Who is Jesus?
0 comments | Posted by Steven Layson on 30 Oct 2008 in From Steve's Study ::
There are many who claim that they “don’t believe in God” and that he is totally irrelevant to their lives. Even if he did exist, they say, he is either powerless to help, or totally indifferent to our individual lives. People are often quick to dismiss God, yet they often become uncomfortable when we start to talk about Jesus.
Often that’s because their picture of Jesus is the “Hollywood” Jesus … blonde-haired, blue-eyed, with a permanent cheesy grin on his face. Very rarely do people outside the church come to an opinion about him based on their inspection of the evidence of the bible, preferring the second or third hand speculation of popular novels or “Shock-umentaries”.
Over the next month, we will be hearing a lot about Jesus as we come closer to the day we celebrate his birth. To begin our journey however, we need to go much further back than the events of that first Christmas morning. To get a more complete picture of who Jesus is and what he came to do, we will first look at the pages of the Old Testament. As we do, we’ll see that God had been preparing us for the arrival of the Christ for centuries. We will also begin to get a richer understanding of the purposes of God.
In particular today, we will see Jesus as the fulfillment of God’s promises of a “Prophet, Priest & King” – a Prophet who speaks the very words of God; a Priest who opens the way for a sinful people to approach a sinless God; and a King who rules over all and before whom every knee will bow. God’s plans and promises of the Old Testament find their completion in the person of Christ, whose arrival as a infant in a manger we celebrate at this exciting time of year.
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