Jun 25, 2017 | by Jonathan Waller | series: The Gospel John
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“Visualizing the Invisible God”
John 1:1-18
- Introduction
- If you were to try and draw a picture of God so that someone who didn’t know God could see Him, what would your drawing look like?
- If you want to see God, look no further than Jesus Christ
- Jesus shows he is God in that he has done what no other could do
- He was with God in the beginning
- He is greater than John (Elijah or the Prophets)
- He is greater than Moses (Law)
- Jesus shows he is God and all God’s creation was done through him
- Jesus is the spoken word of God by which he created the universe
- His fingerprint is left everywhere you look
- John Ortberg calls Jesus “The man who won’t go away!”
- Jesus shows he is God in that he came to reveal God to us
- He has come to show us God’s nature
- We didn’t recognize him because we had been disillusioned by what we thought we knew about God
- Conclusion:
- If you want others to see God, you are able to do this, not by painting a picture, but by doing what Jesus did
- As Jesus emulated the father by following His lead, so we must emulate Jesus and follow his