We Believe Part 6

1. WE BELIEVE
WHAT REALLY MATTERS TO US AND WHY
Fall 2016 Sermon Series | EvergreenLA

2. GOD HAS TORN DOWN
EVERY WALL
THAT DIVIDES
WE BELIEVE

3. GOD WALKED THE EARTH
WE BELIEVE

4. GOD IN CHRIST
CAME AND LIVED ON EARTH
SOME 2,000 YEARS AGO
Seriously and really?

5. 175Million
200Thousand
6Thousand
2Thousand

6. 65Million years ago
GIANT ASTEROID
smashed into Earth
near the Yucatan
Peninsula

7. NONE OF US WERE ALIVE WHEN DINOSAURS
WALKED THE EARTH. SO HOW CAN WE BE SO SURE
THAT THEY DID? AND HOW CAN WE KNOW WHAT
THEY WERE REALLY LIKE?
WE BELIEVE: GOD WALKED THE EARTH

8. Evidence of the Fossil Record

9. OKAY. NONE OF US WERE ALIVE WHEN JESUS
WALKED THE EARTH. SO HOW CAN WE BE SO SURE
THAT HE DID? AND HOW CAN WE KNOW WHAT HE
WAS REALLY LIKE?
WE BELIEVE: GOD WALKED THE EARTH

10. WE BELIEVE GOD WALKED THE EARTH
JESUS DIDN’T LEAVE BEHIND A FOSSIL RECORD TO PROVE HE WAS HERE. OR DID HE?
not to scale

11. SOME OBVIOUSLY
BELIEVE IT’S REAL
CHAPEL OF THE ASCENSION
MOUNT OF OLIVES, JERUSALEM

12. BUT HE NOT ONLY PRE-
DATES THE DINOSAURS,
JESUS HELPED MAKE THEM

13. JESUS IS THE WORD
THE WORD OF GOD
JOHN 1:1 IN THE BEGINNING, THE
WORD WAS ALREADY THERE. THE
WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE
WORD WAS GOD. 2 HE WAS WITH
GOD IN THE BEGINNING. 3 ALL
THINGS WERE MADE THROUGH HIM.
NOTHING THAT HAS BEEN MADE
WAS MADE WITHOUT HIM. 4 LIFE
WAS IN HIM, AND THAT LIFE WAS
THE LIGHT FOR ALL PEOPLE.

14. THE WORD CAME
AND LIVED WITH US
JOHN 1:14 THE WORD
BECAME A HUMAN BEING. HE
MADE HIS HOME WITH US. WE
HAVE SEEN HIS GLORY. IT IS
THE GLORY OF THE ONE AND
ONLY, WHO CAME FROM THE
FATHER. AND THE WORD WAS
FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.

15. JESUS CAME TO US
TO MAKE GOD VISIBLE
JOHN 1:18 NO ONE HAS EVER
SEEN GOD. BUT THE ONE
AND ONLY IS GOD AND IS AT
THE FATHER’S SIDE. THE ONE
AT THE FATHER’S SIDE HAS
SHOWN US WHAT GOD IS
LIKE.

16. WE BELIEVE GOD WALKED THE EARTH
John 14:5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t
know where you are going. So how can we
know the way?”
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth
and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me. 7 If you really know me, you will
know my Father also. From now on, you do
know him. And you have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father. That
will be enough for us.”

17. WE BELIEVE GOD WALKED THE EARTH
John 14:9 Jesus answered, “Don’t you
know me, Philip? I have been among you
such a long time! Anyone who has seen me
has seen the Father. So how can you say,
‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe
that I am in the Father? Don’t you believe
that the Father is in me? The words I say to
you I do not speak on my own authority.
The Father lives in me. He is the one who is
doing his work.

18. JOHN 14:11 BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I AM IN THE
FATHER. ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE FATHER IS IN ME.
OR AT LEAST BELIEVE WHAT THE WORKS I HAVE
BEEN DOING SAY ABOUT ME.
Jesus the Word of God
WE BELIEVE GOD WALKED THE EARTH

19. BLASPHEMY
SOME WHO HEARD THIS ACCUSED JESUS OF

20. WE BELIEVE GOD WALKED THE EARTH
John 10:27 “My sheep listen to my
voice. I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they will
never die. No one will steal them out of
my hand. 29 My Father, who has given
them to me, is greater than anyone. No
one can steal them out of my Father’s
hand.
30 I and the Father are one.”

21. WE BELIEVE GOD WALKED THE EARTH
John 10:31 Again the Jews who had
challenged him picked up stones to
kill him. 32 But Jesus said to them, “I
have shown you many good works
from the Father. Which good work
are you throwing stones at me for?”
33 “We are not throwing stones at
you for any good work,” they replied.
“We are stoning you for saying a very
evil thing. You are only a man. But
you claim to be God.”

22. WE BELIEVE GOD WALKED THE EARTH
John 10:36 Why do you charge me
with saying a very evil thing? Is it
because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? 37
Don’t believe me unless I do the
works of my Father. 38 But what if I
do them? Even if you don’t believe
me, believe these works. Then you
will know and understand that the
Father is in me and I am in the
Father.” 39 Again they tried to arrest
him. But he escaped from them.

23. WE BELIEVE GOD WALKED THE EARTH
John 10:40 Then Jesus went back across the
Jordan River. He went to the place where
John had been baptizing in the early days.
There he stayed. 41 Many people came to
him. They said, “John never performed a
sign. But everything he said about this man
was true.” 42 And in that place many
believed in Jesus.

24. WE BELIEVE GOD WALKED THE EARTH
NO FOSSILS OF JESUS. EVEN IF THERE WERE, WHY SHOULD WE
BELIEVE THAT HE WAS GOD WALKING THE EARTH 2,000 YEARS AGO?

25. “AT LEAST BELIEVE WHAT THE WORKS WE
HAVE BEEN DOING SAY ABOUT JESUS.”