Understanding Jesus better

By

Brian Birdow

Sermon text: Revelation 1:1-8

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Revelation 1:8

• I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

• Jesus was

• Jesus is coming again

• Jesus ins Almighty

Jesus the Christ is!• Everlasting

• Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy them.

• Isaiah 46:4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to gray hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Everlasting

• Psalms 41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

• Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Everlasting

• Psalms 93:2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

• Psalms 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children;

Jesus the Christ was…

• In the flesh

• Crucified

• Buried

• Resurrected

In the flesh

• Turn with me to 1st John 1 please

• John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

In the Flesh

• Mark 1:24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? are you come to destroy us? I know you, who you are, the Holy One of God.

• Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

Crucified

• Matthew 27:35 And they crucified Him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

• Mark 15:24 And when they had crucified Him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.

Crucified

• Luke 23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

• John 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

Crucified

• Acts 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by Him does this man stand here before you whole.

Buried

• Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Resurrection Promised

• Psalms 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

• Psalms 71:20 You, who have showed me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Resurrection Promised

• Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: pity shall be hid from my eyes.

• Acts 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Resurrection Promised• 2 Corinthians 4:14 Knowing that he who raised up

the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

• 2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many increase to the glory of God.

• 2 Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Jesus the Christ will come again

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

• John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

• John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

Daniel 12:2

• And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

• 1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that He has promised us, even eternal life.

The GOD of Peace!• Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that

brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

• Hebrews 13:21 Make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.