WHAT CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ABOUT JESUS
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. What Christians Believe About Jesus
a) Christians believe, for the most part, that Jesus was with God before the earth began. The first chapter of John gives us the beginning of the story before humans were even created. The first chapter of the Gospel of John (1:1-14) begins even before Genesis chapter one.
1. What Christians Believe About Jesusa) Christians believe, for the most part, that Jesus was with God before the earth began. The first chapter of John gives us the beginning of the story before humans were even created. The first chapter of the Gospel of John (1:1-14) begins even before Genesis chapter one.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
i) Jesus is called the Word of God and He was with God before the earth existed and was also God Himself.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
i) Jesus was with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit before the beginning of the earth or humanity.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
i) Clearly, this shows that Jesus Christ was also involved in the creation of all things. All things is all inclusive. That is the universe, the earth, plant, animal, and even human life.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
i) Jesus referred to Himself as the light of mankind. In Him was life; both created life and eternal life. In John 8:12 Jesus testifies to this fact, “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
i) Jesus has overcome the world and His light goes into the darkness [representing sin and evil] and overcomes it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
i) God sent John as a “loud voice crying in the wilderness” proclaiming the coming of the Messiah prophesied in Isaiah 40:3 and fulfilled in John 1:23, “I am the voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.‘
7 He [John] came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.
8 He himself [John] was not the light; he [John] came only as a witness to the light [Jesus].
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
i) Jesus is the light of the world.
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
i) Another testament to Jesus as Creator and fulfilling the prophecy that the world would not recognize Him as the prophesied Messiah as Jesus said in John 5:39, “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me.”
11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
i) He came to the Jews but the Jews rejected Him and called for His eventual crucifixion.
12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
i) John 3:3, 5 “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. No one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.”
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
i) Jesus divested Himself of His glory with the Father in Heaven, came to earth in the form of a baby. In Isaiah 7:14 it prophesied that His name, Immanuel [which means “God with us“]” tells us that “the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.”
b) Jesus then lived a perfect, sinless life, paid with His life for the redemption of those who would believe in Him, and was resurrected. Today He sits at the right hand of the Father, once again in glory. He directs His church from there. His atonement on the cross is the all-sufficient, for all-time sacrifice to redeem those who have been born-again, continue to be born-again, and will yet be born-again.
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i) Jesus is called the Word of God and He was with God before the earth existed and was also God Himself.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
i) Jesus was with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit before the beginning of the earth or humanity.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
i) Clearly, this shows that Jesus Christ was also involved in the creation of all things. All things is all inclusive. That is the universe, the earth, plant, animal, and even human life.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
i) Jesus referred to Himself as the light of mankind. In Him was life; both created life and eternal life. In John 8:12 Jesus testifies to this fact, “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
i) Jesus has overcome the world and His light goes into the darkness [representing sin and evil] and overcomes it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
i) God sent John as a “loud voice crying in the wilderness” proclaiming the coming of the Messiah prophesied in Isaiah 40:3 and fulfilled in John 1:23, “I am the voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.‘
7 He [John] came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.
8 He himself [John] was not the light; he [John] came only as a witness to the light [Jesus].
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
i) Jesus is the light of the world.
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
i) Another testament to Jesus as Creator and fulfilling the prophecy that the world would not recognize Him as the prophesied Messiah as Jesus said in John 5:39, “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me.”
11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
i) He came to the Jews but the Jews rejected Him and called for His eventual crucifixion.
12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
i) John 3:3, 5 “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. No one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.”
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
i) Jesus divested Himself of His glory with the Father in Heaven, came to earth in the form of a baby. In Isaiah 7:14 it prophesied that His name, Immanuel [which means “God with us“]” tells us that “the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.”
b) Jesus then lived a perfect, sinless life, paid with His life for the redemption of those who would believe in Him, and was resurrected. Today He sits at the right hand of the Father, once again in glory. He directs His church from there. His atonement on the cross is the all-sufficient, for all-time sacrifice to redeem those who have been born-again, continue to be born-again, and will yet be born-again.
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