Lecture 2 12 Mission Statements of Jesus

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1.2 Mission Statements of Jesus • Objective: To learn the primary emphases and purposes of the four gospels. • “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” —John 4:34 • “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” —John 3:16-18 • The Bible addresses the most basic and fundamental problem of humanity—that we have divorced ourselves from God and that separation must be reconciled. The Old Testament tells us the divorce is the result of sin – the sin of Adam and Eve, our parents. • Its message summarizes the solution to our problem of separation from God with these words: “Jesus is coming!” The message of the New Testament, however, describes the solution to our problem from a different perspective: “Jesus came!” The reason He came was to provide forgiveness for our sin and to reconcile us to God. Jesus was the greatest revelation of truth that the world has ever been given. All other beliefs and opinions must be measured by the truth that He gave us. In fact, the New Testament tells us that Jesus was (and is) the exact image of God. Out of His union with God, He gave us all the truth we could possibly understand about God. • Because the gospels tell of Jesus’ life, works, and teaching, they are the most important books in the Bible. Jesus was zealous about His mission to reconcile humanity to God. He said that His “food” was to do the work God sent Him to do. He came because God wanted to communicate with us in a way we could understand. This is why it is so important to study the gospels: to understand God’s message and to receive His solution to our problem of separation from Him

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