THE
ONE AND ONLY
BREAD
16 From
the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. 17 For the law was given through
Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but
God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known. John 1:16-18 (NIV)
15 He is
the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by him all things were
created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones
or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.
17 He is
before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the
body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so
that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have
all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things,
whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood,
shed on the cross. Colossians 1:15-20
(NIV)
5 Your
attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance
as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a
cross! 9 Therefore
God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every
name, 10 that
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under
the earth, 11 and
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:5-11 (NIV)
3 The
Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being,
sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification
for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. Hebrews 1:3 (NIV)
9 This
is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the
world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved
us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10 (NIV)
21 God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians
5:21 (NIV)
3 He was
despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him
not. 4 Surely
he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him
stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our
transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought
us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone
astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:3-6 (NIV)
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the
world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever
believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned
already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19 This
is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead
of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone
who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that
his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth
comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has
been done through God.” John
3:16-21 (NIV)
BUTTER
“The Emerald Christ”
“(This description of Christ was purported to have been written
by Publius Lentulus, governor of Judea, in the reign of Tiberius Caesar, to
that monarch in Rome. It first appeared
in the writings of Saint Anselm, of Canterbury, in the eleventh century.)”
“There lives at this time in Judea a man of singular virtue,
whose name is Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians esteem as a prophet, but his
followers love and adore him as the offspring of the immortal God. He calls back the dead from the graves and
heals all sorts of diseases with a word or touch. He is a tall man, well-shaped, and of an amiable
and reverend aspect; his hair of a color that can hardly be matched, falling
into graceful curls, waving about and very agreeably couching upon his shoulders,
parted on the crown of his head, running as a stream to the front after the
fashion of the Nazarites: his forehead
high, large, and imposing; his cheeks without a spot or wrinkle, beautiful with
a lovely red; his nose and mouth formed with exquisite symmetry; his beard of a
color suitable to his hair, reaching below his chin and parted in the middle
like a fork; his eyes bright blue, clear and serene, look innocent, dignified, manly,
and mature. In proportion of body most
perfect and captivating; his arms and hands delectable to behold. He rebukes with majesty, counsels with
mildness, his whole address, whether in word or deed, being eloquent and grave. No man has seen him laugh, yet his manners
are exceedingly pleasant, but he has wept frequently in the presence of
men. He, is temperate, modest, and
wise. A man for his extraordinary beauty
and divine perfection, surpassing the children of men in every sense.”
“When we can do nothing Jesus can do all
things; let us enlist His powerful aid upon our side, and all will be well.” Charles
Spurgeon “Jesus is the One who shows us the paradoxical route to meaning in a chaotic and hostile world. It’s the paradox of the gospel: Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender….God uses the frustrations of this life and the hurt of relationships to compel us to look beyond what we can control to the God who controls all things in order to woo us to himself. As we move from control to surrender, we move from chasing the wind under the sun to embracing God above it.” Dan Allender
“If
Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me
to make for Him.” C. T.
Studd
“There’s not a
thumb’s breadth of this universe about which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘It is
mine.’” Abraham Kuyper
“We
shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our
feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the
soul. If we would at once overcome Satan
and have peace with God, it must be by ‘looking unto Jesus’. Keep thine eye simply on Him; let His death,
His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy mind;
when thou wakest in the morning look to Him; when thou liest down at night look
to Him. Oh! Let not thy hopes or fears come between thee
and Jesus; follow
hard after Him, and He will never fail thee.”
C. H. Spurgeon
“Every
promise God has ever made finds its fulfillment in Jesus.” Joni
Erickson Tada
“We should always
keep Christ before our eyes. The devil
continually tempts us to abandon Christ and seek the Father, saying to
ourselves, ‘This or that will please him’.
Meanwhile we ignore Christ—the One the Father sent—so that we might
listen to Him alone. We respond as the
Pharisees did and reject Christ. We
wonder, ‘Where is the Father?’ That is
the question that world asks. This is
the greatest temptation to your faith.
You must devote yourself to the Word of Christ and train yourself to
hold on to it so that you never lose sight Jesus.” Martin
Luther, Faith Alone.
“A special faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ’s person, work and office is the life, heart and
mainspring of the Christian character.
He sees by faith and unseen Saviour, who loved him, gave Himself for
him, paid his debts for him, bore his sins, carried his transgressions, rose
again for him, and appears in heaven for him as his Advocate at the right hand
of God. He sees Jesus and clings to
Him…..He sees his own many sins, his weak heart, a tempting world, a busy
devil; and if he looked only at them, he might well despair. But he sees also a mighty Saviour, an
interceding Saviour, a sympathizing Saviour—His blood…..His righteousness, His
everlasting priesthood—and he believes that all this is his own. He sees Jesus and casts his whole weight on
Him. Seeing Him, he cheerfully fights
on, with a full confidence that he will prove more than conqueror through Him
that loved him…Habitual lively faith in Christ’s presence and readiness to help
is the secret of the Christian fighting successfully.” J C
Ryle, Holiness
“Jesus! What a friend for sinners! Jesus lover of my soul! Friends may fail me, foes assail me; He, my
Savior, makes me whole. Hallelujah! What a Savior! Hallelujah!
What a Friend! Saving, helping,
keeping, loving, He is with me to the end.
Jesus! What a strength in
weakness! Let me hide myself in Him;
Tempted tried and sometimes failing, He, my strength my victory wins. Hallelujah!
What a Savior! Hallelujah! What a Friend! Saving, helping, keeping, loving, He is with
me to the end. Jesus! What a help in sorrow! While the billows o’er me roll, Even when my
heart is breaking, He, my Comfort helps my soul. Hallelujah!
What a Savior! Hallelujah! What a Friend! Saving, helping, keeping, loving, He is with
me to the end. J. Wilbur Chapman
“Jesus
was God spelling Himself out in language humanity could understand.” S. D. Gordon
HEART
SAVOR
- · Jesus is my Friend, my Savior, my Great Intercessor, my All in All. I am strengthened by His power, comforted by His love, encouraged by His Word, enabled by His Spirit. I am never alone.
- · Jesus came to show us God in the flesh. He set the example of how we are to walk this dusty earth: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:6 (NIV)
- · All God’s promises are fulfilled in Christ. 20 “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God.” 2 Corinthians 1:20 (NIV)
