God The Son
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The Good News is Jesus
“I am a historian, I am not a believer, but I
must confess as a historian that this penniless
preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very
centre of history. Jesus Christ is easily the
most dominant figure in all history.”
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H.G.Wells
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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Images of Jesus
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What’s your view of Jesus today?
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If you could paint a picture of who you
think Jesus is, what would He look
like?
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What would He be like?
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The Gospel is life-changing news
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The Good News is a person
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Snails can sleep for up to 4 years
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Donkeys kill more people annually than
plane crashes
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It is possible to lead a cow
upstairs…but not downstairs
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It’s physically impossible for you to lick
your elbow
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and
if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it
cannot be is moderately important.”
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C.S. Lewis
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Jesus is the promised Messiah
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Jesus came as a servant king
not a warrior king
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Match up the following passages in the Old Testament
with the New Testament passage to show how Jesus
fulfils Old Testament prophecy:
• Isaiah 7:15
• Matthew 27:35
• Micah 5:2
• Matthew 26:67
• Isaiah 35:5
• Matthew 1:18-25
• Zechariah 9:9
• Matthew 27:57-60
• Isaiah 50:6
• Matthew 28:5-9
• Psalm 22:16,18
• Matthew 21:6-11
• Isaiah 53:9
• Matthew 11:2-6
• Psalm 16:10
• Matthew 2:1
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The answers...
• Isaiah 7:15
• Matthew 1:18-25
• Micah 5:2
• Matthew 2:1
• Isaiah 35:5
• Matthew 11:2-6
• Zechariah 9:9
• Matthew 21:6-11
• Isaiah 50:6
• Matthew 26:67
• Psalm 22:16,18
• Matthew 27:35
• Isaiah 53:9
• Matthew 27:57-60
• Psalm 16:10
• Matthew 28:5-9
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Jesus: Fully God, Fully Man
“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 patronizing nonsense about His being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
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C.S. Lewis
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Jesus: Fully God, Fully Man
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“I am within the mark when I say that all the armies
that ever marched, and all the navies that ever were
built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the
kings that ever reigned, put together, have not
affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully
as has that One Solitary Life.”
James C. Hefley, Author
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REFLECTIONS?
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Jesus - The Saviour
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Why did Jesus die and rise again?
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Beautiful creation
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Creation damaged
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Promised hope
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We can’t fix this
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Jesus takes on sin and death
“The death of Jesus of Nazareth …is either the
most stupid, senseless waste and
misunderstanding the world has ever seen, or it is
the fulcrum around which world history turns.”
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Tom Wright
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The resurrection defeats
sin and death
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“The resurrection of Jesus inaugurates a new creation,
one free from death, and it is bursting forth in Jesus
himself right here in the midst of the first creation. The
tomb is empty, a new day is here, a new creation is here,
everything has changed, death has been conquered, the
old has gone, the new has come… when God has
inaugurated a movement in Jesus’ resurrection to renew,
restore, and reconcile everything “on earth or in heaven”
(Colossians 1), just as God originally intended it. The
powers of death and destruction have been defeated on
the most epic scale imaginable. Individuals are then
invited to see their story in the context of a far larger story,
one that includes all of creation.”
Rob Bell
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“The main meaning of the resurrection of Jesus…is that
God’s new world has been brought into being…, the longpromised new world in which the covenant will be
renewed, sins will be forgiven and death itself will be done
away with. The resurrection is neither an isolated and outof character divine miracle nor simply the promise of
eternal life beyond the grave. It is, rather, the decisive
start of the world-wide rule of the Jewish Messiah, in
which sins are already forgiven and the promise of the
eventual new world of justice and incorruptible life are
assured… The message of Easter is that God’s new
world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and you are now
invited to belong to it.”
Tom Wright
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Jesus is the Saviour of the cosmos
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REFLECTIONS?
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Jesus is Lord
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VIDEO: Vintage Jesus
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Jesus calls us to follow Him
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Living like Jesus
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Loving God:
But how do we know if we love God
and people so fully, so
wholeheartedly?
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Why is being obedient to
Jesus often difficult?
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Loving people:
What do you think it looks like when
someone is loving others
wholeheartedly?
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“Every act of love, gratitude and kindness; every work of art or
music inspired by the love of God and delight in the beauty of his
creation; every minute spent teaching a severely handicapped
child to read or to walk; every act of care and nurture, of comfort
and support, for one’s fellow human beings, and for that matter
one’s fellow non-human creatures; and of course every prayer, all
Spirit-led teaching, every deed which spreads the gospel, builds up
the church, embraces and embodies holiness rather than
corruption, and makes the name of Jesus honoured in the world –
all of this will find its way, through the resurrecting power of God,
into the new creation which God will one day make. That is the
logic of the mission of God. God’s recreation of his wonderful
world, which has begun with the resurrection of Jesus and
continues mysteriously as God’s people live in the risen Christ and
in the power of the Spirit, means that what we do in Christ and by
the Spirit in the present is not wasted.”
Tom Wright
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The cost of following Jesus
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Will you make Jesus Lord?
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REFLECTIONS?
God The Son