Sermon Tone Analysis

Different Views of Jesus

Judaism

Born of Mary

Was a teacher

Had disciples

Well respected

Worked miracles

“Claimed” to be the Messiah

Was crucified

Followers “claimed” He rose from the dead

Islam

Born of a Virgin

Was to be revered

Was a Prophet

Was a Wise Teacher

Worked Miracles

Ascended to Heaven

Will return again

Hindu

Was a holy man

Wise teacher

Is “a god”

Buddhism

Was an “enlightened” man

Wise teacher

Holy man

New Age Movement

A good moral teacher

Mormonism

Is a god, receiving status through good moral living

Was conceived in a physical relation between God & Mary

Matthew 28:19 (ESV)

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Genesis 1:1 (ESV)

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

God = Elohim (Hebrew, Plural of El/Eloah

Genesis 1:2 (ESV)

2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:26 (ESV)

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

John 1:1 (ESV)

1 In the beginning....

John 1:1 (ESV)

1 In the beginning was the Word...

John 1:1 (ESV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God....

John 1:1 (ESV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Truths about Jesus in John 1:1-18

He was in the beginning (vs 1)

He was with God (vs 1)

He WAS God (vs 1)

All things are made through Him (Vs 3)

Life is found in Him (Vs 4)

He was rejected by the world (Vs 10-11)

He is the source of adoption to God (Vs 12)

He became flesh (man) and dwelt among us (Vs 14)

He is the source of grace and truth (Vs 17)

He is how we see and know God (Vs 18)

Deuteronomy 6:4 (ESV)

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

THE FATHER IS GOD

JESUS THE SON IS GOD

John 6:20 (ESV)

20 But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”

IT IS I = I AM

John 18:5–6 (ESV)

5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

6 When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

John 8:48–59 (ESV)

48 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?” 49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

50 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.

51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”

52 The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon!

Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’

53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died?

And the prophets died!

Who do you make yourself out to be?” 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing.

It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’

55 But you have not known him.

I know him.

If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.

56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day.

He saw it and was glad.”

57 So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” 59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

I AM = HYH

HYH became YHWH (Tetragammatron), said as Yahweh/Jehovah

YHWH is written as LORD in the Old Testament

Jews wouldn’t say or write this name (G-d, L-rd)

“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.

He would either be a lunatic—on a 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.

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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher.