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hallelujah father we worship you this morning we worship you lord we praise your name we thank you lord for everything god we just stand in awe of you this morning god that you took on a human body that you died on the cross you willingly lay down your life for our sins and iniquities and just the evil and wickedness in us lord and you you paid the price for our sin and then you rose from the dead lord we we are just in awe lord that you would do that for us that while we were yet sinners christ died for us and we thank you so much for that we ask you lord to just help us to never lose sight and to to be appreciative and to be thankful and to take what you did on that cross and what you did in your death and resurrection take it very seriously we worship you today it's in jesus name we pray amen amen you may be seated this morning hallelujah well we welcome everyone firing grace church this morning we welcome those listening by blog talk radio i want everybody to just first turn in your bibles we're going to go to second corinthians chapter 11 first first corinthians chapter 11. i'm sorry i meant ii corinthians i don't know what i'm thinking second corinthians 11 this is a familiar passage of scripture for our church but i want you to see the reality of where we are and for those of you are listening this morning and can't see what i have up on the screen uh april 5th well i guess this was four days ago they posted this article but worldnetdaily posted an article most americans now say jesus actually a sinner the barna research group and i'm going to scroll down here and this is just so disturbing to me that as i kept praying about what to do today and what the lord would want us to do i was just disturbed about this and it just kept being stirred in me that the church in america has failed
30 years of seeker-sensitive watered-down numbers driven money-driven big programs big building driven theology or philosophy of ministry has not passed the true christian faith to the next generation of americans and when i say that you will look at this article but they talk about the millennials you know i'm i'm a generation x guy my dad he was a baby boomer they got names for all of our generations and so the generation born from about 1984 to about 2002 they call the millennials or generation next but you're going to see we're going to read some of this article but you're just going to see that for the people they call that the the even older like my parents and older um most still believe in the older generations the sound biblical doctrine that jesus christ of nazareth was and is god in the flesh now i know i've spoken about this a lot in our church and emphasize this and we're going to look at some different aspects of it today but jesus christ being god in the flesh the fullness of the godhead bodily this is foundational to christianity and if you don't believe this truth you are not a christian i'm going to make this very clear if you do not believe what the word of god says about jesus christ who he is then you are nothing more than a mormon or a jehovah witness you are no different than a new ager or a buddhist or a hindu or even a muslim because all those false religions and all those cults that call themselves part of christianity all of them have one thing in common and that is they deny the deity the godhood of jesus christ because they failed to understand the trinity properly they failed to understand the biblical teaching of the trinity [Music] and this i am i'm just i guess being you know passover weekend celebrating and remembering
the death of jesus christ on the cross his resurrection from the dead i just thought you know how can we be at this place in america where the majority of americans now not only do they not believe jesus is god but they believe jesus is a sinner that jesus sinned this is another doctrine that's foundational to christianity that jesus was the perfect spotless lamb of god that he never sinned this is clearly taught in the scriptures it's clearly taught in the new testament by the apostles so but now we have a majority of americans in the most christian nation on the face of the earth now a majority do not believe jesus is god and they believe jesus sinned you know why i believe that i believe that is because the church in america has tried so hard to make jesus look like everybody else he's just one of us not too long ago there was a youth pastor nearby who made out that god was like an old guy sitting around watching football in his tighty whities like the rest of us i'm sorry but seeker sensitive lukewarm watered down what's his name bill hybels rick warren joel osteen christianity has destroyed the faith and and really hindered many people from coming to know the true jesus christ now i want to read well let's read this scripture here first and then we'll look at this because folks if you don't know who jesus is then you're going to believe in a in a false jesus a counterfeit jesus and if you believe in a false jesus or a counterfeit jesus or a different jesus then you cannot be saved you cannot be born again you cannot have your sins washed away you cannot have the promise of eternal life because it is required that you both believe who he is and you believe what he has done you understand this is fundamental this is why the devil has attacked these foundational doctrines of christianity every from every angle and direction he can attack them because
faith in these certain principles of who jesus is and what he's done is how you are born again it's how you are saved it's how your sins are washed away it's how you will inherit eternal life this is paramount paramount to christianity and it's paramount that we preach this it's paramount that we teach this and we teach this to our children and the reason we've we've let them play in youth groups and not taught them the fundamentals of the faith and then and then the pastors pretty much play in church and give little sermonettes for christianettes but we have not taught the faith of jesus and the consequences of not being grounded and settled in the word of god and in the faith of our christianity and it is being hijacked by everybody who claims to be a christian like from roman downing to the pope [Music] to even the through even the muslims are trying to hijack our jesus no if you don't believe that our jesus was sinless never sin if you don't believe he is fully god almighty the creator who came in the flesh if you don't believe he died on the cross if you don't believe his blood was spotless and sinless and the blood of god as the scripture says if you don't believe he rose from the dead on the third day you are not a christian and you are not born again and you are not headed to heaven for all eternity that's why this is so serious we we we've had a whole several decades now of all almost people in the church were going it really doesn't matter what you believe doctrine is not the big thing you need to have an experience folks you can have an experience with all kind of spirits there's all kind of spirits and counterfeit angels of light out there man you can have visions and trances and dreams and goosebumps and all kinds of things miracles that are not from god it's getting quite scary how far we've come let's let's let's read this we're going to say we're going to read second corinthians 11 verse 1 paul the apostle paul under the inspiration of the holy spirit writes to the
corinthian church would to god you could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me for i am jealous over you with a godly jealousy for i've espoused you to one husband that i may present you as a chaste virgin to christ but i fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled eve through his subtlety so your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in christ for if he that cometh preaches another jesus whom we have not preached or if you receive another spirit which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted you might well bear with him paul was saying very clearly he was warning he was fearful you know you think about paul i've said this before but you think about the apostle paul this man from the moment he received jesus as lord that means as supreme see we throw these words around the word lord means supreme authority there's none higher oh but the moment jesus received i mean paul received jesus as lord and was born again people were trying to kill him plots on his life to kill him this is the man who would stand up knowing the group in front of him would probably want to kill him and he would still preach this is the man who was shipwrecked beaten with rods scourged with the cat of nine tails five times the man who floated he said a night and a day in the ocean bit by a viper i mean this is a man i don't think he was afraid of a whole lot you get what i'm saying fear didn't rule his life he wasn't ashamed of the gospel he wasn't afraid of dying for the gospel [Music] he wasn't afraid to stand up and tell the truth in front of the entire group of the sanhedrin or the pharisees or the sadducees or the roman governors or the roman kings he wasn't he wasn't afraid the man appealed to caesar let me go to caesar i'll talk to him too he led people in caesar's household to jesus this man was not afraid and yet here he says i fear this for the church that just like eve was deceived pulled into sin pulled away from god that your minds will be corrupted from the very simple [Music] truths the very simplicity that is in christ jesus who he is
if you're pulled away from who he is or you're pulled away from what he's done you've been deceived you've been led into a lie you've been led into deception you are in apostasy you have departed from the truth of god you see right now look at the title the subtitle even of this article it says here that worldnetdaily four days ago was published most americans now say jesus actually a sinner nation believes in christ but maybe not the same one they told the truth right there because look at the stats here before we move on in our scriptures despite more than 9 out of 10 americans 90 percent more than 90 despite more than 9 out of 10 americans agreeing jesus was a historical figure what they believe about him diverges widely according to a newly released survey from the barna research group a non-profit organization that's been analyzing cultural trends related to religious beliefs since 1984 the survey of more than four thousand u s adults online and by phones suggest americans are conflicted about the central figure of christianity and have failed to successfully pass on their faith to succeeding generations it says that jesus uh that jesus once walked the earth as a man was accepted by 92 of the respondents or 92 percent i should say with even 87 percent of the millennials the younger generation those born between 1984 and 2002 agreeing so we we've got a majority of americans and even the younger generation agreeing there was a man named jesus who walked the earth who was a spiritual teacher a spiritual leader [Music] because you know why the evidence is overwhelming the historical evidence the manuscript evidence the archaeological evidence it can't be denied that he walked the earth that jesus christ of nazareth was a real man who walked the earth in the first century but he says here this overwhelming belief in jesus uh historically is reflected in the success of popular movies and tv shows such as son of god the passion of christ the bible a.d blah blah blah right but when the divinity of jesus is asserted when you assert the biblical truth now here again what's the biggest testimony what's the biggest witness that jesus existed is the scriptures right and the 25 000 manuscript copies of the new testament
that we have that outweighs anything else in history plus the dead sea scrolls but when you push the doc the truth that jesus christ is and was god in the flesh what happened only 56 percent of americans agreed we went from 92 percent saying yeah i believe in jesus 56 only but we dropped to 56 when we say who he is almost 40 percent fall by the wayside now don't get me wrong out of this 56 percent that believe jesus christ is god in the flesh a lot of them aren't living for god so i'm not saying 56 of america say that's not true either that's not that's not what this is saying says among elders those born before 1946 62 said jesus was god but among millennials the number dropped to 48 so you see that the older generation was taught is when the church was teaching the truth but now because of the seeker sensitive lukewarm watered-down new age-ridden occult written contemplative mysticism roman catholic ridden church world from rick warren to joel osteen to bill hybels in the and and this is what we got those rejecting jesus is god and said he was just another spiritual figure comparable to muhammad or buddha folks that's blasphemy here's what's amazing muhammad never even made the claim he was god buddha didn't make the claim he was god buddha taught you could become god conscious everyone yourself you could become a god but jesus declared he was god now that either makes jesus different or a liar can't be both right this is central let's let's scroll down here you know here's what says with the question of divinity in play it is perhaps no surprise that a majority 52 of americans said jesus was a sinner like other people while living on earth the sinlessness of jesus has always been a central tenet of christian theology as
his unique qualification to be an effective sacrifice for the sins of others the apostle paul wrote for he god made him to who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of god in him second corinthians 5 21 the writer of the epistle to the hebrews echoed the same point when he said for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses but was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin once again millennials showed the greatest departure from orthodoxy with 56 saying jesus sinned this is a travesty this shows the absolute failure of the american church to preach the truth of god's word and to teach the truth of god's word you know jesus said this i want everybody to turn with me turn with me to uh the gospel of john chapter 8. and this is not the only problem today we'll get to the next issue in a minute john chapter 8 i want everyone to get there jesus made some amazing statements we're going to look at john 14 as well so you can get ready to turn there they had this entire debate jesus is arguing with the pharisees a lot of people say jesus didn't argue or debate they haven't read john 7 6 7 8 9 or plenty of debates i love it when jesus you know was 12 years old and he was found missing from his parents and joseph and mary and they went back looking for him in jerusalem and he was sitting there in the temple with the elders that said hearing them and asking them questions and they said what are you doing he said don't you know i should be about my father's business folks this father's business it's god's business to get in to those uh who think they're right
in the religious leaders business i mean frankly if you're not causing a stir among religious leaders um you're not doing the father's business amen jesus made some amazing statements here i love what he said here and this is in part of this oh just go with me ah let's just read some of this here i'm trying to see where to start here because it's just so much all right well let's just back up here you're in you're an eight right let's go to verse 12. and speak jesus again unto them saying i am the light of the world he that father with me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life and the pharisees therefore said unto him thou shalt record of thyself thy record is not true [Music] and jesus answered and said unto them though i bear record of myself yet my record is true for i know whence i came and whether i go but you cannot tell whence i came and whether i go you judge after the flesh i judge no man and yet if i judge my judgment is true for i am not alone but i and the father that sent me it is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true i am one that bear witness of myself and the father that sent me beareth witness of me then said they unto him where is thy father and jesus answered you neither know me nor my father for if you had known me you should have known my father also oh can't separate the two we'll talk more about that in a second these words spake jesus in the treasury as he taught in the temple and no man laid hands on him for his hour was not yet come then said jesus again unto them i go my way and you shall seek me and shall die in your sins whither i go you cannot come then said the jews will he kill himself because he saith whither i go you cannot come and he said unto them you are from beneath i am from above you are of this world i am not of this world i said therefore unto you that you shall die in your sins and you've got to listen to me here for if you believe not that i am now your bibles add in there the word he it should be in some of your bibles in italics meaning it wasn't there originally it was added to try to bring clarity but let's read it like it was originally said and it was originally written jesus said to them i said therefore unto you that you shall die in your sins for if you believe not that i am you shall die in your sins
now folks when god almighty the creator of heaven and earth appeared and manifested himself in a burning bush and the bush not being consumed when he manifested himself to moses and began one of the greatest seasons of miracles and deliverance god had ever done for his people the exodus moses asked who are you [Music] what is your name who are you [Music] what do you say i am that i am i am i am the god of thy fathers of abraham of isaac and jacob but he revealed himself god almighty as simply i am jesus look and you've got to understand the pharisees and the sadducees the religious leaders fully understood what he was saying because he was saying if you do not believe that i am the god of abraham isaac and jacob that i am i am you will die in your sins meaning your sins will not be forgiven they will not be washed away you will die in your sins [Music] and be lost that's how critical this is is that what your bible says how do we know does he continue this context of talking about this yes he does then said they unto him verse 25 then said they and him who art thou and jesus said unto them even the same that i said unto you from the beginning i have many things to say to judge of you but he that sent me is true and i speak to the world those things which i have heard of him they understood not that he spoke unto them of the father then said jesus unto them when you have lifted up the son of man then you shall know that i am you hear that that i am and that i do nothing of myself but as my father hath taught me i speak these things [Music] you go over a little bit they continue this discussion i love it go to verse 48 it says then answered the jews and said in them say we not well that you are a samaritan and have a devil don't tell me this wasn't a heated debate and jesus answer said i have not a devil but i honor my father and you dishonor me i seek not my own glory there is one that seeketh and judges verily verily i say unto you if a man keep my saying now think about this if jesus wasn't god wasn't the messiah why how in the world could he say if a man does not keep my saying
he shall he said it will barely say to you if a man keep my sin he shall never see death then said the jews unto him now we know thou hast the devil say i get accused from the baptist and methodists in pentecost i mean in presbyterian and other preachers like that i get accused of being of the devil all time so that's not unusual yeah abraham is dead he said in the prophets now says if a man keep my saying he shall never taste of death art thou greater than our father abraham which is dead and the prophets are dead who maketh thou thyself and jesus answered said if i honor myself my honor is nothing it is my father that honoreth me of whom you say he is your god yet you have not known him and he tells them saying you you don't even know god at all people get offended when no you're not you don't know god you're not saved i don't care how much you religious you act know how much scripture you know i don't care if you don't believe certain things if you don't know certain things in your heart and in your mind in your spirit and you don't believe them you can talk religious religion all you want to but you're not saved he just flat out tells him [Music] verse 55 yet you have not known him but i know him and if i should say that i know him not i shall be a liar like unto you but i know him and keep his saying your father abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was glad then said the jews and him thou art not yet 50 years old and hast thou seen abraham and jesus said it again to him verily verily or truly truly i say unto you before abraham was i am then took they up stones to casted him but jesus hid himself and went out of the temple going through the midst of them and so passed by you know why they picked up stones to stone him because they fully understood jesus was saying i am not just a man before abraham was i am and they picked up stones because they knew he was saying i am god amen now you say well this seems veiled a little bit this may seem a little veil to you well in the same book let's go a little further john 14. and i'm about to upset some people i know because i'm telling a lot of christianity even that believes in the deity of jesus they really got it in their head that god is three persons like three separate individuals
that cannot be true because the bible says the lord is one now i'm gonna tell you i'm gonna get in trouble for this do i believe god has three parts yes he's not three individuals he's not three separate persons he he is one god who has three parts this is critical for us to understand all right and i'm gonna tell you about the vision i had in in 1987 i saw how god manifest himself in the trinity i'll i'll you know i'll blow your mind with that in a second but hold on this is what he said here let's go to john 14 verse 1 jesus speaking he says let not your heart be troubled you believe in god believe also in me in my father's house or many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you unto myself that where i am there you may be also and whither i go you know and the way you know and thomas saith him lord we know not whether thou goest and how can we know the way and jesus saith in him i am the way the truth and the life and no man cometh unto the father but by me if you had known me you should have known my father also and from henceforth you know him and have seen him now folks please understand he says from henceforth you have known him to his disciples and you have seen him [Music] philip saith unto him lord show us the father and it will suffice us or will satisfy us and jesus said unto him have i been so long a time with you and yet thou hast not known me philip [Music] this ought to make somebody dance a little bit right here have i not been with you for the so long and you don't know me what is philip asking him i want to see the father and what jesus is saying is if you see me if your eyes behold me you have seen the father
jesus is the fullness of god in the flesh [Music] he is the father he is the son and he is the holy ghost when second corinthians i mean when uh colossians chapter 2 verse 9 says he is the fullness of the godhead barely when you see jesus christ he is all of god come on now yes it's a mystery it's it's it's you know it's one of those things that's sometimes hard to wrap our brain around but folks i can take the same glass of water and one minute it can be liquid and the next minute i can turn it into a solid physical mass of ice on the next minute i can make it steam floating through the air same glass of water three different manifestations but the same h2o and just because god can separate out and manifest himself as a heavenly father as he can separate out and manifest himself as a son submitted to the father as he can separate himself out and manifest as the holy spirit [Music] doesn't change who he is and to deny that jesus christ is the son of god to deny that he is god in the flesh to deny that he is the fullness of the god if you deny that you are denying the word of god you're denying the testimony of all the prophets and the apostles and you are denying the faith joel osteen and these others getting on mormons are christians again there are sincere people in all religions but sincerity doesn't mean you have the real thing right let's keep reading this this is too good jesus said verse 6 i am the way the truth and the life no man come to the father but but by me if you had known me you should have known my father also and from henceforth you know him and have seen him philip saith in him lord show us the father and it sufficeth that jesus and them have i been so long a time with you and yet thou has not known me philip he that hath seen me hath seen the father
and then jesus asked this how are you even asking this question show us the father [Music] don't you get it yet philip who i am have you forgotten the prophecies of isaiah who said his name will be called emmanuel which means god with us i'm fired up this morning can't help it let's keep reading how do you say then show us the father believeth thou not that i am in the father and the father in me or the words that i speak unto you i speak not of myself but the father that dwelleth in me there's no separation jesus is saying the father is in me and i am in the father if you've seen me you've seen the father there's not a separate god out there there's not a god over here and a jesus here and no that's not the way it is hear what i'm saying to you muslims i know you're listening i get a lot of attention from the united arab emirates i know they listen christians do not believe in three gods our god is one and the fullness of that manifestation and that revelation of who god is is in jesus christ of nazareth he is not just a prophet he is not just a man he is not just a spiritual leader he is not just a healer he is the fullness of the creator of almighty god he is the fullness he is yahweh he is jehovah he is elohim he is adonai he he is all and the name of jesus christ is above every other name god has ever revealed of himself to reveal his character and his who he is the name of jesus is above every name why because in jesus christ of nazareth the fullness of god dwells everything else that god does is a partial manifestation the day jesus was baptized in the holy spirit and they saw the wings of the
dove the holy spirit come down and hover over him manifest in the form of a dove that was a manifestation of god but it wasn't the fullness of god without jesus there is no full revelation or manifestation of the creator you cannot have god without understanding who the son is yes sir first [Music] first time five starting in verse six this is he who came by water and blood jesus christ not only by water but by water and blood and it is the spirit who bears witness because the spirit is truth for there are three that bear witness in heaven the father the word and the holy spirit and these three are one and there are three that bear witness on earth the spirit the water and the blood and these three agree as one if we receive the witness of men the witness of god is greater for this is the witness of god which he has testified of his son he who believes in the son of god has the witness in himself he who does not believe god has made him a liar because he has not believed the testimony that god has given of his son and this is the testimony that god has given us eternal life and this life is in his son he who has the son has life he who does not have the son of god does not have life these things i have written to you who believe in the name of the son of god that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may continue to believe in the name of the son of god so verse 7 the father the word and the holy spirit these three are one yes exactly one [Music] see this is what i saw and i'm going to tell you now the word is above any vision or dream or any experience but i know that i saw this for that god showed me this very i know this vision was from the lord but what i saw i saw heaven open and the glory of god was shining down the light of god it was shining down through this opening that i saw as i saw heaven open and if you think well this is odd well when stephen was being stoned and killed as a martyr for the gospel he said these same words i saw
or i see heaven open and i see the son of man standing at the right hand of the glory the same words he used what i saw was jesus standing in heaven i saw it just clouds around and i know it's just a cloud a manifestation of the presence of god and i saw to the side of him this tremendous intense light that you brighter than the sun you couldn't look into it you couldn't see anything because it was so bright it was so intense it was so amazing and the presence of god and the power of god was so strong it was over it was overwhelming and i saw jesus standing beside this glory and as i'm watching this and i mean it's it's not a still shot it's a moving living breathing open vision of heaven and of god i saw i couldn't see because of the intensity of that light but out of that light i could see these wings come out and descended kind of down and and hovered over jesus moving like this and i knew in that moment i was seeing the manifestation of the father son and the holy spirit the trinity but i could see it was amazing because i could see through it's like the wings of that dove that manifestation of the holy spirit i could see through them because he is spirit and the bible tells us god is a spirit so i saw this exactly what i'm explaining to you but i know this the physical being that is god father holy spirit in one being jesus amen are y'all understanding this he said verse 10 believe us thou not that i am in the father and the father in me the words that i speak unto you i speak not of myself but the father that dwelleth in me he doeth the
works i want to go to an old testament scripture even though this is resurrection sunday we're going to a christmas scripture right isaiah see i know that there are people out there i you know i have a friend that i grew up with go to isaiah chapter nine i have a friend that i grew up with i won't say his name he listens he lives out in texas he and i used to party together and drink and smoke wacky weed and all that stuff living evil lives good friends though we were close friends now he watched me get saved and just totally change quit drinking quit doing drugs quit partying with him still went and hung out with him play basketball with him talk to him i'd share jesus with him he watched me completely change born again changed by the the glory of god the blood of jesus i mean they even said i mean this guy was not a church going guy and he said after i saw you when you returned from arkansas and you had given your life to the lord look it in your eyes it was like someone would clean you up on the inside but then he watched my other friends we had a group of close friends he watched my other friends craig billy led both of them to the lord both of them were born again both of them were baptized and filled with the holy spirit both of them are ministers to this day but for some reason there was some kind of demonic or block or i don't know but but my friend this other friend he never he never got saved he never gave his life to the lord and i think back then he wasn't ready to do that but over the years the last several years he and i through facebook and we've talked on the phone and we we've come back into contact and he's had dreams where god is trying to get his attention and he will tell me dean i believe in jesus and i want what you have i want what craig has i want what billy i want which i want that and finally talking to him one day i found out what was the problem was he wanted what we had but he didn't want to believe what we believed he told me i cannot accept that jesus is god and i said well there's your problem because until you can accept who he is
you cannot be saved and i've shared with him these scriptures and he still has this block because he's believed the lies of the world he's believed the lies of the cults or whatever that jesus was was a man that jesus was just a a spiritual teacher a spiritual leader like muhammad or buddha or everybody else and he's like you know but he said and this is where a lot of people are well i believe jesus was the best of them that's not enough if you believe jesus was just a man and not god in the flesh then you deny thousands of years of god telling us through the prophets through the scriptures through everything that the one who would come who would be called the son his name would also be the everlasting father let's read it here's a prophecy the jews should have known and should have understood about the messiah coming 9 isaiah 9 verse 6 for unto us a child is born and unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father and the prince of peace and of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end and upon the throne of david and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth and forever the zeal of the lord of hosts will perform this he says here a child will be born and then he tells us it will be a son it'll be a male child but something's different about this child because his name is going to be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father see the mormons and the jehovah witnesses will say he's a god little g that's not what the scripture says in fact in their screwed up new world translation if you turn to this it says it correctly
the god the mighty god the everlasting father let me explain to you something god father word holy spirit the one god with his three parts the one god has always been remember john 1 john 1 1 in the beginning was the word and the word was god and the word was with god and the word was god right and what is that verse 14 and the word god became flesh everybody say that the word god became flesh and dwelt among us jesus in eternity passed wasn't the son of god oh i'm gonna fry your brain a minute he was the word of god that was his title that was his name that was the aspect just like we call the different we call out you know we're a human being we're creating the image of god we're made we're one person but we have three parts but we name those parts a soul and a body right we got names for them you got to hear what i'm about to tell you jesus in eternity passed before god touched mary he was the word but when he chose to become flesh when that moment that the holy spirit overshadowed mary and she conceived that moment he became the son but that didn't change who he was before amen amen go to acts 20. acts 20 are you there make sure you get there
i love this right here 20 verse 26 apostle paul testifying here luke the apostle luke writing this down verse 26 he says wherefore i take to you record this day that i am pure from the blood of all men for i have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of god take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the holy ghost hath made you overseers and to feed the church of god which he hath purchased with his own blood do you see that go with me to first timothy i'm gonna mess some of you up right here you may be having to get new bibles hang on a second oh i can't get pages are sticking together what's that i hear talking over here you're whispering first timothy [Music] y'all behave first timothy paul writing again and if your bible doesn't say what i'm about to read you need to get one that does first timothy chapter three we're going to start reading in verse 14. these things right i unto thee hoping to come unto thee shortly but if i tarry long that thou mayest know how they ought to behave thyself in the house of god which is the church of the living god the pillar and ground of the truth and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness god was manifest in the flesh if your bible says he you got a screwed up bible god was manifest in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of angels preached unto the gentiles and believed on in the world and received up into glory first timothy 3 14 through 16. just remember 3 16. first timothy 3 16. god was manifest in the flesh this is foundational christianity i can give you scripture after scripture after scripture in the book of isaiah
god said i am the alpha and the omega the book of revelation jesus says i am the alpha and the omega [Music] we could go on and on hebrews chapter 1 god said unto my god some of you say well i've heard people say well who is jesus praying to i said himself i said you ever talk to yourself i know you do you talk yourself into things you talk yourself out of things we all have conversations with ourselves the flesh is saying hey i want to drink this beer over here this soul said if i do i'm going to get myself in trouble and the spirits say don't do that yeah i mean y'all know what i'm talking about we have these conversations whether we ever open our mouths or not and sometimes we actually open a mouth and people say well that's a crazy person no everybody does they don't even go there crazy person walking around saying you know i am god i am god i'm a god it's called new agers mormons mormons believe that you know mormons believe that we can all become gods new agers right folks here let me close with this i want to show you this this is this is the latest mind-blowing thing and i'm going to close here i have to scroll down this is this is the latest thing bible translators are now removing father and the son of god because it offends muslims mainline christian organizations are changing the holy scripture to avoid offending muslims um yeah this is this is unreal here and we're talking about wycliffe bible translators yes and i put this scripture up this morning if you start denying the father and the son and you start denying the oneness and the aspects that god these these truths look at what it says here this verse first john 2 22 and 23 who is a liar but he that denies that jesus is the christ he is antichrist that denieth the father and the son whosoever denieth the son the same hath not the father but he that acknowledges the son has the father also now the word acknowledged there if you look it up in the greek doesn't just mean to confess it means to covenant with
but he says if you deny that jesus is the christ the son given who is the mighty god the everlasting if you deny reject disavow any aspect of who he is you're denying god all together see all religions don't lead to god i'm sorry that's just not the way it is you can't have god without believing who the son of god really is who jesus christ really is you cannot have god and what paul read a minute ago there is no life eternal life without the son this is critical folks it's critical that we say that he was sinless if he wasn't sinless he couldn't die for sin it's critical that we say and believe that he rose from the dead because if he didn't rise from the dead if jesus didn't rise from the dead neither will you paul even said it in first corinthians 15 he said if he's not risen then your faith is in vain if you have a belief if you believe in a jesus who is not god who is a sinner who didn't rise from the dead you are believing in a false jesus and you do not have god and you will not go to heaven for all eternity you will go to hell it is that simple there is one savior there was one redeemer there is one who shed his blood for sin he was sinless he was perfect the john the baptist declared behold the lamb of god that takes away the sin of the world he was and is god in the flesh therefore he was able to live a sinless life this is jesus there is no other [Music] there is no other messiah coming not the mahdi not kalki not the matreya not the fifth buddha [Music] there's one jesus one lord one savior one way and thank god he offers that [Music]
to everyone but you have to believe it and you have to receive it and you have to follow don't fall for a counterfeit jesus oprah's got to counterfeit jesus folks deepak shropra's got to counterfeit jesus he calls him the third jesus no they're in a first second third fourth fifth or coming different jesus there's one jesus one lord one savior one messiah one sacrifice for sins one resurrected lord and it takes faith in him and repentance of sin and a relationship with him to be saved [Music] and if you're listening to me today whether you're muslim [Music] or buddhist or hindu or an unsaved christian oh yeah a lot of them if you will believe the word of god if you will choose to believe god's testimony and cry out to him he will reveal himself to you but if you're determined to seek another jesus you will never find god you will never find him you will find hocus pocus you will find fallen angels of light you will find spirits of darkness you'll find okay you'll find some stuff oh they'll find some stuff but you're not going to find the one you're really looking for you know everybody thinks everybody thought youtube was saved you know bono you too everybody thought they were saying back in the 80s and 90s i sit back i remember that going these guys are not saying you know and what's that song they sing they would talk about jesus and they would say they were christians and then they would sing the song i still haven't found what i'm looking for but no one caught that [Music]
you know at least the rolling stones admitted it i can't get no right satisfaction you're not if you still if if you if you have found god through faith in jesus christ and you've been born again and you've been encountered his holy spirit and his presence and his forgiveness and his love and his peace if you've encountered that you found the real thing see that's why folks that's why i can walk away from fame and fortune that's why i can walk away from it all don't care i found what i was looking for you too i found the creator i found the savior i found the way the truth and the life ain't nothing else you can offer me out here not money not fame not sin not lust there's nothing you can offer me that's any better than what i found i tried it all the drugs and the alcohol and all that the world has to offer i i did it all i found what i'm looking for amen all i won't do it cutting people's heads off you know this weekend 147 people killed in kenya by muslims went into a school into a university at dawn and started separating the muslims from the christians and shooting the christians on the spot no allah is not the way muhammad is not the way sharia is not the way jesus is the way he is the son of god he is the father he is the holy spirit he is the fullness of the godhead body he is the only sacrifice for sins he is the only way to be forgiven poor muslims can't even know for sure they're forgiven you know muslims even say that they don't even know that muhammad doesn't even know if he'll be forgiven at the judgment did you know that because you can have no certainty no matter how much you follow allah the quran the foolishness god how can we how can we be in 2015 and there be a religion that thinks that going around
shooting people and chopping people's heads off is correct how god mankind is screwed up but man without jesus is capable of anything so let's pray heavenly father we come god we thank you for the truth lord sometimes there are things in there and you're in your word in scriptures that are hard for us to wrap our brains around sometimes but it doesn't mean that it's not the truth god we ask you to take this message and to touch mormons to touch buddhists to touch jehovah witness to touch muslims to touch even unsaved christians we pray that they'll finally see that jesus christ is god that jesus is the fullness of the godhead and they will be born again i pray that for my friend in texas that he'll finally believe the truth and be saved god i pray that for people listening and many who will listen lord we know that hundreds will listen and we pray that lives will be changed we pray that today in jesus name amen