What kind of picture do you use as a PowerPoint background when you are sharing a message about Jesus? We do not know what Jesus looked like. We just know that Isaiah said of Him (53:2,3): “. . . he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. (3) . . . and we hid as it were our faces from him . . . ” That doesn’t much sound like the paintings of Jesus we see today, does it? By the way, the background for this message is a mosaic that was unearthed in the area where Jesus is thought to have performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes. The title of our Lord fully expresses His deity, His humanity, and His office. He is the Lord (Master), Jesus (Savior), Christ (the Anointed One). Jesus was fully man and fully God. This message deals with the deity of Jesus. The Bible teaches of us His virgin birth and that He is Emmanuel, or “God with us.” He said to Philip in John 14:9: “. . . he that hath seen me hath seen the Father . . . ” Paul defended Christ’s deity before the Colossian Gnostics who denied His deity by teaching that Jesus was some lesser emanation, some watered down, weakened spirit being descended from God, thus denying His deity. And, the writer of Hebrews (1:1-2) reveals that Jesus fully expounds the mind of God: “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son . . . ” God has a message for us today. It is a message we are to proclaim to the world, and that message is “JESUS!” So let’s look at Jesus this morning.

I. GOD’S PERSON IS REVEALED IN HIM -- VS. 15.

II. GOD’S POWER IS REALIZED IN HIM -- VV. 16-17.

III. GOD’S PURPOSES ARE REPLETE IN HIM -- VV. 18-19.