Don’t You Care? Part 4
And then the question, “What manner of man is this?”
Rev. Ben Turner, my mentor and Pastor, said in his message “What Manner of Man Is This”??
Everybody sees Him differently
3 Hebrew boys would see Jesus as the 4th man in the fire
Ezekiel saw Him as the wheel inside a wheel
Noah saw Him as an arc of safety
Solomon saw Him as the rose of Sharon
Jacob saw Him as a golden ladder top in haven and the base on the earth.
Israel saw Him as a star out of Jacob
David saw Him as the great Shepard
Daniel saw Him as a Stone cut out of a Mountain
Abraham saw Him as the great and mighty builder
Ruth saw Him the provider of hands full on purpose
Moses saw Him as the smitten rock
Church saw Him as the foundation of the rock on which it was built
Sad sees Him as the comforter
Leper sees Him as the healer (great Physician)
Lost sees Him as the way
Hungry sees Him as the bread
Thirsty sees Him as the water
Pilgrim sees Him as the faithful guide
Accused sees Him as the faithful witness
Disciple sees Him as the teacher
Weary sees Him as the rest
Pilot or boat captain sees Him as a compass
Weak sees Him as the strength
Sheep sees Him as the Shepard
Astronomer sees Him as the bright and morning star
Bride sees Him as the fairest among 10,000
Gentiles sees Him as a light to lighten the way
Merchant man see him as the purchaser
Ship of Zion see him as the captain
Preacher sees Him as the energizer
Tired sees Him as the strength
Troubled sees Him as builder of mansion
Captive sees Him as the deliver
Unhappy see Him as joy without end
Dead see Him as the resurrection and the life
The sinner I hope they would see him as the pleading savior caring for their soul.
Everybody sees him different!!!
How do you see Him?
John 1
The Eternal Word
(Gen 1:1-2:3)
1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. NKJV
What Jesus called Himself 7 I am’s of John
1 John 6:35-36 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
2 John 8:12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
3 John 10:7-10 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
4 John 10:14-16 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
5 John 15:5-6 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
6 John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
7 John 11:25-26 Jesus talking to Mary on the way to Lazarus’ grave: 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
back to “Intense Moments with the Savior”
But learning to feel carries with it both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because those feelings are what lead us out of ourselves; a curse, because once out we can never again go back and enjoy the simple pleasures of a self-absorbed life.
(Field of dreams when the doc steps off the field he can’t go back)
Suffering sensitizes us not only to the world around us, which is needy, but to the world within us, which is needier still, and ultimately to the world beyond us, which we long for in so many ways. Yet in so few ways do we ever fully realize it. Until we suffer.
When He was on the Cross…
Matt 27:40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Matt 27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
Matt 27:54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
He will put you in whatever you need to go through to get you to a point to say “Truly this is the Son of God”
His Cross where God Himself would die.
Why did He come to earth the way He did? Cause He could not die in heaven, so He came here…
Intense Moments with the Savior
Then we realize that this is not our home, that our home is with him who suffered and died and left this earth to prepare a place for us. Once we understand that and who it is that keeps a candle burning for us in the window, then the road ahead, however long, however difficult, is infinitely easier to travel.
When the storm is past and it will pass there will be work to do.
Then we see in Mark 5:1 A Demon-Possessed Man Healed and in Mark 5:21 A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed. All after going through the storm.
Now the question is do you care?
Pray
