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May 4, 2015 · In the Jesus, Continued Bible Study, J. D. Greear and I hope to ignite your passion for the Holy Spirit – knowing His ways, discerning His voice, and joining His mission. This is a eight-week study that looks at how Jesus continues His work today, through ordinary believers like you and me, filled with the all-powerful Spirit of God.
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Jan 14, 2024 · In this comprehensive article, we will explore the significance of Jesus Christ in detail. We will look at Jesus’ life and identity, analyze his core teachings, discuss the impact of his death and resurrection, examine how he influenced history and culture, and reflect on why his legacy still endures today.
- The Life of Christ
- The Outline of Jesus’ Ministry
- What Jesus Said About Himself and His Kingdom Program
- What Does Jesus’ Life Call For from People and For God’s people?
- God’s Vindication of The Life of Christ
Summarizing the life of history’s most dominant and unique figure is a challenge. The importance of Jesus is shown by the fact that his life is the dividing point in our calendar between the era before Christ and that which followed the life of our Lord. We proceed in four steps. First, we look at the broad chronological and geographical outline of...
The dates of Jesus’s ministry are tied to the timing of his crucifixion and the ministry of John the Baptist. Two options for the date of his crucifixion are the years AD 30 or 33. Our uncertainty revolves around being able to pinpoint exactly when in the time of Pontius Pilate’s rule as procurator Jesus was executed. Evidence for Jesus’s existence...
An important precursor to Jesus’s life that sets up his ministry and frames its importance is a remark made by John the Baptist that appears in Matthew, Mark and Luke about the one coming after him baptizing with the Spirit and fire (Matt. 3:11-12; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:15-17). Luke’s version tells us that this remark came in response to speculation tha...
The role of the Holy Spirit in God’s program was the subject of Jesus’s Upper Room discourse (John 14–16). Jesus said he had to depart so he might send the Paraclete. The consummate gift in salvation is eternal life and that life is driven by the presence of God’s Spirit within God’s people. The Spirit gives a teaching and enablement that people la...
When Jesus stood before the Jewish leadership and was asked if he was the Christ, he replied positively and then noted he would be seen as the Son of Man riding the clouds and seated at God’s right hand (Matt. 26:62–66; Mark 14:61–65; Luke 22:66–71). He was affirming that whatever they did to him, God would vindicate him and show him to be what he ...
Sep 13, 2024 · Jesus fulfilled this prophecy and showed us that the hard work of a sinless life, culminating in a sacrificial death, brings us the hope we celebrate today. We display our victory by following the Master. Like Him, we have lost our life to gain it. We should not follow Jesus only occasionally but all the time.
Oct 31, 2017 · It seems uncanny that Jesus, who lived in an area on the eastern edge of the Roman Empire and never left the region, who had only several thousand followers at His death, and was shunned by both the religious and political establishment of the time, is not only remembered 2,000 years later, but is the most famous person in all of human history.
If it weren’t for Jesus, society wouldn’t care about women’s rights. Jesus’ pure, sacrificial love for women has undoubtedly made our planet a better place to live. 2) Human Rights Today in America, we think basic human rights are common sense. But that has not always been the case.
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“Some believe that Jesus [simply] taught great things, made a moral example on the cross, and that brought out the best in people and made sociological changes in society. “But if you look in the New Testament and through history, Jesus changed one person at a time. They followed what Jesus said, and they went on to change the world.
