Who is Jesus?

Pastor Rex Deckard

Calvary Apostolic Church

Des Moines, Iowa

This question has

• Puzzled theologians• Started wars• Divided religions• Generated entire books• Caused debates• Led many to prayer to

ask

Just who are you, anyway, Lord!

Some dominant theories

•He was a created beingJehovah say he was the archangel

Michael, come to earth

•He was an ascended ManMormans think that he was Adam,

and the brother of Satan

•He was a portion of GodCatholic say he was part of a

triune god

Still others say that….

• He was an enlightened teacher

• He was a revolutionary• He was a social reformer• He was a spirit being

(Gnostics)• He was a great prophet

(Muslim)• He was an imposter (Judaism)

But really, who was He? And how do we find out?

Does it matter?

•Jesus said, “Lest you believe that I AM HE, you shall die in your sins!” John 8:24-27

The Bible must be our source of information in determining who Jesus was and is!

To understand who Jesus

is, we must first

establish a few

irrefutable facts

There is only One GodMark 12:29...The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord.

Deut. 6:4...the Lord our God is one Lord.

Isaiah 9:6...I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

.I Cor. 8:4...there is none other God but one.

Eph. 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. I Tim. 2:5 For there is one God... James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble

Isaiah 44:8...Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any

This God was Spirit, and He was invisible except when He manifested Himself to manJesus verified that God was

and is invisible by tellingthe Pharisees, "Ye haveneither heard his voice atany time, nor seen hisshape" (John 5:37).John declared, "No manhath seen God at any time"(John 1:18a).

Of the forty-fourso-called"appearances" ofGod in the OldTestament, noone in fact ever"saw" God at all!

"A cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses", in Exodus 33:9b.

Then, "the Lord spake with Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to a friend", in verse 11.

Even though God was "face to face" with Moses, Moses did not actually see a face.The only physical manifestation was a cloud, for in verse 20, God said, "thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me, and live".

God had to make Himself abody!

The invisible Spirit had plannedall along to take on a humanform. He planned to co

me into the world as a man.

"...The Only Begotten Son... hehath declared Him" (J ohn1:18b).

Webster's Dictionary defines theword "declare" as meaning "toshow or reveal".

J esus Christ, the Son of Manshows and reveals the invisibleGod.

Philip asked J esus to"show us theFather". J esusreplied, "Have Ibeen so long timewith you and hastthou not known me,Philip? he that hathseen me hath seenthe Father"

(J ohn 14:8, 9).

Paul communicated the mystery to Timothy: "God was manifest in the flesh" (I Timothy 3:16),

and to the Colossians,

"In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead (Greek: Deity) bodily" (Colossians 2:9).

Isaiah prophesied

that His name would be

"Emmanuel", which means "God with us" (Isaiah 7:14;

Matthew 1:23).

Jesus is the Father "incarnate" - in flesh!

Whereas God, in the Old Testament, had been revealed through His spoken and written Word, God, in the New Testament, is revealed in flesh. Hebrews 1:1 says that He "spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets" but verse 2 says that "in these last days He hath spoken unto us by His Son"

verse 3 tells us that the Son is

"the brightness of His glory, and the express image of his person".

The Corinthian church was taught that Christ is "the image of God"

(II Corinthian 4:4).

The Colossian church was taught that the Son is "the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15).

"It pleased the Father that in him (the Son) should all (the Father's) fullness dwell" (Colossians 1:19).

That is why John said "the Word was made flesh".

I’M GLAD I KNOW WHO JESUS ISI’M GLAD I KNOW WHO JESUS ISHE’S MORE THAN JUST STORYHE IS THE KING OF GLORYI’M GLAD I KNOW WHO JESUS IS

THE MIGHTY GOD IS JESUSTHE PRINCE OF PEACE IS HETHE EVERLASTING FATHERTHE KING ETERNALLYTHE WONDERFUL IN WISDOM ITS ALL IN HIM……