March 8th & 12th
Jesus is
No. 1
You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach…
—2 Corinthians 11:4 (NLT)
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [that is, Christ]: ‘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 a 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 up 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 In Mere Christianity
Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”
—Mark 8:27-29
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
—Hebrews 12:2 (BSB)
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, 16 for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see- such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.
—Colossians 1:15-16 (NLT)
Jesus is revealing
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
—Colossians 1:15a (NLT)
No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.
—John 1:18 (NLT)
Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
—John 14:9 (NIV)
In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being…
—Hebrews 13:1-3 (NIV)
Jesus is supreme
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,
—Colossians 1:15 (NLT)
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
—John 14:6 (NIV)
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name [Jesus] under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
—Acts 4:12 (NIV)
Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
—Luke 24:27 (NLT)
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
—Colossians 1:15 (NIV)
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Next Steps:
1. Today, I accept Jesus in my life for the first time.
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2. I desire to make Jesus supreme in my life by making Him the priority in all I do.
3. I want to know more about God thru reading thru the NT this year.
4. I desire for others to know who JESUS IS and will invite them to church.