65. JESUS
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Jesus Christ the same yesterday, & today, & forever (Heb.13:8).
1. Jesus is the ultimate of God's spiritual love!
2. Jesus never runs dry! He's a Fountain that flows forever!
3. Jesus is like a picture of God to show us what God is like!
4. God had to make a Man to show us what He was like--a Man of love, compassion, concern for the poor & the afflicted--humble, & yet a revolutionary that changed things which should be changed!
5. Jesus was a revolutionary, He was not a reformist!
6. Jesus is God, in a way, part of God, part of the Trinity or a part of the oneness of God, the same way we're one Family, where husband & wife are one but they're different personalities.
7. Jesus in a sense is the face of God, the manifestation of God. The only way we ever see God is in seeing Jesus.
8. Lift up Jesus, Who said, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me!"
9. Jesus is our Message. If they don't want Jesus, they don't want us. They can't have us without Jesus.
10. Without the Way, there is no going;
Without the Truth, there is no knowing;
Without the Life, there is no living;
Without the Christ, there is no giving.
11. God is pictured in His Son Christ Jesus, a Man Who loved everybody, even His enemies. He went about all His life trying to do good & help others, sometimes even the Scribes & Pharisees who finally crucified Him for His dangerous doctrine of Love!
12. Jesus is the Lover of all lovers, Who came for love & lived in love & died for love, that we might live & love forever!
13. God's like a great Iceberg,
Deep beneath the sea,
And Jesus is the Tip,
The surface that we see.
14. It's almost presumptuous to talk to God: Jesus is my Mediator.
15. Rest of the weary, Joy of the sad,
Hope of the dreary, Light of the glad;
Home of the stranger, Strength to the end,
Refuge from danger, Savior and Friend!
16. Jesus was, most of all, the Word of God!
17. Jesus will meet all your needs and solve all your problems! He's just that wonderful, and it's all just that simple!
18. You can talk to God all you want, but it doesn't really ring a bell until you say Jesus!
19. Help us to bring the lonely people the Love that alleviates their loneliness!
20. He's big enough to rule the mighty Universe, yet small enough to live within my heart.
21. Jesus is our Defense Attorney before God, our Judge, defending us from all the fiery darts of the Evil one, that prosecuting attorney, the Accuser of the Saints, Satan himself.
22. We've picked a winner & we can't lose!--Christ Jesus!
23. Jesus was human. He got tired, He got hungry, He got sleepy, He got weary, all the things that happen to you & me. He was subject to all these things even as we are, yet without sin. He was tempted in all points such as we, yet without sin.--That He might be a good High Priest, have compassion on you, know how you feel, know when you're footsore & weary, understand when you've had enough.
24. Jesus was not only the Living Word, the Sermon, but He was also the Living Work, the Sample.
25. Like the Clown in "The Parable", Jesus, the very Son of God, the King of Heaven, ridiculous in human flesh & in the make-up of human society & custom, the Son of God in human flesh, more ridiculous than that good man in the clown suit, came down from the Halls of Heaven to join the circus of the World in order that He could go around & cheer people up & bring them everlasting peace & happiness.
26. Jesus Himself temporarily renounced the rights of His Citizenship in Heaven & became a Citizen of this World, & though He was rich, for our sakes He became poor that we through His poverty might become rich. He not only adapted Himself to our bodily form but also conformed to the human ways of life, custom, language, dress & living that He might understand & love us better & communicate with us on the lowly level of our own human understanding in order that He reach us with His Love, prove to us His compassion & concern & help us understand His message in simple childlike terms that we could understand.
27. Jesus made Himself of no reputation: He was a companion of drunks & harlots & publicans & sinners & was called a liar & a blasphemer & a glutton & a winebibber & demon-possessed!
28. To hell with the empty wind & lies of the Devil! He cannot win! He's already beaten by Christ on the Cross, risen from the tomb! Jesus is the victor over all!--Death & Hell & the grave & all the empty-windy lies of the Evil one!
29. Jesus had to get dirty so that you could be clean.
30. The only hope is Jesus & the only way out is up!
31. Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of Earth shall grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory & grace!
32. I know a Name That can still the raging tempest
I know a Name, That can calm the troubled sea.
I know a Name, That can drive away all sorrow.
I know a Name, That is greater that them all!
I know a Name from which comfort I may borrow
When others fail & the tears of anguish fall!
CHORUS:
I Know a Name, a wonderful Name!
That wonderful Name is JESUS!
(See also No.6, 20, 29, 35, 71, 113, 126, 306, 307, 317B, 345, 397, 527, 560, 564, 566, 583, 584, 590, 592, 594, 595, 605, 631, 633, 638, 641, 647, 648, 686, 699, 708, 714, 735, 772, 781, 882, 1120, 1305, 1328, 1348, 1360, 1371, 1390, 1509, 1515.)
33. ISA.9:6 For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
34. ISA.11:1-5 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; And shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears: But with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the Earth: and He shall smite the Earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and faithfulness the girdle of His reins.
35. ISA.53:2-4 For he shall grow out before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him: He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
36. MAT.28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto Me in Heaven and in Earth.
37. LUK.19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
38. JOH.1:1-14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through Him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of the Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the World. He was in the World, and the World was made by Him, and the World knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.
39. JOH.1:29 Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the World.
40. JOH.5:20a The Father...sheweth Him all things.
41. JOH.6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that beliveth on Me shall never thirst.
42. JOH.8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the World: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
43. JOH.10:9 I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
44. JOH.10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth His life for the sheep.
45. JOH.13:3a The Father had given all things into His hands.
46. HEB.2:17,18 Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are tempted.
47. HEB.4:14,15 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the Heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
48. 1JOH.3:5 And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin.
(See also ISA.53; 54.)
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