SIX BIG TRUTHS ABOUT JESUS

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SIX BIGTRUTHS ABOUT JESUS

• Presentation at the 2nd MEP Conference.
• Hotel Praia Mar Saturday, 8th October, 2005.

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The Six Big Truths about Jesus

1. His Immaculate Conception
2. His Deity
3. That He died in our place
4. That He rose from the dead and ascended the
   Heavens
5. That He works in us trough His Spirit
6. That He will come back as judge

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1. His Immaculate Conception.

• Exact fulfilment of the Scriptures
• Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah(33)
• Jesus believed (John 8.58 and 17.5)
• Quran
• Conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin
  Mary, He became man.

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2. His Deity.

• Paul insists God Man
• Jehovah Witnesses
• Its not enough
• Greatest preacher and master
• O Greatest Healer
• O Greatest Strategist
• Still not enough
• Jesus positions about him self do not leave any
  doubt

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3. Jesus died in our place
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How e Why

• Isaiah explained the diagnosis -
• ..and the cure
• An illustration
• For what price
• Chocking
• Complete
• Singular
• Finished it is finished

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why was it necessary?

• Sacrificial system Jeremiah 3131
• in Christ God was reconciling the world to
  himself. (2 Corinthians 519)
• A Contract Ha Brit ha Ghadeshah
• A refused forgiveness?
• Death

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4. Jesus actually rose from the dead.

• Professor Joads question
• if it is not true, were the most unhappy from
  men
• Without resurrection, our preaching and our
  faith are vain. 1 Cor 15
• Sir Edmund Clarke
• But questioned by some theologians
• Four good evidences

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a. The Body Disappeared

• A made up story stolen?
• Only two categories
• A. Friends
• They killed Him, but God gave Him life again and
  we are witnesses
• B. Temple or Roman Authorities
• The body disappeared
• Perhaps the wrong tomb??
• Perhaps .?

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• The collapse theory in fact he didnt die?
• The Romans knew how to effectively kill
• Blood and Water coagulum and serum hearts
  rupture
• Still breading when they took Him out of the
  cross??
• Weakened by the whip and crucifixion 50 kilos of
  spices for the embalming
• CONCLUSION

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b. The body had gone but not the clothes in the
tomb

• John saw the tomb
• and believed John 208
• Whats the difference between
• Him and Lazarus?

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John is very precise in John 207

• As strips ceded to the weight of the spices of
  the embalming. The head and the body were rolled
  up separately.
• He didnt resurged like Lazarus but He
• RESURRECTED

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c. The Lord was seen by.

• Mary Magdalene
• Emmaus Disciples
• The ten in the Cenacle
• The eleven
• By 500 in Galilee
• By James
• By Peter and by the group of disciples fishing
• In the moment of His Ascension
• By Paul on the road to Damascus

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Possible Explanations?

• Invention
• Hallucination
• Fulfilment of a wish Strauss It was his love
  that resurrect Jesus!
• Only one remains it was true!

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d. Evidences Final Element

• All of those who have been with the Lord
  Resurrected were modified. Four examples is
  enough
• Peter
• James
• Thomas
• Paul
• Sabbath on Sunday

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RecapitulationThe six big truths

• His Immaculate Conception
• His Deity
• That He died for us
• That He rose from the dead
• That He now works among us

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5. Jesus now works among us trough His Holy
Spirit.

• Why isnt there more evidences especially in the
  Western?
• Difficult - Alpha Nicky Gumble
• Disturber - Supernatural non familiar (99)
• Difficult to discern - Pray and Plan
• Devilish Opposition -Spiritual War

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Without the Lord acting among us trough His
Spirit

• No dynamics only our ideas not His
• No power
• No fruit of the Spirit Gal 522
• No spiritual gifts Eph 411

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6. Jesus will come back as Judge.

• The Father hath committed all judgment unto the
  Son. John 522
• All believers shall give account of themselves to
  God. Rom 1412

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There is good and bad news...

• For God so loved the world that he gave his one
  and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
  not perish. John 316
• Whoever does not believe stands condemned
  already. John 318

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The good news...

• There is now no condemnation for those who are
  in Christ Jesus. Romans 81
• Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent
  me has eternal life and will not be condemned
  John 524
• The believer shall not die. Spared, not based on
  our behaviour, for all have sinned and fall
  short of the glory of God. Rom 323 but only
  because Jesus paid for our sins.

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What should we do?

• Be sure that we have passed from death to
  life 1 John 314...
• Accepting the contract
• Ready to explain the reason for the hope.
• Praying for opportunities to speak
• We are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were
  appealing through us. 2 Cor 517 21