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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Jesus Christ (Part 1)

February 5, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Jesus Christ (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Jesus Christ (Part 1) | February 5, 2026
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • When you think of jesus,
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  • You likely picture a bearded man in his early 30s
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  • Wearing a flowing garment,
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  • Perhaps teaching on a hillside.
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  • This is the jesus you and i
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  • Are most familiar with in the gospels,
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  • But jesus and his ministry begins much earlier
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  • And extends much later than his time on earth.
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  • Today we're going to get a holistic view
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  • Of the second member of the godhead.
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  • My message is titled
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  • "what every christian should know about jesus christ"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory,"
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  • One of the quirks in our culture
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  • Is that we tend to measure somebody's importance
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  • By their time in the limelight.
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  • Social media celebrities have their 15 minutes of fame.
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  • People we honor sometimes are called
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  • The man or woman of the hour.
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  • Every year at the end of the year,
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  • Time magazines has their person of the year,
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  • And there are a few people who have whole eras
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  • Named after them,
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  • The elizabethan era or the roosevelt era.
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  • But there's only one person in history
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  • Whose entrance into the world
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  • Has divided all of history into two halves.
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  • Doesn't matter whether the halves
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  • Are called bc, before christ,
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  • Or anno domini, the year of our lord.
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  • You can divide it bce, before the common era,
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  • And ce, the common era.
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  • But it's the same person whose life has become
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  • The measure by which we calibrate our own existence.
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  • His name is jesus christ.
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  • He is without doubt the most important person in history.
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  • And today, as we continue our study,
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  • What every christian should know about the 10 core beliefs
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  • Of historic christianity,
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  • We've come to that third pillar
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  • That supports the christian faith,
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  • The truth about jesus christ.
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  • And that's what we're going to talk about
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  • For a few minutes today,
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  • What every christian should know about jesus christ.
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  • Now, in keeping with this idea of time,
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  • We're going to divide jesus time into three parts.
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  • First of all, we're going to talk about jesus bc.
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  • That's before christmas.
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  • A lot of people in celebrating christmas
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  • Make the mistake of thinking.
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  • That's when jesus came into existence at bethlehem.
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  • That's what we're celebrating.
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  • Nothing could be further from the truth.
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  • Jesus had an existence before christmas,
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  • And the controlling passage in the bible about that
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  • Is actually john 1:1.
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  • John begins his gospel a little differently
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  • Than the other three gospels.
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  • John says, "in the beginning was the word
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  • And the word was with god, and the word was god."
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  • The word word, logos means expression of.
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  • Jesus is the full expression of god himself.
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  • And notice in this one verse three things
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  • John tells us about jesus.
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  • First of all, he was in the beginning.
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  • He didn't come into existence at bethlehem.
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  • He was at the very beginning.
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  • He is eternal.
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  • In the beginning was the word.
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  • And secondly, jesus was with god,
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  • Meaning he's distinct from god the father.
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  • He was with god.
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  • And yet the third thing was he was god.
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  • While being distinct from god, he was god.
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  • That's the mystery of the trinity.
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  • Well, what was it that jesus has been doing
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  • Before christmas?
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  • What was he in heaven doing?
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  • Well, he was the focus of all the old testament prophecies.
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  • God the father did a lot of prep work
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  • To get the world ready for the coming of jesus christ.
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  • One thing he did was to institute
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  • A system of sacrifices for men
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  • That they would follow for thousands of years.
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  • They would sin and they would offer a sacrifice.
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  • There's nothing about those sacrifices
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  • That could wash away sins,
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  • But it was teaching man that there had to be
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  • A sacrifice for sins.
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  • The sacrificial system was a picture of christ.
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  • But also, god, for thousands of years
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  • Before the coming of christ,
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  • Made prophecies about jesus.
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  • There are about 60 major prophecies
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  • That would be like a neon arrow in heaven
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  • Pointing out who the messiah was when he finally came.
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  • For example, when i'm traveling to a city
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  • And somebody's to pick me up and they may not know me,
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  • I text them some information,
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  • I'll be standing out in front of
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  • Door number three of baggage claim.
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  • I'll be wearing a white shirt and a red tie.
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  • I'm giving them some things they can look for
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  • To know that it is me.
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  • Well, god, the father did the same thing
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  • So we could know when jesus came.
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  • For example, one of the prophecies of the 60
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  • Made about jesus was in isaiah 7:14.
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  • He would be born of a virgin.
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  • The only person in history whose mother was a virgin.
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  • Why was the virgin birth necessary?
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  • It kept any sin from entering into jesus christ.
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  • Even though he was fully god and fully human,
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  • He escaped the curse of adam's sin.
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  • He escaped the curse of jeconiah.
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  • And if you're saying jeco-who.
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  • Jeconiah.
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  • I've got a little pullout on your outline about
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  • Why the virgin birth was important
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  • In escaping the curse of jeconiah.
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  • Another prophecy he gave 700 years
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  • Before jesus arrived on the scene was in micah 5:2
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  • When he described the exact village,
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  • The nondescript city in which christ would be born,
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  • Bethlehem.
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  • He predicted that jesus the messiah would be crucified.
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  • You say, "well, what's the big deal about that?
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  • Lots of people were crucified."
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  • What was prophesied about jesus that he would be crucified
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  • A thousand years before crucifixion was even invented?
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  • And again, i have a box there about the psalms,
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  • Three psalms that talk about and describe crucifixion
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  • Before it had been invented.
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  • Again, 60 of those prophecies
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  • Made before jesus came to earth.
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  • Galatians four says,
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  • In the fullness of time, god sent forth his son.
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  • I like the way the living bible says that
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  • At just the right time, god sent forth his son.
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  • And now that leads us to what happened
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  • When god came to earth,
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  • When he became flesh and dwelt among us.
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  • Let's look at jesus on earth, john 1:14 says,
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  • And the word became flesh and dwelt among us.
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  • C.s. lewis said, the greatest miracle of all time
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  • Is not the atonement,
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  • It's not even the resurrection.
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  • The greatest miracle of all time
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  • Is the incarnation.
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  • Think about it.
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  • The great god who created this universe
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  • Poured himself, all of himself
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  • Into that tiny embryo implanted in the womb
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  • Of a jewish teenage peasant girl.
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  • That is a miraculous thought when you think about it.
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  • The controlling passage in the new testament
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  • That explains the significance of that
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  • Is philippians 2:5-8.
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  • Have this attitude in yourselves,
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  • Which was also in christ jesus,
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  • Who although he existed in the form of god
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  • Did not regard his equality with god
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  • A thing to be grasped, to be held onto.
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  • But he emptied himself, taking the form of a bond servant
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  • And being made in the likeness of men.
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  • Being found in the appearance as a man,
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  • He humbled himself by becoming obedient
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  • To the point of death, even death on a cross.
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  • Again, to quote c.s. lewis in his book, "mere christianity,"
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  • If you want to get the hang of incarnation,
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  • Just imagine what it would be like for you
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  • To voluntarily become a slug or a crab.
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  • Can you imagine such a thing?
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  • Yet jesus did that and he did it willingly.
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  • Now, a lot of people have a false idea of the incarnation.
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  • They think that means jesus was half god and half man.
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  • No, we have a term in theology, the hypostatic union.
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  • And that literally means that jesus christ was 100% god
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  • And he was 100% man without any mixture of sin.
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  • Now, make no mistake about it, jesus was god.
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  • He was 100% god.
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  • In colossians 2:9 paul says,
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  • "for in him, jesus, all the fullness of deity dwells
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  • In bodily form."
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  • And by the way, don't let anybody sell you on this idea
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  • That, "oh, well, jesus never claimed to be god.
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  • That's just something his followers
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  • Tagged him with hundreds of years afterwards
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  • To make a good story a better story."
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  • No, from the beginning, jesus claimed to be god.
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  • And on your outline,
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  • I have some of his numerous statements
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  • Where he claimed to be god,
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  • Which means as c.s. lewis again said,
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  • Given the fact that he claimed to be god,
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  • It means either he was a liar
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  • 'cause he knew he wasn't god, but claimed to be.
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  • He was a lunatic.
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  • He actually thought he was god when he wasn't.
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  • If you don't think jesus is a liar or a lunatic,
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  • The only other alternative is he is lord.
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  • He's exactly who he said he was.
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  • He is fully god, but secondly, he is fully man.
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  • The bible says in philippians 2:7,
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  • He emptied himself when he came to earth.
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  • Now, what did he empty himself of?
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  • Did he empty himself of being god?
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  • No.
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  • God is who he was.
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  • You cannot empty yourself of your essence.
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  • I cannot empty myself of having brown eyes and being 5'9"
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  • That is who i am.
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  • I can't change that.
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  • I can't give that up.
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  • That is me,
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  • And it's the same way with god.
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  • He can't give up his essence.
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  • Jesus is god.
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  • So what did he empty himself of?
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  • I want you to write this down, two things.
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  • First of all, he emptied himself of his rights.
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  • He did not hold onto his rights as god,
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  • Philippians two says.
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  • If you ever go to the airport,
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  • One of the biggest ordeals you go through
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  • Is the security check.
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  • And sometimes you're in a long line
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  • To be checked out for security,
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  • But i've got this nifty little thing
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  • That some of you have.
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  • It's a tsa precheck,
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  • Which means you can walk through a faster line.
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  • You don't have to take off your coat.
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  • You don't have to get rid of your laptop.
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  • You can go through very quickly.
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  • Now, i've got tsa precheck.
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  • Amy doesn't have the tsa precheck.
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  • So when we get to the airport,
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  • I look at that very short line with the precheck,
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  • And then i see the line amy's going to stand in
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  • And have to handle her luggage herself, the normal line,
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  • And i think, "which line do i want to go in?"
  • 00:12:36.568 --> 00:12:39.704
  • Now i have every right to go through the quicker line,
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  • But if i don't want to be the first divorced pastor
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  • Of first baptist church dallas in history,
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  • I know i don't need to go through that line.
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  • I give up my right to go through that line,
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  • And i go through the other line to help my wife,
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  • And i do it because i want to help her.
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  • It's the same thing with god.
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  • Jesus christ had all the rights of god himself,
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  • But he willingly gave up his rights as god
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  • To meet our needs.
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  • May i just add a word today?
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  • There's a lot of talk today about rights.
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  • We have our rights. we have our rights.
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  • You would think that is the foundation
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  • Of the christian gospel, holding onto your rights.
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  • No, the foundation of the christian faith
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  • Is giving up your rights.
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  • Philippians 2:5 says,
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  • Have this same attitude in you that was in christ jesus.
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  • He had rights.
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  • He gave them up for the benefit of others.
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  • That's what jesus emptied himself of.
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  • He gave up his rights.
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  • And then secondly, he gave up the exercise
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  • Of some of his attributes.
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  • Now, he was omniscient. he was omnipotent.
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  • He couldn't give that up,
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  • But he could give up the exercise of those rights.
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  • For example, when he was being crucified,
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  • He could have exercised his omnipotence
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  • And he could have called thousands of angels
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  • To come and vindicate him and rescue him,
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  • But he chose not to exercise that attribute of omnipotence.
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  • He was omniscient.
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  • He knew all things.
  • 00:14:13.064 --> 00:14:14.799
  • And yet in matthew 24:36, when his disciples said,
  • 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:18.269
  • "lord, when are you coming back again?"
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  • He said, nobody knows the day or hour,
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  • Not the angels in heaven,
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  • Not even the son of god.
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  • Only the father knows.
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  • Have you ever wondered how that could be?
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  • How could jesus be god
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  • And yet not know when he's coming back again?
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  • He voluntarily chose while he was on earth
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  • Not to exercise aspects of his omniscience,
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  • But he was fully god.
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  • I was trying to think of a good way
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  • To illustrate that to you.
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  • Think about a light bulb for a moment.
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  • When you turn on light bulb,
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  • It generates a certain amount of light,
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  • And we measure that in lumens.
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  • That's the measurement of how bright a light is.
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  • Now, you can turn that light bulb on,
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  • But then you can put a lampshade over it.
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  • Now, what does the lampshade do?
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  • Does it decrease the amount of light the bulb is generating?
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  • No, it's still generating the same number of lumens,
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  • But what the lampshade does was
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  • It diminishes what you're able to see
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  • Of the brightness of the light.
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  • And in the same way, jesus' humanity, his flesh,
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  • It didn't decrease his deity,
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  • But it veiled some of his deity
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  • So that we could not see him in all of his glory.
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  • One day, we'll see him in all of his glory,
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  • When he returns again.
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  • Jesus was fully god and he was fully man.
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  • That is what the incarnation means.
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  • What does it mean to us?
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  • What is the result of jesus taking on human flesh?
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  • Let me just mention three things jesus did in his humanity
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  • During his brief 33 years here on earth.
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  • Number one, he defied expectations.
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  • We saw this in our study on the sermon on the mount,
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  • The jewish leaders measured godliness
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  • In terms of how many rules you could keep.
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  • For example, the mosaic clause said in exodus 28,
  • 00:16:11.082 --> 00:16:14.452
  • Remember the sabbath, keep it holy.
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  • And the jews added dozens of laws to help you do that,
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  • Telling you how many steps you could take,
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  • And how much you could lift,
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  • And just all kind of ridiculous things.
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  • They thought the more rules you kept, the holier you were.
  • 00:16:26.497 --> 00:16:29.967
  • And jesus said, no, holiness is a matter of the heart.
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  • And in fact, when he taught that sermon on the mount,
  • 00:16:33.905 --> 00:16:36.507
  • Remember when he finished?
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  • It says in matthew 7:28,
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  • The crowds were amazed at his teaching
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  • For he was teaching them as one having authority
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  • And not as their scribes.
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  • Jesus defied their expectations
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  • About what the messiah would do.
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  • They were looking for a conquering warrior
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  • Who would finally free them from the oppression of rome.
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  • Instead, they got a suffering servant.
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  • That's why they missed jesus.
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  • They didn't understand that, as he said,
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  • He came not to be served,
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  • But to serve and give his life as a ransom for many.
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  • Secondly, jesus, during his 33 years, suffered.
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  • He suffered the betrayal of his friends,
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  • The insults of his enemies,
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  • The misunderstanding of even his own family.
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  • But most importantly, jesus suffered the agony of the cross.
  • 00:17:24.889 --> 00:17:29.360
  • Again, isaiah writing hundreds of years before the fact
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  • Prophesied this about the messiah.
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  • Isaiah 53:5-6
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  • He, jesus was pierced through for our transgressions.
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  • He was crushed for our iniquities.
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  • The chastening of our wellbeing fell upon him.
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  • By his scourging we are healed.
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  • All we, like sheep, have gone astray.
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  • We have strayed everyone into our own way,
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  • But the lord has caused the iniquity of us all
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  • To fall upon him.
  • 00:18:00.258 --> 00:18:02.793
  • What did the death of christ accomplish for us?
  • 00:18:03.794 --> 00:18:07.064
  • Again, there was nothing unique about crucifixion.
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  • It's estimated that 30,000 people were crucified
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  • During christ's life here on earth by the romans,
  • 00:18:14.105 --> 00:18:18.042
  • But what made his death unique is what it accomplished.
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  • 2 corinthians 5:21 says,
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  • God made him, jesus, who knew no sin,
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  • To become sin for us,
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  • That we might become the righteousness of god in him.
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  • In some inexplicable way,
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  • God took all of our sin
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  • And he wrapped it around jesus.
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  • And he took all of the righteousness,
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  • The perfection of jesus,
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  • And wraps it around those of us who trust in him.
  • 00:18:45.503 --> 00:18:49.073
  • And the result was we have eternal life.
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  • When god looks at you as a christian,
  • 00:18:52.543 --> 00:18:54.478
  • He no longer sees your sin.
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  • He sees the righteousness of his son.
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  • How do we know that jesus' sacrifice
  • 00:18:59.750 --> 00:19:03.454
  • Actually accomplished what it was meant to do?
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  • Some of jesus' final words on the cross
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  • When he said, "it is finished."
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  • Tetelestai in greek,
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  • Literally paid in full.
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  • And by the way, you can't separate
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  • The crucifixion from the resurrection.
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  • The resurrection is proof
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  • That jesus' gift was acceptable to god.
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  • If jesus had remained in that grave,
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  • Then it meant like every other person.
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  • He died for his own sins.
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  • But romans 4:25 says he was raised for our justification.
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  • His resurrection proves that god accepted his offer for us.
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  • Jesus suffered.
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  • Grief counselors will tell you
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  • That if you're trying to help somebody
  • 00:19:49.700 --> 00:19:51.435
  • Who's going through a difficult time,
  • 00:19:51.435 --> 00:19:52.970
  • Whatever you do, don't ever say,
  • 00:19:52.970 --> 00:19:54.905
  • "i know what you're going through."
  • 00:19:54.905 --> 00:19:57.341
  • Because more often than not,
  • 00:19:57.942 --> 00:20:00.077
  • You and i don't know what they're going through.
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  • There's only one person who's qualified to say,
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  • "i know what you're going through,"
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  • And that's jesus christ.
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  • The fact is he has suffered and experienced
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  • Everything we've experienced.
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  • I heard one commentator say this week,
  • 00:20:15.526 --> 00:20:18.029
  • When jesus took on human flesh,
  • 00:20:18.029 --> 00:20:20.564
  • He wasn't putting on a halloween costume.
  • 00:20:20.564 --> 00:20:24.035
  • He wasn't pretending to be something he wasn't.
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  • No, he actually became flesh
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  • And he experienced every heartache we experience.
  • 00:20:29.840 --> 00:20:33.411
  • Dorothy sayer describes it beautifully when she writes,
  • 00:20:33.411 --> 00:20:37.181
  • "for whatever reason, god chose to make man as he is,
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  • Limited, suffering, and subject to sorrows and death.
  • 00:20:41.852 --> 00:20:45.690
  • God had the honesty and the courage
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  • To take his own medicine.
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  • Whatever game god is playing with his creation,
  • 00:20:51.028 --> 00:20:54.699
  • He has kept his own rules and played fair.
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  • He cannot exact anything from man
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  • That he's not exacted from himself.
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  • He himself has gone through the whole of human experience,
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  • From the trivial irritations of family life,
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  • And the cramping restrictions
  • 00:21:11.048 --> 00:21:12.717
  • Of hard work and lack of money,
  • 00:21:12.717 --> 00:21:15.786
  • To the worst horrors of pain,
  • 00:21:15.786 --> 00:21:18.289
  • Humiliation, defeat, despair, and even death."
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  • When jesus was a man, he played the man.
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  • He was born in poverty and died in disgrace
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  • And thought it all worthwhile.
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  • What does that mean to us?
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  • It means when we talk to jesus,
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  • We're not talking to some distant deity
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  • Who doesn't understand what we're going through.
  • 00:21:41.011 --> 00:21:44.014
  • In hebrews 4:14-16, the writer says,
  • 00:21:44.014 --> 00:21:48.185
  • For we don't have a high priest
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  • Who can't sympathize with our weaknesses,
  • 00:21:50.187 --> 00:21:53.090
  • But one who was tested in all points as we are
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  • And yet without sin.
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  • Let us come boldly with confidence
  • 00:21:59.196 --> 00:22:01.432
  • To the throne of grace,
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  • That we might receive mercy and find grace
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  • To help us in our time of need.
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  • Thirdly, jesus prioritized his relationship with god
  • 00:22:10.141 --> 00:22:15.179
  • During his 33 years here on earth.
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  • If we're a disciple of jesus, if we're a follower of jesus,
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  • We're going to follow that same priority,
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  • Making god the priority of our lives.
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  • Friends, god wants to know you and to be known by you.
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  • He's not in the heavens behind a barrier of mystery.
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  • He's longing to be in a relationship with you.
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  • There's much more i want to teach you about jesus,
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  • And i'll do that next time when we're together.
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  • So please make plans to join us
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  • On the next edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Well, aren't you grateful that we live in a country
  • 00:22:54.885 --> 00:22:57.288
  • Where i'm free to teach the truth about jesus christ?
  • 00:22:57.288 --> 00:23:00.691
  • I'm sure you realize that in many parts of the world,
  • 00:23:00.691 --> 00:23:03.527
  • Ministries are required to filter out
  • 00:23:03.527 --> 00:23:05.896
  • The biblical truths that their governments deem
  • 00:23:05.896 --> 00:23:08.866
  • Unsavory or politically incorrect.
  • 00:23:08.866 --> 00:23:11.902
  • But let's be clear, while "pathway to victory"
  • 00:23:11.902 --> 00:23:14.171
  • Has the liberty to teach the truth in america today,
  • 00:23:14.171 --> 00:23:18.008
  • There's no guarantee that these freedoms
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  • Will continue forever.
  • 00:23:19.844 --> 00:23:21.512
  • So while the doors remain open,
  • 00:23:21.512 --> 00:23:24.014
  • I'm dedicated to teaching god's truth with boldness.
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  • Thank you for helping us pierce the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word,
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  • And thank you for your faithful continued support
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  • Of "pathway to victory."
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  • Now, stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more in just a moment.
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  • When everything around you is shifting,
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  • When friends question your beliefs,
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  • When you hear something that doesn't sound right
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  • But don't know what to say,
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  • You need confidence in what you believe
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  • And why you believe it.
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  • In "what every christian should know,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress gives you a biblical foundation
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  • You and your family can build your faith upon.
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  • You'll discover practical truth
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  • That deepens your relationship with god
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  • And strengthens your confidence in what you believe.
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  • If you've ever struggled to put your faith into words,
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  • You're not alone.
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  • Many christians find it difficult to do so.
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  • But when we're uncertain about the basics,
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  • We can become vulnerable to false teaching.
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  • In my book, "what every christian should know,"
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  • I'll walk you through 10 central truths of christianity,
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  • Explaining not just what the bible teaches,
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  • But why it matters for your life today.
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  • If we, the church, are to be the support, the foundation,
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  • The thing that lifts up the truth of god,
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  • We need to know what that truth is.
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  • In a constantly shifting world,
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  • With the confidence they need
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  • The birth of jesus marked the grand entrance
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  • Of the savior into our world,
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  • But jesus has been around since the very beginning,
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  • Right alongside god the father, and the holy spirit,
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  • Whom we will talk about later in this series.
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  • And next time, i'm going to tell you
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  • About what jesus is doing right now in heaven.
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  • After ascending into heaven, his work was far from over.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • In our series, "what every christian should know."
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  • Who are you trusting in for your eternal future?
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  • If it's some priest, some pastor, some philosopher,
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  • They may or may not be correct.
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  • There's only one reliable source to entrust your future to.
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  • It's the only one who's ever lived in heaven
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  • And come back to tell us what it is and how to get there.
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  • His name is jesus christ.
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  • For part two of the message.
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  • "what every christian should know about jesus christ."
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