100 Truths About Jesus

1) Jesus claimed to be God - John 8:24; 8:56-59 (see Exodus 3:14); John 10:30-33
2) Jesus is called God - John 1:1,14; 20:28; Col. 2:9; Titus 2:13; Heb. 1:8
3) Jesus is the image of the invisible God - Heb. 1:3
4) Jesus abides forever - Heb. 7:24
5) Jesus created all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:15-17
6) Jesus is before all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:17;
7) Jesus is eternal - John 1:1,14; 8:58; Micah 5:1-2
8) Jesus is honored the same as the Father - John 5:23
9) Jesus is prayed to - Acts 7:55-60; 1 Cor. 1:2 with Psalm 116:4; (John 14:14)
10) Jesus is worshipped - Matt. 2:2,11; 14:33; John 9:35-38; Heb. 1:6
11) Jesus is omnipresent - Matt. 18:20; 28:20
12) Jesus is with us always - Matt. 28:20
13) Jesus is our only mediator between God and ourselves - 1 Tim. 2:5
14) Jesus is the guarantee of a better covenant - Heb. 7:22; 8:6
15) Jesus came to proclaim freedom for believers - Luke 4:18
16) Jesus said, "I AM the Bread of Life" - John 6:35,41,48,51
17) Jesus said, "I AM the Door" - John 10:7,9
18) Jesus said, "I AM the Good Shepherd" - John 10:11,14
19) Jesus said, "I AM the Way the Truth and The Life" - John 14:6
20) Jesus said, "I AM the Light of the world" - John 8:12; 9:5; 12:46; Luke 2:32
21) Jesus said, "I AM the True Vine" - John 15:1,5
22) Jesus said, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life" - John 11:25
23) Jesus said, "I AM the First and the Last" - Rev. 1:17; 2:8; 22:13
24) Jesus always lives to make intercession for us - Heb. 7:25
25) Jesus cleanses from sin - 1 John 1:9
26) Jesus cleanses us from our sins by His blood - Rev. 1:5; Rom. 5:9
27) Jesus forgives sins - Matt. 9:1-7; Luke 5:20; 7:48
28) Jesus saves forever - Matt. 18:11; John 10:28; Heb. 7:25
29) Jesus discloses Himself to us - John 14:21
30) Jesus draws all men to Himself - John 12:32
31) Jesus gives eternal life - John 10:28; 5:40
32) Jesus resurrects - John 5:39; 6:40,44,54; 11:25-26
33) Jesus gives joy - John 15:11
34) Jesus gives peace - John 14:27
35) Jesus has all authority - Matt. 28:18; John 5:26-27; 17:2; 3:35
36) Jesus judges - John 5:22,27
37) Jesus knows all men - John 16:30; John 21:17
38) Jesus opens the mind to understand scripture - Luke 24:45
39) Jesus received honor and glory from the Father - 2 Pet. 1:17
40) Jesus reveals grace and truth - John 1:17 see John 6:45
41) Jesus reveals the Father - Matt. 11:27; Luke 10:22
42) Jesus bears witness of Himself - John 8:18; 14:6
43) Jesus' works bear witness of Himself - John 5:36; 10:25
44) The Father bears witness of Jesus - John 5:37; 8:18; 1 John 5:9
45) The Holy Spirit bears witness of Jesus - John 15:26
46) The multitudes bear witness of Jesus - John 12:17
47) The Prophets bear witness of Jesus - Acts 10:43
48) The Scriptures bear witness of Jesus - John 5:39
49) The Father will honor us if we serve Jesus - John 12:26 see Col. 3:24
50) The Father wants us to fellowship with Jesus - 1 Cor. 1:9
51) The Father tells us to listen to Jesus - Luke 9:35; Matt. 17:5
52) Everyone who's heard & learned from the Father comes to Jesus - John 6:45
53) We come to Jesus - John 5:50; 6:35,37,45,65; 7:37;
54) The Father draws us to Jesus - John 6:44
55) The Law leads us to Christ - Gal. 3:24
56) Jesus is the Rock - 1 Cor. 10:4
57) Jesus is the Savior - John 4:42; 1 John 4:14
58) Jesus is the King - Matt. 2:1-6; Luke 23:3
59) In Jesus are the treasures of wisdom and knowledge - Col. 2:2-3
60) In Jesus we have been made complete Col. 2:10
61) Jesus indwells us - Col. 1:27
62) Jesus sanctifies - Heb. 2:11
63) Jesus loves - Eph. 5:25
64) We sin against Jesus - 1 Cor. 8:12
65) We receive Jesus - John 1:12; Col. 2:6
66) Jesus makes many righteous - Rom. 5:19
67) Jesus sends the Holy Spirit - John 15:26
68) Jesus offered up Himself - Heb. 7:27; 9:14
69) Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins for all time - Heb. 10:12
70) The Son of God has given us understanding - 1 John 5:20
71) Jesus is the author and perfector of our faith - Heb. 12:2
72) Jesus is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession - Heb. 3:1
73) Jesus is preparing a place for us in heaven - John 14:1-4
74) Jesus is the Light of the world - John 8:12
75) Jesus has explained the Father - John 1:18
76) Jesus was crucified because of weakness - 2 Cor. 13:4
77) Jesus has overcome the world - John 16:33
78) Truth is in Jesus - Eph. 4:21
79) The fruit of righteousness comes through Jesus Christ - Phil. 1:11
80) Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come - 1 Thess. 1:10
81) Disciples bear witness of Jesus Christ - John 15:27
82) Jesus died for us - 1 Thess. 5:10
83) Jesus died and rose again - 1 Thess. 4:14
84) Jesus was a ransom for many - Matt. 20:28
85) The Christian dead have fallen asleep in Jesus - 1 Thess. 4:15
86) Jesus rendered the devil powerless - Heb. 2:14
87) Jesus is able to save completely - Heb. 7:25
88) Jesus came to serve - Matt. 20:28
89) Jesus came to be a high priest - Heb. 2:17
90) Jesus came to save - John 3:17; Luke 19:10
91) Jesus came to preach the kingdom of God - Luke 4:43
92) Jesus came to bring division - Luke 12:51
93) Jesus came to do the will of the Father - John 6:38
94) Jesus came to give the Father's words - John 17:8
95) Jesus came to testify to the truth - John 18:37
96) Jesus came to set us free from the Law - Rom. 8:2
97) Jesus came to die and destroy Satan's power - Heb. 2:14
98) Jesus came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets - Matt. 5:17
99) Jesus came to give life - John 10:10,28
100) Jesus came to taste death for everyone - Heb. 2:9

C.A.R.M.

There Are Many Deceived Church-Goers by Paul Washer

The Perspicuity of Scripture

The perspicuity or clarity of Scripture in its relation to almost all areas of systematic theology is affected by postmodern hermeneutics that fail to respect the authority of Scripture. The doctrine raises a number of questions difficult to answer in a brief span, but two very basic issues are the meaning of the doctrine of perspicuity and the long-range historical context in which the doctrine has arisen. The basic doctrine means that the Bible can be understood by people through the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit and that people need to search the Scripture and judge for themselves what it means. Scripture itself attests its own perspicuity, but not to the point that it cannot be misunderstood or is in every point equally simple and clear. The doctrine does not rule out the need for interpretation, explanation, and exposition of the Bible by qualified leaders. The doctrine does mean that Scripture is clear enough for the simplest person, deep enough for highly qualified readers, clear in its essential ma tters, obscure in som e places to people because of their sinfulness, understandable through ordinary means, understandable by an unsaved person on an external level, understandable in its significance by a saved person through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, and available to every believer whose faith must rest on the Scriptures. Historically, debates about perspicuity have related to Marcion’s attack on the OT, the fathers’ denial of OT perspicuity, covenant theology’s subordination of the OT to the NT, and the medieval church’s attack on biblical perspicuity. The Reformers, the Protestant scholastics, and the German pietists supported the doctrine which is of primary importance for the practice of contemporary Christians.

By Larry Pettegrew
The Master's Seminary
Read full article: http://www.tms.edu/tmsj/tmsj15i.pdf

For A Drop Of Pleasure

(Thomas Watson, "The Ten Commandments")

"You shall not murder." Exodus 20:13

Many murder their own souls! They willfully damn themselves, and throw themselves into hell!

Who are those who murder their own souls?

They willfully murder their souls—who have no sense of God, or the world to come, and are past feeling. Tell them of God's holiness and justice—and they are not affected at all. "They made their hearts as an adamant stone." Zech 7:12. Sinners have adamantine hearts—nothing will work upon them, neither ordinances nor judgments. They do not believe in God; they laugh at hell. Thus they murder their own souls, and throw themselves into hell as fast as they can!

They willfully murder their own souls—who resign themselves to their lusts, let what will, come of it. "Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more." Eph 4:19. Let ministers speak to them about their sins, let conscience speak, let afflictions speak—they will have their lusts, even though they go to hell for them! Do not these murder their own souls? Many say in their hearts, "let our sins damn us—just so that they but please us!" Herod will have his incestuous lusts though it costs him his soul. For a drop of pleasure—men will drink a sea of wrath! These massacre and damn their own souls!

"A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin. He will be lost because of his great stupidity." Proverbs 5:22-23

Oh! take heed of murdering your own souls!

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