Jesus: The Man, the Myth, and the Legend

So the question is this, right, is why do our analogies and illustrations of the trinity absolutely fail us? And the answer is simple. It's because, church, the trinity is not a problem to be solved. It is a mystery to be confessed. Four of you believe it. If you could understand god, god wouldn't be god. God doesn't fit in the brain matter. God was, he is, and he will be. How do you make sense of that? It's hard to make sense of that. God, the Bible says, is one being three persons. And there is no created thing that actually maps to that reality. [00:50:01] (49 seconds)  #TrinityIsAMystery

Listen. No story compares. No love story measures up to the love story of Jesus Christ. I wanna say it again, friends. He loved you to death. He loved you through death, and he loved you out the other side. He loved you when you didn't even know you needed him. He loved you even when you absolutely and categorically rejected him. His love is a love that has no measure. [01:01:26] (31 seconds)  #LoveBeyondMeasure

And friends, this question was not just a question of theological trivia. The answer to this question is important because eternity hinges on what we do with the person of Jesus Christ. So let's look for a moment as we go deep for a moment. Stay with me. Don't get distracted on your phones. As we go deep, I wanna talk to you about Jesus, the man. [00:42:16] (27 seconds)  #EternityHingesOnJesus

I mean, I went there for the first time about ten, twelve years ago. I walked into the tomb, and guess what? Apart from the backpacker in the corner, the tomb's still empty. The tomb's still empty, ladies and gentlemen. He surprised everybody. He surprised the Roman soldiers. He even surprised his followers. Even though he said he would rise from the dead, everybody was shocked and stunned. And here's the thing about the empty tomb. You gotta know that if Rome, the Romans who's who killed him, the Pharisees who despised him, if they could have presented a dead body, then Christianity would have been over day one. But they couldn't do it because he's alive. [01:02:52] (51 seconds)  #EmptyTombProof

It's important that we get a hold of that. The second wrong teaching is what we call modalism. And modalism teaches this that God is one person who appears in different modes. The father, the son, and the Holy Spirit but they are not three distinct persons. Oneness churches, Jesus only movements teach this, and the reason it's heresy, it's wrong, is because it denies the personal distinctions of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. Are you with me? We're going again deeper. Three is partialism. [00:45:26] (38 seconds)  #ModalismIsFalse

It teaches this, the father, the son, and the spirit are parts of god and together they make up god but on their own, they are not fully god. Who teaches this? It's it's it's in popular illustrations, even some songs, and the reason it's heresy is because god is not divided into three parts. Each person is god. [00:46:04] (22 seconds)  #NoPartialGod

We also have tritheism, and tritheism teaches that the father, the son, and the spirit are separate gods. But this again is completely wrong because the Bible teaches us. It actually violates scripture that talks about god being one. The fifth kind of, false teaching is subordinationism that teach that the son and the spirit is inferior or lesser than the father in nature. The Jehovah's Witnesses again teach this and liberalist or even, have revisionist Christologies teach this, and it's heresy because what it's doing is it's confusing the eternal quality and nature of the three persons of the godhead with functional roles. [00:46:04] (49 seconds)  #RejectTritheism

A nontoxic, masculine man. Now if I was the devil, right, I would be doing several things today. I would be distracting you with your phones and different things like that. If I was the devil, I'd try to get you sidetracked in your thinking. If I was the devil, I would inspire painters from hundreds of years ago to paint images of Jesus as a weakling, some insipid type creature. But the Bible does not say that. He is the man. He is the man of men. He is the man of humanity. Jesus is, come on, the man. We have no problem with that. It's biblical, folks. Stop preaching. Don't preach. [00:55:29] (44 seconds)  #JesusIsTheMan