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Will The Real Jesus Please Stand Up! 40 Days Of Growth: Urban Legend # 2 October 28th, 2007 2 Corinthians 11:3-4 2 Corinthians 11:3-4 (NIV) "I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough." "They preach a different Jesus..., a different kind of Spirit, a different kind of gospel..." 2 Corinthians 11:4b (NLT) Definition Of The Trinity: Within the nature or reality of the One God, there are three separate persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and these three share the same attributes, in affect, the three are the One God The Trinity is progressively revealed throughout scripture... (Genesis 1:26, Genesis 3:22, Isaiah 6:8, Matthew 3:16-17, Matthew 28:19, 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 2 Corinthians 13:14) "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit..." Matthew 28:19 (NASB) 4 Keys To Unlocking The Real Jesus 1. Jesus Was A Real Man "The Word (Jesus) became flesh, and dwelt among us..." John 1:14 (NASB) There were times when Jesus was hungry (Matthew 4:2) and thirsty (John 19:28). He became tired after long walks (John 4:6). He experienced love and compassion (Matthew 9:36). He expressed anger to those who defiled His Father' house (Matthew 21:13). He wept at the tomb of a dear friend (John 11:35), and He faced the cross with agony (John 12:27). 2. Jesus Was More Than A Man  Jesus was born of a virgin. (Compare Isa 7:14) "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us." Matthew 1:23 (NIV)  Jesus lived his entire life without sinning. (Compare Num 23:19) Jesus..."understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same temptations we do, yet he did not sin." Hebrews 4:15 (NLT)  Jesus had power over illness, disease, and death. (Compare Isa 35) Jesus said to them..."Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor." Matthew 11:4-5 (NIV)  Jesus had the authority to forgive sin. (Compare Num 14:18) Jesus said to the paralytic..."Son, your sins are forgiven...But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—He said to the paralytic, "I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home." Mark 2:5-11 (NASB) 3. Jesus Claimed To Be God In Human Flesh "Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. Then took they up stones to cast at him..." John 8:58-59 (KJV) Jesus said..."I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." John 10:30-33 (KJV) "For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form." Colossians 2:9 (NASB)