Who do you say Jesus is? My answers to that question have been weak and anemic. I’ve minimized how important King Jesus is in all of history, to the universe, and to my personal life. Words do not adequately explain who He is, considering that He is the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, and the Redeemer of our lives. Every knee will to worship Him. How we view Him tells everything about us - everything. We can make excuses for not being all in with Him, but our time is running short to correct that huge mistake.
“Some were saying, ‘John the baptizer has been raised from the dead . . . but others said, ‘It is Elijah.’ And others said, ‘It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old’” (Mark 6:14–15). These speculations about Jesus would be reported to Jesus by his disciples when, later in the gospel, he asked them, “Who do people say that I am?” (Mark 8:27).” - Excerpt, Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark by Steve Langford
“The kingship of God, and his Messiah, was set up against the empires of the world. Jesus was crucified by a second-tier Roman official in a backwater province, killed like a lowly slave, brutally executed like a murderous brigand. But God had raised Jesus from the dead, undoing what Pilate and Herod had done to him, robbing death of its finality, and testifying to the goodness of God’s power and the power of God’s goodness. Death was the tyrant’s ultimate weapon to terrify and enslave, yet God’s power and promise of resurrection meant that the tyrant’s weapon had been disarmed.” - Excerpt, Jesus and the Powers by N.T. Wright and Mike Bird
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