Who is this Man called Jesus? People have been asking that question ever since He walked out of the carpenter shop about two thousand years ago. Jesus came to reveal to us who God is: a God who loved us enough to have His own Son crucified in order to pay our sin-debt in full. All the things that are true of Jesus are true of God–there is no one like Him! For more messages from Charles Stanley, including this week’s broadcast, go to www.intouch.org/watch
if Jesus is who he says he is what
should we do
believe him obey Him serve Him proclaim
him go and follow him and love it
there’s not anything in that list that
says ho ho
it says rather knowing who he is it
should absolutely impact every single
aspect of our life
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InTouch who is this man called Jesus
well I want to answer one question who
is this man called Jesus people have
been asking that question ever since he
walked out of the carpenter’s shop about
two thousand years ago asking that
question people hate him are they love
him they ignore him
or they’ll follow him to their death
it’s something about this man who is
this man called Jesus and I think about
people who follow him have they been
growing for 2,000 years millions of
people all over the world but there he
was born in that simple little town of
Bethlehem who is this man Jesus who was
a carpenter who could absolutely shocked
the world and 2,000 years later be the
most important person who’s ever walked
on the face of this earth well jesus
said to his disciples who do men say
that I am so I want you to turn to the
sixteenth chapter of Matthew and just
looking at 13th 14th 15th and 16th
verses of Matthew chapter 16 the
scripture says now when Jesus came into
the district of Caesarea Philippi he was
asking his disciples who do people say
that the son of man is
and they said some say John the Baptist
and others Elijah but still of us
Jeremiah or one of the prophets and he
said to them but who do you say that I
am wonder what you would have said in
those days who do you say that I am and
then Simon Peter and said you are the
Christ the Messiah the one we’ve looked
for the Messiah the son of the Living
God so with that in mind let’s think
about it for a moment we celebrate his
birth and he called it Christmas we
worship and bow down and call him Lord
and we pray in his name and call him
Jesus
so this carpenter is no longer just the
carpenter he’s become the most awesome
person the world has ever known ever
we’ll know and so to answer the question
who is he well the Bible says he’s the
Christ that is he is the Messiah we know
him as the Son of God and the savior of
the world we know him as the reigning
Lord we know him as the ruling judge and
the returning king so we know I’m in
minute many different ways so if he’s
all that we say he is how should we
respond to him we should believe him we
should obey Him we should follow him we
should serve Him we should proclaim him
to other people we should know him
through the Word of God follow him and
love him that’s a big order if Jesus is
who he says he is what should we do
believe him obey Him serve Him proclaim
him know him and follow him and love him
there’s not anything in that list that
says ho-hum it says rather knowing who
he
is it should absolutely impact every
single aspect of their life knowing and
obeying follow him love him is so
somebody says well why because of him he
was who was that he was a prophet he was
a teacher he was a healer and he was the
Messiah how could he be a carpenter for
some thirty years and then all of a
sudden be all of this because he’s
always been all of that so in thinking
about that you have to think about well
what are his attributes what is it about
him that we say well this is who Jesus
really was and I think about people who
deny I mean people who don’t believe in
don’t follow him had a little they know
about it they don’t even know what we’ve
said already they just see him as a
teacher and a religious man and they say
was the carpenter and the prophet and so
forth but if what was he really like so
let’s think about his attributes for a
moment and the first one most people
won’t understand but the Apostle Paul
made it very clear and I can give you
verses for all of these but especially
what I turn to this one and that is when
you think about who he really is the
scripture says in Colossians that he was
the creator or listen to this he is the
image of the invisible God the firstborn
of all creation for by him all things
were created both in the heavens and on
earth visible and invisible whether
Thrones or dominions or rulers or
authorities all things have been created
through him and for him the Creator how
could he be all this other and be the
Creator what other Bible says also he is
omnipresent he’s everywhere that means
if he’s omnipresent he goes home with
you today he came with you this morning
because he’s living within your heart
when you receive him as your personal
Savior he’s with you forever
and ever and ever so the question where
is it he’s on the present he’s
omnipotent he has all power there’s not
anything he cannot do he doesn’t do
foolish things he does those things that
fit who he is
that fit our needs and they’re in
keeping with the will and purpose and
plan of the Father he’s omnipotent he’s
omniscient he knows everything which
means that you know don’t have any
secrets when you’re not neal Dupree and
you think maybe you oughta confess
something you think oh I don’t want to
say that he’s already heard it so he
knows everything and then of course
thank God he’s merciful how many times
that we call upon God to be merciful to
us he suggests to God that is at no time
do we ever have to worry about whether
he’ll mistreat us or not we certainly
don’t want him to give us what we
deserve I don’t I want him to give give
us mercy and love and grace but he’s a
just God which means he always does the
right thing the divine thing in every
single circumstance of life I don’t
always understand some things he does
but he’s just doesn’t make any mistakes
he’s more merciful to us than we really
and truly deserve but he’s the God of
all so mercy and he is eternal how could
he be eternal and be born to a woman
how could he beat eternal live thirty
years
how could he beat eternal down across
and be resurrected how could he be
eternal well go back to Genesis chapter
one verse 26 when the Bible says God
said let us make man in our image who in
the world is our angels weren’t creators
there wasn’t another person God the
Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit
Jesus was one of the three persons of
the Godhead who created this world and
then of course he’s sinless no anybody
like that
anybody volunteered to join that band I
don’t think so
he’s absolutely the sinless son of God
who is creator and just and merciful and
all the rest and at the same time he’s
human that’s the part I love Lord Jesus
being human you understand me being
human you see my frailties and my faults
and my mistakes being being being human
you see my humanity within me thank God
he isn’t just just and merciful he
understands us because there was not
human in him that he grew up as a little
boy like the little boy in your home
only he was absolutely perfect and
absolutely sinless think about this Mary
or Joseph never had to get a switch
never they never had to get a switch why
because he was absolutely the perfect
son of God before he was born when he
was a child and when he was a man and
then of course he was dear to he was God
all these attributes somebody says who
is this man named Jesus if you just say
he was the baby born in Bethlehem you’ve
missed it he’s everything we’ve said he
is
and we haven’t quit and I don’t even
have time to do all the things I’d like
to do but I’m gonna give you enough that
you won’t forget it who is this Jesus
these are his attributes and then of
course one of the issues that is a
theological issue today and that is he
was virgin born now listen to me
carefully one of the signs of people who
are drifting away from the Word of God
are those who disparage the idea that
Jesus Christ was born of a virgin oh
they will say that’s not important there
wasn’t important he would have been born
of a virgin born of a virgin was
absolutely necessary for him to be the
representative for all of us to take all
of our sin upon him and he died on the
cross dying in our place if he were a
sinner he did that in his own place he
had to be born of a virgin
if he had not been born of a virgin he
could not have represented you and me on
the cross and died in our place he had
to be the sinless Lamb of God the
sinless son of God watch this if he had
sinned he had to die for his own sin he
was sinless therefore he could die for
your sins and mine and then somebody
says well where is he and I love that
question where is he well what would you
say according to the scripture he’s
seated at the Father’s right hand to
make intercession for you and me
that is when we pray he takes our
prayers before the Father and he answers
our prayers because we have accepted the
Lamb of God the Lord Jesus Christ and
His sacrificial
substitutionary death at the cross which
makes it possible for us to relate to
God to speak to him him answer our
prayers there’s no one like him so where
is he see that the father’s right hand
and where else is he abiding in your
heart and mind think about who that is
you have the Lord Jesus Christ living
within you and Jesus made a big deal out
of it
that he was within us and that’s why he
used terms like abiding in us and we are
abiding in him and as the branch abides
in the vine so he abides within us every
single believer is stamped within our
heart the very presence of Jesus Christ
Himself where is he
where he’s been since the moment you
said I’m trusting Jesus Christ as my
personal Savior nobody could ever do
that for him and we are eternally the
children of God not because of our
conduct but because Christ lives within
us that makes us very special and
remember this the Bible says once we’ve
trusted Jesus as our Savior we have been
sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day
of redemption
he calls his own that is we are
absolutely and forever his children so
where is he well he sit at the Father’s
right hand and he says he’s making
intercession for us and he’s also living
within our heart so think about this you
can’t ever be without him
once you’re with him once Jesus Christ
it saves you you can never be without
him that’s why we can trust him believe
him
cry out to him know that he’s with us he
said I’ll never leave you nor forsake
you so what’s his mission on earth then
if that’s who he is
well first of all his mission is to
reveal the father and remember what
Jesus said he said if you’ve seen me
you’ve seen whom you’ve seen the father
that he says I and the father are one
watch this God came Jesus came God in
the person of Jesus came for the primary
reasons is to say this is this is who
the father is this is the way God thinks
and do you think about those Jews in
those days and especially as a religious
crowd of Pharisees and Sadducees who
supposedly knew all about God knew very
little about him Jesus came to reveal to
us who God is merciful kind forgiving
just in all the things that are true of
Jesus are true of God and so the person
who will never leave you nor forsake you
the person who is the prophet and the
teacher and the healer is one who lives
within us through the power of the Holy
Spirit he came to reveal the father then
to redeem mankind through his shed blood
at the cross
every single one of us has been saved in
the same way you may have been saved
early in life you knew a little bit you
may have been save later in life and you
know a lot but if we all got saved the
same way we confess their sins repent of
our sins confess the Lord Jesus Christ
as our Savior and Lord and as Paul said
if you confess him
the amount that Jesus Christ
this Lord he’ll forgive you of your sins
write your name in the Lamb’s Book of
Life and you will eternally and forever
be a child of God Jesus came to reveal
the kind of God who would save us the
kind of God who would save us as the
kind who loved us enough to have his own
son crucified in order to pay our sin
debt in full no one like him likewise he
came to assure us of life after death
and when Jesus Christ rose from the
grave it’s settled once and for all
there is life beyond this one and you
think about all the thousands of people
who live before
believed in something after death leave
most of them do and probably most people
believe it today but they don’t have any
that they don’t have any certainty about
it Jesus settled that question that once
he died on the cross and paid our sin
debt in full if he listened if they had
bird jesus seal them in the tomb and
that you could go to that same tomb
today and they would tell you it’s been
sealed for a couple of thousand years
and he’s still in there that’d be like
other great leaders of the world
supposing the great who died and you can
go to that tomb and this happened the
other and so forth no Jesus rose from
the grave settle once and for all that
everything he had said and taught was
true suppose he hadn’t risen then what
would you think about some of the things
he said but listen we don’t have any
escape
he said his the way I want you to live
here’s the life I’m giving you here’s
the power to do it in and I’ll be with
you until the end of the age he’s the
living son of God and I think about
about this that not only does he give us
the promise of life after death
but he also promises a resurrection so
let me ask you a question
do you believe that Jesus Christ when
you die is going to take you to heaven
well about ten of you do do you really
and truly believe that you’re going to
heaven when you die and on what basis
are you going is it your conduct is it
how much you’ve given how good you’ve
been what is it it’s the cross the blood
of Jesus Christ the promise of salvation
wrote your name in the Lamb’s Book of
Life and no one can ever erase it no
matter what they tell you know what they
do that’s the living Christ the
carpenter the carpenter born in
Bethlehem is the Savior who lives within
your heart and mine he’s the reigning
Lord who sits at the Father’s right hand
to intercede for us and the best friend
we’ll ever have no one like him and if
you think about it the Bible talks about
this abundant life Jesus I’ll give you
the bundle of what’s the abundant life
you ever thought about that what’s up
but that’s talks about a lot so think
about all that you have as a result of
being a follower of Jesus you can’t you
can’t in the words that exhaust your
brain to try to think about all the he
has given you all that he does for you
all that he promises you and all that he
does moment by moment in your life that
is who Jesus is this carpenter laid down
his tools picked up one picked up his
calling from the Father and has
transformed the world and he will keep
on transforming the world till he comes
back one of these days anything that
discredits him in any fashion in any way
is absolutely ungodly then of course who
did Jesus say was I’ll bet you can name
them all well let’s start with he’s the
Good Shepherd right he’s the bread of
life
he’s the vine he talks about in the 15th
chapter of of John he says I am the way
the truth and the life no man comes to
the Father but by me he said on the
light of the world and I’m the door
there’s no one like that
and that’s who he is so when we think
about his name we we call them Jesus
Messiah and for what so forth it’s the
name above all names and the Bible says
listen the Bible says before him every
single knee shall bow and I think about
these tyrants in the world who want to
control everything believe nothing of
the Bible the Bible says one of these
days every one of them shall bow before
the Lord God and all of them will have
to acknowledge that he is indeed the
Jesus the Savior the Lord and the God of
the Bible the name every tongue shall
confess the Bible says every tongue will
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the
glory of God and the scripture says the
only name by which we shall be saved
name given by an angel indicated by his
mission on earth the deliverer and all
of history think about this all this
so-called great people but in an
interesting that all the time is divided
by him BC before whom Christ aid thee
after our Lord all time there is there
is nothing and no one to compare to him
and the scripture says he’s the only
begotten Son of God only begotten
there’s none like him he’s one with the
father and think about this I think
about these people who boast about how
many books they’ve written and they done
this into this Jesus never wrote a book
he’s the subject of the greatest book
never wrote a song subject of thousand
thousands of songs never owned a home
but going to prepare one – you never
travel about a hundred miles from where
his home was you think he’s well
the whole world was in his presence
practice medicine without a license he
is the great physician no pills in those
shots
he never marshaled an army but he’s
brought down every kind of Kingdom
imagine listeners Herod could not kill
him Satan could not seduce him death
couldn’t destroy him and the tomb could
not keep him there’s no one left
so think about all the names that he’s
called in Scripture he’s the king of
kings
he’s the son of God he’s the Lamb of God
the Rose of Sharon the Lord of lords the
great High Priest the Morningstar the
Prince of Peace the wonderful counselor
Emmanuel the Word of God the prophet and
Alpha and Omega has that for a name
that’s who Jesus is and all of these
names describe of something either
betters character his attributes or his
mission now
maybe you seated here you’re not a
Christian do you think that one of these
days you’re gonna die and go to heaven
because you’ve been good
no our Heavenly Father sent his son to
the cross to die shed his blood in the
most horrible fashion of crucifixion
shed his blood which was God’s way of
paying for your sin through the death of
his son and there is only one way to
heaven Jesus said I am the way the truth
and the life no one comes to the Father
but by me and if you intend to go to
heaven if you intend to see the Lord one
of these days you must ask him to
forgive you of your sins trust him as
your personal Savior and start living a
godly life indwelt by the Holy Spirit
empowered by the Holy Spirit who will
help you enable you give you
understanding of what they got little
life’s all about but one thing you
cannot do is you cannot say you have
never heard the truth that you didn’t
know who Jesus was the Bible says that
every knee shall bow and every tongue
shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God
and I pray this Christmas don’t let all
this stuff paper bows cards utensils all
the things that get around your feet and
cause you to stumble don’t let that take
the place of the Son of God who went to
the cross and made everything within you
that’s good possible and we call his
name what let’s it like a minute what is
it Jesus amen amen amen amen
and father we thank you for your love
for us may we express that every day of
our life by doing what you came and made
possible for us to do to believe you to
obey you to love you
and the servi with all of our heart and
we pray this in his wonderful name amen
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