This is Part 5 of the message series EXPLORE GOD. This series is designed to help answer the 7 biggest questions of life. The fifth question is this: "IS JESUS REALLY GOD?" In this message, Pastor Chuck Bernal discusses the four major Christological passages in the New Testament and how they reflect the deity of Christ through creation, revelation, demonstration and exaltation. This message was delivered on October 11, 2015 at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX.

4. If you were at a friend’s
house for Thanksgiving
dinner and found a
dead cockroach in your
stuffing, what would
you do?

5. You discover your
wonderful one year old
baby is, because of a
mix up at the hospital,
not really yours? Would
you want to exchange
the child to correct the
mistake?

6. If you could use a
voodoo doll to hurt
anyone you choose,
would you use it? If
so, who would you
use it on?

7. Your house, containing
everything you own, is
on fire; after saving your
loved ones and pets,
you have time to make
a final dash and save
one item. What would it
be?

8. If you were to die
tonight with no
opportunity to
communicate with
anyone, what would
you most regret not
having said to
someone? Why
haven’t you said it yet?

9. It’s late at night and
no one is around
and you hit another
car slightly
damaging it, would
you leave a note
and offer to pay for
the damage?

10. If you could know
the precise date
of your death,
would
you choose to
know it?

11. If you knew that one
year from today, you
would die suddenly,
would you change
anything about the way
you are living now? If
so, what would you
change?

12. Socrates was considered
wise, not because he knew all
the answers, but because
he knew how to ask
the right questions.
(Chuck Swindoll)

13. LIFE’S MOST
IMPORTANT
QUESTION –
WHO IS JESUS?

14. Jesus asked his followers,
“Who do people say the Son
of Man is?” They answered,
“Some say you are John
the Baptist.

15. Others say Elijah, Jeremiah
or one of the prophets.” Then
Jesus asked them, “Who do
you say I am?” . Simon Peter
answered, “You are the Christ,
the Son of the living God.”

16. Jesus answered, “You are
blessed, Simon because
no person taught you that.
My Father in heaven
showed you who I am.
(Matthew 16:13-17 – New Century Version)

19. Legend

20. Lunatic

21. Liar

22. Lord

23. IS JESUS
REALLY GOD?

24. Before the world began,
the Word was there. The
Word was with God, and the
Word was God. He was there
with God in the beginning.

25. Everything was made through
him, and nothing was made
without him . . . No one
has ever seen God.
The only Son is the one
who has shown us what
God is like.

26. He is himself God and is
very close to the Father.
(John 1:1-3, 18 – Easy To Read Version)

27. Long ago God spoke in many
different ways to our fathers
through the prophets, in visions,
dreams, and even face to face,
telling them little by little about
his plans.

28. But now in these days he has
spoken to us through his Son to
whom he has given everything
and through whom he made the
world and everything there is.
God’s Son shines out with
God’s glory,

29. and all that God’s Son is and
does marks him as God. He
regulates the universe by the
mighty power of his command.
He is the one who died to
cleanse us and clear our
record of all sin,

30. and then sat down in highest
honor beside the great
God of heaven.
(Hebrews 1:1-3 – Living Bible)

31. Christ was truly God. But he did
not try to remain equal with God.
Instead he gave up everything
and became a slave, when he
became like one of us. He
obeyed God and even died
on a cross.

32. Then God gave Christ the
highest place and honored his
name above all others. So at the
name of Jesus everyone will bow
down,

33. in heaven, on earth, and under
the earth. And everyone will
openly agree, “Jesus Christ
is Lord!”.
(Philippians 2:5-10 – Contemporary English Version)

34. No one can see God, but the
Son is exactly like God. He rules
over everything that has been
made. Through his power all
things were made: things in
heaven and on earth, seen and
not seen . . .

35. Everything was made through
him and for him. The Son was
there before anything was made.
And all things continue because
of him. He is the head of the
body, which is the church. He is
the beginning of everything else.

36. And he is the first among all who
will be raised from death. So in
everything he is most important.
God was pleased for all of
himself to live in the Son.
And through him,

37. God was happy to bring all
things back to himself again—
things on earth and things in
heaven. God made peace by
using the blood sacrifice of
his Son on the cross.
(Colossians 1:15-20 – Easy To Read Version)

38. Creation

39. Revelation

40. Demonstration

41. Exaltation

43. Jesus Christ claimed
to be God

44. Jesus said, “My Father is still
working all the time so I am
working also.” The Jews tried
all the more to kill Him,

45. not only because He had worked
on the Day of Rest, but because
He had also called God His Own
Father. This made Him the
same as God.
(John 5:17-18 – New Life Version)

46. Jesus Christ died a
sacrificial death

47. Jesus Christ rescued us from
this evil world we’re in by offering
himself as a sacrifice for our
sins. God’s plan is that we all
experience that rescue.
(Galatians 1:4 – The Message)

48. Jesus Christ
rose again

49. I gave you the message that I
received. I told you the most
important truths: that Christ died
for our sins, that he was buried
and was raised to life on the third
day, as the Scriptures say . . .

50. We tell everyone that Christ was
raised from death . . . if Christ
has never been raised, then
the message we tell is worth
nothing. And your faith
is worth nothing.
(1 Corinthians 15:3-4, 12, 14 – Easy To Read Version)

51. Jesus Christ alone
can bring us to God

52. Christ suffered for our sins once
for all time. He never sinned,
but he died for sinners to bring
you safely home to God.
(1 Peter 3:18 – New Living Translation)

53. And there is salvation in no one
else; for there is no other name
under heaven that has been
given among people by which
we must be saved

54. [for God has provided the world
no alternative for salvation].
(Acts 4:12 – Amplified Bible)

55. Jesus said to him, “I am the
[only] Way [to God] and the
[real] Truth and the [real] Life;
no one comes to the Father
but through Me.”
(John 14:6 – Amplified Bible)

56. He wants all people to be saved
and to know what is true. There
is one God. There is also only
one man who can open the way
between God and all people.

57. That man is Christ Jesus. He
gave his life to set all men free.
(1 Timothy 2:4-6 – World English Bible)

59. Let’s Pray