Iconic Pastor Dr. Charles Stanley Died at 90 | Watch the Greatest Sermon Before His Death

[Music] what do you think of Jesus [Music] Christ that's the most important answer you'll ever have to give if you only think that he's a man simply a man and that's all he is then one day you will be greatly shocked who is this person called Jesus Christ many people believe in God and they'll tell you they do but Jesus that's a whole different story he's just one of those other prophets or teachers who roam the world of his day and talked about other things that people may be interested in heal some people and so forth but Jesus is not all that important it's God who is important that's the way the world thinks and I want to ask you how do you think what do you think of Jesus Christ the most important question you'll ever answer in your life and in John's gospel he has given us a picture of Jesus unlike any other place in the scripture and so often times people will read and they'll say well I believe this or I believe that but the question is what do you really and truly believe about Jesus and I say again many people have God they believe God and it's like little g o d they believe that there is a God but Jesus is a whole different story and what I want to do is answer this question what do we believe about him who is Jesus Christ and the answer is that Jesus Christ is God that you probably say well now I I don't believe he's God I believe he's maybe a prophet no he's God and I want to show you why he is because all the proof that we need is in the word of God and you could just remain in the Gospel of John if you wanted to he's everything he promises to be and he is God turn if you will to John chapter 1 and we can read quite a number of verses but I'll just limit this to these first five verses of the Gospel of John because he answers this question throughout the gospel and we're answering the question who is he in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he was in the beginning with God and all things came into being through him and apart from him nothing came into being that came into being in him was life and the life was the light of men the light shines in the dark and the Darkness did not comprehend it who is Jesus well I want us to think seriously about it because your whole eternity depends upon what you think about it and most folks will say well as long as I believe in God and I try to live a pretty good life that should be sufficient that's what the word of God teaches so I want us to think about it in this light and answer the question Who Is He And so I'm going to ask four questions that are legitimate questions and or that give us an answer we answer the question who is Jesus Christ the first question is who did Jesus say It was who did he say it was Jesus said in John 10:4 and I'm going to give you the scriptures for all of these so you'll remember them Jesus said I am the Good Shepherd and I know my own and my own know me so Jesus says I'm the Good Shepherd secondly Jesus said I am the door of the sheep in John 10:7 if anyone enters the door or enters through me he will be saved John 10:9 Jesus said I am the father of one look at that he who sees me sees the one who sent me in John 12:4 and then in John 8:12 Jesus said I am the light of the world he who follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life and then in the 14th chapter of John in the sixth verse Jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the father but through me so so this is what Jesus said about himself all of those verses are quotes of Jesus this is what he said about himself and then we're asking questions who did Jesus say he was the second question is were his actions consistent with who God is because we're trying to find out who is this Jesus so were his actions consistent with who God is in John the 8th chapter the 29th verse he said I always do the things that are pleasing to him to the father no one can say that but Jesus always do the things that please him a second verse is John 10:10 Jesus said I came that they might have life and have it more abundantly that's certainly consistent with who God is for example look at the Miracles he performed he fed 5,000 he healed the sick he raised the dead he walked on water think of all the miraculous things he did so when we ask who is Jesus he's certainly a miracle worker but he's more than that because the one thing he did that stirred up the Pharisees and the Sadducees to Absolute hatred and bitterness to him when he said speaking to them that he forgave someone of their sin who can forgive sin we're talking about who he is what's consistent with who God says he is then no one can take his life from him listen to John 10: 18 no one can take his life from him he has authority to lay down his life and he says I have authority to take it up again is that consistent with who God is yes it is in 6th chapter of John the 38th verse Jesus said for I have come down from Heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me so the question is were these actions consistent with God every one of them was we're answering the question is Jesus God so far you have to admit yes he is no one could follow all of this unless he is the third thing I want us to notice is this what was his relationship to God the Father we're talking about Jesus being God what was his relationship to God the father now remember in Genesis chapter 1 the 26th verse when he said let us make man in our own image who is us it's certainly not Angels Angels aren't creators not the devil let us make man in our own image God the Father God the son God the holy hly Spirit the three persons of the Trinity that make up the godhead that's what the scripture teaches in John 10:30 Jesus said I and the father are one he said for example the eth chapter if you knew me you would know my father also and when I look at the 14th chapter of John there are a number of verses there that I want us to look at but look at verse 16 of the 14th chapter for a moment Jesus said I will ask the father and he will give you another helper another in the Greek is alos that means another just like just like himself I will ask the father he will give you another helper that he may be with you forever in that one verse of all three persons of the Trinity so who is God that is God the Father God the son God the Holy Spirit now I'll tell you why this is so important in a moment he says that is the TR Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it does not see him or know him but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you then for example in John 1 verse one the word Jesus was in the beginning he was with God and the scripture says and the Word was God the testimony of John is that Jesus was God in human flesh God the Father God the son God the Holy Spirit the holy spirit's coming after the resurrection but the three persons of the Trinity now say I'm going to say it again I'm going to show you why this is so important then for example he says in John 1:3 he was the creator with the father all things that came into being through him and apart from him nothing came into the being so Jesus says that he was the creator well wait a minute the Bible says that God created yes God the Father God the son God the Holy Spirit and we have the three persons of the Trinity let us make man in our own image then I look for example in Colossians chapter one because all the way over here in Colossians and Paul all the things that he wrote and in this first chapter of Colossians uh listen to what he says he says for example in uh the first chapter in the 14th verse in whom speaking of Jesus we have Redemption the Forgiveness of our sins and then he says he Jesus is the image of the invisible God the firstborn of all creation for by him are all things created both in the heavens and on Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things have been created through him and for him he is before all things and in him all things hold together so the testimony of the Apostle Paul is the same as the testimony of John is God the Father God the son God the Holy Spirit each one working in a different way then all the way down to John 6:38 for I've come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me and what is that to die on the cross and to save us from our sin and then the 14th chapter of John the 11th verse I am in the father and the father is in me and the fifth chapter in the 36th verse the very works that I do testify about me that the father has sent me and then in chapter 8: 29 I always do the things that are pleasing to him would you not say that all that is consistent with being God all of it is now let me show you why this is so important in the mind of the world there's God in our mind we know that is God the Father God the son God the holy spirit so when you talk to your friends about God they say I believe in God and um in their minds there's God out there somewhere but he's so distant and he's so foreign and so unimaginable and so Indescribable that he's just this Big Blob of spirituality of some sort out there somewhere and they pay him very little attention but they can't say that they believe in God so what's his name well I don't know well what kind of God is he he's God now watch this you see if he is this invisible something out there somewhere they believe in that they cannot describe that he is impersonal that they pray to him whatever he is when they get in trouble but he's out there and they're afraid they cry out to God and if you ask them if they believe in God yes I believe in God describe it well you know you can't describe him but I do believe in God and so when you think about what the world thinks about God that it's sort of this big spiritual blob out there somewhere and they just don't want it to be personal enough that they have to give an account when I think about people for example who do not believe in Jesus Christ as their personal savior don't believe that they're subject to him watch this they want a God who is impersonal enough that they can sin and not feel bad about it you can go and get drunk last night and they show up on church on Sunday morning not think anything about it do you believe in God yes or what about Jesus well you know what I never have believed about Jesus I don't need that I just believe in God I think about all these religions who believe in some God what kind of God when you eliminate Jesus you eliminate the Holy Spirit you cannot have the one true God without the son and without the spirit and so you ask yourself this question do you believe in God yes do you believe in his son and remember what Jesus said watch this carefully I and the father are one and if you do not believe that Jesus Christ is God you do not believe in the one true God or you believe that Jesus Christ is a liar and if he's a liar what about God maybe he doesn't exist if you do not believe the biblical concept and truth about God you end up being confused and so one of the reasons people don't want to believe in Jesus that makes it too personal there too many verses about Jesus I am the father one he said Jesus said if you've seen me you've seen the Father the problem is that most people haven't seen him and they have a very distorted view of what God is like and so ask yourself the question do you really and truly believe that Jesus Christ is God God the Father God the son God the Holy Spirit there is only one God God the Father God the son God the Holy Spirit three persons of the Trinity who have a different work in the world and so when somebody says well uh I I I I do believe in God we here here's the problem when it comes to Jesus and what he said about how we are to live they they don't want to believe that and so therefore if they can capsule God over here who's impersonal and really can't Define him really though often times they describe him like this God understands mhm and so they've got him in this General out there somewhere they can't Define and do not want to be talking about any judgment or being subject to or responsible to they want a God that they can control in their mind he's only there when they need him think about living that kind of life and come to the point when you're going to die and you know that you maybe have an hour or so to live I wonder what happens to this nebulous Indescribable invisible God out there who has been in the background of your life all the life and now you're getting ready to die and you think maybe maybe I'll meet God my friend you better know Jesus before you die because if the only God you have if the only God you have is this Indescribable non-biblical God then you don't have a true God and so I want you to think about this why did he say he came into the world and he answers this Jesus came into the world that we might have life and have it more abundantly he came for a specific purpose and you look at his whole life the life that Jesus lived what is it about Jesus you don't like you see most people want a God that will pacify them and that will agree with them and won't scold them won't keep them up at night and just not tamper with their business they want a convenient personal God they describe that helps them get what they want in life but no accountability whatsoever that is not who God is you may have a God but if he's not a God that matches what we just read in the word which is God's word you don't have the one true God who is this God that you believe in is he real if he's not the god of the Bible Jesus Christ you don't have a true God it's your imagination you say well what about all those other millions of people in the world they have their imagination also and you see the Bible's made it very clear and John who walked with Jesus the last disciple to Die the youngest one of them all but when he wrote the Gospel he wrote the Gospel inspired by almighty God to describe for us so intimately so beautifully who Jesus was and what he's like and the only way you can have a relationship with him is to begin by asking him to forgive you of your sins and surrendering your life to him you got to believe in him so as long as you have your personal God out here who doesn't mess with your conscience doesn't bother you when you commit adultery or living sin and you're drunken and all the things that go on in a person's life as long as that doesn't bother you that's your God but I'll tell you one thing there's going to be death there's going to be a judgment you're going to give an account and guess to whom Jesus Christ is the Son of God that I want you to understand you need to surrender your life to him here and now because he is God then of course listen to John 3:16 which you know so well for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life but in your life at this moment what kind of relationship do you have with Jesus because the word of God Bears witness that Jesus Christ is God who walked in flesh watch this this is the awesome expression of holy God Not only was it Not only was it sufficient for him to give the truth through the prophets all the way back to Moses and all the things that happened with the prophets but he sent Jesus to Walk in human flesh to be tempted by the devil but to perform all of these Miracles so that man does not have any excuse for not believing in him as the Son of God that is an example of God's awesome love for us why he came into the world motivated by love you say well you know what I don't I don't know that I think God's all that important wait till you come to die and the only person who's going to be important is not your doctor he can't keep you there another moment not your family you're going to you're going to leave them the only person that's going to matter is Jesus Christ the only person that's going to matter is Jesus because only he can forgive sin only he can write your name in the Lamb's Book about life only he can take you from this life into heaven you can have everything else in the world you want everybody thinks you're fantastic you have all power whatever it might be if you don't have Jesus except a man be born again he'll not see the kingdom of God that means unless you have a spiritual relationship with Jesus Christ and accept him as your savior you're going to be lost who is Jesus God the Father God the son God the Holy Spirit a person of the trinity when he said let us make men in our own image who is he talking about God the Father God the son God the Holy Spirit there isn't anything you and I need that's not in the word of God he answers all the questions that I need to have answered if a person does not believe in Jesus but they have a god mark it down there watch this there's something about Jesus that interferes with their lifestyle something about Jesus that bothers their conscience something about Jesus that demands of them something they don't want to give something about Jesus that sort of cramps their style of living and so they decide I do believe in God don't ask me to Define him don't ask me to describe him this none of your business I do believe in God you have your God I have mine you'll die with your God and be sorry that you rejected Jesus Christ as your savior he's the only savior now let's think about something for a moment because in light of all of that suppose Jesus is not God if Jesus is not God think about this Jesus has been untruthful about his relationship with the father he said I'm the father one if that's not true Jesus has been untruthful about his relationship with the father if that's not true secondly Jesus can't be trusted if he is not the Son of God and the Savior and if he's not God he said if you've seen me you've seen the father I the father one if that's not true then you can't trust him three his death had no effect Upon Us therefore we are still in our sins if he is not who he says he is his death on the cross was just another Roman EX execution that's what the Sadducees the Pharisees thought that's why they sneered at him on the cross if Jesus were not God and is not God his death on the cross didn't mean any more than the two thieves who died on the cross they died because they were guilty of something Jesus died because of our guilt not his guilt think about it think about the guilt of all your sin throughout your life if Jesus death on the cross didn't pay your sin debt in full who paid for it nobody you have to pay for it you stand before almighty God and give an account for your life Jesus is our Salvation he paid our sin debt in full for every single person who will trust them as their savior we know Salvation comes from him think about this the story of the Resurrection is a false claim by his followers if Jesus is not who he says he is that's a false claim that he would rose from the dead that he was the son of God and so therefore there's no Resurrection then we have no Assurance of life after death the resurrection of Jesus Christ is our one awesome Assurance of life after death and that we will experience the resurrection so when people don't believe in Jesus then I ask the question what are you going to do when you die where are you going what's going to happen to you every once in a while somebody say well I'll just disappear oh no you won't you may like to disappear but you can't what happens to you when you die well I don't know don't you think it's important enough to find out what you should do it's important to wants to die and after this the Judgment you should know what's going to happen you don't have to know all the details what you have to know is this that Jesus Promised eternal life for those who would trust him as their savior listen to this Christianity is just another world religion if Jesus is not who he says he is only Jesus Christ gives us the answer and the proof that he is the Son of God that he is God Lord suppose you don't have that what do you have think about the people who don't give Jesus Christ a second thought but they have in their pocket their little security and that is they believe in God and somehow when it's all over that that everything's going to be okay no everything is not going to be okay because he said it is appointed unto man wants to die and after this the Judgment we're going to have to give an account for our life now if I were lost and I didn't want to believe that I'd just say well what I have heard many times Well I have my own God you've got yours yeah that's true you may think about things that have happened in your life and say well God helped me out God may have helped you out in order to give you an opportunity to trust him as your savior does not mean that God judges every single person every single day no he's a god of awesome Mercy on none of us was it be here so I would mention this last thing if Jesus Christ is not God we are all hopeless and helpless in this life but Jesus Is God and listen to this Jesus Is God all he said all he did has resulted in the Forgiveness of our sins the gift of eternal life and Heaven is our home there's one God and if somebody ask you who is God God is Jesus God is the father God is the holy spirit three persons of the Trinity so Jesus said to them to make it very clear I'm going away and if I go away I will send the comforter to you the Holy Spirit he'll be in you with you and upon you and so what happened Jesus rose from the dead spoke to those disciples and then at Pentecost he sent the Holy Spirit to do what to enable you and me who come along afterwards to live a Godly life he didn't leave us and you think about how absolutely thoughtful God was it's not enough for them to have seen him even walk among them but the Holy Spirit to live within them he says we are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise under the day of redemption if you don't have Jesus what do you have you say well I have my God let me ask you this describe my God to me I'll tell you how to describe it you describe him in a way that suits what you want what you hope for but you can't describe him by facts by the truth your God is a false God your God is an empty God if your God is Not Jesus Christ Our Savior our Lord Our God hallelujah amen and it is my prayer that you'll be honest I'm not being critical I'm just saying here's the truth you can't deny the truth everything we've said is the truth and the question is what will you do with the truth you have two choices accept it or deny it and go your way having put behind you what you've heard you will regret it for all eternity if you do not make a decision and my prayer is that you would say yes what you've said is true I do believe that what you said is true and by faith I will accept Jesus Christ is my personal savior is the one true God surrender my life to him and watch him work in my life he will do an awesome work in your life and all of us who are believers can bear testimony that Jesus Christ is not only the Son of God but there is the spirit of God and the father who is God that's our prayer for you that your life would be radically changed by believing trusting the word of God that Jesus Christ came into this world laid down his life at the cross and made it possible for us to be forgiven

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Length: 31min 10sec (1870 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 21 2023