in the flesh. It was Kenneth Copeland who said

why didn't Jesus openly proclaim himself as God during his 33

years on earth? For one single reason.

He hadn't come to earth as God, He came as man again, denying

the deed of Christ, which by the way, he's wrong because we will

see in John's gospel that Jesus Christ claims to be God.

Over and over and over again have been a hen who says that

Jesus, who was righteous by choice, said the only way I can

stop sin is by me becoming sin. I can't just stop it by letting

it touch me. I and it must become one.

Hear this? He says.

He who is the nature of God became the nature of Satan. 90%

This is not my statistic. This is their very own

statistic. 90% of those in the Charismatic Pentecostal arena

are of the word faith movement, and this is what they're being

taught, that Jesus came as a man, but Jesus wasn't God in the

flesh. You have Kenneth Copeland who

says these words. The righteousness of God was

made to be sin. He accepted the sin nature of

Satan in his own spirit. What blasphemous is that?

He says, And at the moment that he did so, he cried, My God, my

God, why has thou forsaken me? You don't know what happened at

the cross. Why do you think Moses, upon

instruction of God, raised the serpent upon the pole instead of

a lamb that used to bug me? I said, why in the world would

you want to put a snake up there?

The son of Satan? Why didn't you put a lamb on

that pole? And the Lord said to me, because

it was a sign of Satan that was hanging on the cross, He said, I

accepted it in my own spirit, spiritual death, and the light

was turned off. How sad is that?

Denying the deed of Christ by claiming that He adopted the

nature of Satan. If you have family or friends in

that denomination, you need to grab them as quick as possible.

Drag them away from that kind of church because they're hearing

about the wrong Jesus. Christology is important.

It's crucial to understanding salvation.

One man who's called America's pastor, who boasts 40,000 strong

every Sunday, denies the supremacy and exclusivity of

Christ, and most people don't even know it.

His name is Joel Osteen. When asked if he thought people

who refuse to accept Jesus Christ are wrong, this is how he

responded. Well, I don't know if I believe

they're wrong. I believe here's what the Bible

teaches and from the Christian faith, this is what I believe.

But I I just think that only God would judge a person's heart.

He doesn't know he's a pastor. He boasts 40,000 strong.

So what does he do? He pontificates his ignorance

every Sunday, so 40,000 people become ignorant of the gospel of

who Jesus is. He says this.

I just think that only God would judge a person's heart.

I, I spent a lot of time in India with my father.

I, I don't know all about their religion, but I know they love

God and I don't know, I've seen their sincerity, so I don't

know. I mean, he doesn't know

anything. I mean, come on people, he says.

I know for me and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a

relationship with Jesus. Well, you can't have a

relationship with Jesus if you don't know who he is, right?

Another occasion he was asked, are Mormons true Christians?

How would you answer that? Listen to what he says.

Well, in my mind they are. Who cares what's going on in

your mind? In my mind they are.

Mitt Romney has said that he believes in Christ as his savior

and that's what I believe. So, you know, I, I'm not the one

to judge the little details of it.

So I believe they are. So here's this pastor of 40,000

Strong on Sunday morning telling everybody that Mormons are

Christians, that the Jesus that Mormons believe is the same

Jesus that Christians believe, and he's not.

That's why there are many antichrists that have gone out

into the world. John would speak of it, Jude

would speak of it, Peter, Paul, Christ warned about it.

They're everywhere. So I don't know where your

friends go to church, I don't know where your family goes to

church. But if it was me, I would grab

them and snatch them out of the fire because if they believe in

that kind of Jesus, they're not going to heaven, they're going

to hell. Will you ever tell them that?

Will you ever be as so bold as to say you're not believing in

the right Jesus of the Bible? Who will tell them if you don't

tell them? We are responsible as parents to

warn our children, not just when they're young, but no matter how

old they are. We are responsible as Christians

to warn people of impending judgement if they don't believe

in the true Jesus. This is so incredibly important.

So when Christ said, who do men say that I am?

Most people got it right. Most people got it wrong.

Excuse me? Well, some say you're Jeremiah

and some say you're Elijah, and some say you're one of the

prophets. Everybody's saying that you're

great, but nobody's saying that you're God.

That's all that matters. So Christ says, well, who do you

say that I am? And Peter says thou art the

Christ, you're the Messiah. You're the long-awaited Messiah,

the Son of the living God. And Jesus said flesh and blood

did not reveal this to you. In other words, no man can ever

convince you that Jesus is God. Christ says, My Father in heaven

has revealed this to you. You see, it's a divine

enablement. It's divine sight.

Only God can do that. God the Father opens blind eyes

so people will see the glorious light of the gospel.

So as we go to John chapter one, oh by the way, you can turn to

verse one if you want to. We need to at least begin that.

This morning. You turn to John 1.

I want to present to you Jesus. I want to present to you the

true Jesus as John proclaims him and declares him to be.

We must understand this because it's absolutely crucial to your

eternal destiny. So John one verse one says 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. In the darkness did not

overpower it. This week, next week, and

probably the week after, I want you to see 5 aspects of the

Christ. I want you to first of all see

his eternality, and then I want you to be able to see see His

deity. Then I want you to see His

personality, and then what you see is activity or His

creativity, and then you need to see His invincibility.

Those five things will scream out at you as you begin to break

down verses 1:00 to 5:00, but it all begins with His eternality.

The Christ existed before the world began in the beginning it

says in the beginning was the Word.

This is his eternality. In the beginning was the Word,

and the tense of the Word was explains to us that he didn't

come into being at the beginning, but existed before

the beginning ever came about. In the beginning the word

already existed. It was already there.

We know from verse 14 that that word became flesh and dwelt

among us. And we'll talk to you more about

the word as time goes on to help you understand why John uses

Lagos as an explanation of who Christ is.

But you need to understand His eternality.

Everything about the Christ existed before time began.

He has no beginning. He is the eternal God.

So let me show you very familiar to all of us as Isaiah 9 verse

#6 For unto us we understand a child will be born, and unto us

a son is given. Note, the son is not born.

The son is given, the child is born Speaking of his humanity

and his deity, and his name will be called wonderful.

Someone will say, well, he's called wonderful counselor.

No, he's called wonderful. It doesn't mean that he's not a

wonderful counselor, because he is, but his name is wonderful.

How do we know that Book of Judges 13th chapter, Manoah, the

father of Samson, when he encountered the Angel of the

Lord, the pre Incarnate Christ, he says, tell me, what is your

name? And the Angel of the Lord says,

why do you ask my name knowing it is wonderful?

So when Isaiah says his name will be called wonderful, he's

echoing what the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah way back in

the book of Judges. That's his name.

He is wonderful, He is counselor, He is mighty God.

And then it says he is everlasting Father.

What does that mean? I thought you said the Son

wasn't the Father and the Father's not the Son.

That's correct. So how can it be the eternal

Father? How can it be the everlasting

Father? Well, you must understand Father

in the Jewish sense. So it means that he is the

everlasting author, the eternal originator.

That's what Father means in the Jewish context.

So He's not the Father, but He is the everlasting author, the

eternal originator of everything from eternity.

Speaking of the fact that the Son given is the child who was

born, but He existed in eternity past.

Micah 5 says the same thing. Micah 5 verse #2 the great

prophecy about the arrival of the Messiah quoted in Matthew

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chapter 2. When the Magi came right into

Jerusalem asking where is he was born king of the Jews and Herod

asked the scribes, they quote magnify verse #2 it says, But As

for you, Bethlehem, Ephrathah too little to be among the clans

of Judah. From you one will go forth from

me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long

ago, from the days of eternity, Speaking of the fact that the

one born in Bethlehem is from the days of eternity, speaking

to the eternality of the Son. This is so crucial to understand

that Christ existed before time ever began, because He is the

eternal God. So John begins by explaining to

you the eternality of the Word, the eternality of the Son, that

He's always existed. He never came into being.

So important. Turn to Hebrews chapter 1.

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Hebrews chapter 1. It says this in verse 5, For to

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which of the angels did he ever say, You are my son today I have

begotten you, and again I will be a father to him, and he will

be a son to me. And when he again brings the

first born into the world, he says, and let all the angels of

God worship him. Now stop right there.

This is very important because the Colts will tell you that

Jesus is the first born, trying to prove to you that Jesus was a

created being. That's not true because the word

for first born is the word prototicos.

It is used nine times in the New Testament.

Prototicos is the word that speaks not of origin.

But one who is preeminent, one who has the right to the

inheritance, he is the one who is the ruler.

So it's it's, it's a word that speaks to the fact that there is

one who rules, there is one who is preeminent.

That's what protota cost means. Same thing said in Colossians

Colossians 1:15

chapter 1 verses 15 that He is the first born of all creation.

We know that he wasn't the first one born in creation, that was

Adam. But the first born of all

creation is like the first born of all those who have been

raised from the dead. Of all those raised from the

dead, He is the preeminent ruler of them all.

Of all those ever born, He is the preeminent one of them all

because he is the pro totocas. Very important to understand the

deity of Christ. Let me give you one more hint.

It says verse 8, but at the Son he says your throne, O God, is

forever and ever. The Father speaking to the Son

calls him God your your, your throne is forever.

And then it says, And the righteous scepter is the scepter

of His Kingdom. You have loved righteousness and

hated lawlessness. Therefore God, your God, has

anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions.

And you, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the

earth. And the heavens are the works of

your hands. They will perish, but you

remain. And they all will become old

like a garment and like a mantle you will roll them up like a

garment. They will also be changed, but

you are the same and your years will not come to an end.

Why? Because He is the eternal God,

that's why. So John says in John one verse

one in the beginning was the Word indicating that before time

began, before everything started up, the word had already

existed. And you jump down to verse 14,

it says, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we

beheld his glory, the glory as of listen carefully.

The only begotten of the Father, only begotten circle that Word.

The word is monogamous. It's only used five times in the

New Testament, and John uses it four times.

God gave His only begotten Son, John 316.

You know that verse and the only other time it's used, helps us

understand the definition of monogamous, the only begotten.

Again, you will have to use this when you talk to the JWS who

come to your door. I recall a conversation I had

when I lived in Covina and the JWS came to my door and they

knocked in that door. I was outside doing some kind of

yard work and they, they came to me and I love that because I was

already sweaty and I wanted to make them sweat.

So I kept them there as long as I could and I kept them facing

the sun so they could see the the heat rising in them.

And I would ask them words like, well, you say that Jesus is, is

the first born. Well, that mean that's the word

prototic cost. You know what that means, right?

They have no idea what it means. So you explained it to them.

And then then I say, they say, well, he is the only begotten of

the Father. I said, yeah, but you know what

monogamous means? They have no idea what it means.

They have no idea. They are so ignorant of what it

is they believe because they don't believe the truth.

This is the only other time when she was outside John's gospel.

She was 11. He was 11.

Specifically verse #17 it says by faith, Abraham, when he was

tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises

was offering up his monogamies, His only begotten son.

Let me ask you a question. How many sons did Abraham have

at this point? 2 Was Isaac the only son of

Abraham? No, Ishmael was.

Ishmael was the first born son, but he was not the prototicus,

the right to the inheritance son.

He also wasn't the monogan Ace, the only begotten son that is

Isaac, because he is the unique son or the son of choice.

That's what monogan Ace means. So when John says we beheld this

glory, the glory is that of the only begotten of the Father,

full of grace and truth. He is the unique Son of the

Father. He is the Son of choice of the

Father. He is the Son who is the

rightful heir to the inheritance of the Father.

Has nothing to do with birth order, has everything to do with

His preeminence and uniqueness as the Son of God.

May I present to you Jesus the eternality of the Son.

He has always existed. He never came into being.

He is the originator of eternity.

Well, to to be the originator of something, you have to be what

that is, and He is the eternal God of the universe.

From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

We are embarking on a journey that is the most crucial journey

you will ever be on because it's a journey about the identity of

the Christ and what you believe about Christ is everything.

Everything. If you get Christ wrong, you'll

get Christianity completely wrong.

So you need to begin at the very beginning.

Who is Jesus? Because who He is is all that

matters. So let me ask you who do you say

Jesus is? Who do you say the Christ child

is? It's not what do you think or

who do you think he is? It's what does the Bible say He

is. That's why you must always keep

your finger in the text. That's why you test every

spirit, every message, every messenger.

Always. Just because they say they're

Christians doesn't mean they are.

You must examine what they believe about the Christ because

that would tell you everything you need to know about what it

is they they believe about life and death.

My prayer for you and me as we embarked in this journey, and we

just introduced to you the first phrase of John, chapter one

verse #1 It's going to take us a while, but there's no hurry

because it's imperative that you get Jesus absolutely correct as

John presents him. He is the Christ, He is the

Messiah. He is a Son of the living God.

Let's pray together. Lord, we thank you for this day,

and we thank You for this opportunity You've given us to

spend time in Your word. We are grateful.

Our prayer, Lord, is that you would embed Your word deep into

our hearts. Let there be no confusion among

us about who You are, that truly we would have believed that

Jesus is exactly who He says He is in the Scriptures, and that

Lord, we would not be LED astray by those who are truly

Antichrist. They deny that you came in the

flesh. They tell us that you have taken

Satan's nature. All those things are completely

and totally wrong. But you, Lord of the Christ, you

are the Messiah. You're the sinless God.

Man 100% God 100% man, came to die for our sins, that we might

be called the children of the living God.

And so, Lord, until you come again, may we proclaim the true

Jesus to those who are lost in their sin.

We pray in Jesus name, Amen.