Jesus the christ sermon 10 25-15

The new challenges we face in
sharing the Good News

Making the Case for Christ:
Is Jesus really God?
JESUS THE CHRIST?
This sermon will make the case for the deity
and exclusivity of Jesus. It is increasingly
popular to see Jesus as one of many ways
to God, or to diminish Jesus’ role to being a
“great moral teacher.” We will explore the
clear evidence for Jesus’ deity and His
unique role as savior and redeemer.

Jesus Has Been In The News This Week!
Did Jesus Appear To
a Colombian Family
As They Posed By
Gigantic Christ
Statue?
October 21,2015

Who Did Jesus Claim To Be?
Mark 14:61-62 ESV
61 “But he remained silent and made no
answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are
you the Christ, the Son of the blessed?”
62 And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son
of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and
coming with the clouds of heaven.”

What Did Jesus Say He Was?
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in
God; believe also in me.” John 14:1 ESV
6 ”Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me. 7 If you had known me, you would
have known my Father also.[d] From now on you do
know him and have seen him.” John 14:6-7 ESV

Liar, Lunatic or Lord?
C.S. Lewis addressed
whether Jesus could be a
good moral teacher but
not who he said he was.

Good but a Liar?
“...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.”

A Lunatic?
“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.”

Lord?
“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.”
“Mere Christianity” C.S. Lewis

Dr. William Lane Craig
“Reason can be used to defend our faith by
formulating arguments for the existence of
God or by refuting objections. But though
the arguments so developed serve to confirm
the truth of our faith, they are not properly
the basis of our faith, for that is supplied by
the witness of the Holy Spirit Himself.”

Prophecies Fulfilled?
Some critics like to say that some of the
prophecies could’ve been faked like paying
someone to walk around and talk about you
(John the Baptist) or riding into Jerusalem on
a donkey.

Messianic Prophecies Fulfilled
•From the Tribe of Judah. (Genesis 49:10)
•From the line of Jesse’s youngest son David.
(Jeremiah 23:5)
•Born in Bethlehem. (Micah 5:2)
•Preceded by a messenger who will prepare the
way.(Isaiah 40:3)
•Will ride into Jerusalem on a donkey. (Zechariah 9:9)

29 Prophecies Fulfilled In One Day!
•Betrayed by a friend (Psalm 41:9)
•Price of his betrayal will be 30 Pieces of Silver
(Zechariah 11:12)
•His betrayal money thrown on the Temple floor.
(Zechariah 11:13)
•Betrayal money used to buy the Potter’s Field
(Zechariah 11:13)

•Deserted by his Disciples (Zechariah 13:7)
•Accused by false witnesses. (Psalm 35:11)
•He will be silent before his accusers. (Isaiah 53:7)
•Wounded & Bruised (Isaiah 53:5)
•Hated without a cause. (Psalm 69:4)
•Will Be Struck & Spit on. (Isaiah 50:6)

•He was mocked & rejected. (Isaiah 53:3)
•He will collapse from weakness.(Psalm 109:24-25)
•He will be taunted with specific words.(Psalm 22:6-8)
•People will shake their heads at him.(Psalm 109:25)
•People will stare at him. (Psalm 22:17)
•He will be executed among sinners’.(Isaiah 53;12)

•His hands & feet will be pierced. (Psalm 22:16)
•He will pray for his persecutors.(Isiah 53:12)
•His friends & family will stand far off &
watch.(Psalm 38:11)
•He will thirst. (Psalm 69:21)
•He will be given Gall & Vinegar.(Psalm 69:21)
•He will commit himself to God. (Psalm 31:5)

•His Bones will be left unbroken. (Psalm 34:20)
•His heart will rupture. (Psalm 22:14)
•His side will be pierced. (Zechariah 12:10)
•Darkness will come over the land at midday.
(Amos 8:9)

•His garments will be divided up & awarded by
the casting of Lots. (Psalm 22:18)
•He will be buried in a Rich Man’s Tomb. (Isaiah 53:9)
•He will die 483 years after the declaration of
Artaxerxes to rebuild the temple in 444 B.C.
(Daniel 9:24)

Peter Stoner Figured out the Probability of
The Fulfillment of the Messianic Prophecies
He mathematically figured
out what the probability
was of all of the Messianic
Prophecies being fulfilled in
one man.

Probability of just 8 Messianic
Prophecies being Fulfilled in 1 Man?
1 in 10^17
That’s a # with 17 0’s in it.

The Probability of 8 fulfilled prophecies.
1 in
100,000,000,000,000,000

What’s 10^17 Look Like?
Covering The 268,820
Square Miles Of Texas with
Silver Dollars 2 feet deep &
picking out 1 you marked.

Comparing The Odds
-Odds of being struck by Lightening 1 in 700,000
-Odds of becoming a Movie Start 1 in 1,505,000.
-Odds of being Drafted by the NBA 1 in 6,864,000
-Odds of being President of the USA is 1 in 10,000,000
-Odds of being attacked by a shark 1 in 11,500,000
-Odds of winning the Powerball 1 in 175,000,000

The Probability of 48 Messianic Prophecies
Being Fulfilled In Any One Man?
1 In 10^157
1 with 157 0’s After It

The Probability Of Just 48 Messianic
Prophecies Being Fulfilled.
1 In
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00
0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00

How Big a number is 10^157?
It would take 2.5 TIMES 10^15 of electrons,
laid side by side, to make one inch. Even if we
counted 250 of these electrons each minute,
and counted day and night, it would still take
19 million years just to count a line of
electrons one-inch long.

All But A Certainty?
According to Emile Borel, once
one goes past one chance in
10^50, the probabilities are so
small that it is impossible to
think that they will ever occur.

Mathematical Certainty
With these odds Stoner
concludes, “Any man
who rejects Christ as the
Son of God is rejecting a
fact…”

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The Genuine realist, if he is an
unbeliever, will always find strength
and ability to disbelieve in the
miraculous , and if he is confronted
with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he
would rather disbelieve his own senses
than admit the fact. Faith does not…
spring from the miracle, but the
miracle from faith.”

Refusal To Come To Christ?
“When a person refuses to come to
Christ, it is never just because of lack of
evidence or because of intellectual
difficulties: at root, he refuses to come
because he willingly ignores and rejects
the drawing of God’s Spirit on his
heart.”

We Must Work To Keep Belief In Christ As a
Reasonable Option In Our Culture Today
“It's no longer enough to teach our
children Bible stories; they need
doctrine and apologetics.”
Dr. William Lane Craig

Reason & Logic Isn’t Enough
6 ”And without faith it is impossible to
please him, for whoever would draw
near to God must believe that he exists
and that he rewards those who seek
him.” Hebrews 11:6 ESV

Jesus Heals The Man At The Pool
John 5:5-7 ESV
5” One man was there who had been an invalid for
thirty-eight years.6 When Jesus saw him lying there
and knew that he had already been there a long time,
he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick
man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into
the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am
going another steps down before me.”

John 5:8-11 ESV
8 ”Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and
walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took
up his bed and walked.
Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to
the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath,
and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” 11 But
he answered them, “The man who healed me, that
man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’”

John 5:12-15 ESV
12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you,
‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who
had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus
had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the
place. 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and
said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that
nothing worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went
away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had
healed him.

John 5:16-18 ESV
16 ”And this was why the Jews were persecuting
Jesus, because he was doing these things on the
Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father
is working until now, and I am working.” 18 This was
why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill
him, because not only was he breaking the
Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own
Father, making himself equal with God.”

John 5:19-21 ESV
19 ”So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to
you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but
only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever
the Fatherdoes, that the Son does
likewise. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows
him all that he himself is doing. And greater works
than these will he show him, so that you may
marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives
them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.”

John 5:22-24 ESV
22 ”The Father judges no one, but has given all
judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son,
just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor
the Son does not honor the Father who sent
him. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my
word and believes him who sent me has eternal life.
He does not come into judgment, but has passed from
death to life.”

John 5:30-33 ESV
•30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge,
and my judgment is just, because I seek not my
own will but the will of him who sent me. 31 If I
alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is
not true.
•32 There is another who bears witness about me,
and I know that the testimony that he bears about
me is true. 33 You sent to John, and he has borne
witness to the truth.”

John 5:34-36 ESV
•34 ”Not that the testimony that I receive is from man,
but I say these things so that you may be
saved. 35 He was a burning and shining lamp,
and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his
light.
•36 But the testimony that I have is greater than that
of John. For the works that the Father has given
me to accomplish, the very works that I am
doing, bear witness about me that the Father has
sent me.”

John 14:12 ESV
12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever
believes in me will also do the works
that I do; and greater works than these
will he do, because I am going to the
Father.

Jesus The One & Only
Jesus did what no one else would or could do.
•Jesus chose the uneducated.
•Jesus healed and fed people asking nothing in
return.
•Jesus called his disciples to be a part of his
ministry and to do mighty works, healing, casting
out demons etc…
•Jesus put us first and died in our place.

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