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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

Who is Jesus

>>[music)] This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

Our message this morning probably could be classified as important as anything I could talk about.

Because I'm reminded as every now and then I mingle with the people in our culture that a lot of folks, while they may hear the name of Jesus from time to time, they really have no idea who Jesus is.

And I thought it would be valuable and appropriate to talk a little bit, and sometimes we need reminding about that subject, who is Jesus?

I wasn't sure how to title the sermon, because when you say, who is Jesus, it sounds like He's present tense, and some people think you should title it, who was Jesus, but either way you word it, people want to know, who is He?

Somebody wrote this beautiful passage 1 time where they said, all the armies that have ever marched and all the navies that have ever sailed, all the parliaments that have ever sat and all the kings that have ever reigned, put together have not affected life upon earth as powerfully as this 1 solitary life.

When you think about the way that Jesus was born in comparative obscurity, and He never did all the typical things that usually denote greatness.

It doesn't tell us that he ever wrote a book.

He didn't do any of the things that you typically think of with greatness.

There's a lot of artist renditions of what Jesus looked like, but there's nothing contemporary from his day.

They use new terms today, but we used to call that before Christ and after death, or the year of our Lord.

All of history is dated from his birth, so how can you doubt that he lived?

If you look in the encyclopedia, it doesn't cast any doubt on whether or not he lived.

So we know he lived, the real question you've got to decide, Was he a liar?

Did God come to our earth in the form of a man to save us?

Oh, I want to read something first by A.W.

He said, Christ is not 1 of many ways to approach God.

He's not the best of several ways, He is the only way.

Anyone who comes to God must come through Christ.

And while Buddha may have said a number of profound things, and you might have some profound sayings from Krishna and Mohammed and the different religions of the world, nobody spoke like Jesus and none of them died as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.

There's something very clearly different about Jesus.

Christ is the bridge between heaven and earth.

Jesus said to Nathanael, Hereafter you will see the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.

None of the other religious leaders of the world say, I am the way, the truth and the life to God.

All rivers lead to the ocean, I'm just 1 of them.

So where do we look to get the information for this?

There are over 300 Old Testament prophecies that talk about what to expect when the Messiah comes.

We're not going to look at all 300, but we're going to look at some basic categories to find out who is Jesus.

Especially you'll find a lot in the Psalms.

Over 300 Old Testament prophecies reference the anointed.

First prophecy you're going to find in the Bible regarding the Messiah coming is actually in Genesis 3.15.

Here it says when God was speaking to Adam and Eve after the fall, He said, I will put enmity, that's similar to the word enemy, it means there's animosity, there's friction, there's an adversarial relationship between thee and the woman.

The seed of the woman, talking about this promised seed that was going to come through humanity was the Messiah.

He, the seed of the woman, will bruise your head.

God says to the serpent or the devil that the seed of the woman, Christ, would bruise your head, a mortal wound to the head, and you will bruise his heel, you will impede his progress, or slow his walk down.

So this first prophecy is found right there in Genesis chapter 3, they were looking for a savior, the seed of the woman that would come, that would defeat the serpent that caused the fall of man and the loss of paradise.

So let's look at some of those prophecies.

For 1 thing, in John 1, verse 45, After Philip found Jesus, he then goes and he tells Nathanael, we have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

He said Moses and the prophets and the law all talked about this man.

Now, we alluded to that there in John 8, but let's look at some other verses.

John 19, verse 8, matter of fact, Pontius Pilate during the trial of Jesus, he asked that very question, where are you from?

Jesus said in John 6 verse 38, for I have come down from heaven.

Now, if I said that to you, you'd probably ask me to get some counseling.

So, or you know, there are people out there that would think that I snuck away from Area 51 in Nevada, that I was an alien.

But Jesus wasn't talking about being an extraterrestrial.

He made that very clear and we read just a moment ago He said, I'm going back to the Father.

And when you talk about the Father, we're not talking about a God of a certain solar system or a certain galaxy.

Biblically, when you're talking about the Father, you're talking about the God of everything.

Think about the immensity of space and how big God must be, how awesome God is.

And when Jesus says that I made all that and I am the Son of God and I've come from God.

That's a pretty amazing claim that He came from God.

Again, Jesus answered and said, My kingdom is not of this world.

He told Pilate, if my kingdom was of this world, then would my citizens fight, but my kingdom is not now of this world.

Or was he the commingling of the divine and human?

John 8 verse 58, Jesus said to them, Most assuredly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.

You remember when Moses was talking to God at the burning bush and he said, so exactly which God are you?

What shall I say to the people of Israel?

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