Easter Sunday: Consider Jesus

So I ask this morning that you would place your faith in Jesus because nobody else offers you words of eternal life. Not Hinduism, not Buddhism, not Islam, not new age spirituality, not whatever you think to be right in the world. Only Jesus offers you eternal life. He offers you a full and meaningful life in this life, and in the life to come. [01:04:13] (32 seconds)  #ChooseJesusEternalLife

He said, I know the resurrection is a fact and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified that they had seen Jesus raised from the dead and they even proclaimed that truth for forty years, never once denying it. Every one of them was beaten and tortured and stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it were not true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world, and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. [00:54:19] (38 seconds)  #EyewitnessesProveResurrection

He cannot be just a good teacher. He cannot be a prophet. He cannot be any of those things alone because he is either the son of God or he's a liar and a lunatic. He can't be anything else. And so to prove that he is the son of God, he said, watch this, these people, these religious leaders, they're gonna persecute me. I'm going to die, but I will rise again. [00:49:33] (26 seconds)  #JesusGodOrLiar

And if you're not a believer, if you're not a Christian, and you're considering Jesus today or maybe reconsidering Jesus, my ask is that you put your faith and your trust in him today. You know, short of begging, don't know what else to say to you. Like I've staked my life on the fact that this is true. My father has staked his life on the fact that this is true. The disciples, they spread this message around the world at great cost to their own lives. They suffered, They died. They were imprisoned because this is absolutely and totally true. [01:03:28] (45 seconds)  #PutFaithInJesusToday

And then Jesus turns and he looks at his disciples and he says, but who do you say that I am? And Peter makes that very bold confession, you are the Christ. And in Matthew's gospel, he says, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. So do you understand like what Jesus is saying here? He's saying, I am the son of God. And his statement is so bold that he allows his followers to also call him the son of God. [00:47:49] (33 seconds)  #WhoDoYouSayJesusIs

And even bigger than this is the things that Jesus said about himself. Listen to this, in John chapter 11. He said, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall live. Or what about this one in John fourteen nine, he says, whoever has seen me has seen the father. What is he saying in this passage? He's saying, you wanna know God the father? Look at me. Like, I am his son, I am the exact representation of who he is. [00:46:40] (38 seconds)  #JesusResurrectionIsGodRevealed

No. I don't think so. The problem then is when Jesus makes the claim that I am the way, I am the truth, and I am the life, and no one, here it is, no one comes to father except through me. And that would be the statement that people have issue with. So when we look at Christianity versus all of the other religions of the world, we cannot say that they are all basically the same. [00:36:36] (31 seconds)  #JesusIsTheOnlyWay

Then you have Christianity who says, there is a God who hear me, loves you very, very much. He loves you so much that he would send his son to pay for your sins on the cross and the exclamation point would be the resurrection from the dead and that if we will simply believe in our heart of hearts and follow him with our lives, then we will have eternal life. All religions are not the same. And so I would ask you this morning to consider Jesus. [00:38:35] (37 seconds)  #ChristianityOffersResurrectionHope