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JESUS

Why Jesus

• His Name
• His Purpose
• Getting Beyond American Jesus

Hebrews 1:1-14

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say,

“You are my Son,
today I have begotten you”?
Or again,

“I will be to him a father,
and he shall be to me a son”?
6 And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says...

"Let all God's angels worship him.”
7 Of the angels he says,

“He makes his angels winds,
and his ministers a flame of fire.”
8 But of the Son he says,

“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,
the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”

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But you are the same,
and your years have no end.

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Jesus

Jesus name

• reveals the bankruptcy of our name
• One who's help is Jehovah
• Christ - Anointed One

jesus the KING

The only person who dares wake up the king at 3am for a glass of water is a child.
We have that king.

THE PURPOSE OF JESUS

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• Executing Redemption
• Building the New Jerusalem

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

C.S. Lewis
- Mere Christianity

What does happen when people meet Jesus?

Cultural Understanding of Jesus

The Person of Truth has a Belly Button

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• Jesus is Infinite / Many Shaded
• He is our King

We Need a Jesus to connect, and relate to. He is that for anyone anytime.

ELEMENTS OF WALKING

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• Eternal Salvation
• Purposeful Prayer
• Fervent Worship
• Discover Scripture
• Fellowship
• Outreach
• Discipleship

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• Purposeful Prayer