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TITLE: Would you Recognize Him?
TEXT: Mark 6:49-56
PROPOSITION: Many are not able to recognize Jesus.
QUESTION: How?
KEY WORD: Descriptions
READING: Same

INTRODUCTION:
  1. As Jesus approached the apostles, they did not know him. (49)
  2. But across the lake many recognized him. (54)
  3. More familiar - take for granted; less familiar look deeper - search more intense.
  4. Study Matthew 21:31 - tax collectors and harlots enter church before self-righteous.
  5. We know that pictures are not accurate.
  6. How can you know Jesus?

No photos exist.
  1. We know that all the “pictures” are not what Christ looked like.
  2. If you look for Jesus to be long hair, blonde, blue eyes - you will miss him.

NOTE: If we are to recognize Jesus - We must see his inner qualities:

Word became flesh
  1. Deity became flesh - John 1:14
  2. God lived with us - Matthew 1:23 - Immanuel
  3. This is the foundation of Christianity.

Witnesses
  1. Apostles - 2 Peter 1:16-18
  2. John - John 21:24-25
  3. Roman soldier - Matthew 27:54
  4. Samaritan woman - John 4:25, 42
  5. Officers of the chief priest - John 7:46
  6. Pharisees - John 11:47-53

Claims of Jesus
  1. John 14:1-9 - Know the Father, know Jesus
  2. John 8:12-19 - Father bears witness for Jesus
  3. John 8:23 - I am from above, not of this world
  4. John 8:56-59 - Before Abraham was I AM
  5. Mark 2:5-12 - Jesus has power to forgive sins
  6. John 18:33-37 - To Pilate - Kingdom not of this world

New Testament Writers
  1. John 1:1-3 - Word became flesh
  2. Colossians 1:16-17 - Created all things, all things consist in him
  3. Colossians 2:9 - Fullness of godhead bodily
  4. Romans 9:5 - eternally blessed God
  5. I Timothy 1:16-17 - Christ is the pattern

Conclusion:
  1. Is this the Jesus you know?
  2. Do you recognize this Jesus in your life?

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