Misunderstanding Jesus

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Misunderstanding Jesus

• Is The Contemporary Picture of Jesus Accurate?

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Understanding Jesus

• No historical figure is better known than Jesus
  Christ
• There is so much debate!
• His nature
• His purpose teachings
• His existence
• Even among so-called Christians!

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John 1722-23

• And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have
  given to them that they may be one, just as We
  are one I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may
  be perfected in unity, that the world may know
  that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them,
  even as Thou didst love Me.

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1 Corinthians 110

• Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our
  Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree, and there
  be no divisions among you, but you be made
  complete in the same mind and in the same
  judgment.

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Hosea 46

• My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
  Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will
  reject you from being My priest. Since you have
  forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget
  your children.

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Romans 122

• Professing to be wise, they became fools,

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2 Thessalonians 27-12

• For the mystery of lawlessness is already at
  work only he who now restrains will do so until
  he is taken out of the way. And then that lawless
  one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with
  the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by
  the appearance of His coming that is, the one
  whose coming is in accord with the activity of
  Satan, with all power and signs and

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2 Thessalonians 27-12

• false wonders, and with all the deception of
  wickedness for those who perish, because they did
  not receive the love of the truth so as to be
  saved. And for this reason God will send upon
  them a deluding influence so that they might
  believe what is false, in order that they all may
  be judged who did not believe the truth, but took
  pleasure in wickedness.

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The Modern Jesus

• Never claimed to be God
• Never wanted to be a leader
• A political reformer
• Social/economic issues
• Came to bring peace

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John 1717

• Sanctify them in the truth Thy word is truth.

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The Modern Jesus

• Never claimed to be God
• Never wanted to be a leader
• A political reformer
• Social/economic issues
• Came to bring peace

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Matthew 1615-17

• He said to them, But who do you say that I am?
  And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the
  Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus
  answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon
  Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal
  this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

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Matthew 2743

• He trusts in God let Him deliver Him now, if He
  takes pleasure in Him for He said, I am the Son
  of God.

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Mark 1461-62

• But He kept silent, and made no answer. Again the
  high priest was questioning Him, and saying to
  Him, Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed
  One? And Jesus said, I am and you shall see
  the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of
  Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.

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Luke 2270

• And they all said, Are You the Son of God,
  then? And He said to them, Yes, I am.

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John 824-25

• I said therefore to you, that you shall die in
  your sins for unless you believe that I am He
  you shall die in your sins. And so they were
  saying to Him, Who are You? Jesus said to them,
  What have I been saying to you from the
  beginning?

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John 858

• Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you,
  before Abraham was born, I am.

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John 1036

• do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and
  sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,'
  because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

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The Modern Jesus

• Never claimed to be God
• Never wanted to be a leader
• A political reformer
• Social/economic issues
• Came to bring peace

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John 146

• Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth,
  and the life no one comes to the Father, but
  through Me.

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The Modern Jesus

• Never claimed to be God
• Never wanted to be a leader
• A political reformer
• Social/economic issues
• Came to bring peace

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John 1836

• Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world.
  If My kingdom were of this world, then My
  servants would be fighting, that I might not be
  delivered up to the Jews but as it is, My
  kingdom is not of this realm.

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The Modern Jesus

• Never claimed to be God
• Never wanted to be a leader
• A political reformer
• Social/economic issues
• Came to bring peace

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John 626

• Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I
  say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw
  signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and
  were filled.

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Matthew 2611

• For the poor you have with you always but you
  do not always have Me.

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The Modern Jesus

• Never claimed to be God
• Never wanted to be a leader
• A political reformer
• Social/economic issues
• Came to bring peace

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Matthew 1034

• Do not think that I came to bring peace on the
  earth I did not come to bring peace, but a
  sword.

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The Modern Jesus

• Never claimed to be God
• Never wanted to be a leader
• A political reformer
• Social/economic issues
• Came to bring peace

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Luke 1910

• For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save
  that which was lost.

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John 1010

• The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and
  destroy I came that they might have life, and
  might have it abundantly.