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Welcome everyone to Redemption Church in Plano Tx. My name is Chris Fluitt and I am so glad to share the word of God with you today!
The Same Jesus
We are in the 4th week of our THE SAME JESUS sermon series.
Week 1 we told you that Jesus is alive, unchanged, and returning.
Week 2 we told you that the Same Jesus still does miracles.
Week 3 we told you that the Same Jesus still has the same love for you.
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Today I want to tell you that The Same Jesus is the Same God.
The Same Jesus | The Same God
An important Biblical truth is that Jesus is God.
A God-honoring Truth is that Jesus is God. (It is not belittling to God) (Philip 2:6
The True revelation of the one God is found in Jesus.
This Jesus that we worship today is the same God we read about in the Old Testament scripture.
Not new… ancient
Jesus is not something new. He is not a new development or a new deity to show up in the Gospels.
Daniel 7:9 (NIV) “As I looked, “thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.
Jesus is not something new. Jesus is the Ancient of Days that Daniel Prophesied about in the Old Testament. And when John the disciple saw a Spiritual vision in the book of Revelation He saw this same ancient of days…
Revelation 1:13 (NIV) and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.
Revelation 1:14 (NIV) The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.
Revelation 1:15 (NIV) His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.
This same vision of the ancient of days is revealed as our Jesus! The Same Jesus is the Same God, the ancient of days!
Revelation 1:18 (NIV) I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Not new… ancient
How ancient are we talking? How about the beginning!
John 1:1 (NIV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
How ancient? Jesus is before ALL THINGS!
Colossians 1:16-17 (NIV) For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
The man, Jesus, was born around 2 thousand years ago… The man, Jesus, died on the cross at the age of 33… But the Spirit inside of the man, Jesus, is ETERNAL. That Spirit is the same God we read about in Genesis 1.
The Same Jesus | The Same Creator
The Same God who created Adam & Eve from the dust of the ground… that is our Jesus!
In John 9 Jesus takes the dirt of the ground and rubs it on the eyes of a man blind from birth. Jesus performs a creative miracle and that man sees for the first time ever.
The same God who reached into dirt to create mankind, is the same Jesus who reached into the dirt to heal the blind man.
The Same God who spoke to the darkness and commanded light in Genesis 1… That is our Jesus.
John 1:4-5 (KJV) In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
In Genesis, when God creates Adam, God then breathes the breath of life into Adam and man became a “living soul.”
In John 20 it says that Jesus breathed on his disciples and said “receive the Holy Spirit.”
The same God who breathed life, is the same Jesus who breathes NEW LIFE. In fact the Greek word for Spirit is “PNEUMA” and it means “breath.