Adrian Rogers: Jesus – The One and Only
Jesus – The One and Only
Out of the billions who have ever lived, only a handful of people have made a lasting imprint upon society. There is one who stands head and shoulders above all others: Jesus, the One and Only Son of God. In this message, Adrian Rogers reveals three things we can learn about Jesus Christ from Colossians 1.
- 1. Jesus Alone Reveals the Father
- 2. Jesus Alone Rules the Universe
- 3. Jesus Alone Reconciles the Lost
Jesus, who was the God man, God in human flesh as much man as if he were not God at all, as much God as if He were not man at all.
Not half God and half man.
Not all God and no man, not all man and no God, but the God man.
The God man came to this earth born of a Birge and lived a sinless life was mailed up on a cross with a broken heart dying for me.
Adrian Rogers had the unique ability to apply biblical truth to everyday life.
It was one of the many things that made him such a remarkable pastor Bible teacher and writer.
And you’ll hear that in today’s message. Have your Bibles ready and join us before we begin.
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Now, let’s join Adrian Rogers. I want you to take God’s word and find Colossians chapter one.
And when you found it, look up here last week, we talked about the one true God.
We told you it’s not enough to believe in one God.
If you believe in one God and he’s the wrong God, that’s doubly dangerous. There is one true God.
He is Jehovah the tri God of the Bible. And today we’re talking on this subject, Jesus Christ, the one.
And only let me tell you why I’m preaching this.
There’s so many people today who want to make Jesus just one among many.
He’s just one of the ways to heaven.
As a matter of fact, there was a conference, a parliament of world religions.
And let me tell you what a minister said from one of the main line denominations.
And I’m not going to give the name of his denomination because I’m sure the others in his denomination who would be hurt if I gave his name.
But here’s what this man said, listen to this. So what’s the big deal about Jesus? That’s what he said.
So what’s the big deal about Jesus?
And he warned that we as Christians, listen, we ought not to attempt to make converts.
We ought not to attempt to share Jesus. We ought not to evangelize.
And here’s what he called Christian evangelism, ethnic cleansing.
Well, hey, folks that’s in the world today.
And you know that Peter Jennings in a prime time special, put on a program, I saw it until I could take no more and turned it off the search for Jesus and he had some so called theologians are part of the Jesus seminar who pulled their ignorance.
They were searching for Jesus.
They never found him because they were looking in the wrong place.
I just assumed trust a group of blind men in a dark cave, blindfolded with, uh, some lightning bugs in a jar looking for the noonday sun as, as to help these, uh, for these people to find the true Jesus a while back.
Uh Bryant Gumbel on television was interviewing Larry King the other way around.
And Bryant Gumbel said to Larry King and Larry King is a Jew Larry.
If you could ask God one question, what would you ask him?
He said, I would ask him if he has a son. That’s a good question.
Now, let me tell you something, folks of all of the people of all of the people who have ever lived on this terrestrial ball ever since creation of this time that out of the billions and billions and billions who ever lived, only a handful of people have really made a lasting dramatic imprint upon society.
But there is one person who stands head and shoulders above all the others and his name is Jesus.
I want to tell you that this man Jesus who is more than a man as we’re going to see in a moment has received more attention, more devotion, more criticism, more adoration and more opposition than any who have ever lived.
Every recorded word that Jesus Christ ever said has been studied scrutinized, analyzed, dissected, thought about compared every word that he’s written.
And today, more than 20 centuries after Jesus Christ was here on this earth, there is not a moment, not a moment, 20 centuries later where literally millions are studying his word.
Not one second, they’re thinking about the significance of his words and his actions.
Now, now Jesus Christ lived in a tiny little place called today. We call it Bethlehem.
He lived there about 2000 years ago and yet his very birth divides all history do.
The year of our Lord BC is before Christ.
Listen, he never wrote a book that we know of and yet the books that have been written about him fill the thousands and millions of volumes to fill the libraries of this world.
He never painted a picture that we know of. Never did a sculptor that we know of.
And yet he has been the inspiration behind uh the greatest art of this world, going to the great art museums of this world.
And you’re going to find out that Jesus Christ has been the progenitor of the greatest art.
He never wrote a song that we know of, but just think of the songs that we have sung this morning, adoring the Lord Jesus Christ and around this world today, millions and millions and millions are singing the songs of heaven based in Jesus.
He never raised an army that we know of.
Certainly he didn’t, but he has an army of followers, not who are willing to kill others for him, but who are willing to die for him to live, for him to share his love.
His travels were limited. So far as we know, he never in his earthly travels, went outside the uh circumference of that little land of Israel and yet around the world around the world.
Today, the sun will not set on people worshiping our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
He only started with a handful and yet today friend, over 30% of the world’s population say they believe in Jesus Christ.
He only taught for three years and for 2000 years, we’re still studying every word that the Lord Jesus said.
He had no formal education and think of all of the universities, think of all the seminaries that had been founded in his name.
The noted historian Kenneth Scott Latte said this.
Listen to this quote, Jesus has had more effect on the history of mankind than any other of its race who ever existed.
Can you say amen to that? Listen, to explain Jesus is impossible to ignore.
Jesus is disastrous to deny him is fatal. Oh, we need to understand who Jesus Christ is.
And as I try to preach this morning, I understand that my speech is too limited.
My mind is too finite and my heart is too small to tell you what I wanna tell you about the Lord Jesus Christ.
But in Colossians. One verse 19. Look at it. This verse would sum it up for it. Please.
The father that in Him in Jesus should all fullness dwell it, please.
The father that in Jesus should all fullness dwell.
And we’re gonna find out that uh Jesus is not to be prominent in our lives.
Jesus is to be preeminent. Jesus doesn’t just show the way he is the way Jesus doesn’t just give life.
He is the life. He doesn’t just tell the truth. He is the truth.
Now, the three things I want you to learn about the Lord Jesus Christ today and look if you will.
Now in Colossians chapter one, and I wish I just had more time to tell you what the book of Colossians is about in its entirety.
But we’re gonna have to cut to the chase and you’re gonna have to listen in a hurry.
If we get these three things said, we’re talking about Jesus the one and only let me tell you this, Jesus alone reveals the Father.
Jesus alone reveals the Father. Look in verse 15, it speaks of Jesus. We’re gonna break right in the middle.
It speaks of Jesus who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature.
Now, God himself is invisible God in His essence is spirit. God is unsee un noble, unapproachable.
Unless we have some way to come to Him, someone to bring us to Him, someone to reveal God.
The Father reason is not enough friend.
The religion is not enough ritual is not enough Jesus Christ himself is the one who makes the invisible God knowable.
He is the image of the invisible God.
I’m telling you, you can never fully know God the Father unless you know God, the Father through God.
The Son Jesus, the Bible says is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation.
Now, I want you to think with me about those two words.
Those two words are very, very important in verse 15.
Who is the image, the image of the invisible God.
I underscore that word image is the Greek word icon.
And what it means is the uh exact representation.
Jesus is the express image of the invisible God. Jesus is God in human flesh.
Now go back again to Colossians two verse nine.
For in Him in Jesus dwell the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
What do we mean by the Godhead God, the Father God, the Son and God, the Holy Spirit.
Now, Jesus listen, he has a monopoly on revelation. Jesus has cornered the market.
The only way that you can know the Father according to the scripture, truly know Him.
You might know about Him. You might know He exists from creation and conscience.
But the only way that you can know God as Father is through Jesus Christ put this verse in your margin.
Uh Matthew 11 in verse 27 Jesus said, all things are delivered unto me of my father and no man, no, the son but the father, neither nor any man the father save or accept the son and he to whomsoever listen, he to whomsoever the son will reveal him, black print on white paper.
Now I submit to you that what Jesus said is he the true false.
And if you don’t like it, if you think that I’m narrow minded, don’t argue with me.
Just take your Bible read Matthew 11 verse 27 the words of Jesus and take it up with Jesus. OK?
Jesus said, you cannot know God unless I reveal Him to you, unless I introduce him to you.
Other than that, you’re worshiping the God of your guesses. Now you say, well, that’s narrow minded.
I wanted my pilot to be very narrow minded minded.
I didn’t want him to land with the landing gear up.
I, I want my banker to be uh narrow minded. Jesus is the image of the invisible God.
He has cornered the market. The only way that you can know God is through the Lord Jesus Christ.
I, I love the story of Jesus going to the temple when he’s a 12 year old boy.
I wish I could have been sitting in a corner and all of the wise doctors there, the learned theologians were questioning the Lord Jesus Christ.
They might have said to him what son, how old are you?
He could have said well, on my mother’s side, I’m 12 years old.
On my father’s side, I’m uh older than my mother and just as old as my father because there never was a time when Jesus was not.
He always has been uh on his mother’s side, he got thirsty on his father’s side.
He created the oceans and every brook and every lake and every spring and on his father’s side, he said, I am the water of life.
If you’re thirsty, come to me and drink on his mother’s side, he got hungry on his father’s side, he fed 5000.
He said, I am the bread of life on his mother’s side.
He was uh lived in poverty and was homeless on his father’s side.
He created the universe and owns the cattle on 1000 hills on his mother’s side with a broken heart.
He wept at the tomb of Lazarus on his father’s side.
He said, Lazarus come forth and Lazarus came out of that grave.
And so the first word I want you to see is the word image icon.
He is the express image of the invisible God.
He could say he that has seen me has seen the father, but also he’s called in that 1st, 1st born.
Do you see that again? Look in verse 15. He is the first born. Now.
I wanna slow down here and, and talk a little bit about the word first born because that might seem to some people that he was created.
But the word first born here, be very careful listen to it.
It does not refer to time, it refers to position to status.
It doesn’t mean that Jesus was the first being ever created.
Uh We know already that he’s the one who created all things that we’re going to see in verse 16 for by him where all things created.
well, he couldn’t be created if he’s the one who created all things.
So first born certainly doesn’t mean that God one day created Him.
By the way, our friends, the Jehovah’s witnesses will tell us they’ll use this verse to say, well, Jesus had a beginning.
No, he never had a beginning.
There was never a time uh when Jesus was not, Jesus is before all things above all things, whether things in heaven or things on earth Principalities or powers.
We’re gonna see this. The word first born uh refers to his status that God, it, it’s, it means that He is over everything.
Let me give you a good verse. Psalm 89 verse 27.
God says also I will make him my first born higher than the kings of the earth.
It speaks of status. So what do we see in verse 15? That Jesus Christ is the exact representation.
He is the visible image of the invisible God.
And that the Lord Jesus Christ is higher than all the kings of the earth.
He is king of kings, he is Lord of Lords. He is in the highest spot of all.
So number one, Jesus alone reveals the father say amen.
Number two, Jesus alone rules the universe begin now in verse 16 for by him, Jesus where all things created, which are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be throne or dominions or Principalities or powers.
All things were created by him and for him and he is before all things and by him, all things consists now friend, not only does he reveal the father, he rules the universe.
Uh You see Jesus is the power of creation. Jesus made everything that little baby in Matthew.
One is the mighty God of Genesis.
One that little baby on his mother’s breast is the same God who created at all.
That’s the reason I said that Jesus uh when he was born uh was older than his mother.
And as old as his father, I don’t believe in evolution. Not for a skinny moment.
Now, when I was younger, I didn’t believe in evolution because the Bible taught against it.
Now, I’ve gotten older. I wouldn’t believe it if I were an atheist to believe that out of that, nothing times nobody equals everything.
Think about friend, I will tell you you can’t have it both ways.
You can’t say it all just happened and you believe in Jesus, not all didn’t just happen, he created it all.
And if you don’t believe in uh if you don’t believe in the creation by the Lord Jesus Christ, you’ve got three problems.
Number one, you’ve got a problem with the scriptures.
If you can’t, if, if you can’t believe the scripture in the scriptures day from once you’ve come, how can you trust the scriptures when it tells you where you’re going?
And you know, we need to be worried not only about the origin of the species, but the destiny of species.
Amen. I mean, where are you headed?
And not only gonna have trouble with, with the scriptures, you’re gonna have trouble with salvation.
You see, if you believe that man just uh slowly emerged and came out of some uh primordial ooze and kept on going up and up and up.
Then you don’t believe it creation. You don’t believe that man was made perfect and he fell into sin.
You don’t believe in the Garden of Eden. You don’t believe in a fall.
Well, listen, if, if uh Genesis three is a myth, then John three that says you must be born again.
Is, is, is a, is a farce.
Uh If you don’t believe in a direct creation, you’re gonna have trouble with salvation.
And then I’m gonna tell you something else.
You’re gonna have trouble with society when we teach young people that they just sort of came from animals.
We ought not to be surprised when they begin to act like animals, an animal lives for three things, self gratification, self preservation, self propagation.
That’s what most people are living for today because they don’t understand that they are made in the image of God.
And, and uh we, we see today sort of an animal’s right movement.
Like animals have the same rights as human beings. They don’t, animals are distinct.
God gave man body, soul and spirit. He gave no animal, a spirit. Animals don’t know God.
They can’t worship, they cannot pray.
Certainly we don’t believe in cruelty to animals, but don’t ever get the idea that man is just a, an intelligent animal.
He is made in the image of Almighty God.
We need to understand that and uh friend uh random and impersonal chance is not going to create complexity and design if you want a good book to read.
And it’s, it’s, it’s not a real hard read, but you, you can’t just dash it off.
I want you to read Darwin’s Black Box by Michael Behe B E H E.
And, and he has a principle that he calls irreducible complexity.
You know, in the day of Darwin, they didn’t realize how complex just for example, a, a cell is just one cell, for example, in, in a cell, a human cell that you have to put under a microscope to see.
But in these cells, if you look inside the cell, you’ll find some rods and uh these rods are known as chromosomes.
And in these chromosomes, we have what we call the genes and, and in those genes encoded in those genes is what we call DNA.
And, and that DNA is a detailed description uh for every part of your body.
If you were to take the DNA, the code that is in your cell, one of those cells and take the code that is out there and put it in, in a book.
It would be a book of 600,000 pages.
Now that’s one of the most minute parts of that minute part called the cell.
And what Michael be he says is this.
He says, if you reduce it down till you cannot get it more simple are irreducible, then he says it is so complex that in in the cell, not one part could exist without the other part, one cannot come from the other or it it can’t come by steps.
It all has to come together. Listen folks, Jesus is the one who created it all.
He is the power of creation. Secondly, Jesus is the preserver of creation.
Look again in verse 16, for by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether it be Thrones or dominions or Principalities of powers.
All things were created by him and for him and he is before all things now watch this and by him, all things consist that means they all stick together.
He is the glue of the Galaxies. Uh, he is the one who preserves creation.
Now, a lot of times you’ll hear people spout about natural law. There’s no natural law. None.
Uh, the laws of nature are, don’t exist. They’re God’s laws. Nature obeys them by Jesus.
All things consist. He’s the one who fuels the sun, uh, with power.
He’s the one who veils the moon with beauty. He’s the one who keeps the stars in their courses.
I, I wish I had studied astronomy when I was young because I’m so enthralled by it.
I think of the speed of light. 100 and 86,282 miles per second. That friend.
That means that uh uh a light beam will travel around the earth seven times in one second.
If you could uh turn on the flashlight and shine it around the earth, you’d go around the world seven times before you could turn it back off.
Traveling 100 and 86,000 miles per second traveling at that speed. A light.
It, it would take it uh 8.5 minutes to reach the sun, which is 93 million miles away.
It take it uh uh 4.5 years to reach the nearest star traveling at the speed of light.
4.5 years to reach the nearest star.
All if you were to look out at Centauri Proxima and see that star know that the light you’re seeing has been 4.5 years getting here traveling at the incredible speed of light.
And, and, and you just think friend uh that’s just in the milky way in our galaxy they tell us is just one of billions of Galaxies who did all that.
What’s his name? Jesus? Who is it that keeps it all running together and probably heard the story of a, a nuclear physicist who was traveling, going from the one grand university to another lecturing on the complexities of the universe and nuclear physics and all of the dynamism uh in uh nuclear matter.
He had a chauffeur that drove him from school to school.
Finally, the chauffeur said, listen, you have given that speech so many times, I’ve listened to it so many times I’ve memorized it.
I could give it. And the learning doctor said, well, tell you the truth, I’m getting a little bored.
I’ll tell you what, let me put on the chauffeur’s uniform.
The next university we go to you stand up there and give the speech and uh and I’ll sit out there in the audience and act like the chauffeur.
They thought it’d be jolly, good fun.
So the chauffeur got up there in this great university and gave this lecture on nuclear physics and he was brilliant.
He had it down to Nat’s eyelash, but he spoke a little faster.
Uh then the learning professor And so the chancellor of the university said, well, I see we finished 20 minutes early.
We have time for some questions and answers.
And so one student stood up and he said, sir, he said, you know, in the center of the atom, there are these protons and both of them have a positive charge.
And we know that positive charges normally uh deflect and resist one another, but these seem to cohere, these seemed to hang together.
Sir. Can you tell me why the nucleus of the atom does not disintegrate?
The chauffeur said I have traveled for a long time.
I’ve been to many universities but that beyond the doubt, beyond any doubt is the dumbest, most stupid question I have ever heard.
I can’t understand how you even got into this university.
He said, even my chauffeur could answer that question.
Brought a chauffeur up to answer the question.
Friend. I want you to know that chauffeur and that learning doctor.
Neither one can answer that question. What keeps the whole thing from flying about from flying apart?
I can answer it. His name is Jesus friend. He is the glue of the Galaxies.
He’s the one who holds it all together. Now listen, it was all made by him. He is the creator.
He is the preserver and friend. He is the purpose of all creation. Look in verse 16.
Now, the last part, all things were created by him and for him, what’s this world coming to.
It’s coming to Jesus. What’s this universe coming to? It is coming to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, the eastern religions have come into America and the Eastern religions teach that life is cyclical.
That is, it goes around in a cycle.
Uh And so they believe in reincarnation uh that uh you keep getting born until you get it right.
You just go around and around and around. Now, if your karma is good, you may make progress.
If your karma is bad, you may not make progress.
So if you’ve been a bad boy, you may come back as a roach or maybe a little higher, you may come back as a cow.
That’s the reason they won’t eat meat. They think they’re eating their grandmother maybe.
And so uh that’s what they believe that that life is cyclical. No, that’s not what the Bible teaches.
The Bible teaches that life is linear. Uh That history is linear that we’re moving toward a climax.
And I believe we’re getting close to the climax of history where Jesus of Christ is crowned king of kings and Lord of Lords.
And I can hardly wait. We are moving toward that.
It was all made by him and it was all made for him.
It is controlled by the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, let’s come to the third thing about our solitary savior of the one and only Jesus Christ friend, Jesus alone reveals the Father Jesus alone.
Rules the universe and I’m gonna tell you something else about him.
Jesus alone, reconciles the lost Jesus alone reconciles the loss no other way to be saved.
Look at you will in verse 20 of this wonderful chapter here and having made peace through the blood of his cross by him, Jesus to reconcile all things on himself, by him.
I say whether they be things in earth or things in heaven. And let’s go to verse 21.
And you who that were some alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works. Yet now hath he reconciled.
Oh Hallelujah. Glory to God. This one who created it all this one who uh preserves it.
All this one who is the uh the icon, the express image of almighty God.
This one is who is the first one, the highest of the high, the Lord of Lords and the king of kings.
Can you believe it? He stepped out of heaven and died on the cross.
When you see his deity, then you’ll understand the greatness of his death.
Now listen, folks, his deity makes his death meaningful. His death makes his deity knowable.
His deity, his deity makes his death meaningful. Other people may die.
But all we sing that song that God the mighty maker die for man, the creature’s sin that he would die for me.
That the blood that was poured out at Calvary was the blood of the very Son of God that Jesus, who was the God man, God in human flesh as much man as if he were not God at all.
As much God as if He were not man at all. Not half God and half man.
Not all God and no man, not all man and no God, but the God man.
The God man came to this earth born of a virgin, lived a sinless life was mailed up on a cross with a broken heart.
Dying for me. The one who created every seed, every shrub, every tree, every limb was hung on a tree on the cross.
The one who scooped out a place for the seas, the one who created every lake, every pond, every brook, every spring.
He was the one who said, I first, the one who flung out the sun and ignited the sun with a word was the one who suffered under that broiling noonday, Middle Eastern.
So he was the one who had flung it into space.
Let me tell you something, folks, when he created the universe, you know how he did it with a word.
He just spoke and it was so he said, let be and there was and universes dripped from his fingers.
He just spoke it into existence.
A college student asks his pastor, do you think there’s life on other planets?
And the pastor said, no, I don’t think so.
He said, you mean all those billions and billions and billions of planets?
Out there, don’t you think there life out there? He said, no, I really don’t think so.
He said, then why did God go to all that trouble to make all that stuff?
The pastor said, what trouble? No trouble. He spoke.
And it was so the only trouble that God ever had was bloody Calvary.
Oh, when Jesus died, he didn’t just speak and say, be forgiven know by the blood of his cross.
He paid the sin debt and became both just and the justify of those that believe in Jesus.
He never overlooked sin. One half of one sin will never be overlooked.
Sin must be paid for or punished and your sin will be pardoned in Christ or punished in hell.
But it’ll never be overlooked. God is a holy God. He’s the Christ, holy God of Israel.
And God knew in order for you to be redeemed, for me to be redeemed.
For us to be reconciled without the shedding of blood is no remission of sin for the wages of sin is death.
And over here on this side is his deity. Over here is his humanity.
We’re on this side, we’re humans and we’re sinful over here is almighty God and He is holy and he is righteous and between a holy God and sinful man, there’s a chasm of sin and man is separated from almighty God by sin.
Jesus is going to reconcile and he’s going to build a bridge that will span this chasm.
And over here, the Lord Jesus Christ puts down the foundation of his deity. He is God.
But over here, he puts down the foundation of his humanity. He is man. He is taking our place.
He’s dying for us. And then with the rough hewn timbers of a cross, he reconciles God and man.
Hallelujah. What a savior friend. I’m telling you. He is Jesus the one and only.
He is the one who reveals the father.
He is the one who rules the universe and he is the one who reconciles the lost.
And I am so glad that I can tell you he is my savior and Lord and I love him with all of my heart and I want you to love him.
Would you bow your heads in prayer while heads are bowed and eyes are closed.
How many of you can say Pastor Rogers?
I am absolutely certain by the grace of God, the word of God and by a changed life that I have been saved that I’m heaven born in heaven bound.
May I lift? Would you lift your hand? I’m certain. Pastor. Thank you. Take your hand down.
Now, if you could not lift your hand, I know you’re interested in spiritual things that you wouldn’t be here this morning.
Let me help you today to be absolutely certain. Let’s get it settled right now. Ok.
I’m telling you, friend, he loves you. He’s reaching out his arms to you.
He’s saying, come unto me, come unto me, come to me, not to some church, some denomination, not to some idea.
Come to me. All ye that are heavy are burden and heavy laden and I’ll give you rest.
Jesus is what your heart longs for for.
You’ll never find rest or peace or satisfaction till you find it in the Lord Jesus Christ.
He’s paid for your sin. He reaches out a nail scarred hand to you now.
And he says, come to me. The Bible says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you’ll be saved.
I wanna lead you in a prayer.
If you want Jesus pray this prayer or pray something like it dear God. I’m a sinner. I’m lost.
I need to be saved. I want to be saved.
My sin deserves judgment, but I need mercy. I want to be reconciled.
Thank you that you died for me. Thank you for paying for my sin on that old cross.
I turn from my sin to you. I receive you by faith.
I receive you by faith right now like a little child. I don’t look for a sign.
I don’t ask for a feeling. I just stand on your word. I receive you Lord Jesus.
You’re now my Lord and savior and help me never ever to be ashamed of you.
Give me the courage to make it public this morning in your name.
I pray I’m in friend.
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Not half God and half man.
Not all God and no man, not all man and no God, but the God man.
The God man came to this earth born of a Birge and lived a sinless life was mailed up on a cross with a broken heart dying for me.
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Now, let’s join Adrian Rogers. I want you to take God’s word and find Colossians chapter one.
And when you found it, look up here last week, we talked about the one true God.
We told you it’s not enough to believe in one God.
If you believe in one God and he’s the wrong God, that’s doubly dangerous. There is one true God.
He is Jehovah the tri God of the Bible. And today we’re talking on this subject, Jesus Christ, the one.
And only let me tell you why I’m preaching this.
There’s so many people today who want to make Jesus just one among many.
He’s just one of the ways to heaven.
As a matter of fact, there was a conference, a parliament of world religions.
And let me tell you what a minister said from one of the main line denominations.
And I’m not going to give the name of his denomination because I’m sure the others in his denomination who would be hurt if I gave his name.
But here’s what this man said, listen to this. So what’s the big deal about Jesus? That’s what he said.
So what’s the big deal about Jesus?
And he warned that we as Christians, listen, we ought not to attempt to make converts.
We ought not to attempt to share Jesus. We ought not to evangelize.
And here’s what he called Christian evangelism, ethnic cleansing.
Well, hey, folks that’s in the world today.
And you know that Peter Jennings in a prime time special, put on a program, I saw it until I could take no more and turned it off the search for Jesus and he had some so called theologians are part of the Jesus seminar who pulled their ignorance.
They were searching for Jesus.
They never found him because they were looking in the wrong place.
I just assumed trust a group of blind men in a dark cave, blindfolded with, uh, some lightning bugs in a jar looking for the noonday sun as, as to help these, uh, for these people to find the true Jesus a while back.
Uh Bryant Gumbel on television was interviewing Larry King the other way around.
And Bryant Gumbel said to Larry King and Larry King is a Jew Larry.
If you could ask God one question, what would you ask him?
He said, I would ask him if he has a son. That’s a good question.
Now, let me tell you something, folks of all of the people of all of the people who have ever lived on this terrestrial ball ever since creation of this time that out of the billions and billions and billions who ever lived, only a handful of people have really made a lasting dramatic imprint upon society.
But there is one person who stands head and shoulders above all the others and his name is Jesus.
I want to tell you that this man Jesus who is more than a man as we’re going to see in a moment has received more attention, more devotion, more criticism, more adoration and more opposition than any who have ever lived.
Every recorded word that Jesus Christ ever said has been studied scrutinized, analyzed, dissected, thought about compared every word that he’s written.
And today, more than 20 centuries after Jesus Christ was here on this earth, there is not a moment, not a moment, 20 centuries later where literally millions are studying his word.
Not one second, they’re thinking about the significance of his words and his actions.
Now, now Jesus Christ lived in a tiny little place called today. We call it Bethlehem.
He lived there about 2000 years ago and yet his very birth divides all history do.
The year of our Lord BC is before Christ.
Listen, he never wrote a book that we know of and yet the books that have been written about him fill the thousands and millions of volumes to fill the libraries of this world.
He never painted a picture that we know of. Never did a sculptor that we know of.
And yet he has been the inspiration behind uh the greatest art of this world, going to the great art museums of this world.
And you’re going to find out that Jesus Christ has been the progenitor of the greatest art.
He never wrote a song that we know of, but just think of the songs that we have sung this morning, adoring the Lord Jesus Christ and around this world today, millions and millions and millions are singing the songs of heaven based in Jesus.
He never raised an army that we know of.
Certainly he didn’t, but he has an army of followers, not who are willing to kill others for him, but who are willing to die for him to live, for him to share his love.
His travels were limited. So far as we know, he never in his earthly travels, went outside the uh circumference of that little land of Israel and yet around the world around the world.
Today, the sun will not set on people worshiping our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
He only started with a handful and yet today friend, over 30% of the world’s population say they believe in Jesus Christ.
He only taught for three years and for 2000 years, we’re still studying every word that the Lord Jesus said.
He had no formal education and think of all of the universities, think of all the seminaries that had been founded in his name.
The noted historian Kenneth Scott Latte said this.
Listen to this quote, Jesus has had more effect on the history of mankind than any other of its race who ever existed.
Can you say amen to that? Listen, to explain Jesus is impossible to ignore.
Jesus is disastrous to deny him is fatal. Oh, we need to understand who Jesus Christ is.
And as I try to preach this morning, I understand that my speech is too limited.
My mind is too finite and my heart is too small to tell you what I wanna tell you about the Lord Jesus Christ.
But in Colossians. One verse 19. Look at it. This verse would sum it up for it. Please.
The father that in Him in Jesus should all fullness dwell it, please.
The father that in Jesus should all fullness dwell.
And we’re gonna find out that uh Jesus is not to be prominent in our lives.
Jesus is to be preeminent. Jesus doesn’t just show the way he is the way Jesus doesn’t just give life.
He is the life. He doesn’t just tell the truth. He is the truth.
Now, the three things I want you to learn about the Lord Jesus Christ today and look if you will.
Now in Colossians chapter one, and I wish I just had more time to tell you what the book of Colossians is about in its entirety.
But we’re gonna have to cut to the chase and you’re gonna have to listen in a hurry.
If we get these three things said, we’re talking about Jesus the one and only let me tell you this, Jesus alone reveals the Father.
Jesus alone reveals the Father. Look in verse 15, it speaks of Jesus. We’re gonna break right in the middle.
It speaks of Jesus who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature.
Now, God himself is invisible God in His essence is spirit. God is unsee un noble, unapproachable.
Unless we have some way to come to Him, someone to bring us to Him, someone to reveal God.
The Father reason is not enough friend.
The religion is not enough ritual is not enough Jesus Christ himself is the one who makes the invisible God knowable.
He is the image of the invisible God.
I’m telling you, you can never fully know God the Father unless you know God, the Father through God.
The Son Jesus, the Bible says is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation.
Now, I want you to think with me about those two words.
Those two words are very, very important in verse 15.
Who is the image, the image of the invisible God.
I underscore that word image is the Greek word icon.
And what it means is the uh exact representation.
Jesus is the express image of the invisible God. Jesus is God in human flesh.
Now go back again to Colossians two verse nine.
For in Him in Jesus dwell the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
What do we mean by the Godhead God, the Father God, the Son and God, the Holy Spirit.
Now, Jesus listen, he has a monopoly on revelation. Jesus has cornered the market.
The only way that you can know the Father according to the scripture, truly know Him.
You might know about Him. You might know He exists from creation and conscience.
But the only way that you can know God as Father is through Jesus Christ put this verse in your margin.
Uh Matthew 11 in verse 27 Jesus said, all things are delivered unto me of my father and no man, no, the son but the father, neither nor any man the father save or accept the son and he to whomsoever listen, he to whomsoever the son will reveal him, black print on white paper.
Now I submit to you that what Jesus said is he the true false.
And if you don’t like it, if you think that I’m narrow minded, don’t argue with me.
Just take your Bible read Matthew 11 verse 27 the words of Jesus and take it up with Jesus. OK?
Jesus said, you cannot know God unless I reveal Him to you, unless I introduce him to you.
Other than that, you’re worshiping the God of your guesses. Now you say, well, that’s narrow minded.
I wanted my pilot to be very narrow minded minded.
I didn’t want him to land with the landing gear up.
I, I want my banker to be uh narrow minded. Jesus is the image of the invisible God.
He has cornered the market. The only way that you can know God is through the Lord Jesus Christ.
I, I love the story of Jesus going to the temple when he’s a 12 year old boy.
I wish I could have been sitting in a corner and all of the wise doctors there, the learned theologians were questioning the Lord Jesus Christ.
They might have said to him what son, how old are you?
He could have said well, on my mother’s side, I’m 12 years old.
On my father’s side, I’m uh older than my mother and just as old as my father because there never was a time when Jesus was not.
He always has been uh on his mother’s side, he got thirsty on his father’s side.
He created the oceans and every brook and every lake and every spring and on his father’s side, he said, I am the water of life.
If you’re thirsty, come to me and drink on his mother’s side, he got hungry on his father’s side, he fed 5000.
He said, I am the bread of life on his mother’s side.
He was uh lived in poverty and was homeless on his father’s side.
He created the universe and owns the cattle on 1000 hills on his mother’s side with a broken heart.
He wept at the tomb of Lazarus on his father’s side.
He said, Lazarus come forth and Lazarus came out of that grave.
And so the first word I want you to see is the word image icon.
He is the express image of the invisible God.
He could say he that has seen me has seen the father, but also he’s called in that 1st, 1st born.
Do you see that again? Look in verse 15. He is the first born. Now.
I wanna slow down here and, and talk a little bit about the word first born because that might seem to some people that he was created.
But the word first born here, be very careful listen to it.
It does not refer to time, it refers to position to status.
It doesn’t mean that Jesus was the first being ever created.
Uh We know already that he’s the one who created all things that we’re going to see in verse 16 for by him where all things created.
well, he couldn’t be created if he’s the one who created all things.
So first born certainly doesn’t mean that God one day created Him.
By the way, our friends, the Jehovah’s witnesses will tell us they’ll use this verse to say, well, Jesus had a beginning.
No, he never had a beginning.
There was never a time uh when Jesus was not, Jesus is before all things above all things, whether things in heaven or things on earth Principalities or powers.
We’re gonna see this. The word first born uh refers to his status that God, it, it’s, it means that He is over everything.
Let me give you a good verse. Psalm 89 verse 27.
God says also I will make him my first born higher than the kings of the earth.
It speaks of status. So what do we see in verse 15? That Jesus Christ is the exact representation.
He is the visible image of the invisible God.
And that the Lord Jesus Christ is higher than all the kings of the earth.
He is king of kings, he is Lord of Lords. He is in the highest spot of all.
So number one, Jesus alone reveals the father say amen.
Number two, Jesus alone rules the universe begin now in verse 16 for by him, Jesus where all things created, which are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be throne or dominions or Principalities or powers.
All things were created by him and for him and he is before all things and by him, all things consists now friend, not only does he reveal the father, he rules the universe.
Uh You see Jesus is the power of creation. Jesus made everything that little baby in Matthew.
One is the mighty God of Genesis.
One that little baby on his mother’s breast is the same God who created at all.
That’s the reason I said that Jesus uh when he was born uh was older than his mother.
And as old as his father, I don’t believe in evolution. Not for a skinny moment.
Now, when I was younger, I didn’t believe in evolution because the Bible taught against it.
Now, I’ve gotten older. I wouldn’t believe it if I were an atheist to believe that out of that, nothing times nobody equals everything.
Think about friend, I will tell you you can’t have it both ways.
You can’t say it all just happened and you believe in Jesus, not all didn’t just happen, he created it all.
And if you don’t believe in uh if you don’t believe in the creation by the Lord Jesus Christ, you’ve got three problems.
Number one, you’ve got a problem with the scriptures.
If you can’t, if, if you can’t believe the scripture in the scriptures day from once you’ve come, how can you trust the scriptures when it tells you where you’re going?
And you know, we need to be worried not only about the origin of the species, but the destiny of species.
Amen. I mean, where are you headed?
And not only gonna have trouble with, with the scriptures, you’re gonna have trouble with salvation.
You see, if you believe that man just uh slowly emerged and came out of some uh primordial ooze and kept on going up and up and up.
Then you don’t believe it creation. You don’t believe that man was made perfect and he fell into sin.
You don’t believe in the Garden of Eden. You don’t believe in a fall.
Well, listen, if, if uh Genesis three is a myth, then John three that says you must be born again.
Is, is, is a, is a farce.
Uh If you don’t believe in a direct creation, you’re gonna have trouble with salvation.
And then I’m gonna tell you something else.
You’re gonna have trouble with society when we teach young people that they just sort of came from animals.
We ought not to be surprised when they begin to act like animals, an animal lives for three things, self gratification, self preservation, self propagation.
That’s what most people are living for today because they don’t understand that they are made in the image of God.
And, and uh we, we see today sort of an animal’s right movement.
Like animals have the same rights as human beings. They don’t, animals are distinct.
God gave man body, soul and spirit. He gave no animal, a spirit. Animals don’t know God.
They can’t worship, they cannot pray.
Certainly we don’t believe in cruelty to animals, but don’t ever get the idea that man is just a, an intelligent animal.
He is made in the image of Almighty God.
We need to understand that and uh friend uh random and impersonal chance is not going to create complexity and design if you want a good book to read.
And it’s, it’s, it’s not a real hard read, but you, you can’t just dash it off.
I want you to read Darwin’s Black Box by Michael Behe B E H E.
And, and he has a principle that he calls irreducible complexity.
You know, in the day of Darwin, they didn’t realize how complex just for example, a, a cell is just one cell, for example, in, in a cell, a human cell that you have to put under a microscope to see.
But in these cells, if you look inside the cell, you’ll find some rods and uh these rods are known as chromosomes.
And in these chromosomes, we have what we call the genes and, and in those genes encoded in those genes is what we call DNA.
And, and that DNA is a detailed description uh for every part of your body.
If you were to take the DNA, the code that is in your cell, one of those cells and take the code that is out there and put it in, in a book.
It would be a book of 600,000 pages.
Now that’s one of the most minute parts of that minute part called the cell.
And what Michael be he says is this.
He says, if you reduce it down till you cannot get it more simple are irreducible, then he says it is so complex that in in the cell, not one part could exist without the other part, one cannot come from the other or it it can’t come by steps.
It all has to come together. Listen folks, Jesus is the one who created it all.
He is the power of creation. Secondly, Jesus is the preserver of creation.
Look again in verse 16, for by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether it be Thrones or dominions or Principalities of powers.
All things were created by him and for him and he is before all things now watch this and by him, all things consist that means they all stick together.
He is the glue of the Galaxies. Uh, he is the one who preserves creation.
Now, a lot of times you’ll hear people spout about natural law. There’s no natural law. None.
Uh, the laws of nature are, don’t exist. They’re God’s laws. Nature obeys them by Jesus.
All things consist. He’s the one who fuels the sun, uh, with power.
He’s the one who veils the moon with beauty. He’s the one who keeps the stars in their courses.
I, I wish I had studied astronomy when I was young because I’m so enthralled by it.
I think of the speed of light. 100 and 86,282 miles per second. That friend.
That means that uh uh a light beam will travel around the earth seven times in one second.
If you could uh turn on the flashlight and shine it around the earth, you’d go around the world seven times before you could turn it back off.
Traveling 100 and 86,000 miles per second traveling at that speed. A light.
It, it would take it uh 8.5 minutes to reach the sun, which is 93 million miles away.
It take it uh uh 4.5 years to reach the nearest star traveling at the speed of light.
4.5 years to reach the nearest star.
All if you were to look out at Centauri Proxima and see that star know that the light you’re seeing has been 4.5 years getting here traveling at the incredible speed of light.
And, and, and you just think friend uh that’s just in the milky way in our galaxy they tell us is just one of billions of Galaxies who did all that.
What’s his name? Jesus? Who is it that keeps it all running together and probably heard the story of a, a nuclear physicist who was traveling, going from the one grand university to another lecturing on the complexities of the universe and nuclear physics and all of the dynamism uh in uh nuclear matter.
He had a chauffeur that drove him from school to school.
Finally, the chauffeur said, listen, you have given that speech so many times, I’ve listened to it so many times I’ve memorized it.
I could give it. And the learning doctor said, well, tell you the truth, I’m getting a little bored.
I’ll tell you what, let me put on the chauffeur’s uniform.
The next university we go to you stand up there and give the speech and uh and I’ll sit out there in the audience and act like the chauffeur.
They thought it’d be jolly, good fun.
So the chauffeur got up there in this great university and gave this lecture on nuclear physics and he was brilliant.
He had it down to Nat’s eyelash, but he spoke a little faster.
Uh then the learning professor And so the chancellor of the university said, well, I see we finished 20 minutes early.
We have time for some questions and answers.
And so one student stood up and he said, sir, he said, you know, in the center of the atom, there are these protons and both of them have a positive charge.
And we know that positive charges normally uh deflect and resist one another, but these seem to cohere, these seemed to hang together.
Sir. Can you tell me why the nucleus of the atom does not disintegrate?
The chauffeur said I have traveled for a long time.
I’ve been to many universities but that beyond the doubt, beyond any doubt is the dumbest, most stupid question I have ever heard.
I can’t understand how you even got into this university.
He said, even my chauffeur could answer that question.
Brought a chauffeur up to answer the question.
Friend. I want you to know that chauffeur and that learning doctor.
Neither one can answer that question. What keeps the whole thing from flying about from flying apart?
I can answer it. His name is Jesus friend. He is the glue of the Galaxies.
He’s the one who holds it all together. Now listen, it was all made by him. He is the creator.
He is the preserver and friend. He is the purpose of all creation. Look in verse 16.
Now, the last part, all things were created by him and for him, what’s this world coming to.
It’s coming to Jesus. What’s this universe coming to? It is coming to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, the eastern religions have come into America and the Eastern religions teach that life is cyclical.
That is, it goes around in a cycle.
Uh And so they believe in reincarnation uh that uh you keep getting born until you get it right.
You just go around and around and around. Now, if your karma is good, you may make progress.
If your karma is bad, you may not make progress.
So if you’ve been a bad boy, you may come back as a roach or maybe a little higher, you may come back as a cow.
That’s the reason they won’t eat meat. They think they’re eating their grandmother maybe.
And so uh that’s what they believe that that life is cyclical. No, that’s not what the Bible teaches.
The Bible teaches that life is linear. Uh That history is linear that we’re moving toward a climax.
And I believe we’re getting close to the climax of history where Jesus of Christ is crowned king of kings and Lord of Lords.
And I can hardly wait. We are moving toward that.
It was all made by him and it was all made for him.
It is controlled by the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, let’s come to the third thing about our solitary savior of the one and only Jesus Christ friend, Jesus alone reveals the Father Jesus alone.
Rules the universe and I’m gonna tell you something else about him.
Jesus alone, reconciles the lost Jesus alone reconciles the loss no other way to be saved.
Look at you will in verse 20 of this wonderful chapter here and having made peace through the blood of his cross by him, Jesus to reconcile all things on himself, by him.
I say whether they be things in earth or things in heaven. And let’s go to verse 21.
And you who that were some alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works. Yet now hath he reconciled.
Oh Hallelujah. Glory to God. This one who created it all this one who uh preserves it.
All this one who is the uh the icon, the express image of almighty God.
This one is who is the first one, the highest of the high, the Lord of Lords and the king of kings.
Can you believe it? He stepped out of heaven and died on the cross.
When you see his deity, then you’ll understand the greatness of his death.
Now listen, folks, his deity makes his death meaningful. His death makes his deity knowable.
His deity, his deity makes his death meaningful. Other people may die.
But all we sing that song that God the mighty maker die for man, the creature’s sin that he would die for me.
That the blood that was poured out at Calvary was the blood of the very Son of God that Jesus, who was the God man, God in human flesh as much man as if he were not God at all.
As much God as if He were not man at all. Not half God and half man.
Not all God and no man, not all man and no God, but the God man.
The God man came to this earth born of a virgin, lived a sinless life was mailed up on a cross with a broken heart.
Dying for me. The one who created every seed, every shrub, every tree, every limb was hung on a tree on the cross.
The one who scooped out a place for the seas, the one who created every lake, every pond, every brook, every spring.
He was the one who said, I first, the one who flung out the sun and ignited the sun with a word was the one who suffered under that broiling noonday, Middle Eastern.
So he was the one who had flung it into space.
Let me tell you something, folks, when he created the universe, you know how he did it with a word.
He just spoke and it was so he said, let be and there was and universes dripped from his fingers.
He just spoke it into existence.
A college student asks his pastor, do you think there’s life on other planets?
And the pastor said, no, I don’t think so.
He said, you mean all those billions and billions and billions of planets?
Out there, don’t you think there life out there? He said, no, I really don’t think so.
He said, then why did God go to all that trouble to make all that stuff?
The pastor said, what trouble? No trouble. He spoke.
And it was so the only trouble that God ever had was bloody Calvary.
Oh, when Jesus died, he didn’t just speak and say, be forgiven know by the blood of his cross.
He paid the sin debt and became both just and the justify of those that believe in Jesus.
He never overlooked sin. One half of one sin will never be overlooked.
Sin must be paid for or punished and your sin will be pardoned in Christ or punished in hell.
But it’ll never be overlooked. God is a holy God. He’s the Christ, holy God of Israel.
And God knew in order for you to be redeemed, for me to be redeemed.
For us to be reconciled without the shedding of blood is no remission of sin for the wages of sin is death.
And over here on this side is his deity. Over here is his humanity.
We’re on this side, we’re humans and we’re sinful over here is almighty God and He is holy and he is righteous and between a holy God and sinful man, there’s a chasm of sin and man is separated from almighty God by sin.
Jesus is going to reconcile and he’s going to build a bridge that will span this chasm.
And over here, the Lord Jesus Christ puts down the foundation of his deity. He is God.
But over here, he puts down the foundation of his humanity. He is man. He is taking our place.
He’s dying for us. And then with the rough hewn timbers of a cross, he reconciles God and man.
Hallelujah. What a savior friend. I’m telling you. He is Jesus the one and only.
He is the one who reveals the father.
He is the one who rules the universe and he is the one who reconciles the lost.
And I am so glad that I can tell you he is my savior and Lord and I love him with all of my heart and I want you to love him.
Would you bow your heads in prayer while heads are bowed and eyes are closed.
How many of you can say Pastor Rogers?
I am absolutely certain by the grace of God, the word of God and by a changed life that I have been saved that I’m heaven born in heaven bound.
May I lift? Would you lift your hand? I’m certain. Pastor. Thank you. Take your hand down.
Now, if you could not lift your hand, I know you’re interested in spiritual things that you wouldn’t be here this morning.
Let me help you today to be absolutely certain. Let’s get it settled right now. Ok.
I’m telling you, friend, he loves you. He’s reaching out his arms to you.
He’s saying, come unto me, come unto me, come to me, not to some church, some denomination, not to some idea.
Come to me. All ye that are heavy are burden and heavy laden and I’ll give you rest.
Jesus is what your heart longs for for.
You’ll never find rest or peace or satisfaction till you find it in the Lord Jesus Christ.
He’s paid for your sin. He reaches out a nail scarred hand to you now.
And he says, come to me. The Bible says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you’ll be saved.
I wanna lead you in a prayer.
If you want Jesus pray this prayer or pray something like it dear God. I’m a sinner. I’m lost.
I need to be saved. I want to be saved.
My sin deserves judgment, but I need mercy. I want to be reconciled.
Thank you that you died for me. Thank you for paying for my sin on that old cross.
I turn from my sin to you. I receive you by faith.
I receive you by faith right now like a little child. I don’t look for a sign.
I don’t ask for a feeling. I just stand on your word. I receive you Lord Jesus.
You’re now my Lord and savior and help me never ever to be ashamed of you.
Give me the courage to make it public this morning in your name.
I pray I’m in friend.
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The name literally means Jehovah. Save that baby born in Bethlehem was the mighty God of Genesis. 11.
They are names God gives us for himself, names that spirit inspired writers called him.
And symbolic names used to describe him in scripture.
This Christmas we’ve made 25 of these names and their meanings into beautifully illustrated ornaments for you to display each ornament reveals insight into a name of God given to us in scripture and shares what that name says about his character.
The names of God ornament set also includes an advent devotional booklet that shares thoughts on each name for your gift.
This month we’d like to send you the names of God ornament set request yours when you call 1 806 47 94 100 or you can give online at L W F dot org.
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