The Awesome Jesus
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What does it mean to be awesome?
What does it mean to be awesome?
We are overwhelmed by the subjective.
We are overwhelmed by the subjective.
We use terms like
++Better
++Great
++Awesome
These terms are use to give a description yet are not very descriptive.
What do we mean by the term Awesome?
What do we mean by the term Awesome?
The dictionary definition:
Awesome
extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear.
To be
++Breathtaking
++Astonishing
++Amazing
++Stunning
The prophetic description didn’t see the man as extraordinary.
The prophetic description didn’t see the man as extraordinary.
In him there was no beauty.
In him there was no beauty.
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
In him there was nothing majestic.
In him there was nothing majestic.
2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
He was undesired
He was undesired
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
It wasn’t the opinion of people that made him who he was.
It wasn’t the opinion of people that made him who he was.
Jesus came to reveal the heart of God
Jesus came to reveal the heart of God
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Jesus came to for lost people
Jesus came to for lost people
10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Jesus is the key to our relationship to God
Jesus is the key to our relationship to God
18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
What made Jesus awesome?
++He came from God
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
What made Jesus awesome?
++He came from God
He came for God
4 I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.
What made Jesus awesome?
He came from God
He came for God
++He came with God
2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
What made Jesus awesome?
He came from God
He came for God
He came with God
++God was recognized through Him
19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Jesus was the physical evidence of the existence of God.
Jesus is Awesome because God is Awesome.
